 So now he raungeth through the world againe, And rageth sore in each degree and state; Ne any is that may him now restraine, He growen is so great and strong of late, Barking and biting all that him doe bate, Albe they worthy blame, or cleare of crime...  The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser - Page 134by Edmund Spenser - 1839Full view - About this book
 | Jennifer C. Vaught - 2008 - 264 pages
...to misinterpretation and censure signified by the bite of the Blatant Beast, who "spareth [not] ... the gentle Poets rime, / But rends without regard of person or of time" (xii.40.8-9; my emphasis). Spenser skeptically hopes that his "homely verse" and "former writs" will... | |
 | 1874 - 718 pages
...great and strong of late, Barking and biting all that him <lo hate, Albe they worthy blame or clear of crime, Ne spareth he most learned wits to rate, Ne spareth he the gentle poet's rime, But rends without regard of person or of time." Faery Queen, bk. vi. c. lii. s. 40. I... | |
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