The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 |
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attonce beast bold bouget bowre brest Britomart Britons Canto chaunge corage courser cruell Dame Damzell daunger dayes deare deedes despight devize dismayd doest doth dread dreadfull Eftsoones emongst ensample eternall FAERIE QUEENE Faery Knight faire faire Ladies farre fast fayre feare fearefull fell fled Florimell flowre fowle fownd gentle girlonds goodly griefe grone ground hart hast hath herselfe heven hight himselfe huge ioyous Knight Lady late light living Malbecco Marinell Mayd meed mighty mote nigh noble nought Paridell powre quight reskew rest ryde Satyres sayd seemd shee shew shund shyning sight Sir Satyrane Sith sonne sore sory soveraine speare spide spright Squyre stayd straunge sunne sweet thee Thereat therewith thou trew Triamond Trompart turnd unto unwares vaine vile villeinous warlike wearie weene weet wemens whenas wicked wight wize wondrous wonne wound wretched wyde XXVIII
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Page 62 - ... quight: And their great mother Venus did lament The losse of her deare brood, her deare delight: Her hart was pierst with pitty at the sight, When walking through the Gardin them she spyde, Yet no'te...
Page 8 - But yet the end is not" — There Merlin stayd, As overcomen of the spirites powre, Or other ghastly spectacle dismayd, That secretly he saw, yet note discoure : Which suddein...
Page 189 - How may these rimes, so rude as doth appeare, Hope to endure, sith workes of heavenly wits Are quite devourd, and brought to nought by little bits!
Page 152 - Woven with gold and silke so close and nere That the rich metall lurked privily, As faining to be hidd from envious eye ; Yet here, and there, and every where, un wares It shewd itselfe and shone unwillingly; Like to' a discolourd snake, whose hidden snares Through the greene gras his long bright burnisht back declares.
Page 51 - Her Berth was of the wombe of morning dew, And her conception of the ioyous prime; And all her whole creation did her shew Pure and unspotted from all loathly crime That is ingenerate in fleshly slime.
Page 167 - To her I sing of love, that loveth best, And best is lov'd of all alive, I weene ; To her this song most fitly is addrest, The Queene of love, and Prince of peace from heaven blest.
Page 32 - The baser wit, whose ydle thoughts alway Are wont to cleave unto the lowly clay, It stirreth up to sensuall desire, And in lewd slouth to wast his carelesse day; But in brave sprite it kindles goodly fire, That to all high desert and honour doth aspire, n.
Page 63 - Right in the middest of that Paradise, There stood a stately Mount, on whose round top A gloomy grove of mirtle trees did rise, Whose shadie boughes sharpe steele did never lop, Nor wicked beasts their tender buds did crop, But like a girlond compassed the hight, And from their...
Page 167 - THE rugged forhead, that with grave foresight Welds kingdomes causes and affaires of state, My looser rimes, I wote, doth sharply wite For praising love as I have done of late, And magnifying lovers...
Page 232 - But whosoever contrarie doth prove, Might not the same about her middle weare, But it would loose, or else asunder teare.