{ "id": "edmund-spenser/the-legend-of-britomartis-or-of-chastity", "title": "The Legend of Britomartis, or of Chastity", "ordinal": "Book III", "subtitle": null, "poet": "Edmund Spenser", "poet_slug": "edmund-spenser", "language": "en", "book": "The Faerie Queene", "book_slug": "the-faerie-queene", "book_kind": "volume", "sequence": 4, "container": null, "epigraph": null, "first_published": { "year": 1596, "venue": "The Faerie Queene (1596)", "note": "First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established.", "uncertain": false, "sources": [ "https://archive.org/details/spensersfaeriequ01spenuoft", "https://archive.org/details/spensersfaeriequ02spenuoft", "https://archive.org/details/spensersfaeriequ03spenuoft", "https://archive.org/details/spensersfaeriequ04spenuoft", "https://archive.org/details/spensersfaeriequ05spenuoft", "https://archive.org/details/spensersfaeriequ06spenuoft", "https://github.com/standardebooks/edmund-spenser_the-faerie-queene" ] }, "source": { "kind": "standard-ebooks", "repo": "standardebooks/edmund-spenser_the-faerie-queene", "file": "book-3.xhtml", "upstream": [ "https://archive.org/details/spensersfaeriequ01spenuoft", "https://archive.org/details/spensersfaeriequ02spenuoft", "https://archive.org/details/spensersfaeriequ03spenuoft", "https://archive.org/details/spensersfaeriequ04spenuoft", "https://archive.org/details/spensersfaeriequ05spenuoft", "https://archive.org/details/spensersfaeriequ06spenuoft" ], "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)" }, "verification": { "level": "structural-only", "last_checked": "2026-08-20" }, "stats": { "n_lines": 6138, "n_stanzas": 682, "n_parts": 0, "longest_line_chars": 66, "max_indent": 1 }, "site_ready": true, "parts": [], "stanzas": [ [ { "text": "It falles me here to write of Chastity,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The fayrest vertue, far above the rest:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For which what needes me fetch from Faery", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Forreine ensamples it to have exprest?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sith it is shrined in my Soveraines brest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And formd so lively in each perfect part,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That to all Ladies, which have it profest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Need but behold the pourtraict of her hart;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "If pourtrayd it might bee by any living art.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But living art may not least part expresse,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Nor life-resembling pencill it can paynt:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All were it Zeuxis or Praxiteles,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His dædale hand would faile and greatly faynt,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And her perfections with his error taynt:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne Poets witt, that passeth Painter farre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In picturing the parts of beauty daynt,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So hard a workemanship adventure darre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For fear, through want of words, her excellence to marre.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "How then shall I, Apprentice to the skill", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That whilome in divinest wits did rayne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Presume so high to stretch mine humble quill?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet now my luckelesse lott doth me constrayne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Hereto perforce. But, O dredd Soverayne!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thus farforth pardon, sith that choicest witt", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Cannot your glorious pourtraict figure playne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That I in colourd showes may shadow itt,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And antique praises unto present persons fitt.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But if in living colours, and right hew,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Thy selfe thou covet to see pictured,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who can it doe more lively, or more trew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then that sweete verse, with Nectar sprinckeled,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In which a gracious servaunt pictured", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His Cynthia, his heavens fayrest light?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That with his melting sweetnes ravished,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with the wonder of her beames bright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "My sences lulled are in slomber of delight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But let that same delitious Poet lend", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A little leave unto a rusticke Muse", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To sing his mistresse prayse; and let him mend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "If ought amis her liking may abuse:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne let his fayrest Cynthia refuse", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In mirrours more then one her selfe to see;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But either Gloriana let her chuse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or in Belphœbe fashioned to bee;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In th’one her rule, in th’other her rare chastitee.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The famous Briton Prince and Faerie knight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "After long wayes and perilous paines endur’d,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Having their weary limbes to perfect plight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Restord, and sory wounds right well recur’d,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of the faire Alma greatly were procur’d", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To make there lenger sojourne and abode;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But when thereto they might not be allur’d,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From seeking praise and deeds of armes abrode,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They courteous congé tooke, and forth together yode.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But the captiv’d Acrasia he sent,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Because of traveill long, a nigher way,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With a strong gard, all reskew to prevent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And her to Faery court safe to convay;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That her for witnes of his hard assay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto his Faery Queene he might present:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But he him selfe betooke another way,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To make more triall of his hardiment,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And seek adventures as he with Prince Arthure went.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Long so they traveiled through wastefull wayes,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Where daungers dwelt, and perils most did wonne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To hunt for glory and renowmed prayse.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Full many Countreyes they did overronne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From the uprising to the setting Sunne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And many hard adventures did atchieve;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of all the which they honour ever wonne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Seeking the weake oppressed to relieve,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to recover right for such as wrong did grieve.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "At last, as through an open plaine they yode,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "They spide a knight that towards pricked fayre;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And him beside an aged Squire there rode,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That seemd to couch under his shield three-square,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As if that age badd him that burden spare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And yield it those that stouter could it wield.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He them espying gan him selfe prepare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And on his arme addresse his goodly shield", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That bore a Lion passant in a golden field.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which seeing, good Sir Guyon deare besought", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The Prince of grace to let him ronne that turne.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He graunted: then the Faery quickly raught", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His poynant speare, and sharply gan to spurne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His fomy steed, whose fiery feete did burne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The verdant gras as he thereon did tread;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne did the other backe his foote returne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But fiercely forward came withouten dread,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And bent his dreadful speare against the others head.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "They beene ymett, and both theyr points arriv’d;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But Guyon drove so furious and fell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That seemd both shield and plate it would have riv’d;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nathelesse it bore his foe not from his sell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But made him stagger, as he were not well:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Guyon selfe, ere well he was aware,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nigh a speares length behind his crouper fell;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet in his fall so well him selfe he bare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That mischievous mischaunce his life and limbs did spare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Great shame and sorrow of that fall he tooke;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For never yet, sith warlike armes he bore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And shivering speare in bloody field first shooke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He fownd him selfe dishonored so sore.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ah! gentlest knight, that ever armor bore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Let not thee grieve dismounted to have beene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And brought to grownd that never wast before;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For not thy fault, but secret powre unseene:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That speare enchaunted was which layd thee on the greene.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But weenedst thou what wight thee overthrew,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Much greater griefe and shamefuller regrett", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For thy hard fortune then thou wouldst renew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That of a single damzell thou wert mett", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On equall plaine, and there so hard besett:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Even the famous Britomart it was,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom straunge adventure did from Britayne sett", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To seeke her lover (love far sought alas!)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose image shee had seene in Venus looking glas.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Full of disdainefull wrath he fierce uprose", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For to revenge that fowle reprochefull shame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And snatching his bright sword began to close", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With her on foot, and stoutly forward came:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Dye rather would he then endure that same.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which when his Palmer saw, he gan to feare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His toward perill, and untoward blame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which by that new rencounter he should reare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For death sate on the point of that enchaunted speare:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And hasting towards him gan fayre perswade", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Not to provoke misfortune, nor to weene", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His speares default to mend with cruell blade;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For by his mightie Science he had seene", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The secrete vertue of that weapon keene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That mortall puissaunce mote not withstond.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nothing on earth mote alwaies happy beene:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Great hazard were it, and adventure fond,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To loose long gotten honour with one evill hond.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "By such good meanes he him discounselled", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "From prosecuting his revenging rage:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke the Prince like treaty handeled,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His wrathfull will with reason to aswage;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And laid the blame, not to his carriage,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But to his starting steed that swarv’d asyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to the ill purveyaunce of his page,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That had his furnitures not firmely tyde.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So is his angry corage fayrly pacifyde.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thus reconcilement was betweene them knitt,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Through goodly temperaunce and affection chaste;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And either vowd with all their power and witt", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To let not others honour be defaste", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of friend or foe, who ever it embaste;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne armes to beare against the others syde:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In which accord the Prince was also plaste,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with that golden chaine of concord tyde.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So goodly all agreed they forth yfere did ryde.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "O! goodly usage of those antique tymes,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In which the sword was servaunt unto right;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When not for malice and contentious crymes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But all for prayse, and proofe of manly might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The martiall brood accustomed to fight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then honour was the meed of victory,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And yet the vanquished had no despight.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Let later age that noble use envy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Vyle rancor to avoid and cruel surquedry.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Long they thus travelled in friendly wise,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Through countreyes waste, and eke well edifyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Seeking adventures hard, to exercise", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their puissaunce, whylome full dernly tryde.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At length they came into a forest wyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose hideous horror and sad trembling sownd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Full griesly seemd: Therein they long did ryde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet tract of living creature none they fownd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Save Beares, Lyons, and Buls, which romed them arownd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "All suddenly out of the thickest brush,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Upon a milkwhite Palfrey all alone,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A goodly Lady did foreby them rush,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose face did seeme as cleare as Christall stone,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke, through feare, as white as whales bone:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her garments all were wrought of beaten gold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all her steed with tinsell trappings shone,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which fledd so fast that nothing mote him hold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And scarse them leasure gave her passing to behold.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Still as she fledd her eye she backward threw,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As fearing evill that poursewd her fast;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And her faire yellow locks behind her flew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Loosely disperst with puff of every blast:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All as a blazing starre doth farre outcast", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His hearie beames, and flaming lockes dispredd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At sight whereof the people stand aghast;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But the sage wisard telles, as he has redd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That it importunes death and dolefull dreryhedd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So as they gazed after her a whyle,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Lo! where a griesly foster forth did rush,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Breathing out beastly lust her to defyle:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His tyreling Jade he fiersly forth did push", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through thicke and thin, both over banck and bush,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In hope her to attaine by hooke or crooke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That from his gory sydes the blood did gush.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Large were his limbes, and terrible his looke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in his clownish hand a sharp bore speare he shooke.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which outrage when those gentle knights did see,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Full of great envy and fell gealosy", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They stayd not to avise who first should bee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But all spurd after, fast as they mote fly,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To reskew her from shamefull villany.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The Prince and Guyon equally bylive", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her selfe pursewd, in hope to win thereby", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Most goodly meede, the fairest Dame alive:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But after the foule foster Timias did strive.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The whiles faire Britomart, whose constant mind", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Would not so lightly follow beauties chace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne reckt of Ladies Love, did stay behynd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And them awayted there a certaine space,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To weet if they would turne backe to that place;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But when she saw them gone she forward went,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As lay her journey, through that perlous Pace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With stedfast corage and stout hardiment:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne evil thing she feard, ne evill thing she ment.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "At last, as nigh out of the wood she came,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A stately Castle far away she spyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To which her steps directly she did frame.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That Castle was most goodly edifyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And plaste for pleasure nigh that forrest syde:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But faire before the gate a spatious playne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Mantled with greene, it selfe did spredden wyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On which she saw six knights, that did darrayne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fiers battaill against one with cruell might and mayne.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Mainely they all attonce upon him laid,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And sore beset on every side arownd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That nigh he breathlesse grew, yet nought dismaid,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ever to them yielded foot of grownd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All had he lost much blood through many a wownd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But stoutly dealt his blowes, and every way,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To which he turned in his wrathfull stownd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Made them recoile, and fly from dredd decay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That none of all the six before him durst assay.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Like dastard Curres that, having at a bay", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The salvage beast embost in wearie chace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Dare not adventure on the stubborne pray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne byte before, but rome from place to place", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To get a snatch when turned is his face.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In such distresse and doubtfull jeopardy", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When Britomart him saw, she ran apace", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto his reskew, and with earnest cry", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Badd those same six forbeare that single enimy.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But to her cry they list not lenden care,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ne ought the more their mightie strokes surceasse.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But gathering him rownd about more neare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their direfull rancour rather did encreasse;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till that she rushing through the thickest preasse", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Perforce disparted their compacted gyre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And soone compeld to hearken unto peace.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tho gan she myldly of them to inquyre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The cause of their dissention and outrageous yre.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whereto that single knight did answere frame:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“These six would me enforce by oddes of might", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To chaunge my liefe, and love another Dame;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That death me liefer were then such despight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So unto wrong to yield my wrested right:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For I love one, the truest one on grownd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne list me chaunge; she th’Errant Damzell hight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For whose deare sake full many a bitter stownd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I have endurd, and tasted many a bloody wownd.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Certes,” (said she) “then beene ye sixe to blame,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To weene your wrong by force to justify;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For knight to leave his Lady were great shame", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That faithfull is, and better were to dy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All losse is lesse, and lesse the infamy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then losse of love to him that loves but one:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne may love be compeld by maistery;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For soone as maistery comes sweet Love anone", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Taketh his nimble winges, and soone away is gone.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then spake one of those six; “There dwelleth here", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Within this castle wall a Lady fayre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose soveraine beautie hath no living pere;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thereto so bounteous and so debonayre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That never any mote with her compayre:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She hath ordaind this law, which we approve,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That every knight which doth this way repayre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In case he have no Lady nor no love,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shall doe unto her service, never to remove:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“But if he have a Lady or a Love,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Then must he her forgoe with fowle defame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or els with us by dint of sword approve,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That she is fairer then our fairest Dame;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As did this knight, before ye hither came.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Perdy,” (said Britomart) “the choise is hard;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But what reward had he that overcame?”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“He should advaunced bee to high regard,”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "(Said they) “and have our Ladies love for his reward.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Therefore aread, Sir, if thou have a love.”", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“Love have I sure,” (quoth she) “but Lady none;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet will I not fro mine own love remove,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne to your Lady will I service done,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But wreake your wronges wrought to this knight alone,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And prove his cause.” With that, her mortall speare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She mightily aventred towards one,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And downe him smot ere well aware he weare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then to the next she rode, and downe the next did beare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Ne did she stay till three on ground she layd", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That none of them himselfe could reare againe:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The fourth was by that other knight dismayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All were he wearie of his former paine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That now there do but two of six remaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which two did yield before she did them smight.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Ah!” (said she then) “now may ye all see plaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That truth is strong, and trew love most of might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That for his trusty servaunts doth so strongly fight.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Too well we see,” (saide they) “and prove too well", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Our faulty weakenes, and your matchlesse might:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Forthy, faire Sir, yours be the Damozell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which by her owne law to your lot doth light,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And we your liegemen faith unto you plight.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So underneath her feet their swords they mard,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, after, her besought, well as they might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To enter in and reape the dew reward.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She graunted; and then in they all together far’d.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Long were it to describe the goodly frame,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And stately port of Castle Joyeous,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "(For so that Castle hight by commun name)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where they were entertaynd with courteous", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And comely glee of many gratious", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Faire Ladies, and of many a gentle knight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who, through a Chamber long and spacious,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Eftsoones them brought unto their Ladies sight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That of them cleeped was the Lady of Delight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But for to tell the sumptuous aray", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of that great chamber, should be labour lost;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For living wit, I weene, cannot display", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The royall riches and exceeding cost", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of every pillour and of every post,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which all of purest bullion framed were,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with great perles and pretious stones embost;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That the bright glister of their beames cleare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did sparckle forth great light, and glorious did appeare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "These stranger knights, through passing, forth were led", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Into an inner rowme, whose royaltee", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And rich purveyance might uneath be red;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Mote Princes place be seeme so deckt to bee.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which stately manner whenas they did see,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The image of superfluous riotize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Exceeding much the state of meane degree,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They greatly wondred whence so sumptuous guize", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Might be maintaynd, and each gan diversely devize.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The wals were round about appareiled", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With costly clothes of Arras and of Toure;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In which with cunning hand was pourtrahed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The love of Venus and her Paramoure,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The fayre Adonis, turned to a flowre;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A worke of rare device and wondrous wit.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "First did it shew the bitter balefull stowre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which her essayd with many a fervent fit,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When first her tender hart was with his beautie smit.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then with what sleights and sweet allurements she", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Entyst the Boy, as well that art she knew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And wooed him her Paramoure to bee;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now making girlonds of each flowre that grew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To crowne his golden lockes with honour dew;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now leading him into a secret shade", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From his Beauperes, and from bright heavens vew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where him to sleepe she gently would perswade,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or bathe him in a fountaine by some covert glade:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And whilst he slept she over him would spred", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Her mantle, colour’d like the starry skyes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And her soft arme lay underneath his hed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with ambrosiall kisses bathe his eyes;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And whilst he bath’d with her two crafty spyes", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She secretly would search each daintie lim,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And throw into the well sweet Rosemaryes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And fragrant violets, and Paunces trim;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And ever with sweet Nectar she did sprinkle him.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So did she steale his heedelesse hart away,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And joyd his love in secret unespyde:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But for she saw him bent to cruell play,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To hunt the salvage beast in forrest wyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Dreadfull of daunger that mote him betyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She oft and oft adviz’d him to refraine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From chase of greater beastes, whose brutish pryde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Mote breede him scath unwares: but all in vaine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For who can shun the chance that dest’ny doth ordaine?", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Lo! where beyond he lyeth languishing,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Deadly engored of a great wilde Bore;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And by his side the Goddesse groveling", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Makes for him endlesse mone, and evermore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With her soft garment wipes away the gore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which staynes his snowy skin with hatefull hew:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, when she saw no helpe might him restore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him to a dainty flowre she did transmew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which in that cloth was wrought as if it lively grew.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So was that chamber clad in goodly wize:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And rownd about it many beds were dight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As whylome was the antique worldes guize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some for untimely ease, some for delight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As pleased them to use that use it might;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all was full of Damzels and of Squyres,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Dauncing and reveling both day and night,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And swimming deepe in sensuall desyres;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Cupid still emongest them kindled lustfull fyres.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And all the while sweet Musicke did divide", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Her looser notes with Lydian harmony;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all the while sweet birdes thereto applide", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their daintie layes and dulcet melody,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ay caroling of love and jollity,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That wonder was to heare their trim consort.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which when those knights beheld, with scornefull eye", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They sdeigned such lascivious disport,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And loath’d the loose demeanure of that wanton sort.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thence they were brought to that great Ladies vew,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whom they found sitting on a sumptuous bed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That glistred all with gold and glorious shew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As the proud Persian Queenes accustomed.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She seemd a woman of great bountihed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And of rare beautie, saving that askaunce", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her wanton eyes, ill signes of womanhed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did roll too lightly, and too often glaunce,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Without regard of grace or comely amenaunce.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Long worke it were, and needlesse, to devize", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Their goodly entertainement and great glee.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She caused them be led in courteous wize", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into a bowre, disarmed for to be,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And cheared well with wine and spiceree:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The Redcrosse Knight was soon disarmed there;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But the brave Mayd would not disarmed bee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But onely vented up her umbriere,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And so did let her goodly visage to appere.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "As when fayre Cynthia, in darkesome night,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Is in a noyous cloud enveloped,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where she may finde the substance thin and light,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Breakes forth her silver beames, and her bright hed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Discovers to the world discomfited:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of the poore traveiler that went astray", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With thousand blessings she is heried.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Such was the beautie and the shining ray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With which fayre Britomart gave light unto the day.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And eke those six, which lately with her fought,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Now were disarmd, and did them selves present", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto her vew, and company unsought;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For they all seemed courteous and gent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all sixe brethren, borne of one parent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which had them traynd in all civilitee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And goodly taught to tilt and turnament:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now were they liegmen to this Ladie free,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And her knights service ought, to hold of her in fee.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The first of them by name Gardantè hight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A jolly person, and of comely vew;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The second was Parlantè, a bold knight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And next to him Jocantè did ensew;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Basciantè did him selfe most courteous shew;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But fierce Bacchantè seemd too fell and keene;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And yett in armes Noctantè greater grew:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All were faire knights, and goodly well beseene;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But to faire Britomart they all but shadowes beene.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "For shee was full of amiable grace", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And manly terror mixed therewithall;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That as the one stird up affections bace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So th’other did mens rash desires apall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And hold them backe that would in error fall:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As hee that hath espide a vermeill Rose,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To which sharp thornes and breres the way forstall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Dare not for dread his hardy hand expose,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But wishing it far off his ydle wish doth lose.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whom when the Lady saw so faire a wight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "All ignorant of her contrary sex,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "(For shee her weend a fresh and lusty knight,)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shee greatly gan enamoured to wex", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with vaine thoughts her falsed fancy vex:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her fickle hart conceived hasty fyre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like sparkes of fire which fall in sclender flex,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That shortly brent into extreme desyre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And ransackt all her veines with passion entyre.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Eftsoones shee grew to great impatience,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And into termes of open outrage brust,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That plaine discovered her incontinence;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne reckt shee who her meaning did mistrust,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For she was given all to fleshly lust,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And poured forth in sensuall delight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all regard of shame she had discust,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And meet respect of honor putt to flight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So shamelesse beauty soone becomes a loathly sight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Faire Ladies, that to love captived arre,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And chaste desires doe nourish in your mind,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Let not her fault your sweete affections marre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne blott the bounty of all womankind,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "’Mongst thousands good one wanton Dame to find:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Emongst the Roses grow some wicked weeds:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For this was not to love, but lust, inclind;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For love does alwaies bring forth bounteous deeds,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in each gentle hart desire of honor breeds.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Nought so of love this looser Dame did skill,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But as a coale to kindle fleshly flame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Giving the bridle to her wanton will,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And treading under foote her honest name:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Such love is hate, and such desire is shame.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Still did she rove at her with crafty glaunce", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of her false eies, that at her hart did ayme,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And told her meaning in her countenaunce;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Britomart dissembled it with ignoraunce.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Supper was shortly dight, and downe they sat;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Where they were served with all sumptuous fare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whiles fruitfull Ceres and Lyæus fat", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Pourd out their plenty without spight or spare.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nought wanted there that dainty was and rare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And aye the cups their bancks did overflow", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And aye betweene the cups she did prepare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Way to her love, and secret darts did throw;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Britomart would not such guilfull message know.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So, when they slaked had the fervent heat", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of appetite with meates of every sort,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The Lady did faire Britomart entreat", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her to disarme, and with delightfull sport", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To loose her warlike limbs and strong effort;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But when shee mote not thereunto be wonne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "(For shee her sexe under that straunge purport", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did use to hide, and plaine apparaunce shonne)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In playner wise to tell her grievaunce she begonne.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And all attonce discovered her desire", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With sighes, and sobs, and plaints, and piteous griefe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The outward sparkes of her inburning fire;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which spent in vaine, at last she told her briefe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That but if she did lend her short reliefe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And doe her comfort, she mote algates dye:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But the chaste damzell, that had never priefe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of such malengine and fine forgerye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did easely beleeve her strong extremitye.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Full easy was for her to have beliefe,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Who by self-feeling of her feeble sexe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And by long triall of the inward griefe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Wherewith imperious love her hart did vexe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Could judge what paines doe loving harts perplexe.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who meanes no guile be guiled soonest shall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to faire semblaunce doth light faith annex:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The bird that knowes not the false fowlers call,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into his hidden nett full easely doth fall.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Forthy she would not in discourteise wise", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Scorne the faire offer of good will profest;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For great rebuke it is love to despise,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or rudely sdeigne a gentle harts request;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But with faire countenaunce, as beseemed best,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her entertaynd: nath’lesse shee inly deemd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her love too light, to wooe a wandring guest;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which she misconstruing, thereby esteemd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That from like inward fire that outward smoke had steemd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Therewith a while she her flit fancy fedd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Till she mote winne fit time for her desire;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But yet her wound still inward freshly bledd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And through her bones the false instilled fire", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did spred itself, and venime close inspire.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tho were the tables taken all away;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And every knight, and every gentle Squire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gan choose his Dame with Bascimano gay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With whom he ment to make his sport and courtly play.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Some fell to daunce, some fell to hazardry,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Some to make love, some to make meryment,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As diverse witts to diverse things apply;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all the while faire Malecasta bent", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her crafty engins to her close intent.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By this th’eternall lampes, wherewith high Jove", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Doth light the lower world, were halfe yspent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And the moist daughters of huge Atlas strove", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into the Ocean deepe to drive their weary drove.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "High time it seemed then for every wight", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Them to betake unto their kindly rest:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Eftesoones long waxen torches weren light", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto their bowres to guyden every guest.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tho, when the Britonesse saw all the rest", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Avoided quite, she gan her selfe despoile,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And safe committ to her soft fethered nest;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Wher through long watch, and late daies weary toile,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She soundly slept, and carefull thoughts did quite assoile.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Now whenas all the world in silence deepe", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Yshrowded was, and every mortall wight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was drowned in the depth of deadly sleepe;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Faire Malecasta, whose engrieved spright", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Could find no rest in such perplexed plight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Lightly arose out of her wearie bed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, under the blacke vele of guilty Night,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her with a scarlott mantle covered", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That was with gold and Ermines faire enveloped.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then panting softe, and trembling every joynt,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Her fearfull feete towards the bowre she mov’d,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where she for secret purpose did appoynt", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To lodge the warlike maide, unwisely loov’d;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, to her bed approching, first she proov’d", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whether she slept or wakte: with her softe hand", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She softely felt if any member moov’d,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And lent her wary eare to understand", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "If any puffe of breath or signe of sence shee fond.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which whenas none she fond, with easy shifte,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For feare least her unwares she should abrayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Th’embroder’d quilt she lightly up did lifte,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And by her side her selfe she softly layd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of every finest fingers touch affrayd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne any noise she made, ne word she spake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But inly sigh’d. At last the royall Mayd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Out of her quiet slomber did awake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And chaunged her weary side the better ease to take.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Where feeling one close couched by her side,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "She lightly lept out of her filed bedd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to her weapon ran, in minde to gride", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The loathed leachour. But the Dame, halfe dedd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through suddein feare and ghastly drerihedd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did shrieke alowd, that through the hous it rong,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And the whole family, therewith adredd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Rashly out of their rouzed couches sprong,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to the troubled chamber all in armes did throng.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And those sixe knights, that ladies Champions", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And eke the Redcrosse knight ran to the stownd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Halfe armd and halfe unarmd, with them attons:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where when confusedly they came, they fownd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their lady lying on the sencelesse grownd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On thother side they saw the warlike Mayd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Al in her snow-white smocke, with locks unbownd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Threatning the point of her avenging blaed;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That with so troublous terror they were all dismayd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "About their Ladye first they flockt arownd;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whom having laid in comfortable couch,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shortly they reard out of her frosen swownd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And afterwardes they gan with fowle reproch", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To stirre up strife, and troublous contecke broch:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But by ensample of the last dayes losse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "None of them rashly durst to her approch,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne in so glorious spoile themselves embosse:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her succourd eke the Champion of the bloody Crosse.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But one of those sixe knights, Gardantè hight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Drew out a deadly bow and arrow keene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which forth be sent, with felonous despight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And fell intent, against the virgin sheene:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The mortall steele stayd not till it was seene", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To gore her side; yet was the wound not deepe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But lightly rased her soft silken skin,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That drops of purple blood thereout did weepe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which did her lilly smock with staines of vermeil steep.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Wherewith enrag’d she fiercely at them flew,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And with her flaming sword about her layd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That none of them foule mischiefe could eschew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But with her dreadfull strokes were all dismayd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Here, there, and every where, about her swayd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her wrathfull steele, that none mote it abyde;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke the Redcrosse knight gave her good ayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ay joyning foot to foot, and syde to syde;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That in short space their foes they have quite terrifyde.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Tho, whenas all were put to shamefull flight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The noble Britomartis her arayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And her bright armes about her body dight.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For nothing would she lenger there be stayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where so loose life, and so ungentle trade,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was usd of knightes and Ladies seeming gent:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So earely, ere the grosse Earthes gryesy shade", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was all disperst out of the firmament,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They tooke their steeds, and forth upon their journey went.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Here have I cause in men just blame to find,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That in their proper praise too partiall bee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And not indifferent to woman kind,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To whom no share in armes and chevalree", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They doe impart, ne maken memoree", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of their brave gestes and prowesse martiall:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Scarse do they spare to one, or two, or three,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Rowme in their writtes; yet the same writing small", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Does all their deedes deface, and dims their glories all.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But by record of antique times I finde", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That wemen wont in warres to beare most sway,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to all great exploites them selves inclind,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of which they still the girlond bore away;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till envious Men, fearing their rules decay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gan coyne streight lawes to curb their liberty:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet sith they warlike armes have laide away,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They have exceld in artes and pollicy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That now we foolish men that prayse gin eke t’envy.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Of warlike puissaunce in ages spent,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Be thou, faire Britomart, whose prayse I wryte;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But of all wisedom bee thou precedent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "O soveraine Queene! whose prayse I would endyte,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Endite I would as dewtie doth excyte;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But ah! my rymes too rude and rugged arre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When in so high an object they do lyte,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, striving fit to make, I feare, doe marre:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thy selfe thy prayses tell, and make them knowen farre.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "She, traveiling with Guyon, by the way", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of sondry thinges faire purpose gan to find,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "T’abridg their journey long, and lingring day;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Mongst which it fell into that Fairies mind", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To aske this Briton Maid, what uncouth wind", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Brought her into those partes, and what inquest", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Made her dissemble her disguised kind?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Faire Lady she him seemd, like Lady drest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But fairest knight alive, when armed was her brest.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thereat she sighing softly had no powre", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To speake a while, ne ready answere make;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But with hart-thrilling throbs and bitter stowre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As if she had a fever fitt, did quake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And every daintie limbe with horrour shake;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And ever and anone the rosy red", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Flasht through her face, as it had beene a flake", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of lightning through bright heven fulmined:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At last, the passion past, she thus him answered.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Faire Sir, I let you weete, that from the howre", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "I taken was from nourses tender pap,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I have been trained up in warlike stowre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To tossen speare and shield, and to affrap", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The warlike ryder to his most mishap:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sithence I loathed have my life to lead,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As Ladies wont, in pleasures wanton lap,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To finger the fine needle and nyce thread,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Me lever were with point of foemans speare be dead.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“All my delight on deedes of armes is set,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To hunt out perilles and adventures hard,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By sea, by land, where so they may be met,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Onely for honour and for high regard,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Without respect of richesse or reward:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For such intent into these partes I came,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Withouten compasse or withouten card,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Far fro my native soyle, that is by name", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The greater Brytayne, here to seek for praise and fame.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Fame blazed hath, that here in Faery lond", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Doe many famous Knightes and Ladies wonne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And many straunge adventures to bee fond,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of which great worth and worship may be wonne;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which to prove, I this voyage have begonne.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But mote I weet of you, right courteous knight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tydings of one that hath unto me donne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Late foule dishonour and reprochfull spight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which I seeke to wreake, and Arthegall he hight.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The worde gone out she backe againe would call,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As her repenting so to have missayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But that he, it uptaking ere the fall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her shortly answered: “Faire martiall Mayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Certes ye misavised beene t’upbrayd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A gentle knight with so unknightly blame;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For, weet ye well, of all that ever playd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At tilt or tourney, or like warlike game,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The noble Arthegall hath ever borne the name.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Forthy great wonder were it, if such shame", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Should ever enter in his bounteous thought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or ever doe that mote deserven blame:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The noble corage never weeneth ought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That may unworthy of it selfe be thought.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therefore, faire Damzell, be ye well aware,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Least that too farre ye have your sorrow sought:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "You and your countrey both I wish welfare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And honour both; for each of other worthy are.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The royall Maid woxe inly wondrous glad,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To heare her Love so highly magnifyde;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And joyd that ever she affixed had", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her hart on knight so goodly glorifyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "How ever finely she it faind to hyde.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The loving mother, that nine monethes did beare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In the deare closett of her painefull syde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her tender babe, it seeing safe appeare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Doth not so much rejoyce as she rejoyced theare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But to occasion him to further talke,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To feed her humor with his pleasing style,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her list in stryfull termes with him to balke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And thus replyde: “How ever, Sir, ye fyle", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Your courteous tongue his prayses to compyle,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It ill beseemes a knight of gentle sort,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Such as ye have him boasted, to beguyle", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A simple maide, and worke so hainous tort,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In shame of knighthood, as I largely can report.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Let bee therefore my vengeaunce to disswade,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And read where I that faytour false may find.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Ah! bat if reason faire might you perswade", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To slake your wrath, and mollify your mind,”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "(Said he) “perhaps ye should it better find:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For hardie thing it is, to weene by might", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That man to hard conditions to bind,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or ever hope to match in equall fight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose prowesse paragone saw never living wight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Ne soothlich is it easie for to read", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Where now on earth, or how, he may be fownd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For he ne wonneth in one certeine stead,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But restlesse walketh all the world arownd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ay doing thinges that to his fame redownd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Defending Ladies cause and Orphans right,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereso he heares that any doth confownd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Them comfortlesse through tyranny or might:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So is his soveraine honour raisde to hevens hight.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "His feeling wordes her feeble sence much pleased,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And softly sunck into her molten hart:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Hart that is inly hurt is greatly eased", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With hope of thing that may allegge his smart;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For pleasing wordes are like to Magick art,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That doth the charmed Snake in slomber lay.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Such secrete ease felt gentle Britomart,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet list the same efforce with faind gainesay;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So dischord ofte in Musick makes the sweeter lay:⁠—", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And sayd; “Sir knight, these ydle termes forbeare;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And, sith it is uneath to finde his haunt,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tell me some markes by which he may appeare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "If chaunce I him encounter paravaunt;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For perdy one shall other slay, or daunt:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What shape, what shield, what armes, what steed, what stedd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And what so else his person most may vaunt?”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All which the Redcrosse knight to point aredd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And him in everie part before her fashioned.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Yet him in everie part before she knew,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "However list her now her knowledge fayne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sith him whylome in Britayne she did vew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To her revealed in a mirrhour playne;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereof did grow her first engraffed payne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose root and stalke so bitter yet did taste,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That but the fruit more sweetnes did contayne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her wretched dayes in dolour she mote waste,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And yield the pray of love to lothsome death at last.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "By straunge occasion she did him behold,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And much more straungely gan to love his sight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As it in bookes hath written beene of old.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In Deheubarth, that now South-wales is hight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What time king Ryence raign’d and dealed right,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The great Magitien Merlin had deviz’d,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By his deepe science and hell-dreaded might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A looking glasse, right wondrously aguiz’d,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose vertues through the wyde worlde soone were solemniz’d.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "It vertue had to shew in perfect sight", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whatever thing was in the world contaynd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Betwixt the lowest earth and hevens hight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So that it to the looker appertaynd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whatever foe had wrought, or frend had faynd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therein discovered was, ne ought mote pas,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ought in secret from the same remaynd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Forthy it round and hollow shaped was,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like to the world itselfe, and seemd a world of glas.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Who wonders not, that reades so wonderous worke?", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But who does wonder, that has red the Towre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Wherein th’Aegyptian Phao long did lurke", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From all mens vew, that none might her discoure,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet she might all men vew out of her bowre?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Great Ptolomæe it for his lemans sake", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ybuilded all of glasse, by Magicke powre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And also it impregnable did make;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet when his love was false he with a peaze it brake.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Such was the glassy globe that Merlin made,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And gave unto king Ryence for his gard,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That never foes his kingdome might invade,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But he it knew at home before he hard", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tydings thereof, and so them still debar’d.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It was a famous Present for a Prince,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And worthy worke of infinite reward,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That treasons could bewray, and foes convince:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Happy this Realme, had it remayned ever since!", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "One day it fortuned fayre Britomart", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Into her fathers closet to repayre;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For nothing he from her reserv’d apart,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Being his onely daughter and his hayre;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where when she had espyde that mirrhour fayre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her selfe awhile therein she vewd in vaine:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tho, her avizing of the vertues rare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which thereof spoken were, she gan againe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her to bethinke of that mote to her selfe pertaine.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But as it falleth, in the gentlest harts", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Imperious Love hath highest set his throne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And tyrannizeth in the bitter smarts", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of them that to him buxome are and prone:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So thought this Mayd (as maydens use to done)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom fortune for her husband would allot:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Not that she lusted after any one,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For she was pure from blame of sinfull blott;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet wist her life at last must lincke in that same knot.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Eftsoones there was presented to her eye", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A comely knight; all arm’d in complete wize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through whose bright ventayle, lifted up on hye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His manly face, that did his foes agrize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And frends to termes of gentle truce entize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Lookt foorth, as Phœbus face out of the east", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Betwixt two shady mountaynes doth arize:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Portly his person was, and much increast", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through his Heroicke grace and honorable gest.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "His crest was covered with a couchant Hownd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And all his armour seem’d of antique mould,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But wondrous massie and assured sownd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And round about yfretted all with gold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In which there written was, with cyphres old,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Achilles armes, which Arthegall did win:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And on his shield enveloped sevenfold", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He bore a crowned little Ermelin,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That deckt the azure field with her fayre pouldred skin.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The Damzell well did vew his Personage", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And liked well, ne further fastned not,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But went her way; ne her unguilty age", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did weene, unwares, that her unlucky lot", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Lay hidden in the bottome of the pot.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of hurt unwist most daunger doth redound;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But the false Archer, which that arrow shot", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So slyly that she did not feele the wound,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did smyle full smoothly at her weetlesse wofull stound.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thenceforth the fether in her lofty crest,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ruffed of love, gan lowly to availe;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And her prowd portaunce and her princely gest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With which she earst tryumphed, now did quaile:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sad, solemne, sowre, and full of fancies fraile,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She woxe; yet wist she nether how, nor why.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She wist not, silly Mayd, what she did aile,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet wist she was not well at ease perdy;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet thought it was not love, but some melancholy.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So soone as Night had with her pallid hew", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Defaste the beautie of the shyning skye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And refte from men the worldes desired vew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She with her Nourse adowne to sleepe did lye;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But sleepe full far away from her did fly:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In stead thereof sad sighes and sorrowes deepe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Kept watch and ward about her warily,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That nought she did but wayle, and often steepe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her dainty couch with teares which closely she did weepe.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And if that any drop of slombring rest", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Did chaunce to still into her weary spright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When feeble nature felt her selfe opprest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Streightway with dreames, and with fantastick sight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of dreadfull things, the same was put to flight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That oft out of her bed she did astart,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As one with vew of ghastly feends affright:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tho gan she to renew her former smart,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And thinke of that fayre visage written in her hart.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "One night, when she was tost with such unrest,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Her aged Nourse, whose name was Glaucè hight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Feelmg her leape out or her loathed nest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Betwixt her feeble armes her quickly keight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And downe againe her in her warme bed dight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Ah! my deare daughter, ah! my dearest dread,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What uncouth fit,” (sayd she) “what evill plight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Hath thee opprest, and with sad drearyhead", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Chaunged thy lively cheare, and living made thee dead?", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“For not of nought these suddein ghastly feares", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "All night afflict thy naturall repose;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all the day, when as thine equall peares", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their fit disports with faire delight doe chose,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thou in dull corners doest thy selfe inclose;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne tastest Princes pleasures, ne doest spred", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Abroad thy fresh youths fayrest flowre, but lose", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both leafe and fruite, both too untimely shed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As one in wilfull bale for ever buried.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“The time that mortall men their weary cares", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Do lay away, and all wilde beastes do rest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And every river eke his course forbeares,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then doth this wicked evill thee infest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And rive with thousand throbs thy thrilled brest:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like an huge Aetn’ of deepe engulfed gryefe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sorrow is heaped in thy hollow chest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whence foorth it breakes in sighes and anguish ryfe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As smoke and sulphure mingled with confused stryfe.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Ay me! how much I feare least love it bee!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But if that love it be, as sure I read", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By knowen signes and passions which I see,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Be it worthy of thy race and royall sead,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then I avow, by this most sacred head", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of my deare foster childe, to ease thy griefe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And win thy will: Therefore away doe dread;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For death nor daunger from thy dew reliefe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shall me debarre: tell me therefore, my liefest liefe!”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So having sayd, her twixt her armes twaine", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Shee streightly straynd, and colled tenderly;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And every trembling joynt and every vaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shee softly felt, and rubbed busily,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To doe the frosen cold away to fly;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And her faire deawy eies with kisses deare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shee ofte did bathe, and ofte againe did dry;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And ever her importund not to feare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To let the secret of her hart to her appeare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The Damzell pauzd; and then thus fearfully:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“Ah! Nurse, what needeth thee to eke my payne?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Is not enough that I alone doe dye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But it must doubled bee with death of twaine?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For nought for me but death there doth remaine.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“O daughter deare!” (said she) “despeire no whit;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For never sore but might a salve obtaine:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That blinded God, which hath ye blindly smit,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Another arrow hath your lovers hart to hit.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“But mine is not” (quoth she) “like other wownd;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For which no reason can finde remedy.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Was never such, but mote the like be fownd,”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "(Said she) “and though no reason may apply", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Salve to your sore, yet love can higher stye", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then reasons reach, and oft hath wonders donne.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“But neither God of love nor God of skye", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Can doe” (said she) “that which cannot be donne.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Things ofte impossible” (quoth she) “seeme, ere begonne.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“These idle wordes” (said she) “doe nought aswage", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "My stubborne smart, but more annoiaunce breed:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For no, no usuall fire, no usuall rage", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yt is, O Nourse! which on my life doth feed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And sucks the blood which from my hart doth bleed:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But since thy faithful zele lets me not hyde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "My crime, (if crime it be) I will it reed.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nor Prince nor pere it is, whose love hath gryde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "My feeble brest of late, and launched this wound wyde.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Nor man it is, nor other living wight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For then some hope I might unto me draw;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But th’only shade and semblant of a knight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose shape or person yet I never saw,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Hath me subjected to loves cruell law:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The same one day, as me misfortune led,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I in my fathers wondrous mirrhour saw,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, pleased with that seeming goodlyhed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unwares the hidden hooke with baite I swallowed.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Sithens it hath infixed faster hold", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Within my bleeding bowells, and so sore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now ranckleth in this same fraile fleshly mould,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all my entrailes flow with poisnous gore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And th’ulcer groweth daily more and more;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne can my ronning sore finde remedee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Other then my hard fortune to deplore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And languish, as the leafe faln from the tree,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till death make one end of my daies and miseree!”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Daughter,” (said she) “what need ye be dismayd?", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Or why make ye such Monster of your minde?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of much more uncouth thing I was affrayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of filthy lust, contrary unto kinde;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But this affection nothing straunge I finde;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For who with reason can you aye reprove", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To love the semblaunt pleasing most your minde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And yield your heart whence ye cannot remove?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "No guilt in you, but in the tyranny of love.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Not so th’Arabian Myrrhe did set her mynd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Nor so did Biblis spend her pining hart;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But lov’d their native flesh against al kynd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to their purpose used wicked art:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet playd Pasiphaë a more monstrous part,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That lov’d a Bul, and learnd a beast to bee.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Such shamefull lustes who loaths not, which depart", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From course of nature and of modestee?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sweete love such lewdnes bands from his faire companee.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“But thine, my Deare, (welfare thy heart, my deare!)", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Though straunge beginning had, yet fixed is", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On one that worthy may perhaps appeare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And certes seemes bestowed not amis:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Joy thereof have thou and eternall blis!”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With that, upleaning on her elbow weake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her alablaster brest she soft did kis,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which all that while shee felt to pant and quake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As it an Earthquake were: at last she thus bespake.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Beldame, your words doe worke me litle ease;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For though my love be not so lewdly bent", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As those ye blame, yet may it nought appease", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "My raging smart, ne ought my flame relent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But rather doth my helpelesse griefe augment;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For they, how ever shamefull and unkinde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet did possesse their horrible intent;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Short end of sorrowes they therby did finde;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So was their fortune good, though wicked were their minde.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“But wicked fortune mine, though minde be good,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Can have no ende nor hope of my desire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But feed on shadowes whiles I die for food,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And like a shadowe wexe, whiles with entire", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Affection I doe languish and expire.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I, fonder then Cephisus foolish chyld,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who, having vewed in a fountaine shere", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His face, was with the love thereof beguyld;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I, fonder, love a shade, the body far exyld.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Nought like,” (quoth shee) “for that same wretched boy", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Was of him selfe the ydle Paramoure,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both love and lover, without hope of joy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For which he faded to a watry flowre:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But better fortune thine, and better howre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which lov’st the shadow of a warlike knight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "No shadow but a body hath in powre:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That body, wheresoever that it light,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "May learned be by cyphers, or by Magicke might.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“But if thou may with reason yet represse", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The growing evill, ere it strength have gott,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And thee abandond wholy do possesse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Against it strongly strive, and yield thee nott", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Til thou in open fielde adowne be smott:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But if the passion mayster thy fraile might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So that needs love or death must bee thy lott,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then, I avow to thee, by wrong or right", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To compas thy desire, and find that loved knight.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Her chearefull words much cheard the feeble spright", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of the sicke virgin, that her downe she layd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In her warme bed to sleepe, if that she might;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And the old-woman carefully displayd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The clothes about her round with busy ayd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So that at last a litle creeping sleepe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Surprisd her sence: Shee, therewith well apayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The dronken lamp down in the oyl did steepe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And sett her by to watch, and sett her by to weepe.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Earely, the morrow next, before that day", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His joyous face did to the world revele,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They both uprose and tooke their ready way", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto the Church, their praiers to appele", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With great devotion, and with little zele:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For the faire Damzel from the holy herse", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her love-sicke hart to other thoughts did steale;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And that old Dame said many an idle verse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Out of her daughters hart fond fancies to reverse.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Retourned home, the royall Infant fell", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Into her former fitt; for-why no powre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nor guidaunce of herselfe in her did dwell:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But th’aged Nourse, her calling to her bowre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had gathered Rew, and Savine, and the flowre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of Camphora, and Calamint, and Dill;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All which she in a earthen Pot did poure,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to the brim with Coltwood did it fill,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And many drops of milk and blood through it did spill.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then, taking thrise three heares from off her head,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Them trebly breaded in a threefold lace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And round about the Pots mouth bound the thread;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, after having whispered a space", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Certein sad words with hollow voice and bace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shee to the virgin sayd, thrise sayd she itt;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Come daughter, come; come, spit upon my face;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Spitt thrise upon me, thrise upon me spitt;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Th’uneven nomber for this busines is most fitt.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "That sayd, her rownd about she from her turnd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "She turned her contrary to the Sunne;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thrise she her turnd contrary, and returnd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All contrary; for she the right did shunne;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And ever what she did was streight undonne.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So thought she to undoe her daughters love;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But love, that is in gentle brest begonne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "No ydle charmes so lightly may remove:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That well can witnesse who by tryall it does prove.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Ne ought it mote the noble Mayd avayle,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ne slake the fury of her cruell flame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But that shee still did waste, and still did wayle,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That, through long languour and hart-burning brame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She shortly like a pyned ghost became", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which long hath waited by the Stygian strond.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That when old Glaucè saw, for feare least blame", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of her miscarriage should in her be fond,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She wist not how t’amend, nor how it to withstond.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Most sacred fyre, that burnest mightily", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In living brests, ykindled first above", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Emongst th’eternall spheres and lamping sky,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And thence pourd into men, which men call Love!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Not that same, which doth base affections move", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In brutish mindes, and filthy lust inflame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But that sweete fit that doth true beautie love,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And choseth vertue for his dearest Dame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whence spring all noble deedes and never dying fame:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Well did Antiquity a God thee deeme,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That over mortall mindes hast so great might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To order them as best to thee doth seeme,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all their actions to direct aright:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The fatall purpose of divine foresight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thou doest effect in destined descents,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through deepe impression of thy secret might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And stirredst up th’Heroës high intents,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which the late world admyres for wondrous moniments.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But thy dredd dartes in none doe triumph more,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ne braver proofe in any of thy powre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shewd’st thou, then in this royall Maid of yore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Making her seeke an unknowne Paramoure,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From the worlds end, through many a bitter stowre:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From whose two loynes thou afterwardes did rayse", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Most famous fruites of matrimoniall bowre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which through the earth have spredd their living prayse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That fame in tromp of gold eternally displayes.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Begin then, O my dearest sacred Dame!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Daughter of Phœbus and of Memorye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That doest ennoble with immortall name", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The warlike Worthies, from antiquitye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In thy great volume of Eternitye:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Begin, O Clio! and recount from hence", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "My glorious Soveraines goodly auncestrye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till that by dew degrees, and long protense,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thou have it lastly brought unto her Excellence.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Full many wayes within her troubled mind", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Old Glaucè cast to cure this Ladies griefe;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Full many waies she sought, but none could find,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nor herbes, nor charmes, nor counsel, that is chiefe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And choicest med’cine for sick harts reliefe:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Forthy great care she tooke, and greater feare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Least that it should her turne to fowle repriefe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And sore reproch, when so her father deare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Should of his dearest daughters hard misfortune heare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "At last she her avisde, that he which made", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That mirrhour, wherein the sicke Damosell", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So straungely vewed her straunge lovers shade,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To weet, the learned Merlin, well could tell", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Under what coast of heaven the man did dwell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And by what means his love might best be wrought:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For, though beyond the Africk Ismael", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or th’Indian Peru he were, she thought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him forth through infinite endevour to have sought.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Forthwith them selves disguising both in straunge", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And base atyre, that none might them bewray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To Maridunum, that is now by chaunge", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of name Cayr-Merdin cald, they tooke their way:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There the wise Merlin whylome wont (they say)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To make his wonne, low underneath the ground,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In a deepe delve, farre from the vew of day,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That of no living wight he mote be found,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When so he counseld with his sp rights encompast round.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And, if thou ever happen that same way", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To travell, go to see that dreadfull place.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It is an hideous hollow cave (they say)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Under a Rock that lyes a litle space", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From the swift Barry, tombling downe apace", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Emongst the woody hilles of Dynevowre:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But dare thou not, I charge, in any cace", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To enter into that same balefull Bowre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For feare the cruell Feendes should thee unwares devowre:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But standing high aloft low lay thine eare,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And there such ghastly noise of yron chaines", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And brasen Caudrons thou shalt rombling heare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which thousand sprights with long enduring paines", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Doe tosse, that it will stonne thy feeble braines;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And oftentimes great grones, and grievous stownds,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When too huge toile and labour them constraines:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And oftentimes loud strokes and ringing sowndes", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From under that deepe Rock most horribly rebowndes.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The cause, some say, is this: A litle whyle", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Before that Merlin dyde, he did intend", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A brasen wall in compas to compyle", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "About Cairmardin, and did it commend", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto these Sprights to bring to perfect end:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "During which worke the Lady of the Lake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom long he lov’d, for him in hast did send;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who, thereby forst his workemen to forsake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Them bownd till his retourne their labour not to slake.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "In the meane time, through that false Ladies traine", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He was surprisd, and buried under beare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ever to his worke returnd againe:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nath’lesse those feends may not their work forbeare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So greatly his commandement they feare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But there doe toyle and traveile day and night,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Untill that brasen wall they up doe reare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For Merlin had in Magick more insight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then ever him before, or after, living wight:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "For he by wordes could call out of the sky", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Both Sunne and Moone, and make them him obav;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The Land to sea, and sea to maineland dry,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And darksom night he eke could turne to day:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Huge hostes of men he could alone dismay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And hostes of men of meanest thinges could frame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When so him list his enimies to fray;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That to this day, for terror of his fame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The feends do quake when any him to them does name.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And, sooth, men say that he was not the sonne", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of mortall Syre or other living wight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But wondrously begotten, and begonne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By false illusion of a guilefull Spright", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On a faire Lady Nonne, that whilome hight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Matilda, daughter to Pubidius,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who was the lord of Mathraval by right,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And coosen unto king Ambrosius;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whence he indued was with skill so merveilous.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "They, here arriving, staid awhile without,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ne durst adventure rashly in to wend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But of their first intent gan make new dout,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For dread of daunger which it might portend;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Untill the hardy Mayd (with love to frend)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "First entering, the dreadfull Mage there fownd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Deepe busied bout worke of wondrous end,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And writing straunge characters in the grownd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With which the stubborne feendes he to his service bownd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He nought was moved at their entraunce bold,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For of their comming well he wist afore;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet list them bid their businesse to unfold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As if ought in this world in secrete store", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Were from him hidden, or unknowne of yore.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then Glaucè thus: “Let not it thee offend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That we thus rashly through thy darksom dore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unwares have prest; for either fatall end,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or other mightie cause, us two did hither send.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He bad tell on; And then she thus began.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“Now have three Moones with borrowd brothers light", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thrise shined faire, and thrise seemd dim and wan,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sith a sore evill, which this virgin bright", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tormenteth and doth plonge in dolefull plight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "First rooting tooke; but what thing it mote bee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or whence it sprong, I can not read aright:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But this I read, that, but if remedee", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thou her afford, full shortly I her dead shall see.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Therewith th’Enchaunter softly gan to smyle", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "At her smooth speeches, weeting inly well", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That she to him dissembled womanish guyle,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to her said: “Beldame, by that ye tell", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "More neede of leach-crafte hath your Damozell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then of my skill: who helpe may have elsewhere,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In vaine seekes wonders out of Magick spell.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Th’old woman wox half blanck those wordes to heare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And yet was loth to let her purpose plaine appeare;", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And to him said: “Yf any leaches skill,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Or other learned meanes, could have redrest", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "This my deare daughters deepe engraffed ill,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Certes I should be loth thee to molest;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But this sad evill, which doth her infest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Doth course of naturall cause farre exceed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And housed is within her hollow brest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That either seemes some cursed witches deed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or evill spright, that in her doth such torment breed.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The wisard could no lenger beare her bord,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But, brusting forth in laughter, to her sayd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Glaucè, what needes this colourable word", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To cloke the cause that hath it selfe bewrayd?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ye, fayre Britomartis, thus arayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "More hidden are then Sunne in cloudy vele;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom thy good fortune, having fate obayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Hath hither brought for succour to appele;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which the powres to thee are pleased to revele.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The doubtfull Mayd, seeing her selfe descryde,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Was all abasht, and her pure yvory", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into a cleare Carnation suddeine dyde;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As fayre Aurora, rysing hastily,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Doth by her blushing tell that she did lye", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All night in old Tithonus frozen bed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereof she seemes ashamed inwardly:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But her olde Nourse was nought dishartened,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But vauntage made of that which Merlin had ared;", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And sayd; “Sith then thou knowest all our griefe,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "(For what doest not thou knowe?) of grace I pray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Pitty our playnt, and yield us meet reliefe.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With that the Prophet still awhile did stay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And then his spirite thus gan foorth display:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Most noble Virgin, that by fatall lore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Hast learn’d to love, let no whit thee dismay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The hard beginne that meetes thee in the dore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with sharpe fits thy tender hart oppresseth sore:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“For so must all things excellent begin;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And eke enrooted deepe must be that Tree,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose big embodied braunches shall not lin", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till they to hevens hight forth stretched bee:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For from thy wombe a famous Progenee", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shall spring out of the auncient Trojan blood,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which shall revive the sleeping memoree", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of those same antique Peres, the hevens brood,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which Greeke and Asian rivers stayned with their blood.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Renowmed kings, and sacred Emperours,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Thy fruitfull Ofspring, shall from thee descend;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Brave Captaines, and most mighty warriours,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That shall their conquests through all lands extend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And their decayed kingdomes shall amend:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The feeble Britons, broken with long warre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They shall upreare, and mightily defend", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Against their forren foe that commes from farre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till universall peace compound all civill jarre.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“It was not, Britomart, thy wandring eye", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Glauncing unwares in charmed looking glas,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But the streight course of hevenly destiny,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Led with eternall providence, that has", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Guyded thy glaunce, to bring his will to pas:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne is thy fate, ne is thy fortune ill,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To love the prowest knight that ever was.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therefore submit thy wayes unto his will,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And doe by all dew meanes thy destiny fulfill.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“But read,” (saide Glaucè) “thou Magitian,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "What meanes shall she out seeke, or what waies take?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "How shall she know, how shall she finde the man?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or what needes her to toyle, sith fates can make", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Way for themselves their purpose to pertake?”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then Merlin thus: “Indeede the fates are firme,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And may not shrinck, though all the world do shake;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet ought mens good endevours them confirme,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And guyde the heavenly causes to their constant terme.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“The man, whom heavens have ordaynd to bee", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The spouse of Britomart, is Arthegall:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He wonneth in the land of Fayeree,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet is no Fary borne, ne sib at all", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To Elfes, but sprong of seed terrestriall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And whylome by false Faries stolne away,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whyles yet in infant cradle he did crall;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne other to himselfe is knowne this day,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But that he by an Elfe was gotten of a Fay:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“But sooth he is the sonne of Gorloïs,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And brother unto Cador, Cornish king;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And for his warlike feates renowmed is,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From where the day out of the sea doth spring,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Untill the closure of the Evening:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From thence him, firmely bound with faithfull band,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To this his native soyle thou backe shalt bring,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Strongly to ayde his countrey to withstand", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The powre of forreine Paynims which invade thy land.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Great ayd thereto his mighty puissaunce", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And dreaded name shall give in that sad day;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where also proofe of thy prow valiaunce", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thou then shalt make, t’increase thy lover’s pray.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Long time ye both in armes shall beare great sway,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till thy wombes burden thee from them do call,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And his last fate him from thee take away;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Too rathe cut off by practise criminall", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of secrete foes, that him shall make in mischiefe fall.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“With thee yet shall he leave, for memory", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of his late puissaunce, his ymage dead,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That living him in all activity", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To thee shall represent. He, from the head", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of his coosen Constantius, without dread", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shall take the crowne that was his fathers right,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And therewith crowne himselfe in th’others stead:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then shall he issew forth with dreadfull might", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Against his Saxon foes in bloody field to fight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Like as a Lyon that in drowsie cave", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Hath long time slept, himselfe so shall he shake;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And comming forth shall spred his banner brave", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Over the troubled South, that it shall make", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The warlike Mertians for feare to quake:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thrise shall he fight with them, and twise shall win;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But the third time shall fayre accordaunce make:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, if he then with victorie can lin,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He shall his dayes with peace bring to his earthly In.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“His sonne, hight Vortipore, shall him succeede", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In kingdome, but not in felicity:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet shall he long time warre with happy speed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with great honour many batteills try;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But at the last to th’importunity", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of froward fortune shall be forst to yield:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But his sonne Malgo shall full mightily", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Avenge his fathers losse with speare and shield,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And his proud foes discomfit in victorious field.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Behold the man! and tell me, Britomart,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "If ay more goodly creature thou didst see?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "How like a Gyaunt in each manly part", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Beares he himselfe with portly majestee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That one of th’old Heroës seemes to bee!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He the six Islands, comprovinciall", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In auncient times unto great Britainee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shall to the same reduce, and to him call", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their sondry kings to do their homage severall.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“All which his sonne Careticus awhile", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Shall well defend, and Saxons powre suppresse;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Untill a straunger king, from unknowne soyle", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Arriving, him with multitude oppresse;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Great Gormond, having with huge mightinesse", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ireland subdewd, and therein fixt his throne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like a swift Otter, fell through emptinesse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shall overswim the sea, with many one", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of his Norveyses, to assist the Britons fone.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“He in his furie all shall overronne,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And holy Church with faithlesse handes deface,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That thy sad people, utterly fordonne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shall to the utmost mountaines fly apace.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was never so great waste in any place,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nor so fowle outrage doen by living men;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For all thy Citties they shall sacke and race,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And the greene grasse that groweth they shall bren,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That even the wilde beast shall dy in starved den.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Whiles thus thy Britons doe in languour pine,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Proud Etheldred shall from the North arise,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Serving th’ambitious will of Augustine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, passing Dee, with hardy enterprise", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shall backe repulse the valiaunt Brockwell twise,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Bangor with massacred Martyrs fill,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But the third time shall rew his foolhardise:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For Cadwan, pittying his peoples ill,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shall stoutly him defeat, and thousand Saxons kill.", "indent": 1 } ], [ { "text": "“But after him, Cadwallin mightily", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "On his sonne Edwin all those wrongs shall wreake;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne shall availe the wicked sorcery", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of false Pellite his purposes to breake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But him shall slay, and on a gallowes bleak", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shall give th’enchaunter his unhappy hire.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then shall the Britons, late dismayd and weake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From their long vassalage gin to respire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And on their Paynim foes avenge their ranckled ire.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Ne shall he yet his wrath so mitigate,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Till both the sonnes of Edwin he have slayne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Offricke and Osricke, twinnes unfortunate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both slaine in battaile upon Layburne playne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Together with the king of Louthiane,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Hight Adin, and the king of Orkeny,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both joynt partakers of their fatall payne:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Penda, fearefull of like desteny,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shall yield him selfe his liegeman, and sweare fealty.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Him shall he make his fatall Instrument", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "T’afflict the other Saxons unsubdewd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He marching forth with fury insolent", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Against the good king Oswald, who indewd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With heavenly powre, and by Angels reskewd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Al holding crosses in their hands on hye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shall him defeate withouten blood imbrewd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of which that field, for endlesse memory,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shall Hevenfield be cald to all posterity.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Whereat Cadwallin wroth shall forth issew,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And an huge hoste into Northumber lead,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With which he godly Oswald shall subdew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And crowne with martiredome his sacred head:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose brother Oswin, daunted with like dread,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With price of silver shall his kingdome buy;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Penda, seeking him adowne to tread,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shall tread adowne, and doe him fowly dye;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But shall with guifts his Lord Cadwallin pacify.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Then shall Cadwallin die; and then the raine", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of Britons eke with him attonce shall dye;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne shall the good Cadwallader, with paine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or powre, be hable it to remedy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When the full time, prefixt by destiny,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shal be expird of Britons regiment:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For heven it selfe shall their successe envy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And them with plagues and murrins pestilent", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Consume, till all their warlike puissaunce be spent.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Yet after all these sorrowes, and huge hills", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of dying people, during eight yeares space,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Cadwallader, not yielding to his ills,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From Armoricke, where long in wretched cace", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He liv’d, retourning to his native place,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shal be by vision staide from his intent:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For th’heavens have decreëd to displace", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The Britons for their sinnes dew punishment", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to the Saxons over-give their government.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Then woe, and woe, and everlasting woe,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Be to the Briton babe that shal be borne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To live in thraldome of his fathers foe!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Late king, now captive; late lord, now forlorne;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The worlds reproch; the cruell victors scorne;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Banisht from princely bowre to wastefull wood!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "O! who shal helpe me to lament and mourne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The royall seed, the antique Trojan blood,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose empire lenger here then ever any stood?”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The Damzell was full deepe empassioned", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Both for his griefe, and for her peoples sake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose future woes so plaine he fashioned;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, sighing sore, at length him thus bespake:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Ah! but will hevens fury never slake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nor vengeaunce huge relent it selfe at last?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Will not long misery late mercy make,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But shall their name for ever be defaste,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And quite from off the earth their memory be raste?”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Nay but the terme” (sayd he) “is limited,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That in this thraldome Britons shall abide;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And the just revolution measured", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That they as Straungers shal be notifide:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For twise fowre hundreth yeares shalbe supplide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ere they to former rule restor’d shal bee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And their importune fates all satisfide:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet, during this their most obscuritee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their beames shall ofte breake forth, that men them faire may see.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“For Rhodoricke, whose surname shal be Great,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Shall of him selfe a brave ensample shew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That Saxon kinges his friendship shall intreat;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Howell Dha shall goodly well indew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The salvage minds with skill of just and trew:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then Griffyth Conan also shall upreare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His dreaded head, and the old sparkes renew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of native corage, that his foes shall feare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Least back againe the kingdom he from them should beare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Ne shall the Saxons selves all peaceably", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Enjoy the crowne, which they from Britons wonne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "First ill, and after ruled wickedly;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For, ere two hundred yeares be full outronne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There shall a Raven, far from rising Sunne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With his wide wings upon them fiercely fly,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And bid his faithlesse chickens overronne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The fruitfull plaines, and with fell cruelty", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In their avenge tread downe the victors surquedry.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Yet shall a third both these and thine subdew.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "There shall a Lion from the seabord wood", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of Neustria come roring, with a crew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of hungry whelpes, his battailous bold brood,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose clawes were newly dipt in cruddy blood,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That from the Daniske Tyrants head shall rend", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Th’usurped crowne, as if that he were wood,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And the spoile of the countrey conquered", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Emongst his young ones shall divide with bountyhed.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Tho, when the terme is full accomplishid,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "There shall a sparke of fire, which hath long-while", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Bene in his ashes raked up and hid,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Bee freshly kindled in the fruitfull Ile", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of Mona, where it lurked in exile;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which shall breake forth into bright burning flame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And reach into the house that beares the stile", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of roiall majesty and soveraine name:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So shall the Briton blood their crowne agayn reclame.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Thenceforth eternall union shall be made", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Betweene the nations different afore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And sacred Peace shall lovingly persuade", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The warlike minds to learne her goodly lore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And civile armes to exercise no more:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then shall a royall Virgin raine, which shall", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Stretch her white rod over the Belgicke shore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And the great Castle smite so sore withall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That it shall make him shake, and shortly learn to fall.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“But yet the end is not.”⁠—There Merlin stayd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As overcomen of the spirites powre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or other ghastly spectacle dismayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That secretly he saw, yet note discoure:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which suddein fitt, and halfe extatick stoure,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When the two fearefull wemen saw, they grew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Greatly confused in behaveoure.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At last, the fury past, to former hew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Hee turnd againe, and chearfull looks as earst did shew.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then, when them selves they well instructed had", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of all that needed them to be inquird,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They both, conceiving hope of comfort glad,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With lighter hearts unto their home retird;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where they in secret counsell close conspird,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "How to effect so hard an enterprize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to possesse the purpose they desird:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now this, now that, twixt them they did devize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And diverse plots did frame to maske in strange disguise.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "At last the Nourse in her foolhardy wit", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Conceiv’d a bold devise, and thus bespake:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Daughter, I deeme that counsel aye most fit,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That of the time doth dew advauntage take.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ye see that good king Uther now doth make", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Strong warre upon the Paynim brethren, hight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Octa and Oza, whome hee lately brake", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Beside Cayr Verolame in victorious fight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That now all Britany doth burne in armes bright.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“That, therefore, nought our passage may empeach,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Let us in feigned armes our selves disguize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And our weake hands (need makes good schollers) teach", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The dreadful speare and shield to exercize:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne certes, daughter, that same warlike wize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I weene, would you misseeme; for ye beene tall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And large of limbe t’atchieve an hard emprize;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ought ye want but skil, which practize small", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Wil bring, and shortly make you a mayd Martiall.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“And, sooth, it ought your corage much inflame", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To heare so often, in that royall hous,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From whence, to none inferior, ye came,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Bards tell of many wemen valorous,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which have full many feats adventurous", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Performd, in paragone of proudest men:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The bold Bunduca, whose victorious", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Exployts made Rome to quake; stout Guendolen;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Renowmed Martia; and redoubted Emmilen.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“And, that which more then all the rest may sway,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Late dayes ensample, which these eyes beheld:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In the last field before Menevia,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which Uther with those forrein Pagans held,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I saw a Saxon Virgin, the which feld", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Great Ulfin thrise upon the bloody playne;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, had not Carados her hand withheld", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From rash revenge, she had him surely slayne:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet Carados himselfe from her escapt with payne.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Ah! read,” (quoth Britomart) “how is she hight?”", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“Fayre Angela” (quoth she) “men do her call,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "No whit lesse fayre then terrible in fight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She hath the leading of a Martiall", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And mightie people, dreaded more then all", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The other Saxons, which doe, for her sake", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And love, themselves of her name Angles call.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therefore, faire Infant, her ensample make", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto thy selfe, and equall corage to thee take.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Her harty wordes so deepe into the mynd", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of the yong Damzell sunke, that great desire", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of warlike armes in her forthwith they tynd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And generous stout courage did inspyre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That she resolv’d, unweeting to her Syre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Advent’rous knighthood on her selfe to don;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And counseld with her Nourse her Maides attyre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To turne into a massy habergeon,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And bad her all things put in readinesse anon.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Th’old woman nought that needed did omit,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But all thinges did conveniently purvay.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It fortuned (so time their turne did fitt)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A band of Britons, ryding on forray", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Few dayes before, had gotten a great pray", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of Saxon goods; emongst the which was seene", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A goodly Armour, and full rich aray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which long’d to Angela, the Saxon Queene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All fretted round with gold, and goodly wel beseene.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The same, with all the other ornaments,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "King Ryence caused to be hanged hy", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In his chiefe Church, for endlesse moniments", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of his successe and gladfull victory:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of which her selfe avising readily,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In th’evening late old Glaucè thither led", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Faire Britomart, and, that same Armory", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Downe taking, her therein appareled", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Well as she might, and with brave bauldrick garnished.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Beside those armes there stood a mightie speare,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which Bladud made by Magick art of yore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And usd the same in batteill aye to beare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sith which it had beene here preserv’d in store,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For his great virtues proved long afore:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For never wight so fast in sell could sit,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But him perforce unto the ground it bore.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both speare she tooke and shield which hong by it;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both speare and shield of great powre, for her purpose fit.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thus when she had the virgin all arayd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Another harnesse which did hang thereby", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "About her selfe she dight, that the yong Mayd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She might in equall armes accompany,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And as her Squyre attend her carefully.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tho to their ready Steedes they clombe full light,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And through back waies, that none might them espy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Covered with secret cloud of silent night,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Themselves they forth convaid, and passed forward right.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Ne rested they, till that to Faery lond", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "They came, as Merlin them directed late:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where, meeting with this Redcrosse Knight, she fond", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of diverse thinges discourses to dilate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But most of Arthegall and his estate.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At last their wayes so fell, that they mote part:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then each to other, well affectionate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Friendship professed with unfained hart.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The Redcrosse Knight diverst, but forth rode Britomart.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Where is the Antique glory now become,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That whylome wont in wemen to appeare?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where be the brave atchievements doen by some?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where be the battels, where the shield and speare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all the conquests which them high did reare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That matter made for famous Poets verse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And boastfull men so oft abasht to heare?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Beene they all dead, and laide in dolefull herse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or doen they onely sleepe, and shall againe reverse?", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "If they be dead, then woe is me therefore;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But if they sleepe, O let them soone awake:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For all too long I burne with envy sore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To heare the warlike feates, which Homere spake", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of bold Penthesilee, which made a lake", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of Greekish blood so oft in Trojan plaine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But when I reade, how stout Debora strake", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Proud Sisera, and how Camill’ hath slaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The huge Orsilochus, I swell with great disdaine.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Yet these, and all that els had puissaunce,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Cannot with noble Britomart compare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As well for glorie of great valiaunce,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As for pure chastitee and vertue rare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all her goodly deedes doe well declare.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Well worthie stock, from which the branches sprong", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That in late yeares so faire a blossome bare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As thee, O Queene! the matter of my song,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose lignage from this Lady I derive along.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Who when, through speaches with the Redcrosse Knight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "She learned had th’estate of Arthegall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in each point her selfe informd aright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A friendly league of love perpetuall", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She with him bound, and Congé tooke withall:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then he forth on his journey did proceede,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To seeke adventures which mote him befall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And win him worship through his warlike deed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which alwaies of his paines he made the chiefest meed.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But Britomart kept on her former course,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ne ever dofte her armes, but all the way", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Grew pensive through that amarous discourse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By which the Redcrosse knight did earst display", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her lovers shape, and chevalrous aray:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A thousand thoughts she fashiond in her mind,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in her feigning fancie did pourtray", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him such as fittest she for love could find,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Wise, warlike, personable, courteous, and kind.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "With such selfe-pleasing thoughts her wound she fed,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And thought so to beguile her grievous smart;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But so her smart was much more grievous bred,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And the deepe wound more deep engord her hart,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That nought but death her dolour mote depart,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So forth she rode, without repose or rest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Searching all lands and each remotest part,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Following the guydance of her blinded guest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till that to the sea-coast at length she her addrest.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "There she alighted from her light-foot beast,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And sitting downe upon the rocky shore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Badd her old Squyre unlace her lofty creast:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tho having vewd awhile the surges hore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That gainst the craggy clifts did loudly rore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in their raging surquedry disdaynd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That the fast earth affronted them so sore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And their devouring covetize restraynd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thereat she sighed deepe, and after thus complaynd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Huge sea of sorrow and tempestuous griefe,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Wherein my feeble barke is tossed long", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Far from the hoped haven of reliefe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Why doe thy cruel billowes beat so strong,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And thy moyst mountaines each on others throng,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Threatning to swallow up my fearefull lyfe?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "O! doe thy cruell wrath and spightfull wrong", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At length allay, and stint thy stormy strife,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which in thy troubled bowels raignes and rageth ryfe.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“For els my feeble vessell, crazd and crackt", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Through thy strong buffets and outrageous blowes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Cannot endure, but needes it must be wrackt", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On the rough rocks, or on the sandy shallowes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The whiles that love it steres, and fortune rowes:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Love, my lewd Pilott, hath a restlesse minde;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And fortune, Boteswaine, no assurance knowes;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But saile withouten starres gainst tyde and winde:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "How can they other doe, sith both are bold and blinde?", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Thou God of windes, that raignest in the seas,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That raignest also in the Continent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At last blow up some gentle gale of ease,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which may bring my ship, ere it be rent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto the gladsome port of her intent.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then, when I shall my selfe in safety see,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A table, for eternall moniment", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of thy great grace and my great jeopardee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Great Neptune, I avow to hallow unto thee!”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then sighing softly sore, and inly deepe,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "She shut up all her plaint in privy griefe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For her great courage would not let her weepe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till that old Glaucè gan with sharpe repriefe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her to restraine, and give her good reliefe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through hope of those, which Merlin had her told", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Should of her name and nation be chiefe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And fetch their being from the sacred mould", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of her immortall womb, to be in heaven enrold.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thus as she her recomforted, she spyde", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Where far away one, all in armour bright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With hasty gallop towards her did ryde.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her dolour soone she ceast, and on her dight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her Helmet, to her Courser mounting light:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her former sorrow into suddein wrath,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both coosen passions of distroubled spright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Converting, forth she beates the dusty path:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Love and despight attonce her courage kindled hath.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "As, when a foggy mist hath overcast", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The face of heven, and the cleare ayre engroste,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The world in darkenes dwels; till that at last", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The watry Southwinde, from the seabord coste", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upblowing, doth disperse the vapour lo’ste,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And poures it selfe forth in a stormy showre:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So the fayre Britomart, having disclo’ste", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her clowdy care into a wrathfull stowre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The mist of griefe dissolv’d did into vengeance powre.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Eftsoones, her goodly shield addressing fayre,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That mortall speare she in her hand did take,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And unto battaill did her selfe prepayre.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The knight, approching, sternely her bespake:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Sir knight, that doest thy voyage rashly make", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By this forbidden way in my despight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne doest by others death ensample take,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I read thee soone retyre, whiles thou hast might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Least afterwards it be too late to take thy flight.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Ythrild with deepe disdaine of his proud threat,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "She shortly thus: “Fly they, that need to fly;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Wordes fearen babes. I meane not thee entreat", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To passe, but maugre thee will passe or dy.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne lenger stayd for th’other to reply,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But with sharpe speare the rest made dearly knowne.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Strongly the straunge knight ran, and sturdily", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Strooke her full on the brest, that made her downe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Decline her head, and touch her crouper with her crown.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But she againe him in the shield did smite", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With so fierce furie and great puissaunce,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That, through his three-square scuchin percing quite", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And through his mayled hauberque, by mischaunce", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The wicked steele through his left side did glaunce.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him so transfixed she before her bore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Beyond his croupe, the length of all her launce;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till, sadly soucing on the sandy shore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He tombled on an heape, and wallowd in his gore.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Like as the sacred Oxe that carelesse stands,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With gilden hornes and flowry girlonds crownd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Proud of his dying honor and deare bandes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whiles th’altars fume with frankincense arownd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All suddeinly, with mortall stroke astownd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Doth groveling fall, and with his streaming gore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Distaines the pillours and the holy grownd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And the faire flowres that decked him afore:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So fell proud Marinell upon the pretious shore.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The martiall Mayd stayd not him to lament,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But forward rode, and kept her ready way", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Along the strond; which, as she overwent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She saw bestrowed all with rich aray", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of pearles and pretious stones of great assay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all the gravell mixt with golden owre:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereat she wondred much, but would not stay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For gold, or perles, or pretious stones, an howre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But them despised all; for all was in her powre.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whiles thus he lay in deadly stonishment,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Tydings hereof came to his mothers eare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His mother was the blacke-browd Cymoënt,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The daughter of great Nereus, which did beare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "This warlike sonne unto an earthly peare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The famous Dumarin; who, on a day", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Finding the Nymph asleepe in secret wheare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As he by chaunce did wander that same way,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was taken with her love, and by her closely lay.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "There he this knight of her begot, whom borne", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "She, of his father, Marinell did name;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in a rocky cave, as wight forlorne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Long time she fostred up, till he became", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A mighty man at armes, and mickle fame", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did get through great adventures by him donne:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For never man he suffred by that same", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Rich strond to travell, whereas he did wonne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But that he must do battail with the Sea-nymphes sonne.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "An hundred knights of honorable name", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He had subdew’d, and them his vassals made;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That through all Faerie lond his noble fame", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now blazed was, and feare did all invade,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That none durst passen through that perilous glade:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to advaunce his name and glory more,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her Sea-god syre she dearely did perswade", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "T’endow her sonne with threasure and rich store", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Bove all the sonnes that were of earthly wombes ybore.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The God did graunt his daughters deare demaund,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To doen his Nephew in all riches flow;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Eftsoones his heaped waves he did commaund", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Out of their hollow bosome forth to throw", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All the huge threasure, which the sea below", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had in his greedy gulfe devoured deepe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And him enriched through the overthrow", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And wreckes of many wretches, which did weepe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And often wayle their wealth, which he from them did keepe.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Shortly upon that shore there heaped was", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Exceeding riches and all pretious things,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The spoyle of all the world; that it did pas", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The wealth of th’East, and pompe of Persian kings:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gold, amber, yvorie, perles, owches, rings,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all that els was pretious and deare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The sea unto him voluntary brings;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That shortly he a great Lord did appeare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As was in all the lond of Faery, or else wheare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thereto he was a doughty dreaded knight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Tryde often to the scath of many Deare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That none in equall armes him matchen might:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which his mother seeing gan to feare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Least his too haughtie hardines might reare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some hard mishap in hazard of his life.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Forthy she oft him counseld to forbeare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The bloody batteill and to stirre up strife,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But after all his warre to rest his wearie knife.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And, for his more assuraunce, she inquir’d", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "One day of Proteus by his mighty spell", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "(For Proteus was with prophecy inspir’d)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her deare sonnes destiny to her to tell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And the sad end of her sweet Marinell:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who, through foresight of his eternall skill,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Bad her from womankind to keepe him well,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For of a woman he should have much ill;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A virgin straunge and stout him should dismay or kill.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Forthy she gave him warning every day", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The love of women not to entertaine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A lesson too too hard for living clay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From love in course of nature to refraine.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet he his mothers lore did well retaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And ever from fayre Ladies love did fly;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet many Ladies fayre did oft complaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That they for love of him would algates dy:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Dy, who so list for him, he was loves enimy.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But ah! who can deceive his destiny,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Or weene by warning to avoyd his fate?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That, when he sleepes in most security", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And safest seemes, him soonest doth amate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And findeth dew effect or soone or late;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So feeble is the powre of fleshly arme.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His mother bad him wemens love to hate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For she of womans force did feare no harme;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So, weening to have arm’d him, she did quite disarme.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "This was that woman, this that deadly wownd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That Proteus prophecide should him dismay;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which his mother vainely did expownd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To be hart-wownding love, which should assay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To bring her sonne unto his last decay.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So tide be the termes of mortall state,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And full of subtile sophismes, which do play", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With double senses, and with false debate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "T’approve the unknowen purpose of eternall fate.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Too trew the famous Marinell it fownd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Who, through late triall, on that wealthy Strond", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Inglorious now lies in sencelesse swownd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through heavy stroke of Britomartis hond.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which when his mother deare did understond,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And heavy tydings heard, whereas she playd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Amongst her watry sisters by a pond,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gathering sweete daffadillyes, to have made", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gay girlonds from the Sun their forheads faire to shade;", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Eftesoones both flowres and girlonds far away", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Shee flong, and her faire deawy lockes yrent;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To sorrow huge she turnd her former play,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And gamesom merth to grievous dreriment:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shee threw her selfe downe on the Continent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne word did speake, but lay as in a swowne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whiles all her sisters did for her lament", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With yelling outcries, and with shrieking sowne;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And every one did teare her girlond from her crowne.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Soone as shee up out of her deadly fitt", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Arose, shee bad her charett to be brought;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all her sisters that with her did sitt", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Bad eke attonce their charetts to be sought:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tho, full of bitter griefe and pensife thought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She to her wagon clombe; clombe all the rest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And forth together went with sorow fraught.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The waves, obedient to theyr beheast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Them yielded ready passage, and their rage surceast.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Great Neptune stoode amazed at their sight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whiles on his broad rownd backe they softly slid,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke him selfe mournd at their mournful plight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet wist not what their wailing ment; yet did,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For great compassion of their sorow, bid", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His mighty waters to them buxome bee:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Eftesoones the roaring billowes still abid,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all the griesly Monsters of the See", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Stood gaping at their gate, and wondred them to see.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "A teme of Dolphins raunged in aray", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Drew the smooth charett of sad Cymoent:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They were all taught by Triton to obay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To the long raynes at her commaundement:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As swifte as swallowes on the waves they went,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That their brode flaggy finnes no fome did reare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne bubling rowndell they behinde them sent.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The rest, of other fishes drawen weare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which with their finny oars the swelling sea did sheare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Soone as they bene arriv’d upon the brim", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of the Rich Strond, their charets they forlore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And let their temed fishes softly swim", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Along the margent of the fomy shore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Least they their finnes should bruze, and surbate sore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their tender feete upon the stony grownd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And comming to the place, where all in gore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And cruddy blood enwallowed they fownd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The lucklesse Marinell lying in deadly swownd,", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "His mother swowned thrise, and the third time", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Could scarce recovered bee out of her paine:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had she not beene devoide of mortall slime,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shee should not then have bene relyv’d againe;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, soone as life recovered had the raine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shee made so piteous mone and deare wayment,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That the hard rocks could scarse from tears refraine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all her sister Nymphes with one consent", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Supplide her sobbing breaches with sad complement.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Deare image of my selfe,” (she sayd) “that is", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The wretched sonne of wretched mother borne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Is this thine high advauncement? O! is this", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Th’immortall name, with which thee, yet unborne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thy Grandsire Nereus promist to adorne?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now lyest thou of life and honor refte;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now lyest thou a lumpe of earth forlorne;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne of thy late life memory is lefte,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne can thy irrevocable desteny bee wefte.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Fond Proteus, father of false prophecis!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And they more fond that credit to thee give!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Not this the worke of womans hand ywis,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That so deepe wound through these deare members drive.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I feared love; but they that love doe live,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But they that dye doe nether love nor hate:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nath’lesse to thee thy folly I forgive;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to my selfe, and to accursed fate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The guilt I doe ascribe: deare wisedom bought too late!", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“O! what availes it of immortall seed", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To beene ybredd and never borne to dye?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Farre better I it deeme to die with speed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then waste in woe and waylfull miserye:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who dyes, the utmost dolor doth abye;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But who that lives is lefte to waile his losse:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So life is losse, and death felicity:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sad life worse then glad death; and greater crosse", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To see frends grave, then dead the grave self to engrosse.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“But if the heavens did his dayes envie,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And my short blis maligne, yet mote they will", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thus much afford me, ere that he did die,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That the dim eies of my deare Marinell", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I mote that close, and him bed farewell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sith other offices for mother meet", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They would nor graunt⁠—", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet, maulgre them, farewell, my sweetest sweet!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Farewell, my sweetest sonne, sith we no more shall meet!", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thus when they all had sorowed their fill,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "They softly gan to search his griesly wownd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, that they might him handle more at will,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They him disarmd; and, spredding on the grownd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their watchet mantles fridgd with silver rownd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They softly wipt away the gelly blood", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From th’orifice; which having well upbownd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They pourd in soveraine balme and Nectar good,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Good both for erthly med’cine and for hevenly food.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Tho when the lilly handed liagore", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "(This Liagore whilome had learned skill", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In leaches craft, by great Apolloes lore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sith her whilome upon high Pindus hill", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He loved, and at last her wombe did fill", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With hevenly seed, whereof wise Pæon sprong)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did feele his pulse, she knew there staied still", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some litle life his feeble sprites emong;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which to his mother told, despeire she from her flong.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Tho, up him taking in their tender hands,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "They easely unto her charett beare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her teme at her commaundement quiet stands,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whiles they the corse into her wagon reare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And strowe with flowres the lamentable beare.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then all the rest into their coches clim,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And through the brackish waves their passage sheare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon great Neptunes necke they softly swim,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to her watry chamber swiftly carry him.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Deepe in the bottome of the sea her bowre", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Is built of hollow billowes heaped hye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like to thicke clouds that threat a stormy showre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And vauted all within, like to the Skye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In which the Gods doe dwell eternally;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There they him laide in easy couch well dight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And sent in haste for Tryphon, to apply", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Salves to his wounds, and medicines of might;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For Tryphon of sea gods the soveraine leach is hight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The whiles the Nymphes sit all about him rownd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Lamenting his mishap and heavy plight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And ofte his mother, vewing his wide wownd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Cursed the hand that did so deadly smight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her dearest sonne, her dearest harts delight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But none of all those curses overtooke", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The warlike Maid, th’ensample of that might;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But fairely well shee thryv’d, and well did brooke", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her noble deeds, ne her right course for ought forsooke.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Yet did false Archimage her still pursew,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To bring to passe his mischievous intent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now that he had her singled from the crew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of courteous knights, the Prince and Faery gent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom late in chace of beauty excellent", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shee lefte, pursewing that same foster strong,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of whose fowle outrage they impatient,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And full of firy zele, him followed long,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To reskew her from shame, and to revenge her wrong.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Through thick and thin, through mountains and through playns,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Those two great champions did attonce pursew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The fearefull damzell with incessant payns;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who from them fled, as light-foot hare from vew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of hunter swifte and sent of howndes trew.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At last they came unto a double way;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where, doubtfull which to take, her to reskew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Themselves they did dispart, each to assay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whether more happy were to win so goodly pray.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But Timias, the Princes gentle Squyre,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That Ladies love unto his Lord forlent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with proud envy and indignant yre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "After that wicked foster fiercely went:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So beene they three three sondry wayes ybent;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But fayrest fortune to the Prince befell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose chaunce it was, that soone he did repent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To take that way in which that Damozell", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was fledd afore, affraid of him as feend of hell.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "At last of her far off he gained vew.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Then gan he freshly pricke his fomy steed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And ever as he nigher to her drew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So evermore he did increase his speed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And of each turning still kept wary heed:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Alowd to her he oftentimes did call,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To doe away vaine doubt and needlesse dreed:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Full myld to her he spake, and oft let fall", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Many meeke wordes to stay and comfort her withall.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But nothing might relent her hasty flight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "So deepe the deadly feare of that foule swaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was earst impressed in her gentle spright.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like as a fearefull Dove, which through the raine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of the wide ayre her way does cut amaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Having farre off espyde a Tassell gent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which after her his nimble winges doth straine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Doubleth her hast for feare to bee for-hent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with her pineons cleaves the liquid firmament.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "With no lesse hast, and eke with no lesse dreed,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That fearefull Ladie fledd from him, that ment", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To her no evill thought nor evill deed;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet former feare of being fowly shent", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Carried her forward with her first intent:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And though, oft looking backward, well she vewde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her selfe freed from that foster insolent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And that it was a knight which now her sewde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet she no lesse the knight feard then that villein rude.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "His uncouth shield and straunge armes her dismayd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whose like in Faery lond were seldom seene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That fast she from him fledd, no lesse afrayd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then of wilde beastes if she had chased beene;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet he her followd still with corage keene", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So long, that now the golden Hesperus", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was mounted high in top of heaven sheene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And warnd his other brethren joyeous", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To light their blessed lamps in Joves eternall hous.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "All suddeinly dim wox the dampish ayre,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And griesly shadowes covered heaven bright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That now with thousand starres was decked fayre:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which when the Prince beheld, a lothfull sight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And that perforce, for want of lenger light,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He mote surceasse his suit, and lose the hope", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of his long labour, he gan fowly wyte", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His wicked fortune that had turnd aslope,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And cursed night that reft from him so goodly scope.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Tho, when her wayes he could no more descry,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But to and fro at disaventure strayd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like as a ship, whose Lodestar suddeinly", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Covered with cloudes her Pilott hath dismayd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His wearisome pursuit perforce he stayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And from his loftie steed dismounting low", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did let him forage. Downe himselfe he layd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon the grassy ground to sleepe a throw:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The cold earth was his couch, the hard steele his pillow.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But gentle Sleepe envyde him any rest:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In stead thereof sad sorow and disdaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of his hard hap did vexe his noble brest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And thousand Fancies bett his ydle brayne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With their light wings, the sights of semblants vaine.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Oft did he wish that Lady faire mote bee", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His Faery Queene, for whom he did complaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or that his Faery Queene were such as shee;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And ever hasty Night be blamed bitterlie.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Night! thou foule Mother of annoyaunce sad,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Sister of heavie death, and nourse of woe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which wast begot in heaven, but for thy bad", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And brutish shape thrust downe to hell below,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where, by the grim floud of Cocytus slow,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thy dwelling is in Herebus black hous,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "(Black Herebus, thy husband, is the foe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of all the Gods,) where thou ungratious", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Halfe of thy dayes doest lead in horrour hideous.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“What had th’eternall Maker need of thee", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The world in his continuall course to keepe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That doest all thinges deface, ne lettest see", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The beautie of his worke? Indeed, in sleepe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The slouthfull body that doth love to steepe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His lustlesse limbes, and drowne his baser mind,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Doth praise thee oft, and oft from Stygian deepe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Calles thee his goddesse, in his errour blind,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And great Dame Natures handmaide chearing every kind.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“But well I wote, that to an heavy hart", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Thou art the roote and nourse of bitter cares,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Breeder of new, renewer of old smarts:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Instead of rest thou lendest rayling teares;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Instead of sleepe thou sendest troublous feares", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And dreadfull visions, in the which alive", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The dreary image of sad death appeares:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So from the wearie spirit thou doest drive", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Desired rest, and men of happinesse deprive.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Under thy mantle black there hidden lye", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Light-shonning thefte, and traiterous intent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Abhorred bloodshed, and vile felony,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shamefull deceipt, and daunger imminent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fowle horror, and eke hellish dreriment:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All these, I wote, in thy protection bee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And light doe shonne for feare of being shent;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For light ylike is loth’d of them and thee;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all that lewdnesse love doe hate the light to see.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“For day discovers all dishonest wayes,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And sheweth each thing as it is in deed:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The prayses of high God he faire displayes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And his large bountie rightly doth areed:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Dayes dearest children be the blessed seed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which darknesse shall subdue and heaven win:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Truth is his daughter; he her first did breed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Most sacred virgin without spot of sinne.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Our life is day, but death with darknesse doth begin.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“O! when will day then turne to me againe,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And bring with him his long expected light?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "O Titan! hast to reare thy joyous waine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Speed thee to spred abroad thy beames bright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And chace away this too long lingring night;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Chace her away, from whence she came, to hell:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She, she it is, that hath me done despight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There let her with the damned spirits dwell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And yield her rowme to day that can it governe well.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thus did the Prince that wearie night outweare", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In restlesse anguish and unquiet paine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And earely, ere the morrow did upreare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His deawy head out of the Ocean maine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He up arose, as halfe in great disdaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And clombe unto his steed. So forth he went", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With heavy look and lumpish pace, that plaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In him bewraid great grudge and maltalent:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His steed eke seemd t’apply his steps to his intent.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Wonder it is to see, in diverse minds,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "How diversly love doth his pageants play,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And shewes his powre in variable kinds:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The baser wit, whose idle thoughts alway", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Are wont to cleave unto the lowly clay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It stirreth up to sensuall desire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in lewd slouth to wast his carelesse day;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But in brave sprite it kindles goodly fire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That to all high desert and honour doth aspire.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Ne suffereth it uncomely idlenesse", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In his free thought to build her sluggish nest;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne suffereth it thought of ungentlenesse", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ever to creepe into his noble brest;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But to the highest and the worthiest", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Lifteth it up that els would lowly fall:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It lettes not fall, it lettes it not to rest;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It lettes not scarse this Prince to breath at all,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But to his first poursuit him forward still doth call.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Who long time wandred through the forest wyde", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To finde some issue thence, till that at last", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He met a Dwarfe, that seemed terrifyde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With some late perill which he hardly past,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or other accident, which him aghast;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of whom he asked, whence he lately came,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And whither now he travelled so fast:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For sore he swat, and, running through that same", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thicke forest, was bescracht, and both his feet nigh lame.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Panting for breath, and almost out of hart,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The Dwarfe him answerd; “Sir, ill mote I stay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To tell the same: I lately did depart", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From Faery court, where I have many a day", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Served a gentle Lady of great sway", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And high accompt through out all Elfin land,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who lately left the same, and tooke this way.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her now I seeke; and if ye understand", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which way she fared hath, good Sir, tell out of hand.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“What mister wight,” (saide he) “and how arayd?”", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“Royally clad” (quoth he) “in cloth of gold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As meetest may beseeme a noble mayd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her faire lockes in rich circlet be enrold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A fayrer wight did never Sunne behold?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And on a Palfrey rydes more white then snow,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet she her selfe is whiter manifold.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The surest signe, whereby ye may her know,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Is that she is the fairest wight alive, I trow.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Now certes, swaine,” (saide he) “such one, I weene,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Fast flying through this forest from her fo,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A foule ill-favoured foster, I have seene:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her selfe, well as I might, I reskewd tho,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But could not stay, so fast she did foregoe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Carried away with wings of speedy feare.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Ah, dearest God!” (quoth he) “that is great woe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And wondrous ruth to all that shall it heare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But can ye read, Sir, how I may her finde, or where?”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Perdy, me lever were to weeten that,”", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "(Said he) “then ransome of the richest knight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or all the good that ever yet I gat:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But froward fortune, and too forward Night,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Such happinesse did, maulgre, to me spight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And fro me reft both life and light attone.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, Dwarfe, aread what is that Lady bright", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That through this forrest wandreth thus alone?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For of her errour straunge I have great ruth and mone.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“That Lady is,” (quoth he) “where so she bee,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The bountiest virgin and most debonaire", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That ever living eye, I weene, did see.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Lives none this day that may with her compare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In stedfast chastitie and vertue rare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The goodly ornaments of beautie bright;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And is ycleped Florimell the faire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Faire Florimell belov’d of many a knight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet she loves none but one, that Marinell is hight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“A Sea-nymphes sonne, that Marinell is hight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of my deare Dame is loved dearely well;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In other none, but him, she sets delight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All her delight is set on Marinell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But he sets nought at all by Florimell;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For Ladies love his mother long ygoe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did him, they say, forwarne through sacred spell:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But fame now flies, that of a forreine foe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He is yslaine, which is the ground of all our woe.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Five dayes there be since he (they say) was slaine,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And foure since Florimell the Court forwent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And vowed never to returne againe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till him alive or dead she did invent.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therefore, faire Sir, for love of knighthood gent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And honour of trew Ladies, if ye may", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By your good counsell, or bold hardiment,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or succour her, or me direct the way,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Do one or other good, I you most humbly pray.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“So may ye gaine to you full great renowme", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of all good Ladies through the worlde so wide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And haply in her hart find highest rowme", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of whom ye seeke to be most magnifide:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At least eternall meede shall you abide.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To whom the Prince: “Dwarfe, comfort to thee take,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For, till thou tidings learne what her betide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I here avow thee never to forsake.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ill weares he armes, that nill them use for Ladies sake.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So with the Dwarfe he backe retourn’d againe,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To seeke his Lady, where he mote her find;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But by the way he greatly gan complaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The want of his good Squire late lefte behind,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For whom he wondrous pensive grew in mind,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For doubt of daunger which mote him betide;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For him he loved above all mankinde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Having him trew and faithfull ever tride,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And bold, as ever Squire that waited by knights side:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Who all this while full hardly was assayd", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of deadly daunger, which to him betid;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For, whiles his Lord pursewd that noble Mayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "After that foster fowle he fiercely rid", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To bene avenged of the shame he did", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To that faire Damzell: Him he chaced long", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through the thicke woods, wherein he would have hid", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His shamefull head from his avengement strong,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And oft him threatned death for his outrageous wrong.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Nathlesse the villein sped himselfe so well,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whether through swiftnesse of his speedy beast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or knowledge of those woods where he did dwell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That shortly he from daunger was releast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And out of sight escaped at the least:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet not escaped from the dew reward", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of his bad deedes, which daily he increast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ceased not, till him oppressed hard", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The heavy plague that for such leachours is prepard.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "For soone as he was vanisht out of sight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His coward courage gan emboldned bee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And cast t’avenge him of that fowle despight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which he had borne of his bold enimee:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tho to his brethren came, for they were three", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ungratious children of one gracelesse sire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And unto them complained how that he", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had used beene of that foolehardy Squire:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So them with bitter words he stird to bloody ire.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Forthwith themselves with their sad instruments", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of spoyle and murder they gan arme bylive,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with him forth into the forrest went", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To wreake the wrath, which he did earst revive", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In their sterne brests, on him which late did drive", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their brother to reproch and shamefull flight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For they had vow’d that never he alive", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Out of that forest should escape their might;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Vile rancour their rude harts had fild with such despight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Within that wood there was a covert glade,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Foreby a narrow foord, to them well knowne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through which it was uneath for wight to wade;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And now by fortune it was overflowne.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By that same way they knew that Squyre unknowne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Mote algates passe: forthy themselves they set", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There in await, with thicke woods overgrowne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all the while their malice they did whet", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With cruell threats his passage through the ford to let.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "It fortuned, as they devised had:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The gentle Squire came ryding that same way,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unweeting of their wile and treason bad,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And through the ford to passen did assay;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But that fierce foster, which late fled away,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Stoutly foorth stepping on the further shore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him boldly bad his passage there to stay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till he had made amends, and full restore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For all the damage which he had him doen afore.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "With that at him a quiv’ring dart he threw,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With so fell force, and villeinous despite,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That through his haberjeon the forkehead flew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And through the linked mayles empierced quite,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But had no powre in his soft flesh to bite.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That stroke the hardy Squire did sore displease,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But more that him he could not come to smite;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For by no meanes the high banke he could sease,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But labour’d long in that deepe ford with vaine disease.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And still the foster with his long bore-speare", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Him kept from landing at his wished will.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Anone one sent out of the thicket neare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A cruell shaft, headed with deadly ill,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And fethered with an unlucky quill:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The wicked steele stayd not till it did light", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In his left thigh, and deepely did it thrill:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Exceeding griefe that wound in him empight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But more that with his foes he could not come to fight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "At last, through wrath and vengeaunce making way,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He on the bancke arryvd with mickle payne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where the third brother him did sore assay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And drove at him with all his might and mayne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A forest-bill, which both his hands did strayne;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But warily he did avoide the blow,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with his speare requited him againe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That both his sides were thrilled with the throw,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And a large streame of blood out of the wound did flow.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He, tombling downe, with gnashing teeth did bite", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The bitter earth, and bad to lett him in", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into the balefull house of endlesse night,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where wicked ghosts doe waile their former sin.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tho gan the battaile freshly to begin;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For nathemore for that spectacle bad", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did th’other two their cruell vengeaunce blin,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But both attonce on both sides him bestad,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And load upon him layd his life for to have had.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Tho when that villayn he aviz’d, which late", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Affrighted had the fairest Florimell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Full of fiers fury and indignant hate", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To him he turned, and with rigor fell", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Smote him so rudely on the Pannikell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That to the chin he clefte his head in twaine.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Downe on the ground his carkas groveling fell:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His sinfull sowle with desperate disdaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Out of her fleshly ferme fled to the place of paine.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "That seeing, now the only last of three", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Who with that wicked shafte him wounded had,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Trembling with horror, as that did foresee", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The fearefull end of his avengement sad,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through which he follow should his brethren bad,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His bootelesse bow in feeble hand upcaught,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And therewith shott an arrow at the lad;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which, fayntly fluttering, scarce his helmet raught,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And glauncing fel to ground, but him annoyed naught.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "With that he would have fled into the wood;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But Timias him lightly overhent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Right as he entring was into the flood,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And strooke at him with force so violent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That headlesse him into the foord he sent:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The carcas with the streame was carried downe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But th’head fell backeward on the Continent;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So mischief fel upon the meaners crowne.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They three be dead with shame, the Squire lives with renowne.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He lives, but takes small joy of his renowne;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For of that cruell wound he bled so sore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That from his steed he fell in deadly swowne:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet still the blood forth gusht in so great store,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That he lay wallowd all in his owne gore.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now God thee keepe, thou gentlest squire alive,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Els shall thy loving Lord thee see no more;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But both of comfort him thou shalt deprive,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke thy selfe of honor which thou didst atchive.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Providence hevenly passeth living thought,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And doth for wretched mens reliefe make way;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For loe! great grace or fortune thither brought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Comfort to him that comfortlesse now lay.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In those same woods ye well remember may", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "How that a noble hunteresse did wonne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shee, that base Braggadochio did affray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And make him fast out of the forest ronne;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Belphœbe was her name, as faire as Phœbus sunne.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "She on a day, as shee pursewd the chace", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of some wilde beast, which with her arrowes keene", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She wounded had, the same along did trace", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By tract of blood, which she had freshly seene", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To have besprinckled all the grassy greene:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By the great persue which she there perceav’d,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Well hoped shee the beast engor’d had beene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And made more haste the life to have bereav’d;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But ah! her expectation greatly was deceav’d.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Shortly she came whereas that wofull Squire,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With blood deformed, lay in deadly swownd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In whose faire eyes, like lamps of quenched fire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The Christall humor stood congealed rownd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His locks, like faded leaves fallen to grownd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Knotted with blood in bounches rudely ran;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And his sweete lips, on which before that stownd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The bud of youth to blossome faire began,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Spoild of their rosy red were woxen pale and wan.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Saw never living eie more heavy sight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That could have made a rocke of stone to rew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or rive in twaine: which when that Lady bright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Besides all hope, with melting eies did vew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All suddeinly abasht shee chaunged hew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with sterne horror backward gan to start;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But when shee better him beheld shee grew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Full of soft passion and unwonted smart:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The point of pitty perced through her tender hart.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Meekely shee bowed downe, to weete if life", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Yett in his frosen members did remaine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, feeling by his pulses beating rife", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That the weake sowle her seat did yett retaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She cast to comfort him with busie paine.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His double folded necke she reard upright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And rubd his temples and each trembling vaine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His mayled haberjeon she did undight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And from his head his heavy burganet did light.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Into the woods thenceforth in haste shee went,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To seeke for hearbes that mote him remedy;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For shee of herbes had great intendiment,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Taught of the Nymphe which from her infancy", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her nourced had in trew Nobility:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There, whether yt divine Tobacco were,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or Panachæa, or Polygony,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shee fownd, and brought it to her patient deare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who al this while lay bleding out his hart-blood neare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The soveraine weede betwixt two marbles plaine", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Shee pownded small, and did in peeces bruze;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And then atweene her lilly handes twaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into his wound the juice thereof did scruze;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And round about, as she could well it uze,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The flesh therewith shee suppled and did steepe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "T’abate all spasme, and soke the swelling bruze;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, after having searcht the intuse deepe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She with her scarf did bind the wound from cold to keepe.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "By this he had sweet life recur’d agayne,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And, groning inly deepe, at last his eies,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His watry eies drizling like deawy rayne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He up gan lifte toward the azure skies,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From whence descend all hopelesse remedies:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therewith he sigh’d; and, turning him aside,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The goodly Maide, ful of divinities", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And gifts of heavenly grace, he by him spide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her bow and gilden quiver lying him beside.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Mercy, deare Lord!” (said he) “what grace in this", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That thou hast shewed to me sinfull wight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To send thine Angell from her bowre of blis", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To comfort me in my distressed plight.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Angell, or Goddesse doe I call thee right?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What service may I doe unto thee meete,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That hast from darkenes me returnd to light,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with thy hevenly salves and med’cines sweete", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Hast drest my sinfull wounds? I kisse thy blessed feete.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thereat she blushing said; “Ah! gentle Squire,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Nor Goddesse I, nor Angell; but the Mayd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And daughter of a woody Nymphe, desire", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "No service but thy safety and ayd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which if thou gaine, I shal be well apayd.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Wee mortall wights, whose lives and fortunes bee", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To commun accidents stil open layd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Are bownd with commun bond of fraïltee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To succor wretched wights who we captived see.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "By this her Damzells, which the former chace", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Had undertaken after her, arryv’d,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As did Belphœbe, in the bloody place,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And thereby deemd the beast had bene depriv’d", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of life, whom late their ladies arrow ryv’d:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Forthy the bloody tract they followd fast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And every one to ronne the swiftest stryv’d;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But two of them the rest far overpast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And where their Lady was arrived at the last.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Where when they saw that goodly boy with blood", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Defowled, and their Lady dresse his wownd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They wondred much; and shortly understood", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "How him in deadly case theyr Lady fownd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And reskewed out of the heavy stownd.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Eftsoones his warlike courser, which was strayd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Farre in the woodes whiles that he lay in swownd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She made those Damzels search; which being stayd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They did him set theron, and forth with them convayd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Into that forest farre they thence him led,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Where was their dwelling, in a pleasant glade", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With mountaines rownd about environed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And mightie woodes which did the valley shade", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And like a stately Theatre it made,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Spreading it selfe into a spatious plaine:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in the midst a little river plaide", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Emongst the pumy stones, which seemd to plaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With gentle murmure that his cours they did restraine.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Beside the same a dainty place there lay,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Planted with mirtle trees and laurells greene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In which the birds song many a lovely lay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of Gods high praise, and of their loves sweet teene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As it an earthly Paradize had beene:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In whose enclosed shadow there was pight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A faire Pavilion, scarcely to bee seene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which was al within most richly dight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That greatest Princes liking it mote well delight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thither they brought that wounded Squyre, and layd", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In easie couch his feeble limbes to rest.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He rested him awhile; and then the Mayd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His readie wound with better salves new drest:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Daily she dressed him, and did the best", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His grievous hurt to guarish, that she might;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That shortly she his dolour hath redrest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And his foule sore reduced to faire plight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It she reduced, but himselfe destroyed quight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "O foolish physick, and unfruitfull paine,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That heales up one, and makes another wound!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She his hurt thigh to him recurd againe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But hurt his hart, the which before was sound,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through an unwary dart, which did rebownd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From her faire eyes and gratious countenaunce.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What bootes it him from death to be unbownd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To be captived in endlesse duraunce", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of sorrow and despeyre without aleggeaunce!", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Still as his wound did gather, and grow hole,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "So still his hart woxe sore, and health decayd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Madnesse to save a part, and lose the whole!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Still whenas he beheld the heavenly Mayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whiles dayly playsters to his wownd she layd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So still his Malady the more increast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The whiles her matchlesse beautie him dismayd.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ah God! what other could he do at least,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But love so fayre a Lady that his life releast?", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Long while he strove in his corageous brest", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With reason dew the passion to subdew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And love for to dislodge out of his nest:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Still when her excellencies he did vew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her soveraine bountie and celestiall hew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The same to love he strongly was constraynd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But when his meane estate he did revew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He from such hardy boldnesse was restraynd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And of his lucklesse lott and cruell love thus playnd:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Unthankfull wretch,” (said he) “is this the meed,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With which her soverain mercy thou doest quight?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thy life she saved by her gratious deed;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But thou doest weene with villeinous despight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To blott her honour, and her heavenly light.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Dye rather, dye, then so disloyally", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Deeme of her high desert, or seeme so light:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fayre death it is, to shonne more shame, to dy:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Dye rather, dy, then ever love disloyally.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“But if to love disloyalty it bee,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Shall I then hate her that from deathes dore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Me brought? ah, farre be such reproch fro mee!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What can I lesse doe then her love therefore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sith I her dew reward cannot restore?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Dye rather, dye, and dying doe her serve;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Dying her serve, and living her adore;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thy life she gave, thy life she doth deserve:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Dye rather, dye, then ever from her service swerve.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“But, foolish boy, what bootes thy service bace", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To her to whom the hevens doe serve and sew?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thou, a mean Squyre of meeke and lowly place;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She, hevenly borne and of celestiall hew.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "How then? of all love taketh equall vew;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And doth not highest God vouchsafe to take", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The love and service of the basest crew?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "If she will not, dye meekly for her sake:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Dye rather, dye, then ever so faire love forsake!”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thus warreid he long time against his will;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Till that through weaknesse he was forst at last", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To yield himselfe unto the mightie ill,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which, as a victour proud, gan ransack fast", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His inward partes, and all his entrayles wast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That neither blood in face nor life in hart", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It left, but both did quite drye up and blast;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As percing levin, which the inner part", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of every thing consumes, and calcineth by art.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which seeing fayre Belphœbe gan to feare,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Least that his wound were inly well not heald,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or that the wicked steele empoysned were:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Litle shee weend that love he close conceald.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet still he wasted, as the snow congeald", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When the bright sunne his beams theron doth beat:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet never he his hart to her reveald;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But rather chose to dye for sorow great,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then with dishonorable termes her to entreat.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "She, gracious Lady, yet no paines did spare", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To doe him ease, or doe him remedy.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Many Restoratives of vertues rare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And costly Cordialles she did apply,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To mitigate his stubborne malady:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But that sweet Cordiall, which can restore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A love-sick hart, she did to him envy;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To him, and to all th’unworthy world forlore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She did envy that soveraine salve in secret store.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "That daintie Rose, the daughter of her Morne,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "More deare then life she tendered, whose flowre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The girlond of her honour did adorne:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne suffred she the Middayes scorching powre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne the sharp Northerne wind thereon to showre;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But lapped up her silken leaves most chayre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When so the froward skye began to lowre;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, soone as calmed was the christall ayre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She did it fayre dispred and let to florish fayre.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Eternall God, in his almightie powre,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To make ensample of his heavenly grace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In Paradize whylome did plant this flowre;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whence he it fetcht out of her native place,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And did in stocke of earthly flesh enrace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That mortall men her glory should admyre.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In gentle Ladies breste and bounteous race", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of woman kind it fayrest Flowre doth spyre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And beareth fruit of honour and all chast desyre.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Fayre ympes of beautie, whose bright shining beames", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Adorne the world with like to heavenly light,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to your willes both royalties and Reames", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Subdew, through conquest of your wondrous might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With this fayre flowre your goodly girlonds dight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of chastity and vertue virginall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That shall embellish more your beautie bright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And crowne your heades with heavenly coronall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Such as the Angels weare before Gods tribunall!", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "To your faire selves a faire ensample frame", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of this faire virgin, this Belphebe fayre;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To whom, in perfect love and spotlesse fame", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of chastitie, none living may compayre:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne poysnous Envy justly can empayre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The prayse of her fresh flowring Maydenhead;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Forthy she standeth on the highest stayre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of th’honorable stage of womanhead,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That Ladies all may follow her ensample dead.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "In so great prayse of stedfast chastity", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Nathlesse she was so courteous and kynde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tempred with grace and goodly modesty,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That seemed those two vertues strove to fynd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The higher place in her Heroick mynd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So striving each did other more augment,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And both encreast the prayse of woman kynde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And both encreast her beautie excellent:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So all did make in her a perfect complement.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Well may I weene, faire Ladies, all this while", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ye wonder how this noble Damozell", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So great perfections did in her compile,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sith that in salvage forests she did dwell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So farre from court and royall Citadell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The great schoolmaistresse of all courtesy:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Seemeth that such wilde woodes should far expell", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All civile usage and gentility,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And gentle sprite deforme with rude rusticity.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But to this faire Belphœbe in her berth", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The hevens so favorable were and free,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Looking with myld aspect upon the earth", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In th’Horoscope of her nativitee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all the gifts of grace and chastitee", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On her they poured forth of plenteous horne:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Jove laught on Venus from his soverayne see,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Phœbus with faire beames did her adorne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all the Graces rockt her cradle being borne.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Her berth was of the wombe of Morning dew,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And her conception of the joyous Prime;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all her whole creation did her shew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Pure and unspotted from all loathly crime", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That is ingenerate in fleshly slime.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So was this virgin borne, so was she bred;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So was she trayned up from time to time", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In all chaste vertue and true bountihed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till to her dew perfection she were ripened.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Her mother was the faire Chrysogonee,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The daughter of Amphisa, who by race", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A Faerie was, yborne of high degree.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She bore Belphœbe; she bore in like cace", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fayre Amoretta in the second place:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "These two were twinnes, and twixt them two did share", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The heritage of all celestiall grace;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all the rest it seemd they robbed bare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of bounty, and of beautie, and all vertues rare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "It were a goodly storie to declare", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "By what straunge accident faire Chrysogone", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Conceiv’d these infants, and how them she bare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In this wilde forrest wandring all alone,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "After she had nine moneths fulfild and gone:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For not as other wemens commune brood", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They were enwombed in the sacred throne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of her chaste bodie; nor with commune food,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As other wemens babes, they sucked vitall blood:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But wondrously they were begot and bred", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Through influence of th’hevens fruitfull ray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As it in antique bookes is mentioned.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It was upon a Sommers shinie day,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When Titan faire his beames did display,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In a fresh fountaine, far from all mens vew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She bath’d her brest the boyling heat t’allay;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She bath’d with roses red and violets blew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all the sweetest flowers that in the forrest grew:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Till faint through yrkesome wearines, adowne", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Upon the grassy ground her selfe she layd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To sleepe, the whiles a gentle slombring swowne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon her fell, all naked bare displayd.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The sunbeames bright upon her body playd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Being through former bathing mollifide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And pierst into her wombe, where they embayd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With so sweet sence and secret powre unspide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That in her pregnant flesh they shortly fructifide.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Miraculous may seeme to him that reades", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "So straunge ensample of conception;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But reason teacheth that the fruitfull seades", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of all things living, through impression", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of the sunbeames in moyst complexion,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Doe life conceive and quickned are by kynd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So, after Nilus inundation,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Infinite shapes of creatures men doe fynd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Informed in the mud on which the Sunne hath shynd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Great father he of generation", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Is rightly cald, th’authour of life and light;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And his faire sister for creation", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ministreth matter fit, which, tempred right", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With heate and humour, breedes the living wight.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So sprong these twinnes in womb of Chrysogone;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet wist she nought thereof, but sore affright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Wondred to see her belly so upblone,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which still increast till she her terme had full outgone.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whereof conceiving shame and foule disgrace,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Albe her guiltlesse conscience her cleard,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She fled into the wildernesse a space,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till that unweeldy burden she had reard,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And shund dishonor which as death she feard:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where, wearie of long traveill, downe to rest", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her selfe she set, and comfortably cheard:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There a sad cloud of sleepe her overkest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And seized every sence with sorrow sore opprest.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "It fortuned, faire Venus having lost", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Her little sonne, the winged god of love,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who, for some light displeasure which him crost,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was from her fled as flit as ayery Dove,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And left her blisfull bowre of joy above:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "(So from her often he had fled away,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When she for ought him sharpely did reprove,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And wandred in the world 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accus’d", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His falshood, and with fowle infamous blot", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His cruell deedes and wicked wyles did spot:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ladies and Lordes she everywhere mote heare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Complayning, how with his empoysned shot", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their wofull harts he wounded had whyleare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And so had left them languishing twixt hope and feare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "She then the Cities sought from gate to gate,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And everie one did aske, did he him see?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And everie one her answerd, that too late", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He had him seene, and felt the crueltee", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of his sharpe dartes and whot artilleree:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And every one threw forth reproches rife", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of his mischievous deedes, and sayd that hee", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was the disturber of all civill life,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The enimy of peace, and authour of all strife.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then in the countrey she abroad him sought,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And in the rurall cottages inquir’d;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where also many plaintes to her were brought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "How he their heedelesse harts with love had fir’d,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And his false venim through their veines inspir’d:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke the gentle Shepheard swaynes, which sat", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Keeping their fleecy flockes as they were hyr’d,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She sweetly heard complaine, both how and what", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her sonne had to them doen; yet she did smile thereat.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But when in none of all these she him got,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "She gan avize where els he mote him hyde:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At last she her bethought that she had not", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet sought the salvage woods and forests wyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In which full many lovely Nymphes abyde;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Mongst whom might be that he did closely lye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or that the love of some of them him tyde:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Forthy she thither cast her course t’apply,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To search the secret haunts of Dianes company.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Shortly unto the wastefull woods she came,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whereas she found the Goddesse with her crew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "After late chace of their embrewed game,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sitting beside a fountaine in a rew;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some of them washing with the liquid dew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From off their dainty limbs the dusty sweat", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And soyle, which did deforme their lively hew;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Others lay shaded from the scorching heat,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The rest upon her person gave attendance great.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "She, having hong upon a bough on high", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Her bow and painted quiver, had unlaste", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her silver buskins from her nimble thigh,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And her lanck loynes ungirt, and brests unbraste,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "After her heat the breathing cold to taste:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her golden lockes, that late in tresses bright", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Embreaded were for hindring of her haste,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now loose about her shoulders hong undight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And were with sweet Ambrosia all besprinckled light.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Soone as she Venus saw behinde her backe,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "She was asham’d to be so loose surpriz’d;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And woxe halfe wroth against her damzels slacke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That had not her thereof before aviz’d,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But suffred her so carelesly disguiz’d", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Be overtaken. Soone her garments loose", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upgath’ring, in her bosome she compriz’d", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Well as she might, and to the Goddesse rose;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whiles all her Nymphes did like a girlond her enclose.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Goodly she gan faire Cytherea greet,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And shortly asked her, what cause her brought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into that wildernesse for her unmeet,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From her sweete bowres, and beds with pleasures fraught?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That suddein chaunge she straunge adventure thought.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To whom halfe weeping she thus answered;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That she her dearest sonne Cupido sought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who in his frowardnes from her was fled,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That she repented sore to have him angered.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thereat Diana gan to smile, in scorne", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of her vaine playnt, and to her scoffing sayd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Great pitty sure that ye be so forlorne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of your gay sonne, that gives ye so good ayd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To your disports: ill mote ye bene apayd.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But she was more engrieved, and replide;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Faire sister, ill beseemes it to upbrayd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A dolefull heart with so disdainfull pride:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The like that mine may be your paine another tide.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“As you in woods and wanton wildernesse", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Your glory sett to chace the salvage beasts,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So my delight is all in joyfulnesse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In beds, in bowres, in banckets, and in feasts:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And ill becomes you, with your lofty creasts,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To scorne the joy that Jove is glad to seeke:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "We both are bownd to follow heavens beheasts,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And tend our charges with obeisaunce meeke.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Spare, gentle sister, with reproch my paine to eeke;", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“And tell me, if that ye my sonne have heard", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To lurke emongst your Nimphes in secret wize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or keepe their cabins: much I am affeard", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Least he like one of them him selfe disguize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And turne his arrowes to their exercize.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So may he long him selfe full easie hide;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For he is faire and fresh in face and guize", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As any Nimphe; (let not it be envide.”)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So saying, every Nimph full narrowly shee eide.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But Phœbe therewith sore was angered,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And sharply saide: “Goe, Dame; goe, seeke your boy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where you him lately lefte, in Mars his bed:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He comes not here; we scorne his foolish joy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne lend we leisure to his idle toy:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But if I catch him in this company,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By Stygian lake I vow, whose sad annoy", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The Gods doe dread, he dearly shall abye:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ile clip his wanton wings, that he no more shall flye.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whom whenas Venus saw so sore displeasd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Shee inly sory was, and gan relent", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What shee had said; so her she soone appeasd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With sugred words and gentle blandishment,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which as a fountaine from her sweete lips went.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And welled goodly forth, that in short space", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She was well pleasd, and forth her damzells sent", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through all the woods, to search from place to place,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "If any tract of him or tidings they mote trace.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "To search the God of love her Nimphes she sent", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Throughout the wandring forest every where:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And after them her selfe eke with her went", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To seeke the fugitive both farre and nere.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So long they sought, till they arrived were", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In that same shady covert whereas lay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Faire Crysogone in slombry traunce whilere;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who in her sleepe (a wondrous thing to say)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unwares had borne two babes, as faire as springing day.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Unwares she them conceivd, unwares she bore:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "She bore withouten paine, as she conceiv’d", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Withouten pleasure; ne her need implore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Lucinaes aide: which when they both perceiv’d,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They were through wonder nigh of sence berev’d,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And gazing each on other nought bespake.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At last they both agreed her seeming griev’d", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Out of her heavie swowne not to awake", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But from her loving side the tender babes to take.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Up they them tooke; each one a babe uptooke,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And with them carried to be fostered.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Dame Phœbe to a Nymphe her babe betooke", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To be upbrought in perfect Maydenhed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, of her selfe, her name Belphœbe red:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Venus hers thence far away convayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To be upbrought in goodly womanhed;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, in her litle loves stead, which was strayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her Amoretta cald, to comfort her dismayd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Shee brought her to her joyous Paradize,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Wher most she wonnes when she on earth does dwell;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So faire a place as Nature can devize:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whether in Paphos, or Cytheron hill,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or it in Gnidus bee, I wote not well;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But well I wote by triall, that this same", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All other pleasaunt places doth excell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And called is by her lost lovers name,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The Gardin of Adonis, far renowmd by fame.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "In that same Gardin all the goodly flowres,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Wherewith dame Nature doth her beautify,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And decks the girlonds of her Paramoures,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Are fetcht: there is the first seminary", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of all things that are borne to live and dye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "According to their kynds. Long worke it were", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Here to account the endlesse progeny", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of all the weeds that bud and blossome there;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But so much as doth need must needs be counted here.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "It sited was in fruitfull soyle of old,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And girt in with two walls on either side;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The one of yron, the other of bright gold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That none might thorough breake, nor overstride:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And double gates it had which opened wide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By which both in and out men moten pas:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Th’one faire and fresh, the other old and dride.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Old Genius the porter of them was,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Old Genius, the which a double nature has.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He letteth in, he letteth out to wend", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "All that to come into the world desire:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A thousand thousand naked babes attend", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "About him day and night, which doe require", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That he with fleshly weeds would them attire:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Such as him list, such as eternall fate", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ordained hath, he clothes with sinfull mire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And sendeth forth to live in mortall state,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till they agayn returne backe by the hinder gate.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "After that they againe retourned beene,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "They in that Gardin planted bee agayne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And grow afresh, as they had never seene", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fleshly corruption, nor mortall payne.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some thousand yeares so doen they there remayne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And then of him are clad with other hew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or sent into the chaungefull world agayne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till thither they retourne where first they grew:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So, like a wheele, arownd they ronne from old to new.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Ne needs there Gardiner to sett or sow,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To plant or prune; for of their owne accord", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All things, as they created were, doe grow,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And yet remember well the mighty word", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which first was spoken by th’Almighty Lord,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That bad them to increase and multiply:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne doe they need with water of the ford,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or of the clouds, to moysten their roots dry;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For in themselves eternall moisture they imply.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Infinite shapes of creatures there are bred,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And uncouth formes, which none yet ever knew:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And every sort is in a sondry bed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sett by it selfe, and ranckt in comely rew;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some fitt for reasonable sowles t’indew;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some made for beasts, some made for birds to weare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all the fruitfull spawne of fishes hew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In endlesse rancks along enraunged were,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That seemd the Ocean could not containe them there.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Daily they grow, and daily forth are sent", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Into the world, it to replenish more;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet is the stocke not lessened nor spent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But still remaines in everlasting store,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As it at first created was of yore:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For in the wide wombe of the world there lyes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In hatefull darknes and in deepe horrore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "An huge eternall Chaos, which supplyes", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The substaunces of natures fruitfull progenyes.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "All things from thence doe their first being fetch,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And borrow matter whereof they are made;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which, whenas forme and feature it does ketch,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Becomes a body, and doth then invade", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The state of life out of the griesly shade.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That substaunce is eterne, and bideth so;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne when the life decayes and forme does fade,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Doth it consume and into nothing goe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But chaunged is, and often altred to and froe.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The substaunce is not chaungd nor altered,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But th’only forme and outward fashion;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For every substaunce is conditioned", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To chaunge her hew, and sondry formes to don,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Meet for her temper and complexion:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For formes are variable, and decay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By course of kinde and by occasion;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And that faire flowre of beautie fades away,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As doth the lilly fresh before the sunny ray.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Great enimy to it, and to all the rest", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That in the Gardin of Adonis springs,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Is wicked Tyme; who with his scyth addrest", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Does mow the flowring herbes and goodly things,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all their glory to the ground downe flings,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where they do wither, and are fowly mard:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He flyes about, and with his flaggy winges", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Beates downe both leaves and buds without regard,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ever pitty may relent his malice hard.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Yet pitty often did the gods relent,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To see so faire thinges mard and spoiled quight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And their great mother Venus did lament", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The losse of her deare brood, her deare delight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her hart was pierst with pitty at the sight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When walking through the Gardin them she saw,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet no’te she find redresse for such despight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For all that lives is subject to that law;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All things decay in time, and to their end doe draw.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But were it not that Time their troubler is,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "All that in this delightfull Gardin growes", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Should happy bee, and have immortall blis:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For here all plenty and all pleasure flowes;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And sweete love gentle fitts emongst them throwes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Without fell rancor or fond gealosy.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Franckly each Paramor his leman knowes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Each bird his mate; ne any does envy", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their goodly meriment and gay felicity.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "There is continuall Spring, and harvest there", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Continuall, both meeting at one tyme:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For both the boughes doe laughing blossoms beare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with fresh colours decke the wanton Pryme,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke attonce the heavy trees they clyme,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which seeme to labour under their fruites lode:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The whiles the joyous birdes make their pastyme", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Emongst the shady leaves, their sweet abode,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And their trew loves without suspition tell abrode.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Right in the middest of that Paradise", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "There stood a stately Mount, on whose round top", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A gloomy grove of mirtle trees did rise,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose shady boughes sharp steele did never lop,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nor wicked beastes their tender buds did crop,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But like a girlond compassed the hight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And from their fruitfull sydes sweet gum did drop,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all the ground, with pretious deaw bedight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Threw forth most dainty odours and most sweet delight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And in the thickest covert of that shade", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "There was a pleasaunt Arber, not by art", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But of the trees owne inclination made,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which knitting their rancke braunches, part to part,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With wanton yvie twine entrayld athwart,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Eglantine and Caprifole emong,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fashiond above within their inmost part,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That nether Phœbus beams could through them throng,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nor Æolus sharp blast could worke them any wrong.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And all about grew every sort of flowre,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To which sad lovers were transformde of yore;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fresh Hyacinthus, Phœbus paramoure", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And dearest love;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Foolish Narcisse, that likes the watry shore;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sad Amaranthus, made a flowre but late,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sad Amaranthus, in whose purple gore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Me seemes I see Amintas wretched fate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To whom sweet Poets verse hath given endlesse date.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "There wont fayre Venus often to enjoy", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Her deare Adonis joyous company,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And reape sweet pleasure of the wanton boy:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There yet, some say, in secret he does ly,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Lapped in flowres and pretious spycery,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By her hid from the world, and from the skill", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of Stygian Gods, which doe her love envy;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But she her selfe, when ever that she will,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Possesseth him, and of his sweetnesse takes her fill.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And sooth, it seemes, they say; for he may not", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For ever dye, and ever buried bee", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In balefull night where all thinges are forgot:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All be he subject to mortalitie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet is eterne in mutabilitie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And by succession made perpetuall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Transformed oft, and chaunged diverslie;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For him the Father of all formes they call:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therfore needs mote he live, that living gives to all.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "There now he liveth in eternall blis,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Joying his goddesse, and of her enjoyd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne feareth he henceforth that foe of his,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which with his cruell tuske him deadly cloyd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For that wilde Bore, the which him once annoyd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She firmely hath emprisoned for ay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That her sweet love his malice mote avoyd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In a strong rocky Cave, which is, they say,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Hewen underneath that Mount, that none him losen may.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "There now he lives in everlasting joy,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With many of the Gods in company", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which thither haunt, and with the winged boy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sporting him selfe in safe felicity:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who when he hath with spoiles and cruelty", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ransackt the world, and in the wofull harts", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of many wretches set his triumphes hye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thither resortes, and, laying his sad dartes", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Asyde, with faire Adonis playes his wanton partes.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And his trew love faire Psyche with him playes,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Fayre Psyche to him lately reconcyld,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "After long troubles and unmeet upbrayes", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With which his mother Venus her revyld,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke himselfe her cruelly exyld:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But now in stedfast love and happy state", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She with him lives, and hath him borne a chyld,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Pleasure, that doth both gods and men aggrate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Pleasure, the daughter of Cupid and Psyche late.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Hither great Venus brought this infant fayre,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The yonger daughter of Chrysogonee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And unto Psyche with great trust and care", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Committed her, yfostered to bee", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And trained up in trew feminitee:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who no lesse carefully her tendered", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then her owne daughter Pleasure, to whom shee", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Made her companion, and her lessoned", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In all the lore of love, and goodly womanhead.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "In which when she to perfect ripenes grew,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of grace and beautie noble Paragone,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She brought her forth into the worldes vew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To be th’ensample of true love alone,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Lodestarre of all chaste affection", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To all fayre Ladies that doe live on grownd.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To Faery court she came; where many one", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Admyrd her goodly haveour, and fownd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His feeble hart wide launched with loves cruel wownd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But she to none of them her love did cast,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Save to the noble knight Sir Scudamore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To whom her loving hart she linked fast", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In faithfull love, t’abide for evermore;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And for his dearest sake endured sore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sore trouble of an hainous enimy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who her would forced have to have forlore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her former love and stedfast loialty,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As ye may elswhere reade that ruefull history.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But well I weene, ye first desire to learne", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "What end unto that fearefull Damozell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which fledd so fast from that same foster stearne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom with his brethren Timias slew, befell:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That was, to weet, the goodly Florimell;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who wandring for to seeke her lover deare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her lover deare, her dearest Marinell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into misfortune fell, as ye did heare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And from Prince Arthure fled with wings of idle feare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Like as an Hynd forth singled from the heard,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That hath escaped from a ravenous beast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet flyes away of her owne feete afeard,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And every leafe, that shaketh with the least", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Murmure of winde, her terror hath encreast;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So fledd fayre Florimell from her vaine feare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Long after she from perill was releast:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Each shade she saw, and each noyse she did heare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did seeme to be the same which she escapt whileare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "All that same evening she in flying spent,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And all that night her course continewed;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne did she let dull sleepe once to relent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nor wearinesse to slack her hast, but fled", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ever alike, as if her former dred", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Were hard behind, her ready to arrest;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And her white Palfrey, having conquered", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The maistring raines out of her weary wrest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Perforce her carried where ever he thought best.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So long as breath and hable puissaunce", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Did native corage unto him supply,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His pace he freshly forward did advaunce,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And carried her beyond all jeopardy;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But nought that wanteth rest can long aby:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He, having through incessant traveill spent", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His force, at last perforce adowne did ly,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne foot could further move. The Lady gent", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thereat was suddein strook with great astonishment;", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And, forst t’alight, on foot mote algates fare", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A traveiler unwonted to such way:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Need teacheth her this lesson hard and rare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That fortune all in equall launce doth sway,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And mortall miseries doth make her play.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So long she traveild, till at length she came", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To an hilles side, which did to her bewray", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A litle valley subject to the same,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All coverd with thick woodes that quite it overcame.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Through the tops of the high trees she did descry", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A litle smoke, whose vapour thin and light", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Reeking aloft uprolled to the sky:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which chearefull signe did send unto her sight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That in the same did wonne some living wight.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Eftsoones her steps she thereunto applyd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And came at last in weary wretched plight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto the place, to which her hope did guyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To finde some refuge there, and rest her wearie syde.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "There in a gloomy hollow glen she found", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A little cottage, built of stickes and reedes", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In homely wize, and wald with sods around;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In which a witch did dwell, in loathly weedes", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And wilfull want, all carelesse of her needes;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So choosing solitarie to abide", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Far from all neighbours, that her divelish deedes", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And hellish arts from people she might hide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And hurt far off unknowne whom ever she envide.", "indent": 1 } ], [ { "text": "The Damzell there arriving entred in;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Where sitting on the flore the Hag she found", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Busie (as seem’d) about some wicked gin:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who, soone as she beheld that suddein stound,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Lightly upstarted from the dustie ground,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with fell looke and hollow deadly gaze", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Stared on her awhile, as one astound,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne had one word to speake for great amaze,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But shewd by outward signes that dread her sence did daze.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "At last, turning her feare to foolish wrath,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "She askt, what devill had her thither brought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And who she was, and what unwonted path", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had guided her, unwelcomed, unsought?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To which the Damzell, full of doubtfull thought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her mildly answer’d: “Beldame, be not wroth", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With silly Virgin, by adventure brought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto your dwelling, ignorant and loth,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That crave but rowme to rest while tempest overblo’th.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "With that adowne out of her christall eyne", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Few trickling teares she softly forth let fall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That like to orient perles did purely shyne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon her snowy cheeke; and therewithall", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She sighed soft, that none so bestiall", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nor salvage hart, but ruth of her sad plight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Would make to melt, or pitteously appall;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And that vile Hag, all were her whole delight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In mischiefe, was much moved at so pitteous sight;", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And gan recomfort her in her rude wyse,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With womanish compassion of her plaint,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Wiping the teares from her suffused eyes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And bidding her sit downe, to rest her faint", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And wearie limbes awhile. She, nothing quaint", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nor ’sdeignfull of so homely fashion,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sith brought she was now to so hard constraint,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sate downe upon the dusty ground anon;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As glad of that small rest as Bird of tempest gon.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Tho gan she gather up her garments rent,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And her loose lockes to dight in order dew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With golden wreath and gorgeous ornament;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom such whenas the wicked Hag did vew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She was astonisht at her heavenly hew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And doubted her to deeme an earthly wight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But or some Goddesse, or of Dianes crew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And thought her to adore with humble spright", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "T’adore thing so divine as beauty were but right.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "This wicked woman 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"indent": 1 }, { "text": "In secret wize herselfe thence to withdraw,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For feare of mischiefe, which she did forecast", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Might by the witch or by her sonne compast.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her wearie Palfrey, closely as she might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now well recovered after long repast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In his proud furnitures she freshly dight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His late miswandred wayes now to remeasure right.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And earely, ere the dawning day appear’d,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "She forth issewed, and on her journey went:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She went in perill, of each noyse affeard,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And of each shade that did it selfe present;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For still she feared to be overhent", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of that vile hag, or her uncivile sonne;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who when, too late awaking, well they kent", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That their fayre guest was gone, they both begonne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To make exceeding mone, as they had been undonne.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But that lewd lover did the most lament", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For her depart, that ever man did heare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He knockt his brest with desperate intent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And scratcht his face, and with his teeth did teare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His rugged flesh, and rent his ragged heare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That his sad mother, seeing his sore plight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was greatly woe begon, and gan to feare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Least his fraile senses were emperisht quight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And love to frenzy turnd, sith love is franticke hight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "All wayes shee sought him to restore to plight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With herbs, with charms, with counsel, and with teares;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But tears, nor charms, nor herbs, nor counsell, might", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Asswage the fury which his entrails teares:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So strong is passion that no reason heares.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tho when all other helpes she saw to faile,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She turnd her selfe backe to her wicked leares;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And by her divelish arts thought to prevaile", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To bringe her backe againe, or worke her finall bale.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Eftesoones out of her hidden cave she cald", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "An hideous beast of horrible aspect,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That could the stoutest corage have appald;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Monstrous, mishapt, and all his backe was spect", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With thousand spots of colours queint elect,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thereto so swifte that it all beasts did pas:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like never yet did living 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"text": "That ugly shape so sore her terrifide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That it she shund no lesse then dread to die;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And her flitt palfrey did so well apply", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His nimble feet to her conceived feare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That whitest his breath did strength to him supply,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From peril free he away her did beare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But when his force gan faile his pace gan wex areare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which whenas she perceiv’d, she was dismayd", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "At that same last extremity ful sore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And of her safety greatly grew afrayd.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And now she gan approch to the sea shore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As it befell, that she could flie no more,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But yield herselfe to spoile of greedinesse:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Lightly she leaped, as a wight forlore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From her dull horse, in desperate distresse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to her feet betooke her doubtfull sickernesse.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Not halfe so fast the wicked Myrrha fled", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "From dread of her revenging fathers hond;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nor halfe so fast to save her maydenhed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fled fearfull Daphne on th’Ægæan strond,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As Florimell fled from that Monster yond,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To reach the sea ere she of him were raught:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For in the sea to drowne herselfe she fond,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Rather then of the tyrant to be caught:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thereto fear gave her wings, and need her corage taught.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "It fortuned (high God did so ordaine)", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As shee arrived on the roring shore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In minde to leape into the mighty maine,", "indent": 1 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"And slew him cruelly ere any reskew came.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And, after having him embowelled", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To fill his hellish gorge, it chaunst a knight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To passe that way, as forth he traveiled:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yt was a goodly Swaine, and of great might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As ever man that bloody field did fight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But in vain sheows, that wont yong knights bewitch,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And courtly services, tooke no delight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But rather joyd to bee then seemen sich,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For both to be and seeme to him was labor lich.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "It was to weete the good Sir Satyrane,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That raungd abrode to seeke adventures wilde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As was his wont, in forest and in plaine:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He was all armd in rugged steele unfilde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As in the smoky forge it was compilde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in his Scutchin bore a Satyres hedd.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He comming present, where the Monster vilde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon that milkewhite Palfreyes carcas fedd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto his reskew ran, and greedily him spedd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "There well perceivd he that it was the horse", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whereon faire Florimell was wont to ride,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That of that feend was rent without remorse:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Much feared he least ought did ill betide", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To that faire Maide, the flowre of wemens pride;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For her he dearely loved, and in all", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His famous conquests highly magnifide:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Besides, her golden girdle, which did fall", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From her in flight, he fownd, that did him sore apall.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Full of sad feare and doubtfull agony", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Fiercely he flew upon that wicked feend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with huge strokes and cruell battery", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him forst to leave his pray, for to attend", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him selfe from deadly daunger to defend:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Full many wounds in his corrupted flesh", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He did engrave, and muchell blood did spend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet might not doe him die: but aie more fresh", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And fierce he still appeard, the more he did him thresh.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He wist not how him to despoile of life,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ne how to win the wished victory,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sith him he saw still stronger grow through strife,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And him selfe weaker through infirmity.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Greatly he grew enrag’d, and furiously", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Hurling his sword away he lightly lept", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon the beast, that with great cruelty", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Rored and raged to be underkept;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet he perforce him held, and strokes upon him hept.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "As he that strives to stop a suddein flood,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And in strong bancks his violence enclose,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Forceth it swell above his wonted mood,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And largely overflow the fruitfull plaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all the countrey seemes to be a Maine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And the rich furrowes flote, all quite fordonne:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The wofull husbandman doth lowd complaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To see his whole yeares labor lost so soone,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For which to God he made so many an idle boone:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So him he held, and did through might amate.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "So long he held him, and him bett so long,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That at the last his fiercenes gan abate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And meekely stoup unto the victor strong:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who, to avenge the implacable wrong", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which he supposed donne to Florimell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sought by all meanes his dolor to prolong,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sith dint of steele his carcas could not quell;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His maker with her charmes had framed him so well.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The golden ribband, which that virgin wore", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "About her sclender waste, he tooke in hand,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with it bownd the beast, that lowd did rore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For great despight of that unwonted band,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet dared not his victor to withstand,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But trembled like a lambe fled from the pray;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all the way him followd on the strand,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As he had long bene learned to obay;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet never learned he such service till that day.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thus as he led the Beast along the way,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He spide far off a mighty Giauntesse", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fast flying, on a Courser dapled gray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From a bold knight that with great hardinesse", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her hard pursewd, and sought for to suppresse.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She bore before her lap a dolefull Squire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Lying athwart her horse in great distresse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fast bounden hand and foote with cords of wire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom she did meane to make the thrall of her desire.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which whenas Satyrane beheld, in haste", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He lefte his captive Beast at liberty,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And crost the nearest way, by which he cast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her to encounter ere she passed by;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But she the way shund nathemore forthy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But forward gallopt fast; which when he spyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His mighty speare he couched warily,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And at her ran: she, having him descryde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her selfe to fight addrest, and threw her lode aside.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Like as a Goshauke, that in foote doth beare", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A trembling Culver, having spide on hight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "An Eagle that with plumy wings doth sheare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The subtile ayre stouping with all his might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The quarry throwes to ground with fell despight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to the batteill doth her selfe prepare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So ran the Geauntesse unto the fight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her fyrie eyes with furious sparkes did stare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with blasphemous bannes high God in peeces tare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "She caught in hand an huge great yron mace,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Wherewith she many had of life depriv’d;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, ere the stroke could seize his aymed place,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His speare amids her sun-brode shield arriv’d:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet nathemore the steele asonder riv’d,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All were the beame in bignes like a mast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne her out of the stedfast sadle driv’d;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, glauncing on the tempred metall, brast", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In thousand shivers, and so forth beside her past.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Her Steed did stagger with that puissaunt strooke;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But she no more was moved with that might", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then it had lighted on an aged Oke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or on the marble Pillour that is pight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon the top of Mount Olympus hight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For the brave youthly Champions to assay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With burning charet wheeles it nigh to smite;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But who that smites it mars his joyous play,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And is the spectacle of ruinous decay.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Yet, therewith sore enrag’d, with sterne regard", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Her dreadfull weapon she to him addrest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which on his helmet martelled so hard", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That made him low incline his lofty crest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And bowd his battred visour to his brest:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Wherewith he was so stund that he n’ote ryde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But reeled to and fro from east to west.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which when his cruell enimy espyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She lightly unto him adjoyned syde to syde;", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And, on his collar laying puissaunt hand,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Out of his wavering seat him pluckt perforse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Perforse him pluckt, unable to withstand", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or helpe himselfe; and laying thwart her horse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In loathly wise like to a carrion corse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She bore him fast away. Which when the knight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That her pursewed saw, with great remorse", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He nere was touched in his noble spright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And gan encrease his speed as she encreast her flight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whom when as nigh approching she espyde,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "She threw away her burden angrily;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For she list not the batteill to abide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But made her selfe more light away to fly:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet her the hardy knight pursewd so nye", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That almost in the backe he oft her strake;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But still, when him at hand she did espy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She turnd, and semblaunce of faire fight did make,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, when he stayd, to flight againe she did her take.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "By this the good Sir Satyrane gan wake", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Out of his dreame that did him long entraunce,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, seeing none in place, he gan to make", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Exceeding mone, and curst that cruell chaunce", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which reft from him so faire a chevisaunce.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At length he spyde whereas that wofull Squyre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom he had reskewed from captivaunce", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of his strong foe, lay tombled in the myre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unable to arise, or foote or hand to styre.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "To whom approching, well he mote perceive", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In that fowle plight a comely personage", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And lovely face, made fit for to deceive", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fraile Ladies hart with loves consuming rage,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now in the blossome of his freshest age.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He reard him up and loosd his yron bands,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And after gan inquire his parentage,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And how he fell into the Gyaunts hands,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And who that was which chaced her along the lands.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then trembling yet through feare the Squire bespake:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“That Geauntesse Argantè is behight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A daughter of the Titans which did make", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Warre against heven, and heaped hils on hight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To scale the skyes and put Jove from his right:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her syre Typhoeus was; who, mad through merth,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And dronke with blood of men slaine by his might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through incest her of his owne mother Earth", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whylome begot, being but halfe twin of that berth:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“For at that berth another Babe she bore;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To weet, the mightie Ollyphant, that wrought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Great wreake to many errant knights of yore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And many hath to foule confusion brought.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "These twinnes, men say, (a thing far passing thought)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "While in their mothers wombe enclosd they were,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ere they into the lightsom world were brought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In fleshly lust were mingled both yfere,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in that monstrous wise did to the world appere.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“So liv’d they ever after in like sin,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Gainst natures law and good behaveoure;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But greatest shame was to that maiden twin,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who, not content so fowly to devoure", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her native flesh and staine her brothers bowre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did wallow in all other fleshly myre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And suffred beastes her body to deflowre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So whot she burned in that lustfull fyre;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet all that might not slake her sensuall desyre:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“But over all the countrie she did raunge", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To seeke young men to quench her flaming thrust,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And feed her fancy with delightfull chaunge:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom so she fittest findes to serve her lust,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through her maine strength, in which she most doth trust,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She with her bringes into a secret Ile,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where in eternall bondage dye he must,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or be the vassall of her pleasures vile,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in all shamefull sort him selfe with her defile.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Me, seely wretch, she so at vauntage caught,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "After she long in waite for me did lye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And meant unto her prison to have brought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her lothsom pleasure there to satisfye;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That thousand deathes me lever were to dye", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then breake the vow that to faire Columbell", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I plighted have, and yet keepe stedfastly.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As for my name, it mistreth not to tell:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Call me the Squyre of Dames; that me beseemeth well.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“But that bold knight, whom ye pursuing saw", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That Geauntesse, is not such as she seemd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But a faire virgin that in martiall law", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And deedes of armes above all Dames is deem’d,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And above many knightes is eke esteemd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For her great worth: She Palladine is hight.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She you from death, you me from dread, redeemd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne any may that Monster match in fight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But she, or such as she, that is so chaste a wight.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Her well beseemes that Quest,” (quoth Satyrane)", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“But read, thou Squyre of Dames, what vow is this,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which thou upon thy selfe hast lately ta’ne?”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“That shall I you recount,” (quoth he) “ywis,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So be ye pleasd to pardon all amis.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That gentle Lady whom I love and serve,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "After long suit and wearie servicis,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did aske me, how I could her love deserve,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And how she might be sure that I would never swerve?", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“I, glad by any meanes her grace to gaine,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Badd her commaund my life to save or spill.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Eftsoones she badd me, with incessaunt paine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To wander through the world abroad at will,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And every where, where with my power or skill", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I might doe service unto gentle Dames,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That I the same should faithfully fulfill;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And at the twelve monethes end should bring their names", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And pledges, as the spoiles of my victorious games.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“So well I to faire Ladies service did,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And found such favour in their loving hartes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That ere the yeare his course had compassid,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thre hundred pledges for my good desartes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And thrice three hundred thanks for my good partes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I with me brought, and did to her present:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which when she saw, more bent to eke my smartes", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then to reward my trusty true intent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She gan for me devise a grievous punishment;", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“To weet, that I my traveill should resume,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And with like labour walke the world arownd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ever to her presence should presume,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till I so many other Dames had fownd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which, for all the suit I could propownd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Would me refuse their pledges to afford,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But did abide for ever chaste and sownd.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Ah! gentle Squyre,” (quoth he) “tell at one word,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "How many fownd’st thou such to put in thy record?”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Indeed, Sir knight,” (said he) “one word may tell", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "All that I ever fownd so wisely stayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For onely three they were disposd so well;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And yet three yeares I now abrode have strayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To fynd them out.” “Mote I,” (then laughing sayd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The knight) “inquire of thee what were those three,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which thy proffred curtesie denayd?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or ill they seemed sure avizd to bee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or brutishly brought up, that nev’r did fashions see.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“The first which then refused me,” (said hee)", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“Certes was but a common Courtisane;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet flat refusd to have adoe with mee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Because I could not give her many a Jane.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "(Thereat full hartely laughed Satyrane.)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“The second was an holy Nunne to chose,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which would not let me be her Chappellane,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Because she knew, she said, I would disclose", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her counsell, if she should her trust in me repose.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“The third a Damzell was of low degree,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whom I in countrey cottage fownd by chaunce:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Full litle weened I that chastitee", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had lodging in so meane a maintenaunce;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet was she fayre, and in her countenaunce", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Dwelt simple truth in seemely fashion.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Long thus I woo’d her with due observaunce,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In hope unto my pleasure to have won;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But was as far at last, as when I first begon.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Safe her, I never any woman found", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That chastity did for it selfe embrace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But were for other causes firme and sound;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Either for want of handsome time and place,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or else for feare of shame and fowle disgrace.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thus am I hopelesse ever to attaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "My Ladies love in such a desperate case,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But all my dayes am like to waste in vaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Seeking to match the chaste with th’unchaste Ladies traine.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Perdy” (sayd Satyrane) “thou Squyre of Dames,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Great labour fondly hast thou hent in hand,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To get small thankes, and therewith many blames,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That may emongst Alcides labours stand.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thence backe returning to the former land,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where late he left the Beast he overcame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He found him not; for he had broke his band,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And was returnd againe unto his Dame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To tell what tydings of fayre Florimell became.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So oft as I this history record,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "My heart doth melt with meere compassion,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To thinke how causelesse, of her owne accord,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "This gentle Damzell, whom I write upon,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Should plonged be in such affliction", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Without all hope of comfort or reliefe;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That sure, I weene, the hardest hart of stone", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Would hardly finde to aggravate her griefe;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For misery craves rather mercy then repriefe.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But that accursed Hag, her hostesse late,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Had so enranckled her malitious hart,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That she desyrd th’abridgement of her fate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or long enlargement of her painefull smart.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now when the Beast, which by her wicked art", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Late foorth she sent, she backe retourning spyde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tyde with her golden girdle; it a part", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of her rich spoyles whom he had earst destroyd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She weend, and wondrous gladnes to her hart applyde.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And, with it ronning hast’ly to her sonne,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Thought with that sight him much to have reliv’d;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who, thereby deeming sure the thing as donne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His former griefe with furie fresh reviv’d", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Much more then earst, and would have algates riv’d", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The hart out of his brest: for sith her dedd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He surely dempt, himselfe he thought depriv’d", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Quite of all hope wherewith he long had fedd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His foolish malady, and long time had misledd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "With thought whereof exceeding mad he grew,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And in his rage his mother would have slaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had she not fled into a secret mew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where she was wont her Sprightes to entertaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The maisters of her art: there was she faine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To call them all in order to her ayde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And them conjure, upon eternall paine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To counsell her, so carefully dismayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "How she might heale her sonne whose senses were decayd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "By their advice, and her owne wicked wit,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "She there deviz’d a wondrous worke to frame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose like on earth was never framed yit;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That even Nature selfe envide the same,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And grudg’d to see the counterfet should shame", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The thing it selfe: In hand she boldly tooke", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To make another like the former Dame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Another Florimell, in shape and looke", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So lively and so like, that many it mistooke.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The substance, whereof she the body made,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Was purest snow in massy mould congeald,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which she had gathered in a shady glade", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of the Riphœan hils, to her reveald", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By errant Sprights, but from all men conceald:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The same she tempred with fine Mercury", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And virgin wex that never yet was seald,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And mingled them with perfect vermily;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That like a lively sanguine it seemd to the eye.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Instead of eyes two burning lampes she set", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In silver sockets, shyning like the skyes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And a quicke moving Spirit did arret", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To stirre and roll them like to womens eyes:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Instead of yellow lockes she did devyse", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With golden wyre to weave her curled head;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet golden wyre was not so yellow thryse", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As Florimells fayre heare: and, in the stead", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of life, she put a Spright to rule the carcas dead;", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "A wicked Spright, yfraught with fawning guyle", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And fayre resemblance above all the rest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which with the Prince of Darkenes fell somewhyle", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From heavens blis and everlasting rest:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him needed not instruct which way were best", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him selfe to fashion likest Florimell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne how to speake, ne how to use his gest;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For he in counterfesaunce did excell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all the wyles of wemens wits knew passing well.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Him shaped thus she deckt in garments gay,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which Florimell had left behind her late;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That who so then her saw would surely say", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It was her selfe whom it did imitate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or fayrer then her selfe, if ought algate", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Might fayrer be. And then she forth her brought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto her sonne that lay in feeble state;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who seeing her gan streight upstart, and thought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She was the Lady selfe whom he so long had sought.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Tho fast her clipping twixt his armes twayne,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Extremely joyed in so happy sight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And soone forgot his former sickely payne:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But she, the more to seeme such as she hight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Coyly rebutted his embracement light;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet still, with gentle countenaunce, retain’d", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Enough to hold a foole in vaine delight.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him long she so with shadowes entertain’d,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As her Creatresse had in charge to her ordain’d.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Till on a day, as he disposed was", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To walke the woodes with that his Idole faire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her to disport and idle time to pas", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In th’open freshnes of the gentle aire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A knight that way there chaunced to repaire;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet knight he was not, but a boastfull swaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That deedes of armes had ever in despaire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Proud Braggadocchio, that in vaunting vaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His glory did repose, and credit did maintaine.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He, seeing with that Chorle so faire a wight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Decked with many a costly ornament,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Much merveiled thereat, as well he might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And thought that match a fowle disparagement:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His bloody speare eftesoones he boldly bent", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Against the silly clowne, who dead through feare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fell streight to ground in great astonishment.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Villein,” (sayd he) “this Lady is my deare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Dy, if thou it gainesay: I will away her beare.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The fearefull Chorle durst not gainesay nor dooe,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But trembling stood, and yielded him the pray;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who, finding litle leasure her to wooe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On Tromparts steed her mounted without stay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And without reskew led her quite away.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Proud man himselfe then Braggadochio deem’d,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And next to none after that happy day,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Being possessed of that spoyle, which seem’d", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The fairest wight on ground, and most of men esteem’d.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But, when hee saw him selfe free from poursute,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He gan make gentle purpose to his Dame", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With termes of love and lewdnesse dissolute;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For he could well his glozing speaches frame", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To such vaine uses that him best became:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But she thereto would lend but light regard,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As seeming sory that she ever came", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into his powre, that used her so hard", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To reave her honor, which she more then life prefard.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thus as they two of kindnes treated long,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "There them by chaunce encountred on the way", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "An armed knight upon a courser strong,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose trampling feete upon the hollow lay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Seemed to thunder, and did nigh affray", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That Capons corage: yet he looked grim,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And faynd to cheare his lady in dismay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who seemd for feare to quake in every lim,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And her to save from outrage meekely prayed him.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Fiercely that straunger forward came: and, nigh", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Approching, with bold words and bitter threat", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Bad that same boaster, as he mote, on high,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To leave to him that lady for excheat,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or bide him batteill without further treat.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That challenge did too peremptory seeme,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And fild his senses with abashment great;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet seeing nigh him jeopardy extreme,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He it dissembled well, and light seemd to esteeme;", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Saying, “Thou foolish knight, that weenst with words", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To steale away that I with blowes have wonne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And brought through points of many perilous swords:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But if thee list to see thy Courser ronne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or prove thy selfe, this sad encounter shonne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And seeke els without hazard of thy hedd.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At those prowd words that other knight begonne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To wex exceeding wroth, and him aredd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To turne his steede about, or sure he should be dedd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Sith then,” (said Braggadochio) “needes thou wilt", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Thy daies abridge through proofe of puissaunce,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Turne we our steeds; that both in equall tilt", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "May meete againe, and each take happy chaunce.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "This said, they both a furlongs mountenaunce", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Retird their steeds, to ronne in even race;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Braggadochio, with his bloody launce,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Once having turnd, no more returnd his face,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But lefte his love to losse, and fled him selfe apace.", "indent": 1 } ], [ { "text": "The knight, him seeing flie, had no regard", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Him to poursew, but to the lady rode;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And having her from Trompart lightly reard,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon his Courser sett the lovely lode,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with her fled away without abode.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Well weened he, that fairest Florimell", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It was with whom in company he yode,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And so her selfe did alwaies to him tell;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So made him thinke him selfe in heven that was in hell.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But Florimell her selfe was far away,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Driven to great distresse by fortune straunge,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And taught the carefull Mariner to play,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sith late mischaunce had her compeld to chaunge", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The land for sea, at randon there to raunge:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yett there that cruell Queene avengeresse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Not satisfyde so far her to estraunge", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From courtly blis and wonted happinesse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did heape on her new waves of weary wretchednesse.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "For being fled into the fishers bote", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For refuge from the Monsters cruelty,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Long so she on the mighty maine did flote,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with the tide drove forward carelesly;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For th’ayre was milde and cleared was the skie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all his windes Dan Æolus did keepe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From stirring up their stormy enmity,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As pittying to see her waile and weepe:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But all the while the fisher did securely sleepe.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "At last when droncke with drowsinesse he woke,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And saw his drover drive along the streame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He was dismayd; and thrise his brest he stroke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For marveill of that accident extreame:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But when he saw that blazing beauties beame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which with rare light his bote did beautifye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He marveild more, and thought he yet did dreame", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Not well awakte; or that some extasye", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Assotted had his sence, or dazed was his eye.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But when her well avizing hee perceiv’d", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To be no vision nor fantasticke sight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Great comfort of her presence he conceiv’d,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And felt in his old corage new delight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To gin awake, and stir his frosen spright:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tho rudely askte her, how she thither came?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Ah!” (sayd she) “father, I note read aright", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What hard misfortune brought me to this same;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet am I glad that here I now in safety ame.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“But thou, good man, sith far in sea we bee,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And the great waters gin apace to swell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That now no more we can the mayn-land see,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Have care, I pray, to guide the cock-bote well,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Least worse on sea then us on land befell.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thereat th’old man did nought but fondly grin,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And saide his boat the way could wisely tell;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But his deceiptfull eyes did never lin", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To looke on her faire face and marke her snowy skin.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The sight whereof in his congealed flesh", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Infixt such secrete sting of greedy lust,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That the drie withered stocke it gan refresh,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And kindled heat that soone in flame forth brust:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The driest wood is soonest burnt to dust.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Rudely to her he lept, and his rough hond", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where ill became him rashly would have thrust;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But she with angry scorne did him withstond,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And shamefully reproved for his rudenes fond.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But he, that never good nor maners knew,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Her sharpe rebuke full litle did esteeme;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Hard is to teach an old horse amble trew:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The inward smoke, that did before but steeme,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Broke into open fire and rage extreme;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And now he strength gan adde unto his will,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Forcyng to doe that did him fowle misseeme.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Beastly he threwe her downe, ne car’d to spill", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her garments gay with scales of fish that all did fill.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The silly virgin strove him to withstand", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "All that she might, and him in vaine revild:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shee strugled strongly both with foote and hand", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To save her honor from that villaine vilde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And cride to heven, from humane help exild.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "O! ye brave knights, that boast this Ladies love,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where be ye now, when she is nigh defild", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of filthy wretch? well may she you reprove", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of falsehood or of slouth, when most it may behove.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But if that thou, Sir Satyran, didst weete,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Or thou, Sir Peridure, her sory state,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "How soone would yee assemble many a fleete,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To fetch from sea that ye at land lost late!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Towres, citties, kingdomes, ye would ruinate", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In your avengement and despiteous rage,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ought your burning fury mote abate;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But if Sir Calidore could it presage,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "No living creature could his cruelty asswage.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But sith that none of all her knights is nye,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "See how the heavens, of voluntary grace", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And soveraine favor towards chastity,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Doe succor send to her distressed cace;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So much high God doth innocence embrace.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It fortuned, whilest thus she stifly strove,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And the wide sea importuned long space", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With shrilling shriekes, Proteus abrode did rove,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Along the fomy waves driving his finny drove.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Proteus is Shepheard of the seas of yore,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And hath the charge of Neptunes mighty heard;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "An aged sire with head all frory hore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And sprinckled frost upon his deawy beard:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who when those pittifull outcries he heard", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through all the seas so ruefully resownd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His charett swifte in hast he thither steard,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which with a teeme of scaly Phocas bownd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was drawne upon the waves that fomed him arownd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And comming to that Fishers wandring bote,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That went at will withouten card or sayle,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He therein saw that yrkesome sight, which smote", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Deepe indignation and compassion frayle", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into his hart attonce: streight did he hayle", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The greedy villein from his hoped pray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of which he now did very litle fayle,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with his staffe, that drives his heard astray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him bett so sore, that life and sence did much dismay.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The whiles the pitteous Lady up did ryse,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ruffled and fowly raid with filthy soyle,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And blubbred face with teares of her faire eyes:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her heart nigh broken was with weary toyle,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To save her selfe from that outrageous spoyle;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But when she looked up, to weet what wight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had her from so infamous fact assoyld,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For shame, but more for feare of his grim sight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Downe in her lap she hid her face, and lowdly shright.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Her selfe not saved yet from daunger dredd", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "She thought, but chaung’d from one to other feare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like as a fearefull partridge, that is fledd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From the sharpe hauke which her attached neare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And fals to ground to seeke for succor theare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereas the hungry Spaniells she does spye", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With greedy jawes her ready for to teare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In such distresse and sad perplexity", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was Florimell, when Proteus she did see her by.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But he endevored with speaches milde", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Her to recomfort, and accourage bold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Bidding her feare no more her foeman vilde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nor doubt himselfe; and who he was her told:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet all that could not from affright her hold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne to recomfort her at all prevayld;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For her faint hart was with the frosen cold", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Benumbd so inly, that her wits nigh fayld,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all her sences with abashment quite were quayld.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Her up betwixt his rugged hands he reard,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And with his frory lips full softly kist,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whiles the cold ysickles from his rough beard", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Dropped adowne upon her yvory brest:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet he him selfe so busily addrest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That her out of astonishment he wrought;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And out of that same fishers filthy nest", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Removing her, into his charet brought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And there with many gentle termes her faire besought.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But that old leachour, which with bold assault", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That beautie durst presume to violate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He cast to punish for his hainous fault:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then tooke he him, yet trembling sith of late,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And tyde behind his charet, to aggrate", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The virgin whom he had abusde so sore;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So drag’d him through the waves in scornfull state,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And after cast him up upon the shore;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Florimell with him unto his bowre he bore.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "His bowre is in the bottom of the maine,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Under a mightie rocke, gainst which doe rave", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The roring billowes in their proud disdaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That with the angry working of the wave", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therein is eaten out an hollow cave,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That seemes rough Masons hand with engines keene", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had long while laboured it to engrave:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There was his wonne; ne living wight was seene", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Save one old Nymph, hight Panopè, to keepe it cleane.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thither he brought the sory Florimell,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And entertained her the best he might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Panopè her entertaind eke well,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As an immortall mote a mortall wight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To winne her liking unto his delight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With flattering wordes he sweetly wooed her,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And offered faire guiftes t’allure her sight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But she both offers and the offerer", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Despysde, and all the fawning of the flatterer.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Dayly he tempted her with this or that,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And never suffred her to be at rest;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But evermore she him refused flat,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all his fained kindnes did detest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So firmely she had sealed up her brest.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sometimes he boasted that a God he hight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But she a mortall creature loved best:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then he would make him selfe a mortall wight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But then she said she lov’d none, but a Faery knight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then like a Faerie knight him selfe he drest,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For every shape on him he could endew;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then like a king he was to her exprest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And offred kingdoms unto her in vew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To be his Leman and his Lady trew:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But when all this he nothing saw prevaile,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With harder meanes he cast her to subdew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with sharpe threates her often did assayle;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So thinking for to make her stubborne corage quayle.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "To dreadfull shapes he did him selfe transforme;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Now like a Gyaunt; now like to a feend;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then like a Centaure; then like to a storme", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Raging within the waves: thereby he weend", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her will to win unto his wished eend;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But when with feare, nor favour, nor with all", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He els could doe, he saw him selfe esteemd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Downe in a Dongeon deepe he let her fall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And threatned there to make her his eternall thrall.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Eternall thraldome was to her more liefe", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Then losse of chastitie, or chaunge of love:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Dye had she rather in tormenting griefe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then any should of falsenesse her reprove,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or loosenes, that she lightly did remove.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Most vertuous virgin! glory be thy meed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And crowne of heavenly prayse with Saintes above,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where most sweet hymmes of this thy famous deed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Are still emongst them song, that far my rymes exceed.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Fit song of Angels caroled to bee!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But yet whatso my feeble Muse can frame", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shal be t’advance thy goodly chastitee", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to enroll thy memorable name", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In th’heart of every honourable Dame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That they thy vertuous deedes may imitate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And be partakers of thy endlesse fame.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yt yrkes me leave thee in this wofull state,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To tell of Satyrane where I him left of late.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Who having ended with that Squyre of Dames", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A long discourse of his adventures vayne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which himselfe then Ladies more defames,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And finding not th’Hyena to be slayne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With that same Squyre retourned back againe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To his first way. And, as they forward went,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They spyde a knight fay re pricking on the playne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As if he were on some adventure bent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in his port appeared manly hardiment.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Sir Satyrane him towardes did addresse,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To weet what wight he was, and what his quest;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, comming nigh, eftsoones he gan to gesse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both by the burning hart which on his brest", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He bare, and by the colours in his crest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That Paridell it was. Tho to him yode,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And him saluting as beseemed best,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gan first inquire of tydinges farre abrode,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And afterwardes on what adventure now he rode.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Who thereto answering said: “The tydinges bad,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which now in Faery court all men doe tell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which turned hath great mirth to mourning sad,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Is the late ruine of proud Marinell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And suddein parture of faire Florimell", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To find him forth: and after her are gone", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All the brave knightes that doen in armes excell", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To savegard her ywandred all alone:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Emongst the rest my lott (unworthy’) is to be one.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Ah! gentle knight,” (said then Sir Satyrane)", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“Thy labour all is lost, I greatly dread,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That hast a thanklesse service on thee ta’ne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And offrest sacrifice unto the dead:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For dead, I surely doubt, thou maist aread", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Henceforth for ever Florimell to bee;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all the noble knights of Maydenhead,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which her ador’d, may sore repent with mee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all faire Ladies may for ever sory bee.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which wordes when Paridell had heard, his hew", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Gan greatly chaunge and seemd dismaid to bee;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then said: “Fayre Sir, how may I weene it trew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That ye doe tell in such uncerteintee?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or speake ye of report, or did ye see", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Just cause of dread, that makes ye doubt so sore?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For, perdie, elles how mote it ever bee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That ever hand should dare for to engore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her noble blood? The hevens such crueltie abhore.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“These eyes did see that they will ever rew", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "T’have seene,” (quoth he) “when as a monstrous beast", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The Palfrey whereon she did travell slew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And of his bowels made his bloody feast:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which speaking token sheweth at the least", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her certeine losse, if not her sure decay:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Besides, that more suspicion encreast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I found her golden girdle cast astray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Distaynd with durt and blood, as relique of the pray.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Ay me!” (said Paridell) “the signes be sadd;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And, but God turne the same to good sooth-say,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That Ladies safetie is sore to be dradd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet will I not forsake my forward way,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till triall doe more certeine truth bewray.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Faire Sir,” (quoth he) “well may it you succeed!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne long shall Satyrane behind you stay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But to the rest, which in this Quest proceed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "My labour adde, and be partaker of their speed.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Ye noble knights,” (said then the Squyre of Dames)", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“Well may yee speede in so praiseworthy payne!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But sith the Sunne now ginnes to slake his beames", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In deawy vapours of the westerne mayne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And lose the teme out of his weary wayne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Mote not mislike you also to abate", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Your zealous hast, till morrow next againe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both light of heven and strength of men relate:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which if ye please, to yonder castle turne your gate.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "That counsell pleased well: so all yfere", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Forth marched to a Castle them before;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where soone arryving they restrained were", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of ready entraunce, which ought evermore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To errant knights be commune: wondrous sore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thereat displeasd they were, till that young Squyre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gan them informe the cause, why that same dore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was shut to all which lodging did desyre:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which to let you weet will further time requyre.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Redoubted knights, and honorable Dames,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To whom I levell all my labours end,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Right sore I feare, least with unworthie blames", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "This odious argument my rymes should shend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or ought your goodly patience offend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whiles of a wanton Lady I doe write,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which with her loose incontinence doth blend", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The shyning glory of your soveraine light;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And knighthood fowle defaced by a faithlesse knight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But never let th’ensample of the bad", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Offend the good; for good, by paragone", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of evill, may more notably be rad,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As white seemes fayrer macht with blacke attone;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne all are shamed by the fault of one:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For lo! in heven, whereas all goodnes is,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Emongst the Angels, a whole legione", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of wicked Sprightes did fall from happy blis;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What wonder then if one, of women all, did mis?", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then listen, Lordings, if ye list to weet", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The cause why Satyrane and Paridell", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Mote not be entertaynd, as seemed meet,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into that Castle, (as that Squyre does tell.)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Therein a cancred crabbed Carle does dwell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That has no skill of Court nor courtesie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne cares what men say of him, ill or well;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For all his dayes he drownes in privitie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet has full large to live and spend at libertie.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“But all his minde is set on mucky pelfe,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To hoord up heapes of evill gotten masse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For which he others wrongs, and wreckes himselfe:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet is he lincked to a lovely lasse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose beauty doth her bounty far surpasse;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which to him both far unequall yeares,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And also far unlike conditions has;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For she does joy to play emongst her peares,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to be free from hard restraynt and gealous feares.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“But he is old, and withered like hay,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Unfit faire Ladies service to supply;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The privie guilt whereof makes him alway", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Suspect her truth, and keepe continuall spy", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon her with his other blincked eye;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne suffreth he resort of living wight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Approch to her, ne keepe her company,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But in close bowre her mewes from all mens sight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Depriv’d of kindly joy and naturall delight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Malbecco he, and Hellenore she hight;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Unfitly yokt together in one teeme.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That is the cause why never any knight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Is suffred here to enter, but he seeme", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Such as no doubt of him he neede misdeeme.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thereat Sir Satyrane gan smyle, and say;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Extremely mad the man I surely deeme,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That weenes with watch and hard restraynt to stay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A womans will, which is disposd to go astray.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“In vaine he feares that which he cannot shonne;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For who wotes not, that womans subtiltyes", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Can guylen Argus, when she list misdonne?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It is not yron bandes, nor hundred eyes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nor brasen walls, nor many wakefull spyes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That can withhold her wilfull wandring feet;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But fast goodwill, with gentle courtesyes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And timely service to her pleasures meet,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "May her perhaps containe, that else would algates fleet.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Then is he not more mad,” (sayd Paridell)", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“That hath himselfe unto such service sold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In dolefull thraldome all his dayes to dwell?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For sure a foole I doe him firmely hold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That loves his fetters, though they were of gold.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But why doe wee devise of others ill,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whyles thus we suffer this same dotard old", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To keepe us out in scorne, of his owne will,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And rather do not ransack all, and him selfe kill?”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Nay, let us first” (sayd Satyrane) “entreat", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The man by gentle meanes to let us in,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And afterwardes affray with cruell threat,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ere that we to efforce it doe begin:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then, if all fayle, we will by force it win,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke reward the wretch for his mesprise,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As may be worthy of his haynous sin.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That counsell pleasd: then Paridell did rise", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to the Castle gate approcht in quiet wise.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whereat soft knocking entrance he desyrd.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The good man selfe, which then the Porter playd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him answered, that all were now retyrd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto their rest, and all the keyes convayd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto their maister, who in bed was layd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That none him durst awake out of his dreme;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And therefore them of patience gently prayd.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then Paridell began to chaunge his theme,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And threatned him with force and punishment extreme:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But all in vaine, for nought mote him relent.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And now so long before the wicket fast", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They wayted, that the night was forward spent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And the faire welkin fowly overcast", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gan blowen up a bitter stormy blast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With showre and hayle so horrible and dred,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That this faire many were compeld at last", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To fly for succour to a little shed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which beside the gate for swyne was ordered.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "It fortuned, soone after they were gone,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Another knight, whom tempest thither brought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Came to that Castle, and with earnest mone,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like as the rest, late entrance deare besought:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, like so as the rest, he prayd for nought;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For flatly he of entrance was refusd.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sorely thereat he was displeased, and thought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "How to avenge himselfe so sore abusd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And evermore the Carle of courtesie accusd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But, to avoyde th’intolerable stowre,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He was compeld to seeke some refuge neare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to that shed, to shrowd him from the showre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He came, which full of guests he found whyleare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So as he was not let to enter there:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereat he gan to wex exceeding wroth,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And swore that he would lodge with them yfere,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or them dislodge, all were they liefe or loth;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And so defyde them each, and so defyde them both.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Both were full loth to leave that needfull tent,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And both full loth in darkenesse to debate;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet both full liefe him lodging to have lent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And both full liefe his boasting to abate:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But chiefely Paridell his hart did grate", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To heare him threaten so despightfully,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As if he did a dogge in kenell rate", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That durst not barke; and rather had he dy", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then, when he was defyde, in coward corner ly.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Tho hastily remounting to his steed", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He forth issew’d: like as a boystrous winde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which in th’earthes hollow caves hath long ben hid", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And shut up fast within her prisons blind,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Makes the huge element, against her kinde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To move and tremble as it were aghast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Untill that it an issew forth may finde:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then forth it breakes, and with his furious blast", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Confounds both land and seas, and skyes doth overcast.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Their steel-hed speares they strongly coucht, and met", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Together with impetuous rage and forse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That with the terrour of their fierce affret", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They rudely drove to ground both man and horse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That each awhile lay like a sencelesse corse.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Paridell sore brused with the blow", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Could not arise the counterchaunge to scorse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till that young Squyre him reared from below;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then drew he his bright sword, and gan about him throw.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But Satyrane forth stepping did them stay,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And with faire treaty pacifide their yre.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then, when they were accorded from the fray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Against that Castles Lord they gan conspire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To heape on him dew vengeaunce for his hire.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They beene agreed; and to the gates they goe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To burn the same with unquenchable fire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And that uncurteous Carle, their commune foe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To doe fowle death to die, or wrap in grievous woe.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Malbecco, seeing them resolvd indeed", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To flame the gates, and hearing them to call", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For fire in earnest, ran with fearfull speed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to them calling from the castle wall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Besought them humbly him to beare withall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As ignorant of servants bad abuse", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And slacke attendaunce unto straungers call.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The knights were willing all things to excuse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Though nought belev’d, and entraunce late did not refuse.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "They beene ybrought into a comely bowre,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And servd of all things that mote needfull bee;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet secretly their hoste did on them lowre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And welcomde more for feare then charitee;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But they dissembled what they did not see,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And welcomed themselves. Each gan undight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their garments wett, and weary armour free,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To dry them selves by Vulcanes flaming light,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke their lately bruzed parts to bring in plight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And eke that straunger knight emongst the rest", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Was for like need enforst to disaray:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tho, whenas vailed was her lofty crest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her golden locks, that were in trammells gay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upbounden, did them selves adowne display", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And raught unto her heeles; like sunny beames,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That in a cloud their light did long time stay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their vapour vaded, shewe their golden gleames,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And through the persant aire shoote forth their azure streames.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Shee also dofte her heavy haberjeon,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which the faire feature of her limbs did hyde;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And her well-plighted frock, which she did won", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To tucke about her short when she did ryde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shee low let fall, that flowd from her lanck syde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Downe to her foot with carelesse modestee.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then of them all she plainly was espyde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To be a woman-wight, unwist to bee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The fairest woman-wight that ever eie did see.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Like as Bellona (being late returnd", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "From slaughter of the Giaunts conquered:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where proud Encelade, whose wide nosethrils burnd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With breathed flames, like to a furnace redd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Transfixed with her speare downe tombled dedd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From top of Hemus by him heaped hye;)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Hath loosd her helmet from her lofty hedd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And her Gorgonian shield gins to untye", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From her lefte arme, to rest in glorious victorye.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which whenas they beheld, they smitten were", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With great amazement of so wondrous sight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And each on other, and they all on her,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Stood gazing, as if suddein great affright", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had them surprizd. At last, avizing right", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her goodly personage and glorious hew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which they so much mistooke, they tooke delight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In their first error, and yett still anew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With wonder of her beauty fed their hongry vew.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Yet note their hongry vew be satisfide,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But seeing still the more desir’d to see,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And ever firmely fixed did abide", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In contemplation of divinitee:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But most they mervaild at her chevalree", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And noble prowesse, which they had approv’d,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That much they faynd to know who she mote bee;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet none of all them her thereof amov’d,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet every one her likte, and every one her lov’d.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And Paridell, though partly discontent", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With his late fall and fowle indignity,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet was soone wonne his malice to relent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through gratious regard of her faire eye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And knightly worth which he too late did try,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet tried did adore. Supper was dight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then they Malbecco prayd of courtesy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That of his lady they might have the sight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And company at meat, to doe them more delight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But he, to shifte their curious request,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Gan causen why she could not come in place;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her erased helth, her late recourse to rest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And humid evening ill for sicke folkes cace;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But none of those excuses could take place,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne would they eate till she in presence came.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shee came in presence with right comely grace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And fairely them saluted, as became,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And shewd her selfe in all a gentle courteous Dame.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "They sate to meat; and Satyrane his chaunce", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Was her before, and Paridell beside;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But he him selfe sate looking still askaunce", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gainst Britomart, and ever closely eide", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sir Satyrane, that glaunces might not glide:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But his blinde eie, that sided Paridell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All his demeasnure from his sight did hide:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On her faire face so did he feede his fill,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And sent close messages of love to her at will.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And ever and anone, when none was ware,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With speaking lookes, that close embassage bore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He rov’d at her, and told his secret care;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For all that art he learned had of yore:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne was she ignoraunt of that leud lore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But in his eye his meaning wisely redd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with the like him aunswerd evermore.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shee sent at him one fyrie dart, whose hedd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Empoisned was with privy lust and gealous dredd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He from that deadly throw made no defence,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But to the wound his weake heart opened wyde:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The wicked engine through false influence", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Past through his eies, and secretly did glyde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into his heart, which it did sorely gryde.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But nothing new to him was that same paine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne paine at all; for he so ofte had tryde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The powre thereof, and lov’d so oft in vaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That thing of course he counted love to entertaine.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thenceforth to her he sought to intimate", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His inward griefe, by meanes to him well knowne:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now Bacchus fruit out of the silver plate", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He on the table dasht, as overthrowne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or of the fruitfull liquor overflowne;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And by the dauncing bubbles did divine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or therein write to lett his love be showne;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which well she redd out of the learned line:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A sacrament prophane in mistery of wine.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And, when so of his hand the pledge she raught,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The guilty cup she fained to mistake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in her lap did shed her idle draught,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shewing desire her inward flame to slake.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By such close signes they secret way did make", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto their wils, and one eies watch escape:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Two eies he needeth, for to watch and wake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who lovers will deceive. Thus was the ape,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By their faire handling, put into Malbeccoes cape.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Now, when of meats and drinks they had their fill,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Purpose was moved by that gentle Dame", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto those knights adventurous, to tell", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of deeds of armes which unto them became,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And every one his kindred and his name.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then Paridell, in whom a kindly pride", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of gratious speach and skill his words to frame", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Abounded, being glad of so fitte tide", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him to commend to her, thus spake, of al well eide.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Troy, that art now nought but an idle name,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And in thine ashes buried low dost lie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Though whilome far much greater then thy fame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Before that angry Gods and cruell skie", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon thee heapt a direfull destinie;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What boots it boast thy glorious descent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And fetch from heven thy great genealogie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sith all thy worthie prayses being blent", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their ofspring hath embaste, and later glory shent?", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Most famous Worthy of the world, by whome", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That warre was kindled which did Troy inflame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And stately towres of Ilion whilome", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Brought unto balefull ruine, was by name", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sir Paris far renowmd through noble fame;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who, through great prowesse and bold hardinesse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From Lacedæmon fetcht the fayrest Dame", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That ever Greece did boast, or knight possesse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom Venus to him gave for meed of worthinesse;", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Fayre Helene, flowre of beautie excellent,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And girlond of the mighty Conquerours,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That madest many Ladies deare lament", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The heavie losse of their brave Paramours,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which they far off beheld from Trojan toures,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And saw the fieldes of faire Scamander strowne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With carcases of noble warrioures", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose fruitlesse lives were under furrow sowne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Xanthus sandy bankes with blood all overflowne.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“From him my linage I derive aright,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Who long before the ten yeares siege of Troy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whiles yet on Ida he a shepeheard hight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On faire Oenone got a lovely boy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom, for remembrance of her passed joy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She, of his Father, Parius did name;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who, after Greekes did Priams realme destroy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gathred the Trojan reliques sav’d from flame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with them sayling thence to th’isle of Paros came.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“That was by him cald Paros, which before", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Hight Nausa: there he many yeares did raine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And built Nausicle by the Pontick shore;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which he dying lefte next in remaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To Paridas his sonne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From whom I Paridell by kin descend:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, for faire ladies love and glories gaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "My native soile have lefte, my dayes to spend", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In seewing deeds of armes, my lives and labors end.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whenas the noble Britomart heard tell", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of Trojan warres and Priams citie sackt,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The ruefull story of Sir Paridell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She was empassiond at that piteous act,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With zelous envy of Greekes cruell fact", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Against that nation, from whose race of old", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She heard that she was lineally extract;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For noble Britons sprong from Trojans bold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Troynovant was built of old Troyes ashes cold.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then, sighing soft awhile, at last she thus:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“O lamentable fall of famous towne!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which raignd so many yeares victorious,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And of all Asie bore the soveraine crowne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In one sad night consumd and throwen downe:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What stony hart, that heares thy haplesse fate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Is not empierst with deepe compassiowne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And makes ensample of mans wretched state,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late?", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Behold, Sir, how your pitifull complaint", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Hath fownd another partner of your payne;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For nothing may impresse so deare constraint", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As countries cause, and commune foes disdayne.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But if it should not grieve you backe agayne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To turne your course, I would to heare desyre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What to Aeneas fell; sith that men sayne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He was not in the cities wofull fyre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Consum’d, but did him selfe to safety retyre.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Anchyses sonne, begott of Venus fayre,”", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Said he, “out of the flames for safegard fled,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with a remnant did to sea repayre;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where he through fatall errour long was led", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Full many yeares, and weetlesse wandered", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From shore to shore emongst the Lybick sandes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ere rest he fownd. Much there he suffered,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And many perilles past in forreine landes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To save his people sad from victours vengefull handes.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“At last in Latium he did arryve,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Where he with cruell warre was entertaind", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of th’inland folke, which sought him backe to drive,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till he with old Latinus was constraind", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To contract wedlock, (so the fates ordaind)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Wedlocke contract in blood, and eke in blood", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Accomplished, that many deare complaind:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The rivall slaine, the victour, through the flood", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Escaped hardly, hardly praisd his wedlock good.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Yet, after all, he victour did survive,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And with Latinus did the kingdom part;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But after, when both nations gan to strive", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into their names the title to convart,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His sonne Iülus did from thence depart", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With all the warlike youth of Trojans bloud,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in long Alba plast his throne apart;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where faire it florished and long time stoud,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till Romulus, renewing it, to Rome remoud.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“There; there,” (said Britomart) “afresh appeard", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The glory of the later world to spring,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Troy againe out of her dust was reard", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To sitt in second seat of soveraine king", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of all the world, under her governing.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But a third kingdom yet is to arise", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Out of the Trojans scattered ofspring,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That in all glory and great enterprise,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both first and second Troy shall dare to equalise.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“It Troynovant is hight, that with the waves", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of wealthy Thamis washed is along,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon whose stubborne neck, (whereat he raves", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With roring rage, and sore him selfe does throng)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all men feare to tempt his billowes strong,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She fastned hath her foot; which stands so hy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That it a wonder of the world is song", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In forreine lands; and all which passen by,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Beholding it from farre, doe thinke it threates the skye.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“The Trojan Brute did first that citie fownd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And Hygate made the meare thereof by West,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Overt gate by North: that is the bownd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Toward the land; two rivers bownd the rest.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So huge a scope at first him seemed best,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To be the compasse of his kingdomes seat:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So huge a mind could not in lesser rest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne in small meares containe his glory great,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That Albion had conquered first by warlike feat.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Ah! fairest Lady knight,” (said Paridell)", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“Pardon, I pray, my heedlesse oversight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who had forgot that whylome I heard tell", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From aged Mnemon; for my wits beene light.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Indeed he said, (if I remember right)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That of the antique Trojan stocke there grew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Another plant, that raught to wondrous hight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And far abroad his mightie braunches threw", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into the utmost Angle of the world he knew.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“For that same Brute, whom much he did advaunce", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In all his speach, was Sylvius his sonne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom having slain through luckles arrowes glaunce,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He fled for feare of that he had misdonne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or els for shame, so fowle reproch to shonne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with him ledd to sea an youthly trayne;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where wearie wandring they long time did wonne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And many fortunes prov’d in th’Ocean mayne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And great adventures found, that now were long to sayne.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“At last by fatall course they driven were", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Into an Island spatious and brode,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The furthest North that did to them appeare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which, after rest, they, seeking farre abrode,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Found it the fittest soyle for their abode,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fruitfull of all thinges fitt for living foode,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But wholy waste and void of peoples trode,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Save an huge nation of the Geaunts broode", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That fed on living flesh, and dronck mens vitall blood.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Whom he, through wearie wars and labours long,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Subdewd with losse of many Britons bold:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In which the great Goemagot of strong", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Corineus, and Coulin of Debon old,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Were overthrowne and laide on th’earth full cold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which quaked under their so hideous masse;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A famous history to bee enrold", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In everlasting moniments of brasse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all the antique Worthies merits far did passe.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“His worke great Troynovant, his worke is eke", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Faire Lincolne, both renowmed far away;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That who from East to West will endlong seeke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Cannot two fairer Cities find this day,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Except Cleopolis: so heard I say", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Old Mnemon. Therefore, Sir, I greet you well", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Your countrey kin; and you entyrely pray", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of pardon for the strife, which late befell", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Betwixt us both unknowne.” So ended Paridell.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But all the while that he these speeches spent,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Upon his lips hong faire Dame Hellenore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With vigilant regard and dew attent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fashioning worldes of fancies evermore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In her fraile witt, that now her quite forlore:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The whiles unwares away her wondring eye", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And greedy eares her weake hart from her bore;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which he perceiving, ever privily,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In speaking many false belgardes at her let fly.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So long these knights discoursed diversly", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of straunge affaires, and noble hardiment,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which they had past with mickle jeopardy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That now the humid night was farforth spent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And hevenly lampes were halfendeale ybrent:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which th’old man seeing wel, who too long thought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Every discourse, and every argument,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which by the houres he measured, besought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Them go to rest. So all unto their bowres were brought.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The morow next, so soone as Phœbus Lamp", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Bewrayed had the world with early light,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And fresh Aurora had the shady damp", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Out of the goodly heven amoved quight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Faire Britomart and that same Faery knight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Uprose, forth on their journey for to wend:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Paridell complaynd, that his late fight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With Britomart so sore did him offend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That ryde he could not, till his hurts he did amend.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So foorth they far’d; but he behind them stayd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Maulgre his host, who grudged grievously", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To house a guest that would be needes obayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And of his owne him lefte not liberty:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Might wanting measure moveth surquedry.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Two things he feared, but the third was death;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That fiers youngmans unruly maystery;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His money, which he lov’d as living breath;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And his faire wife, whom honest long he kept uneath.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But patience perforce, he must abie", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "What fortune and his fate on him will lay;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fond is the feare that findes no remedie:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet warily he watcheth every way,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By which he feareth evill happen may;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So th’evill thinkes by watching to prevent:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne doth he suffer her, nor night nor day,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Out of his sight her selfe once to absent:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So doth he punish her, and eke him selfe torment.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But Paridell kept better watch then hee,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A fit occasion for his turne to finde.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "False love! why do men say thou canst not see,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in their foolish fancy feigne thee blinde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That with thy charmes the sharpest sight doest binde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to thy will abuse? Thou walkest free,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And seest every secret of the minde;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thou seest all, yet none at all sees thee:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All that is by the working of thy Deitee.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So perfect in that art was Paridell,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That he Malbeccoes halfen eye did wyle;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His halfen eye he wiled wondrous well,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Hellenors both eyes did eke beguyle,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both eyes and hart attonce, during the whyle", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That he there sojourned his woundes to heale;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That Cupid selfe, it seeing, close did smyle", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To weet how he her love away did steale,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And bad that none their joyous treason should reveale.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The learned lover lost no time nor tyde", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That least avantage mote to him afford,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet bore so faire a sayle, that none espyde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His secret drift, till he her layd abord.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When so in open place and commune bord", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He fortun’d her to meet, with commune speach", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He courted her; yet bayted every word,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That his ungentle hoste n’ote him appeach", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of vile ungentlenesse, or hospitages breach.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But when apart (if ever her apart)", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He found, then his false engins fast he plyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all the sleights unbosomd in his hart:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He sigh’d, he sobd, he swownd, he perdy dyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And cast himselfe on ground her fast besyde:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tho, when againe he him bethought to live,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He wept, and wayld, and false laments belyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Saying, but if she Mercie would him give,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That he mote algates dye, yet did his death forgive.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And otherwhyles with amorous delights", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And pleasing toyes he would her entertaine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now singing sweetly to surprize her sprights,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now making layes of love and lovers paine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Bransles, Ballads, virelayes, and verses vaine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Oft purposes, oft riddles, he devysd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And thousands like which flowed in his braine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With which he fed her fancy, and entysd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To take to his new love, and leave her old despysd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And every where he might, and everie while,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He did her service dewtifull, and sewd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At hand with humble pride and pleasing guile;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So closely yet, that none but she it vewd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who well perceived all, and all indewd.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thus finely did he his false nets dispred,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With which he many weake harts had subdewd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of yore, and many had ylike misled:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What wonder then, if she were likewise carried?", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "No fort so fensible, no wals so strong,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But that continuall battery will rive,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or daily siege, through dispurvayaunce long", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And lacke of reskewes, will to parley drive;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Peece, that unto parley eare will give,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Will shortly yield it selfe, and will be made", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The vassall of the victors will bylive:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That stratageme had oftentimes assayd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "This crafty Paramoure, and now it plaine display’d:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "For through his traines he her intrapped hath,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That she her love and hart hath wholy sold", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To him, without regard of gaine or scath,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or care of credite, or of husband old,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom she hath vow’d to dub a fayre Cucquold.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nought wants but time and place, which shortly shee", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Devized hath, and to her lover told.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It pleased well: So well they both agree:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So readie rype to ill ill wemens counsels bee!", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Darke was the Evening, fit for lovers stealth,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "When chaunst Malbecco busie be elsewhere,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She to his closet went, where all his wealth", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Lay hid; thereof she countlesse summes did reare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which she meant away with her to beare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The rest she fyr’d, for sport, or for despight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As Hellene, when she saw aloft appeare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The Trojane flames and reach to hevens hight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did clap her hands, and joyed at that dolefull sight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "This second Helene, fay re Dame Hellenore,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The whiles her husband ran with sory haste", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To quench the flames which she had tyn’d before,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Laught at his foolish labour spent in waste,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And ran into her lovers armes right fast;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where streight embraced she to him did cry", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And call alowd for helpe, ere helpe were past;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For lo! that Guest did beare her forcibly,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And meant to ravish her, that rather had to dy.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The wretched man hearing her call for ayd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And ready seeing him with her to fly,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In his disquiet mind was much dismayd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But when againe he backeward cast his eye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And saw the wicked fire so furiously", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Consume his hart, and scorch his Idoles face,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He was therewith distressed diversely,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne wist he how to turne, nor to what place:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was never wretched man in such a wofull cace.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Ay when to him she cryde, to her he turnd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And left the fire; love money overcame:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, when he marked how his money burnd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He left his wife; money did love disclame:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both was he loth to loose his loved Dame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And loth he leave his liefest pelfe behinde;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet, sith he n’ote save both, he sav’d that same", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which was the dearest to his dounghill minde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The God of his desire, the joy of misers blinde.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thus whilest all things in troublous uprore were,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And all men busie to suppresse the flame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The loving couple neede no reskew feare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But leasure had and liberty to frame", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their purpost flight, free from all mens reclame;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Night, the patronesse of love-stealth fayre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gave them safe conduct, till to end they came.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So beene they gone yfere, a wanton payre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of lovers loosely knit, where list them to repayre.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Soone as the cruell flames yslaked were,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Malbecco, seeing how his losse did lye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Out of the flames which he had quencht whylere,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into huge waves of griefe and gealosye", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Full deepe emplonged was, and drowned nye", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Twixt inward doole and felonous despight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He rav’d, he wept, he stampt, he lowd did cry,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all the passions that in man may light", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did him attonce oppresse, and vex his caytive spright.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Long thus he chawd the cud of inward griefe,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And did consume his gall with anguish sore:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Still when he mused on his late mischiefe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then still the smart thereof increased more,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And seemd more grievous then it was before.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At last when sorrow he saw booted nought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne griefe might not his love to him restore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He gan devise how her he reskew mought:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ten thousand wayes he cast in his confused thought.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "At last resolving, like a Pilgrim pore,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To search her forth where so she might be fond,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And bearing with him treasure in close store,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The rest he leaves in ground: So takes in hond", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To seeke her endlong both by sea and lond.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Long he her sought, he sought her far and nere,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And every where that he mote understond", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of knights and ladies any meetings were;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And of each one he mett he tidings did inquere.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But all in vaine: his woman was too wise", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ever to come into his clouch againe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And hee too simple ever to surprise", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The jolly Paridell, for all his paine.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "One day, as hee forpassed by the plaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With weary pace, he far away espide", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A couple, seeming well to be his twaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which hoved close under a forest side,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As if they lay in wait, or els them selves did hide.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Well weened hee that those the same mote bee;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And as he better did their shape avize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him seemed more their maner did agree;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For th’one was armed all in warlike wize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom to be Paridell he did devize;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And th’other, al yclad in garments light", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Discolourd like to womanish disguise,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He did resemble to his lady bright;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And ever his faint hart much earned at the sight:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And ever faine he towards them would goe,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But yet durst not for dread approchen nie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But stood aloofe, unweeting what to doe;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till that prickt forth with loves extremity", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That is the father of fowle gealosy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He closely nearer crept the truth to weet:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, as he nigher drew, he easily", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Might scerne that it was not his sweetest sweet,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne yet her Belamour, the partner of his sheet:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But it was scornefull Braggadochio,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That with his servant Trompart hoverd there,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sith late he fled from his too earnest foe:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom such whenas Malbecco spyed clere,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He turned backe, and would have fled arere,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till Trompart, ronning hastely, him did stay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And bad before his soveraine Lord appere.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That was him loth, yet durst he not gainesay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And comming him before low louted on the lay.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The Boaster at him sternely bent his browe,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As if he could have kild him with his looke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That to the ground him meekely made to bowe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And awfull terror deepe into him strooke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That every member of his body quooke.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Said he, “Thou man of nought, what doest thou here", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unfitly furnisht with thy bag and booke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where I expected one with shield and spere", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To prove some deeds of armes upon an equall pere?”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The wretched man at his imperious speach", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Was all abasht, and low prostrating said:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Good Sir, let not my rudenes be no breach", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto your patience, ne be ill ypaid;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For I unwares this way by fortune straid,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A silly Pilgrim driven to distresse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That seeke a Lady”⁠—There he suddein staid,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And did the rest with grievous sighes suppresse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "While teares stood in his eies, few drops of bitternesse.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“What Lady, man?” (said Trompart) “take good hart,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And tell thy griefe, if any hidden lye:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was never better time to shew thy smart", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then now that noble succor is thee by,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That is the whole worlds commune remedy.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That chearful word his weak heart much did cheare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with vaine hope his spirits faint supply,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That bold he sayd; “O most redoubted Pere!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Vouchsafe with mild regard a wretches cace to heare.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then sighing sore, “It is not long,” (saide hee)", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“Sith I enjoyd the gentlest Dame alive;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of whom a knight, no knight at all perdee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But shame of all that doe for honor strive,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By treacherous deceipt did me deprive:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through open outrage he her bore away,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with fowle force unto his will did drive;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which al good knights, that armes doe bear this day,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Are bownd for to revenge, and punish if they may.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“And you, most noble Lord, that can and dare", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Redresse the wrong of miserable wight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Cannot employ your most victorious speare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In better quarell then defence of right,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And for a Lady gainst a faithlesse knight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So shall your glory bee advaunced much,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all faire Ladies magnify your might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke my selfe, albee I simple such,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Your worthy paine shall wel reward with guerdon rich.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "With that out of his bouget forth he drew", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Great store of treasure, therewith him to tempt;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But he on it lookt scornefully askew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As much disdeigning to be so misdempt,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or a war-monger to be basely nempt;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And sayd; “Thy offers base I greatly loth,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Arid eke thy words uncourteous and unkempt:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I tread in dust thee and thy money both,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That, were it not for shame”⁠—So turned from him wroth.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But Trompart, that his maistres humor knew", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In lofty looks to hide an humble minde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was inly tickled with that golden vew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in his eare him rownded close behinde:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet stoupt he not, but lay still in the winde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Waiting advauntage on the pray to sease,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till Trompart, lowly to the grownd inclinde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Besought him his great corage to appease,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And pardon simple man that rash did him displease.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Big looking like a doughty Doucepere,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "At last he thus; “Thou clod of vilest clay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I pardon yield, and with thy rudenes beare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But weete henceforth, that all that golden pray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all that els the vaine world vaunten may,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I loath as doung, ne deeme my dew reward:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fame is my meed, and glory vertues pay:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But minds of mortall men are muchell mard", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And mov’d amisse with massy mucks unmeet regard.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“And more: I graunt to thy great misery", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Gratious respect; thy wife shall backe be sent:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And that vile knight, who ever that he bee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which hath thy lady reft and knighthood shent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By Sanglamort my sword, whose deadly dent", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The blood hath of so many thousands shedd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I sweare, ere long shall dearely it repent;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne he twixt heven and earth shall hide his hedd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But soone he shal be fownd, and shortly doen be dedd.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The foolish man thereat woxe wondrous blith,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As if the word so spoken were halfe donne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And humbly thanked him a thousand sith", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That had from death to life him newly wonne.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tho forth the Boaster marching brave begonne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His stolen steed to thunder furiously,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As if he heaven and hell would overronne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all the world confound with cruelty;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That much Malbecco joyed in his jollity.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thus long they three together traveiled,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Through many a wood and many an uncouth way,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To seeke his wife that was far wandered:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But those two sought nought but the present pray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To weete, the treasure which he did bewray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On which their eies and harts were wholly sett,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With purpose how they might it best betray;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For, sith the howre that first he did them lett", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The same behold, therwith their keene desires were whett.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "It fortuned, as they together far’d,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "They spide where Paridell came pricking fast", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon the plaine; the which him selfe prepar’d", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To giust with that brave straunger knight a cast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As on adventure by the way he past.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Alone he rode without his Paragone;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For, having, filcht her bells, her up he cast", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To the wide world, and lett her fly alone:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He nould be clogd. So had he served many one.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The gentle Lady, loose at randon lefte,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The greenewood long did walke, and wander wide", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At wilde adventure, like a forlorne wefte;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till on a day the Satyres her espide", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Straying alone withouten groome or guide:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her up they tooke, and with them home her ledd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With them as housewife ever to abide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To milk their gotes, and make them cheese and bredd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And every one as commune good her handeled:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "That shortly she Malbecco has forgott,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And eke Sir Paridell, all were he deare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who from her went to seeke another lott,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And now by fortune was arrived here,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where those two guilers with Malbecco were.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Soone as the old man saw Sir Paridell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He fainted, and was almost dead with feare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne word he had to speake his griefe to tell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But to him louted low, and greeted goodly well;", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And, after, asked him for Hellenore:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“I take no keepe of her,” (sayd Paridell)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“She wonneth in the forrest there before.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So forth he rode as his adventure fell;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The whiles the Boaster from his loftie sell", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Faynd to alight, something amisse to mend;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But the fresh Swayne would not his leasure dwell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But went his way: whom when he passed kend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He up remounted light, and after faind to wend.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Perdy, nay,” (said Malbecco) “shall ye not;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But let him passe as lightly as he came:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For litle good of him is to be got,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And mickle perill to bee put to shame.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But let us goe to seeke my dearest Dame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom he hath left in yonder forest wyld;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For of her safety in great doubt I ame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Least salvage beastes her person have despoyld:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then all the world is lost, and we in vaine have toyld.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "They all agree, and forward them addresse:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“Ah! but,” (said crafty Trompart) “weete ye well,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That yonder in that wastefull wildernesse", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Huge monsters haunt, and many dangers dwell;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Dragons, and Minotaures, and feendes of hell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And many wilde woodmen which robbe and rend", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All traveilers: therefore advise ye well", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Before ye enterprise that way to wend:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "One may his journey bring too soone to evill end.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Malbecco stopt in great astonishment,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And with pale eyes fast fixed on the rest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their counsell crav’d in daunger imminent.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Said Trompart; “You, that are the most opprest", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With burdein of great treasure, I thinke best", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Here for to stay in safetie behynd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "My Lord and I will search the wide forest.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That counsell pleased not Malbeccoes mynd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For he was much afraid him selfe alone to fynd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Then is it best,” (said he) “that ye doe leave", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Your treasure here in some security,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Either fast closed in some hollow greave,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or buried in the ground from jeopardy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till we returne againe in safety:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As for us two, least doubt of us ye have,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Hence farre away we will blyndfolded ly,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne privy bee unto your treasures grave.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It pleased; so he did. Then they march forward brave.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Now, when amid the thickest woodes they were,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "They heard a noyse of many bagpipes shrill,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And shrieking Hububs them approching nere,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which all the forest did with horrour fill.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That dreadfull sound the bosters hart did thrill", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With such amazment, that in hast he fledd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ever looked back for good or ill;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And after him eke fearefull Trompart spedd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The old man could not fly, but fell to ground half dedd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Yet afterwardes, close creeping as he might,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He in a bush did hyde his fearefull hedd.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The jolly Satyres, full of fresh delight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Came dauncing forth, and with them nimbly ledd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Faire Helenore with girlonds all bespredd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom their May-lady they had newly made:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She, proude of that new honour which they redd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And of their lovely fellowship full glade,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Daunst lively, and her face did with a Lawrell shade.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The silly man that in the thickett lay", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Saw all this goodly sport, and grieved sore;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet durst he not against it doe or say,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But did his hart with bitter thoughts engore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To see th’unkindnes of his Hellenore.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All day they daunced with great lusty-hedd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with their horned feet the greene gras wore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The whiles their Gotes upon the brouzes fedd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till drouping Phœbus gan to hyde his golden hedd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Tho up they gan their mery pypes to trusse,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And all their goodly heardes did gather rownd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But every Satyre first did give a busse", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To Hellenore; so busses did abound.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now gan the humid vapour shed the grownd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With perly deaw, and th’Earthes gloomy shade", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did dim the brightnesse of the welkin rownd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That every bird and beast awarned made", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To shrowd themselves, whiles sleepe their sences did invade.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which when Malbecco saw, out of the bush", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Upon his handes and feete he crept full light,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And like a Gote emongst the Gotes did rush;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That, through the helpe of his faire hornes on hight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And misty dampe of misconceyving night,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke through likenesse of his gotish beard,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He did the better counterfeite aright:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So home he marcht emongst the horned heard,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That none of all the Satyres him espyde or heard.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "At night, when all they went to sleepe, he vewd", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whereas his lovely wife emongst them lay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Embraced of a Satyre rough and rude,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who all the night did minde his joyous play:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nine times he heard him come aloft ere day,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all his hart with gealosy did swell;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But yet that nights ensample did bewray", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That not for nought his wife them loved so well,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When one so oft a night did ring his matins bell.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So closely as he could he to them crept,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "When wearie of their sport to sleepe they fell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to his wife, that now full soundly slept,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He whispered in her eare, and did her tell", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That it was he which by her side did dwell;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And therefore prayd her wake to heare him plaine.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As one out of a dreame not waked well", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She turnd her, and returned backe againe;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet her for to awake he did the more constraine.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "At last with irkesom trouble she abrayd;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And then perceiving that it was indeed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her old Malbecco, which did her upbrayd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With loosenesse of her love and loathly deed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She was astonisht with exceeding dreed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And would have wakt the Satyre by her syde;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But he her prayd, for mercy or for meed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To save his life, ne let him be descryde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But hearken to his lore, and all his counsell hyde.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Tho gan he her perswade to leave that lewd", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And loathsom life, of God and man abhord,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And home returne, where all should be renewd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With perfect peace and bandes of fresh accord,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And she receivd againe to bed and bord,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As if no trespas ever had beene donne:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But she it all refused at one word,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And by no meanes would to his will be wonne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But chose emongst the jolly Satyres still to wonne.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He wooed her till day-spring he espyde,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But all in vaine; and then turnd to the heard,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who butted him with hornes on every syde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And trode downe in the durt, where his hore beard", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was fowly dight, and he of death afeard.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Early, before the heavens fairest light", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Out of the ruddy East was fully reard,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The heardes out of their foldes were loosed quight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And he emongst the rest crept forth in sory plight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So soone as he the Prison-dore did pas,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He ran as fast as both his feet could beare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And never looked who behind him was,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne scarsely who before: like as a Beare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That creeping close amongst the hives to reare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "An hony-combe, the wakefull dogs 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"text": "In drery darkenes and continuall feare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of that rocks fall, which ever and anon", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Threates with huge ruine him to fall upon,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That he dare never sleepe, but that one eye", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Still ope he keepes for that occasion;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ever rests he in tranquillity,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The roring billowes beat his bowre so boystrously.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Ne ever is he wont on ought to feed", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But todes and frogs, his pasture poysonous,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which in his cold complexion doe breed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A filthy blood, or humour rancorous,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Matter of doubt and dread suspitious,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That doth with curelesse care consume the hart,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Corrupts the stomacke with gall vitious,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Cros-cuts the liver with internall smart,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And doth transfixe the soule with deathes eternall dart.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Yet can he never dye, but dying lives,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And doth himselfe with sorrow new sustaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That death and life attonce unto him gives,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And painefull pleasure turnes to pleasing paine.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There dwels he ever, miserable swaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Hatefull both to him selfe and every wight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where he, through privy griefe and horrour vaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Is woxen so deform’d that he has quight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Forgot he was a man, and Gelosy is hight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "O hatefull hellish Snake! what furie furst", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Brought thee from balefull house of Proserpine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where in her bosome she thee long had nurst,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And fostred up with bitter milke of tine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fowle Gealosy! that turnest love divine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To joylesse dread, and mak’st the loving hart", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With hatefull thoughts to languish and to pine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And feed it selfe with selfe-consuming smart?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of all the passions in the mind thou vilest art!", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "O! let him far be banished away,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And in his stead let Love for ever dwell;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sweete Love, that doth his golden wings embay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In blessed Nectar and pure Pleasures well,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Untroubled of vile feare or bitter fell.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And ye, faire Ladies, that your kingdomes make", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In th’harts of men, them governe wisely well,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And of faire Britomart ensample take,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That was as trew in love as Turtle to her make.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Who with Sir Satyrane, as earst ye red,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Forth ryding from Malbeccoes hostlesse hous,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Far off aspyde a young man, the which fled", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From an huge Geaunt, that with hideous", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And hatefull outrage long him chaced thus;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It was that Ollyphant, the brother deare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of that Argantè vile and vitious,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From whom the Squyre of Dames was reft whylere;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "This all as bad as she, and worse, if worse ought were.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "For as the sister did in feminine", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And filthy lust exceede all womankinde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So he surpassed his sex masculine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In beastly use, all that I ever finde:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom when as Britomart beheld behinde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The fearefull boy so greedily poursew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She was emmoved in her noble minde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "T’employ her puissaunce to his reskew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And pricked fiercely forward where she did him vew.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Ne was Sir Satyrane her far behinde,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But with like fiercenesse did ensew the chace.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom when the Gyaunt saw, he soone resinde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His former suit, and from them fled apace:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They after both, and boldly bad him bace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And each did strive the other to outgoe;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But he them both outran a wondrous space,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For he was long, and swift as any Roe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And now made better speed t’escape his feared foe.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "It was not Satyrane, whom he did feare,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But Britomart the flowre of chastity;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For he the powre of chaste hands might not beare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But alwayes did their dread encounter fly:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And now so fast his feet he did apply,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That he has gotten to a forrest neare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where he is shrowded in security.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The wood they enter, and search everie where;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They searched diversely, so both divided were.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Fayre Britomart so long him followed,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That she at last came to a fountaine sheare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By which there lay a knight all wallowed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon the grassy ground, and by him neare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His haberjeon, his helmet, and his speare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A little off his shield was rudely throwne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On which the winged boy in colours cleare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Depeincted was, full easie to be knowne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And he thereby, where ever it in field was showne.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "His face upon the grownd did groveling ly,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As if he had beene slombring in the shade;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That the brave Mayd would not for courtesy", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Out of his quiet slomber him abrade,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nor seeme too suddeinly him to invade.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Still as she stood, she heard with grievous throb", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him grone, as if his hart were peeces made,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with most painefull pangs to sigh and sob,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That pitty did the Virgins hart of patience rob.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "At last forth breaking into bitter plaintes", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He sayd; “O soverayne Lord! that sit’st on hye", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And raignst in blis emongst thy blessed Saintes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "How suffrest thou such shamefull cruelty", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So long unwreaked of thine enimy?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or hast thou, Lord, of good mens cause no heed?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or doth thy justice sleepe and silent ly?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What booteth then the good and righteous deed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "If goodnesse find no grace, nor righteousnes no meed?", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“If good find grace, and righteousnes reward,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Why then is Amoret in caytive band,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sith that more bounteous creature never far’d", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On foot upon the face of living land?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or if that hevenly justice may withstand", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The wrongfull outrage of unrighteous men,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Why then is Busirane with wicked hand", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Suffred, these seven monethes day, in secret den", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "My Lady and my love so cruelly to pen!", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“My Lady and my love is cruelly pend", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In dolefull darkenes from the vew of day,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whilest deadly torments doe her chast brest rend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And the sharpe steele doth rive her hart in tway,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All for she Scudamore will not denay.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet thou, vile man, vile Scudamore, art sound,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne canst her ayde, ne canst her foe dismay;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unworthy wretch to tread upon the ground,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For whom so faire a Lady feeles so sore a wound!”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "There an huge heape of singults did oppresse", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His strugling soule, and swelling throbs empeach", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His foltring toung with pangs of drerinesse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Choking the remnant of his plaintife speach,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As if his dayes were come to their last reach:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which when she heard, and saw the ghastly fit", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Threatning into his life to make a breach,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both with great ruth and terrour she was smit,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fearing least from her cage the wearie soule would flit.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Tho stouping downe she him amoved light;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Who, therewith somewhat starting, up gan looke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And seeing him behind a stranger knight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereas no living creature he mistooke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With great indignaunce he that sight forsooke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, downe againe himselfe disdainfully", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Abjecting, th’earth with his faire forhead strooke:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which the bold Virgin seeing gan apply", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fit medcine to his griefe, and spake thus courtesly:⁠—", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Ah gentle knight! whose deepe conceived griefe", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Well seemes t’exceede the powre of patience,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet, if that hevenly grace some goode reliefe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "You send, submit you to high providence;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And ever in your noble hart prepense,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all the sorrow in the world is lesse", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then vertues might and values confidence:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For who nill bide the burden of distresse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Must not here thinke to live; for life is wretchednesse.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Therefore, faire Sir, doe comfort to you take,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And freely read what wicked felon so", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Hath outrag’d you, and thrald your gentle make.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Perhaps this hand may helpe to ease your woe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And wreake your sorrow on your cruell foe;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At least it faire endevour will apply.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Those feeling words so neare the quicke did goe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That up his head he reared easily,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, leaning on his elbowe, these few words lett fly.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“What boots it plaine that cannot be redrest,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And sow vaine sorrow in a fruitlesse eare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sith powre of hand, nor skill of learned brest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne worldly price, cannot redeeme my deare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Out of her thraldome and continuall feare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For he, the tyrant, which her hath in ward", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By strong enchauntments and blacke Magicke leare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Hath in a dungeon deepe her close embard,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And many dreadfull feends hath pointed to her gard.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“There he tormenteth her most terribly", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And day and night afflicts with mortall paine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Because to yield him love she doth deny,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Once to me yold, not to be yolde againe:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But yet by torture he would her constraine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Love to conceive in her disdainfull brest;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till so she doe, she must in doole remaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne may by living meanes be thence relest:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What boots it then to plaine that cannot be redrest?”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "With this sad hersall of his heavy stresse", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The warlike Damzell was empassiond sore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And sayd; “Sir knight, your cause is nothing lesse", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then is your sorrow certes, if not more;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For nothing so much pitty doth implore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As gentle Ladyes helplesse misery:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But yet, if please ye listen to my lore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I will, with proofe of last extremity,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Deliver her fro thence, or with her for you dy.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Ah! gentlest knight alive,” (sayd Scudamore)", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“What huge heroicke magnanimity", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Dwells in thy bounteous brest! what couldst thou more,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "If shee were thine, and thou as now am I?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "O! spare thy happy daies, and them apply", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To better boot; but let me die that ought:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "More is more losse; one is enough to dy.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Life is not lost,” (said she) “for which is bought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Endlesse renowm, that, more then death, is to be sought.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thus shee at length persuaded him to rise,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And with her wend to see what new successe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Mote him befall upon new enterprise.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His armes, which he had vowed to disprofesse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She gathered up and did about him dresse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And his forwandred steed unto him gott:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So forth they forth yfere make their progresse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And march not past the mountenaunce of a shott,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till they arriv’d whereas their purpose they did plott.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "There they dismounting drew their weapons bold,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And stoutly came unto the Castle gate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereas no gate they found them to withhold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nor ward to waite at morne and evening late;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But in the Porch, that did them sore amate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A flaming fire, ymixt with smouldry smoke", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And stinking sulphure, that with griesly hate", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And dreadfull horror did all entraunce choke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Enforced them their forward footing to revoke.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Greatly thereat was Britomart dismayd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ne in that stownd wist how her selfe to beare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For daunger vaine it were to have assayd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That cruell element, which all things feare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne none can suffer to approchen neare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, turning backe to Scudamour, thus sayd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“What monstrous enmity provoke we heare?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Foolhardy as th’Earthes children, the which made", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Batteill against the Gods, so we a God invade.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Daunger without discretion to attempt", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Inglorious, beastlike is: therefore, Sir knight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A read what course of you is safest dempt,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And how we with our foe may come to fight.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“This is” (quoth he) “the dolorous despight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which earst to you I playnd: for neither may", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "This fire be quencht by any witt or might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne yet by any meanes remov’d away;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So mighty be th’enchauntments which the same do stay.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“What is there ells but cease these fruitlesse paines,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And leave me to my former languishing?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Faire Amorett must dwell in wicked chaines,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Scudamore here die with sorrowing.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Perdy not so,” (saide shee) “for shameful thing", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yt were t’abandon noble chevisaunce", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For shewe of perill, without venturing:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Rather let try extremities of chaunce,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then enterprised praise for dread to disavaunce.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Therewith, resolv’d to prove her utmost might,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Her ample shield she threw before her face,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And her swords point directing forward right", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Assayld the flame; the which eftesoones gave place,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And did it selfe divide with equall space,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That through she passed, as a thonder bolt", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Perceth the yielding ayre, and doth displace", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The soring clouds into sad showres ymolt;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So to her yold the flames, and did their force revolt.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whom whenas Scudamour saw past the fire", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Safe and untoucht, he likewise gan assay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With greedy will and envious desire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And bad the stubborne flames to yield him way:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But cruell Mulciber would not obay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His threatfull pride, but did the more augment", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His mighty rage, and with imperious sway", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him forst, (maulgre) his fercenes to relent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And backe retire, all scorcht and pittifully brent.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "With huge impatience he inly swelt,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "More for great sorrow that he could not pas", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then for the burning torment which he felt;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That with fell woodnes he effierced was,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And wilfully him throwing on the gras", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did beat and bounse his head and brest ful sore:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The whiles the Championesse now entred has", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The utmost rowme, and past the foremost dore;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The utmost rowme abounding with all precious store:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "For round about the walls yclothed were", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With goodly arras of great majesty,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Woven with gold and silke, so close and nere", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That the rich metall lurked privily,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As faining to be hidd from envious eye;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet here, and there, and every where, unwares", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It shewd it selfe and shone unwillingly;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like a discolourd Snake, whose hidden snares", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through the greene gras his long bright burnisht back declares.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And in those Tapets weren fashioned", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Many faire pourtraicts, and many a faire feate;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all of love, and al of lustyhed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As seemed by their semblaunt, did entreat:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke all Cupids warres they did repeate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And cruell battailes, which he whilome fought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gainst all the Gods to make his empire great;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Besides the huge massacres, which he wrought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On mighty kings and kesars into thraldome brought.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Therein was writt how often thondring Jove", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Had felt the point of his hart-percing dart,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, leaving heavens kingdome, here did rove", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In straunge disguize, to slake his scalding smart;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now, like a Ram, faire Helle to pervart,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now, like a Bull, Europa to withdraw:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ah! how the fearefull Ladies tender hart", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did lively seeme to tremble, when she saw", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The huge seas under her t’obay her servaunts law.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Soone after that, into a golden showre", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Him selfe he chaung’d, faire Danaë to vew;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And through the roofe of her strong brasen towre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did raine into her lap an hony dew;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The whiles her foolish garde, that litle knew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of such deceipt, kept th’yron dore fast bard,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And watcht that none should enter nor issew:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Vaine was the watch, and bootlesse all the ward,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whenas the God to golden hew him selfe transfard.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then was he turnd into a snowy Swan,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To win faire Leda to his lovely trade:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "O wondrous skill! and sweet wit of the man,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That her in daffadillies sleeping made", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From scorching heat her daintie limbes to shade;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whiles the proud Bird, ruffing his fethers wyde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And brushing his faire brest, did her invade:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She slept; yet twixt her eielids closely spyde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "How towards her he rusht, and smiled at his pryde.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then shewd it how the Thebane Semelee,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Deceivd of gealous Juno, did require", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To see him in his soverayne majestee", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Armd with his thunderbolts and lightning fire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whens dearely she with death bought her desire.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But faire Alcmena better match did make,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Joying his love in likenes more entire:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Three nights in one, they say, that for her sake", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He then did put, her pleasures lenger to partake.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Twise was he seene in soaring Eagles shape,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And with wide winges to beat the buxome ayre:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Once, when he with Asterie did scape;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Againe, when as the Trojane boy so fayre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He snatcht from Ida hill, and with him bare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Wondrous delight it was there to behould", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "How the rude Shepheards after him did stare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Trembling through feare least down he fallen should,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And often to him calling to take surer hould.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "In Satyres shape Antiopa he snatcht;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And like a fire, when he Aegin’ assayd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A shepeheard, when Mnemosyne he catcht;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And like a Serpent to the Thracian mayd.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whyles thus on earth great Jove these pageaunts playd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The winged boy did thrust into his throne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And scoffing thus unto his mother sayd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Lo! now the hevens obey to me alone,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And take me for their Jove, whiles Jove to earth is gone.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And thou, faire Phœbus, in thy colours bright", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Wast there enwoven, and the sad distresse", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In which that boy thee plonged, for despight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That thou bewray’dst his mothers wantonnesse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When she with Mars was meynt in joyfulnesse:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Forthy he thrild thee with a leaden dart", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To love faire Daphne, which thee loved lesse;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Lesse she thee lov’d then was thy just desart,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet was thy love her death, and her death was thy smart.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So lovedst thou the lusty Hyacinct;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "So lovedst thou the faire Coronis deare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet both are of thy haplesse hand extinct,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet both in flowres doe live, and love thee beare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The one a Paunce, the other a sweet-breare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For griefe whereof, ye mote have lively seene", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The God himselfe rending his golden heare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And breaking quite his garlond ever greene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With other signes of sorrow and impatient teene.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Both for those two, and for his owne deare sonne,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The sonne of Climene, he did repent;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who, bold to guide the charet of the Sunne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Himselfe in thousand peeces fondly rent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all the world with flashing fire brent;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So like, that all the walles did seeme to flame:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet cruell Cupid, not herewith content,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Forst him eftsoones to follow other game,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And love a Shephards daughter for his dearest Dame.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He loved Isse for his dearest Dame,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And for her sake her cattell fedd awhile,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And for her sake a cowheard vile became:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The servant of Admetus, cowheard vile,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whiles that from heaven he suffered exile.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Long were to tell each other lovely fitt;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now, like a Lyon hunting after spoile;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now, like a stag; now, like a faulcon flit:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All which in that faire arras was most lively writ.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Next unto him was Neptune pictured,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In his divine resemblance wondrous lyke:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His face was rugged, and his hoarie hed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Dropped with brackish deaw; his threeforkt Pyke", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He stearnly shooke, and therewith fierce did stryke", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The raging billowes, that on every syde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They trembling stood, and made a long broad dyke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That his swift charet might have passage wyde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which foure great Hippodames did draw in temewise tyde.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "His seahorses did seeme to snort amayne,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And from their nosethrilles blow the brynie streame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That made the sparckling waves to smoke agayne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And flame with gold; but the white fomy creame", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did shine with silver, and shoot forth his beame.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The God himselfe did pensive seeme and sad,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And hong adowne his head as he did dreame;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For privy love his brest empierced had,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ought but deare Bisaltis ay could make him glad.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He loved eke Iphimedia deare,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And Æolus faire daughter, Arnè hight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For whom he turnd him selfe into a Steare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And fedd on fodder to beguile her sight.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Also to win Deucalions daughter bright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He turnd him selfe into a Dolphin fayre;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And like a winged horse he tooke his flight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To snaky-locke Medusa to repayre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On whom he got faire Pegasus that flitteth in the ayre.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Next Saturne was, (but who would ever weene", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That sullein Saturne ever weend to love?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet love is sullein, and Saturnlike seene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As he did for Erigone it prove)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That to a Centaure did him selfe transmove.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So proov’d it eke that gratious God of wine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When for to compasse Philliras hard love,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He turnd himselfe into a fruitfull vine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And into her faire bosome made his grapes decline.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Long were to tell the amorous assayes,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And gentle pangues, with which he maked meeke", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The mightie Mars, to learne his wanton playes;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "How oft for Venus, and how often eek", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For many other Nymphes, he sore did shreek,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With womanish teares, and with unwarlike smarts,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Privily moystening his horrid cheeke:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There was he painted full of burning dartes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And many wide woundes launched through his inner partes.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Ne did he spare (so cruell was the Elfe)", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His owne deare mother, (ah! why should he so?)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne did he spare sometime to pricke himselfe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That he might taste the sweet consuming woe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which he had wrought to many others moe.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, to declare the mournfull Tragedyes", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And spoiles wherewith he all the ground did strow,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "More eath to number with how many eyes", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "High heven beholdes sad lovers nightly theeveryes.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Kings, Queenes, Lords, Ladies, knights, and Damsels gent,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Were heap’d together with the vulgar sort,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And mingled with the raskall rablement,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Without respect of person or of port,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To shew Dan Cupids powre and great effort:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And round about a border was entrayld", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of broken bowes and arrowes shivered short;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And a long bloody river through them rayld,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So lively and so like that living sence it fayld.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And at the upper end of that faire rowme", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "There was an Altar built of pretious stone", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of passing valew and of great renowme,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On which there stood an Image all alone", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of massy gold, which with his owne light shone;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And winges it had with sondry colours dight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "More sondry colours then the proud Pavone", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Beares in his boasted fan, or Iris bright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When her discolourd bow she spreds through hevens hight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Blyndfold he was; and in his cruell fist", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A mortall bow and arrowes keene did hold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With which he shot at randon, when him list,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some headed with sad lead, some with pure gold;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "(Ah man! beware how thou those dartes behold.)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A wounded Dragon under him did ly,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose hideous tayle his lefte foot did enfold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with a shaft was shot through either eye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That no man forth might draw, ne no man remedye.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And underneath his feet was written thus,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Unto the Victor of the Gods this bee:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all the people in that ample hous", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did to that image bowe their humble knee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And oft committed fowle Idolatree.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That wondrous sight faire Britomart amazd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne seeing could her wonder satisfie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But ever more and more upon it gazd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The whiles the passing brightnes her fraile sences dazd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Tho, as she backward cast her busie eye", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To search each secrete of that goodly sted,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Over the dore thus written she did spye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Bee bold: she oft and oft it over-red,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet could not find what sence it figured:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But what so were therein or writ or ment,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She was no whit thereby discouraged", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From prosecuting of her first intent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But forward with bold steps into the next roome went.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Much fayrer then the former was that roome,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And richlier by many partes arayd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For not with arras made in painefull loome,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But with pure gold it all was overlayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Wrought with wilde Antickes, which their follies playd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In the rich metall as they living were.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A thousand monstrous formes therein were made,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Such as false love doth oft upon him weare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For love in thousand 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"text": "But more she mervaild that no footings trace", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nor wight appeard, but wastefull emptinesse", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And solemne silence over all that place:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Straunge thing it seem’d, that none was to possesse", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So rich purveyaunce, ne them keepe with carefulnesse.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And, as she lookt about, she did behold", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "How over that same dore was likewise writ,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Be bolde, be bolde, and every where, Be bold;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That much she muz’d, yet could not construe it", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By any ridling skill, or commune wit.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At last she spyde at that rowmes upper end", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Another yron dore, on which was writ,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Be not too bold; whereto though she did bend", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her earnest minde, yet wist not what it might 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"indent": 1 }, { "text": "As if no sorrow she ne felt ne drad;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That evill matched paire they seemd to bee:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "An angry Waspe th’one in a viall had,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Th’other in hers an hony-laden Bee.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thus marched these six couples forth in faire degree.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "After all these there marcht a most faire Dame,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Led of two grysie Villeins, th’one Despight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The other cleped Cruelty by name:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She, dolefull Lady, like a dreary Spright", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Cald by strong charmes out of eternall night,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had Deathes owne ymage figurd in her face,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Full of sad signes, fearfull to living sight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet in that horror shewd a seemely grace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with her feeble feete did move a comely pace.", 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lowrd, Repentaunce sighd, Reproch did scould;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Reproch sharpe stings, Repentaunce whips entwinde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shame burning brond-yrons in her hand did hold:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All three to each unlike, yet all made in one mould.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And after them a rude confused rout", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of persons flockt, whose names is hard to read:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Emongst them was Sterne Strife, and Anger stout;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unquiet Care, and fond Unthriftyhead;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Lewd Losse of Time, and Sorrow seeming dead;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Inconstant Chaunge, and false Disloyalty;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Consuming Riotise, and guilty Dread", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of heavenly vengeaunce; faint Infirmity;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Vile Poverty; and, lastly, Death with infamy.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "There were full many moe like maladies,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whose names and natures I note readen well;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So many moe, as there be phantasies", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In wavering wemens witt, that none can tell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or paines in love, or punishments in hell:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All which disguized marcht in masking wise", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "About the chamber by the Damozell;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And then returned, having marched thrise,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into the inner rowme from whence they first did rise.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So soone as they were in, the dore streightway", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Fast locked, driven with that stormy blast", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which first it opened, and bore all away.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then the brave Maid, which al this while was plast", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In secret shade, and saw both first and last,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Issewed forth, and went unto the dore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To enter in, but fownd it locked fast:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It vaine she thought with rigorous uprore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For to efforce, when charmes had closed it afore.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Where force might not availe, there sleights and art", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "She cast to use, both fitt for hard emprize:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Forthy from that same rowme not to depart", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till morrow next shee did her selfe avize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When that same Maske againe should forth arize.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The morrowe next appeard with joyous cheare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Calling men to their daily exercize:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then she, as morrow fresh, her selfe did reare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Out of her secret stand that day for to outweare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "All that day she outwore in wandering", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And gazing on that Chambers ornament,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till that againe the second evening", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her covered with her sable vestiment,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Wherewith the worlds faire beautie she hath blent:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then, when the second watch was almost past,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That brasen dore flew open, and in went", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Bold Britomart, as she had late forecast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nether of ydle showes, nor of false charmes aghast.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So soone as she was entred, rownd about", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Shee cast her eies to see what was become", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of all those persons which she saw without:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But lo! they streight were vanisht all and some;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne living wight she saw in all that roome,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Save that same woefull Lady, both whose hands", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Were bounden fast, that did her ill become,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And her small waste girt rownd with yron bands", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon a brasen pillour, by the which she stands.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And her before the vile Enchaunter sate,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Figuring straunge characters of his art:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With living blood he those characters wrate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Dreadfully dropping from her dying hart,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Seeming transfixed with a cruell dart;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all perforce to make her him to love.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ah! who can love the worker of her smart?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A thousand charmes he formerly did prove,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet thousand charmes could not her stedfast hart remove.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Soone as that virgin knight he saw in place,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His wicked bookes in hast he overthrew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Not caring his long labours to deface;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, fiercely running to that Lady trew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A murdrous knife out of his pocket drew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which he thought, for villeinous despight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In her tormented bodie to embrew:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But the stout Damzell, to him leaping light,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His cursed hand withheld, and maistered his might.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "From her, to whom his fury first he ment,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The wicked weapon rashly he did wrest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, turning to herselfe, his fell intent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unwares it strooke into her snowie chest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That litle drops empurpled her faire brest.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Exceeding wroth therewith the virgin grew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Albe the wound were nothing deepe imprest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And fiercely forth her mortall blade she drew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To give him the reward for such vile outrage dew.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So mightily she smote him, that to ground", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He fell halfe dead: next stroke him should have slaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had not the Lady, which by him stood bound,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Dernly unto her called to abstaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From doing him to dy: For else her paine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Should be remedilesse; sith none but hee", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which wrought it could the same recure againe.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therewith she stayd her hand, loth stayd to bee;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For life she him envyde, and long’d revenge to see:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And to him said: “Thou wicked man, whose meed", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For so huge mischiefe and vile villany", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Is death, or if that ought doe death exceed;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Be sure that nought may save thee from to dy", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But if that thou this Dame do presently", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Restore unto her health and former state:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "This doe, and live, els dye undoubtedly.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He, glad of life, that lookt for death but late,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did yield him selfe right willing to prolong his date:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And, rising up, gan streight to overlooke", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Those cursed leaves, his charmes back to reverse.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Full dreadfull thinges out of that balefull booke", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He red, and measur’d many a sad verse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That horrour gan the virgins hart to perse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And her faire locks up stared stiffe on end,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Hearing him those same bloody lynes reherse;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, all the while he red, she did extend", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her sword high over him, if ought he did offend.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Anon she gan perceive the house to quake,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And all the dores to rattle round about:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet all that did not her dismaied make,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nor slack her threatfull hand for daungers dout:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But still with stedfast eye and courage stout", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Abode, to weet what end would come of all.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At last that mightie chaine, which round about", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her tender waste was wound, adowne gan fall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And that great brasen pillour broke in peeces small.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The cruell steele, which thrild her dying hart,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Fell softly forth, as of his owne accord,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And the wyde wound, which lately did dispart", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her bleeding brest, and riven bowels gor’d,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was closed up, as it had not beene bor’d;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And every part to safety full sownd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As she were never hurt, was soone restord.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tho, when she felt her selfe to be unbownd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And perfect hole, prostrate she fell unto the grownd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Before faire Britomart she fell prostrate,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Saying; “Ah noble knight! what worthy meede", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Can wretched Lady, quitt from wofull state,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yield you in lieu of this your gracious deed?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Your vertue selfe her owne reward shall breed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Even immortal prayse and glory wyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which I your vassall, by your prowesse freed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shall through the world make to be notifyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And goodly well advaunce that goodly well was tryde.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But Britomart, uprearing her from grownd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Said: “Gentle Dame, reward enough I weene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For many labours more then I have found,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "This, that in safetie now I have you seene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And meane of your deliverance have beene.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Henceforth, faire Lady, comfort to you take,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And put away remembrance of late teene;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Insted thereof, know that your loving Make", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Hath no lesse griefe endured for your gentle sake.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "She much was chear’d to heare him mentiond,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whom of all living wightes she loved best.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then laid the noble Championesse strong hond", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon th’enchaunter which had her distrest", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So sore, and with foule outrages opprest.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With that great chaine, wherewith not long ygoe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He bound that pitteous Lady prisoner, now relest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Himselfe she bound, more worthy to be so,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And captive with her led to wretchednesse and wo.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Returning back, those goodly rowmes, which erst", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "She saw so rich and royally arayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now vanisht utterly and cleane subverst", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She found, and all their glory quite decayd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That sight of such a chaunge her much dismayd.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thence forth descending to that perlous porch,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Those dreadfull flames she also found delayd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And quenched quite like a consumed torch,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That erst all entrers wont so cruelly to scorch.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "More easie issew now then entrance late", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "She found; for now that fained dreadfull flame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which chokt the porch of that enchaunted gate", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And passage bard to all that thither came,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was vanisht quite, as it were not the same,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And gave her leave at pleasure forth to passe.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Th’Enchaunter selfe, which all that fraud did frame", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To have efforst the love of that faire lasse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Seeing his worke now wasted, deepe engrieved was.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But when the Victoresse arrived there", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Where late she left the pensife Scudamore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With her own trusty Squire, both full of feare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Neither of them she found where she them lore:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thereat her noble hart was stonisht sore;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But most faire Amoret, whose gentle spright", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now gan to feede on hope, which she before", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Conceived had, to see her own deare knight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Being thereof beguyld, was fild with new affright.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But he, sad man, when he had long in drede", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Awayted there for Britomarts returne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet saw her not, nor signe of her good speed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His expectation to despaire did turne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Misdeeming sure that her those flames did burne;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And therefore gan advize with her old Squire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who her deare nourslings losse no lesse did mourne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thence to depart for further aide t’enquire:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where let them wend at will, whilest here I doe respire.", "indent": 0 } ] ] }