The faerie qveen : The shepheards calendar : together with the other works of England's arch-poët (1611)
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599, Lownes, Humphrey, d. 1629, printer, Lownes, Matthew, d. 1625, bookseller, Thompson, Silvanus Phillips, 1851-1916, former owner. IU-R, Riviere & Son, binder. IU-R · [London] : Printed by H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes · leaf 336
d.Who thouph he wereftill in this defertwood,Mongft laluage beafts, both rudely borne and bred,Ne cucr fawe faire guize, ne learned good.Yet fliewd fome token of his gentle bloodjBy gcntlevfigeof thatwretchedDame.For,certeshewasborneofnobleblood,How-cuer by hard hap he hither came: As ye may know,… … And leauingthere this Lady all difmayd.Went forth if reightway into the forreft wide.To feeke, if he perchance afleepe were layd.Or what-fo elfe were vnto him betide: He fought him far and neere, yet him no where he fpyde.4 Tho, back returning to that fory Dame,He fhewed lemblant of exceeding…
Knights and knighthood · Virtues
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