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" And unto hell him selfe for money sold : Accursed usury was all his trade ; And right and wrong ylike in equall ballaunce waide. "
The Fairy Queen - Page 62
by Edmund Spenser - 1758
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry, Selected for ...

Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1796 - 476 pages
...and painicd colours uicw. § 16. Aváricc. AND greedy Avarice by him did ride, Upon a camel lœidcn all with gold; Two iron coffers hung on either fide, With precious mctjttfull as they might hold, And in his hp a heap of coin he told ; For of his wicked pelf his god...
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First book of the Faerie Queene, canto I-IV

Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1805 - 446 pages
...ride, Upon a camell loaden all with gold : Two iron coffers hong on either fide, With precious metall full as they might hold ; And in his lap an heap of coine he told : For of his wicked pelf his god he made, And unto hell him felfe for money fold : Accurfed...
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The Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 2

Edmund Spenser - 1805 - 452 pages
...ride, Upon a camell loaden all with gold : Two iron coffers hong on either fide, With precious metall full as they might hold ; And in his lap an heap of coine he told : For of his wicked pelf his god he made, And unto hell him i'elfe for money fold : Accurfed...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Spenser, Daniel

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 610 pages
...ride, Upon a camel I loadeu all with gold: Two in in coifers hong on either side, With pnv nus metall full as they might hold; And in his lap an heap of coiné he told : Fur of his wicked pelf his god he made, , And unto He 1 him selfe lor money sold:...
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 10

Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1811 - 444 pages
...Gluttony, Deformed creature, on a filthy swine. And next to him rode lustful Lechery Upon a bearded goat. And greedy Avarice by him did ride, Upon a camel loaden all with gold, Accursed Usury was all his trade, And right and wrong alike in equal ballance weigh'd.. And next to...
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Elegant extracts in poetry, Volume 2

Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...Zephyrus emongst them blew, Did breathe out bounteous smells, and painter colors shew. § 86. Avarice. AND greedy Avarice by him did ride, Upon a camel loaden all with gold ; Two iron coffers hung on either side, With precious metall full as they might hold, And in his lap a heap of coin he told ; For of...
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Tickler, Or, Monthly Compendium of Good Things, in Prose and ..., Volumes 1-3

English literature - 1818 - 596 pages
...whom sweet poets verse hath given endless date. ' AVARICE. And greedy Avarice did by him ride, Apon a camel loaden all with gold ; Two iron coffers hung on either side, With precious metall full as they might hold, And in his lap a heap of coin he torn : For of...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 2

Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 420 pages
...ride, Upon a eamel loaden all with gold : Two iron eoffers hong on either side, With preeious metall full as they might hold ; And in his lap an heap of eoine he told : Por of his wieked pelf his god he made, And unto Hell him selfe for money sold : Aeeursed...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 356 pages
...ride, Upon a camell loaden all with gold : Two iron coffers hong on either side, With precious metall full as they might hold ; And in his lap an heap of coine he told : For of his wicked pelf his god he made, And unto hell him selfe for money sold : Accursed...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...reprove, That rots the marrow, and consumes the brain : Such one was Lechery, the third of all this train. h for open war, O Peers, As not behind in hate ; if...what was nrg'd Main reason to persuade immediate wa side, With precious metal full as they might hold, And in his lap an heap of coin he told ; For of...
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