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" And, sooth, men say that he was not the sonne Of mortall Syre or other living wight, But wondrously begotten, and begonne By false illusion of a guilefull Spright On a faire Lady Nonne, that whilome hight Matilda, daughter to Pubidius, Who was the lord... "
The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors - Page 238
by Ezekiel Sanford - 1819
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Complete Works of Edmund Spenser

Edmund Spenser - 1897 - 808 pages
...That to this day, for termr of his fame. The feends do 'quake when any him to them does name. XIII My head besprent with hoary frost I fynd. And by myne eie the Crow liU clawe dooth w Hut wondrously begotlen, and begomie I'., false illusion of a guilefull Spright Oil a faire Lady Nonne,...
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Idylls of the King: In Twelve Books

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1897 - 452 pages
...is said of Merlin in Spenser, FQm 3. 13: — "And sooth, men say that he was rot the sonne Of mortal Syre or other living wight, But wondrously begotten, and begonne By false illusion of a pii'eful Spright On a fair lady Nonne, that whilom hight Matilda, daughter to Pubidius," etc. 472....
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History of King Henry the Fourth, Part 2

William Shakespeare - 1898 - 236 pages
...prophets, who pretended to have been conceived by miracle, like Merlin. Cf. Spenser, FQ iii. 3 l^i JJ "And, sooth, men say that he was not the sonne Of...Lady Nonne, that whilome hight Matilda, daughter to Pubidius, Who was the lord of Mathraval by right, And coosen unto King Ambrosius ; Whence he indued...
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Shakespeare's History of King Henry the Fourth ...

William Shakespeare - 1898 - 258 pages
...prophets, who pretended to have been conceived by miracle, like Merlin. Cf. Spenser, FQ iii. .*' ^ ' "And, sooth, men say that he was not the sonne Of...Lady Nonne, that whilome hight Matilda, daughter to Pubidius, Who was the lord of Mathraval by right, And coosen unto King Ambrosius; Whence he indued...
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Shakespeare's History of King Henry the Fourth, Part 2

William Shakespeare - 1898 - 236 pages
...have been conceived by miracle, like Merlin. Cf. Spenser, FQ iii. 2 i5 . J> *° "And, sooth, men gay that he was not the sonne Of mortall Syre or other...Lady Nonne, that whilome hight Matilda, daughter to Fubidius, Who was the lord of Mathraval by right, And coosen unto King Ambrosius ; Whence he indued...
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The Works of William Shakespeare ...

William Shakespeare - 1901 - 410 pages
...who pretended to have been conceived by miracle, like Merlin. So Spenser, in The Faerie Queene : — "And, sooth, men say that he was not the sonne Of...Lady Nonne, that whilome hight Matilda, daughter to Pubidius, Who was the lord of Mathraval by right, And coosen unto King Ambrosius ; Whence he indued...
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The Works of Edmund Spenser

Edmund Spenser - Authors, English - 1902 - 800 pages
...That to this day. for terror of his fame, The feends do "quake when any him to them does name. XIII And, sooth, men say that he was not the sonne Of mortall...or other living wight, But wondrously begotten, and bcgonne By false illusion of a guilefull Spright On a faire Lady Nonne, thntwhilome hight Matilda,...
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English Literature: From the Norman Conquest to Chaucer, Volume 10

William Henry Schofield - Comparative literature - 1906 - 528 pages
...was also explained as due to a devil's wiles. And, sooth, men say that he was not the sonne Of mortal syre or other living wight, But wondrously begotten,...illusion of a guilefull spright On a faire lady nonne. Faerie Queene, III. iii. 13. The " beautiful young man " who came to Merlin's mother, the king's daughter...
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English Literature: From the Norman Conquest to Chaucer, Volume 10

William Henry Schofield - Comparative literature - 1906 - 528 pages
...was also explained as due to a devil's wiles. And, sooth, men say that he was not Ihe sonne Of mortal syre or other living wight, But wondrously begotten, and begonne By false illusion of a guileful! spright On a faire lady nonne. Faerie Queene, III. iii. 13. The " beautiful young man " who...
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History of King Henry the Fourth, Part 2

William Shakespeare - 1908 - 232 pages
...conceived by miracle, like Merlin. Cf. Spenser, FQ iii *" » "And, sooth, men say that he was not the sonn* Of mortall Syre or other living wight, But wondrously...Lady Nonne, that whilome hight Matilda, daughter to Pubidius, Who was the lord of Mathraval by right, • And cooseu unto King Ambrosius; Whence he indued...
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