{ "id": "edmund-spenser/the-legend-of-cambel-and-triamond-or-of-friendship", "title": "The Legend of Cambel and Triamond, or of Friendship", "ordinal": "Book IV", "subtitle": null, "poet": "Edmund Spenser", "poet_slug": "edmund-spenser", "language": "en", "book": "The Faerie Queene", "book_slug": "the-faerie-queene", "book_kind": "volume", "sequence": 5, "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", 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"indent": 1 }, { "text": "My looser rimes (I wote) doth sharply wite", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For praising love as I have done of late,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And magnifying lovers deare debate;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By which fraile youth is oft to follie led,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through false allurement of that pleasing baite,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That better were in vertues discipled,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then with vaine poemes weeds to have their fancies fed.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Such ones ill judge of love that cannot love,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ne in their frosen hearts feele kindly flame:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Forthy they ought not thing unknowne reprove,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne naturall affection faultlesse blame", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For fault of few that have abusd the same;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For it of honor and all vertue is", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The roote, and brings forth glorious flowres of fame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That crowne true lovers with immortall blis,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The meed of them that love, and do not live amisse.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which who so list looke backe to former ages,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And call to count the things that then were donne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shall find that all the workes of those wise sages,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And brave exploits which great Heroës wonne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In love were either ended or begunne:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Witnesse the father of Philosophie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which to his Critias, shaded oft from sunne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of love full manie lessons did apply,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which these Stoicke censours cannot well deny.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "To such therefore I do not sing at all;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But to that sacred Saint my soveraigne Queene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In whose chast brest all bountie naturall", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And treasures of true love enlocked beene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Bove all her sexe that ever yet was seene:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To her I sing of love, that loveth best,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And best is lov’d of all alive, I weene;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To her this song most fitly is addrest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The Queene of love, and Prince of peace from heaven blest.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which that she may the better deigne to heare,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Do thou, dred infant, Venus dearling dove,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From her high spirit chase imperious feare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And use of awfull Majestie remove:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Insted thereof with drops of melting love,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Deawd with ambrosiall kisses, by thee gotten", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From thy sweete smyling mother from above,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sprinckle her heart, and haughtie courage soften,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That she may hearke to love, and reade this lesson often.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Of lovers sad calamities of old", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Full many piteous stories doe remaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But none more piteous ever was ytold", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then that of Amorets hart-binding chaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And this of Florimels unworthie paine:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The deare compassion of whose bitter fit", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "My softened heart so sorely doth constraine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That I with teares full oft doe pittie it,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And oftentimes doe wish it never had bene writ.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "For from the time that Scudamour her bought", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In perilous fight she never joyed day;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A perilous fight, when he with force her brought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From twentie Knights that did him all assay;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet fairely well he did them all dismay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with great glorie both the shield of love", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke the Ladie selfe he brought away;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom having wedded, as did him behove,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A new unknowen mischiefe did from him remove.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "For that same vile Enchauntour Busyran,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The very selfe same day that she was wedded,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Amidst the bridale feast, whilest every man,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Surcharg’d with wine, were heedlesse and ill-hedded,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All bent to mirth before the bride was bedded,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Brought in that mask of love which late was showen;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And there the Ladie, ill of friends bestedded,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By way of sport, as oft in maskes is knowen,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Conveyed quite away to living wight unknowen.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Seven moneths he so her kept in bitter smart,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Because his sinfull lust she would not serve,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Untill such time as noble Britomart", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Released her, that else was like to sterve", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through cruell knife that her deare heart did kerve:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And now she is with her upon the way", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Marching in lovely wise, that could deserve", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "No spot of blame, though spite did oft assay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To blot her with dishonor of so faire a pray.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Yet should it be a pleasant tale, to tell", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The diverse usage, and demeanure daint,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That each to other made, as oft befell:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For Amoret right fearefull was and faint", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Lest she wtih blame her honor should attaint,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That everie word did tremble as she spake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And everie looke was coy and wondrous quaint,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And everie limbe that touched her did quake;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet could she not but curteous countenance to her make.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "For well she wist, as true it was indeed,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That her lives Lord and patrone of her health", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Right well deserved, as his duefull meed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her love, her service, and her utmost wealth:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All is his justly that all freely dealth.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nathlesse her honor, dearer then her life,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She sought to save, as thing reserv’d from stealth.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Die had she lever with Enchanters knife", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then to be false in love, profest a virgine wife.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thereto her feare was made so much the greater", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Through fine abusion of that Briton mayd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who, for to hide her fained sex the better", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And maske her wounded mind, both did and sayd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Full many things so doubtfull to be wayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That well she wist not what by them to gesse:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For otherwhiles to her she purpos made", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of love, and otherwhiles of lustfulnesse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That much she feard his mind would grow to some excesse.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "His will she feard; for him she surely thought", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To be a man, such as indeed he seemed;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And much the more by that he lately wrought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When her from deadly thraldome he redeemed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For which no service she too much esteemed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet dread of shame and doubt of fowle dishonor", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Made her not yeeld so much as due she deemed.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet Britomart attended duly on her,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As well became a knight, and did to her all honor.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "It so befell one evening, that they came", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Unto a Castell, lodged there to bee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where many a knight, and many a lovely Dame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was then assembled deeds of armes to see:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Amongst all which was none more faire then shee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That many of them mov’d to eye her sore.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The custome of that place was such, that hee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which had no love nor lemman there in store,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Should either winne him one, or lye without the dore.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Amongst the rest there was a jolly knight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Who, being asked for his love, avow’d", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That fairest Amoret was his by right,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And offred that to justifie alowd.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The warlike virgine, seeing his so prowd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And boastfull chalenge, wexed inlie wroth;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But for the present did her anger shrowd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And sayd, her love to lose she was full loth,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But either he should neither of them have, or both.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So foorth they went, and both together giusted;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But that same younker soone was overthrowne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And made repent that he had rashly lusted", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For thing unlawfull, that was not his owne:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet since he seemed valiant, though unknowne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She, that no lesse was courteous then stout,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Cast how to salve, that both the custome showne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Were kept, and yet that Knight not locked out;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That seem’d full hard t’accord two things so far in dout.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The Seneschall was cal’d to deeme the right:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whom she requir’d, that first fayre Amoret", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Might be to her allow’d, as to a Knight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That did her win and free from chalenge set:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which straight to her was yeelded without let.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then, since that strange Knights love from him was quitted,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She claim’d that to her selfe, as Ladies det,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He as a Knight might justly be admitted;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So none should be out shut, sith all of loves were fitted.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "With that, her glistring helmet she unlaced;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which doft, her golden lockes, that were upbound", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Still in a knot, unto her heeles downe traced,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And like a silken veile in compasse round", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "About her backe and all her bodie wound:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like as the shining skie in summers night,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What time the dayes with scorching heat abound,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Is creasted all with lines of firie light,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That it prodigious seemes in common peoples sight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Such when those Knights and Ladies all about", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Beheld her, all were with amazement smit,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And every one gan grow in secret dout", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of this and that, according to each wit:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some thought that some enchantment faygned it;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some, that Bellona in that warlike wise", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To them appear’d, with shield and armour fit;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some, that it was a maske of strange disguise:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So diversely each one did sundrie doubts devise.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But that young Knight, which through her gentle deed", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Was to that goodly fellowship restor’d,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ten thousand thankes did yeeld her for her meed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, doubly overcommen, her ador’d.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So did they all their former strife accord;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke fayre Amoret, now freed from feare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "More franke affection did to her afford,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to her bed, which she was wont forbeare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now freely drew, and found right safe assurance theare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Where all that night they of their loves did treat,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And hard adventures, twixt themselves alone,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That each the other gan with passion great", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And griefull pittie privately bemone.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The morow next, so soone as Titan shone,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They both uprose and to their waies them dight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Long wandred they, yet never met with none", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That to their willes could them direct aright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or to them tydings tell that mote their harts delight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Lo! thus they rode, till at the last they spide", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Two armed Knights that toward them did pace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And ech of them had ryding by his side", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A Ladie, seeming in so farre a space:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Ladies none they were, albee in face", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And outward shew faire semblance they did beare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For under maske of beautie and good grace", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Vile treason and fowle falshood hidden were,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That mote to none but to the warie wise appeare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The one of them the false Duessa hight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That now had chang’d her former wonted hew;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For she could d’on so manie shapes in sight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As ever could Cameleon colours new;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So could she forge all colours, save the trew.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The other no whit better was then shee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But that such as she was she plaine did shew;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet otherwise much worse, if worse might bee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And dayly more offensive unto each degree.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Her name was Atè, mother of debate", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And all dissention which doth dayly grow", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Amongst fraile men, that many a publike state,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And many a private oft doth overthrow.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her false Duessa, who full well did know", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To be most fit to trouble noble knights", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which hunt for honor, raised from below", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Out of the dwellings of the damned sprights,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where she in darknes wastes her cursed daies and nights.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Hard by the gates of hell her dwelling is;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "There, whereas all the plagues and harmes abound", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which punish wicked men that walke amisse:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It is a darksome delve farre under ground,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With thornes and barren brakes environd round,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That none the same may easily out-win:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet many waies to enter may be found,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But none to issue forth when one is in;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For discord harder is to end then to begin.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And all within, the riven walls were hung", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With ragged monuments of times forepast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All which the sad effects of discord sung:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There were rent robes and broken scepters plast;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Altars defyld, and holy things defast;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Disshivered speares, and shields ytorne in twaine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Great cities ransackt, and strong castles rast;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nations captived, and huge armies slaine:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of all which ruines there some relicks did remaine.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "There was the signe of antique Babylon;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of fatall Thebes; of Rome that raigned long;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of sacred Salem; and sad Ilion,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For memorie of which on high there hong", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The golden Apple, cause of all their wrong,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For which the three faire Goddesses did strive:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There also was the name of Nimrod strong;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of Alexander, and his Princes five", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which shar’d to them the spoiles that he had got alive.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And there the relicks of the drunken fray,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The which amongst the Lapithees befell;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And of the bloodie feast, which sent away", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So many Centaures drunken soules to hell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That under great Alcides furie fell;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And of the dreadfull discord, which did drive", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The noble Argonauts to outrage fell;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That each of life sought others to deprive,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All mindlesse of the Golden fleece, which made them strive.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And eke of private persons many moe,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That were too long a worke to count them all;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some, of sworne friends that did their faith forgoe;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some, of borne brethren prov’d unnaturall;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some, of deare lovers foes perpetuall:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Witnesse their broken bandes there to be seene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their girlonds rent, their bowres despoyled all;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The moniments whereof there byding beene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As plaine as at the first when they were fresh and greene.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Such was her house within; but all without,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The barren ground was full of wicked weedes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which she her selfe had sowen all about,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now growen great, at first of little seedes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The seedes of evill wordes and factious deedes;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which, when to ripenesse due they growen arre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Bring foorth an infinite increase, that breedes", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tumultuous trouble, and contentious jarre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which most often end in bloudshed and in warre.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And those same cursed seedes doe also serve", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To her for bread, and yeeld her living food:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For life it is to her, when others sterve", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through mischievous debate and deadly feood,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That she may sucke their life, and drinke their blood,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With which she from her childhood had bene fed;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For she at first was borne of hellish brood,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And by infernall furies nourished;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That by her monstrous shape might easily be red.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Her face most fowle and filthy was to see,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With squinted eyes contrarie wayes intended,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And loathly mouth, unmeete a mouth to bee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That nought but gall and venim comprehended,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And wicked wordes that God and man offended.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her lying tongue was in two parts divided,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And both the parts did speake, and both contended;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And as her tongue so was her hart discided,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That never thoght one thing, but doubly stil was guided.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Als as she double spake, so heard she double,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With matchlesse eares deformed and distort,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fild with false rumors and seditious trouble,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Bred in assemblies of the vulgar sort,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That still are led with every light report:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And as her eares, so eke her feet were odde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And much unlike; th’one long, the other short,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And both misplast; that, when th’one forward yode,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The other backe retired and contrarie trode.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Likewise unequall were her handes twaine;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That one did reach the other pusht away;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That one did make the other mard againe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And sought to bring all things unto decay;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereby great riches, gathered manie a day,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She in short space did often bring to nought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And their possessours often did dismay:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For all her studie was and all her thought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "How she might overthrow the things that Concord wrought.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So much her malice did her might surpas,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That even th’Almightie selfe she did maligne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Because to man so mercifull he was,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And unto all his creatures so benigne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sith she her selfe was of his grace indigne;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For all this worlds faire workmanship she tride", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto his last confusion to bring,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And that great golden chaine quite to divide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With which it blessed Concord hath together tide.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Such was that hag which with Duessa roade;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And, serving her in her malitious use", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To hurt good knights, was, as it were, her baude", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To sell her borrowed beautie to abuse:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For though, like withered tree that wanteth juyce,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She old and crooked were, yet now of late", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As fresh and fragrant as the floure-deluce", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She was become, by chaunge of her estate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And made full goodly joyance to her newfound mate.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Her mate, he was a jollie youthfull knight", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That bore great sway in armes and chivalrie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And was indeed a man of mickle might;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His name was Blandamour, that did descrie", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His fickle mind full of inconstancie:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And now himselfe he fitted had right well", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With two companions of like qualitie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Faithlesse Duessa, and false Paridell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That whether were more false full hard it is to tell.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Now when this gallant with his goodly crew", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "From farre espide the famous Britomart,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like knight adventurous in outward vew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With his faire paragon, his conquests part,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Approching nigh, eftsoones his wanton hart", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was tickled with delight, and jesting sayd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Lo! there, Sir Paridel, for your desart", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Good lucke presents you with yond lovely mayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For pitie that ye want a fellow for your ayd.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "By that the lovely paire drew nigh to hond:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whom when as Paridel more plaine beheld,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Albee in heart he like affection fond,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet mindfull how he late by one was feld", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That did those armes and that same scutchion weld,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He had small lust to buy his love so deare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But answered; “Sir, him wise I never held,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That, having once escaped perill neare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Would afterwards afresh the sleeping evill reare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“This knight too late his manhood and his might", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "I did assay, that me right dearely cost;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne list I for revenge provoke new fight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne for light Ladies love that soone is lost.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That hot-spurre youth so scorning to be crost,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Take then to you this Dame of mine,” (quoth hee)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“And I, without your perill or your cost,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Will chalenge yond same other for my fee.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So forth he fiercely prickt that one him scarce could see.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The warlike Britonesse her soone addrest,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And with such uncouth welcome did receave", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her fayned Paramour, her forced guest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That being forst his saddle soone to leave,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him selfe he did of his new love deceave;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And made him selfe thensample of his follie.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which done, she passed forth, not taking leave,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And left him now as sad, as whilome jollie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Well warned to beware with whom he dar’d to dallie.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which when his other companie beheld,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "They to his succour ran with readie ayd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, finding him unable once to weld,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They reared him on horsebacke and upstayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till on his way they had him forth convayd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all the way, with wondrous griefe of mynd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And shame, he shewd him selfe to be dismayd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "More for the love which he had left behynd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then that which he had to Sir Paridel resynd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Nathlesse he forth did march, well as he might,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And made good semblance to his companie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Dissembling his disease and evill plight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till that ere long they chaunced to espie", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Two other knights, that towards them did ply", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With speedie course, as bent to charge them new:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom when as Blandamour approching nie", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Perceiv’d to be such as they seemd in vew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He was full wo, and gan his former griefe renew.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "For th’one of them he perfectly descride", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To be Sir Scudamour, by that he bore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The God of love with wings displayed wide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom mortally he hated evermore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both for his worth, that all men did adore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke because his love he wonne by right:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which when he thought, it grieved him full sore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That, through the bruses of his former fight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He now unable was to wreake his old despight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Forthy he thus to Paridel bespake:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“Faire Sir, of friendship let me now you pray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That as I late adventured for your sake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The hurts whereof me now from battell stay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ye will me now with like good turne repay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And justifie my cause on yonder knight.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Ah! Sir,” (said Paridell) “do not dismay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Your selfe for this; my selfe will for you fight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As ye have done for me: the left hand rubs the right.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "With that he put his spurres unto his steed,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With speare in rest, and toward him did fare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like shaft out of a bow preventing speed:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Scudamour was shortly well aware", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of his approch, and gan him selfe prepare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him to receive with entertainment meete.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So furiously they met, that either bare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The other downe under their horses feete,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That what of them became themselves did scarsly weete.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "As when two billowes in the Irish sowndes,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Forcibly driven with contrarie tydes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Do meete together, each abacke rebowndes", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With roaring rage; and dashing on all sides,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That filleth all the sea with fome, divydes", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The doubtfull current into divers wayes.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So fell those two in spight of both their prydes;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Scudamour himselfe did soone uprayse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, mounting light, his foe for lying long upbrayes:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Who, rolled on an heape, lay still in swound", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "All carelesse of his taunt and bitter rayle;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till that the rest him seeing lie on ground", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ran hastily, to weete what did him ayle.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where finding that the breath gan him to fayle,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With busie care they strove him to awake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And doft his helmet, and undid his mayle:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So much they did, that at the last they brake", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His slomber, yet so mazed that he nothing spake.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which when as Blandamour beheld, he sayd;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“False faitour Scudamour, that hast by slight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And foule advantage this good Knight dismayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A Knight much better then thy selfe behight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Well falles it thee that I am not in plight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "This day to wreake the dammage by thee donne.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Such is thy wont, that still when any Knight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Is weakned, then thou doest him overronne:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So hast thou to thy selfe false honour often wonne.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He little answer’d, but in manly heart", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His mightie indignation did forbeare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which was not yet so secret, but some part", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thereof did in his frouning face appeare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like as a gloomie cloud, the which doth beare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "An hideous storme, is by the Northerne blast", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Quite overblowne, yet doth not passe so cleare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But that it all the skie doth overcast", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With darknes dred, and threatens all the world to wast.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Ah gentle knight!” then false Duessa sayd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“Why do ye strive for Ladies love so sore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose chiefe desire is love and friendly aid", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Mongst gentle Knights to nourish evermore?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne be ye wroth, Sir Scudamour, therefore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That she, your love, list love another knight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne do your selfe dislike a whit the more;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For Love is free, and led with selfe delight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne will enforced be with maisterdome or might.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So false Duessa; but vile Atè thus:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“Both foolish knights! I can but laugh at both,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That strive and storme with stirre outrageous", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For her, that each of you alike doth loth,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And loves another, with whom now she goth", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In lovely wise, and sleepes, and sports, and playes;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whilest both you here with many a cursed oth", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sweare she is yours, and stirre up bloudie frayes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To win a willow bough, whilest other weares the bayes.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Vile hag!” (sayd Scudamour) “why dost thou lye,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And falsly seekst a vertuous wight to shame?”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Fond knight,” (sayd she) “the thing that with this eye", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I saw, why should I doubt to tell the same?”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Then tell,” (quoth Blandamour) “and feare no blame:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tell what thou saw’st, maulgre who so it heares.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“I saw” (quoth she) “a stranger knight, whose name", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I wote not well, but in his shield he beares", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "(That well I wote) the heads of many broken speares;", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“I saw him have your Amoret at will;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "I saw him kisse; I saw him her embrace;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I saw him sleepe with her all night his fill;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All manie nights; and manie by in place", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That present were to testifie the case.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which when as Scudamour did heare, his heart", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was thrild with inward griefe: as when in chace", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The Parthian strikes a stag with shivering dart,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The beast astonisht stands in middest of his smart.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So stood Sir Scudamour when this he heard,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ne word had he to speake for great dismay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But lookt on Glaucè grim; who woxe afeard", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of outrage for the words which she heard say,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Albee untrue she wist them by assay.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Blandamour, whenas he did espie", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His chaunge of cheere that anguish did bewray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He woxe full blithe, as he had got thereby,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And gan thereat to triumph without victorie.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Lo! recreant,” (sayd he) “the fruitlesse end", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of thy vaine boast, and spoile of love misgotten,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereby the name of knighthood thou dost shend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all true lovers with dishonor blotten:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All things not rooted well will soone be rotten.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Fy, fy! false knight,” (then false Duessa cryde)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Unworthy life, that love with guile hast gotten;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Be thou, where ever thou do go or ryde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Loathed of ladies all, and of all knights defyde!”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But Scudamour, for passing great despight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Staid not to answer; scarcely did refraine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But that in all those knights and ladies sight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He for revenge had guiltlesse Glaucè slaine:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, being past, he thus began amaine:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“False traitour squire! false squire of falsest knight!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Why doth mine hand from thine avenge abstaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose Lord hath done my love this foule despight?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Why do I not it wreake on thee, now in my might?", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Discourteous, disloyall Britomart,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Untrue to God, and unto man unjust!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What vengeance due can equall thy desart,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That hast with shamefull spot of sinfull lust", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Defil’d the pledge committed to thy trust?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Let ugly shame and endlesse infamy", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Colour thy name with foule reproaches rust!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet thou, false Squire, his fault shalt deare aby,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with thy punishment his penance shalt supply.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The aged Dame, him seeing so enraged,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Was dead with feare; nathlesse, as neede required,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His flaming furie sought to have assuaged", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With sober words, that sufferance desired,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till time the tryall of her truth expyred;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And evermore sought Britomart to cleare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But he the more with furious rage was fyred,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And thrise his hand to kill her did upreare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And thrise he drew it backe; so did at last forbeare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Firebrand of hell, first tynd in Phlegeton", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "By thousand furies, and from thence out throwen", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into this world to worke confusion,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And set it all on fire by force unknowen,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Is wicked discord; whose small sparkes once blowen", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "None but a God or godlike man can slake;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Such as was Orpheus, that, when strife was growen", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Amongst those famous ympes of Greece, did take", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His silver Harpe in hand and shortly friends them make:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Or such as that celestiall Psalmist was,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That, when the wicked feend his Lord tormented,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With heavenly notes, that did all other pas", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The outrage of his furious fit relented.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Such Musicke is wise words, with time concented,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To moderate stiffe mindes disposd to strive:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Such as that prudent Romane well invented,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What time his people into partes did rive,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Them reconcyld againe, and to their homes did drive.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Such us’d wise Glaucè to that wrathfull knight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To calme the tempest of his troubled thought:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet Blandamour with termes of foule despight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Paridell her scornd, and set at nought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As old and crooked and not good for ought.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both they unwise, and warelesse of the evill", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That by themselves unto themselves is wrought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through that false witch, and that foule aged drevill;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The one a feend, the other an incarnate devill.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "With whom as they thus rode accompanide,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "They were encountred of a lustie Knight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That had a goodly Ladie by his side,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To whom he made great dalliance and delight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It was to weete the bold Sir Ferraugh hight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He that from Braggadocchio whilome reft", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The snowy Florimell, whose beautie bright", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Made him seeme happie for so glorious theft;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet was it in due triall but a wandring weft.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which when as Blandamour, whose fancie light", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Was alwaies flitting as the wavering wind", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "After each beautie that appeard in sight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Beheld, eftsoones it prickt his wanton mind", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With sting of lust that reasons eye did blind,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That to Sir Paridell these words he sent:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Sir knight, why ride ye dumpish thus behind,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Since so good fortune doth to you present", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So fayre a spoyle, to make you joyous meriment?”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But Paridell, that had too late a tryall", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of the bad issue of his counsell vaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "List not to hearke, but made this faire denyall:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Last turne was mine, well proved to my paine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "This now be yours; God send you better gaine!”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose scoffed words he taking halfe in scorne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fiercely forth prickt his steed as in disdaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Against that Knight, ere he him well could torne;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By meanes whereof he hath him lightly overborne.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Who, with the sudden stroke astonisht sore,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Upon the ground awhile in slomber lay;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The whiles his love away the other bore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, shewing her, did Paridell upbray;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Lo! sluggish Knight, the victors happie pray!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So fortune friends the bold:” whom Paridell", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Seeing so faire indeede, as he did say,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His hart with secret envie gan to swell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And inly grudge at him that he had sped so well.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Nathlesse proud man himselfe the other deemed,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Having so peerelesse paragon ygot:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For sure the fayrest Florimell him seemed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To him was fallen for his happie lot,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose like alive on earth he weened not:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therefore he her did court, did serve, did wooe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With humblest suit that he imagine mot,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all things did devise, and all things dooe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That might her love prepare, and liking win theretoo.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "She, in regard thereof, him recompenst", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With golden words and goodly countenance,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And such fond favours sparingly dispenst:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sometimes him blessing with a light eye-glance,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And coy lookes tempring with loose dalliance;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sometimes estranging him in sterner wise;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That having cast him in a foolish trance,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He seemed brought to bed in Paradise,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And prov’d himselfe most foole in what he seem’d most wise.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So great a mistresse of her art she was,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And perfectly practiz’d in womans craft,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That though therein himselfe he thought to pas,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And by his false allurements wylie draft", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had thousand women of their love beraft,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet now he was surpriz’d: for that false spright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which that same witch had in this forme engraft,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was so expert in every subtile slight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That it could overreach the wisest earthly wight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Yet he to her did dayly service more,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And dayly more deceived was thereby;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet Paridell him envied therefore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As seeming plast in sole felicity:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So blind is lust false colours to descry.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Atè soone discovering his desire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And finding now fit opportunity", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To stirre up strife twixt love and spight and ire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did privily put coles unto his secret fire.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "By sundry meanes thereto she prickt him forth;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Now with remembrance of those spightfull speaches,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now with opinion or his owne more worth,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now with recounting of like former breaches", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Made in their friendship, as that Hag him teaches:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And ever when his passion is allayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She it revives, and new occasion reaches;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That on a time, as they together way’d,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He made him open chalenge, and thus boldly sayd;", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Too boastfull Blandamoure! too long I beare", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The open wrongs thou doest me day by day:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Well know’st thou, when we friendship first did sweare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The covenant was, that every spoyle or pray", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Should equally be shard betwixt us tway.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where is my part then of this Ladie bright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom to thy selfe thou takest quite away?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Render therefore therein to me my right,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or answere for thy wrong as shall fall out in fight.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Exceeding wroth thereat was Blandamour,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And gan this bitter answere to him make:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Too foolish Paridell! that fayrest floure", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Wouldst gather faine, and yet no paines wouldst take:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But not so easie will I her forsake;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "This hand her wonne, this hand shall her defend.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With that they gan their shivering speares to shake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And deadly points at eithers breast to bend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Forgetfull each to have bene ever others frend.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Their firie steedes with so untamed forse", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Did beare them both to fell avenges end,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That both their speares with pitilesse remorse", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through shield and mayle and haberjeon did wend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in their flesh a griesly passage rend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That with the furie of their owne affret", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Each other horse and man to ground did send;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where, lying still awhile, both did forget", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The perilous present stownd in which their lives were set.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "As when two warlike Brigandines at sea,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With murdrous weapons arm’d to cruell fight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Do meete together on the watry lea,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They stemme ech other with so fell despight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That with the shocke of their owne heedlesse might", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their wooden ribs are shaken nigh asonder.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They which from shore behold the dreadfull sight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of flashing fire, and heare the ordenance thonder,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Do greatly stand amaz’d at such unwonted wonder.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "At length they both upstarted in amaze,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As men awaked rashly out of dreme,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And round about themselves awhile did gaze;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till seeing her, that Florimell did seme,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In doubt to whom she victorie should deeme,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therewith their dulled sprights they edgd anew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, drawing both their swords, with rage extreme,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like two mad mastiffes, each on other flew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And shields did share, and mailes did rash, and helmes did hew.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So furiously each other did assayle,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As if their soules they would attonce have rent", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Out of their brests, that streames of bloud did rayle", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Adowne, as if their springs of life were spent;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all the ground with purple bloud was sprent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all their armours staynd with bloudie gore;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet scarcely once to breath would they relent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So mortall was their malice, and so sore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Become, of fayned friendship which they vow’d afore.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And that which is for Ladies most besitting,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To stint all strife and foster friendly peace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was from those Dames so farre and so unfitting,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As that, instead of praying them surcease,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They did much more their cruelty encrease;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Bidding them fight for honour of their love,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And rather die then Ladies cause release:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With which vaine termes so much they did them move,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That both resolv’d the last extremities to prove.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "There they, I weene, would fight untill this day,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Had not a Squire, even he the Squire of Dames,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By great adventure travelled that way;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who seeing both bent to so bloudy games,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And both of old well knowing by their names,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Drew nigh, to weete the cause of their debate:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And first laide on those Ladies thousand blames,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That did not seeke t’appease their deadly hate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But gazed on their harmes, not pittying their estate.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And then those Knights he humbly did beseech", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To stay their hands, till he awhile had spoken;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who lookt a little up at that his speech,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet would not let their battell so be broken,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both greedie fiers on other to be wroken:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet he to them so earnestly did call,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And them conjur’d by some well knowen token,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That they at last their wrothfull hands let fall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Content to heare him speake, and glad to rest withall.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "First he desir’d their cause of strife to see:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "They said, it was for love of Florimell.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Ah gentle Knights!” (quoth he) “how may that bee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And she so farre astray, as none can tell?”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Fond Squire,” full angry then sayd Paridell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Seest not the Ladie there before thy face?”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He looked backe, and, her avizing well,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Weend, as he said, by that her outward grace", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That fayrest Florimell was present there in place.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Glad man was he to see that joyous sight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For none alive but joy’d in Florimell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And lowly to her lowting thus behight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Fayrest of faire, that fairenesse doest excell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "This happie day I have to greete you well,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In which you safe I see, whom thousand late", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Misdoubted lost through mischiefe that befell.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Long may you live in health and happie state!”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She litle answer’d him, but lightly did aggrate.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then, turning to those Knights, he gan anew:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“And you, Sir Blandamour, and Paridell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That for this Ladie, present in your vew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Have rays’d this cruell warre and outrage fell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Certes, me seemes, bene not advised well;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But rather ought in friendship for her sake", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To joyne your force, their forces to repell", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That seeke perforce her from you both to take,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And of your gotten spoyle their owne triumph to make.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thereat Sir Blandamour, with countenance sterne", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "All full of wrath, thus fiercely him bespake:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Aread, thou Squire, that I the man may learne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That dare fro me thinke Florimell to take!”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Not one,” (quoth he) “but many doe partake", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Herein; as thus: It lately so befell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That Satyran a girdle did uptake", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Well knowne to appertaine to Florimell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which for her sake he wore, as him beseemed well.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“But, when as she her selfe was lost and gone,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Full many knights, that loved her like deare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thereat did greatly grudge, that he alone", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That lost faire Ladies ornament should weare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And gan therefore close spight to him to beare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which he to shun, and stop vile envies sting,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Hath lately caus’d to be proclaim’d each where", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A solemne feast, with publike turneying,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To which all knights with them their Ladies are to bring:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“And of them all she, that is fayrest found,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Shall have that golden girdle for reward;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And of those Knights, who is most stout on ground,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shall to that fairest Ladie be prefard.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Since therefore she her selfe is now your ward,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To you that ornament of hers pertaines", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Against all those that chalenge it to gard", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And save her honour with your ventrous paines:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That shall you win more glory than ye here find gaines.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "When they the reason of his words had hard,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "They gan abate the rancour of their rage,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with their honours and their loves regard", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The furious flames of malice to asswage.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tho each to other did his faith engage,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like faithfull friends thenceforth to joyne in one", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With all their force, and battell strong to wage", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gainst all those knights, as their professed fone,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That chaleng’d ought in Florimell, save they alone.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So, well accorded, forth they rode together", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In friendly sort that lasted but a while;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And of all old dislikes they made faire weather;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet all was forg’d and spred with golden foyle,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That under it hidde hate and hollow guyle.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne certes can that friendship long endure,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "However gay and goodly be the style,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That doth ill cause or evill end enure;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For vertue is the band that bindeth harts most sure.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thus as they marched all in close disguise", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of fayned love, they chaunst to overtake", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Two knights that lincked rode in lovely wise,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As if they secret counsels did partake;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And each not farre behinde him had his make,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To weete, two Ladies of most goodly hew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That twixt themselves did gentle purpose make,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unmindfull both of that discordfull crew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which with speedie pace did after them pursew.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Who, as they now approched nigh at hand,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Deeming them doughtie, as they did appeare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They sent that Squire afore, to understand", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What mote they be: who, viewing them more neare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Returned readie newes, that those same weare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Two of the prowest Knights in Faery lond,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And those two Ladies their two lovers deare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Couragious Cambell, and stout Triamond,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With Canacee and Cambine linckt in lovely bond.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whylome, as antique stories tellen us,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Those two were foes the fellonest on ground,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And battell made the dreddest daungerous", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That ever shrilling trumpet did resound;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Though now their acts be no where to be found,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As that renowmed Poet them compyled", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With warlike numbers and Heroicke sound,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On Fames eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But wicked Time that all good thoughts doth waste,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And workes of noblest wits to nought outweare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That famous moniment hath quite defaste,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And robd the world of threasure endlesse deare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which mote have enriched all us heare.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "O cursed Eld! the cankerworme of writs,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "How may these rimes, so rude as doth appeare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Hope to endure, sith workes of heavenly wits", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Are quite devourd, and brought to nought by little bits?", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then pardon, O most sacred happie spirit!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That I thy labours lost may thus revive,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And steale from thee the meede of thy due merit,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That none durst ever whilest thou wast alive,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And being dead in vaine yet many strive:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne dare I like; but, through infusion sweete", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of thine owne spirit which doth in me survive,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I follow here the footing of thy feete,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That with thy meaning so I may the rather meete.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Cambelloes sister was fayre Canacee,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That was the learnedst Ladie in her dayes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Well seene in everie science that mote bee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And every secret worke of natures wayes;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In wittie riddles, and in wise soothsayes;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In power of herbes, and tunes of beasts and burds;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, that augmented all her other prayse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She modest was in all her deedes and words,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And wondrous chast of life, yet lov’d of Knights and Lords.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Full many Lords and many Knights her loved,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Yet she to none of them her liking lent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ever was with fond affection moved,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But rul’d her thoughts with goodly governement,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For dread of blame and honours blemishment;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke unto her lookes a law she made,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That none of them once out of order went,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But like to warie Centonels well stayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Still watcht on every side, of secret foes affrayd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So much the more as she refusd to love,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "So much the more she loved was and sought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That oftentimes unquiet strife did move", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Amongst her lovers, and great quarrels wrought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That oft for her in bloudie armes they fought.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which whenas Cambell, that was stout and wise,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Perceiv’d would breede great mischiefe, he bethought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "How to prevent the perill that mote rise,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And turne both him and her to honour, in this wise.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "One day, when all that troupe of warlike wooers", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Assembled were to weet whose she should bee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All mightie men and dreadfull derring-dooers,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "(The harder it to make them well agree)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Amongst them all this end he did decree;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That, of them all which love to her did make,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They by consent should chose the stoutest three", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That with himselfe should combat for her sake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And of them all the victour should his sister take.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Bold was the chalenge, as himselfe was bold,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And courage full of haughtie hardiment,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Approved oft in perils manifold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which he atchiev’d to his great ornament;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But yet his sisters skill unto him lent", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Most confidence and hope of happie speed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Conceived by a ring which she him sent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That, mongst the manie vertues which we reed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had power to staunch al wounds that mortally did bleed.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Well was that rings great vertue knowen to all;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That dread thereof and his redoubted might", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did all that youthly rout so much appall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That none of them durst undertake the fight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "More wise they weend to make of love delight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then life to hazard for faire Ladies looke;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And yet uncertaine by such outward sight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Though for her sake they all that perill tooke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whether she would them love, or in her liking brooke.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Amongst those knights there were three brethren bold,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Three bolder brethren never were yborne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Borne of one mother in one happie mold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Borne at one burden in one happie morne;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thrise happie mother, and thrise happie morne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That bore three such, three such not to be fond!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her name was Agapè, whose children werne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All three as one; the first hight Priamond,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The second Dyamond, the youngest Triamond.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Stout Priamond, but not so strong to strike;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Strong Diamond, but not so stout a knight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Triamond was stout and strong alike:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On horsebacke used Triamond to fight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Priamond on foote had more delight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But horse and foote knew Diamond to wield:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With curtaxe used Diamond to smite,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Triamond to handle speare and shield,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But speare and curtaxe both usd Priamond in field.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "These three did love each other dearely well,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And with so firme affection were allyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As if but one soule in them all did dwell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which did her powre into three parts divyde;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like three faire branches budding farre and wide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That from one roote deriv’d their vitall sap:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And like that roote that doth her life divide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their mother was; and had full blessed hap", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "These three so noble babes to bring forth at one clap.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Their mother was a Fay, and had the skill", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of secret things, and all the powres of nature,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which she by art could use unto her will,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to her service bind each living creature,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through secret understanding of their feature.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thereto she was right faire, whenso her face", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She list discover, and of goodly stature:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But she, as Fayes are wont, in privie place", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did spend her dayes, and lov’d in forests wyld to space.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "There on a day a noble youthly knight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Seeking adventures in the salvage wood,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did by great fortune get of her the sight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As she sate carelesse by a cristall flood", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Combing her golden lockes, as seernd her good;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And unawares upon her laying hold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That strove in vaine him long to have withstood,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Oppressed her, and there (as it is told)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Got these three lovely babes, that prov’d three champions bold.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which she with her long fostred in that wood,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Till that to ripenesse of mans state they grew:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then shewing forth signes of their fathers blood,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They loved armes, and knighthood did ensew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Seeking adventures where they anie knew.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which when their mother saw, she gan to dout", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their safetie; least by searching daungers new,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And rash provoking perils all about,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their days mote be abridged through their corage stout.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Therefore desirous th’end of all their dayes", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To know, and them t’enlarge with long extent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By wondrous skill and many hidden wayes", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To the three fatall sisters house she went.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Farre under ground from tract of living went,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Downe in the bottome of the deepe Abysse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where Demogorgon, in dull darknesse pent", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Farre from the view of gods and heavens bliss,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The hideous Chaos keepes, their dreadfull dwelling is.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "There she them found all sitting round about,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The direfull distaffe standing in the mid,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with unwearied fingers drawing out", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The lines of life, from living knowledge hid.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sad Clotho held the rocke, the whiles the thrid", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By griesly Lachesis was spun with paine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That cruell Atropos eftsoones undid,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With cursed knife cutting the twist in twaine.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Most wretched men, whose dayes depend on thrids so vaine!", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "She, them saluting, there by them sate still", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Beholding how the thrids of life they span:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And when at last she had beheld her fill,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Trembling in heart, and looking pale and wan,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her cause of comming she to tell began.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To whom fierce Atropos: “Bold Fay, that durst", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Come see the secret of the life of man,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Well worthie thou to be of Jove accurst,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke thy childrens thrids to be asunder burst!”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whereat she sore affrayd, yet her besought", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To graunt her boone, and rigour to abate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That she might see her childrens thrids forth brought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And know the measure of their utmost date", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To them ordained by eternall fate:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which Clotho graunting shewed her the same.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That when she saw, it did her much amate", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To see their thrids so thin as spiders frame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke so short, that seemd their ends out shortly came.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "She then began them humbly to intreate", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To draw them longer out, and better twine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That so their lives might be prolonged late:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Lachesis thereat gan to repine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And sayd; “Fond dame, that deem’st of things divine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As of humane, that they may altred bee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And chaung’d at pleasure for those impes of thine!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Not so; for what the Fates do once decree,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Not all the gods can chaunge, nor Jove him self can free!”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Then since” (quoth she) “the terme of each mans life", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For nought may lessened nor enlarged bee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Graunt this; that when ye shred with fatall knife", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His line, which is the eldest of the three,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which is of them the shortest, as I see,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Eftsoones his life may passe into the next:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, when the next shall likewise ended bee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That both their lives may likewise be annext", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto the third, that his may so be trebly wext.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "They graunted it; and then that carefull Fay", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Departed thence with full contented mynd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, comming home, in warlike fresh aray", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Them found all three according to their kynd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But unto them what destinie was assynd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or how their lives were eekt, she did not tell;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But evermore, when she fit time could fynd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She warned them to tend their safeties well,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And love each other deare, what ever them befell.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So did they surely during all their dayes,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And never discord did amongst them fall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which much augmented all their other praise;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And now, t’increase affection naturall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In love of Canacee they joyned all:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon which ground this same great battell grew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Great matter growing of beginning small,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which, for length, I will not here pursew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But rather will reserve it for a Canto new.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "O! why doe wretched men so much desire", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To draw their dayes unto the utmost date,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And doe not rather wish them soone expire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Knowing the miserie of their estate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And thousand perills which them still awate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tossing them like a boate amid the mayne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That every houre they knocke at deathes gate?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And he that happie seemes, and least in payne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet is as nigh his end as he that most doth playne.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Therefore this Fay I hold but fond and vaine,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The which, in seeking for her children three", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Long life, thereby did more prolong their paine:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet whilest they lived none did ever see", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "More happie creatures then they seem’d to bee;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nor more ennobled for their courtesie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That made them dearely lov’d of each degree;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne more renowmed for their chevalrie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That made them dreaded much of all men farre and nie.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "These three that hardie chalenge tooke in hand,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For Canacee with Cambell for to fight.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The day was set, that all might understand,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And pledges pawnd the same to keepe aright:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That day, the dreddest day that living wight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did ever see upon this world to shine.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So soone as heavens window shewed light,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "These warlike Champions, all in armour shine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Assembled were in field the chalenge to define.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The field with listes was all about enclos’d,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To barre the prease of people farre away;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And at th’one side sixe judges were dispos’d,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To view and deeme the deedes of armes that day:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And on the other side, in fresh aray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fayre Canacee upon a stately stage", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was set, to see the fortune of that fray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to be seene, as his most worthie wage", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That could her purchase with his lives adventur’d gage.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then entred Cambell first into the list,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With stately steps and fearelesse countenance,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As if the conquest his he surely wist.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Soone after did the brethren three advance", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In brave aray and goodly amenance,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With scutchins gilt and banners broad displayd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, marching thrise in warlike ordinance,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thrise lowted lowly to the noble Mayd.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The whiles shril trompets and loud clarions sweetly playd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which doen, the doughty chalenger came forth,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "All arm’d to point, his chalenge to abet:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gainst whom Sir Priamond, with equall worth", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And equall armes, himselfe did forward set.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A trompet blew; they both together met", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With dreadfull force and furious intent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Carelesse of perill in their fiers affret,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As if that life to losse they had forelent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And cared not to spare that should be shortly spent.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Right practicke was Sir Priamond in fight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And throughly skild in use of shield and speare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne lesse approved was Cambelloes might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne lesse his skill in weapons did appeare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That hard it was to weene which harder were.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Full many mightie strokes on either side", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Were sent, that seemed death in them to beare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But they were both so watchfull and well eyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That they avoyded were, and vainely by did slyde.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Yet one, of many, was so strongly bent", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "By Priamond, that with unluckie glaunce", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through Cambels shoulder it unwarely went,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That forced him his shield to disadvaunce.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Much was he grieved with that gracelesse chaunce;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet from the wound no drop of bloud there fell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But wondrous paine, that did the more enhaunce", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His haughtie courage to avengement fell:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Smart daunts not mighty harts, but makes them more to swell.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "With that, his poynant speare he fierce aventred", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With doubled force close underneath his shield,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That through the mayles into his thigh it entred,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, there arresting, readie way did yield", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For bloud to gush forth on the grassie field;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That he for paine himselfe n’ote right upreare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But too and fro in great amazement reel’d;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like an old Oke, whose pith and sap is seare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At puffe of every storme doth stagger here and theare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whom so dismayd when Cambell had espide,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Againe he drove at him with double might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That nought mote stay the steele, till in his side", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The mortall point most cruelly empight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where fast infixed, whilest he sought by slight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It forth to wrest, the staffe asunder brake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And left the head behinde: with which despight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He all enrag’d his shivering speare did shake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And charging him afresh thus felly him bespake.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Lo! faitour, there thy meede unto thee take,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The meede of thy mischalenge and abet.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Not for thine owne, but for thy sisters sake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Have I thus long thy life unto thee let:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But to forbeare doth not forgive the det.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The wicked weapon heard his wrathfull vow,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, passing forth with furious affiret,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Pierst through his bever quite into his brow,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That with the force it backward forced him to bow.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Therewith asunder in the midst it brast,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And in his hand nought but the troncheon left;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The other halfe, behind yet sticking fast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Out of his headpeece Cambell fiercely reft,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with such furie backe at him it heft,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That making way unto his dearest life,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His weasand-pipe it through his gorget cleft.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thence streames of purple bloud issuing rife", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Let forth his wearie ghost, and made an end of strife.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "His wearie ghost assoyld from fleshly band", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Did not, as others wont, directly fly", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto her rest in Plutoes griesly land;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne into ayre did vanish presently,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne chaunged was into a starre in sky;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But through traduction was eftsoones derived,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like as his mother prayd the Destinie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into his other brethren that survived,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In whom he liv’d anew, of former life deprived.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whom when on ground his brother next beheld,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Though sad and sorie for so heavy sight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet leave unto his sorrow did not yeeld,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But rather stir’d to vengeance and despight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through secret feeling of his generous spright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Rusht fiercely forth the battell to renew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As in reversion of his brothers right;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And chalenging the Virgin as his dew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His foe was soone addrest: the trompets freshly blew.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "With that they both together fiercely met,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As if that each ment other to devoure;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with their axes both so sorely bet,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That neither plate nor mayle, where as their powre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They felt, could once sustaine the hideous stowre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But rived were like rotten wood asunder;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whilest through their rifts the ruddie bloud did showre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And fire did flash, like lightning after thunder,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That fild the lookers on attonce with ruth and wonder.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "As when two Tygers prickt with hungers rage", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Have by good fortune found some beasts fresh spoyle,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On which they weene their famine to asswage,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And gaine a feastfull guerdon of their toyle,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both falling out doe stirre up strifefull broyle,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And cruell battell twixt themselves doe make,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whiles neither lets the other touch the soyle,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But either sdeignes with other to partake:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So cruelly these Knights strove for that Ladies sake.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Full many strokes, that mortally were ment,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The whiles were enterchaunged twixt them two;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet they were all with so good wariment", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or warded, or avoyded and let goe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That still the life stood fearelesse of her foe;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till Diamond, disdeigning long delay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of doubtfull fortune wavering to and fro,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Resolv’d to end it one or other way,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And heav’d his murdrous axe at him with mighty sway.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The dreadfull stroke, in case it had arrived", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Where it was ment, (so deadly it was ment)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The soule had sure out of his bodie rived,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And stinted all the strife incontinent:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Cambels fate that fortune did prevent;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For, seeing it at hand, he swarv’d asyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And so gave way unto his fell intent;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who, missing of the marke which he had eyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was with the force nigh feld, whilst his right foot did slyde.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "As when a Vulture greedie of his pray,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Through hunger long that hart to him doth lend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Strikes at an Heron with all his bodies sway,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That from his force seemes nought may it defend;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The warie fowle, that spies him toward bend", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His dreadfull souse, avoydes it, shunning light,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And maketh him his wing in vaine to spend;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That with the weight of his owne weeldlesse might", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He falleth nigh to ground, and scarse recovereth flight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which faire adventure when Cambello spide,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Full lightly, ere himselfe he could recower", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From daungers dread to ward his naked side,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He can let drive at him with all his power,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with his axe him smote in evill hower,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That from his shoulders quite his head he reft:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The headlesse tronke, as heedlesse of that stower,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Stood still awhile, and his fast footing kept,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till, feeling life to fayle, it fell, and deadly slept.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "They which that piteous spectacle beheld", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Were much amaz’d the headlesse tronke to see", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Stand up so long, and weapon vaine to weld,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unweeting of the Fates divine decree", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For lifes succession in those brethren three.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For notwithstanding that one soule was reft,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet had the bodie not dismembred bee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It would have lived, and revived eft;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, finding no fit seat, the lifelesse corse it left.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "It left; but that same soule which therein dwelt", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Streight entring into Triamond him fild", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With double life and griefe; which when he felt,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As one whose inner parts had bene ythrild", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With point of steele that close his hartbloud spild,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He lightly lept out of his place of rest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And rushing forth into the emptie field,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Against Cambello fiercely him addrest;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who, him affronting soone, to fight was readie prest.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Well mote ye wonder how that noble Knight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "After he had so often wounded beene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Could stand on foot now to renew the fight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But had ye then him forth advauncing seene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some newborne wight ye would him surely weene;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So fresh he seemed and so fierce in sight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like as a Snake, whom wearie winters teene", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Hath worne to nought, now feeling sommers might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Casts off his ragged skin and freshly doth him dight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "All was through vertue of the ring he wore;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The which not onely did not from him let", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "One drop of bloud to fall, but did restore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His weakned powers, and dulled spirits whet,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through working of the stone therein yset.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Else how could one of equall might with most,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Against so many no lesse mightie met,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Once thinke to match three such on equall cost,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Three such as able were to match a puissant host?", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Yet nought thereof was Triamond adredde,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ne desperate of glorious victorie;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But sharpely him assayld, and sore bestedde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With heapes of strokes, which he at him let flie", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As thicke as hayle forth poured from the skie:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He stroke, he soust, he foynd, he hewd, he lasht,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And did his yron brond so fast applie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That from the same the fierie sparkles flasht,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As fast as water-sprinkles gainst a rocke are dasht.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Much was Cambello daunted with his blowes:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "So thicke they fell, and forcibly were sent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That he was forst from daunger of the throwes", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Backe to retire, and somewhat to relent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till th’heat of his fierce furie he had spent;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which when for want of breath gan to abate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He then afresh with new encouragement", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did him assayle, and mightily amate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As fast as forward erst now backward to retrate.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Like as the tide, that comes fro th’Ocean mayne,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Flowes up the Shenan with contrarie forse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And over-ruling him in his owne rayne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Drives backe the current of his kindly course,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And makes it seeme to have some other sourse;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But when the floud is spent, then backe againe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His borrowed waters forst to redisbourse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He sends the sea his owne with double gaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And tribute eke withall, as to his Soveraine.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thus did the battell varie to and fro,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With diverse fortune doubtfull to be deemed:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now this the better had, now had his fo;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then he halfe vanquisht, then the other seemed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet victors both them selves alwayes esteemed:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all the while the disentrayled blood", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Adowne their sides like litle rivers stremed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That with the wasting of his vitall flood,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sir Triamond at last full faint and feeble stood.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But Cambell still more strong and greater grew,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ne felt his blood to wast, ne powres emperisht,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through that rings vertue, that with vigour new", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Still when as he enfeebled was, him cherisht,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all his wounds, and all his bruses guarisht;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like as a withered tree, through husbands toyle,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Is often seene full freshly to have florisht,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And fruitfull apples to have borne awhile,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As fresh as when it first was planted in the soyle.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Through which advantage, in his strength he rose,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And smote the other with so wondrous might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That through the seame, which did his hauberk close,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into his throate and life it pierced quight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That downe he fell as dead in all mens sight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet dead he was not, yet he sure did die,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As all men do, that lose the living spright.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So did one soule out of his bodie flie", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto her native home from mortall miserie.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But nathelesse, whilst all the lookers-on", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Him dead behight, as he to all appeard,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All unawares he started up anon,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As one that had out of a dreame bene reard,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And fresh assayld his foe: who halfe affeard", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of th’uncouth sight, as he some ghost had seene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Stood still amaz’d, holding his idle sweard;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till, having often by him stricken beene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He forced was to strike, and save himselfe from teene.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Yet from thenceforth more warily he fought,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As one in feare the Stygian gods t’offend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne followd on so fast, but rather sought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him selfe to save, and daunger to defend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then life and labour both in vaine to spend.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which Triamond perceiving weened sure", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He gan to faint toward the battels end,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And that he should not long on foote endure,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A signe which did to him the victorie assure.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whereof full blith eftsoones his mightie hand", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He heav’d on high, in mind with that same blow", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To make an end of all that did withstand:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which Cambell seeing come was nothing slow", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him selfe to save from that so deadly throw;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And at that instant reaching forth his sweard", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Close underneath his shield, that scarce did show,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Stroke him, as he his hand to strike upreard,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In th’arm-pit full, that through both sides the wound appeard.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Yet still that direfull stroke kept on his way,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And, falling heavie on Cambelloes crest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Strooke him so hugely that in swowne he lay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in his head an hideous wound imprest:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And sure, had it not happily found rest", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon the brim of his brode-plated shield,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It would have cleft his braine downe to his brest.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So both at once fell dead upon the field,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And each to other seemd the victorie to yield.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which when as all the lookers-on beheld,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "They weened sure the warre was at an end;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Judges rose, and Marshals of the field", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Broke up the listes, their armes away to rend;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Canacee gan wayle her dearest frend.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All suddenly they both upstarted light,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The one out of the swownd, which him did blend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The other breathing now another spright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And fiercely each assayling gan afresh to fight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Long while they then continued in that wize,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As if but then the battell had begonne:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Strokes, wounds, wards, weapons, all they did despise,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne either car’d to ward, or perill shonne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Desirous both to have the battell donne;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne either cared life to save or spill,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne which of them did winne, ne which were wonne.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So wearie both of fighting had their fill,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That life it selfe seemd loathsome, and long safetie ill.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whilst thus the case in doubtfull ballance hong,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Unsure to whether side it would incline,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all mens eyes and hearts, which there among", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Stood gazing, filled were with rufull tine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And secret feare, to see their fatall fine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All suddenly they heard a troublous noyes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That seemd some perilous tumult to desine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Confusd with womens cries and shouts of boyes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Such as the troubled Theatres oftimes annoyes.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thereat the Champions both stood still a space,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To weeten what that sudden clamour ment:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Lo! where they spyde with speedie whirling pace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "One in a charet of straunge furniment", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Towards them driving, like a storme out sent.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The charet decked was in wondrous wize", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With gold and many a gorgeous ornament,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "After the Persian Monarks antique guize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Such as the maker selfe could best by art devize.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Much more of price and of more gratious powre,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Is this, then that same water of Ardenne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which Rinaldo drunck in happie howre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Described by that famous Tuscane penne:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For that had might to change the hearts of men", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fro love to hate, a change of evill choise:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But this doth hatred make in love to brenne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And heavy heart with comfort doth rejoyce.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who would not to this vertue rather yeeld his voice?", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "At last arriving by the listes side,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Shee with her rod did softly smite the raile,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which straight flew ope, and gave her way to ride.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Eftsoones out of her Coch she gan availe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And pacing fairely forth did bid all haile,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "First to her brother, whom she loved deare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That so to see him made her heart to quaile;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And next to Cambell, whose sad ruefull cheare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Made her to change her hew, and hidden love t’appeare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "They lightly her requit, (for small delight", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "They had as then her long to entertaine)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eft them turned both againe to fight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which when she saw, downe on the bloudy plaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her selfe she threw, and teares gan shed amaine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Amongst her teares immixing prayers meeke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with her prayers reasons, to restraine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From blouddy strife, and blessed peace to seeke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By all that unto them was deare, did them beseeke.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But when as all might nought with them prevaile,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Shee smote them lightly with her powrefull wand.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then suddenly, as if their hearts did faile,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their wrathfull blades downe fell out of their hand,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And they, like men astonisht, still did stand.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thus whilest their minds were doubtfully distraught,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And mighty spirites bound with mightier band,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her golden cup to them for drinke she raught,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereof, full glad for thirst, ech drunk an harty draught;", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Of which so soone as they once tasted had,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Wonder it is that sudden change to see:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Instead of strokes, each other kissed glad,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And lovely haulst, from feare of treason free,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And plighted hands for ever friends to be.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When all men saw this sudden change of things,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So mortall foes so friendly to agree,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For passing joy, which so great marvaile brings,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They all gan shout aloud, that all the heaven rings.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "All which when gentle Canacee beheld,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In hast she from her lofty chaire descended,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To weet what sudden tidings was befeld:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where when she saw that cruell war so ended,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And deadly foes so faithfully affrended,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In lovely wise she gan that Lady greet,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which had so great dismay so well amended:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, entertaining her with curt’sies meet,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Profest to her true friendship and affection sweet.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thus when they all accorded goodly were,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The trumpets sounded, and they all arose,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thence to depart with glee and gladsome chere.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Those warlike champions both together chose", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Homeward to march, themselves there to repose:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And wise Cambina, taking by her side", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Faire Canacee, as fresh as morning rose,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto her Coch remounting, home did ride,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Admir’d of all the people and much glorifide.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Where making joyous feast theire daies they spent", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In perfect love, devoide of hatefull strife,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Allide with bands of mutuall couplement;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For Triamond had Canacee to wife,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With whom he ledd a long and happie life;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Cambel tooke Cambina to his fere,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which as life were to each other liefe.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So all alike did love, and loved were,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That since their dayes such lovers were not found elswhere.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "It often fals, (as here it earst befell)", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That mortall foes doe turne to faithfull frends,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And friends profest are chaungd to foemen fell:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The cause of both, of both their minds depends,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And th’end of both likewise of both their ends:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For enmitie, that of no ill proceeds", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But of occasion, with th’occasion ends;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And friendship, which a faint affection breeds", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Without regard of good, dyes like ill grounded seeds.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "That well (me seemes) appeares, by that of late", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Twixt Cambell and Sir Triamond befell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As als by this, that now a new debate", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Stird up twixt Blandamour and Paridell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which by course befals me here to tell:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who having those two other Knights espide", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Marching afore, as ye remember well,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sent forth their Squire to have them both descride,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke those masked Ladies riding them beside.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Who backe returning told, as he had seene,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That they were doughtie knights of dreaded name,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And those two Ladies their two loves unseene;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And therefore wisht them without blot or blame", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To let them passe at will, for dread of shame.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Blandamour full of vainglorious spright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And rather stird by his discordfull Dame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon them gladly would have prov’d his might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But that he yet was sore of his late lucklesse fight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Yet nigh approching he them fowle bespake,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Disgracing them, him selfe thereby to grace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As was his wont: so weening way to make", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To Ladies love, where so he came in place,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with lewd termes their lovers to deface.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose sharpe provokement them incenst so sore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That both were bent t’avenge his usage base,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And gan their shields addresse them selves afore:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For evill deedes may better then bad words be bore.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But faire Cambina with perswasions myld", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Did mitigate the fiercenesse of their mode,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That for the present they were reconcyld,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And gan to treate of deeds of armes abrode,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And strange adventures, all the way they rode:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Amongst the which they told, as then befell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of that great turney which was blazed brode,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For that rich girdle of faire Florimell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The prize of her which did in beautie most excell.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "To which folke-mote they all with one consent,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Sith each of them his Ladie had him by,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose beautie each of them thought excellent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Agreed to travell, and their fortunes try.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So as they passed forth they did espy", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "One in bright armes, with ready speare in rest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That toward them his course seem’d to apply:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gainst whom Sir Paridell himselfe addrest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him weening, ere he nigh approcht, to have represt.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which th’other seeing gan his course relent,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And vaunted speare eftsoones to disadvaunce,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As if he naught but peace and pleasure ment,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now falne into their fellowship by chance:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereat they shewed curteous countenaunce.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So as he rode with them accompanide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His roving eie did on the Lady glaunce", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which Blandamour had riding by his side:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom sure he weend, that he some-wher tofore had eide.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "It was to weete that snowy Florimell,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which Ferrau late from Braggadochio wonne:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom he now seeing, her remembred well,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "How having reft her from the witches sonne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He soone her lost: wherefore he now begunne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To challenge her anew, as his owne prize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom formerly he had in battell wonne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And proffer made by force her to reprize:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which scornefull offer Blandamour gan soone despize;", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And said, “Sir Knight, sith ye this Lady clame,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whom he that hath were loth to lose so light,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "(For so to lose a Lady were great shame)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yee shall her winne, as I have done, in fight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And lo! shee shall be placed here in sight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Together with this Hag beside her set,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That who so winnes her may her have by right;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But he shall have the Hag that is ybet,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with her alwaies ride, till he another get.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "That offer pleased all the company:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "So Florimell with Atè forth was brought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At which they all gan laugh full merrily;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Braggadochio said, he never thought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For such an Hag, that seemed worse then nought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His person to emperill so in fight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But if to match that Lady they had sought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Another like, that were like faire and bright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His life he then would spend to justifie his right.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "At which his vaine excuse they all gan smile,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As scorning his unmanly cowardize;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Florimell him fowly gan revile,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That for her sake refus’d to enterprize", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The battell, offred in so knightly wize:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Atè eke provokt him privily", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With love of her, and shame of such mesprize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But nought he car’d for friend or enemy;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For in base mind nor friendship dwels nor enmity.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But Cambell thus did shut up all in jest:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“Brave Knights and Ladies, certes, ye doe wrong", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To stirre up strife, when most us needeth rest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That we may us reserve both fresh and strong", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Against the Turneiment which is not long,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When who so list to fight may fight his fill:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till then your challenges ye may prolong;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And then it shall be tried, if ye will,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whether shall have the Hag, or hold the Lady still.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "They all agreed: so, turning all to game", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And pleasaunt bord, they past forth on their way;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all that while, where so they rode or came,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That masked Mock-knight was their sport and play.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till that at length, upon th’appointed day", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto the place of turneyment they came;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where they before them found in fresh aray", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Manie a brave knight and manie a daintie dame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Assembled for to get the honour of that game.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "There this faire crewe arriving did divide", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Them selves asunder: Blandamour with those", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of his on th’one, the rest on th’other side.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But boastful Braggadochio rather chose,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For glorie vaine, their fellowship to lose,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That men on him the more might gaze alone.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The rest themselves in troupes did else dispose,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like as it seemed best to every one;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The knights in couples marcht with ladies linckt attone.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then first of all forth came Sir Satyrane,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Bearing that precious relicke in an arke", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of gold, that bad eyes might it not prophane:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which drawing softly forth out of the darke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He open shewd, that all men it mote marke:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A gorgeous girdle, curiously embost", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With pearle and precious stone, worth many a marke;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet did the workmanship farre passe the cost:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It was the same which lately Florimel had lost.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The same aloft he hung in open vew,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To be the prize of beautie and of might;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which eftsoones discovered, to it drew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The eyes of all, allur’d with close delight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And hearts quite robbed with so glorious sight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all men threw out vowes and wishes vaine.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thrise happie Ladie, and thrise happie knight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Them seemd that could so goodly riches gaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So worthie of the perill, worthy of the paine.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then tooke the bold Sir Satyrane in hand", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "An huge great speare, such as he wont to wield,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, vauncing forth from all the other band", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of knights, addrest his maiden-headed shield,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shewing him selfe all ready for the field.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gainst whom there singled from the other side", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A Painim knight that well in armes was skild,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And had in many a battell oft bene tride,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Right Bruncheval the bold, who fiersly forth did ride.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So furiously they both together met,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That neither could the others force sustaine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As two fierce Buls, that strive the rule to get", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of all the heard, meete with so hideous maine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That both rebutted tumble on the plaine:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So these two champions to the ground were feld,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where in a maze they both did long remaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in their hands their idle troncheons held,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which neither able were to wag, or once to weld.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which when the noble Ferramont espide,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He pricked forth in ayd of Satyran;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And him against Sir Blandamour did ride", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With all the strength and stifnesse that he can.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But the more strong and stiffely that he ran,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So much more sorely to the ground he fell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That on an heape were tumbled horse and man:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto whose rescue forth rode Paridell;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But him likewise with that same speare he eke did quell.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which Braggadocchio seeing had no will", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To hasten greatly to his parties ayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Albee his turne were next; but stood there still,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As one that seemed doubtfull or dismayd.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Triamond, halfe wroth to see him staid,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sternly stept forth and raught away his speare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With which so sore he Ferramont assaid,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That horse and man to ground he quite did beare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That neither could in hast themselves againe upreare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which to avenge Sir Devon him did dight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But with no better fortune then the rest;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For him likewise he quickly downe did smight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And after him Sir Douglas him addrest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And after him Sir Palimord forth prest:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But none of them against his strokes could stand,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, all the more, the more his praise increst:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For either they were left uppon the land,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or went away sore wounded of his haplesse hand.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And now by this Sir Satyrane abraid", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Out of the swowne, in which too long he lay;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And looking round about, like one dismaid,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When as he saw the mercilesse affray", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which doughty Triamond had wrought that day", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto the noble Knights of Maidenhead,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His mighty heart did almost rend in tway,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For very gall, that rather wholly dead", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Himselfe he wisht have beene, then in so bad a stead.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Eftsoones he gan to gather up around", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His weapons which lay scattered all abrode,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, as it fell, his steed he ready found;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On whom remounting fiercely forth he rode,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like sparke of fire that from the andvile glode,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There where he saw the valiant Triamond", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Chasing, and laying on them heavy lode,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That none his force were able to withstond,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So dreadfull were his strokes, so deadly was his hond.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "With that, at him his beam-like speare he aimed,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And thereto all his power and might applide:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The wicked steele, for mischiefe first ordained,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And having now misfortune got for guide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Staid not till it arrived in his side,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And therein made a very griesly wound,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That streames of blood his armour all bedide.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Much was he daunted with that direfull stound,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That scarse he him upheld from falling in a swound.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Yet, as he might, himselfe he soft withdrew", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Out of the field, that none perceiv’d it plaine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then gan the part of Chalengers anew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To range the field, and victorlike to raine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That none against them battell durst maintaine:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By that the gloomy evening on them fell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That forced them from fighting to refraine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And trumpets sound to cease did them compell:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So Satyrane that day was judg’d to beare the bell.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The morrow next the Turney gan anew:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And with the first the hardy Satyrane", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Appear’d in place, with all his noble crew:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On th’other side full many a warlike swaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Assembled were, that glorious prize to gaine.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But mongst them all was not Sir Triamond,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unable he new battell to darraine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through grievaunce of his late received wound,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That doubly did him grieve when so himselfe he found.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which Cambell seeing, though he could not salve,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ne done undoe, yet, for to salve his name", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And purchase honour in his friends behalve,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "This goodly counterfesaunce he did frame:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The shield and armes, well knowne to be the same", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which Triamond had worne, unwares to wight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to his friend unwist, for doubt of blame", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "If he misdid, he on himselfe did dight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That none could him discerne; and so went forth to fight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "There Satyrane Lord of the field he found,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Triumphing in great joy and jolity,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gainst whom none able was to stand on ground;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That much he gan his glorie to envy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And cast t’avenge his friends indignity.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A mightie speare eftsoones at him he bent;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who, seeing him come on so furiously,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Met him mid-way with equall hardiment,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That forcibly to ground they both together went.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "They up againe them selves can lightly reare,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And to their tryed swords them selves betake;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With which they wrought such wondrous marvels there,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all the rest it did amazed make,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne any dar’d their perill to partake;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now cuffing close, now chacing to and fro,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now hurtling round advantage for to take:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As two wild Boares together grapling go,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Chaufing and foming choler each against his fo.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So as they courst, and turneyd here and theare,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "It chaunst Sir Satyrane his steed at last,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whether through foundring or through sodein feare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To stumble, that his rider nigh he cast;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which vauntage Cambell did pursue so fast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That, ere him selfe he had recovered well,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So sore he sowst him on the compast creast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That forced him to leave his loftie sell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And rudely tumbling downe under his horse-feete fell.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Lightly Cambello leapt downe from his steed", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For to have rent his shield and armes away,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That whylome wont to be the victors meed;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When all unwares he felt an hideous sway", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of many swords that lode on him did lay.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "An hundred knights had him enclosed round,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To rescue Satyrane out of his pray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All which at once huge strokes on him did pound,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In hope to take him prisoner, where he stood on ground.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He with their multitude was nought dismayd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But with stout courage turnd upon them all,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with his brondiron round about him layd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of which he dealt large almes, as did befall:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like as a Lion, that by chaunce doth fall", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into the hunters toile, doth rage and rore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In royall heart disdaining to be thrall.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But all in vaine: for what might one do more?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They have him taken captive, though it grieve him sore.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whereof when newes to Triamond was brought", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "There as he lay, his wound he soone forgot,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And starting up streight for his armour sought:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In vaine he sought, for there he found it not;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Cambello it away before had got.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Cambelloes armes therefore he on him threw,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And lightly issewd forth to take his lot.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There he in troupe found all that warlike crew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Leading his friend away, full sorie to his vew.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Into the thickest of that knightly preasse", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He thrust, and smote downe all that was betweene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Caried with fervent zeale: ne did he ceasse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till that he came where he had Cambell seene", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like captive thral two other Knights atweene:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There he amongst them cruell havocke makes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That they, which lead him, soone enforced beene", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To let him loose to save their proper stakes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who, being freed, from one a weapon fiercely takes.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "With that he drives at them with dreadfull might,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Both in remembrance of his friends late harme,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in revengement of his owne despight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So both together give a new allarme,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As if but now the battell wexed warme.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As when two greedy Wolves doe breake by force", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into an heard, farre from the husband farme,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They spoile and ravine without all remorse;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So did these two through all the field their foes enforce.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Fiercely they followd on their bolde emprize,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Till trumpets sound did warne them all to rest;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then all with one consent did yeeld the prize", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To Triamond and Cambell as the best.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Triamond to Cambell it relest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Cambell it to Triamond transferd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Each labouring t’advance the others gest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And make his praise before his owne preferd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So that the doome was to another day differd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The last day came, when all those knightes againe", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Assembled were their deedes of armes to shew.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Full many deedes that day were shewed plaine:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Satyrane, bove all the other crew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His wondrous worth declared in all mens view,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For from the first he to the last endured:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And though some while Fortune from him withdrew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet evermore his honour he recured,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with unwearied powre his party still assured.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Ne was there Knight that ever thought of armes,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But that his utmost prowesse there made knowen;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That, by their many wounds and carelesse harmes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By shivered speares, and swords all under strowen,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By scattered shields, was easie to be showen.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There might ye see loose steeds at randon ronne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose lucklesse riders late were overthrowen;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And squiers make hast to helpe their Lords fordonne.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But still the Knights of Maidenhead the better wonne;", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Till that there entered on the other side", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A straunger knight, from whence no man could reed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In quyent disguise, full hard to be descride:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For all his armour was like salvage weed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With woody mosse bedight, and all his steed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With oaken leaves attrapt, that seemed fit", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For salvage wight; and thereto well agreed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His word, which on his ragged shield was writ,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Salvagesse sans finesse, shewing secret wit.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He, at his first incomming, charg’d his spere", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "At him that first appeared in his sight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That was to weet the stout Sir Sangliere,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who well was knowen to be a valiant Knight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Approved oft in many a perlous fight.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him at the first encounter downe he smote,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And overbore beyond his crouper quight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And after him another Knight, that hote", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sir Brianor, so sore that none him life behote.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then, ere his hand he reard, he overthrew", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Seven Knights, one after other as they came:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, when his speare was brust, his sword he drew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The instrument of wrath, and with the same", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Far’d like a lyon in his bloodie game,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Hewing and slashing shields and helmets bright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And beating downe what ever nigh him came,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That every one gan shun his dreadfull sight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "No lesse then death it selfe, in daungerous affright.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Much wondred all men what or whence he came,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That did amongst the troupes so tyrannize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And each of other gan inquire his name.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But when they could not learne it by no wize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Most answerable to his wyld disguize", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It seemed him to terme the Salvage Knight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But certes his right name was otherwize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Though knowne to few, that Arthegall he hight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The doughtiest knight that liv’d that day, and most of might.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thus was Sir Satyrane with all his band", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "By his sole manhood and atchievement stout", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Dismay’d, that none of them in field durst stand,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But beaten were and chased all about.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So he continued all that day throughout,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till evening that the Sunne gan downward bend.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then rushed forth out of the thickest rout", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A stranger knight, that did his glorie shend:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So nought may be esteemed happie till the end.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He at his entrance charg’d his powrefull speare", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "At Artegall, in middest of his pryde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And therewith smote him on his Umbriere", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So sore, that tombling backe he downe did slyde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Over his horses taile above a stryde;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whence litle lust he had to rise againe:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which Cambell seeing much the same envyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And ran at him with all his might and maine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But shortly was likewise seene lying on the plaine.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whereat full inly wroth was Triamond,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And cast t’avenge the shame doen to his freend:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But by his friend himselfe eke soone he fond", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In no lesse neede of helpe then him, he weend.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All which when Blandamour from end to end", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Beheld, he woxe therewith displeased sore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And thought in mind it shortly to amend:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His speare he feutred, and at him it bore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But with no better fortune then the rest afore.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Full many others at him likewise ran,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But all of them likewise dismounted were;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne certes wonder, for no powre of man", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Could bide the force of that enchaunted speare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which this famous Britomart did beare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With which she wondrous deeds of arms atchieved,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And overthrew what ever came her neare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all those stranger knights full sore agrieved,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And that late weaker band of chalengers relieved.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Like as in sommers day, when raging heat", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Doth burne the earth and boyled rivers drie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all brute beasts, forst to refraine fro meat,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Doe hunt for shade, where shrowded they may lie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, missing it, faine from themselves to flie;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All travellers tormented are with paine:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A watry cloud doth overcast the skie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And poureth forth a sudden shoure of raine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all the wretched world recomforteth againe.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So did the warlike Britomart restore", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The prize to knights of Maydenhead that day,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which else was like to have bene lost, and bore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The prayse of prowesse from them all away.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then shrilling trompets loudly gan to bray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And bad them leave their labours and long toyle", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To joyous feast and other gentle play,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where beauties prize shold win that pretious spoyle:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where I with sound of trompe will also rest a whyle.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "It hath bene through all ages ever seene,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That with the praise of armes and chevalrie", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The prize of beautie still hath joyned beene;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And that for reasons speciall privitie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For either doth on other much relie.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For he, me seemes, most fit the faire to serve,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That can her best defend from villenie;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And she most fit his service doth deserve,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That fairest is, and from her faith will never swerve.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So fitly now here commeth next in place,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "After the proofe of prowesse ended well,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The controverse of beauties soveraine grace;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In which, to her that doth the most excell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shall fall the girdle of faire Florimell:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That many wish to win for glorie vaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And not for vertuous use, which some doe tell", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That glorious belt did in it selfe containe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which Ladies ought to love, and seeke for to obtaine.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "That girdle gave the vertue of chast love,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And wivehood true, to all that did it beare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But whosoever contrarie doth prove,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Might not the same about her middle weare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But it would loose, or else asunder teare.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whilome it was (as Faeries wont report)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Dame Venus girdle, by her steemed deare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What time she usd to live in wively sort,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But layd aside when so she usd her looser sport.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Her husband Vulcan whylome for her sake,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "When first he loved her with heart entire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "This pretious ornament, they say, did make,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And wrought in Lemno with unquenched fire;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And afterwards did for her loves first hire", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Give it to her, for ever to remaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therewith to bind lascivious desire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And loose affections streightly to restraine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which vertue it for ever after did retaine.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The same one day, when she her selfe disposd", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To visite her beloved Paramoure,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The God of warre, she from her middle loosd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And left behind her in her secret bowre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On Acidalian mount, where many an howre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She with the pleasant Graces wont to play.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There Florimell, in her first ages flowre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was fostered by those Graces, (as they say)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And brought with her from thence that goodly belt away.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "That goodly belt was Cestus hight by name,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And as her life by her esteemed deare.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "No wonder then, if that to winne the same", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So many Ladies sought, as shall appeare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For pearelesse she was thought that did it beare.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And now by this their feast all being ended,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The judges, which thereto selected were,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into the Martian field adowne descended", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To deeme this doutfull case, for which they all contended.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But first was question made, which of those Knights", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That lately turneyd had the wager wonne:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There was it judged, by those worthie wights,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That Satyrane the first day best had donne:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For he last ended, having first begonne.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The second was to Triamond behight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For that he sav’d the victour from fordonne:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For Cambell victour was in all mens sight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till by mishap he in his foemens hand did light.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The third dayes prize unto that straunger Knight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whom all men term’d Knight of the Hebene speare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To Britomart was given by good right;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For that with puissant stroke she downe did beare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The Salvage Knight that victour was whileare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all the rest which had the best afore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to the last unconquer’d did appeare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For last is deemed best. To her therefore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The fayrest Ladie was adjudgd for Paramore.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But thereat greatly grudged Arthegall,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And much repynd, that both of victors meede", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke of honour she did him forestall.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet mote he not withstand what was decreede,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But inly thought of that despightfull deede", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fit time t’awaite avenged for to bee.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "This being ended thus, and all agreed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then next ensew’d the Paragon to see", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of beauties praise, and yeeld the fayrest her due fee.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then first Cambello brought into their view", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His faire Cambina, covered with a veale;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which, being once withdrawne, most perfect hew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And passing beautie did eftsoones reveale,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That able was weake harts away to steale.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Next did Sir Triamond unto their sight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The face of his deare Canacee unheale;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose beauties beame eftsoones did shine so bright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That daz’d the eyes of all as with exceeding light.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And after her did Paridell produce", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His false Duessa, that she might be seene;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who with her forged beautie did seduce", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The hearts of some that fairest her did weene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As diverse wits affected divers beene.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then did Sir Ferramont unto them shew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His Lucida, that was full faire and sheene:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And after these an hundred Ladies moe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Appear’d in place, the which each other did outgoe.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "All which who so dare thinke for to enchace,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Him needeth sure a golden pen, I weene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To tell the feature of each goodly face:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For, since the day that they created beene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So many heavenly faces were not seene", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Assembled in one place: ne he that thought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For Chian folke to pourtraict beauties Queene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By view of all the fairest to him brought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So many faire did see as here he might have sought.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "At last, the most redoubted Britonesse", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Her lovely Amoret did open shew;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose face, discovered, plainely did expresse", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The heavenly pourtraict of bright Angels hew.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Well weened all, which her that time did vew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That she should surely beare the bell away;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till Blandamour, who thought he had the trew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And very Florimell, did her display,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The sight of whom once seene did all the rest dismay.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "For all afore that seemed fayre and bright,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Now base and contemptible did appeare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Compar’d to her that shone as Phebes light", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Amongst the lesser starres in evening cleare.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All that her saw with wonder ravisht weare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And weend no mortall creature she should bee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But some celestiall shape that flesh did beare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet all were glad there Florimell to see,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet thought that Florimell was not so faire as shee.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "As guilefull Goldsmith that by secret skill", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With golden foyle doth finely overspred", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some baser metall, which commend he will", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto the vulgar for good gold insted,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He much more goodly glosse thereon doth shed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To hide his falshood, then if it were trew:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So hard this Idole was to be ared,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That Florimell her selfe in all mens vew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She seem’d to passe: so forged things do fairest shew.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then was that golden belt by doome of all", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Graunted to her, as to the fayrest Dame.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which being brought, about her middle small", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They thought to gird, as best it her became,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But by no meanes they could it thereto frame;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For, ever as they fastned it, it loos’d", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And fell away, as feeling secret blame.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Full oft about her wast she it enclos’d,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And it as oft was from about her wast disclos’d:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "That all men wondred at the uncouth sight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And each one thought as to their fancies came.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But she her selfe did thinke it doen for spight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And touched was with secret wrath and shame", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therewith, as thing deviz’d her to defame.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then many other Ladies likewise tride", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "About their tender loynes to knit the same;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But it would not on none of them abide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But when they thought it fast, eftsoones it was untide.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which when that scornefull Squire of Dames did vew,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He lowdly gan to laugh, and thus to jest;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Alas! for pittie that so faire a crew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As like can not be seene from East to West,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Cannot find one this girdle to invest.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fie on the man that did it first invent", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To shame us all with this Ungirt unblest!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Let never Ladie to his love assent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That hath this day so many so unmanly shent.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thereat all Knights gan laugh, and Ladies lowre:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Till that at last the gentle Amoret", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Likewise assayd to prove that girdles powre;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, having it about her middle set,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did find it fit withouten breach or let.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereat the rest gan greatly to envie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Florimell exceedingly did fret,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And snatching from her hand halfe angrily", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The belt againe, about her body gan it tie.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Yet nathemore would it her bodie fit;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Yet nathelesse to her, as her dew right,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It yielded was by them that judged it:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And she her selfe adjudged to the Knight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That bore the Hebene speare, as wonne in fight.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Britomart would not thereto assent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne her owne Amoret forgoe so light", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For that strange Dame, whose beauties wonderment", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She lesse esteem’d then th’others vertuous government.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whom when the rest did see her to refuse,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "They were full glad, in hope themselves to get her:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet at her choice they all did greatly muse.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, after that, the judges did arret her", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto the second best that lov’d her better;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That was the Salvage Knight: but he was gone,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In great displeasure that he could not get her.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then was she judged Triamond his one;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Triamond lov’d Canacee, and other none.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Tho unto Satyran she was adjudged,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Who was right glad to gaine so goodly meed:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Blandamour thereat full greatly grudged,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And litle prays’d his labours evill speed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That for to winne the saddle lost the steed.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne lesse thereat did Paridell complaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And thought t’appeale from that which was decreed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To single combat with Sir Satyrane:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thereto him Atè stird, new discord to maintaine.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And eke, with these, full many other Knights", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "She through her wicked working did incense", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her to demaund and chalenge as their rights,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Deserved for their perils recompense.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Amongst the rest, with boastfull vaine pretense,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Stept Braggadochio forth, and as his thrall", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her claym’d, by him in battell wonne long sens:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereto her selfe he did to witnesse call;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who, being askt, accordingly confessed all.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thereat exceeding wroth was Satyran;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And wroth with Satyran was Blandamour;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And wroth with Blandamour was Erivan;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And at them both Sir Paridell did loure.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So all together stird up strifull stoure,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And readie were new battell to darraine.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Each one profest to be her paramoure,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And vow’d with speare and shield it to maintaine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne Judges powre, ne reasons rule, mote them restraine.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which troublous stirre when Satyrane aviz’d,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He gan to cast how to appease the same,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to accord them all this meanes deviz’d:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "First in the midst to set that fayrest Dame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To whom each one his chalenge should disclame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And he himselfe his right would eke releasse:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then, looke to whom she voluntarie came,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He should without disturbance her possesse:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sweete is the love that comes alone with willingnesse.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "They all agreed: and then that snowy Mayd", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Was in the middest plast among them all;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All on her gazing wisht, and vowd, and prayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to the Queene of beautie close did call,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That she unto their portion might befall.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then, when she long had lookt upon each one,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As though she wished to have pleasd them all,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At last to Braggadochio selfe alone", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She came of her accord, in spight of all his fone.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which when they all beheld they chaft, and rag’d,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And woxe nigh mad for very harts despight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That from revenge their willes they scarce asswag’d", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some thought from him her to have reft by might;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some proffer made with him for her to fight.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But he nought car’d for all that they could say,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For he their words as wind esteemed light.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet not fit place he thought it there to stay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But secretly from thence that night her bore away.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "They which remaynd, so soone as they perceiv’d", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That she was gone, departed thence with speed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And follow’d them, in mind her to have reav’d", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From wight unworthie of so noble meed.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In which poursuit how each one did succeede,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shall else be told in order, as it fell.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But now of Britomart it here doth neede", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The hard adventures and strange haps to tell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Since with the rest she went not after Florimell.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "For soone as she them saw to discord set,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Her list no longer in that place abide;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, taking with her lovely Amoret,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon her first adventure forth did ride,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To seeke her lov’d, making blind love her guide.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unluckie Mayd, to seeke her enimie!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unluckie Mayd, to seeke him farre and wide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom, when he was unto her selfe most nie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She through his late disguizement could him not descrie!", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So much the more her griefe, the more her toyle:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Yet neither toyle nor griefe she once did spare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In seeking him that should her paine assoyle;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereto great comfort in her sad misfare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was Amoret, companion of her care:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who likewise sought her lover long miswent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The gentle Scudamour, whose heart whileare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That stryfull hag with gealous discontent", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had fild, that he to fell reveng was fully bent:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Bent to revenge on blamelesse Britomart", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The crime which cursed Atè kindled earst,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which like thornes did pricke his gealous hart,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And through his soule like poysned arrow perst,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That by no reason it might be reverst,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For ought that Glaucè could or doe or say.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For, aye the more that she the same reherst,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The more it gauld and griev’d him night and day,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That nought but dire revenge his anger mote defray.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So as they travelled, the drouping night,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Covered with cloudie storme and bitter showre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That dreadfull seem’d to every living wight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon them fell, before her timely howre;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That forced them to seeke some covert bowre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where they might hide their heads in quiet rest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And shrowd their persons from that stormie stowre.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Not farre away, not meet for any guest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They spide a little cottage, like some poore mans nest.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Under a steepe hilles side it placed was,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "There where the mouldred earth had cav’d the banke;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And fast beside a little brooke did pas", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of muddie water, that like puddle stanke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By which few crooked sallowes grew in ranke:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereto approaching nigh they heard the sound", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of many yron hammers beating ranke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And answering their wearie turnes around,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That seemed some blacksmith dwelt in that desert ground.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "There entring in, they found the goodman selfe", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Full busily unto his worke ybent;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who was to weet a wretched wearish elfe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With hollow eyes and rawbone cheekes forspent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As if he had in prison long bene pent:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Full blacke and griesly did his face appeare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Besmeard with smoke that nigh his eye-sight blent;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With rugged beard, and hoarie shagged heare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The 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sore:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All sixe strong groomes, but one then other more;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For by degrees they all were disagreed;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So likewise did the hammers which they bore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like belles in greatnesse orderly succeed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That he which was the last the first did farre exceede.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He like a monstrous Gyant seem’d in sight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Farre passing Bronteus or Pyracmon great,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which in Lipari doe day and night", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Frame thunderbolts for Joves avengefull threate.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So dreadfully he did the and vile beat,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That seem’d to dust he shortly would it drive:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So huge his hammer, and so fierce his heat,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That seem’d a rocke of Diamond it could rive", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And rend asunder quite, if he thereto list strive.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Sir Scudamour there entring much admired", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The manner of their worke and wearie paine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, having long beheld, at last enquired", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The cause and end thereof, but all in vaine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For they for nought would from their worke refraine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne let his speeches come unto their eare.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke the breathfull bellowes blew amaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like to the Northern winde, that none could heare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Those Pensifenesse did move; and Sighes the bellows weare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which when that warriour saw, he said no more,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But in his armour layd him down to rest:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To rest he layd him downe upon the flore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "(Whylome for ventrous Knights the bedding best)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And thought his wearie limbs to have redrest.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And that old aged Dame, his faithfull Squire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her feeble joynts layd eke adowne to rest;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That needed much her weake age to desire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "After so long a travell which them both did tire.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "There lay Sir Scudamour long while expecting", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "When gentle sleepe his heavie eyes would close;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Oft chaunging sides, and oft new place electing,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where better seem’d he mote himselfe repose;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And oft in wrath he thence againe uprose,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And oft in wrath he layd him downe againe.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But wheresoever he did himselfe dispose,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He by no meanes could wished ease obtaine:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So every place seem’d painefull, and ech changing vaine.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And evermore, when he to sleepe did thinke,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The hammers sound his senses did molest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And evermore, when he began to winke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The bellowes noyse disturb’d his quiet rest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne suffred sleepe to settle in his brest:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all the night the dogs did barke and howle", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "About the house, at sent of stranger guest:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And now the crowing Cocke, and now the Owle", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Lowde shriking, him afflicted to the very sowle.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And, if by fortuneany litle nap", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Upon his heavie eyelids chaunst to fall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Eftsoones one of those villeins him did rap", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon his headpeece with his yron mall;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That he was soone awaked therewithall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And lightly started up as one affrayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or as if one him suddenly did call:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So oftentimes he out of sleepe abrayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And then lay musing long on that him ill apayd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So long he muzed, and so long he lay,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That at the last his wearie sprite, opprest", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With fleshly weaknesse, which no creature may", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Long time resist, gave place to kindly rest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all his senses did full soone arrest:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet in his soundest sleepe his dayly feare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His ydle braine gan busily molest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And made him dreame those two disloyall were:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The things, that day most minds, at night doe most appeare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "With that the wicked carle, the maister Smith,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A paire of red-whot yron tongs did take", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Out of the burning cinders, and therewith", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Under his side him nipt; that, forst to wake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He felt his hart for very paine to quake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And started up avenged for to be", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On him the which his quiet slomber brake:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet, looking round about him, none could see;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet did the smart remaine, though he himselfe did flee.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "In such disquiet and hart-fretting payne", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He all that night, that too long night, did passe.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And now the day out of the Ocean mayne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Began to peepe above this earthly masse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With pearly dew sprinkling the morning grasse:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then up he rose, like heavie lumpe of lead,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That in his face, as in a looking glasse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The signes of anguish one mote plainely read,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And ghesse the man to be dismayd with gealous dread.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Unto his lofty steede he clombe anone,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And forth upon his former voiage fared,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with him eke that aged Squire attone;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who, whatsoever perill was prepared,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both equall paines and equall perill shared;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The end whereof and daungerous event", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shall for another canticle be spared:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But here my wearie teeme, nigh over spent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shall breath it selfe awhile after so long a went.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "What equall torment to the griefe of mind", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And pyning anguish hid in gentle hart,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That inly feeds it selfe with thoughts unkind,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And nourisheth her owne consuming smart?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What medicine can any Leaches art", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yeeld such a sore, that doth her grievance hide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And will to none her maladie impart?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Such was the wound that Scudamour did gride,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For which Dan Phebus selfe cannot a salve provide.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Who having left that restlesse house of Care,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The next day, as he on his way did ride,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Full of melancholic and sad misfare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through misconceipt, all unawares espide", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "An armed Knight under a forrest side", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sitting in shade beside his grazing steede;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who, soone as them approaching he descride,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gan towards them to pricke with eger speede,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That seem’d he was full bent to some mischievous deede.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which Scudamour perceiving forth issewed", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To have rencountred him in equall race;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But soone as th’other nigh approaching vewed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The armes he bore, his speare he gan abase", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And voide his course: at which so suddain case", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He wondred much. But th’other thus can say:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Ah, gentle Scudamour! unto your grace", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I me submit, and you of pardon pray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That almost had against you trespassed this day.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whereto thus Scudamour: “Small harme it were", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For any knight upon a ventrous knight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Without displeasance for to prove his spere.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But reade you, Sir, sith ye my name have hight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What is your owne, that I mote you requite?”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Certes,” (sayd he) “ye mote as now excuse", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Me from discovering you my name aright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For time yet serves that I the same refuse;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But call ye me the Salvage Knight, as others use.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Then this, Sir Salvage Knight,” (quoth he) “areede:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Or doe you here within this forrest wonne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That seemeth well to answere to your weede,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or have ye it for some occasion donne?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That rather seemes, sith knowen armes ye shonne.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“This other day” (sayd he) “a stranger knight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shame and dishonour hath unto me donne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On whom I waite to wreake that foule despight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When ever he this way shall passe by day or night.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Shame be his meede,” (quoth he) “that meaneth shame!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But what is he by whom ye shamed were?”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“A stranger knight,” sayd he, “unknowne by name,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But knowne by fame, and by an Hebene speare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With which he all that met him downe did beare.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He, in an open Turney lately held,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fro me the honour of that game did reare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And having me, all wearie earst, downe feld,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The fayrest Ladie reft, and ever since withheld.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "When Scudamour heard mention of that speare,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He wist right well that it was Britomart,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which from him his fairest love did beare.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tho gan he swell in every inner part", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For fell despight, and gnaw his gealous hart,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That thus he sharply sayd: “Now, by my head,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet is not this the first unknightly part,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which that same knight, whom by his launce I read,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Hath doen to noble knights, that many makes him dread:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“For lately he my love hath fro me reft,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And eke defiled with foule villanie", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The sacred pledge which in his faith was left,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In shame of knighthood and fidelitie;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which ere long full deare he shall abie:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And if to that avenge by you decreed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "This hand may helpe, or succour ought supplie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It shall not fayle when so ye shall it need.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So both to wreake their wrathes on Britomart agreed.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whiles thus they communed, lo! farre away", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A Knight soft ryding towards them they spyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Attyr’d in forraine armes and straunge aray:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom, when they nigh approcht, they plaine descryde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To be the same for whom they did abyde.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sayd then Sir Scudamour: “Sir Salvage knight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Let me this crave, sith first I was defyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That first I may that wrong to him requite;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, if I hap to fayle, you shall recure my right.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which being yeelded, he his threatfull speare", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Gan fewter, and against her fiercely ran.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who soone as she him saw approching neare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With so fell rage, her selfe she lightly gan", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To dight, to welcome him well as she can;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But entertaind him in so rude a wise,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That to the ground she smote both horse and man;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whence neither greatly hasted to arise,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But on their common harmes together did devise.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But Artegall, beholding his mischaunce,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "New matter added to his former fire;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, eft aventring his steeleheaded launce,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Against her rode, full of despiteous ire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That nought but spoyle and vengeance did require:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But to himselfe his felonous intent", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Returning disappointed his desire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whiles unawares his saddle he forwent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And found himselfe on ground in great amazement.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Lightly he started up out of that stound,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And snatching forth his direfull deadly blade", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did leape to her, as doth an eger hound", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thrust to an Hynd within some covert glade,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom without perill he cannot invade.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With such fell greedines he her assayled,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That though she mounted were, yet he her made", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To give him ground, (so much his force prevayled)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And shun his mightie strokes, gainst which no armes avayled.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So, as they coursed here and there, it chaunst", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That, in her wheeling round, behind her crest", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So sorely he her strooke, that thence it glaunst", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Adowne her backe, the which it fairely blest", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From foule mischance; ne did it ever rest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till on her horses hinder parts it fell;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where byting deepe so deadly it imprest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That quite it chynd his backe behind the sell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to alight on foote her algates did compell:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Like as the lightning brond from riven skie,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Throwne out by angry Jove in his vengeance,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With dreadfull force falles on some steeple hie;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which battring downe, it on the church doth glance,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And teares it all with terrible mischance.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet she no whit dismayd her steed forsooke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, casting from her that enchaunted launce,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto her sword and shield her soone betooke;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And therewithall at him right furiously she strooke.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So furiously she strooke in her first heat,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whiles with long fight on foot he breathlesse was,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That she him forced backward to retreat,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And yeeld unto her weapon way to pas:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose raging rigour neither steele nor bras", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Could stay, but to the tender flesh it went,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And pour’d the purple bloud forth on the gras;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all his mayle yriv’d, and plates yrent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shew’d all his bodie bare unto the cruell dent.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "At length, when as he saw her hastie heat", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Abate, and panting breath begin to fayle,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He, through long sufferance growing now more great,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Rose in his strength, and gan her fresh assayle,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Heaping huge strokes as thicke as showre of hayle,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And lashing dreadfully at every part,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As if he thought her soule to disentrayle.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ah, cruell hand! and thrise more cruell hart,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That workst such wrecke on her to whom thou dearest art!", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "What yron courage ever could endure", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To worke such outrage on so faire a creature;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in his madnesse thinke with hands impure", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To spoyle so goodly workmanship of nature,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The maker selfe resembling in her feature!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Certes some hellish furie or some feend", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "This mischiefe framd for their first loves defeature,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To bath their hands in bloud of dearest freend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thereby to make their loves beginning their lives end.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thus long they trac’d and traverst to and fro,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Sometimes pursewing, and sometimes pursewed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Still as advantage they espyde thereto:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But toward th’end Sir Arthegall renewed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His strength still more, but she still more decrewed.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At last his lucklesse hand he heav’d on hie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Having his forces all in one accrewed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And therewith stroke at her so hideouslie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That seemed nought but death mote be her destinie.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The wicked stroke upon her helmet chaunst,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And with the force, whiche in it selfe it bore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her ventayle shard away, and thence forth glaunst", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Adowne in vaine, ne harm’d her any more.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With that her angels face, unseene afore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like to the ruddie morne appeard in sight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Deawed with silver drops through sweating sore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But somewhat redder then beseem’d aright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through toylesome heate and labour of her weary fight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And round about the same her yellow heare,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Having through stirring loosd their wonted band,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like to a golden border did appeare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Framed in goldsmithes forge with cunning hand:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet goldsmithes cunning could not understand", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To frame such subtile wire, so shinie cleare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For it did glister like the golden sand,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which Pactolus with his waters shere", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Throwes forth upon the rivage round about him nere.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And as his hand he up againe did reare,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Thinking to worke on her his utmost wracke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His powrelesse arme, benumbd with secret feare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From his revengefull purpose shronke abacke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And cruell sword out of his fingers slacke", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fell downe to ground; as if the steele had sence,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And felt some ruth or sence his hand did lacke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or both of them did thinke obedience", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To doe to so divine a beauties excellence.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And he himselfe, long gazing thereupon,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "At last fell humbly downe upon his knee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And of his wonder made religion,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Weening some heavenly goddesse he did see,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or else unweeting what it else might bee;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And pardon her besought his errour frayle,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That had done outrage in so high degree:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whilest trembling horrour did his sense assayle,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And made ech member quake, and manly hart to quayle.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Nathelesse she, full of wrath for that late stroke,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "All that long while upheld her wrathfull hand,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With fell intent on him to bene ywroke;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, looking sterne, still over him did stand,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Threatning to strike unlesse he would withstand:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And bad him rise, or surely he should die.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, die or live, for nought he would upstand,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But her of pardon prayd more earnestlie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or wreake on him her will for so great injurie.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which when as Scudamour, who now abrayd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Beheld, whereas he stood not farre aside,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He was therewith right wondrously dismayd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And drawing nigh, when as he plaine descride", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That peerelesse paterne of Dame Natures pride", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And heavenly image of perfection,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He blest himselfe as one sore terrifide:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, turning feare to faint devotion,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did worship her as some celestiall vision.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But Glaucè, seeing all that chaunced there,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Well weeting how their errour to assoyle,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Full glad of so good end, to them drew nere,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And her salewd with seemely bel-accoyle,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Joyous to see her safe after long toyle.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then her besought, as she to her was deare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To graunt unto those warriours truce a whyle;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which yeelded, they their bevers up did reare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And shew’d themselves to her such as indeed they were.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "When Britomart with sharpe avizefull eye", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Beheld the lovely face of Artegall", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tempred with sternesse and stout majestie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She gan eftsoones it to her mind to call", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To be the same which in her fathers hall", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Long since in that enchaunted glasse she saw;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therewith her wrathfull courage gan appall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And haughtie spirits meekely to adaw,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That her enhaunced hand she downe Can soft withdraw.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Yet she it forst to have againe upheld,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As fayning choler which was turn’d to cold:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But ever when his visage she beheld,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her hand fell downe, and would no longer hold", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The wrathfull weapon gainst his countnance bold:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, when in vaine to fight she oft assayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She arm’d her tongue, and thought at him to scold;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nathlesse her tongue not to her will obayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But brought forth speeches myld when she would have missayd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But Scudamour, now woxen inly glad", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That all his gealous feare he false had found,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And how that Hag his love abused had", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With breach of faith and loyaltie unsound,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which long time his grieved hart did wound,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him thus bespake: “Certes, Sir Artegall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I joy to see you lout so low on ground,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And now become to live a Ladies thrall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That whylome in your minde wont to despise them all.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Soone as she heard the name of Artegall,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Her hart did leape, and all her hartstrings tremble,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For sudden joy and secret feare withall;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all her vitall powres, with motion nimble", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To succour it, themselves gan there assemble;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That by the swift recourse of flushing blood", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Right plaine appeard, though she it would dissemble,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And fayned still her former angry mood,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thinking to hide the depth by troubling of the flood.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "When Glaucè thus gan wisely all upknit:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“Ye gentle Knights, whom fortune here hath brought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To be spectators of this uncouth fit,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which secret fate hath in this Ladie wrought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Against the course of kind, ne mervaile nought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne thenceforth feare the thing that hethertoo", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Hath troubled both your mindes with idle thought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fearing least she your loves away should woo:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Feared in vaine, sith meanes, ye see, there wants theretoo.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“And you, Sir Artegall, the salvage knight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Henceforth may not disdaine that womans hand", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Hath conquered you anew in second fight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For whylome they have conquerd sea and land,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And heaven it selfe, that nought may them withstand.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne henceforth be rebellious unto love,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That is the crowne of knighthood, and the band", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of noble minds derived from above,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which, being knit with vertue, never will remove.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“And you, faire Ladie knight, my dearest Dame,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Relent the rigour of your wrathfull will,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose fire were better turn’d to other flame;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, wiping out remembrance of all ill,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Graunt him your grace; but so that he fulfill", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The penance which ye shall to him empart:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For lovers heaven must passe by sorrowes hell.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thereat full inly blushed Britomart,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Artegall close smyling joy’d in secret hart.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Yet durst he not make love so suddenly,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ne thinke th’affection of her hart to draw", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From one to other so quite contrary:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Besides her modest countenance he saw", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So goodly grave, and full of princely aw,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That it his ranging fancie did refraine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And looser thoughts to lawfull bounds withdraw;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereby the passion grew more fierce and faine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like to a stubborne steede whom strong hand would restraine.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But Scudamour, whose hart twixt doubtfull feare", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And feeble hope hung all this while suspence,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Desiring of his Amoret to heare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some gladfull newes and sure intelligence,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her thus bespake: “But, Sir, without offence", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Mote I request you tydings of my love,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "My Amoret, sith you her freed fro thence", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where she, captived long, great woes did prove;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That where ye left I may her seeke, as doth behove.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "To whom thus Britomart: “Certes, Sir knight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "What is of her become, or whether reft,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I can not unto you aread a right:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For from that time I from enchaunters theft", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her freed, in which ye her all hopelesse left,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I her preserv’d from perill and from feare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And evermore from villenie her kept:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ever was there wight to me more deare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then she, ne unto whom I more true love did beare:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Till on a day, as through a desert wyld", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "We travelled, both wearie of the way", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "We did alight, and sate in shadow myld,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where fearelesse I to sleepe me downe did lay:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But when as I did out of sleepe abray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I found her not where I her left whyleare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But thought she wandred was, or gone astray:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I cal’d her loud, I sought her farre and neare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But no where could her find, nor tydings of her heare.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "When Scudamour those heavie tydings heard,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His hart was thrild with point of deadly feare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne in his face or bloud or life appeard;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But senselesse stood, like to a mazed steare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That yet of mortall stroke the stound doth beare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till Glaucè thus: “Faire Sir, be nought dismayd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With needlesse dread, till certaintie ye heare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For yet she may be safe though somewhat strayd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Its best to hope the best, though of the worst affrayd.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Nathlesse he hardly of her chearefull speech", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Did comfort take, or in his troubled sight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shew’d change of better cheare: so sore a breach", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That sudden newes had made into his spright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till Britomart him fairely thus behight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Great cause of sorrow certes, Sir, ye have;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But comfort take; for, by this heavens light,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I vow you dead or living not to leave,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till I her find, and wreake on him that did her reave.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Therewith he rested, and well pleased was:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Peace being confirm’d amongst them all,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They tooke their steeds, and forward thence did pas", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto some resting place, which mote befall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All being guided by Sir Artegall:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where goodly solace was unto them made,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And dayly feasting both in bowre and hall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Untill that they their wounds well healed had,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And wearie limmes recur’d after late usage bad.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "In all which time Sir Artegall made way", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Unto the love of noble Britomart,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with meeke service and much suit did lay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Continuall siege unto her gentle hart;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which, being whylome launcht with lovely dart,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "More eath was new impression to receive;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "How ever she her paynd with womanish art", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To hide her wound, that none might it perceive:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Vaine is the art that seekes it selfe for to deceive.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So well he woo’d her, and so well he wrought her,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With faire entreatie and sweet blandishment,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That at the length unto a bay he brought her,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So as she to his speeches was content", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To lend an eare, and softly to relent.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At last, through many vowes which forth he pour’d,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And many othes, she yeelded her consent", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To be his love, and take him for her Lord,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till they with mariage meet might finish that accord.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Tho, when they had long time there taken rest,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Sir Artegall, who all this while was bound", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon an hard adventure yet in quest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fit time for him thence to depart it found,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To follow that which he did long propound,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And unto her his congee came to take;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But her therewith full sore displeasd he found,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And loth to leave her late betrothed make,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her dearest love full loth so shortly to forsake.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Yet he with strong perswasions her asswaged,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And wonne her will to suffer him depart;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For which his faith with her he fast engaged,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And thousand vowes from bottome of his hart,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That, all so soone as he by wit or art", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Could that atchieve whereto he did aspire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He unto her would speedily revert:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "No longer space thereto he did desire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But till the horned moone three courses did expire.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "With which she for the present was appeased,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And yeelded leave, how ever malcontent", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She inly were and in her mind displeased.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So, early in the morrow next, he went", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Forth on his way to which he was ybent;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne wight him to attend, or way to guide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As whylome was the custome ancient", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Mongst Knights when on adventures they did ride,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Save that she algates him a while accompanide.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And by the way she sundry purpose found", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of this or that, the time for to delay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And of the perils whereto he was bound,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The feare whereof seem’d much her to affray;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But all she did was but to weare out day.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Full oftentimes she leave of him did take;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eft againe deviz’d some what to say,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which she forgot, whereby excuse to make;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So loth she was his companie for to forsake.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "At last, when all her speeches she had spent,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And new occasion fayld her more to find,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She left him to his fortunes government,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And backe returned with right heavie mind", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To Scudamour, whom she had left behind:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With whom she went to seeke faire Amoret,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her second care, though in another kind:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For vertues onely sake, which doth beget", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "True love and faithfull friendship, she by her did set.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Backe to that desert forrest they retyred,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Where sorie Britomart had lost her late;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There they her sought, and every where inquired", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where they might tydings get of her estate;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet found they none. But by what haplesse fate", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or hard misfortune she was thence convayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And stolne away from her beloved mate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Were long to tell; therefore, I here will stay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Untill another tyde that I it finish may.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Great God of love, that with thy cruell darts", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Doest conquer greatest conquerors on ground,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And setst thy kingdome in the captive harts", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of Kings and Keasars to thy service bound;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What glorie, or what guerdon hast thou found", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In feeble Ladies tyranning so sore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And adding anguish to the bitter wound", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With which their lives thou lanchedst long afore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By heaping stormes of trouble on them daily more?", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So whylome didst thou to faire Florimell,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And so and so to noble Britomart:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So doest thou now to her of whom I tell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The lovely Amoret, whose gentle hart", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thou martyrest with sorow and with smart,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In salvage forrests and in deserts wide", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With Beares and Tygers taking heavie part,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Withouten comfort and withouten guide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That pittie is to heare the perils which she tride.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So soone as die with that brave Britonesse", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Had left that Turneyment for beauties prise,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They travel’d long; that now for wearinesse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both of the way and warlike exercise,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both through a forest ryding did devise", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "T’alight, and rest their wearie limbs awhile.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There heavie sleepe the eyelids did surprise", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of Britomart, after long tedious toyle,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That did her passed paines in quiet rest assoyle.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The whiles faire Amoret, of nought affeard,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Walkt through the wood, for pleasure or for need;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When suddenly behind her backe she heard", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "One rushing forth out of the thickest weed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That, ere she backe could turne to taken heed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had unawares her snatched up from ground:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Feebly she shriekt, but so feebly indeed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That Britomart heard not the shrilling sound,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There where through weary travel she lay sleeping sound.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "It was to weet a wilde and salvage man;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Yet was no man, but onely like in shape,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke in stature higher by a span;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All overgrowne with haire, that could awhape", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "An hardy hart; and his wide, mouth did gape", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With huge great teeth, like to a tusked Bore:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For he liv’d all on ravin and on rape", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of men and beasts; and fed on fleshly gore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The signe whereof yet stain’d his bloudy lips afore.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "His neather lip was not like man nor beast,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But like a wide deepe poke, downe hanging low,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In which he wont the relickes of his feast", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And cruell spoyle, which he had spard, to stow:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And over it his huge great nose did grow,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Full dreadfully empurpled all with bloud;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And downe both sides two wide long eares did glow,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And raught downe to his waste when up he stood,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "More great then th’eares of Elephants by Indus flood.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "His wast was with a wreath of yvie greene", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Engirt about, ne other garment wore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For all his haire was like a garment seene;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in his hand a tall young oake he bore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose knottie snags were sharpned all afore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And beath’d in fire for steele to be in sted.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But whence he was, or of what wombe ybore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of beasts, or of the earth, I have not red,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But certes was with milke of Wolves and Tygres fed.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "This ugly creature in his armes her snatcht,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And through the forrest bore her quite away,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With briers and bushes all to-rent and scratcht;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne care he had, ne pittie of the pray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which many a knight had sought so many a day.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He stayed not, but in his armes her bearing", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ran, till he came to th’end of all his way,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto his cave farre from all peoples hearing,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And there he threw her in, nought feeling, ne nought fearing.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "For she, deare Ladie, all the way was dead,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whilest he in armes her bore; but, when she felt", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her selfe downe soust, she waked out of dread", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Streight into griefe, that her deare hart nigh swelt,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eft gan into tender teares to melt.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then, when she lookt about, and nothing found", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But darknesse and dread horrour where she dwelt,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She almost fell againe into a swound,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne wist whether above she were or under ground.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "With that she heard some one close by her side", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Sighing and sobbing sore, as if the paine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her tender hart in peeces would divide:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which she long listning, softly askt againe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What mister wight it was that so did plaine?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To whom thus aunswer’d was: “Ah, wretched wight!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That seekes to know anothers griefe in vaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unweeting of thine owne like haplesse plight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Selfe to forget to mind another is oversight.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Aye me!” (said she) “where am I, or with whom?", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Emong the living, or emong the dead?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What shall of me, unhappy maid, become?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shall death be th’end, or ought else worse, aread?”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Unhappy mayd” (then answer’d she) “whose dread", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Untride is lesse then when thou shalt it try:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Death is to him, that wretched life doth lead,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both grace and gaine; but he in hell doth lie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That lives a loathed life, and wishing cannot die.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“This dismall day hath thee a captive made,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And vassall to the vilest wretch alive,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose cursed usage and ungodly trade", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The heavens abhorre, and into darkenesse drive;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For on the spoile of women he doth live,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose bodies chast, when ever in his powre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He may them catch unable to gainestrive,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He with his shamefull lust doth first deflowre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And afterwardes themselves doth cruelly devoure.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Now twenty daies, by which the sonnes of men", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Divide their works, have past through heven sheene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Since I was brought into this dolefull den;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "During which space these sory eies have seen", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Seaven women by him slaine, and eaten clene:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And now no more for him but I alone,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And this old woman, here remaining beene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till thou cam’st hither to augment our mone;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And of us three to morrow he will sure eate one.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Ah, dreadfull tidings which thou doest declare,”", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "(Quoth she) “of all that ever hath bene knowen!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Full many great calamities and rare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "This feeble brest endured hath, but none", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Equall to this, where ever I have gone.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But what are you, whom like unlucky lot", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Hath linckt with me in the same chaine attone?”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“To tell” (quoth she) “that what ye see, needs not;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A wofull wretched maid, of God and man forgot!", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“But what I was it irkes me to reherse;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Daughter unto a Lord of high degree;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That joyd in happy peace, till fates perverse", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With guilefull love did secretly agree", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To overthrow my state and dignitie.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It was my lot to love a gentle swaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet was he but a Squire of low degree;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet was he meet, unless mine eye did faine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By any Ladies side for Leman to have laine.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“But for his meannesse and disparagement,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "My Sire, who me too dearely well did love,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto my choise by no meanes would assent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But often did my folly fowle reprove:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet nothing could my fixed mind remove,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, whether willed or nilled friend or foe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I me resolv’d the utmost end to prove;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, rather then my love abandon so,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both sire and friends and all for ever to forgo.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Thenceforth I sought by secret meanes to worke", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Time to my will, and from his wrathfull sight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To hide th’intent which in my heart did lurke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till I thereto had all things ready dight.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So on a day, unweeting unto wight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I with that Squire agreede away to flit,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in a privy place, betwixt us hight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Within a grove appointed him to meete;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To which I boldly came upon my feeble feete.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“But ah! unhappy houre me thither brought,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For in that place where I him thought to find,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There was I found, contrary to my thought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of this accursed Carle of hellish kind,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The shame of men, and plague of womankind:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who trussing me, as Eagle doth his pray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Me hether brought with him as swift as wind,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where yet untouched till this present day,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I rest his wretched thrall, the sad Æmylia.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Ah, sad Æmylia!” (then sayd Amoret)", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“Thy ruefull plight I pitty as mine owne.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But read to me, by what devise or wit", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Hast thou in all this time, from him unknowne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thine honor sav’d, though into thraldome throwne?”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Through helpe” (quoth she) “of this old woman here", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I have so done, as she to me hath showne;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For, ever when he burnt in lustfull fire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She in my stead supplide his bestiall desire.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thus of their evils as they did discourse,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And each did other much bewaile and mone,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Loe! where the villaine selfe, their sorrowes sourse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Came to the cave; and rolling thence the stone,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which wont to stop the mouth thereof, that none", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Might issue forth, came rudely rushing in,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, spredding over all the flore alone,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gan dight him selfe unto his wonted sinne;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which ended, then his bloudy banket should beginne.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which when as fearefull Amoret perceived,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "She staid not th’utmost end thereof to try,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, like a ghastly Gelt whose wits are reaved,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ran forth in hast with hideous outcry,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For horrour of his shamefull villany:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But after her full lightly he uprose,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And her pursu’d as fast as she did flie:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Full fast she flies, and farre afore him goes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne feeles the thornes and thickets pricke her tender toes.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Nor hedge, nor ditch, nor hill, nor dale she staies,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But overleapes them all, like Robucke light,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And through the thickest makes her nighest waies;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And evermore, when with regardfull sight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She looking backe espies that griesly wight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Approching nigh, she gins to mend her pace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And makes her feare a spur to hast her flight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "More swift then Myrrh’ or Daphne in her race,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or any of the Thracian Nimphes in salvage chase.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Long so she fled, and so he follow’d long;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ne living aide for her on earth appeares,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But-if the heavens helpe to redresse her wrong,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Moved with pity of her plenteous teares.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It fortuned Belphebe with her peares,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The woody Nimphs, and with that lovely boy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was hunting then the Libbards and the Beares", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In these wild woods, as was her wonted joy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To banish sloth that oft doth noble mindes annoy.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "It so befell, as oft it fals in chace,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That each of them from other sundred were;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And that same gentle bquire arriv’d in place", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where this same cursed caytive did appeare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Pursuing that faire Lady full of feare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And now he her quite overtaken had;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And now he her away with him did beare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Under his arme, as seeming wondrous glad,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That by his grenning 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"text": "The puissance of his intended stroke:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And if it chaunst, (as needs it must in fight)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whilest he on him was greedy to be wroke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That any little blow on her did light,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then would he laugh aloud, and gather great delight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which subtill sleight did him encumber much,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And made him oft, when he would strike, forbeare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For hardly could he come the carle to touch,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But that he her must hurt, or hazard neare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet he his hand so carefully did beare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That at the last he did himselfe attaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And therein left the pikehead of his speare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A streame of cole-blacke bloud thence gusht amaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all her silken garments did with 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1 }, { "text": "Whom when that theefe approching nigh espide", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With bow in hand and arrowes ready bent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He by his former combate would not bide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But fled away with ghastly dreriment,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Well knowing her to be his deaths sole instrument.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whom seeing flie she speedily poursewed", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With winged feete as nimble as the winde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And ever in her bow she ready shewed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The arrow to his deadly marke desynde.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As when Latonaes daughter, cruell kynde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In vengement of her mothers great disgrace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With fell despight her cruell arrowes tynde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gainst wofull Niobes unhappy race,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all the gods did mone her miserable case.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So well she sped her, and so far she ventred,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That, ere unto his hellish den he raught,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Even as he ready was there to have entred,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She sent an arrow forth with mighty draught,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That in the very dore him overcaught,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, in his nape arriving, through it thrild", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His greedy throte, therewith in two distraught,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all his vitall spirites thereby spild,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all his hairy brest with gory bloud was fild.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whom when on ground she groveling saw to rowle,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "She ran in hast his life to have bereft;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, ere she could him reach, the sinfull sowle", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Having his carrion corse quite sencelesse left", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was fled to hell, surcharg’d with spoile and 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"He seeing her depart arose up light,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Right sore agrieved at her sharpe reproofe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And follow’d fast; but, when he came in sight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He durst not nigh approch, but kept aloofe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For dread of her displeasures utmost proofe:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And evermore, when he did grace entreat,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And framed speaches fit for his behoofe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her mortall arrowes she at him did threat,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And forst him backe with fowle dishonor to retreat.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "At last, when long he follow’d had in vaine,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Yet found no ease of griefe nor hope of grace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto those woods he turned backe againe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Full of sad anguish and in heavy case:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, finding there fit solitary place", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For wofull wight, chose out a gloomy glade,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where hardly eye mote see bright heavens face", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For mossy trees, which covered all with shade", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And sad melancholy: there he his cabin made.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "His wonted warlike weapons all he broke", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And threw away, with vow to use no more,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne thenceforth ever strike in battell stroke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ever word to speake to woman more;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But in that wildernesse, of men forlore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And of the wicked world forgotten quight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His hard mishap in dolor to deplore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And wast his wretched daies in wofull plight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So on him selfe to wreake his follies owne despight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And eke his garment, to be thereto meet,", "indent": 0 }, { 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"Then running water tempred with his teares,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The more his weakened body so to wast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That out of all: mens knowledge he was worne at last.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "For on a day, by fortune as it fell,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His owne deare Lord Prince Arthure came that way,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Seeking adventures where he mote heare tell;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, as he through the wandring wood did stray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Having espide this Cabin far away,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He to it drew, to weet who there did wonne;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Weening therein some holy Hermit lay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That did resort of sinfull people shonne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or else some woodman shrowded there from scorching sunne.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Arriving there he found this wretched man", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Spending his daies in dolour and despaire,", 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attentive eye,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "At length did marke about her purple brest", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That precious juell, which she formerly", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had knowne right well, with colourd ribbands drest:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therewith she rose in hast, and her addrest", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With ready hand it to have reft away;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But the swift bird obayd not her behest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But swarv’d aside, and there againe did stay:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She follow’d her, and thought againe it to assay.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And ever, when she nigh approcht, the Dove", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Would flit a litle forward, and then stay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till she drew neare, and then againe remove;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So tempting her still to pursue the pray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And still from her escaping soft away:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till that at length into that forrest wide", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She drew her far, and led with slow delay.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In th’end she her unto that place did guide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereas that wofull man in langour did abide.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Eftsoones she flew unto his fearelesse hand,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And there a piteous ditty new deviz’d,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As if she would have made her understand", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His sorrowes cause, to be of her despis’d:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom when she saw in wretched weedes disguiz’d,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With heary glib deform’d and meiger face,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like ghost late risen from his grave agryz’d,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She knew him not, but pittied much his case,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And wisht it were in her to doe him any grace.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He her beholding at her feet downe fell,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And kist the ground on which her sole did tread,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And washt the same with water which did well", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From his moist eies, and like two streames procead;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet spake no word, whereby she might aread", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What mister wight he was, or what he ment;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, as one daunted with her presence dread,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Onely few ruefull lookes unto her sent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As messengers of his true meaning and intent.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Yet nathemore his meaning she ared,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But wondred much at his so selcouth case;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And by his persons secret seemlyhed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Well weend that he had beene some man of place,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Before misfortune did his hew deface;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That being mov’d with ruth she thus bespake:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Ah! wofull man, what heavens hard disgrace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or wrath of cruell wight on thee ywrake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or selfe-disliked life, doth thee thus wretched make?", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“If heaven, then none may it redresse or blame,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Sith to his powre we all are subject borne:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "If wrathfull wight, then fowle rebuke and shame", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Be theirs that have so cruell thee forlorne!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But if through inward griefe or wilfull scorne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of life it be, then better doe advise:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For he, whose daies in wilfull woe are worne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The grace of his Creator doth despise,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That will not use his gifts for thanklesse nigardise.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "When so he heard her say, eftsoones he brake", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His sodaine silence which he long had pent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, sighing inly deepe, her thus bespake:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Then have they all themselves against me bent:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For heaven, first author of my languishment,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Envying my too great felicity,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did closely with a cruell one consent", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To cloud my daies in dolefull misery,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And make me loath this life, still longing for to die.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Ne any but your selfe, O dearest dred,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Hath done this wrong, to wreake on worthlesse wight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Your high displesure, through misdeeming bred:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That, when your pleasure is to deeme aright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ye may redresse, and me restore to light!”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which sory words her mightie hart did mate", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With mild regard to see his ruefull plight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That her inhuming wrath she gan abate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And him receiv’d againe to former favours state.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "In which he long time afterwards did lead", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "An happie life with grace and good accord,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fearlesse of fortunes chaunge or envies dread,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke all mindlesse of his owne deare Lord", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The noble Prince, who never heard one word", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of tydings what did unto him betide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or what good fortune did to him afford;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But through the endlesse world did wander wide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him seeking evermore, yet no where him descride.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Till on a day, as through that wood he rode,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He chaunst to come where those two Ladies late,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Æmylia and Amoret, abode,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both in full sad and sorrowfull estate:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The one right feeble through the evill rate", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of food which in her duresse she had found;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The other almost dead and desperate", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through her late hurts, and through that haplesse wound", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With which the Squire, in her defence, her sore astound.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whom when the Prince beheld, he gan to rew", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The evill case in which those Ladies lay;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But most was moved at the piteous vew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of Amoret, so neare unto decay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That her great daunger did him much dismay.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Eftsoones that pretious liqueur forth he drew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which he in store about him kept alway,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with few drops thereof did softly dew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her wounds, that unto strength restor’d her soone anew.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Tho, when they both recovered were right well,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He gan of them inquire, what evill guide", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Them thether brought, and how their harmes befell?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To whom they told all that did them betide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And how from thraldome vile they were untide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of that same wicked Carle, by Virgins hond;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose bloudie corse they shew’d him there beside,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke his cave in which they both were bond:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At which he wondred much when all those signes he fond.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And evermore he greatly did desire", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To know what Virgin did them thence unbind,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And oft of them did earnestly inquire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where was her won, and how he mote her find.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, when as nought according to his mind", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He could out-learne, he them from ground did reare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "No service lothsome to a gentle kind,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And on his warlike beast them both did beare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Himselfe by them on foot to succour them from feare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So when that forrest they had passed well,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A litle cotage farre away they spide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To which they drew ere night upon them fell;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And entring in found none therein abide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But one old woman sitting there beside", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon the ground in ragged rude attyre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With filthy lockes about her scattered wide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gnawing her nayles for felnesse and for yre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And there out sucking venime to her parts entyre.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "A foule and loathly creature sure in sight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And in conditions to be loath’d no lesse;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For she was stuft with rancour and despight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Up to the throat, that oft with bitternesse", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It forth would breake, and gush in great excesse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Pouring out streames of poyson and of gall", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gainst all that truth or vertue doe professe;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom she with leasings lewdly did miscall", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And wickedly backbite: Her name men Sclaunder call.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Her nature is all goodnesse to abuse,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And causelesse crimes continually to frame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With which she guiltlesse persons may accuse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And steale away the crowne of their good name:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ever Knight so bold, ne ever Dame", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So chast and loyall liv’d, but she would strive", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With forged cause them falsely to defame;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ever thing so well was doen alive,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But she with blame would blot, and of due praise deprive.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Her words were not, as common words are ment,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "T’expresse the meaning of the inward mind,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But noysome breath, and poysnous spirit sent", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From inward parts, with cancred malice lind,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And breathed forth with blast of bitter wind;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which passing through the eares would pierce the hart,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And wound the soule it selfe with griefe unkind;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For, like the stings of aspes that kill with smart,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her spightfull words did pricke and wound the inner part.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Such was that Hag, unmeet to host such guests,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whom greatest Princes court would welcome fayne;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But neede, that answers not to all requests,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Bad them not looke for better entertayne;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke that age despysed nicenesse vaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Enur’d to hardnesse and to homely fare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which them to warlike discipline did trayne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And manly limbs endur’d with litle care", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Against all hard mishaps and fortunelesse misfare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then all that evening (welcommed with cold", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And chearelesse hunger) they together spent;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet found no fault, but that the Hag did scold", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And rayle at them with grudgefull discontent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For lodging there without her owne consent:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet they endured all with patience milde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And unto rest themselves all onely lent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Regardlesse of that queane so base and vilde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To be unjustly blamd, and bitterly revilde.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Here, well I weene, when as these rimes be red", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With misregard, that some rash-witted wight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose looser thought will lightly be misled,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "These gentle Ladies will misdeeme too light", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For thus conversing with this noble Knight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sith now of dayes such temperance is rare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And hard to finde, that heat of youthfull spright", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For ought will from his greedie pleasure spare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "More hard for hungry steed t’abstaine from pleasant lare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But antique age, yet in the infancie", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of time, did live then like an innocent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In simple truth and blamelesse chastitie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne then of guile had made experiment;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, void of vile and treacherous intent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Held vertue for it selfe in soveraine awe:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then loyall love had royall regiment,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And each unto his lust did make a lawe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From all forbidden things his liking to withdraw.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The Lyon there did with the Lambe consort,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And eke the Dove sate by the Faulcons side;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne each of other feared fraud or tort,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But did in safe securitie abide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Withouten perill of the stronger pride:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But when the world woxe old, it woxe warre old,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "(Whereof it hight) and, having shortly tride", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The traines of wit, in wickednesse woxe bold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And dared of all sinnes the secrets to unfold.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then beautie, which was made to represent", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The great Creatours owne resemblance bright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto abuse of lawlesse lust was lent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And made the baite of bestiall delight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then faire grew foule, and foule grew faire in sight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And that, which wont to vanquish God and man,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was made the vassall of the victors might;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then did her glorious flowre wax dead and wan,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Despisd and troden downe of all that overran.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And now it is so utterly decayd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That any bud thereof doth scarse remaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But-if few plants, preserv’d through heavenly ayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In Princes Court doe hap to sprout againe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Dew’d with her drops of bountie Soveraine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which from that goodly glorious flowre proceed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sprung of the auncient stocke of Princes straine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now th’onely remnant of that royall breed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose noble kind at first was sure of heavenly seed.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Tho, soone as day discovered heavens face", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To sinfull men with darknes overdight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "This gentle crew gan from their eyelids chace", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The drowzie humour of the dampish night,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And did themselves unto their journey dight.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So forth they yode, and forward softly paced,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That them to view had bene an uncouth sight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "How all the way the Prince on footpace traced,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The Ladies both on horse, together fast embraced.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Soone as they thence departed were afore,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That shamefull Hag, the slaunder of her sexe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Them follow’d fast, and them reviled sore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him calling theefe, them whores; that much did vexe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His noble hart: thereto she did annex", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "False crimes and facts, such as they never ment,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That those two Ladies much asham’d did wexe:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The more did she pursue her lewd intent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And rayl’d and rag’d, till she had all her poyson spent.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "At last, when they were passed out of sight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Yet she did not her spightfull speach forbeare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But after them did barke, and still backbite,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Though there were none her hatefull words to heare.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like as a curre doth felly bite and teare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The stone which passed straunger at him threw:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So she, them seeing past the reach of eare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Against the stones and trees did rayle anew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till she had duld the sting which in her tongs end grew.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "They passing forth kept on their readie way,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With easie steps so soft as foot could stryde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both for great feeblesse, which did oft assay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Faire Amoret that scarcely she could ryde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke through heavie armes which sore annoyd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The Prince on foot, not wonted so to fare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose steadie hand was faine his steede to guyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all the way from trotting hard to spare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So was his toyle the more, the more that was his care.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "At length they spide where towards them with speed", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A Squire came gallopping, as he would flie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Bearing a litle Dwarfe before his steed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all the way full loud for aide did crie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That seem’d his shrikes would rend the brasen skie:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom after did a mightie man pursew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ryding upon a Dromedare on hie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of stature huge, and horrible of hew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That would have maz’d a man his dreadfull face to vew:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "For from his fearefull eyes two fierie beames,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "More sharpe then points of needles, did proceede,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shooting forth farre away two flaming streames,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Full of sad powre, that poysnous bale did breede", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To all that on him lookt without good heed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And secretly his enemies did slay:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like as the Basiliske, of serpents seede,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From powrefull eyes close venim doth convay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into the lookers hart, and killeth farre away.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He all the way did rage at that same Squire,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And after him full many threatnings threw,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With curses vaine in his avengefull ire;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But none of them (so fast away he flew)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him overtooke before he came in vew:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where when he saw the Prince in armour bright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He cald to him aloud his case to rew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And rescue him, through succour of his might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From that his cruell foe that him pursewd in sight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Eftsoones the Prince tooke downe those Ladies twaine", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "From loftie steede, and mounting in their stead", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Came to that Squire, yet trembling every vaine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of whom he gan enquire his cause of dread:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who as he gan the same to him aread,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Loe! hard behind his backe his foe was prest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With dreadfull weapon aymed at his head,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That unto death had doen him unredrest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had not the noble Prince his readie stroke represt:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Who, thrusting boldly twixt him and the blow,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The burden of the deadly brunt did beare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon his shield, which lightly he did throw", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Over his head before the harme came neare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nathlesse it fell with so despiteous dreare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And heavie sway, that hard unto his crowne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The shield it drove, and did the covering reare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therewith both Squire and dwarfe did tomble downe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto the earth, and lay long while in senselesse swowne.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whereat the Prince full wrath his strong right hand", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In full avengement heaved up on hie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And stroke the Pagan with his steely brand", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So sore, that to his saddle-bow thereby", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He bowed low, and so a while did lie:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, sure, had not his massie yron mace", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Betwixt him and his hurt bene happily,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It would have cleft him to the girding place;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet, as it was, it did astonish him long space.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But, when he to himselfe returnd againe,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "All full of rage he gan to curse and sweare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And vow by Mahoune that he should be slaine.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With that his murdrous mace he up did reare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That seemed nought the souse thereof could beare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And therewith smote at him with all his might;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, ere that it to him approched neare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The royall child with readie quicke foresight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did shun the proofe thereof, and it avoyded light.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But, ere his hand he could recure againe", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To ward his bodie from the balefull stound,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He smote at him with all his might and maine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So furiously that, ere he wist, he found", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His head before him tombling on the ground;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The whiles his babling tongue did yet blaspheme", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And curse his God that did him so confound:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The whiles his life ran foorth in bloudie streame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His soule descended downe into the Stygian reame.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which when that Squire beheld, he woxe full glad", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To see his foe breath out his spright in vaine:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But that same dwarfe right sorie seem’d and sad,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And howld aloud to see his Lord there slaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And rent his haire and scratcht his face for paine.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then gan the Prince at leasure to inquire", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of all the accident there hapned plaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And what he was whose eyes did flame with fire;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All which was thus to him declared by that Squire.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“This mightie man,” (quoth he) “whom you have slaine,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of an huge Geauntesse whylome was bred,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And by his strength rule to himselfe did gaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of many Nations into thraldome led,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And mightie kingdomes of his force adred;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom yet he conquer’d not by bloudie fight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne hostes of men with banners brode dispred,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But by the powre of his infectious sight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With which he killed all that came within his might.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Ne was he ever vanquished afore,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But ever vanquisht all with whom he fought;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne was there man so strong, but he downe bore;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne woman yet so faire, but he her brought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto his bay, and captived her thought:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For most of strength and beautie his desire", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was spoyle to make, and wast them unto nought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By casting secret flakes of lustfull fire", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From his false eyes into their harts and parts entire.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Therefore Corflambo was he cald aright,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Though namelesse there his bodie now doth lie;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet hath he left one daughter that is hight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The faire Pœana, who seemes outwardly", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So faire as ever yet saw living eie;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And were her vertue like her beautie bright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She were as faire as any under skie:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But ah! she given is to vaine delight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke too loose of life, and eke of love too light.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“So, as it fell, there was a gentle Squire", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That lov’d a Ladie of high parentage;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, for his meane degree might not aspire", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To match so high, her friends with counsell sage", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Dissuaded her from such a disparage:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But she, whose hart to love was wholly lent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Out of his hands could not redeeme her gage,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, firmely following her first intent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Resolv’d with him to wend, gainst all her friends consent.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“So twixt themselves they pointed time and place", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To which when he according did repaire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "An hard mishap and disaventrous case", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him chaunst: instead of his Æmylia faire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "This Gyants sonne, that lies there on the laire", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "An headlesse heape, him unawares there caught;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all dismayd through mercilesse despaire", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him wretched thrall unto his dongeon brought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where he remaines, of all unsuccour’d and unsought.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“This Gyants daughter came upon a day", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Unto the prison, in her joyous glee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To view the thrals which there in bondage lay:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Amongst the rest she chaunced there to see", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "This lovely swaine, the Squire of low degree;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To whom she did her liking lightly cast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And wooed him her paramour to bee:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From day to day she woo’d and prayd him fast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And for his love him promist libertie at last.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“He, though affide unto a former love,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To whom his faith he firmely ment to hold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet seeing not how thence he mote remove,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But by that meanes which fortune did unfold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her graunted love, but with affection cold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To win her grace his libertie to get:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet she him still detaines in captive hold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fearing, least if she should him freely set,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He would her shortly leave, and former love forget.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Yet so much favour she to him hath hight", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Above the rest, that he sometimes may space", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And walke about her gardens of delight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Having a keeper still with him in place;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which keeper is this Dwarfe, her dearling base,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To whom the keyes of every prison dore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By her committed be, of speciall grace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And at his will may whom he list restore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And whom he list reserve to be afflicted more.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Whereof when tydings came unto mine eare,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Full inly sorie, for the fervent zeale", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which I to him as to my soule did beare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I thether went; where I did long conceale", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "My selfe, till that the Dwarfe did me reveale,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And told his Dame her Squire of low degree", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did secretly out of her prison steale;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For me he did mistake that Squire to bee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For never two so like did living creature see.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Then was I taken and before her brought,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Who, through the likenesse of my outward hew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Being likewise beguiled in her thought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gan blame me much for being so untrew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To seeke by flight her fellowship t’eschew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That lov’d me deare, as dearest thing alive.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thence she commaunded me to prison new.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereof I glad did not gaine say nor strive,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But suffred that same Dwarfe me to her dongeon drive.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“There did I finde mine onely faithfull frend", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In heavy plight and sad perplexitie;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereof I sorie, yet myselfe did bend", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him to recomfort with my companie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But him the more agreev’d I found thereby:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For all his joy, he said, in that distresse", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was mine and his Æmylias libertie.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Æmylia well he lov’d, as I mote ghesse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet greater love to me then her he did professe.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“But I with better reason him aviz’d,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And shew’d him how, through error and misthought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of our like persons, eath to be disguiz’d,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or his exchange or freedom might be wrought.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereto full loth was he, ne would for ought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Consent that I, who stood all fearelesse free,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Should wilfully be into thraldome brought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till fortune did perforce it so decree:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet, over-ruld at last, he did to me agree.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“The morrow next, about the wonted howre,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The Dwarfe cald at the doore of Amyas", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To come forthwith unto his Ladies bowre:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Insteed of whom forth came I, Placidas,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And undiscerned forth with him did pas.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There with great joyance and with gladsome glee", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of faire Pœana I received was,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And oft imbrast, as if that I were hee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with kind words accoyd, vowing great love to mee.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Which I, that was not bent to former love", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As was my friend that had her long refus’d,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did well accept, as well it did behove,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to the present neede it wisely usd.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "My former hardnesse first I faire excusd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And after promist large amends to make.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With such smooth termes her error I abusd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To my friends good more then for mine owne sake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For whose sole libertie I love and life did stake.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Thenceforth I found more favour at her hand,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That to her Dwarfe, which had me in his charge,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She bad to lighten my too heavie band,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And graunt more scope to me to walke at large.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So on a day, as by the flowrie marge", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of a fresh streame I with that Elfe did play,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Finding no meanes how I might us enlarge,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But if that Dwarfe I could with me convay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I lightly snatcht him up and with me bore away.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Thereat he shriekt aloud, that with his cry", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The Tyrant selfe came forth with yelling bray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And me pursew’d; but nathemore would I", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Forgoe the purchase of my gotten pray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But have perforce him hether brought away.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thus as they talked, loe! where nigh at hand", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Those Ladies two, yet doubtfull through dismay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In presence came, desirous t’understand", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tydings of all which there had hapned on the land.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Where soone as sad Æmylia did espie", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Her captive lovers friend, young Placidas,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All mindlesse of her wonted modestie", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She to him ran, and him with streight embras", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Enfolding, said; “And lives yet Amyas?”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“He lives,” (quoth he) “and his Æmylia loves.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Then lesse,” (said she) “by all the woe I pas,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With which my weaker patience fortune proves:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But what mishap thus long him fro my selfe removes?”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then gan he all this storie to renew,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And tell the course of his captivitie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That her deare hart full deepely made to rew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And sigh full sore to heare the miserie", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In which so long he mercilesse did lie.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then, after many teares and sorrowes spent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She deare besought the Prince of remedie;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who thereto did with readie will consent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And well perform’d; as shall appeare by his event.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Hard is the doubt, and difficult to deeme,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "When all three kinds of love together meet", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And doe dispart the hart with powre extreme,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whether shall weigh the balance downe; to weet,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The deare affection unto kindred sweet,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or raging fire of love to womankind,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or zeale of friends combynd with vertues meet:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But of them all the band of vertuous mind,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Me seemes, the gentle hart should most assured bind.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "For naturall affection soone doth cesse,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And quenched is with Cupids greater flame:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But faithfull friendship doth them both suppresse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And them with maystring discipline doth tame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through thoughts aspyring to eternall fame:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For as the soule doth rule the earthly masse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all the service of the bodie frame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So love of soule doth love of bodie passe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "No lesse then perfect gold surmounts the meanest brasse.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "All which who list by tryall to assay", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Shall in this storie find approved plaine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In which these Squires true friendship more did sway", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then either care of parents could refraine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or love of fairest Ladie could constraine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For though Pœana were as faire as morne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet did this trustie squire with proud disdaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For his friends sake her offred favours scorne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And she her selfe her syre of whom she was yborne.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Now, after that Prince Arthur graunted had", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To yeeld strong succour to that gentle swayne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who now long time had lyen in prison sad;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He gan advise how best he mote darrayne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That enterprize for greatest glories gayne.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That headlesse tyrants tronke he reard from ground,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, having ympt the head to it agayne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon his usuall beast it firmely bound,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And made it so to ride as it alive was found.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then did he take that chaced Squire, and layd", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Before the ryder, as he captive were,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And made his Dwarfe, though with unwilling ayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To guide the beast that did his maister beare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till to his castle they approched neare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom when the watch, that kept continuall ward,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Saw comming home, all voide of doubtfull feare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He, running downe, the gate to him unbard;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom straight the Prince ensuing in together far’d.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "There did he find in her delitious boure", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The faire Pœana playing on a Rote", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Complayning of her cruell Paramoure,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And singing all her sorrow to the note,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As she had learned readily by rote;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That with the sweetnesse of her rare delight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The Prince halfe rapt began on her to dote;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till better him bethinking of the right,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He her unwares attacht, and captive held by might.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whence being forth produc’d, when she perceived", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Her owne deare sire, she cald to him for aide;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But when of him no aunswere she received,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But saw him sencelesse by the Squire upstaide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She weened well that then she was betraide:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then gan she loudly cry, and weepe, and waile,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And that same Squire of treason to upbraide;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But all in vaine: her plaints might not prevaile,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne none there was to reskue her, ne none to baile.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then tooke he that same Dwarfe, and him compeld", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To open unto him the prison dore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And forth to bring those thrals which there he held.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thence forth were brought to him above a score", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of Knights and Squires to him unknowne afore:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All which he did from bitter bondage free,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And unto former liberty restore.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Amongst the rest that Squire of low degree", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Came forth full weake and wan, not like him selfe to bee.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whom soone as faire Æmylia beheld", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And Placidas, they both unto him ran,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And him embracing fast betwixt them held,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Striving to comfort him all that they can,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And kissing oft his visage pale and wan:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That faire Pœana, them beholding both,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gan both envy, and bitterly to ban;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through jealous passion weeping inly wroth,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To see the sight perforce that both her eyes were loth.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But when awhile they had together beene,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And diversly conferred of their case,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She, though full oft she both of them had seene", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Asunder, yet not ever in one place,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Began to doubt, when she them saw embrace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which was the captive Squire she lov’d so deare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Deceived through great likenesse of their face:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For they so like in person did appeare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That she uneath discerned whether whether weare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And eke the Prince, when as he them avized,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Their like resemblaunce much admired there,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And mazd how nature had so well disguized", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her worke, and counterfet her selfe so nere,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As if that by one patterne, seene somewhere,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She had them made a paragone to be,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or whether it through skill or errour were.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thus gazing long at them much wondred he;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So did the other Knights and Squires which them did see.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then gan they ransacke that same Castle strong,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In which he found great store of hoorded threasure,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which that tyrant gathered had by wrong", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And tortious powre, without respect or measure:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon all which the Briton Prince made seasure,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And afterwards continu’d there a while", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To rest him selfe, and solace in soft pleasure", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Those weaker Ladies after weary toile;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To whom he did divide part of his purchast spoile.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And, for more joy, that captive Lady faire,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The faire Pœana, he enlarged free,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And by the rest did set in sumptuous chaire", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To feast and frollicke; nathemore would she", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shew gladsome countenaunce nor pleasaunt glee;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But grieved was for losse both of her sire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke of Lordship with both land and fee:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But most she touched was with griefe entire", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For losse of her new love, the hope of her desire.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But her the Prince, through his well wonted grace,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To better termes of myldnesse did entreat", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From that fowle rudenesse which did her deface;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And that same bitter corsive, which did eat", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her tender heart and made refraine from meat,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He with good thewes and speaches well applyde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did mollifie, and calme her raging heat:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For though she were most faire, and goodly dyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet she it all did mar with cruelty and pride.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And, for to shut up all in friendly love,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Sith love was first the ground of all her griefe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That trusty Squire he wisely well did move", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Not to despise that dame which lov’d him liefe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till he had made of her some better priefe;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But to accept her to his wedded wife:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thereto he offred for to make him chiefe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of all her land and lordship during life.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He yeelded, and her tooke; so stinted all their strife.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "From that day forth in peace and joyous blis", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "They liv’d together long without debate;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne private jarre, ne spite of enemis,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Could shake the safe assuraunce of their state:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And she, whom Nature did so faire create", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That she mote match the fairest of her daies,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet with lewd loves and lust intemperate", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had it defaste, thenceforth reformd her waies,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all men much admyrde her change, and spake her praise.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thus when the Prince had perfectly compylde,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "These paires of friends in peace and setled rest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him selfe, whose minde did travell as with chylde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of his old love conceav’d in secret brest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Resolved to pursue his former quest;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, taking leave of all, with him did beare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Faire Amoret, whom Fortune by bequest", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had left in his protection whileare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Exchanged out of one into another feare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Feare of her safety did her not constraine;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For well she wist now in a mighty hond", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her person, late in perill, did remaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who able was all daungers to withstond:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But now in feare of shame she more did stond,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Seeing her selfe all soly succourlesse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Left in the victors powre, like vassall bond,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose will her weakenesse could no way represse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In case his burning lust should breake into excesse.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But cause of feare, sure, had she none at all", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of him, who goodly learned had of yore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The course of loose affection to forstall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And lawlesse lust to rule with reasons lore;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all the while he by his side her bore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She was as safe as in a Sanctuary.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thus many miles they two together wore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To seeke their loves dispersed diversly,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet neither showed to other their hearts privity.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "At length they came whereas a troupe of Knights", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "They saw together skirmishing, as seemed:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sixe they were all, all full of fell despight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But foure of them the battell best beseemed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That which of them was best mote not be deemed.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "These foure were they from whom false Florimel", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By Braggadochio lately was redeemed;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To weet, sterne Druon, and lewd Claribell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Love-lavish Blandamour, and lustfull Paridell.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Druons delight was all in single life,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And unto Ladies love would lend no leasure:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The more was Claribell enraged rife", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With fervent flames, and loved out of measure:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So eke lov’d Blandamour, but yet at pleasure", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Would change his liking, and new Lemans prove;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Paridell of love did make no threasure,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But lusted after all that him did move:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So diversly these foure disposed were to love.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But those two other, which beside them stoode,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Were Britomart and gentle Scudamour;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who all the while beheld their wrathfull moode,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And wondred at their impacable stoure,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose like they never saw till that same houre:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So dreadfull strokes each did at other drive,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And laid on load with all their might and powre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As if that every dint the ghost would rive", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Out of their wretched corses, and their lives deprive.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "As when Dan Æolus, in great displeasure", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For losse of his deare love by Neptune hent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sends forth the winds out of his hidden threasure", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon the sea to wreake his fell intent;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They breaking forth with rude unruliment", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From all foure parts of heaven doe rage full sore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And tosse the deepes, and teare the firmament,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all the world confound with wide uprore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As if instead thereof they Chaos would restore.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Cause of their discord and so fell debate", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Was for the love of that same snowy maid,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whome they had lost in Turneyment of late;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, seeking long to weet which way she straid,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Met here together, where, through lewd upbraide", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of Atè and Duessa, they fell out;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And each one taking part in others aide", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "This cruell conflict raised thereabout,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose dangerous successe depended yet in doubt:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "For sometimes Paridell and Blandamour", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The better had, and bet the others backe;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Eftsoones the others did the field recoure,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And on his foes did worke full cruell wracke:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet neither would their fiendlike fury slacke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But evermore their malice did augment;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till that uneath they forced were, for lacke", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of breath, their raging rigour to relent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And rest themselves for to recover spirits spent.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then gan they change their sides, and new parts take;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For Paridell did take to Druons side,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For old despight which now forth newly brake", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gainst Blandamour, whom alwaies he envide;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Blandamour to Claribell relide:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So all afresh gan former fight renew.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As when two Barkes, this caried with the tide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That with the wind, contrary courses sew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "If wind and tide doe change, their courses change anew", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thenceforth they much more furiously gan fare,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As if but then the battell had begonne;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne helmets bright ne hawberks strong did spare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That through the clifts the vermeil bloud out sponne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all adowne their riven sides did ronne.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Such mortall malice wonder was to see", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In friends profest, and so great outrage donne:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But sooth is said, and tride in each degree,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Faint friends when they fall out most cruell fomen bee.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thus they long while continued in fight;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Till Scudamour and that same Briton maide", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By fortune in that place did chance to light:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom soone as they with wrathfull eie bewraide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They gan remember of the fowle upbraide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which that Britonesse had to them donne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In that late Turney for the snowy maide;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where she had them both shamefully fordonne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke the famous prize of beauty from them wonne.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Eftsoones all burning with a fresh desire", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of fell revenge, in their malicious mood", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They from them selves gan turne their furious ire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And cruell blades, yet steeming with whot bloud,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Against those two let drive, as they were wood:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who wondring much at that so sodaine fit,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet nought dismayd, them stoutly well withstood;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne yeelded foote, ne once abacke did flit,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But being doubly smitten likewise doubly smit.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The warlike Dame was on her part assaid", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of Claribell and Blandamour attone;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Paridell and Druon fiercely laid", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At Scudamour, both his professed fone:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Foure charged two, and two surcharged one;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet did those two them selves so bravely beare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That th’other litle gained by the lone,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But with their owne repayed duely weare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And usury withall: such gaine was gotten deare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Full oftentimes did Britomart assay", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To speake to them, and some emparlance move;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But they for nought their cruell hands would stay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne lend an eare to ought that might behove.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As when an eager mastiffe once doth prove", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The tast of bloud of some engored beast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "No words may rate, nor rigour him remove", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From greedy hold of that his blouddy feast:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So litle did they hearken to her sweet beheast.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whom when the Briton Prince afarre beheld", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With ods of so unequall match opprest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His mighty heart with indignation sweld,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And inward grudge fild his heroicke brest:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Eftsoones him selfe he to their aide addrest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And thrusting fierce into the thickest preace", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Divided them, how ever loth to rest;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And would them faine from battell to surceasse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With gentle words perswading them to friendly peace.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But they so farre from peace or patience were,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That all at once at him gan fiercely flie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And lay on load, as they him downe would beare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like to a storme which hovers under skie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Long here and there and round about doth stie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At length breakes downe in raine, and haile, and sleet,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "First from one coast, till nought thereof be drie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And then another, till that likewise fleet;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And so from side to side till all the world it weet.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But now their forces greatly were decayd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The Prince yet being fresh untoucht afore;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who them with speaches milde gan first disswade", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From such foule outrage, and them long forbore:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till seeing them through suffrance hartned more,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him selfe he bent their furies to abate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And layd at them so sharpely and so sore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That shortly them compelled to retrate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And being brought in daunger to relent too late.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But now his courage being throughly fired,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He ment to make them know their follies prise,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had not those two him instantly desired", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "T’asswage his wrath, and pardon their mesprise:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At whose request he gan him selfe advise", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To stay his hand, and of a truce to treat", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In milder tearmes, as list them to devise;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Mongst which the cause of their so cruell heat", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He did them aske, who all that passed gan repeat:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And told at large how that same errant Knight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To weet faire Britomart, them late had foyled", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In open turney, and by wrongfull fight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both of their publicke praise had them despoyled,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And also of their private loves beguyled,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of two full hard to read the harder theft:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But she that wrongfull challenge soone assoyled,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And shew’d that she had not that Lady reft,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "(As they suppos’d) but her had to her liking left.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "To whom the Prince thus goodly well replied:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“Certes, sir Knight, ye seemen much to blame", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To rip up wrong that battell once hath tried;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Wherein the honor both of Armes ye shame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke the love of Ladies foule defame;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To whom the world this franchise ever yeelded,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That of their loves choise they might freedom clame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in that right should by all knights be shielded:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gainst which, me seemes, this war ye wrongfully have wielded.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“And yet” (quoth she) “a greater wrong remaines:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For I thereby my former love have lost;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom seeking ever since with endlesse paines", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Hath me much sorrow and much travell cost:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Aye me, to see that gentle maide so tost!”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Scudamour, then sighing deepe, thus saide:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Certes, her losse ought me to sorrow most,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose right she is, where ever she be straide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through many perils wonne, and many fortunes waide.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“For from the first that her I love profest,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Unto this houre, this present lucklesse howre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I never joyed happinesse nor rest;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But thus turmoild from one to other stowre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I wast my life, and doe my daies devowre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In wretched anguishe and incessant woe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Passing the measure of my feeble powre;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That living thus a wretch, and loving so,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I neither can my love ne yet my life forgo.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then good Sir Claribell him thus bespake:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“Now were it not, sir Scudamour, to you", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Dislikefull paine so sad a taske to take,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Mote we entreat you, sith this gentle crew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Is now so well accorded all anew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That as we ride together on our way,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ye will recount to us in order dew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All that adventure which ye did assay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For that faire Ladies love: past perils well apay.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So gan the rest him likewise to require,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But Britomart did him importune hard", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To take on him that paine: whose great desire", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He glad to satisfie, him selfe prepar’d", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To tell through what misfortune he had far’d", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In that atchievement, as to him befell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all those daungers unto them declar’d;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which sith they cannot in this Canto well", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Comprised be, I will them in another tell.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "True he it said, what ever man it sayd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That love with gall and hony doth abound;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But if the one be with the other wayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For every dram of hony therein found", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A pound of gall doth over it redound:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That I too true by triall have approved;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For since the day that first with deadly wound", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "My heart was launcht, and learned to have loved,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I never joyed howre, but still with care was moved.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“And yet such grace is given them from above,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That all the cares and evill which they meet", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "May nought at all their setled mindes remove,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But seeme, gainst common sence, to them most sweet;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As hosting in their martyrdome unmeet.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So all that ever yet I have endured", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I count as naught, and tread downe under feet,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Since of my love at length I rest assured,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That to disloyalty she will not be allured.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Long were to tell the travell and long toile", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Through which this shield of love I late have wonne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And purchased this peerelesse beauties spoile,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That harder may be ended, then begonne:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But since ye so desire, your will be donne.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then hearke, ye gentle knights and Ladies free,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "My hard mishaps that ye may learne to shonne;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For though sweet love to conquer glorious bee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet is the paine thereof much greater then the fee.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“What time the fame of this renowmed prise", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Flew first abroad, and all mens eares possest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I, having armes then taken, gan avise", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To winne me honour by some noble gest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And purchase me some place amongst the best.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I boldly thought, (so young mens thoughts are bold)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That this same brave emprize for me did rest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And that both shield and she whom I behold", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Might be my lucky lot; sith all by lot we hold.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“So on that hard adventure forth I went,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And to the place of perill shortly came:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That was a temple faire and auncient,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which of great mother Venus bare the name,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And farre renowmed through exceeding fame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Much more then that which was in Paphos built,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or that in Cyprus, both long since this same,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Though all the pillours of the one were guilt,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all the others pavement were with yvory spilt.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“And it was seated in an Island strong,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Abounding all with delices most rare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And wall’d by nature gainst invaders wrong,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That none mote have accesse, nor inward fare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But by one way that passage did prepare.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It was a bridge ybuilt in goodly wize", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With curious Corbes and pendants graven faire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, arched all with porches, did arize", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On stately pillours fram’d after the Doricke guize.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“And for defence thereof on th’other end", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "There reared was a castle faire and strong", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That warded all which in or out did wend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And flancked both the bridges sides along,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gainst all that would it faine to force or wrong:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And therein wonned twenty valiant Knights,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All twenty tride in warres experience long;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose office was against all manner wights", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By all meanes to maintaine that castels ancient rights.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Before that Castle was an open plaine,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And in the midst thereof a piller placed;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On which this shield, of many sought in vaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The shield of Love, whose guerdon me hath graced,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was hangd on high with golden ribbands laced;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in the marble stone was written this,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With golden letters goodly well enchaced;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Blessed the man that well can use his blis:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose ever be the shield, faire Amoret be his.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Which when I red, my heart did inly earne,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And pant with hope of that adventures hap:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne stayed further newes thereof to learne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But with my speare upon the shield did rap,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all the castle ringed with the clap.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Streight forth issewd a Knight all arm’d to proofe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And bravely mounted to his most mishap:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who, staying nought to question from aloofe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ran fierce at me that fire glaunst from his horses hoofe.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Whom boldly I encountred (as I could)", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And by good fortune shortly him unseated.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Eftsoones outsprung two more of equall mould;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But I them both with equall hap defeated.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So all the twenty I likewise entreated,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And left them groning there upon the plaine:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then, preacing to the pillour, I repeated", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The read thereof for guerdon of my paine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And taking downe the shield with me did it retaine.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“So forth without impediment I past,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Till to the Bridges utter gate I came;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which I found sure lockt and chained fast.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I knockt, but no man aunswred me by name;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I cald, but no man answred to my clame:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet I persever’d still to knocke and call,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till at the last I spide within the same", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where one stood peeping through a crevis small,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To whom I cald aloud, halfe angry therewithall.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“That was to weet the Porter of the place,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Unto whose trust the charge thereof was lent:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His name was Doubt, that had a double face,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Th’one forward looking, th’other backeward bent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therein resembling Janus auncient", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which hath in charge the ingate of the yeare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And evermore his eyes about him went,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And if some proved perill he did feare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or did misdoubt some ill whose cause did not appeare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“On th’one side he, on th’other sate Delay,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Behinde the gate that none her might espy;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose manner was all passengers to stay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And entertaine with her occasions sly:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through which some lost great hope unheedily,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which never they recover might againe;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And others, quite excluded forth, did ly", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Long languishing there in unpittied paine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And seeking often entraunce afterwards in vaine.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Me when as he had privily espide", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Bearing the shield which I had conquerd late,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He kend it streight, and to me opened wide.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So in I past, and streight he closd the gate:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But being in, Delay in close awaite", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Caught hold on me, and thought my steps to stay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Feigning full many a fond excuse to prate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And time to steale, the threasure of mans day,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose smallest minute lost no riches render may.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“But by no meanes my way I would forslow", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For ought that ever she could doe or say;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But from my lofty steede dismounting low", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Past forth on foote, beholding all the way", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The goodly workes, and stones of rich assay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Cast into sundry shapes by wondrous skill,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That like on earth no where I recken may:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And underneath, the river rolling still", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With murmure soft, that seem’d to serve the workmans will.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Thence forth I passed to the second gate,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The Gate of Good Desert, whose goodly pride", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And costly frame were long here to relate.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The same to all stoode alwaies open wide;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But in the Porch did evermore abide", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "An hideous Giant, dreadfull to behold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That stopt the entraunce with his spacious stride,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with the terrour of his countenance bold", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Full many did affray, that else faine enter would.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“His name was Daunger, dreaded over-all,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Who day and night did watch and duely ward", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From fearefull cowards entrance to forstall", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And faint-heart-fooles, whom shew of perill hard", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Could terrific from Fortunes faire adward:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For oftentimes faint hearts, at first espiall", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of his grim face, were from approaching scard;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unworthy they of grace, whom one deniall", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Excludes from fairest hope withouten further 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him in, or drive him out.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Eftsoones, advauncing that enchaunted shield,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With all my might I gan to lay about:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which when he saw, the glaive which he did wield", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He gan forthwith t’avale, and way unto me yield.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“So, as I entred, I did backeward looke,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For feare of harme that might lie hidden there;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And loe! his hindparts, whereof heed I tooke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Much more deformed fearefull, ugly were,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then all his former parts did earst appere:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For hatred, murther, treason, and despight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With many moe lay in ambushment there,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Awayting to entrap the warelesse wight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which did not them prevent with vigilant foresight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Thus having past all perill, I was come", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Within the compasse of that Islands space;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which did seeme, unto my simple doome,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The onely pleasant and delightfull place", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That ever troden was of footings trace:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For all that nature by her mother-wit", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Could frame in earth, and forme of substance base,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was there; and all that nature did omit,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Art, playing second natures part, supplyed it.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“No tree, that is of count, in greenewood growes,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "From lowest Juniper to Ceder tall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "No flowre in field, that daintie odour throwes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And deckes his branch with blossomes over all,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But there was planted, or grew naturall:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nor sense of man so coy and curious nice,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But there mote find to please it selfe withall;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nor hart could wish for any queint device,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But there it present was, and did fraile sense entice.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“In such luxurious plentie of all pleasure,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "It seem’d a second paradise to gheese,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So lavishly enricht with Natures threasure,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That if the happie soules, which doe possesse", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Th’Elysian fields and live in lasting blesse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Should happen this with living eye to see,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They soone would loath their lesser happinesse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And wish to life return’d againe to bee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That in this joyous place they mote have joyance free.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Fresh shadowes, fit to 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"indent": 1 }, { "text": "And therein thousand payres of lovers walkt,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Praysing their god, and yeelding him great thankes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ever ought but of their true loves talkt,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ever for rebuke or blame of any balkt.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“All these together by themselves did sport", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Their spotlesse pleasures and sweet loves content.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, farre away from these, another sort", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of lovers lincked in true harts consent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which loved not as these for like intent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But on chast vertue grounded their desire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Farre from all fraud or fayned blandishment;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which, in their spirits kindling zealous fire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Brave thoughts and noble deedes did evermore aspire.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Such were 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frankely there their loves desire possesse;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whilest I, through paines and perlous jeopardie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was forst to seeke my lifes deare patronnesse:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Much dearer be the things which come through hard distresse.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Yet all those sights, and all that else I saw,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Might not my steps withhold, but that forthright", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto that purposd place I did me draw,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where as my love was lodged day and night,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The temple of great Venus, that is hight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The Queene of beautie, and of love the mother,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There worshipped of every living wight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose goodly workmanship farre past all other", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That ever were on earth, all were they set together.", "indent": 1 } ], [ { "text": "“Not that same famous 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"And thousand pretious gifts worth many a pound,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which sad lovers for their vowes did pay;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all the ground was strow’d with flowres as fresh as May.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“An hundred Altars round about were set,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "All flaming with their sacrifices fire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That with the steme thereof the Temple swet,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which rould in clouds to heaven did aspire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in them bore true lovers vowes entire:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke an hundred brasen caudrons bright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To bath in joy and amorous desire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Every of which was to a damzell hight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For all the Priests were damzels in soft linnen dight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Right in the midst the Goddesse selfe did stand", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Upon an altar of some costly masse,", 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with the slender veile afore;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And both her feete and legs together twyned", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Were with a snake, whose head and tail were fast combyned.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“The cause why she was covered with a vele", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Was hard to know, for that her Priests the same", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From peoples knowledge labour’d to concele:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But sooth it was not sure for womanish shame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nor any blemish which the worke mote blame;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But for, they say, she hath both kinds in one,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both male and female, both under one name:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She syre and mother is her selfe alone,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Begets and eke conceives, ne needeth other none.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“And all about her necke and shoulders flew", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A flocke of litle loves, and sports, and 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one, through Loves constrayning", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tormented sore, could not containe it still,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But thus brake forth, that all the temple it did fill.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“ ‘Great Venus! Queene of beautie and of grace,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The joy of Gods and men, that under skie", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Doest fayrest shine, and most adorne thy place;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That with thy smyling looke doest pacifie", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The raging seas, and makst the stormes to flie;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thee, goddesse, thee the winds, the clouds doe feare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, when thou spredst thy mantle forth on hie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The waters play, and pleasant lands appeare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And heavens laugh, and al the world shews joyous cheare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“ ‘Then doth the dædale earth throw forth to thee", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Out of her fruitfull lap aboundant flowres;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And then all living wights, soone as they see", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The spring breake forth out of his lusty bowres,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They all doe learne to play 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impart.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whilest thus I spake, behold! with happy eye", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I spyde where at the Idoles feet apart", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A bevie of fayre damzels close did lye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Wayting when as the Antheme should be sung on hye.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“The first of them did seeme of ryper yeares", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And graver countenance then all the rest;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet all the rest were eke her equall peares,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet unto her obayed all the best.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her name was Womanhood; that she exprest", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By her sad semblant and demeanure wyse:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For stedfast still her eyes did fixed rest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne rov’d at randon, after gazers guyse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose luring baytes oftimes doe heedlesse harts entyse.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“And next to her sate goodly Shamefastnesse,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ne ever durst her eyes from ground upreare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ever once did looke up from her desse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As if some blame of evill she did feare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That in her cheekes made roses oft appeare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And her against sweet Cherefulnesse was placed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose eyes, like twinkling stars in evening cleare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Were deckt with smyles that all sad humors chaced,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And darted forth delights the which her goodly graced.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“And next to her sate sober Modestie,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Holding her hand upon her gentle hart;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And her against sate comely Curtesie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That unto every person knew her part;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And her before was seated overthwart", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Soft Silence, and submisse Obedience,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both linckt together never to dispart;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both gifts of God, not gotten but from thence,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both girlonds of his Saints against their foes offence.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Thus sate they all around in seemely rate:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And in the midst of them a goodly mayd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Even in the lap of Womanhood there sate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which was all in lilly white aray’d,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With silver streames amongst the linnen stray’d;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like to the Morne, when first her shyning face", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Hath to the gloomy world itselfe bewray’d:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That same was fayrest Amoret in place,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shyning with beauties light and heavenly vertues grace.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Whom soone as I beheld, my hart gan throb", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Andvwade in doubt what best were to be donne;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For sacrilege me seem’d the Church to rob,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And folly seem’d to leave the thing undonne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which with so strong attempt I had begonne.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tho, shaking off all doubt and shamefast feare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which Ladies love, I heard, had never wonne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Mongst men of worth, I to her stepped neare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And by the lilly hand her labour’d up to reare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Thereat that formost matrone me did blame,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And sharpe rebuke for being over bold;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Saying, it was to Knight unseemely shame", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon a recluse Virgin to lay hold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That unto Venus services was sold.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To whom I thus: ‘Nay, but it fitteth best", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For Cupids man with Venus mayd to hold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For ill your goddesse services are drest", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By virgins, and her sacrifices let to rest.’", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“With that my shield I forth to her did show,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which all that while I closely had conceld;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On which when Cupid, with his killing bow", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And cruell shafts, emblazond she beheld,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At sight thereof she was with terror queld,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And said no more: but I, which all that while", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The pledge of faith, her hand, engaged held,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like warie Hynd within the weedie soyle,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For no intreatie would forgoe so glorious spoyle.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“And evermore upon the Goddesse face", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Mine eye was fixt, for feare of her offence;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom when I saw with amiable grace", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To laugh at me, and favour my pretence,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I was emboldned with more confidence;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And nought for nicenesse nor for envy sparing,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In presence of them all forth led her thence,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All looking on, and like astonisht staring,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet to lay hand on her not one of all them daring.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“She often prayd, and often me besought,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Sometime with tender teares to let her goe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sometime with witching smyles; but yet, for nought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That ever she to me could say or doe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Could she her wished freedome fro me wooe:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But forth I led her through the Temple gate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By which I hardly past with much adoe:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But that same Ladie, which me friended late", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In entrance, did me also friend in my retrate.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“No lesse did Daunger threaten me with dread,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whenas he saw me, maugre all his powre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That glorious spoyle of beautie with me lead,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then Cerberus, when Orpheus did recoure", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His Leman from the Stygian Princes boure:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But evermore my shield did me defend", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Against the storme of every dreadfull stoure:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thus safely with my love I thence did wend.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So ended he his tale, where I this Canto end.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But ah for pittie! that I have thus long", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Left a fayre Ladie languishing in payne:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now wellaway! that I have doen such wrong,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To let faire Florimell in bands remayne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In bands of love, and in sad thraldomes chayne;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From which, unlessesome heavenly powre her free", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By miracle, not yet appearing playne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She lenger yet is like captiv’d to bee;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That even to thinke thereof it inly pitties mee.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Here neede you to remember, how erewhile", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Unlovely Proteus, missing to his mind", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That Virgins love to win by wit or wile,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her threw into a dongeon deepe and blind,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And there in chaynes her cruelly did bind,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In hope thereby her to his bent to draw:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For, when as neither gifts nor graces kind", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her constant mind could move at all he saw,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He thought her to compell by crueltie and awe.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Deepe in the bottome of an huge great rocke", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The dongeon was, in which her bound he left,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That neither yron barres, nor brasen locke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did neede to gard from force, or secret theft", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of all her lovers which would her have reft:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For wall’d it was with waves, which rag’d and ror’d", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As they the cliffe in peeces would have cleft;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Besides ten thousand monsters foule abhor’d", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did waite about it, gaping griesly, all begor’d.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And in the midst thereof did horror dwell,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And darkenesse dredd that never viewed day,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like to the balefull house of lowest hell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In which old Styx her aged bones alway,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Old Styx the Grandame of the Gods, doth lay.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There did this lucklesse mayd seven months abide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ever evening saw, ne mornings ray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ever from the day the night descride,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But thought it all one night that did no houres divide.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And all this was for love of Marinell,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Who her despysd (ah! who would her despyse?)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And wemens love did from his hart expell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all those joyes that weake mankind entyse.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nathlesse his pride full dearely he did pryse;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For of a womans hand it was ywroke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That of the wound he yet in languor lyes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne can be cured of that cruell stroke", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which Britomart him gave, when he did her provoke.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Yet farre and neare the Nymph his mother sought,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And many salves did to his sore applie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And many herbes did use. But when as nought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She saw, could ease his rankling maladie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At last to Tryphon she for helpe did hie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "(This Tryphon is the sea-gods surgeon hight,)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom she besought to find some remedie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And for his paines a whistle him behight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That of a fishes shell was wrought with rare delight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So well that Leach did hearke to her request,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And did so well employ his carefull paine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That in short space his hurts he had redrest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And him restor’d to healthfull state againe:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In which he long time after did remaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There with the Nymph his mother, like her thrall:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who sore against his will did him retaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For feare of perill which to him mote fall", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through his too ventrous prowesse proved over all.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "It fortun’d then, a solemne feast was there", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To all the Sea-gods and their fruitfull seede,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In honour of the spousalls which then were", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Betwixt the Medway and the Thames agreed.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Long had the Thames (as we in records reed)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Before that day her wooed to his bed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But the proud Nymph would for no worldly meed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nor no entreatie, to his love be led;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till now, at last relenting, she to him was wed.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So both agreed that this their bridale feast", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Should for the Gods in Proteus house be made;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To which they all repayr’d, both most and least,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As well which in the mightie Ocean trade,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As that in rivers swim, or brookes doe wade;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All which, not if an hundred tongues to tell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And hundred mouthes, and voice of brasse I had,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And endlesse memorie that mote excell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In order as they came could I recount them well.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Helpe, therefore, O! thou sacred imp of Jove,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The noursling of Dame Memorie his deare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To whom those rolles, layd up in heaven above,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And records of antiquitie appeare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To which no wit of man may comen neare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Helpe me to tell the names of all those floods", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all those Nymphes, which then assembled were", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To that great banquet of the watry Gods,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all their sundry kinds, and all their hid abodes.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "First came great Neptune, with his threeforkt mace,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That rules the Seas and makes them rise or fall;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His dewy lockes did drop with brine apace", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Under his Diademe imperiall:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And by his side his Queene with coronall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Faire Amphitrite, most divinely faire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose yvorie shoulders weren covered all,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As with a robe, with her owne silver haire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And deckt with pearles which th’Indian seas for her prepaire.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "These marched farre afore the other crew:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And all the way before them, as they went,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Triton his trompet shrill before them blew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For goodly triumph and great jollyment,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That made the rockes to roare as they were rent.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And after them the royall issue came,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which of them sprung by lineall descent:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "First the Sea-gods, which to themselves doe clame", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The powre to rule the billowes, and the waves to tame.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Phorcys, the father of that fatall brood,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "By whom those old Heroës wonne such fame;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Glaucus, that wise southsayes understood;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And tragicke Inoes sonne, the which became", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A God of seas through his mad mothers blame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now hight Palemon, and is saylers frend;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Great Brontes; and Astræus, that did shame", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Himselfe with incest of his kin unkend;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And huge Orion, that doth tempests still portend;", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The rich Cteatus; and Eurytus long;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Neleus and Pelias, lovely brethren both;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Mightie Chrysaor; and Caïcus strong;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Eurypulus, that calmes the waters wroth;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And faire Euphœmus, that upon them goth", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As on the ground, without dismay or dread;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fierce Eryx; and Alebius, that know’th", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The waters depth, and doth their bottome tread;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And sad Asopus, comely with his hoarie head.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "There also some most famous founders were", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of puissant Nations which the world possest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet sonnes of Neptune, now assembled here:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ancient Ogyges, even th’auncientest;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Inachus renowmd above the rest;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Phœnix, and Aon, and Pelasgus old;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Great Belus, Phœax, and Agenor best;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And mightie Albion, father of the bold", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And warlike people which the Britaine Islands hold:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "For Albion the sonne of Neptune was,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Who, for the proofe of his great puissance,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Out of his Albion did on dry-foot pas", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into old Gall, that now is cleeped France,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To fight with Hercules, that did advance", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To vanquish all the world with matchlesse might;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And there his mortall part by great mischance", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was slaine; but that which is th’immortall spright", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Lives still, and to this feast with Neptunes seed was dight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But what doe I their names seeke to reherse,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which all the world have with their issue fild?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "How can they all in this so narrow verse", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Contayned be, and in small compasse hild?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Let them record them that are better skild,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And know the moniments of passed age:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Onely what needeth shall be here fulfild,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "T’expresse some part of that great equipage", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which from great Neptune do derive their parentage.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Next came the aged Ocean and his Dame", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Old Tethys, th’oldest two of all the rest;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For all the rest of those two parents came,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which afterward both sea and land possest;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of all which Nereus, th’eldest and the best,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did first proceed, then which none more upright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne more sincere in word and deed profest;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Most voide of guile, most free from fowle despight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Doing him selfe, and teaching others to doe right.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thereto he was expert in prophecies,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And could the ledden of the gods unfold;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through which, when Paris brought his famous prise,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The faire Tindarid lasse, he him fortold", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That her all Greece with many a champion bold", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Should fetch againe, and finally destroy", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Proud Priams towne. So wise is Nereus old,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And so well skild; nathlesse he takes great joy", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ofttimes amongst the wanton Nymphs to sport and toy.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And after him the famous rivers came,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which doe the earth enrich and beautifie:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The fertile Nile, which creatures new doth frame;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Long Rhodanus, whose sourse springs from the skie;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Faire Ister, flowing from the mountaines hie;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Divine Scamander, purpled yet with blood", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of Greeks and Trojans which therein did die;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Pactolus glistring with his golden flood;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Tygris fierce, whose streames of none may be withstood;", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Great Ganges, and immortall Euphrates,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Deepe Indus, and Mæander intricate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Slow Peneus, and tempestuous Phasides,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Swift Rhene, and Alpheus still immaculate;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ooraxes, feared for great Cyrus fate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tybris, renowmed for the Romaines fame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Rich Oranochy, though but knowen late;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And that huge River, which doth beare his name", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of warlike Amazons, who doe possesse the same.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Joy on those warlike women, which so long", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Can from all men so rich a kingdome hold!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And shame on you, O men! which boast your strong", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And valiant hearts, in thoughts lesse hard and bold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet quaile in conquest of that land of gold.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But this to you, O Britons! most pertaines,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To whom the right hereof it selfe hath sold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which, for sparing litle cost or paines,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Loose so immortall glory, and so endlesse gaines.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then was there heard a most celestiall sound", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of dainty musicke, which did next ensew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Before the spouse: that was Arion crownd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who, playing on his harpe, unto him drew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The eares and hearts of all that goodly crew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That even yet the Dolphin, which him bore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through the Agæan seas from Pirates vew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Stood still by him astonisht at his lore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all the raging seas for joy forgot to rore.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So went he playing on the watery plaine:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Soone after whom the lovely Bridegroome came,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The noble Thamis, with all his goodly traine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But him before there went, as best became,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His auncient parents, namely th’auncient Thame:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But much more aged was his wife then he,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The Ouze, whom men doe Isis rightly name;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Full weake and crooked creature seemed shee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And almost blind through eld, that scarce her way could see.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Therefore on either side she was sustained", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of two smal grooms, which by their names were hight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The Churne and Charwell, two small streames, which pained", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Them selves her footing to direct aright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which fayled oft through faint and feeble plight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Thame was stronger, and of better stay;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet seem’d full aged by his outward sight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With head all hoary, and his beard all gray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Deawed with silver drops that trickled downe alway.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And eke he somewhat seem’d to stoupe afore", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With bowed backe, by reason of the lode", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And auncient heavy burden which he bore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of that faire City, wherein make abode", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So many learned impes, that shoote abrode,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with their braunches spred all Britany,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "No lesse then do her elder sisters broode.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Joy to you both, ye double noursery", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of Arts! but, Oxford, thine doth Thame most glorify.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But he their sonne full fresh and jolly was,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "All decked in a robe of watchet hew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On which the waves, glittering like Christall glas,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So cunningly enwoven were, that few", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Could weenen whether they were false or trew:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And on his head like to a Coronet", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He wore, that seemed strange to common vew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In which were many towres and castels set,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That it encompast round as with a golden fret.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Like as the mother of the Gods, they say,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In her great iron charet wonts to ride,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When to Joves pallace she doth take her way,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Old Cybele, arayd with pompous pride,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Wearing a Diademe embattild wide", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With hundred turrets, like a Turribant;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With such an one was Thamis beautifide;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That was to weet the famous Troynovant,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In which her kingdomes throne is chiefly resiant.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And round about him many a pretty Page", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Attended duely, ready to obay;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All little Rivers which owe vassallage", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To him, as to their Lord, and tribute pay:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The chaulky Kenet, and the Thetis gray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The morish Cole, and the soft sliding Breane,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The wanton Lee, that oft doth loose his way;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And the still Darent, in whose waters cleane", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ten thousand fishes play and decke his pleasant streame.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then came his neighbour flouds which nigh him dwell,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And water all the English soile throughout:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They all on him this day attended well,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with meet service waited him about,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne none disdained low to him to lout:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "No, not the stately Severne grudg’d at all,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne storming Humber, though he looked stout;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But both him honor’d as their principall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And let their swelling waters low before him fall.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "There was the speedy Tamar, which devides", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The Cornish and the Devonish confines;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through both whose borders swiftly downe it glides,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, meeting Plim, to Plimmouth thence declines:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Dart, nigh chockt with sands of tinny mines.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Avon marched in more stately path,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Proud of his Adamants with which he shines", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And glisters wide, as als’ of wondrous Bath,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Bristow faire, which on his waves he builded hath.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And there came Stoure with terrible aspect,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Bearing his sixe deformed heads on hye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That doth his course through Blandford plains direct,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And washeth Winborne meades in season drye.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Next him went Wylibourne with passage slye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That of his wylinesse his name doth take,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And of him selfe doth name the shire thereby:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Mole, that like a nousling Mole doth make", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His way still under ground, till Thamis he overtake.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then came the Rother, decked all with woods", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Like a wood God, and flowing fast to Rhy;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Sture, that parteth with his pleasant floods", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The Easterne Saxons from the Southerne ny,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Clare and Harwitch both doth beautify:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him follow’d Yar, soft washing Norwitch wall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with him brought a present joyfully", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of his owne fish unto their festivall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose like none else could shew, the which they Ruffins call.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Next these the plenteous Ouse came far from land,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "By many a city and by many a towne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And many rivers taking under-hand", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into his waters as he passeth downe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The Cle, the Were, the Grant, the Sture, the Rowne.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thence doth by Huntingdon and Cambridge flit,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "My mother Cambridge, whom as with a Crowne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He doth adorne, and is adorn’d of it", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With many a gentle Muse and many a learned wit.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And after him the fatall Welland went,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That, if old sawes prove true (which God forbid!)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shall drowne all Holland with his excrement,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And shall see Stamford, though now homely hid,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then shine in learning, more than ever did", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Cambridge or Oxford, Englands goodly beames.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And next to him the Nene downe softly slid;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And bounteous Trent, that in him selfe enseames", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both thirty sorts of fish, and thirty sundry streames.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Next these came Tyne, along whose stony bancke", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That Romaine Monarch built a brasen wall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which mote the feebled Britons strongly flancke", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Against the Picts that swarmed over-all,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which yet thereof Gualsever they doe call:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Twede, the limit betwixt Logris land", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Albany: And Eden, though but small,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet often stainde with bloud of many a band", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of Scots and English both, that tyned on his strand.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then came those sixe sad brethren, like forlorne,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That whilome were (as antique fathers tell)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sixe valiant Knights of one faire Nymphe yborne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which did in noble deedes of armes excell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And wonned there where now Yorke people dwell;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Still Ure, swift Werfe, and Oze the most of might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "High Swale, unquiet Nide, and troublous Skell;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All whom a Scythian king, that Humber hight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Slew cruelly, and in the river drowned quight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But past not long ere Brutus warlicke sonne,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Locrinus, them aveng’d, and the same date,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which the proud Humber unto them had donne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By equall dome repayd on his owne pate:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For in the selfe same river, where he late", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had drenched them, he drowned him againe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And nam’d the river of his wretched fate;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose bad condition yet it doth retaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Oft tossed with his stormes which therein still remaine.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "These after came the stony shallow Lone,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That to old Loncaster his name doth lend;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And following Dee, which Britons long ygone", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did call divine, that doth by Chester tend;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Conway, which out of his streame doth send", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Plenty of pearles to decke his dames withall;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Lindus that his pikes doth most commend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of which the auncient Lincolne men doe call:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All these together marched toward Proteus hall.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Ne thence the Irishe Rivers absent were,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Sith no lesse famous then the rest they bee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And joyne in neighbourhood of kingdome nere,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Why should they not likewise in love agree,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And joy likewise this solemne day to see?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They saw it all, and present were in place;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Though I them all according their degree", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Cannot recount, nor tell their hidden race,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nor read the salvage cuntreis thorough which they pace.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "There was the Liffy rolling downe the lea,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The sandy Slane, the stony Aubrian,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The spacious Shenan spreading like a sea,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The pleasant Boyne, the fishy fruitfull Ban,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Swift Awniduff, which of the English man", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Is cal’de Blacke-water, and the Liffar deep,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sad Trowis, that once his people overran,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Strong Allo tombling from Slewlogher steep,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Mulla mine, whose waves I whilom taught to weep.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And there the three renowmed brethren were,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which that great Gyant Blomius begot", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of the faire Nimph Rheusa wandring there.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "One day, as she to shunne the season whot", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Under Slewboome in shady grove was got,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "This Gyant found her and by force deflowr’d;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereof conceiving, she in time forth brought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "These three faire sons, which being thenceforth powrd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In three great rivers ran, and many countreis scowrd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The first the gentle Shure that, making way", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "By sweet Clonmell, adornes rich Waterford;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The next, the stubborne Newre whose waters gray", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By faire Kilkenny and Rossepontè boord;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The third, the goodly Barow which doth hoord", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Great heapes of salmons in his deepe bosome:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All which, long sundred, doe at last accord", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To joyne in one, ere to the sea they come;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So, flowing all from one, all one at last become.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "There also was the wide embayed Mayre;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The pleasaunt Bandon crownd with many a wood;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The spreading Lee that, like an Island fayre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Encloseth Corke with his devided flood;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And balefull Oure, late staind with English blood,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With many more whose names no tongue can tell:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All which that day in order seemly good", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did on the Thamis attend, and waited well", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To doe their dueful service, as to them befell.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then came the Bride, the lovely Medua came,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Clad in a vesture of unknowen geare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And uncouth fashion, yet her well became,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That seem’d like silver, sprinckled here and theare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With glittering spangs that did like starres appeare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And wav’d upon, like water Chamelot,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To hide the metall, which yet every where", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Bewrayd it selfe, to let men plainely wot", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It was no mortall worke, that seem’d and yet was not.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Her goodly lockes adowne her backe did flow", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Unto her waste, with flowres bescattered,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which ambrosiall odours forth did throw", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To all about, and all her shoulders spred", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As a new spring; and likewise on her hed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A Chapelet of sundry flowers she wore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From under which the deawy humour shed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did tricle downe her haire, like to the hore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Congealed litle drops which doe the morne adore.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "On her two pretty handmaides did attend,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "One cald the Theise, the other cald the Crane,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which on her waited things amisse to mend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And both behind upheld her spredding traine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Under the which her feet appeared plaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her silver feet, faire washt against this day:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And her before there paced Pages twaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both clad in colours like, and like array,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The Doune and eke the Frith, both which prepard her way.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And after these the Sea Nymphs marched all,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "All goodly damzels, deckt with long greene haire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom of their sire Nereïdes men call,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All which the Oceans daughter to him bare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The gray-eyde Doris; all which fifty are,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All which she there on her attending had:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Swift Proto, milde Eucratè, Thetis faire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Soft Spio, sweete Endorè, Sao sad,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Light Doto, wanton Glaucè, and Galenè glad;", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "White hand Eunica, proud Dynamenè,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Joyous Thalia, goodly Amphitrite,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Lovely Pasithee, kinde Eulimenè,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Light-foote Cymothoë, and sweete Melite,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fairest Pherusa, Phao lilly white,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Wondred Agavè, Poris, and Nesæa,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With Erato that doth in love delite,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Panopæ, and wise Protomedæa,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And snowy neckd Doris, and milkewhite Galathæa;", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Speedy Hippothoë, and chaste Actea,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Large Lisianassa, and Pronæa sage,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Euagorè, and light Pontoporea,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And she that with her least word can asswage", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The surging seas, when they do sorest rage,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Cymodocè, and stout Autonoë,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Neso, and Eionè well in age,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, seeming still to smile, Glauconomè,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And she that hight of many heastes Polynomè;", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Fresh Alimeda deckt with girlond greene;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Hyponeo with salt-bedewed wrests;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Laomedia like the christall sheene;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Liagorè much praisd for wise behests;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Psamathè for her brode snowy brests;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Cymo, Eupompè, and Themistè just;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, she that vertue loves and vice detests,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Euarna, and Menippè true in trust,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Nemertea learned well to rule her lust.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "All these the daughters of old Nereus were,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which have the sea in charge to them assinde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To rule his tides, and surges to uprere,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To bring forth stormes, or fast them to upbinde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And sailers save from wreckes of wrathfull winde.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And yet, besides, three thousand more there were", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of th’Oceans seede, but Joves and Phœbus kinde;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which in floods and fountaines doe appere,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all mankinde do nourish with their waters clere.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The which, more eath it were for mortall wight", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To tell the sands, or count the starres on hye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or ought more hard, then thinke to reckon right.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But well I wote that these, which I descry,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Were present at this great solemnity:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And there, amongst the rest, the mother was", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of luckelesse Marinell, Cymodocè;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which, for my Muse her selfe now tyred has,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto an other Canto I will overpas.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "O! what an endlesse worke have I in hand,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To count the seas abundant progeny,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose fruitfull seede farre passeth those in land,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And also those which wonne in th’azure sky:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For much more eath to tell the starres on hy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Albe they endlesse seeme in estimation,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then to recount the Seas posterity:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So fertile be the flouds in generation,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So huge their numbers, and so numberlesse their nation.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Therefore the antique wisards well invented", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That Venus of the fomy sea was bred,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For that the seas by her are most augmented:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Witnesse th’exceeding fry which there are fed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And wondrous sholes which may of none be red.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then, blame me not if I have err’d in count", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of Gods, of Nymphs, of rivers, yet unred;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For though their numbers do much more surmount,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet all those same were there which erst I did recount.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "All those were there, and many other more,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whose names and nations were too long to tell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That Proteus house they fild even to the dore;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet were they all in order, as befell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "According their degrees disposed well.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Amongst the rest was faire Cymodocè,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The mother of unlucky Marinell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who thither with her came, to learne and see", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The manner of the Gods when they at banquet be.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But for he was halfe mortall, being bred", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of mortall sire, though of immortall wombe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He might not with immortall food be fed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne with th’eternall Gods to bancket come;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But walkt abrode, and round about did rome", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To view the building of that uncouth place,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That seem’d unlike unto his earthly home:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where, as he to and fro by chaunce did trace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There unto him betid a disaventrous case.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Under the hanging of an hideous clieffe", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He heard the lamentable voice of one,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That piteously complaind her carefull grieffe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which never she before disclosd to none,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But to her selfe her sorrow did bemone:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So feelingly her case she did complaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That ruth it moved in the rocky stone,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And made it seeme to feele her grievous paine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And oft to grone with billowes beating from the maine:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Though vaine, I see, my sorrowes to unfold,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And count my cares when none is nigh to heare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet, hoping griefe may lessen being told,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I will them tell though unto no man neare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For heaven, that unto all lends equall eare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Is farre from hearing of my heavy plight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And lowest hell, to which I lie most neare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Cares not what evils hap to wretched wight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And greedy seas doe in the spoile of life delight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Yet loe! the seas, I see, by often beating", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Doe pearce the rockes, and hardest marble weares;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But his hard rocky hart for no entreating", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Will yeeld, but when my piteous plaints he heares,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Is hardned more with my aboundant teares:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet though he never list to me relent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But let me waste in woe my wretched yeares,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet will I never of my love repent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But joy that for his sake I suffer prisonment.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“And when my weary ghost, with griefe outworne,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "By timely death shall winne her wished rest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Let then this plaint unto his eares be borne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That blame it is to him, that armes profest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To let her die whom he might have redrest.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There did she pause, inforced to give place", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto the passion that her heart opprest;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, after she had wept and wail’d a space,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She gan afresh thus to renew her wretched case.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Ye Gods of seas, if any Gods at all", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Have care of right, or ruth of wretches wrong,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By one or other way me, woefull thrall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Deliver hence out of this dungeon strong,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In which I daily dying am too long:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And if ye deeme me death for loving one", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That loves not me, then doe it not prolong,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But let me die and end my dales attone,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And let him live unlov’d, or love him selfe alone.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“But if that life ye unto me decree,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Then let mee live as lovers ought to do,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And of my lifes deare love beloved be:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And if he should through pride your doome undo,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Do you by duresse him compell thereto,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in this prison put him here with me;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "One prison fittest is to hold us two.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So had I rather to be thrall then free;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Such thraldome or such freedome let it surely be.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“But O vaine judgement, and conditions vaine,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The which the prisoner points unto the free!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The whiles I him condemne, and deeme his paine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He where he list goes loose, and laughes at me.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So ever loose, so ever happy be!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But where so loose or happy that thou art,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Know, Marinell, that all this is for thee.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With that she wept and wail’d, as if her hart", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Would quite have burst through great abundance of her smart.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "All which complaint when Marinell had heard,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And understood the cause of all her care", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To come of him for using her so hard,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His stubborne heart, that never felt misfare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was toucht with soft remorse and pitty rare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That even for griefe of minde he oft did grone,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And inly wish that in his powre it weare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her to redresse: but since he meanes found none,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He could no more but her great misery bemone.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thus whilst his stony heart with tender ruth", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Was toucht, and mighty courage mollifide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Dame Venus sonne, that tameth stubborne youth", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With iron bit, and maketh him abide", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till like a victor on his backe he ride,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into his mouth his maystring bridle threw,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That made him stoupe, till he did him bestride:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then gan he make him tread his steps anew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And learne to love by learning lovers paines to rew.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Now gan he in his grieved minde devise,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "How from that dungeon he might her enlarge.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some while he thought, by faire and humble wise", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To Proteus selfe to sue for her discharge:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But then he fear’d his mothers former charge", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gainst womens love, long given him in vaine:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then gan he thinke, perforce with sword and targe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her forth to fetch, and Proteus to constraine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But soone he gan such folly to forthinke againe.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then did he cast to steale her thence away,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And with him beare where none of her might know:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But all in vaine, for-why he found no way", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To enter in, or issue forth below;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For all about that rocke the sea did flow:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And though unto his will she given were,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet without ship or bote her thence to row,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He wist not how her thence away to bere,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And daunger well he wist long to continue there.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "As last, when as no meanes he could invent,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Backe to him selfe he gan returne the blame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That was the author of her punishment;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with vile curses and reprochfull shame", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To damne him selfe by every evil name,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And deeme unworthy or of love or life,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That had despisde so chast and faire a dame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which him had sought through trouble and long strife,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet had refusde a God that her had sought to wife.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "In this sad plight he walked here and there,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And romed round about the rocke in vaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As he had lost him selfe he wist not where;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Oft listening if he mote her heare againe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And still bemoning her unworthy paine.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like as an Hynde, whose calfe is falne unwares", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into some pit, where she him heares complaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "An hundred times about the pit side fares", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Right sorrowfully mourning her bereaved cares.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And now by this the feast was throughly ended,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And every one gan homeward to resort:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which seeing, Marinell was sore offended", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That his departure thence should be so short,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And leave his love in that sea-walled fort.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet durst he not his mother disobay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But her attending in full seemly sort,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did march amongst the many all the way,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all the way did inly mourne, like one astray.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Being returned to his mothers bowre,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In solitary silence, far from wight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He gan record the lamentable stowre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In which his wretched love lay day and night", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For his deare sake, that ill deserv’d that plight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The thought whereof empierst his hart so deepe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That of no worldly thing he tooke delight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne dayly food did take, ne nightly sleepe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But pyn’d, and mourn’d, and languisht, and alone did weepe.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "That in short space his wonted chearefull hew", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Gan fade, and lively spirits deaded quight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His cheeke-bones raw, and eie-pits hollow grew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And brawney armes had lost their knowen might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That nothing like himselfe he seem’d in sight.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ere long so weake of limbe, and sicke of love", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He woxe, that lenger he note stand upright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But to his bed was brought, and layd above,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like ruefull ghost, unable once to stirre or move.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which when his mother saw, she in her mind", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Was troubled sore, ne wist well what to weene;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne could by search nor any meanes out find", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The secret cause and nature of his teene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereby she might apply some medicine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But weeping day and night did him attend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And mourn’d to see her losse before her eyne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which griev’d her more that she it could not mend:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To see an helplesse evill double griefe doth lend.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Nought could she read the roote of his disease,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ne weene what mister maladie it is,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereby to seeke some meanes it to appease.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Most did she thinke, but most she thought amis,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That that same former fatall wound of his", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whyleare by Tryphon was not throughly healed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But closely rankled under th’orifis:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Least did she thinke, that which he most concealed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That love it was, which in his hart lay unrevealed.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Therefore to Tryphon she againe doth hast,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And him doth chyde as false and fraudulent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That fayld the trust which she in him had plast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To cure her sonne, as he his faith had lent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who now was falne into new languishment", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of his old hurt, which was not throughly cured.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So backe he came unto her patient;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where searching every part, her well assured", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That it was no old sore which his new paine procured;", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But that it was some other maladie,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Or grief unknowne, which he could not discerne:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So left he her withouten remedie.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then gan her heart to faint, and quake, and earne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And inly troubled was the truth to learne.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto himselfe she came, and him besought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now with faire speches, now with threatnings sterne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "If ought lay hidden in his grieved thought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It to reveale; who still her answered, there was nought.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Nathlesse she rested not so satisfide;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But leaving watry gods, as booting nought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto the shinie heaven in haste she hide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And thence Apollo, King of Leaches, brought.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Apollo came; who, soone as he had sought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through his disease, did by and by out find", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That he did languish of some inward thought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which afflicted his engrieved mind;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which love he red to be, that leads each living kind.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which when he had unto his mother told,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "She gan thereat to fret and greatly grieve;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, comming to her sonne, gan first to scold", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And chyde at him that made her misbelieve:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But afterwards she gan him soft to shrieve,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And wooe with fair intreatie, to disclose", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which of the Nymphes his heart so sore did mieve;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For sure she weend it was some one of those,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which he had lately seene, that for his love he chose.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Now lesse she feared that same fatall read,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That warned him of womens love beware,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which being ment of mortall creatures sead,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For love of Nymphes she thought she need not care,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But promist him, what ever wight she weare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That she her love to him would shortly gaine.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So he her told: but soone as she did heare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That Florimell it was which wrought his paine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She gan afresh to chafe, and grieve in every vaine.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Yet since she saw the streight extremitie,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In which his life unluckily was lay’d,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It was no time to scan the prophecie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whether old Proteus true or false had sayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That his decay should happen by a mayd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It’s late in death of daunger to advize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or love forbid him, that is life denayd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But rather gan in troubled mind devize", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "How she that Ladies libertie might enterprize.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "To Proteus selfe to sew she thought it vaine,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Who was the root and worker of her woe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nor unto any meaner to complaine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But unto great king Neptune selfe did goe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, on her knee before him falling lowe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Made humble suit unto his Majestie", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To graunt to her her sonnes life, which his foe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A cruell Tyrant, had presumpteouslie", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By wicked doome condemn’d a wretched death to die.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "To whom God Neptune, softly smyling, thus:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“Daughter, me seemes of double wrong ye plaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gainst one that hath both wronged you and us;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For death t’adward I ween’d did appertaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To none but to the seas sole Soveraine.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Read therefore who it is which this hath wrought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And for what cause; the truth discover plaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For never wight so evill did or thought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But would some rightfull cause pretend, though rightly nought.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "To whom she answer’d: “Then, it is by name", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Proteus, that hath ordayn’d my sonne to die;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For that a waift, the which by fortune came", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon your seas, he claym’d as propertie:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And yet nor his, nor his in equitie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But yours the waift by high prerogative.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therefore I humbly crave your Majestie", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It to replevie, and my sonne reprive.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So shall you by one gift save all us three alive.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He graunted it: and streight his warrant made,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Under the Sea-gods scale autenticall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Commaunding Proteus straight t’enlarge the mayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which wandring on his seas imperiall", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He lately tooke, and sithence kept as thrall.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which she receiving with meete thankefulnesse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Departed straight to Proteus therewithall;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who, reading it with inward loathfulnesse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was grieved to restore the pledge he did possesse.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Yet durst he not the warrant to withstand,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But unto her delivered Florimell:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom she receiving by the lilly hand,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Admyr’d her beautie much, as she mote well,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For she all living creatures did excell;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And was right joyous that she gotten had", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So faire a wife for her sonne Marinell.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So home with her she streight the virgin lad,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And shewed her to him, then being sore bestad.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Who soone as he beheld that angels face", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Adorn’d with all divine perfection,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His cheared heart eftsoones away gan chace", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sad death, revived with her sweet inspection,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And feeble spirit inly felt refection:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As withered weed through cruell winters tine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That feeles the warmth of sunny beames reflection,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Liftes up his head that did before decline,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And gins to spread his leafe before the faire sunshine.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Right so himselfe did Marinell upreare,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "When he in place his dearest love did spy;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And though his limbs could not his bodie beare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne former strength returne so suddenly,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet chearefull signes he shewed outwardly.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne lesse was she in secret hart affected,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But that she masked it with modestie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For feare she should of lightnesse be detected:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which to another place I leave to be perfected.", "indent": 0 } ] ] }