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" Amintas wretched fate, To whom sweet Poets verse hath given endlesse date. There wont fayre Venus often to enjoy Her deare Adonis joyous company, And reape sweet pleasure of the wanton boy : There yet, some say, in secret he does ly, Lapped in flowres... "
A Selection from the Remains of Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus: With Glossary ... - Page lii
by Theocritus - 1846 - 155 pages
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Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to ...

English poetry - 1788 - 550 pages
...Venus often to enioy Her deare Adonis' ioyous company, And reap sweet pleasure of the wanton boy : There yet (some say) in secret he does ly, Lapped...the skill Of Stygian gods, which doe her love envy ; But she hcrselfe, whenever that she will, Possesseth him, and of his sweetnesse takes her nil i XL...
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The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: With the Life of the Author ..., Volume 3

Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1807 - 546 pages
...fayre Venus often to enioy Her deare Adonis ioyous company, And reap sweet pleasure of the wanton hoy : There yet, some say, in secret he does ly, Lapped in flowres and pretious spyeery, By her hid from the world, and from the skill Of Stygian gods, which doe her love envy'l But...
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Spenser, Daniel

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 600 pages
...fayre Venus often to cnioy Her deare Adonis ioyous company, And reap sweet pleasure of the wanton boy : There yet, some say, in secret he does ly, Lapped...the world, and from the skill Of Stygian gods, which doc her love envy; But she hcrselfe, whenever that she will, Possesseth him, and of his sweetnesse...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Spenser, Daniel

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 610 pages
...reap sweet pleasure of the wanton boy : There yet, some say, in secret he does ly, Lapped in flowrcs and pretious spycery, By her hid from the world, and...the skill Of Stygian gods, which doe her love envy; But she herselfc, whenever that she will, ('..--с • i : л him, and of his sweetnesse takes her...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 354 pages
...fayre Venus often to enioy Her deare Adonis ioyous company, And reap sweet pleasure of the wanton boy: There yet, some say, in secret he does ly, Lapped...the skill Of Stygian gods, which doe her love envy; But she herselfe, whenever that she will, Possesseth him, and of his sweetnesse takes he,r fill: XLvIl....
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The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser in Five Volumes, Volume 2

Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1825 - 412 pages
...fayre Venus often to enioy Her deare Adonis ioyous company, And reap sweet pleasure of the wanton boy : There yet, some say, in secret he does ly, Lapped...the skill Of Stygian gods, which doe her love envy; But she herselfe, whenever that she will, Possesseth him, and of his sweetnesse takes her fill : XLVII....
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Select Works of the British Poets: From Chaucer to Jonson, with Biographical ...

Robert Southey - English poetry - 1831 - 1038 pages
...fayre Venus often to enioy Her deare Adonis ioyous company, And reap sweet pleasure of the wanton boy : There yet, some say, in secret he does ly, Lapped in flowres and prêtions spyeery, By her hid from the world, and from the skill Of Stygian gods, which doe her love...
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The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 2

Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1839 - 458 pages
...fayre Venus often to enioy Her deare Adonis ioyous company, And reap sweet pleasure of the wanton boy : There yet, some say, in secret he does ly, Lapped...from the skill Of Stygian gods, which doe her love env^ ; But she herselfe, whenever that she will, Possesseth him, and of his sweetnesse takes her fill...
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The faerie queene

Edmund Spenser - 1843 - 388 pages
...fayre Venus often to enioy Her deare Adonis ioyous company, And reap sweet pleasure of the wanton boy : There yet, some say, in secret he does ly. Lapped...the skill Of Stygian gods, which doe her love envy : But she herselfe, whenever that she will, Possesseth him, and of his sweetnesse takes her fill :...
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Spenser: And His Poetry, Volume 2

George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 276 pages
...dear Adonis ; and There yet, some say, in secret he does lie, Lapped in flowers and precious spicery, By her hid from the world, and from the skill Of Stygian gods, which do her love envy : kit she herself, whenever she wills, still has him all her own. " And sooth it seems...
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