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Title: The faerie queene, with an exact collation of the two original editions, published by himself at London in quarto; the former containing the first three books printed in 1590, and the latter the six books in 1596
Year: 1751 (1750s)
Authors: Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 Birch, Thomas, 1705-1766. Life of Mr. Edmund Spenser Kent, W., ill
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Publisher: London : Printed for J. Brindley and S. Wright
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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d wary was that noble pere, And lightly leaping from fo monftrous maine, Did faire avoide the violence him nere; It booted nought to thinke, fuch thunderbolts to beare: VIII. Ne fliame he thought to fliunne fo hideous might rThe idle ftroke, enforcing furious way,Mifling the marke of his mifaymed fightDid fall to ground, and with his heavie fvvaySo deepely dinted in the driven clay,That three yardes deepe a furrow up did throw :The fad earth, wounded with fo fore aflay,Did grone full grievous underneath the blow, And trembling with ftrange feare, did like an earthquake fhoWo. IX. As when almightie Jove m wrathfull mood. To wreake the guilt of mortall fins is bent,Hurlcs forth his thundring dart with deadly food,,Enrold in flames, and fmouldring dreriment,Through riven cloudes and molten firmament;The fierce threeforked engin making way.Both loftie towres and high eft trees hath rent.And all that might his angry paflage ftay. And (hooting in th,e earth, cafts up a mount of clay. X. His
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^ /^ o. :^ V ^ Canto V111. the Faerie ^eene, 125 X. His boyftrous club, fo burled in the ground,He could not rearen up againe (o light.But that the knight him at avantage found,And whiles he ftrove his combred clubbe to quightOut of the earth, with blade all burning brightHe fmot off his left arme, which like a blockeDid fall to ground, deprivd of native might;Large ftreames of blood out of the truncked ftocke Forth gufhed, like frefh water ftreame from riven rocke, XL Difmaied with fo defperate deadly wound,And eke impatient of unwonted paine,He loudly brayd with beaftly yelling found,That all the fields rebellowed againe,As great a noyfe, as when in Cymbrian plaineAn heard of bulks, whom kindly rage doth fting.Do for the milkie mothers want complaine.And fill the fields with troublous bellowing. The neighbour woods around with hollow murmur ring. XII. That when his deare Dueffa heard, and faw The evill flownd, that daungerd her eftate, Unto his aide fiie haftily did draw Her dreadfu

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