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That détestable fight him much amazde , To see th ' unkindly impes , of heaven
accurst , Devoure their dam ; on whom while fo he gazd , Having all fatisfide their
bloudy thurst , Their bellies swolne he saw with fulnesse burst , And bowels ...
That détestable fight him much amazde , To see th ' unkindly impes , of heaven
accurst , Devoure their dam ; on whom while fo he gazd , Having all fatisfide their
bloudy thurst , Their bellies swolne he saw with fulnesse burst , And bowels ...
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See F . Q . v . vi . 23 , v . xi . 16 . < It is here fpelt well in conformity to the rhyme .
Chaucer , Kn . Tale , 897 . edit . Urr . “ In all his wele , " that is , prosperity .
UPTON . XLIII . 8 . to former kynd ] Our former human nature . Spenser
perpetually uses ...
See F . Q . v . vi . 23 , v . xi . 16 . < It is here fpelt well in conformity to the rhyme .
Chaucer , Kn . Tale , 897 . edit . Urr . “ In all his wele , " that is , prosperity .
UPTON . XLIII . 8 . to former kynd ] Our former human nature . Spenser
perpetually uses ...
Page 95
See F . Q . i . vi . 7 . And thus , in Sir Bevis of Hampton ; • Yea , said the Gyant ,
will he fo ? “ A dore barre he tooke in his hand tho ; " And out vnto Bevis he
braide , 66 And thus vnto him he said , & c . " TODD . XXIII . 6 . amidst her , rayling
] See ...
See F . Q . i . vi . 7 . And thus , in Sir Bevis of Hampton ; • Yea , said the Gyant ,
will he fo ? “ A dore barre he tooke in his hand tho ; " And out vnto Bevis he
braide , 66 And thus vnto him he said , & c . " TODD . XXIII . 6 . amidst her , rayling
] See ...
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And , him rencountring ] See the rencontre explained , in the note , F . Q . iii . i . 9 .
“ Which by that new rencounter & c . ” TODD . XL . 1 . to hurtlen ] See the note , p .
119 . TODD . XL , 2 . Redoubted battaile ready to darrayne , ] Darraine is often ...
And , him rencountring ] See the rencontre explained , in the note , F . Q . iii . i . 9 .
“ Which by that new rencounter & c . ” TODD . XL . 1 . to hurtlen ] See the note , p .
119 . TODD . XL , 2 . Redoubted battaile ready to darrayne , ] Darraine is often ...
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Greene , in bis Orlando Furioso , 1599 , has the compound suble - futed : “
Phæbus , put out thy sable - futed wreathe , “ Clad all thy spheres in darke and
mourning weedes , & c . " Spenser frequently introduces the mantle of Night . See
F . Q . i ...
Greene , in bis Orlando Furioso , 1599 , has the compound suble - futed : “
Phæbus , put out thy sable - futed wreathe , “ Clad all thy spheres in darke and
mourning weedes , & c . " Spenser frequently introduces the mantle of Night . See
F . Q . i ...
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Page xxxv - To th' instruments divine respondence meet; The silver sounding instruments did meet With the base murmure of the waters fall; The waters fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all.
Page 7 - A GENTLE Knight was pricking on the plaine, Ycladd in mightie armes and silver shielde, Wherein old dints of deepe woundes did remaine, The cruell markes of many a bloody fielde ; Yet armes till that time did he never wield : His angry steede did chide his foming bitt, As much disdayning to the curbe to yield : Full jolly knight he seemd, and faire did sitt, As one for knightly giusts and fierce encounters fitt.
Page 19 - Yet wisedome warnes, whilest foot is in the gate, To stay the steppe, ere forced to retrate. This is the wandring wood, this Errours den, A monster vile, whom God and man does hate : Therefore I read beware. Fly, fly (quoth then The fearefull Dwarfe) this is no place for living men.
Page ccv - And in Her Majesty's time that now is, are sprung up another crew of courtly makers, noblemen and gentlemen of Her Majesty's own servants, who have written excellently well, as it would appear if their doings could be found out and made public with the rest, of which number is first that noble gentleman, Edward, Earl of Oxford...
Page viii - Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That own'd the virtuous ring and glass; And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride...
Page 47 - Ah Sir, my liege lord, and my love, Shall I accuse the hidden cruell fate. And mightie causes wrought in heaven above, Or the blind god, that doth me thus amate. For hoped love to winne me certaine hate? Yet thus perforce he bids me do, or die. Die is my dew ; yet rew my wretched state, You, whom my hard avenging destinie Hath made judge of my life or death indifferently. LII. "Your owne deare sake forst me at first to leave My fathers kingdom...
Page 43 - Who all this while, with charmes and hidden artes, Had made a lady of that other spright, And fram'd of liquid ayre her tender partes, So...
Page 8 - 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 30 - At length they chaunst to meet upon the way An aged Sire, in long blacke weedes yclad, His feete all bare, his beard all hoarie gray, And by his belt his booke he hanging had...
Page cxi - And there appeared another wonder in heaven ; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth...
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| Title | The Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 2 Volume 2 of The Works of Edmund Spenser in Eight Volumes, Henry John Todd The Works of Edmund Spenser, Henry John Todd |
| Author | Edmund Spenser |
| Editor | Henry John Todd |
| Publisher | F. C. & J. Rivington, 1805 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 13 Jul 2007 |
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