A GENTLE Knight was pricking on the plaine, Ycladd in mightie armes and silver shielde, Wherein old dints of deepe woundes did remaine, The cruell markes of many a bloody fielde ; Yet armes till that time did he never wield : His angry steede did chide... The Works of Edmund Spenser - Page 7by Edmund Spenser - 1805Full view - About this book
| Edmund Spenser - Epic poetry, English - 1758 - 800 pages
...pricking on the plains, Ycladd in mightie armes and filver {hielde, Wherein old dints of deepe woundes did remaine, The cruel markes of many' a bloody fielde...bitt, As much difdayning to the curbe to yield : Full jolly knight he feem'd, and faire did fitt, As one for knightly giufls and fierce encounters fitt.... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1805 - 448 pages
...unwillingly fubmits ; Ycladd in mightie armes and Iilver Ihielde, Wherein old dints of deepe woundes did remaine, > The cruel markes of many' a bloody...did he never wield : His angry fteede did chide his fommg bitt, As much difdayning to the curbe to yield : Full iolly knight he feemd, and faire did fitt,... | |
| Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1805 - 446 pages
...Full iolly knight he feemd, and faire did iitt, As one for knightly giufts and fierce encounters " His angry fteede did chide his foming bitt, " As much difdayning to the curbe to yield." In this fenfe then (which more literally fuits with the fobet Lady and her How beuft) " pricking on... | |
| John Milton - 1809 - 494 pages
...Argon, iv. 1606. But Milton, I think, did not here forget Spenfer, Faer. Qu. i. 1. 1. " His angry jttede did chide his foming bitt, " As much difdayning to the curbe to yield." And fee Dap/maidu, ver. 194. Nor may I omit Harington'* He held it vain; awe from above had quell'd... | |
| Poetical narratives - English poetry - 1810 - 330 pages
...pricking on the plaine, Ycladd in mightie armes and silver shielde, Wherein old dints of deepe woundes did remaine, The cruel markes of many' a bloody fielde...armes till that time did he never wield : His angry steede did chide his foming bitt, As much disdayning to the curbe to yield : Full jolly knight he seem'd,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 600 pages
...silver shielde, Wherein old dints of deepe woundes did remaine, The cruel markes of many' a bkxidy fielde ; Yet armes till that time did he never wield: His angry steede did chide his Coming bitt, As much disdayning to the curbe to yield : Full iolly knight he secmd,... | |
| British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 356 pages
...in mightie armes and silver shielde, Wherein old dints of deepe woundes did remaine, The cruel marks of many' a bloody fielde ; Yet armes till that time did he never wield : His angry steede did chide his foming bitt, As much disdayning to the curbe to yield : Full iolly knight he seemd,... | |
| Robert Southey - English poetry - 1831 - 1038 pages
...pricking on the plaine, Ycladd in mightic armes and silver shielde, Wherein old dints of deepe woundcs did remaine, The cruel markes of many' a bloody fielde...armes till that time did he never wield : His angry steodc did chide his foming bitt, As much disdayning to the curbe to yield : Full iolly knight lie... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1839 - 444 pages
...pricking on the plaine, Ycladd L in mightie armes and silver shielde, Wherein old dints of deepe woundes did remaine, The cruel markes of many' a bloody fielde...armes till that time did he never wield : His angry steecle did chide his foming bitt, As much disdayning to the curbe to yield : Full iolly 2 knight he... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1843 - 388 pages
...pricking on the plaine, Ycladd in mightie armes and silver shielde, Wherein old dints of deepe woundes did remaine, The cruel markes of many' a bloody fielde...armes till that time did he never wield : His angry steede did chide his foming hitt, A.8 much disdayning to the curbe to yield : Full joily knight he... | |
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