"Astrophel" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that Spenser wrote Astrophel, a sadly beautiful dirge for the death of his friend and fellow-poet, Sir Philip Sidney. He gave his verses as "fittest flowers to deck ...
— English Literature For Boys And Girls • H.E. Marshall
... word meant a chamber (see on i. 217 above), and was often used of the ladies' apartments in a house. In hall and bower among men and women. The words are often thus associated. Cf. Spenser, Astrophel, 28: "Merily masking both in bowre ...
— The Lady of the Lake • Sir Walter Scott |
