What is "aliue"

Usage examples of "aliue".

By vew of her he ginneth to reuiueHis ancient loue, and dearest Cyparisse,And calles to mind his pourtraiture aliue,How faire he was, and yet not faire to this,And how he slew with glauncing dart amisseA gentle Hynd, the which the louely boyDid loue as life, aboue all worldly blisse.

He tumbling downe aliue,With bloudy mouth his mother earth did kis,Greeting his graue: his grudging ghost did striueWith the fraile flesh.

Therewith in haste his helmet gan vnlace,Till Vna cride, O hold that heauie hand,Deare Sir, what euer that thou be in place:Enough is, that thy foe doth vanquisht standNow at thy mercy: Mercie not withstand:For he is one the truest knight aliue,Though conquered now he lie on lowly land,And whilest him fortune fauourd, faire did thriueIn bloudie field: therefore of life him not depriue.

Such wondrous science in mans wit to raineWhen Ioue auizd, that could the dead reuiue,And fates expired could renew againe,Of endlesse life he might him not depriue,But vnto hell did thrust him downe aliue,With flashing thunderbolt ywounded sore:Where long remaining, he did alwaies striueHimselfe wilth salues to health for to restore,And slake the heauenly fire, that raged euermore.

Vnto old Timon he me brought byliue,Old Timon, who in youthly yeares hath beeneIn warlike feates th'expertest man aliue,And is the wisest now on earth I weene.

This thy demaund, ô Lady, doth reuiueFresh memory in me of that great Queene,Great and most glorious virgin Queene aliue,That with her soueraigne powre, and scepter sheneAll Faery lond does peaceable sustene.

Perdie, then is it fit for me (said he)That am, I weene, most wretched man aliue,Burning in flames, yet no flames can I see,And dying daily, daily yet reuiue:O Atin, helpe to me last death to giue.

Not he, whom Greece, the Nourse of all good arts,By Phoebus doome, the wisest thought aliue,Might be compar'd to these by many parts:Nor that sage Pylian syre, which did suruiueThree ages, such as mortall men contriue,By whose aduise old Priams cittie fell,With these in praise of pollicies mote striue.

Forward they passe, and strongly he them rowes,Vntill they nigh vnto that Gulfe arriue,Where streame more violent and greedy growes:Then he with all his puissance doth striueTo strike his oares, and mightily doth driueThe hollow vessell through the threatfull waue,Which gaping wide, to swallow them aliue,In th'huge abysse of his engulfing graue,Doth rore at them in vaine, and with great terror raue.

Fiue dayes there be, since he (they say) was slaine,And foure, since Florimell the Court for-went,And vowed neuer to returne againe,Till him aliue or dead she did inuent.

Ah gentlest knight aliue, (said Scudamore)What huge heroicke magnanimityDwels in thy bounteous brest?

Nathlesse proud man himselfe the other deemed,Hauing so peerelesse paragon ygot:For sure the fayrest Florimell him seemed,To him was fallen for his happie lot,Whose like aliue on earth he weened not:Therefore he her did court, did serue, did wooe,With humblest suit that he imagine mot,And all things did deuise, and all things dooe,That might her loue prepare, and liking win theretoo.

Glad man was he to see that ioyous sight,For none aliue but ioy'd in Florimell,And lowly to her lowting thus behight.

Then pardon, O most sacred happie spirit,That I thy labours lost may thus reuiue,And steale from thee the meede of thy due merit,That none durst euer whilest thou wast aliue,And being dead in vaine yet many striue:Ne dare I like, but through infusion sweeteOf thine owne spirit, which doth in me suruiue,I follow here the footing of thy feete,That with thy meaning so I may the rather meete.

This dismall day hath thee a caytiue made,And vassall to the vilest wretch aliue,Whose cursed vsage and vngodly tradeThe heauens abhorre, and into darkenesse driue.