Identifier: unaredcrossknigh00spen (find matches)
Title: Una and the red cross knight, and other tales from Spenser's Faery Queene;
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 Royde-Smith, Naomi Gwladys
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Publisher: London : J.M. Dent & Co., New York, E.P. Dutton & Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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ts were allfast in sleep, he went to his study and searchedthrough all his books of charms and magic for ameans of troubling the minds of sleepers. Then, having found the spells he sought (andtheir words are so horrible that none may so muchas read them unless he be a master of magic), hemade them into a verse. So bold was he thathe dared to awaken Queen Persephone, whorules with Pluto over the Kingdom of Darknessof which more anon, and he called also uponGorgon the Prince of the Dead of Night, callinghim by his name, which when it is heard causesthe waters of Styxl and Cocytus to quail. No sooner had he uttered these spells than outof the deep and dread darkness there came an hostof sprites which fluttered around him like somany flies, waiting to do his bidding. Of these 1 There were five rivers in Hades, the Kingdom of Darkness:Styx, the hateful river.Cocytus, the river of wailing.Acheron, the river of sorrow.Phlegethon, the river of fire and anger.Lethe, the river of forgetfulness.
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LIBRARY f> • ARCHIMAGO & THE FALSE DUESSA 21 he chose out the two most false and wicked thatwere the best skilled in lying, and keeping one byhim gave the other a message to the House ofMorpheus.1 This house is deep down under the earth, solow that the light of day never pierces there, andit has two doorsx the one of carven ivory throughwhich pass all the false dreams that go forth atnight to trouble sleepers, the other of silver, andthat is for the true dreams. But some say thatthe door of true dreams is a door of horn and notof silver, nor can I tell you whether it be so or no. Before these doors lie two watch-dogs, but theylie a great way off and keep away all those whowould make noise or disturbance in the House ofSleep. The sprite passed by the watch-dogs withoutfear, neither did they prevent him, and so he cameto where the master of the House, who wasMorpheus, lay sleeping. He was aware of no-thing but slept on in the silence. And more, to lull him in his slumbers soft,

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