. Spenser's Faerie queene. A poem in six books; with the fragment Mutabilite . eraine,Which from that goodly glorious flowre proceed,Sprung of the auncient stocke of Princes straine,Now thonely remnant of that royall breed,Whose noble kind at first was sure of heavenly seed. Tho, soone as day discovered heavens faceTo sinfull men with darknes overdight,This gentle crew gan from their eye-lids chaceThe drowzie humour of the dampish night,And did themselves unto their journey forth they yode, and forward softly paced,That them to view had bene an uncouth sight,How all the way the Prince
. Spenser's Faerie queene. A poem in six books; with the fragment Mutabilite . eraine,Which from that goodly glorious flowre proceed,Sprung of the auncient stocke of Princes straine,Now thonely remnant of that royall breed,Whose noble kind at first was sure of heavenly seed. Tho, soone as day discovered heavens faceTo sinfull men with darknes overdight,This gentle crew gan from their eye-lids chaceThe drowzie humour of the dampish night,And did themselves unto their journey forth they yode, and forward softly paced,That them to view had bene an uncouth sight,How all the way the Prince on footpace traced,The Ladies both on horse, together fast embraced. Soone as they thence departed were afore,That shamefull Hag, the slaunder of her sexe,Them followd fast, and them reviled sore,Him calling theefe, them whores ; that much did vexeHis noble hart : thereto she did annexeFalse crimes and facts, such as they never ment,That those two Ladies much ashamd did wexe :The more did she pursue her lewd intent,And rayld and ragd, till she had all her poyson spent. 960.
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