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The Faerie Queene choose

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[UK] Spenser Faerie Queene Bk III Canto 10 Stanza 48: Whereas his louely wife emongst them lay, / Embraced of a Satyre rough and rude, / Who all the night did minde his ioyous play: / Nine times he heard him come aloft ere day.
at come aloft (v.) under come, v.1
[UK] Spenser Faerie Queene II xi : Leasinges, backbytinges and vain-glorious crakes.
at crack, n.1
[UK] Spenser Faerie Queene Book III Canto i Stanza 36: With her two crafty spyes She secretly would search each daintie lim [F&H].
at spy, n.
[UK] Spenser Faerie Queene Bk I Canto xi Stanza 28: He [...] gan his sturdy sterne about to weld.
at stern, n.
[UK] Spenser Faerie Queene Bk IV Canto vii: She staid not th’utmost end thereof to try.
at end, n.
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