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... Saw all this goodly fport , and grieved fore ; Yet durft he not against it doe or fay , But did his hart with bitter thoughts engore , To fee th ' unkindnes of his Hellenore . All day they daunced with great luftyhedd , And with their ...
... Saw all this goodly fport , and grieved fore ; Yet durft he not against it doe or fay , But did his hart with bitter thoughts engore , To fee th ' unkindnes of his Hellenore . All day they daunced with great luftyhedd , And with their ...
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... saw The huge feas under her t ' obay her fervaunts law ! XXXI . Soone after that , into a golden fhowre Himfelfe he chaung'd , faire Danaë to vew ; And through the roofe of her strong brafen towre Did raine into her lap an hony dew ...
... saw The huge feas under her t ' obay her fervaunts law ! XXXI . Soone after that , into a golden fhowre Himfelfe he chaung'd , faire Danaë to vew ; And through the roofe of her strong brafen towre Did raine into her lap an hony dew ...
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... saw appeare . And now fad fhadowes gan the world to hyde From mortall vew , and wrap in darkenes dreare ; Yet nould fhe d'off her weary armes , for feare Of fecret daunger , ne let fleepe oppreffe Her heavy eyes with natures burdein ...
... saw appeare . And now fad fhadowes gan the world to hyde From mortall vew , and wrap in darkenes dreare ; Yet nould fhe d'off her weary armes , for feare Of fecret daunger , ne let fleepe oppreffe Her heavy eyes with natures burdein ...
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... saw both first and last , Iffewed forth and went unto the dore XXVI . 7 . by the Damozell ; ] So the first edition reads , to which thofe of 1751 , and Mr. Upton conform . The fecond , " with that Damozell ; " which the folios ...
... saw both first and last , Iffewed forth and went unto the dore XXVI . 7 . by the Damozell ; ] So the first edition reads , to which thofe of 1751 , and Mr. Upton conform . The fecond , " with that Damozell ; " which the folios ...
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... saw him fleepe with her all night his fill ; All , manie nights ; and manie by in place That prefent were to teftifie the cafe . " Which whenas Scudamour did heare , his heart Was thrild with inward griefe : As when in chace The ...
... saw him fleepe with her all night his fill ; All , manie nights ; and manie by in place That prefent were to teftifie the cafe . " Which whenas Scudamour did heare , his heart Was thrild with inward griefe : As when in chace The ...
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Page 276 - Right fit to rend the food on which he fared. His name was Care ; a blacksmith by his trade, That neither day nor night from working spared, But to small purpose yron wedges made ; Those be unquiet thoughts that...
Page 454 - Ouse came far from land, By many a city and by many a towne And many rivers taking under-hand Into his waters as he passeth downe, The Cle, the Were, the Grant, the Sture, the Rowne. Thence doth by Huntingdon and Cambridge flit, My mother Cambridge, whom as with a Crowne He doth adorne, and is adorn'd of it With many a gentle Muse and many a learned wit.
Page 406 - Thus having past all perill, I was come Within the compasse of that Islands space ; The which did seeme, unto my simple doome, The onely pleasant and delightfull place That ever troden was of footings trace : For all that nature by her mother-wit Could frame in earth, and forme of substance base, Was there ; and all that nature did omit, Art, playing second natures part, supplyed it.
Page 142 - For it of honor and all vertue is The roote, and brings forth glorious flowres of fame, That crowne true lovers with immortall blis, The meed of them that love, and do not live amisse.
Page 159 - And loathly mouth, unmeete a mouth to bee, That nought but gall and venim comprehended, And wicked wordes that God and man offended. Her lying tongue was in two parts divided, And both the parts did speake, and both contended ; And as her tongue so was her hart discided, That never thoght one thing, but doubly stil was guided.
Page 46 - tis but two singles on the left, two on the right, three doublest forward, a traverse of six round : do this twice, three singles side, galliard trick of twenty, coranto pace ; a figure of eight, three singles broken down, come up, meet two doubles, fall back, and then honour.
Page 17 - On the proud crest of Satan, that no sight, Nor motion of swift thought, less could his shield, Such ruin intercept : Ten paces huge He back...
Page 409 - And therein thousand payres of lovers walkt, Praysing their god, and yeelding him great thankes, Ne ever ought but of their true loves talkt, Ne ever for rebuke or blame of any balkt.
Page 329 - Majestic fixed upon him, as she was wont to doe, and to daunt men she knew not, stirred the blood of the young gentleman, insomuch as his colour went and came, which the...
Page 398 - Although the Roman or Grecian architecture did not begin to prevail in England till the time of Inigo Jones; yet our communication with the Italians, and our imitation of their manners, produced fome fpecimens of that ftylc much earlier.