10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MALENGINE»
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malengine in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Memorials of the Guild of Merchant Taylors of the Fraternity ...
Note in J. P. Collier's edition : — " ' Of such malengine,' ... as a substantive we are
here to understand it as ill intention or wicted purpose." — F. G. F. serenes
profitable business and needful errands for the politique advantage XXXVIII.
Charles Mathew Clode,
1875
2
Spenser for children [stories from The faerie queene].
He turned himself into a fox, and was hunted by Talus; then he transformed
himself to a bush, but Talus beat it with his flail till it changed into a bird and flew
from tree to tree. The iron man picked up stones, and threw so many at
Malengine that ...
M H. Towry, Edmund Spenser,
1878
3
The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser
... of her inburning fire ; Which spent in vaine, at last she told her briefe, That but if
she did lend her short reliefe And doe her comfort, she mote algates dye : But the
chaste damzell, that had never priefe Of such malengine and fine forgerye.
Edmund Spenser, John Payne Collier,
1891
4
Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing ...
(1) Bad actions. (2) Enchantments. Malengine, s. {A.-N.) Wicked ingenuity or art.
But the chaste damzell that had never priefe Of such malengine, and fine forgery,
Did easely beleeve het- strong extretnitye. Spens., P. Q., Ill, i, 53. Male-pillion, *.
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A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and ...
But the chaste damzell that had never priefe Of such malengine, and fine forgery,
Did easely beleeve her strong extremitye. Spent. F. Q. III. i. 53. Also as a name :
For he so crafty was to forge and face, So light of hand, and nymble of his pace, ...
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The works of Edmund Spenser, with notes by H.J. Todd
But the chaste Damzell, that had never priefe Of such malengine and fine
forgerye, Did easely beleeve her strong extremitye. - LIV. Full easy was for her to
have beliefe, Who by self-feeling of her feeble sexe, And by long triall of the
inward ...
Edmund Spenser, Henry John Todd,
1805
Malengine, Rix thought. It was a word he'd been mulling over to use as the title of
a book someday. It meant “evil machination” or, more literally, something
constructed for an evil purpose. The Lodge was a malengine, built with the spoils
of ...
8
A Companion to Tudor Literature
Both Malengine (5.ix.1–13) and the Souldan are equipped with military
technologies of dazzling complexity, yet the Souldan's iron-wheeled chariot
backfires against its user, tearing him to rags after it overturns in the heat of battle
(5.viii.
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A glossary; or, Collection of words ... which have been ...
The Malengine, s. Wicked ingenuity or art; from mal, and engine, or ingene,
ingenuity. But the chaste damzell that had never priefe Of such malengine, and
fine forgery, Did easely beleeve her strong extremitye. Spent. F. Q. III. i. 53. Also
as a ...
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A glossary and etymological dictionary of obsolete and ...
And trusseth a male him behind. Rom. or K. AlisaunORe, Ne was there such
another pardonere, For in his male he had a pillow here. Cnaucea's P. to
Paanonea's Tale. MaLENGINE (F. mtdengin), a deceitful contrivance. But the
chaste damsel ...