. Spenser's Faerie queene. A poem in six books; with the fragment Mutabilite . eds of arms atchieved,And overthrew what ever came her neare,That all those stranger knights full sore agrieved,And that late weaker band of chalengers relieved. Like as in sommers day, when raging heatDoth burne the earth and boyled rivers drie,That all brute beasts, forst to refraine fro meat,Doe hunt for shade, where shrowded they may lie,And, missing it, faine from themselves to flic ;All travellers tormented are with paine:A watry cloud doth overcast the skie,And poureth forth a sudden shoure of raine,That all
. Spenser's Faerie queene. A poem in six books; with the fragment Mutabilite . eds of arms atchieved,And overthrew what ever came her neare,That all those stranger knights full sore agrieved,And that late weaker band of chalengers relieved. Like as in sommers day, when raging heatDoth burne the earth and boyled rivers drie,That all brute beasts, forst to refraine fro meat,Doe hunt for shade, where shrowded they may lie,And, missing it, faine from themselves to flic ;All travellers tormented are with paine:A watry cloud doth overcast the skie,And poureth forth a sudden shoure of raine,That all the wretched world recomforteth againe. 890 So did the warlike Britomart restoreThe prize to knights of Maydenhead that day,Which else was like to have bene lost, and boreThe prayse of prowesse from them all shrilling trompets loudly gan to bray,And bad them leave their labours and long toyleTo joyous feast and other gentle play,Where beauties prize shold win that pretious spoyleWhere I with sound of trompe will also rest a whyle.
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