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" And unto hell him selfe for money sold : Accursed usury was all his trade ; And right and wrong ylike in equall ballaunce waide. "
The Fairy Queen - Page 62
by Edmund Spenser - 1758
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A History of English Poetry, Volume 2

William John Courthope - English poetry - 1897 - 478 pages
...Here, on the other hand, is the figure of Avarice in the procession in the House of Pride : — Next greedy Avarice by him did ride Upon a camel loaden all with gold : Two iron coffers hong on either side, With precious metall full as they might hold ; And in his lap an heape of coine...
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The Works of John Ruskin, Volume 12

John Ruskin - 1904 - 820 pages
...ride Upon a camell loaden all with gold ; Two iron coffers hong on either side, With precious nietall full as they might hold ; And in his lap an heap of coiue he told ; And thred-bare cote and cobbled shoes he ware ; Ne scarse good morsell all his life...
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The Works of John Ruskin, Volume 12

John Ruskin - 1904 - 808 pages
...ride Upon a camell loadeu all with gold ; Two iron coffers hong on either side, With precious metall full as they might hold ; And in his lap an heap of coine he told ; And thred-bare cote and cobbled shoes he ware ; Ne scarse good morsell all his life...
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The Faerie Queene, Book One, Volume 1

Edmund Spenser - Epic poetry, English - 1905 - 266 pages
...ride, Uppon a Camell loaden all with gold ; Two iron coffers hong on either side, With precious metall full as they might hold ; And in his lap an heap of coine he told ; 3 For of his wicked pelfe his God he made, And unto hell him selfe for money sold :...
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Temple Bar, Volume 38

George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1873 - 588 pages
...the Vice which " did ride Upon a camel loaded all with gold ; Two iron coffers hung on either side, With precious metal full as they might hold ; And in his lap a heap of coin he told ; For of his wicked pelf his god he made, And unto hell himself for money sold....
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The Seven Deadly Sins

Frederick Rogers - Deadly sins - 1907 - 152 pages
...He gives his imagination free play, and is full of originality, vivid picturesqueness,] and power. And greedy Avarice by him did ride, Upon a camel loaden all with gold ; Two iron coffers hong on either side With precious metal full as they might hold : And in his lappe an heap of coins...
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The Leading English Poets from Chaucer to Browning

Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 952 pages
...ride, Uppon a camell loadeu all with gold: Two iron coffers hong on either side, With precious metall n our vant at your voice, Panic, despair, flee awa coine he told; For of his wicked pelfe his god he made, And unto hell him selfe for money sold: Accursed...
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Century Types of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged

George William McClelland - English literature - 1925 - 1178 pages
...ride, Uppon a Camell loaden all with gold; Two iron coffers hong on either side, With precious metall e to make me wretched? Speak, my lord, To accuse y coine he told; 2 For of his wicked pelfe his God he made. And unto hell him selfe for money sold: Accursed...
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Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves: Book One of Edmund Spenser's the Fairie Queene

Edmund Spenser - Poetry - 1999 - 240 pages
...That rots the marrow, and consumes the brain. Such one was Lechery, the third of all this train. 27 And greedy Avarice by him did ride, Upon a Camel loaden all with gold; Two iron coffers0 hung on either side, boxes With precious metal full, as they might hold, And in his lap an...
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