Publications of the Spenser Society, Issue 4Spenser Society, 1895 |
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Page 14 - Waterson: and are to be sold at the signe of the Crowne in Pauls Churchyard. 1634.
Page 13 - Fought by Henry the fift of that name, King of England, against the whole power of the French : vnder the Raigne of their Charles the sixt. Anno Dom. 1415. The Miseries of Queene Margaritt, the infortunate Wife, of that most infortunate King Henry the sixt.
Page 10 - Printed by EA for Edward White, dwelling neere the little North doore of S. Paules Church, at the signe of the Gun.
Page 22 - I thank you, my dear sweet Drummond, for your good opinion of Polyolbion. I have done twelve books more, that is, from the...
Page 31 - And for myself, quoth he, This my full rest shall be ; England ne'er mourn for me, Nor more esteem me, Victor I will remain, Or on this earth lie slain ; Never shall she sustain Loss to redeem me.
Page 3 - A gentler shepherd may nowhere be found : Whose Muse, full of high thoughts' invention, Doth like himself heroically sound.
Page 19 - ... that the lethargy is incurable : nay, some of the Stationers, that had the selling of the First Part of this Poem, because it went not so fast away in the sale, as some of their beastly and abominable trash, (a shame both to our language and nation) have either despitefully left out, or at least carelessly neglected the Epistles to the Readers, and so have cozened the buyers with unperfected books...
Page 19 - But it hath fallen out otherwise ; for instead of that comfort which my noble friends proposed as my due, I have met with barbarous ignorance and base detraction ; such a cloud hath the devil drawn over the world's judgment.