Works of Edmund SpenserGeorge Routledge, 1877 - 562 pages |
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... earth could tune a lovers mone ; " Whose sadder tones inforc'd the rocks to weepe , " And laid the greatest griefes in quiet sleepe : " Who , when he sung ( as I would do to mine ) " His truest loves to his fair Rosaline , " Entic'd ...
... earth could tune a lovers mone ; " Whose sadder tones inforc'd the rocks to weepe , " And laid the greatest griefes in quiet sleepe : " Who , when he sung ( as I would do to mine ) " His truest loves to his fair Rosaline , " Entic'd ...
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... earth did kis , Greeting his grave : his grudging ghost did strive With the fraile flesh ; at last it flitted is , Whether the soules doe fly of men , that live amis XX . The Lady , when she saw her champion fall , Like the old ruines ...
... earth did kis , Greeting his grave : his grudging ghost did strive With the fraile flesh ; at last it flitted is , Whether the soules doe fly of men , that live amis XX . The Lady , when she saw her champion fall , Like the old ruines ...
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... earth . The earth shall sooner leave her kindly ski . To bring forth fruit , and make eternal derth , Then I leave you , my liefe , yborn of hevenly berth . XXIX . " And sooth to say , why I lefte you so long , Was for to seeke ...
... earth . The earth shall sooner leave her kindly ski . To bring forth fruit , and make eternal derth , Then I leave you , my liefe , yborn of hevenly berth . XXIX . " And sooth to say , why I lefte you so long , Was for to seeke ...
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... earth for terror seemd to shake , And trees did tremble . Th ' Elfe , therewith astownd , Upstarted lightly from his looser Make , And his unready weapons gan in hand to take . VIII . But ere he could his armour on him dight , Or gett ...
... earth for terror seemd to shake , And trees did tremble . Th ' Elfe , therewith astownd , Upstarted lightly from his looser Make , And his unready weapons gan in hand to take . VIII . But ere he could his armour on him dight , Or gett ...
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... earth , castes up a mount of clay . X. His boystrous club , so buried in the grownd , He could not rearen up againe so light , But that the Knight him at advantage fownd ; And , whiles he strove his combred clubbe to quight Out of the earth ...
... earth , castes up a mount of clay . X. His boystrous club , so buried in the grownd , He could not rearen up againe so light , But that the Knight him at advantage fownd ; And , whiles he strove his combred clubbe to quight Out of the earth ...
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