Identifier: faeriequeene00spen (find matches)
Title: The Faerie queene:
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599
Subjects: Knights and knighthood Virtues
Publisher: New York. D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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That better were with them to have bene dead, Then here to see aU desolate and wast, Pespoyled of those ioyes and iollyhead, Which with those gentle shepheards here I wont to lead. When Cahdore these ruefull newes had raught, His hart quite deaded was with anguish great. And all his wits with doole were nigh distraught, That he is face, his head, his brest did beat. And death itselfe unto himselfe did threat; Oft cursing th heavens, that so cruell were . To her, whose name he often did repeat; And wishing oft, that he were present there When she was slaine, or had bene to her succour nere. But after griefe awhile had had his course. And spent itselfe in mourning, he at last Began to mitigate his swelling sourse, And in his mind with better reason cast How he might save her life, if life did last; Or, if that dead, how he her death might wreake; Sith otherwise he could not mend thing past; Or, if it to revenge he were too weake. Then for to die with her, and his lives threed to breake.
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±P-y.L t And twixt them both, with parted palnes, did beare,Twixt life and death, not knowing what was donne,Thence they him carried to a castle neare. Book VL Canto XI. Ver. 48 THE FAEEIE QTTEENE. 757 Tho Coridon he prayd, sith lie well knew The readie way unto that theevish wonne. To wend with him, and be his conduct trew Unto the place, to see what should be donne: But he, whose hart through feare was late fordonne^ Would not for ought be drawne to former drede; But by all meanes the daunger knowne did shonne: Yet Cahdore so well him wrought with meed. And faire bespoke with words, that he at last agreed. So forth they goe together (God before) Both clad in shepheards weeds agreeably. And both with shepheards hookes; but Calidore Had, underneath, him armed privily : Tho, to the place when they approached nye. They chaunst, upon an hill not farre away. Some flockes of sheepe and shepheards to espy; To whom they both agreed to take their way. In hope there newes to learne, how they

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