The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Edmund Spenser: Prose : A veue of the present state of Ireland ; Lettersprivate circulation only, 1884 |
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Page 265 - Tell hir, that hir pleasures were wonte to lull me asleepe: Tell hir, that hir beautie was wonte to feede mine eyes: Tell hir, that hir sweete Tongue was wonte to make me mirth. Nowe doe I nightly waste, wanting my kindely reste: Nowe doe I dayly starue, wanting my liuely foode: Nowe doe I alwayes dye, wanting thy timely mirth.
Page 19 - God's law and man's: as, for example, in the case of murder, the brehon — that is, their judge — will compound between the murderer and the friends of the party murdered, which prosecute the action, that the malefactor shall give unto them, or to the child or wife of him that is slain, a recompense, which they call an eric; by which vile law of theirs many murders amongst them are made up and smothered...
Page 244 - Ministers, having a way for credite and estimation thereby opened unto them, and having the livings of the countrey offered unto them, without paines, and without perill, will neither for the same, nor any love of God, nor zeale of religion, nor for all the good they may doe, by winning soules to God, bee drawne foorth from their...
Page 270 - I beseeche you by all your curtesies and graces, let me be answered ere I goe ; which will be (I hope, I feare, I thinke) the next weeke, if I can be dispatched of my Lorde. I goe thither, as sent by him, and maintained most what of him ; and there am to employ my time, my body, my minde, to his Honours seruice.
Page 65 - But the Irish doe heerein no otherwise, then our vaine English-men doe in the Tale of Brutus, whom they devise to have first conquered and inhabited this land, it being as impossible to proove, that there was ever any such Brutus of Albion or England, as it is, that there was any such Gathelus of Spaine.
Page 252 - Deputy or Justice, for that it is a very safe kinde of rule ; but there-withall I wish that over him there were placed also a Lord Lieutenant, of some of the greatest personages in England, * such a one I could name, upon whom the eye of all England is fixed, and our last hopes now rest...
Page 278 - If so be the Faerye Queene be fairer in your eie than the Nine Muses, and Hobgoblin runne away with the Garland from Apollo: Marke what I saye, and yet I will not say that I thought, but there an End for this once, and fare you well, till God or some good Aungell putte you in a better minde (Ibid., pp.
Page 263 - I heare of none, but only of one,* that writing a certaine booke called The Schoole of Abuse, and dedicating it to Maister Sidney, was for hys labor scorned : if, at leaste, it be in the goodnesse of that nature to scorne. Such follie is it not to regarde aforehande the inclination and qualitie of him to whome wee dedicate oure bookes.
Page 162 - Out of everye corner of the woode and glenns they came creepeinge forth upon theire handes, for theire legges could not beare them; they looked Anatomies [of] death, they spake like ghostes, crying out of theire graves...
Page 273 - Of louers miseries which maketh his bloodie game? Wote ye why his moother with a veale hath coouered his face ? Trust me, least he my looue happely chaunce to beholde.