The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 |
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Acrasia approch Archimage armes assay attonce batteill beast blood brest Britomart brond brought carcas chaunce corage courser cruell Cymochles Damzell daunger deadly deare death delight despight devize dight doen doth dreadfull earst Eftsoones Elfin Knight emongst Faery Faery Knight faire faire Ladies fayre feare feendes fierce fight fitt flowre fowle fownd gentle goodly grace grone grownd hand hart hath hight himselfe honour Knight knighthood Lady layd light litle Locrine Lord Mammon mighty mote nigh nought Palmer powre prayse Prince Pyrochles quoth rage Redcrosse sayd seemd sence shame shee shew shield sight Sir Guyon sith sonne soone sore soveraine spide spright stayd steed straunge streight sunne swayd sweet sword syde thee therein thou trew tryall unto vaine Villein wanton warlike warre weene weet whenas wicked wight wize wondrous wonne wretched wyde XXVIII ydle
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Page 114 - whose rough vaut the ragged breaches hong Embost with massy gold of glorious guifte, And with rich metall loaded every rifte, That heavy ruine they did seeme to threatt; And over them Arachne high did lifte Her cunning web, and spred her subtile nett, Enwrapped in fowle smoke and clouds more black than iett. XXIX.
Page 53 - steel-headed dartes wherewith she queld The salvage beastes in her victorious play, Knit with a golden bauldricke which forelay Athwart her snowy brest, and did divide Her daintie paps ; which, like young fruit in May, Now little gan to swell, and being tide Through her thin weed their places only signifide.
Page 226 - more doth florish after first decay, That earst was sought to deck both bed and bowre Of many a lady' and many a paramowre ! Gather therefore the rose whitest yet is prime, For soone comes age that will her pride dejlowre: Gather the rose of love whilest yet is time,
Page 218 - storme nor frost on them to fall Their tender buds or leaves to violate; Nor scorching heat, nor cold intemperate, T' afflict the creatures which therein did dwell; But the milde ayre with season moderate Gently attempred, and disposd so well, That still it breathed forth sweet spirit and
Page 217 - pride, Wherewith her mother Art, as halfe in scorne Of niggard Nature, like a pompous bride Did decke her,' and too lavishly adorne, When forth from virgin bowre she comes in th' early morne. LI. Thereto the heavens alwayes joviall Lookte on them lovely, still in stedfast state, Ne
Page 122 - There mournfull cypresse grew in greatest store; And trees of bitter gall; and heben sad; Dead sleeping poppy; and black hellebore; Cold coloquintida; and tetra mad; Mortall samnitis; and cicuta bad, With which th' uniust Atheniens made to dy Wise Socrates, who, thereof quaffing glad, Pourd out his life and last philosophy To the fayre Critias, his dearest belamy!
Page 5 - But let that man with better sence advize, That of the world least part to us is red; And daily how through hardy enterprize Many great regions are discovered, Which to late age were never mentioned. Who ever heard of th' Indian Peru ? Or who in venturous vessell measured The Amazon huge river, now found trew ? Or fruitfullest Virginia who did ever vew
Page 53 - The ends of all the knots, that none might see How they within their fouldings close enwrapped bee: XXVIII. Like two faire marble pillours they were scene, Which doe the temple of the gods support, Whom all the people decke with girlands greene, And honour in their festivall resort; Those same with stately grace and princely port
Page 146 - sownden wide, Whiles in the aire their clustring army flies, That as a cloud doth seeme to dim the skies; Ne man nor beast may rest or take repast For their sharpe wounds and noyous iniuries, Till the fierce northerne wind with blustring blast Doth blow them quite away, and in the ocean cast.
Page 112 - did lead to Plutoes griesly rayne: By that wayes side there sate infernall Payne, And fast beside him sat tumultuous Strife; The one in hand an yron whip did strayne, The other brandished a bloody knife ; And both did gnash their teeth, and both