The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1855 |
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... Whiles you in carelesse sleepe are drowned quight . ' Her doubtfull words made that redoubted knight Suspect her truth ; yet since no ' untruth he knew , Her fawning love with foule disdainefull spight He would not shend 2 ; but said ...
... Whiles you in carelesse sleepe are drowned quight . ' Her doubtfull words made that redoubted knight Suspect her truth ; yet since no ' untruth he knew , Her fawning love with foule disdainefull spight He would not shend 2 ; but said ...
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... whiles wicked wights Have knit themselves in Venus shameful chaine : Come , see where your false Lady doth her honor staine . " › All in amaze he suddenly up start With sword in hand , and with the old man went ; Who soone him brought ...
... whiles wicked wights Have knit themselves in Venus shameful chaine : Come , see where your false Lady doth her honor staine . " › All in amaze he suddenly up start With sword in hand , and with the old man went ; Who soone him brought ...
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... whiles he livde , was called proud Sansfoy , The eldest of three brethren ; all three bred Of one bad sire , whose ... while did dwell , More busying his quicke eies , her face to view , Then his dull eares , to heare what shee did tell ...
... whiles he livde , was called proud Sansfoy , The eldest of three brethren ; all three bred Of one bad sire , whose ... while did dwell , More busying his quicke eies , her face to view , Then his dull eares , to heare what shee did tell ...
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... Whiles none the holy things in safety kept , Then he by conning sleights in at the window crept . 18 And all , that he by right or wrong could find , Unto this house he brought , and did bestow Upon the daughter of this woman blind , A ...
... Whiles none the holy things in safety kept , Then he by conning sleights in at the window crept . 18 And all , that he by right or wrong could find , Unto this house he brought , and did bestow Upon the daughter of this woman blind , A ...
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... whiles life forsooke his stubborne brest . 13 Who now is left to keepe the forlorne Maid From raging spoile of lawlesse victors will ? Her faithfull gard remov'd ; her hope dismaid ; Her selfe a yielded pray to save or spill ! He now ...
... whiles life forsooke his stubborne brest . 13 Who now is left to keepe the forlorne Maid From raging spoile of lawlesse victors will ? Her faithfull gard remov'd ; her hope dismaid ; Her selfe a yielded pray to save or spill ! He now ...
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Archimago armes battaile beast behold blood bowre brest Britomart brought CANTO chaunge corage courser cruell Dame deadly deare death despight devize dight dismayd doen doest doth dreadfull Duessa earst Edmund Spenser Eftsoones Elfin Knight emongst eternall Faery Knight Faery Queene faire faire ladies fast fayre feare feeble feends flowre fowle fownd gentle goodly Gorlois grace griefe grone hand hart hast hath heaven heavenly hight himselfe John Spenser lady late light litle living Lord mighty mote never nigh noble nought poet powre Prince quoth rage Redcrosse sayd seemd sence shee shew shield shyning sight Sir Guyon Sith sonne soone sore speach Spenser spide spright Squyre steed straunge streight suddein sunne sweet syre thee thou trew unto vaine vertues Villein wandring warre weary weene weet whenas wicked wight wize wondrous wonne wound wretched wyde yron
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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.