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... quoth the Queen , ' what is reason ' : to which the lord consented , but was so busied , belike , about matters of high con- cernment , that Spenser received no reward . Whereupon he pre- sented this petition in a small piece of paper ...
... quoth the Queen , ' what is reason ' : to which the lord consented , but was so busied , belike , about matters of high con- cernment , that Spenser received no reward . Whereupon he pre- sented this petition in a small piece of paper ...
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... quoth then that Ladie milde , " Least suddaine mischiefe ye too rash provoke : The danger hid , the place unknowne and wilde , Breedes dreadfull doubts : oft fire is without smoke , And perill without show : therefore your stroke , Sir ...
... quoth then that Ladie milde , " Least suddaine mischiefe ye too rash provoke : The danger hid , the place unknowne and wilde , Breedes dreadfull doubts : oft fire is without smoke , And perill without show : therefore your stroke , Sir ...
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... quoth then The fearefull Dwarfe ; " this is no place for living men . " 14 But full of fire and greedy hardiment , 2 The youthfull Knight could not for ought be staide ; But forth unto the darksom hole he went , And looked in his ...
... quoth then The fearefull Dwarfe ; " this is no place for living men . " 14 But full of fire and greedy hardiment , 2 The youthfull Knight could not for ought be staide ; But forth unto the darksom hole he went , And looked in his ...
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... quoth he , " how should , alas ! Silly old man , that lives in hidden cell , Bidding his beades all day for his trespas , Tydings of warre and worldly trouble tell ? With holy father sits not with such thinges to mell . 31 " But if of ...
... quoth he , " how should , alas ! Silly old man , that lives in hidden cell , Bidding his beades all day for his trespas , Tydings of warre and worldly trouble tell ? With holy father sits not with such thinges to mell . 31 " But if of ...
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... Quoth then that aged man ; " the way Is wisely to advise now day is spent ; to win Therefore with me ye may take up your in1 For this same night . " The Knight was well content : So with that godly Father to his home they went . A litle ...
... Quoth then that aged man ; " the way Is wisely to advise now day is spent ; to win Therefore with me ye may take up your in1 For this same night . " The Knight was well content : So with that godly Father to his home they went . A litle ...
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Page lxxiii - In that Faery Queene I meane glory in my generall intention, but in my particular I conceive the most excellent and glorious person of our soveraine the Queene, and her kingdome in Faery Land.
Page 27 - So pure and innocent, as that same lambe, She was in life and every vertuous lore ; And by descent from Royall lynage came Of ancient Kinges and Queenes, that had of yore Their scepters stretcht from East to Westerne shore...
Page 28 - The Laurell, meed of mightie Conquerours And Poets sage ; the Firre that weepeth still ; The Willow worne of forlorne Paramours ; The Eugh, obedient to the benders will ; The Birch for shaftes ; the Sallow for the mill...
Page 26 - Crosse he bore, The deare remembrance of his dying Lord, For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore, And dead, as living, ever him ador'd : Upon his shield the like was also scor'd, For soveraine hope which in his helpe he had.
Page 27 - Behind her farre away a Dwarfe did lag, That lasie seemd, in being ever last, Or wearied with bearing of her bag Of needments at his backe.
Page 1 - ... for a better place. Soone after entred a faire ladye in mourning weedes, riding on a white asse, with a dwarfe behind her leading a warlike steed, that bore the armes of a knight, and his speare in the dwarfes hand.
Page lxxii - I have followed all the antique Poets historicall; first Homere, who in the Persons of Agamemnon and Ulysses hath ensampled a good governour and a vertuous man, the one in his Ilias, the other in his Odysseis: then Virgil, whose like intention was to doe in the person of Aeneas: after him Ariosto comprised them both in his Orlando : and lately Tasso dissevered them againe, and formed both parts in two persons, namely that part which they in Philosophy call Ethice, or vertues of a private man, coloured...
Page 28 - Joying to heare the birdes sweete harmony, Which, therein shrouded from the tempest dred, Seemd in their song to scorne the cruell sky. Much can they praise the trees so straight and hy, The sayling Pine ; the Cedar proud and tall ; The vine-propp Elme ; the Poplar never dry ; The builder Oake, sole king of forrests all ; The Aspine good for staves ; the Cypresse funerall...
Page 33 - He, making speedy way through spersed ayre, And through the world of waters wide and deepe, To Morpheus house doth hastily repaire. Amid the bowels of the earth full steepe, And low, where dawning day doth never peepe, His dwelling is ; there Tethys his wet bed Doth ever wash, and Cynthia still doth steepe In silver deaw his ever-drouping hed, Whiles sad Night over him her mantle black doth spred.
Page 239 - With gaudy girlonds, or fresh flowrets dight About her necke, or rings of rushes plight : Sometimes, to do him laugh, she would assay To laugh at shaking of the leaves light Or to behold the water worke and play About her little frigot, therein making way.