The faerie queene : disposed into XII bookes, fashioning twelue morall vertues (1609)
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599, Lownes, Humphrey, d. 1629, Lownes, Matthew, d. 1625 · At London : Printed by H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes · leaf 171
aufe, why Satyratu and TaridcHMote not be entertaind, as feemed meet.Into that Caftle (as that Squire does tell.)Therein a cancred crabbed Carle does dwell.That has no skill of Court nor courtefie,Nc cares, what men fay of him, ill or well iFor, all his dales he drownes in priuity. Yet has full… … Whofe beauty doth his bounty farre furpaflc.The which to liim both far vncquall yeares.And alio far vnlilce conditions has;For, fhe does ioy to play emongft her pearcs.And to be free from hard reftraintandiealousfeires. But he is old, and withered like hay,Vnfit faire Ladies feruice to fupply;The…
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