What is "happie"

Usage examples of "happie".

But first from under shadie arborous roof, Soon as they forth were come to open sight Of day-spring, and the Sun, who scarce up risen With wheels yet hov'ring o're the Ocean brim, Shot paralel to the earth his dewie ray, Discovering in wide Lantskip all the East Of Paradise and EDENS happie Plains, Lowly they bow'd adoring, and began Thir Orisons, each Morning duly paid In various style, for neither various style Nor holy rapture wanted they to praise Thir Maker, in fit strains pronounc't or sung Unmeditated, such prompt eloquence Flowd from thir lips, in Prose or numerous Verse, More tuneable then needed Lute or Harp To add more sweetness, and they thus began.

In which he long time afterwards did leadAn happie life with grace and good accord,Fearlesse of fortunes chaunge or enuies dread,And eke all mindlesse of his owne deare LordThe noble Prince, who neuer heard one wordOf tydings, what did vnto him betide,Or what good fortune did to him afford,But through the endlesse world did wander wide,Him seeking euermore, yet no where him descride.

But what art thou, ô Ladie, which doest raungeIn this wilde forrest, where no pleasure is,And doest not it for ioyous court exchaunge,Emongst thine equall peres, where happie blisAnd all delight does raigne, much more then this?

But were it not, that Time their troubler is,All that in this delightfull Gardin growes,Should happie be, and haue immortall blis:For here all plentie, and all pleasure flowes,And sweet loue gentle fits emongst them throwes,Without fell rancor, or fond gealosie.

Which when as I, that neuer tasted blis,Nor happie howre, beheld with gazefull eye,I thought there was none other heauen then this.

After that Timias had againe recuredThe fauour of Belphebe, (as ye heard)And of her grace did stand againe assured,To happie blisse he was full high vprear'd,Nether of enuy, nor of chaunge afeard,Though many foes did him maligne therefore,And with vniust detraction him did beard.

Since by descending from the Thrones above, Those happie places thou hast deignd a while To want, and honour these, voutsafe with us Two onely, who yet by sov'ran gift possess This spacious ground, in yonder shadie Bowre To rest, and what the Garden choicest bears To sit and taste, till this meridian heat Be over, and the Sun more coole decline.

Much more of price and of more gratious powreIs this, then that same water of Ardenne,The which Rinaldo drunck in happie howre,Described by that famous Tuscane penne:For that had might to change the hearts of menFro loue to hate, a change of euill choise:But this doth hatred make in loue to brenne,And heauy heart with comfort doth reioyce.

I lately chaunst (Would I had neuer chaunst)With a faire knight to keepen companee,Sir Terwin hight, that well himselfe aduaunstIn all affaires, and was both bold and free,But not so happie as mote happie bee:He lou'd, as was his lot, a Ladie gent,That him againe lou'd in the least degree:For she was proud, and of too high intent,And ioyd to see her louer languish and lament.

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.

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.

I had seen them in pictures before, but never alive: the Bashfuls and the Happies, as the comics had named them on Earth.