 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
 | Rebecca K. Webb - Education - 2007 - 192 pages
...Anyway, when it's just you and the poem — and the talking heads — and suddenly you see before you "a Gentle Knight was pricking on the plaine, / Ycladd in mightie armes and silver shielde," well, that satellite map of ethics and politics and allegory and the scheme of the virtues that I've... | |
 | Thomas Herron - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 296 pages
...militarized figure traversing a fertile plain: A gentle knight was pricking on the plaine, Y cladd in mightie armes and silver shielde, Wherein old dints of deepe wounds did remaine, The cruell markes of many' a bloudy fielde; Yet armes till that time did he neuer wield: His angry steede... | |
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