...Petrarch, predicting the triumph of the Fairy Queen over the spotless mistress of the Italian bard : — " Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay, Within...Love and fairer Virtue kept : All suddenly I saw the Fairy Queen ; At whose approach the soul of Petrarch wept, And, from thenceforth, those Graces were...

...Than venture the revealing ; Where glory recommends the grief, Despair disdains the healing. METHOUOHT I saw the grave where Laura lay, Within that temple...by that way To see that buried dust of living fame, Silence in love betrays more woe Whose tomb fair Love and fairer Virtue kept, Than word«, though ne'er...

...other, the ' Vision upon the Conceipt of the Faery Queen,' understood to be by Sir Walter Releigh : " Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay, Within...and fairer Virtue kept. All suddenly I saw the Faery dueen : At whose approach the soul of Petrarch wept; And from thenceforth those Graces were not seen,...

...; He emarteth most who hides his smart, And sues for no compassion. A VISION UPON THE FAIRY dUEEN. Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay, Within...Love and fairer Virtue kept, All suddenly I saw the Fairy Queen, At whose approach the soul of Petrarch wept; And from thenceforth those Graces were not...

...to Spenser on his great work, will give the reader no unfavourable idea of Raleigh's poetic powers " Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay Within that temple, where the vestall flame Was wont to bume, and passing by that way To see that buried dust of living fame, Whose...

...observed, is displaced for Queen Elizabeth ; who is implied in the character of the " Fairy Queen." Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay Within that...Love and fairer Virtue kept, All suddenly I saw the Fairy Queen ; At whose approach the soul of Petrarch wept, And from henceforth those Graces were not...

...other, the ' Vision upon the Conceipt of the Faery Queen,' understood to be by Sir Walter Releigh : " Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay, Within...and fairer Virtue kept. All suddenly I saw the Faery dueen : At whose approach the soul of Petrarch wept ; And from thenceforth those Graces were not seen,...

...thought I saw the grave where Laura lay, Within that Temple where tho vestall flame Was wont to burne ; parted ought : Hctwixt them both was but a litle stride, Tliat did tlie H faire Love, and fairer Virtue kept ; All suddeinly I saw the Faery Queme : At whose approach the soule...

...passion; He smarteth most that hides his smart, And sues for no compassion! A Vision upoa the Fairy Methought I saw the grave, where Laura lay Within that temple, where the vestal flams Was wont to bum; and, passing by that way, To see that buried ; dust of living fame, Whose tomb...

...the triumph of the Fairy Queen over the spotless mistress of the Italian sonnet bard :— " Methqught I saw the grave where Laura lay, Within that temple...Love and fairer Virtue kept : All suddenly I saw the Fairy Queen ; At whose approach the soul of Petrarch wept, And, from thenceforth, those Graces were...