Author : Edmund Spenser
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 36,89 MB
Release : 2016-11-23
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781334381232
Excerpt from The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Vol. 4 of 6: From the Text of J. Upton; With a Preface, Biographical and Critical VI. And eke the bull bath with his bow-bent home So hardly butted those two twinnes Of Iove, That they have crusht the crab, and quite him borne Into the great Nemaean lions grove. SO now all range, and doe at random rove Out Of their proper places farre away, And all this world With them amisse doe move, And all his creatures from their course astray; Till they arrive at their last ruinous decay. VII. Ne is that same great glorious lampe Of light, That doth enlumine all these lesser fyres, Iii better case, me keepes his course more right, But is miscaried With the other spheres For smce the terme of fourteen hundred yeres, That learned Ptolomaee his hight did take, He is declyned from that marke of theirs Nigh thirtie minutes to the southerne lake; That makes me feare in time he will us quite forsake. VIII. And if to those Aegyptian wisards Old (which in star-read were wont have best insight) Faith may be given, it is by them told That since the time they first tooke the sunnes hight, F oure times his place be shifted hath in sight, ' And twice hath risen where he now doth west, And wested twice where he ought rise ariglit. But most is Mars amisse Of all the rest And next to him old Saturne, that was wont be best. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.