 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...  Book 1 of the Faery Queene - Page 3by Edmund Spenser - 1875 - 251 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Frederick Bodmer - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1985 - 724 pages
...his speeche, and wys, and wel ytaught." Such forms are fairly common in Spenser's Faerie Queene, eg: A gentle knight was pricking on the plaine Ycladd in mightie armes and silver shielde . . . Grammatical similarities between German and Old English are more striking when we allow for phonetic... | |
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