The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Edmund Spenser Volume 5

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...'reliev'd' 1.471, 'hearted' 1.473, 'battaile.' Come, come away, fraile, feely, flefhly wight, Ne let vaine words bewitch thy manly hart, Ne diuelifh thoughts difmay thy conftant fpright. In heauenly mercies haft thou not a part? 478 Why fhouldft thou then defpeire, that chofen art? Where iuftice growes, there grows eke greater grace, The which doth quench the brand of hellifh fmart, And that accurft hand.writing doth deface, Arife, Sir knight arife, and leaue this curfed place. So vp he rofe, and thence amounted ftreight. Which when the carle beheld, and faw his gueft Would fafe depart, for all his fubtill fleight, He chofe an halter from among the reft, And with it hung himfelfe, vnbid vnbleft. But death he could not worke himfelfe thereby; For thoufand times he fo himfelfe had dreft, 491 Yet natheleffe it could not doe him die, Till he fhould die his laft, that is eternally. I. 475, 'feely'--1590 has 'feeble' 1. 480, 'greter' . 486, 'fubtile', 1. 488, 'hong' 1. 490, 'himfelfe.' ' ' T Hat man is he, that boafts of flefhly might, And vaine affurance of mortality, Which all fo foone, as it doth come to fight, Againft fpirituall foes, yeelds by and by, Or from the field moft cowardly doth fly? 1 o Ne let the man afcribe it to his fkill, That thorough grace hath gained victory. If any ftrength we haue, it is to ill, But all the good is Gods, both power and eke will. By that, which lately hapned, Vna faw, That this her knight was feeble, and too faint; And all his finews woxen weake and raw, Through long enprifonment, and hard conftraint, Which he endured in his late reftraint, That yet he was vnfit for bloudie fight: 20 Therefore to cherifh him with diets daint, 1. 4, 'repentaunce' 1. 10, 'fielde' 1. 17, 'finewes' 1. 2O, 'vnfitt... bloody.' She caft to ...