10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GRYESY»
Discover the use of
gryesy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
gryesy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The works of Edmund Spenser, with notes by H.J. Todd
And her bright armes about her body dight: For nothing would she lenger there
be ftayd, Where so loose life, and so ungentle trade, Was usd of Knightes and
Ladies seeming gent : So, earely, ere the grosse earthes gryesy shade Was all ...
Edmund Spenser, Henry John Todd, 1805
2
Poetical Works ...: The Faerie queene, book II, cantos 7-12; ...
... and so ungentle trade,5 Was usd of 6 Knightes and Ladies seeming gent7 : So,
earely, ere the grosse earthes gryesy 8 shade Was all disperst out of the
firmament, They tooke their steeds, and forth upon their iourney went. 1 Eschew,
avoid.
3
The poetical works of Edmund Spenser
... so loose life, and so ungentle trade,5 Was usd of6 Knightes and Ladies
seeming gent7 : So, earely, ere the grosse earthes gryesy 8 shade Was all
disperst out of the firmament, They tooke their steeds, and forth upon their ioumey
went.
Edmund Spenser, George Stillman Hillard, Philip Masterman, 1853
... so loose life, aud so ungentle trade,5 Was usd of6 Knightes and Ladies
seeming gent7: So, earely, ere the grosse earthes gryesy 8 shade Was all
disperst out of the firmament, They tooke their steeds, and forth upon their
iourney went.
Edmund Spenser, George Stillman Hillard, 1857
5
Faerie queene. book III
... and so ungentle trade,5 Was usd of 6 Knightes and Ladies seeming gent 7 : So
, earely, ere the grosse earthes gryesy s shade Was all disperst out of the
firmament, They tooke their steeds, and forth upon their iourney went. 1 Eschew,
avoid.
Edmund Spenser, George Stillman Hillard, Philip Masterman, 1845
... Where so loose life, and so ungentle trade,1 Was usd of knights and ladies
seeming gent 2 : So, earely, ere the grosse earthes gryesy 8 shade Was all
disperst out of the firmament, They tooke their steeds, and forth upon their
iourney went.
7
The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser in Five Volumes
... Where so loose life, and so ungentle trade, Was usd of Knightes and Ladies
seeming gent: So, earely, ere the grosse earthes gryesy shade _ Was all disperst
out of the firmament, They tooke their steeds, and forth upon their iourney went.
8
Spenser: The Faerie Queene
Stanza 66 3 mischiefe: harm, evil. eschew: escape. 5 swayd: swung. Stanza 67 5
vngentle trade: discourteous conduct, not befitting those of gentle birth. 7 gryesy:
grey; horrible, being grey. Cant. II. The Redcrosse knight to Britomart describeth ...
9
Spenser's Faerie Queene
... and so ungentle trade Was usd of knightes and ladies seeming gent: So earely
ere theigroflsie earthes gryesy flaade Was all disperst out of the firmament, They
tooke their steeds, and forth upon their iourney went, C A, N T 05 CANTO II.
Edmund Spenser, John Upton, 1758
10
Notes on the "Fairy Queen": in 2 vols
Il.iv. 139. When Menelaus was wounded, 'tis added that the purple blood flowed
down and stained his thighs and feet just as when ivory is stained with vermillion.
See note on B.ii.C.9.St.41. LXVII. So early ere the grosse earths gryesy shade] I ...
John Upton, John G. Radcliffe, 1987
