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... himselfe fate looking still askaunce Gainst Britomart , and ever clofely eide Sir Satyrane , that glaunces might not glide : But his blinde eie , that fided Paridell , All his demeafnure from his fight did hide : On her faire face fo ...
... himselfe fate looking still askaunce Gainst Britomart , and ever clofely eide Sir Satyrane , that glaunces might not glide : But his blinde eie , that fided Paridell , All his demeafnure from his fight did hide : On her faire face fo ...
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... himselfe does throng , That all men feare to tempt his billowes ftrong , ) She faftned hath her foot ; which stands ... him feemed beft , To be the compaffe of his kingdomes feat : The second Troy was Rome ; the third , Troynovant ...
... himselfe does throng , That all men feare to tempt his billowes ftrong , ) She faftned hath her foot ; which stands ... him feemed beft , To be the compaffe of his kingdomes feat : The second Troy was Rome ; the third , Troynovant ...
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... himselfe on ground her faft befyde : Tho , when againe he him bethought to live , He wept , and wayld , and false laments belyde , Saying , but if the mercie would him give , That he mote algates dye , yet did his death forgive . VIII ...
... himselfe on ground her faft befyde : Tho , when againe he him bethought to live , He wept , and wayld , and false laments belyde , Saying , but if the mercie would him give , That he mote algates dye , yet did his death forgive . VIII ...
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... himselfe prepar❜d To giuft with that brave ftraunger Knight a caft , As on adventure by the way he past : Alone he rode without his paragone ; For , having filcht her bells , her up he caft To the wide world , and lett her fly alone ...
... himselfe prepar❜d To giuft with that brave ftraunger Knight a caft , As on adventure by the way he past : Alone he rode without his paragone ; For , having filcht her bells , her up he caft To the wide world , and lett her fly alone ...
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... himselfe alone to fynd . XLII . " Then is it beft , " said he , " that ye doe leave Your treasure here in fome fecurity , Either faft clofed in fome hollow greave , Or buried in the ground from ieopardy , Till we returne againe in ...
... himselfe alone to fynd . XLII . " Then is it beft , " said he , " that ye doe leave Your treasure here in fome fecurity , Either faft clofed in fome hollow greave , Or buried in the ground from ieopardy , Till we returne againe in ...
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againſt alfo Amoret Blandamour brigandines Britomart Canto Chaucer CHURCH cloſe cruell Dame deare defire doth dreadfull edition in 1758 edition reads eftfoones expreffion F. Q. iv Faerie Queene fafe faft faid faire faire Ladies falfe fame farre fayd feare fecond fecret feeke feem'd feems feene fhall fhew fide fight firft firſt flaine Florimell folios fome foone fore forrow ftill fuch fure goodly hart hath herfelfe hight himſelfe Hughes JORTIN Knight Ladies laft laſt leffe likewife Malbecco moft moſt mote nought obferved Ovid paffage paffing Paridell poet powre reft reſt Satyrane Scudamour ſeems ſhe ſhould Spenfer Spenfer's own edition Squire ſtill thefe themſelves thence theſe third folios thofe thoſe thou TODD Tonfon's edition Triamond ufed unto UPTON uſed vaine Venus viii Virgil WARTON weene weet whenas whofe wight wize wonne XXIII XXXII
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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.