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" Why stand ye still ye virgins in amaze, Upon her so to gaze, Whiles ye forget your former lay to sing, To which the woods did answer, and your eccho ring? "
The Retrospective Review - Page 160
1825
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Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to ...

1788 - 510 pages
...stair To Honour's seat, and Chastity's sweet bowre. Why stand ye still, ye virgins ! in amaze, iSi Upon her so to gaze ; Whiles ye forget your former...lay to sing, To which the woods did answer, and your eccho ring. " But if ye saw that which no eyes can see, 185 The inward beauty of her lively spright,...
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Specimens of the British Poets ...

British poets - 1809 - 512 pages
...her body like a palace fair, Ascending up with many a stately stair To Honour's seat, and Chastity's sweet bowre. Why stand ye still, ye virgins ! in amaze,...lay to sing, To which the woods did answer, and your eccho ring. D3 " But if ye saw that which no eyes can see, The inward beauty of her lively spright,...
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Spenser, Daniel

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 600 pages
...towre ; And all her body like a pallace fayre, Ascending up, with many a stately stayre, To Honors seat and Chastities sweet bowre. Why stand ye still' ye virgins in amaze, Upon her so to gaze, Whiles yc forget your former lay to sing, To which the woods did answer,and your ecchoring ? BUT if ye saw...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Spenser, Daniel

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 610 pages
...pallace fayre. Ascending up, with many a stately «tayre, To Honors scat and Chastities gweet buwre. Why stand ye still ye virgins in amaze, Upon her so to gaze, Whiles ye furget your <brmer lay to sing, To which the woods did answer,and your eccho ring ? BUT if ye saw that...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 2

Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 420 pages
...marble towre; And all her body like a pallaee fayre, Aseending up with many a stately stayre, To Honors seat and Chastities sweet bowre. Why stand ye still ye virgins in amaze, I : pon her so to gaze, Whiles ye forget your former lay to sing, To whieh the woods did answer, and...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...a palace fair, Ascending up with many a stately stair To Honour's seat, and Chastity's sweet bowro. lliam C. Hall s Whiles ye forget your former lay to sing, To which the woods did answer, and your eccho ring. " But...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 12

1825 - 368 pages
...shrils, the ruddock warbles soft ; So goodly all agree with sweet consent, To this day's meriment. Ah ! my dear love, why do ye sleep thus long, When meeter...were dedicated to the Countesses of Cumberland and YVarwick. The dedication is not a little curious, and manifests something very like insincerity. The...
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The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser in Five Volumes, Volume 5

Edmund Spenser - 1825 - 450 pages
...pallace fayre, Ascending np, with many a stately stayre, To Honors seat and Chastities sweet bowre. 1 80 Why stand ye still ye Virgins in amaze, Upon her so...lay to sing, To which the woods did answer, and your eccho ring ? But if ye saw that which no eyes can see, 185 The inward beauty of her lively spright,...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...her body like a palaee fair, Aseending up with many a stately stair To Honour's seat, and Chastity's their wigs. Box'd in a ehair, the beau impatient sits. While spouts run elattering o'er the roof whieh the woods did answer, and your eeeho ring. " But jf ye saw that whieh no eyes ean see, The inward...
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A Garland of Love, Wreathed of Pleasant Flowers, Gathered in the Field of ...

Garland - 1836 - 246 pages
...a palace fair, Ascending up with many a stately stair To Honour's seat and Chastity's sweet bower. Why stand ye still, ye virgins, in amaze, Upon her so to gaze, Whilst ye forget your former lay to sing, To which the woods did answer, and your echo ring. But if...
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