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In his story of “ A Ladie Falslie Accused " are described those people called " admiratours and praisers of vertue , " who " doe not use like indeuour for the merites of vertue ” but “ rather ... imploie their onely industrie to gather ...
In his story of “ A Ladie Falslie Accused " are described those people called " admiratours and praisers of vertue , " who " doe not use like indeuour for the merites of vertue ” but “ rather ... imploie their onely industrie to gather ...
Page 80
Margarita expects the same fate , “ but see the generositie and vertue of the beast ... in the place of tearing her peecemeale , ” he lays his head gently in her lap , “ licking hir milkewhite hand , and shewing al signes of humilitie ...
Margarita expects the same fate , “ but see the generositie and vertue of the beast ... in the place of tearing her peecemeale , ” he lays his head gently in her lap , “ licking hir milkewhite hand , and shewing al signes of humilitie ...
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Thus Sidney's Pyrocles and Musidorus and Lodge's Rosader and Rabinius , being represented as paragons of “ vertue , ” become types of the " complete man " of the Renaissance , who was supposed to possess “ vertue " ( " virtù " ) .
Thus Sidney's Pyrocles and Musidorus and Lodge's Rosader and Rabinius , being represented as paragons of “ vertue , ” become types of the " complete man " of the Renaissance , who was supposed to possess “ vertue " ( " virtù " ) .
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