Identifier: gri_33125012901738 (find matches)
Title: Spenser's Faerie queene. A poem in six books; with the fragment Mutabilite
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 Wise, Thomas James, 1859-1937 Crane, Walter, 1845-1915
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Publisher: London, G. Allen
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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WHY doe wretched men so much desireTo draw their dayes unto the utmost date,And doe not rather wish them soone expire,Knowing the miserie of their estate,And thousand perills which them still awate,Tossing them like a boate amid the mayne,That every houre they knocke at deathes gate ?And he that happie seemes, and least in payne,Yet is as nigh his end as he that most doth playne. Therefore this Fay I hold but fond and vaine,The which, in seeking for her children threeLong life, thereby did more prolong their paine:Yet whilest they lived none did ever seeMore happie creatures then they seemd to bee;Nor more ennobled for their courtesie,That made them dearely lovd of each degree ;Ne more renowmed for their chevalrie,That made them dreaded much of all men farre and nie. 855 THE FAERIE QUEENE. Book IV.Canto III. These three that hardie chalenge tooke in hand,For Canacee with Cambell for to fight.The day was set, that all might understand,And pledges pawnd the same to keepe aright:That day

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