 But sooth it was not sure for womanish shame, Nor any blemish, which the worke mote blame; But for, they say, she hath both kinds in one, Both male and female, both under one name: She syre and mother is her selfe alone, Begets and eke conceives, ne needeth...  Observations on the Fairy Queen of Spenser - Page 96by Thomas Warton - 1762 - 270 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Earle Broadus Fowler - Courts of Love - 1921 - 152 pages
...temple is veiled Spenser says that it is not because of shame or blemish, But for, they say, she hath both kinds in one, Both male and female, both under one name: She syre and mother is her selfe alone, Begets and eke conceives, ne needeth other none. (F.£,IV,x,41).... | |
 | Edward George Harman - 1925 - 348 pages
...not sure for womanish shame. Nor any blemish which the worke mote blame ; But for, they say, she hath both kinds in one. Both male and female, both under one name : She syre and mother is her selfe alone, Begets and eke conceives, ne needeth other none. xlii ' And all... | |
 | C. S. Lewis - Literary Criticism - 1967 - 164 pages
...best explanation arrived at is that it was because, 'they say,' Venus is a Hermaphrodite: she hath both kinds in one, Both male and female, both under one name: She syrc and mother is her selfe alone, Begets and eke conceives, ne needeth other none. (rv, x, 41) This... | |
 | Thomas Warton - Chivalry in literature - 2001 - 320 pages
...times. B. iv. cxf xlvii. To Venus. Great God, &c. The poet prepares the reader for this appellation God, applied to Venus, ft. 41. But for they fay, fhe has...has alfo followed the fame notion in Colin Clouts Come Home Again. * Ibid, paflim. For Venus felfe doth folely couples fceme, Both male and female through... | |
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