{ "id": "edmund-spenser/the-legend-of-sir-guyon-or-of-temperance", "title": "The Legend of Sir Guyon, or of Temperance", "ordinal": "Book II", "subtitle": null, "poet": "Edmund Spenser", "poet_slug": "edmund-spenser", "language": "en", "book": "The Faerie Queene", "book_slug": "the-faerie-queene", "book_kind": "volume", "sequence": 3, "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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"text": "Of some th’aboundance of an ydle braine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Will judged be, and painted forgery,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Rather then matter of just memory,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sith none that breatheth living aire does know", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where is that happy land of Faery,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which I so much doe vaunt, yet no where show,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But vouch antiquities, which no body can know.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But let that man with better sence advize,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That of the world least part to us is red;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And daily how, through hardy enterprize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Many great Regions are discovered,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which to late age were never mentioned.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who ever heard of th’Indian Peru?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or who in venturous vessell measured", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The Amazon huge river, now found trew?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or fruitfullest Virginia who did ever vew?", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Yet all these were, when no man did them know,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Yet have from wisest ages hidden beene;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And later times thinges more unknowne shall show.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Why then should witlesse man so much misweene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That nothing is but that which he hath seene?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What if within the Moones fayre shining spheare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What if in every other starre unseene", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of other worldes he happily should heare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He wonder would much more; yet such to some appeare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Of Faery lond yet if he more inquyre,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "By certein signes, here sett in sondrie place,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He may it fynd; ne let him then admyre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But yield his sence to bee too blunt and bace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That no’te without an hound fine footing trace.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And thou, O fayrest Princesse under sky!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In this fayre mirrhour maist behold thy face,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And thine owne realmes in lond of Faery,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in this antique ymage thy great auncestry.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The which O! pardon me thus to enfold", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In covert vele, and wrap in shadowes light,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That feeble eyes your glory may behold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which ells could not endure those beames bright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But would bee dazled with exceeding light.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "O! pardon, and vouchsafe with patient eare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The brave adventures of this faery knight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The good Sir Guyon, gratiously to heare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In whom great rule of Temp’raunce goodly doth appeare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "That conning Architect of cancred guyle,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whom Princes late displeasure left in bands,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For falsed letters, and suborned wyle,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Soone as the Redcrosse knight he understands", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To beene departed out of Eden landes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To serve againe his soveraine Elfin Queene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His artes he moves, and out of caytives handes", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Himselfe he frees by secret meanes unseene;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His shackles emptie lefte, himselfe escaped cleene.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And forth he fares, full of malicious mynd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To worken mischiefe, and avenging woe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where ever he that godly knight may fynd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His onely hart-sore, and his onely foe;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sith Una now he algates must forgoe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom his victorious handes did earst restore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To native crowne and kingdom late ygoe;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where she enjoyes sure peace for evermore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As wetherbeaten ship arryv’d on happie shore.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Him therefore now the object of his spight", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And deadly food he makes: him to offend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By forged treason or by open fight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He seekes, of all his drifte the aymed end:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thereto his subtile engins he does bend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His practick witt and his fayre fyled tonge,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With thousand other sleightes; for well he kend", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His credit now in doubtfull ballaunce hong:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For hardly could bee hurt who was already stong.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Still as he went he craftie stales did lay,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With cunning traynes him to entrap unwares,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And privy spyals plast in all his way,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To weete what course he takes, and how he fares,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To ketch him at a vauntage in his snares.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But now so wise and wary was the knight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By tryall of his former harmes and cares,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That he descryde and shonned still his slight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The fish that once was caught new bait wil hardly byte.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Nath’lesse th’Enchaunter would not spare his payne,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In hope to win occasion to his will;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which when he long awaited had in vayne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He chaungd his mynd from one to other ill;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For to all good he enimy was still.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon the way him fortuned to meete,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fayre marching underneath a shady hill,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A goodly knight, all armd in harnesse meete,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That from his head no place appeared to his feete.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "His carriage was full comely and upright;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His countenance demure and temperate;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But yett so sterne and terrible in sight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That cheard his friendes, and did his foes amate:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He was an Elfin borne of noble state", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And mickle worship in his native land;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Well could he tourney, and in lists debate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And knighthood tooke of good Sir Huons hand,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When with king Oberon he came to Faery land.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Him als accompanyd upon the way", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A comely Palmer, clad in black attyre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of rypest yeares, and heares all hoarie gray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That with a staffe his feeble steps did stire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Least his long way his aged limbes should tire:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, if by lookes one may the mind aread,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He seemd to be a sage and sober syre;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And ever with slow pace the knight did lead,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who taught his trampling steed with equall steps to tread.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Such whenas Archimago them did view,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He weened well to worke some uncouth wyle:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Eftsoones untwisting his deceiptfull clew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He gan to weave a web of wicked guyle,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, with faire countenance and flattring style", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To them approching, thus the knight bespake;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Fayre sonne of Mars, that seeke with warlike spoyle,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And great atchiev’ments, great your selfe to make,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Vouchsafe to stay your steed for humble misers sake.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He stayd his steed for humble misers sake,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And badd tell on the tenor of his playnt:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who feigning then in every limb to quake", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through inward feare, and seeming pale and faynt,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With piteous mone his percing speach gan paynt:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Deare Lady! how shall I declare thy cace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom late I left in languorous constraynt?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Would God! thy selfe now present were in place", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To tell this ruefull tale: thy sight could win thee grace.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Or rather would, O! would it so had chaunst,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That you, most noble Sir, had present beene", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When that lewd rybauld, with vyle lust advaunst,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Laid first his filthie hands on virgin cleene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To spoyle her dainty corps, so faire and sheene", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As on the earth, great mother of us all,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With living eye more fayre was never seene", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of chastity and honour virginall:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Witnes, ye heavens, whom she in vaine to help did call.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“How may it be,” sayd then the knight halfe wroth,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“That knight should knighthood ever so have shent?”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“None but that saw,” (quoth he) “would weene for troth,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "How shamefully that Mayd he did torment:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her looser golden lockes he rudely rent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And drew her on the ground; and his sharpe sword", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Against her snowy brest he fiercely bent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And threatned death with many a bloodie word", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tounge hates to tell the rest that eye to see abhord.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Therewith amoved from his sober mood,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“And lives he yet,” (said he) “that wrought this act?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And doen the heavens afford him vitall food?”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“He lives,” (quoth he) “and boasteth of the fact,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne yet hath any knight his courage crackt.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Where may that treachour then,” (sayd he) “be found,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or by what meanes may I his footing tract?”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“That shall I shew,” (sayd he) “as sure as hound", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The stricken Deare doth chalenge by the bleeding wound.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He stayd not lenger talke, but with fierce yre", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And zealous haste away is quickly gone", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To seeke that knight, where him that crafty Squyre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Supposd to be. They do arrive anone", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where sate a gentle Lady all alone,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With garments rent, and heare discheveled,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Wringing her handes, and making piteous mone:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her swollen eyes were much disfigured,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And her faire face with teares was fowly blubbered.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The knight, approching nigh, thus to her said:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“Fayre Lady, through fowle sorrow ill bedight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Great pitty is to see you thus dismayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And marre the blossom of your beauty bright:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Forthy appease your griefe and heavy plight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And tell the cause of your conceived payne;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For, if he live that hath you doen despight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He shall you doe dew recompence agayne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or els his wrong with greater puissance maintaine.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which when she heard, as in despightfull wise", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "She wilfully her sorrow did augment,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And offred hope of comfort did despise:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her golden lockes most cruelly she rent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And scratcht her face with ghastly dreriment;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne would she speake, ne see, ne yet be seene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But hid her visage, and her head downe bent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Either for grievous shame, or for great teene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As if her hart with sorrow had transfixed beene:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Till her that Squyre bespake: “Madame, my liefe,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For Gods deare love be not so wilfull bent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But doe vouchsafe now to receive reliefe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which good fortune doth to you present.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For what bootes it to weepe and to wayment", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When ill is chaunst, but doth the ill increase,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And the weake minde with double woe torment?”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When she her Squyre heard speake, she gan appease", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her voluntarie paine, and feele some secret ease.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Eftsoone she said; “Ah! gentle trustie Squyre,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "What comfort can I, wofull wretch, conceave?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or why should ever I henceforth desyre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To see faire heavens face, and life not leave,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sith that false Traytour did my honour reave?”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“False traytour certes,” (saide the Faerie knight)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“I read the man, that ever would deceave", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A gentle Lady, or her wrong through might:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Death were too litle paine for such a fowle despight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“But now, fayre Lady, comfort to you make,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And read who hath ye wrought this shamefull plight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That short revenge the man may overtake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereso he be, and soone upon him light.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Certes,” (saide she) “I wote not how he hight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But under him a gray steede he did wield,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose sides with dapled circles weren dight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upright he rode, and in his silver shield", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He bore a bloodie Crosse that quartred all the field.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Now by my head,” (saide Guyon) “much I muse,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "How that same knight should doe so fowle amis,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or ever gentle Damzell so abuse:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For, may I boldly say, he surely is", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A right good knight, and trew of word ywis:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I present was, and can it witnesse well,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When armes he swore, and streight did enterpris", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Th’adventure of the Errant damozell;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In which he hath great glory wonne, as I heare tell.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Nathlesse he shortly shall againe be tryde,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And fairely quit him of th’imputed blame;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Els, be ye sure, he dearely shall abyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or make you good amendment for the same:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All wrongs have mendes, but no amendes of shame.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now therefore, Lady, rise out of your paine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And see the salving of your blotted name.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Full loth she seemd thereto, but yet did faine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For she was inly glad her purpose so to gaine.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Her purpose was not such as she did faine,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ne yet her person such as it was seene;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But under simple shew, and semblant plaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Lurkt false Duessa secretly unseene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As a chaste Virgin that had wronged beene:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So had false Archimago her disguysd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To cloke her guile with sorrow and sad teene;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke himselfe had craftily devisd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To be her Squire, and do her service well aguisd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Her, late forlorne and naked, he had found", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Where she did wander in waste wildernesse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Lurking in rockes and caves far under ground,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with greene mosse cov’ring her nakednesse", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To hide her shame and loathly filthinesse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sith her Prince Arthur of proud ornaments", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And borrowd beauty spoyld. Her nathelesse", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Th’enchaunter finding fit for his intents", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did thus revest, and deckt with dew habiliments.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "For all he did was to deceive good knights,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And draw them from pursuit of praise and fame", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To slug in slouth and sensuall delights,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And end their daies with irrenowmed shame.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And now exceeding griefe him overcame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To see the Redcrosse thus advaunced hye;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therefore this craftie engine he did frame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Against his praise to stirre up enmitye", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of such, as vertues like mote unto him allye.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So now he Guyon guydes an uncouth way", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Through woods and mountaines, till they came at last", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into a pleasant dale that lowly lay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Betwixt two hils, whose high heads overplast", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The valley did with coole shade overcast:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through midst thereof a little river rold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By which there sate a knight with helme unlaste,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Himselfe refreshing with the liquid cold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "After his travell long and labours manifold.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Lo! yonder he,” cryde Archimage alowd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“That wrought the shamefull fact which I did shew;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And now he doth himselfe in secret shrowd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To fly the vengeaunce for his outrage dew:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But vaine; for ye shall dearely do him rew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So God ye speed and send you good successe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which we far off will here abide to vew.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So they him left inflam’d with wrathfulnesse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That streight against that knight his speare he did addresse.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Who, seeing him from far so fierce to pricke,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His warlike armes about him gan embrace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in the rest his ready speare did sticke:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tho, when as still he saw him towards pace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He gan rencounter him in equall race.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They bene ymett, both ready to affrap,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When suddeinly that warriour gan abace", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His threatned speare, as if some new mishap,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had him betide, or hidden danger did entrap;", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And cryde, “Mercie, Sir knight! and mercie, Lord,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For mine offence and heedelesse hardiment,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That had almost committed crime abhord,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with reprochfull shame mine honour shent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whiles cursed steele against that badge I bent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The sacred badge of my Redeemers death,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which on your shield is set for ornament!”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But his fierce foe his steed could stay uneath,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who, prickt with courage kene, did cruell battell breath.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But, when he heard him speake, streight way he knew", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His errour; and, himselfe inclyning, sayd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Ah! deare Sir Guyon, well becommeth you,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But me behoveth rather to upbrayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose hastie hand so far from reason strayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That almost it did haynous violence", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On that fayre ymage of that heavenly Mayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That decks and armes your shield with faire defence:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Your court’sie takes on you anothers dew offence.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So beene they both at one, and doen upreare", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Their bevers bright each other for to greet;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Goodly comportaunce each to other beare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And entertaine themselves with court’sies meet.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then said the Redcrosse knight; “Now mote I weet,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sir Guyon, why with so fierce saliaunce,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And fell intent, ye did at earst me meet;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For sith I know your goodly governaunce,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Great cause, I weene, you guided, or some uncouth chaunce.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Certes,” (said he) “well mote I shame to tell", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The fond encheason that me hither led.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A false infamous faitour late befell", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Me for to meet, that seemed ill bested,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And playnd of grievous outrage, which he red", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A knight had wrought against a Ladie gent;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which to avenge he to this place me led,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where you he made the marke of his intent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And now is fled: foule shame him follow wher he went!”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So can he turne his earnest unto game,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Through goodly handling and wise temperaunce.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By this his aged Guide in presence came;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who, soone as on that knight his eye did glaunce,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Eftsoones of him had perfect cognizaunce,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sith him in Faery court he late avizd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And sayd; “Fayre sonne, God give you happy chaunce,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And that deare Crosse uppon your shield devizd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Wherewith above all knights ye goodly seeme aguizd!", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Joy may you have, and everlasting fame,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of late most hard atchiev’ment by you donne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For which enrolled is your glorious name", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In heavenly Regesters above the Sunne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where you a Saint with Saints your seat have wonne:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But wretched we, where ye have left your marke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Must now anew begin like race to ronne.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "God guide thee, Guyon, well to end thy warke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to the wished haven bring thy weary barke!”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Palmer,” him answered the Redcrosse knight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“His be the praise that this atchiev’ment wrought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who made my hand the organ of his might:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "More then goodwill to me attribute nought;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For all I did, I did but as I ought.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But you, faire Sir, whose pageant next ensewes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Well mote yee thee, as well can wish your thought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That home ye may report thrise happy newes;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For well ye worthy bene for worth and gentle thewes.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So courteous conge both did give and take,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With right hands plighted, pledges of good will.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then Guyon forward gan his voyage make", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With his blacke Palmer, that him guided still:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Still he him guided over dale and hill,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with his steedy staffe did point his way;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His race with reason, and with words his will,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From fowle intemperaunce he ofte did stay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And suffred not in wrath his hasty steps to stray.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "In this faire wize they traveild long yfere,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Through many hard assayes which did betide;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of which he honour still away did beare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And spred his glory through all countryes wide.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At last, as chaunst them by a forest side", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To passe, for succour from the scorching ray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They heard a ruefull voice, that dearnly cride", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With percing shriekes and many a dolefull lay;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which to attend awhile their forward steps they stay.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“But if that carelesse hevens,” (quoth she) “despise", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The doome of just revenge, and take delight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To see sad pageaunts of mens miseries,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As bownd by them to live in lives despight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet can they not warne death from wretched wight.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Come, then; come soone; come sweetest death, to me,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And take away this long lent loathed light:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sharpe be thy wounds, but sweete the medicines be,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That long captived soules from weary thraldome free.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“But thou, sweete Babe, whom frowning froward fate", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Hath made sad witnesse of thy fathers fall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sith heven thee deignes to hold in living state,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Long maist thou live, and better thrive withall", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then to thy lucklesse parents did befall.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Live thou; and to thy mother dead attest", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That cleare she dide from blemish criminall:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thy litle hands embrewd in bleeding brest", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Loe! I for pledges leave. So give me leave to rest.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "With that a deadly shrieke she forth did throw", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That through the wood re-echoed againe;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And after gave a grone so deepe and low", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That seemd her tender heart was rent in twaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or thrild with point of thorough-piercing paine:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As gentle Hynd, whose sides with cruell steele", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through launched, forth her bleeding life does raine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whiles the sad pang approching shee does feele,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Braies out her latest breath, and up her eies doth seele.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which when that warriour heard, dismounting straict", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "From his tall steed, he rusht into the thick,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And soone arrived where that sad pourtraict", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of death and dolour lay, halfe dead, halfe quick;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In whose white alabaster brest did stick", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A cruell knife that made a griesly wownd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From which forth gusht a stream of gore blood thick,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all her goodly garments staind arownd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And into a deepe sanguine dide the grassy grownd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Pitifull spectacle of deadly smart,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Beside a bubling fountaine low she lay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which shee increased with her bleeding hart,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And the cleane waves with purple gore did ray:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Als in her lap a lovely babe did play", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His cruell sport, in stead of sorrow dew;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For in her streaming blood he did embay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His litle hands, and tender joints embrew:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Pitifull spectacle, as ever eie did vew!", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Besides them both, upon the soiled gras", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The dead corse of an armed knight was spred,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose armour all with blood besprincled was;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His ruddy lips did smyle, and rosy red", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did paint his chearefull cheekes, yett being ded;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Seemd to have beene a goodly personage,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now in his freshest flowre of lustyhed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fitt to inflame faire Lady with loves rage,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But that fiers fate did crop the blossome of his age.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whom when the good Sir Guyon did behold,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His hart gan wexe as starke as marble stone,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And his fresh blood did frieze with fearefull cold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all his sences seemd berefte attone:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At last his mighty ghost gan deepe to grone,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As Lion, grudging in his great disdaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Mournes inwardly, and makes to him selfe mone;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Til ruth and fraile affection did constraine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His stout courage to stoupe, and shew his inward paine.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Out of her gored wound the cruell steel", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He lightly snatcht, and did the floodgate stop", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With his faire garment; then gan softly feel", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her feeble pulse, to prove if any drop", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of living blood yet in her veynes did hop:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which when he felt to move, he hoped faire", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To call backe life to her forsaken shop.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So well he did her deadly wounds repaire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That at the last shee gan to breath out living aire.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which he perceiving greatly gan rejoice,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And goodly counsell, that for wounded hart", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Is meetest med’cine, tempred with sweete voice:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Ay me! deare Lady, which the ymage art", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of ruefull pitty and impatient smart,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What direfull chaunce, armd with avenging fate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or cursed hand, hath plaid this cruell part,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thus fowle to hasten your untimely date?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Speake, O dear Lady, speake! help never comes too late.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Therewith her dim eielids she up gan reare,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "On which the drery death did sitt as sad", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As lump of lead, and made darke clouds appeare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But when as him, all in bright armour clad,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Before her standing she espied had,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As one out of a deadly dreame affright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She weakely started, yet she nothing drad:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Streight downe againe herselfe, in great despight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She groveling threw to ground, as hating life and light.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The gentle knight her soone with carefull paine", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Uplifted light, and softly did uphold:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thrise he her reard, and thrise she sunck againe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till he his armes about her sides gan fold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to her said: “Yet, if the stony cold", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Have not all seized on your frozen hart,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Let one word fall that may your grief unfold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And tell the secrete of your mortall smart:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He oft finds present helpe who does his griefe impart.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then, casting up a deadly looke, full low", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Shee sight from bottome of her wounded brest;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And after, many bitter throbs did throw,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With lips full pale and foltring tong opprest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "These words she breathed forth from riven chest:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Leave, ah! leave off, whatever wight thou bee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To lett a weary wretch from her dew rest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And trouble dying soules tranquilitee;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Take not away, now got, which none would give to me.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Ah! far be it,” (said he) “Deare dame, fro mee,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To hinder soule from her desired rest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or hold sad life in long captivitee;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For all I seeke is but to have redrest", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The bitter pangs that doth your heart infest.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tell then, O Lady! tell what fatall priefe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Hath with so huge misfortune you opprest;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That I may cast to compas your reliefe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or die with you in sorrow, and partake your griefe.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "With feeble hands then stretched forth on hye,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As heven accusing guilty of her death,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with dry drops congealed in her eye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In these sad wordes she spent her utmost breath:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Heare then, O man! the sorrowes that uneath", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "My tong can tell, so far all sence they pas.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Loe! this dead corpse, that lies here underneath,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The gentlest knight, that ever on greene gras", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gay steed with spurs did pricke, the good Sir Mortdant was:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Was, (ay the while, that he is not so now!)", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "My Lord, my love, my deare Lord, my deare love!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So long as hevens just with equall brow", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Vouchsafed to behold us from above.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "One day, when him high corage did emmove,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As wont ye knightes to seeke adventures wilde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He pricked forth his puissant force to prove.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Me then he left enwombed of this childe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "This luckles childe, whom thus ye see with blood defild.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Him fortuned (hard fortune ye may ghesse)", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To come, where vile Acrasia does wonne;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Acrasia, a false enchaunteresse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That many errant knightes hath fowle fordonne;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Within a wandring Island, that doth ronne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And stray in perilous gulfe, her dwelling is.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fayre Sir, if ever there ye travell, shonne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The cursed land where many wend amis,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And know it by the name: it hight the Bowre of blis.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Her blis is all in pleasure, and delight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Wherewith she makes her lovers dronken mad;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And then with words, and weedes, of wondrous might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On them she workes her will to uses bad:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "My liefest Lord she thus beguiled had;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For he was flesh: (all flesh doth frayltie breed)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom when I heard to beene so ill bestad,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Weake wretch, I wrapt myselfe in Palmers weed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And cast to seek him forth through danger and great dreed.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Now had fayre Cynthia by even tournes", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Full measured three quarters of her yeare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And thrise three tymes had fild her crooked hornes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whenas my wombe her burdein would forbeare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And bad me call Lucina to me neare.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Lucina came; a manchild forth I brought:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The woods, the nymphes, my bowres, my midwives, weare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Hard help at need! So deare thee, babe, I bought;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet nought too dear I deemd, while so my deare I sought.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Him so I sought; and so at last I fownd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Where him that witch had thralled to her will,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In chaines of lust and lewde desyres ybownd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And so transformed from his former skill,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That me he knew not, nether his owne ill;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till, through wise handling and faire governaunce,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I him recured to a better will,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Purged from drugs of fowle intemperaunce:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then meanes I gan devise for his deliveraunce.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Which when the vile Enchaunteresse perceiv’d,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "How that my Lord from her I would reprive,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With cup thus charmd him parting she deceivd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "‘Sad verse, give death to him that death does give,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And losse of love to her that loves to live,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So soone as Bacchus with the Nymphe does lincke!’", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So parted we, and on our journey drive;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till, coming to this well, he stoupt to drincke:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The charme fulfild, dead suddeinly he downe did sincke.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Which when I, wretch”⁠—Not one word more she sayd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But breaking off the end for want of breath,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And slyding soft, as downe to sleepe her layd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And ended all her woe in quiet death.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That seeing, good Sir Guyon could uneath", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From teares abstayne; for griefe his hart did grate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And from so heavie sight his head did wreath,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Accusing fortune, and too cruell fate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which plonged had faire Lady in so wretched state.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then turning to his Palmer said; “Old syre,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Behold the ymage of mortalitie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And feeble nature cloth’d with fleshly tyre.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When raging passion with fierce tyranny", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Robs reason of her dew regalitie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And makes it servaunt to her basest part,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The strong it weakens with infirmitie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with bold furie armes the weakest hart:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The strong through pleasure soonest falles, the weake through smart.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“But temperaunce” (said he) “with golden squire", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Betwixt them both can measure out a meane;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nether to melt in pleasures whott desyre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nor frye in hartlesse griefe and dolefull tene:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thrise happy man, who fares them both atweene!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But sith this wretched woman overcome", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of anguish, rather then of crime, hath bene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Reserve her cause to her eternall doome;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, in the meane, vouchsafe her honorable toombe.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Palmer,” quoth he, “death is an equall doome", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To good and bad, the common In of rest;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But after death the tryall is to come,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When best shall bee to them that lived best;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But both alike, when death hath both supprest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Religious reverence doth buriall teene;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which whoso wants, wants so much of his rest:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For all so great shame after death I weene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As selfe to dyen bad, unburied bad to beene.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So both agree their bodies to engrave:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The great earthes wombe they open to the sky,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with sad Cypresse seemely it embrave;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then, covering with a clod their closed eye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They lay therein their corses tenderly,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And bid them sleepe in everlasting peace.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, ere they did their utmost obsequy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sir Guyon, more affection to increace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Bynempt a sacred vow, which none should ay releace.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The dead knights sword out of his sheath he drew,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With which he cutt a lock of all their heare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which medling with their blood and earth he threw", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into the grave, and gan devoutly sweare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Such and such evil God on Guyon reare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And worse and worse, young Orphane, be thy payne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "If I, or thou, dew vengeaunce doe forbeare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till guiltie blood her guerdon doe obtayne!”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So shedding many teares they closd the earth agayne.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thus when Sir Guyon with his faithful guyde", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Had with dew rites and dolorous lament", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The end of their sad Tragedie uptyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The litle babe up in his armes he hent;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who with sweet pleasaunce, and bold blandishment,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gan smyle on them, that rather ought to weepe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As carelesse of his woe, or innocent", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of that was doen; that ruth emperced deepe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In that knightes hart, and wordes with bitter teares did steepe:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Ah! lucklesse babe, borne under cruell starre,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And in dead parents balefull ashes bred,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Full little weenest thou what sorrowes are", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Left thee for porcion of thy livelyhed;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Poore Orphane! in the wild world scattered,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As budding braunch rent from the native tree,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And throwen forth, till it be withered.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Such is the state of men: Thus enter we", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into this life with woe, and end with miseree!”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then, soft himselfe inclyning on his knee", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Downe to that well, did in the water weene", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "(So love does loath disdainefull nicitee)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His guiltie handes from bloody gore to cleene.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He washt them oft and oft, yet nought they beene", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For all his washing cleaner. Still he strove;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet still the litle hands were bloody seene:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which him into great amaz’ment drove,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And into diverse doubt his wavering wonder clove.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He wist not whether blott of fowle offence", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Might not be purgd with water nor with bath;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or that high God, in lieu of innocence,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Imprinted had that token of his wrath,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To shew how sore bloodguiltinesse he hat’th;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or that the charme and veneme which they dronck,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their blood with secret filth infected hath,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Being diffused through the senceless tronck,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That through the great contagion direful deadly stonck.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whom thus at gaze the Palmer gan to bord", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With goodly reason, and thus fayre bespake;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Ye bene right hard amated, gratious Lord,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And of your ignorance great merveill make,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whiles cause not well conceived ye mistake:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But know, that secret vertues are infusd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In every fountaine, and in everie lake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which who hath skill them rightly to have chusd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To proofe of passing wonders hath full often usd:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Of those, some were so from their sourse indewd", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "By great Dame Nature, from whose fruitfull pap", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their welheads spring, and are with moisture deawd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which feedes each living plant with liquid sap,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And filles with flowres fayre Floraes painted lap:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But other some, by guifte of later grace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or by good prayers, or by other hap,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had vertue pourd into their waters bace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And thenceforth were renowmd, and sought from place to place.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Such is this well, wrought by occasion straunge,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which to her Nymph befell. Upon a day,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As she the woodes with bow and shaftes did raunge,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The hartlesse Hynd and Robucke to dismay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Dan Faunus chaunst to meet her by the way,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, kindling fire at her faire-burning eye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Inflamed was to follow beauties pray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And chaced her that fast from him did fly;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As hynd from her, so she fled from her enimy.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“At last, when fayling breath began to faint,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And saw no meanes to scape, of shame affrayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She set her downe to weepe for sore constraint;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to Diana calling lowd for ayde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her deare besought to let her die a mayd.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The goddesse heard; and suddeine, where she sate", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Welling out streames of teares, and quite dismayd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With stony teare of that rude rustick mate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Transformd her to a stone from stedfast virgins state.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Lo! now she is that stone; from whose two heads,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As from two weeping eyes, fresh streames do flow,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet colde through feare and old conceived dreads;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And yet the stone her semblance seemes to show,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shapt like a maide, that such ye may her know:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And yet her vertues in her water byde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For it is chaste and pure as purest snow,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne lets her waves with any filth be dyde;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But ever, like herselfe, unstayned hath beene tryde.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“From thence it comes, that this babes bloody hand", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "May not be clensd with water of this well:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne certes, Sir, strive you it to withstand,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But let them still be bloody, as befell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That they his mothers innocence may tell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As she bequeathd in her last testament;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That, as a sacred Symbole, it may dwell", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In her sonnes flesh, to mind revengement,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And be for all chaste Dames an endlesse moniment.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He hearkned to his reason, and the childe", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Uptaking, to the Palmer gave to beare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But his sad fathers armes with blood defilde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "An heavie load, himselfe did lightly reare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And turning to that place, in which whyleare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He left his loftie steed with golden sell", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And goodly gorgeous barbes, him found not theare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By other accident, that earst befell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He is convaide; but how, or where, here fits not tell.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which when Sir Guyon saw, all were he wroth,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Yet algates mote he soft himselfe appease,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And fairely fare on foot, how ever loth:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His double burden did him sore disease.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So long they traveiled with litle ease,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till that at last they to a Castle came,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Built on a rocke adjoyning to the seas:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It was an auncient worke of antique fame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And wondrous strong by nature, and by skilfull frame.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Therein three sisters dwelt of sundry sort,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The children of one syre by mothers three;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who dying whylome did divide this fort", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To them by equall shares in equall fee:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But stryfull mind and diverse qualitee", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Drew them in partes, and each made others foe:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Still did they strive and daily disagree;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The eldest did against the youngest goe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And both against the middest meant to worken woe.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Where when the knight arriv’d, he was right well", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Receiv’d, as knight of so much worth became,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of second sister, who did far excell", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The other two: Medina was her name,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A sober sad and comely courteous Dame;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who rich arayd, and yet in modest guize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In goodly garments that her well became,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fayre marching forth in honorable wize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him at the threshold mett, and well did enterprize.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "She led him up into a goodly bowre,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And comely, courted with meet modestie;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne in her speach, ne in her haviour,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was lightnesse seene or looser vanitie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But gratious womanhood, and gravitie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Above the reason of her youthly yeares.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her golden lockes she roundly did uptye", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In breaded tramels, that no looser heares", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did out of order stray about her daintie eares.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whilest she her selfe thus busily did frame", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Seemely to entertaine her newcome guest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Newes hereof to her other sisters came,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who all this while were at their wanton rest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Accourting each her frend with lavish fest:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They were two knights of perelesse puissaunce,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And famous far abroad for warlike gest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which to these Ladies love did countenaunce,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to his mistresse each himselfe strove to advaunce.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He that made love unto the eldest Dame,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Was hight Sir Huddibras, an hardy man;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet not so good of deedes as great of name,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which he by many rash adventures wan,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Since errant armes to sew he first began:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "More huge in strength then wise in workes he was,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And reason with foole-hardize over ran;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sterne melancholy did his courage pas,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And was, for terrour more, all armd in shyning bras.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But he that lov’d the youngest was Sansloy;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He, that faire Una late fowle outraged,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The most unruly and the boldest boy", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That ever warlike weapons menaged,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all to lawlesse lust encouraged", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through strong opinion of his matchlesse might;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ought he car’d whom he endamaged", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By tortious wrong, or whom bereav’d of right:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He, now this Ladies Champion, chose for love to fight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "These two gay knights, vowd to so diverse loves,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Each other does envy with deadly hate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And daily warre against his foeman moves,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In hope to win more favour with his mate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And th’others pleasing service to abate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To magnifie his owne. But when they heard", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "How in that place straunge knight arrived late,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both knightes and ladies forth right angry far’d,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And fercely unto battell sterne themselves prepar’d.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But, ere they could proceede unto the place", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Where he abode, themselves at discord fell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And cruell combat joynd in middle space:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With horrible assault, and fury fell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They heapt huge strokes the scorned life to quell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all on uprore from her settled seat", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The house was raysd, and all that in did dwell;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Seemd that lowde thunder with amazement great", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did rend the ratling skyes with flames of fouldring heat.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The noyse thereof cal’d forth that straunger knight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To weet what dreadfull thing was there in hond;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where whenas two brave knightes in bloody fight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With deadly rancour he enraunged fond,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His sunbroad shield about his wrest he bond,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And shyning blade unsheathd, with which he ran", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto that stead, their strife to understond;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And at his first arrivall them began", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With goodly meanes to pacifie, well as he can.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But they, him spying, both with greedy forse", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Attonce upon him ran, and him beset", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With strokes of mortall steele without remorse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And on his shield like yron sledges bet:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As when a Beare and Tygre, being met", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In cruell fight on Lybicke Ocean wide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Espye a traveiler with feet surbet,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom they in equall pray hope to divide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They stint their strife and him assayle on everie side.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But he, not like a weary traveilere,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Their sharp assault right boldly did rebut,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And suffred not their blowes to byte him nere,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But with redoubled buffes them backe did put:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose grieved mindes, which choler did englut,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Against themselves turning their wrathfull spight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gan with new rage their shieldes to hew and cut;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But still, when Guyon came to part their fight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With heavie load on him they freshly gan to smight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "As a tall ship tossed in troublous seas,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whom raging windes, threatning to make the pray", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of the rough rockes, doe diversly disease,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Meetes two contrarie billowes by the way,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That her on either side doe sore assay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And boast to swallow her in greedy grave;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shee, scorning both their spights, does make wide way,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with her brest breaking the fomy wave,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Does ride on both their backs, and faire her self doth save.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So boldly he him beares, and rusheth forth", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Betweene them both by conduct of his blade.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Wondrous great prowesse and heroick worth", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He shewd that day, and rare ensample made,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When two so mighty warriours he dismade.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Attonce he wards and strikes; he takes and paies;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now forst to yield, now forcing to invade;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Before, behind, and round about him laies;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So double was his paines, so double be his praise.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Straunge sort of fight, three valiaunt knights to see", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Three combates joine in one, and to darraine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A triple warre with triple enmitee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All for their Ladies froward love to gaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which gotten was but hate. So love does raine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In stoutest minds, and maketh monstrous warre;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He maketh warre, he maketh peace againe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And yett his peace is but continual jarre:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "O miserable men, that to him subject arre!", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whilst thus they mingled were in furious armes,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The faire Medina, with her tresses torne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And naked brest, in pitty of their harmes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Emongst them ran; and, falling them beforne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Besought them by the womb which them had born,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And by the loves which were to them most deare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And by the knighthood which they sure had sworn,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their deadly cruell discord to forbeare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to her just conditions of faire peace to heare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But her two other sisters, standing by,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Her lowd gainsaid, and both their champions bad", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Pursew the end of their strong enmity,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As ever of their loves they would be glad.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet she with pitthy words, and counsell sad,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Still strove their stubborne rages to revoke;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That at the last, suppressing fury mad,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They gan abstaine from dint of direfull stroke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And hearken to the sober speaches which she spoke.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Ah, puissaunt Lords! what cursed evil Spright,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Or fell Erinnys, in your noble harts", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her hellish brond hath kindled with despight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And stird you up to worke your wilfull smarts?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Is this the joy of armes? be these the parts", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of glorious knighthood, after blood to thrust,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And not regard dew right and just desarts?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Vaine is the vaunt, and victory unjust,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That more to mighty hands then rightfull cause doth trust.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“And were there rightfull cause of difference,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Yet were not better fayre it to accord", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then with bloodguiltinesse to heape offence,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And mortal vengeaunce joyne to crime abhord?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "O! fly from wrath; fly, O my liefest Lord!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sad be the sights, and bitter fruites of warre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And thousand furies wait on wrathfull sword;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ought the praise of prowesse more doth marre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then fowle revenging rage, and base contentious jarre.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“But lovely concord, and most sacred peace,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Doth nourish vertue, and fast friendship breeds,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Weake she makes strong, and strong thing does increace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till it the pitch of highest praise exceeds:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Brave be her warres, and honorable deeds,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By which she triumphes over yre and pride,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And winnes an Olive girlond for her meeds.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Be, therefore, O my deare Lords! pacifide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And this misseeming discord meekely lay aside.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Her gracious words their rancour did appall,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And suncke so deepe into their boyling brests,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That downe they lett their cruell weapons fall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And lowly did abase their lofty crests", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To her faire presence and discrete behests.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then she began a treaty to procure,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And stablish terms betwixt both their requests,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That as a law for ever should endure;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which to observe in word of knights they did assure.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which to confirme, and fast to bind their league,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "After their weary sweat and bloody toile,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She them besought, during their quiet treague,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into her lodging to repaire awhile,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To rest themselves, and grace to reconcile.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They soone consent: so forth with her they fare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where they are well receivd, and made to spoile", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Themselves of soiled armes, and to prepare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their minds to pleasure, and their mouths to dainty fare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And those two froward sisters, their faire loves,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Came with them eke, all were they wondrous loth,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And fained cheare, as for the time behoves,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But could not colour yet so well the troth,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But that their natures bad appeard in both;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For both did at their second sister grutch", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And inly grieve, as doth an hidden moth", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The inner garment frett, not th’utter touch:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "One thought her cheare too litle, th’other thought too mutch.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Elissa (so the eldest hight) did deeme", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Such entertainment base, ne ought would eat,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ought would speake, but evermore did seeme", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As discontent for want of merth or meat:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "No solace could her Paramour intreat", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her once to show, ne court, nor dalliaunce;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But with bent lowring browes, as she would threat,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She scould, and frownd with froward countenaunce;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unworthy of faire Ladies comely governaunce.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But young Perissa was of other mynd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Full of disport, still laughing, loosely light,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And quite contrary to her sisters kynd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "No measure in her mood, no rule of right,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But poured out in pleasure and delight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In wine and meats she flowd above the banck,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in excesse exceeded her owne might;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In sumptuous tire she joyd her selfe to pranck,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But of her love too lavish: (litle have she thanck!)", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Fast by her side did sitt the bold Sansloy,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Fitt mate for such a mincing mineon,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who in her loosenesse tooke exceeding joy;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Might not be found a francker franion,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of her leawd parts to make companion:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Huddibras, more like a Malecontent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did see and grieve at his bold fashion;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Hardly could he endure his hardiment,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yett still he satt, and inly did him selfe torment.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Betwixt them both the faire Medina sate", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With sober grace and goodly carriage:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With equall measure she did moderate", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The strong extremities of their outrage.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That forward paire she ever would asswage,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When they would strive dew reason to exceed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But that same froward twaine would accorage,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And of her plenty adde unto their need:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So kept she them in order, and her selfe in heed.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thus fairely shee attempered her feast,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And pleas’d them all with meete satiety.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At last, when lust of meat and drinke was ceast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She Guyon deare besought of curtesie", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To tell from whence he came through jeopardy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And whither now on new adventure bownd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who with bold grace, and comely gravity,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Drawing to him the eies of all arownd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From lofty siege began these words aloud to sownd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“This thy demaund, O Lady! doth revive", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Fresh memory in me of that great Queene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Great and most glorious virgin Queene alive,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That with her soveraine power, and scepter shene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All Faery lond does peaceably sustene.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In widest Ocean she her throne does reare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That over all the earth it may be seene;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As morning Sunne her beames dispredden cleare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in her face faire peace and mercy doth appeare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "In her the richesse of all heavenly grace", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In chiefe degree are heaped up on hye:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all, that els this worlds enclosure bace", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Hath great or glorious in mortall eye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Adornes the person of her Majestye;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That men, beholding so great excellence", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And rare perfection in mortalitye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Doe her adore with sacred reverence,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As th’Idole of her makers great magnificence.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“To her I homage and my service owe,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In number of the noblest knightes on ground;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Mongst whom on me she deigned to bestowe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Order of Maydenhead, the most renownd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That may this day in all the world be found.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "An yearely solemne feast she wontes to hold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The day that first doth lead the yeare around,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To which all knights of worth and courage bold", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Resort, to heare of straunge adventures to be told.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“There this old Palmer shewd himselfe that day,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And to that mighty Princesse did complaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of grievous mischiefes which a wicked Fay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had wrought, and many whelmd in deadly paine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereof he crav’d redresse. My Soveraine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose glory is in gracious deeds, and joyes", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Throughout the world her mercy to maintaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Eftsoones devisd redresse for such annoyes:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Me, all unfitt for so great purpose, she employes.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Now hath faire Phebe with her silver face", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Thrise seene the shadowes of the neather world,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sith last I left that honorable place,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In which her roiall presence is enrold;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ever shall I rest in house nor hold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till I that false Acrasia have wonne;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of whose fowle deedes, too hideous to bee told,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I witnesse am, and this their wretched sonne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose wofull parents she hath wickedly fordonne.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Tell on, fayre Sir,” said she, “that dolefull tale,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "From which sad ruth does seeme you to restraine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That we may pitty such unhappie bale,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And learne from pleasures poyson to abstaine:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ill by ensample good doth often gayne.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then forward he his purpose gan pursew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And told the story of the mortall payne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which Mordant and Amavia did rew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As with lamenting eyes him selfe did lately vew.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Night was far spent; and now in Ocean deep", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Orion, flying fast from hissing snake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His flaming head did hasten for to steep,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When of his pitteous tale he end did make:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whilst with delight of that he wisely spake", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Those guestes, beguyled, did beguyle their eyes", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of kindly sleepe that did them overtake.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At last, when they had markt the chaunged skyes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They wist their houre was spent; then each to rest him hyes.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Soone as the morrow fayre with purple beames", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Disperst the shadowes of the misty night,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Titan, playing on the eastern streames,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gan cleare the deawy ayre with springing light,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sir Guyon, mindfull of his vow yplight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Uprose from drowsie couch, and him addrest", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto the journey which he had behight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His puissant armes about his noble brest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And many-folded shield he bound about his wrest.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then, taking Congé of that virgin pure,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The bloody-handed babe unto her truth", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did earnestly committ, and her conjure", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In vertuous lore to traine his tender youth,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all that gentle noriture ensu’th;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And that, so soone as ryper yeares he raught,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He might, for memory of that dayes ruth,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Be called Ruddymane; and thereby taught", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "T’avenge his Parents death on them that had it wrought.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So forth he far’d, as now befell, on foot,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Sith his good steed is lately from him gone;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Patience perforce: helplesse what may it boot", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To frett for anger, or for griefe to mone?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His Palmer now shall foot no more alone.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So fortune wrought, as under greene woodes syde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He lately heard that dying Lady grone,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He left his steed without, and speare besyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And rushed in on foot to ayd her ere she dyde.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The whyles a losell wandring by the way,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "One that to bountie never cast his mynd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne thought of honour ever did assay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His baser brest, but in his kestrell kynd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A pleasing vaine of glory he did fynd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To which his flowing toung and troublous spright", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gave him great ayd, and made him more inclynd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He, that brave steed there finding ready dight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Purloynd both steed and speare, and ran away full light.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Now gan his hart all swell in jollity,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And of him selfe great hope and help conceiv’d,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That puffed up with smoke of vanity,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with selfe-loved personage deceiv’d,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He gan to hope of men to be receiv’d", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For such as he him thought, or faine would bee:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But for in court gay portaunce he perceiv’d,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And gallant shew to be in greatest gree,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Eftsoones to court he cast t’advaunce his first degree.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And by the way he chaunced to espy", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "One sitting ydle on a sunny banck,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To him avaunting in great bravery,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As Peacocke that his painted plumes doth pranck,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He smote his courser in the trembling flanck,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to him threatned his hart-thrilling speare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The seely man, seeing him ryde so ranck,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And ayme at him, fell flatt to ground for feare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And crying, “Mercy!” loud, his pitious handes gan reare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thereat the Scarcrow wexed wondrous prowd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Through fortune of his first adventure fayre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with big thundring voice revyld him lowd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Vile Caytive, vassall of dread and despayre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unworthie of the commune breathed ayre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Why livest thou, dead dog, a lenger day,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And doest not unto death thyselfe prepayre?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Dy, or thyselfe my captive yield for ay.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Great favour I thee graunt for aunswere thus to stay.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Hold, O deare Lord! hold your dead-doing hand,”", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Then loud he cryde; “I am your humble thrall.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Ay wretch,” (quoth he) “thy destinies withstand", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "My wrathfull will, and doe for mercy call.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I give thee life: therefore prostrated fall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And kisse my stirrup; that thy homage bee.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The Miser threw him selfe, as an Offall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Streight at his foot in base humilitee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And cleeped him his liege, to hold of him in fee.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So happy peace they made and faire accord.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Eftsoones this liegeman gan to wexe more bold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And when he felt the folly of his Lord,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In his owne kind he gan him selfe unfold;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For he was wylie witted, and growne old", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In cunning sleightes and practick knavery.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From that day forth he cast for to uphold", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His ydle humour with fine flattery,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And blow the bellowes to his swelling vanity.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Trompart, fitt man for Braggadochio,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To serve at court in view of vaunting eye;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Vaine-glorious man, when fluttring wind does blow", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In his light winges, is lifted up to skye;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The scorne of knighthood and trew chevalrye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To thinke, without desert of gentle deed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And noble worth, to be advaunced hye:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Such prayse is shame; but honour, vertues meed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Doth beare the fayrest flowre in honourable seed.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So forth they pas, a well consorted payre,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Till that at length with Archimage they meet:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who seeing one, that shone in armour fayre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On goodly courser thondring with his feet,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Eftsoones supposed him a person meet", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of his revenge to make the instrument;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For since the Redcrosse knight he erst did weet", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To been with Guyon knitt in one consent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The ill, which earst to him, he now to Guyon ment.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And coming close to Trompart gan inquere", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of him, what mightie warriour that mote bee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That rode in golden sell with single spere,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But wanted sword to wreake his enmitee?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“He is a great adventurer,” (said he)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“That hath his sword through hard assay forgone,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And now hath vowd, till he avenged bee", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of that despight, never to wearen none:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That speare is him enough to doen a thousand grone.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Th’enchaunter greatly joyed in the vaunt,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And weened well ere long his will to win,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And both his foen with equall foyle to daunt.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tho to him louting lowly did begin", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To plaine of wronges, which had committed bin", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By Guyon, and by that false Redcrosse knight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which two, through treason and deceiptfull gin,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had slayne Sir Mordant and his Lady bright:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That mote him honour win to wreak so foule despight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Therewith all suddeinly he seemd enraged,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And threatned death with dreadfull countenaunce,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As if their lives had in his hand beene gaged;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with stiffe force shaking his mortall launce,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To let him weet his doughtie valiaunce,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thus said: “Old man, great sure shal be thy meed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "If, where those knights for feare of dew vengeaunce", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Doe lurke, thou certainly to mee areed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That I may wreake on them their hainous hatefull deed.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Certes, my Lord,” (said he) “that shall I soone,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And give you eke good helpe to their decay.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But mote I wisely you advise to doon,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Give no ods to your foes, but doe purvay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Your selfe of sword before that bloody day;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For they be two the prowest knights on grownd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And oft approv’d in many hard assay;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke of surest steele that may be fownd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Do arme your self against that day, them to confownd.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Dotard,” (said he) “let be thy deepe advise:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Seemes that through many yeares thy wits thee faile,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And that weake eld hath left thee nothing wise;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Els never should thy judgement be so frayle", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To measure manhood by the sword or mayle.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Is not enough fowre quarters of a man,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Withouten sword or shield, an hoste to quayle?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thou litle wotest what this right-hand can:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Speake they which have beheld the battailes which it wan.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The man was much abashed at his boast;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Yet well he wist that whoso would contend", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With either of those knightes on even coast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Should neede of all his armes him to defend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet feared least his boldnesse should offend.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When Braggadocchio saide; “Once I did sweare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When with one sword seven knightes I brought to end,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thenceforth in battaile never sword to beare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But it were that which noblest knight on earth doth weare.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Perdy, Sir knight,” saide then th’enchaunter blive,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“That shall I shortly purchase to your hond;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For now the best and noblest knight alive", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Prince Arthur is, that wonnes in Faerie lond:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He hath a sword that flames like burning brond.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The same by my device I undertake", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shall by to morrow by thy side be fond.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At which bold word that boaster gan to quake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And wondred in his minde what mote that Monster make.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He stay’d not for more bidding, but away", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Was suddein vanished out of his sight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The Northerne winde his wings did broad display", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At his commaund, and reared him up light", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From off the earth to take his aerie flight.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They look’t about, but nowhere could espye", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tract of his foot: then dead through great affright", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They both nigh were, and each bad other flye:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both fled attonce, ne ever backe retourned eye;", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Till that they come unto a forrest greene,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In which they shrowd themselves from causeles feare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet feare them followes still where so they beene:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Each trembling leafe and whistling wind they heare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As ghastly bug, does greatly them affeare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet both doe strive their fearefulnesse to faine.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At last they heard a horne that shrilled cleare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Throughout the wood that ecchoed againe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And made the forrest ring, as it would rive in twaine.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Eft through the thicke they heard one rudely rush,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With noyse whereof he from his loftie steed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Downe fell to ground, and crept into a bush,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To hide his coward head from dying dreed:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Trompart stoutly stayd to taken heed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of what might hap. Eftsoone there stepped foorth", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A goodly Ladie clad in hunters weed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That seemd to be a woman of great worth,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And by her stately portance borne of heavenly birth.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Her face so faire as flesh it seemed not,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But hevenly pourtraict of bright Angels hew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Cleare as the skye, withouten blame or blot,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through goodly mixture of complexions dew;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in her cheekes the vermeill red did shew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like roses in a bed of lillies shed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which ambrosiall odours from them threw,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And gazers sence with double pleasure fed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Hable to heale the sicke, and to revive the ded.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "In her faire eyes two living lamps did flame,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Kindled above at th’hevenly makers light,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And darted fyrie beames out of the same,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So passing persant, and so wondrous bright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That quite bereav’d the rash beholders sight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In them the blinded god his lustfull fyre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To kindle oft assayd, but had no might;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For, with dredd Majestie and awfull yre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She broke his wanton darts, and quenched bace desyre.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Her yvorie forhead, full of bountie brave,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Like a broad table did it selfe dispred;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For Love his loftie triumphes to engrave,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And write the battailes of his great godhed:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All good and honour might therein be red,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For there their dwelling was. And, when she spake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sweete wordes like dropping honny she did shed;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And twixt the perles and rubins softly brake", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A silver sound, that heavenly musicke seemd to make.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Upon her eyelids many Graces sate,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Under the shadow of her even browes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Working belgardes and amorous retrate;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And everie one her with a grace endowes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And everie one with meekenesse to her bowes.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So glorious mirrhour of celestiall grace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And soveraine moniment of mortall vowes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "How shall frayle pen descrive her heavenly face,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For feare, through want of skill, her beauty to disgrace?", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So faire, and thousand thousand times more faire,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "She seemd, when she presented was to sight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And was yclad, for heat of scorching aire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All in a silken Camus lilly whight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Purfled upon with many a folded plight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which all above besprinckled was throughout", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With golden aygulets, that glistred bright", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like twinckling starres; and all the skirt about", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was hemd with golden fringe.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Below her ham her weed did somewhat trayne,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And her streight legs most bravely were embayld", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In gilden buskins of costly Cordwayne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All bard with golden bendes, which were entayld", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With curious antickes, and full fayre aumayld:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Before, they fastned were under her knee", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In a rich jewel, and therein entrayld", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The ends of all the knots, that none might see", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "How they within their fouldings close enwrapped bee:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Like two faire marble pillours they were seene,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which doe the temple of the Gods support,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom all the people decke with girlands greene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And honour in their festivall resort;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Those same with stately grace and princely port", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She taught to tread, when she herselfe would grace;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But with the woody Nymphes when she did play,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or when the flying Libbard she did chace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She could them nimbly move, and after fly apace.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And in her hand a sharpe bore-speare she held,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And at her backe a bow and quiver gay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Stuft with steeleheaded dartes, wherewith she queld", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The salvage beastes in her victorious play,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Knit with a golden bauldricke, which forelay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Athwart her snowy brest, and did divide", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her daintie paps; which, like young fruit in May,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now little gan to swell, and being tide", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through her thin weed their places only signifide.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Her yellow lockes, crisped like golden wyre,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "About her shoulders weren loosely shed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, when the winde emongst them did inspyre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They waved like a penon wyde dispred,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And low behinde her backe were scattered:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, whether art it were or heedlesse hap,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As through the flouring forrest rash she fled,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In her rude heares sweet flowres themselves did lap,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And flourishing fresh leaves and blossoms did enwrap.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Such as Diana by the sandy shore", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of swift Eurotas, or on Cynthus greene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where all the Nymphes have her unwares forlore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Wandreth alone with bow and arrowes keene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To seeke her game: Or as that famous Queene", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of Amazons, whom Pyrrhus did destroy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The day that first of Priame she was seene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did shew her selfe in great triumphant joy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To succour the weake state of sad afflicted Troy.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Such when as hartlesse Trompart her did vew,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He was dismayed in his coward minde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And doubted whether he himselfe should shew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or fly away, or bide alone behinde;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both feare and hope he in her face did finde:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When she at last him spying thus bespake:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Hayle, Groome! didst not thou see a bleeding Hynde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose right haunch earst my stedfast arrow strake?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "If thou didst, tell me, that I may her overtake.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Wherewith reviv’d, this answere forth he threw:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“O Goddesse, (for such I thee take to bee)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For nether doth thy face terrestriall shew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nor voyce sound mortall; I avow to thee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Such wounded beast as that I did not see,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sith earst into this forrest wild I came.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But mote thy goodlyhed forgive it mee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To weete which of the gods I shall thee name,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That unto thee dew worship I may rightly frame.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "To whom she thus⁠—but ere her words ensewd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Unto the bush her eye did suddein glaunce,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In which vaine Braggadocchio was mewd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And saw it stirre: she lefte her percing launce,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And towards gan a deadly shafte advaunce,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In mind to marke the beast. At which sad stowre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Trompart forth stept to stay the mortall chaunce,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Out crying; “O! what ever hevenly powre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or earthly wight thou be, withhold this deadly howre.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“O! stay thy hand; for yonder is no game", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For thy fiers arrowes, them to exercize;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But loe! my Lord, my liege, whose warlike name", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Is far renowmd through many bold emprize;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And now in shade he shrowded yonder lies.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She staid: with that he crauld out of his nest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Forth creeping on his caitive hands and thies;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, standing stoutly up, his lofty crest", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did fiercely shake, and rowze as comming late from rest.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "As fearfull fowle, that long in secret cave", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For dread of soring hauke her selfe hath hid,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nor caring how, her silly life to save,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She her gay painted plumes disorderid;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Seeing at last her selfe from daunger rid,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Peepes forth, and soone renews her native pride:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She gins her feathers fowle disfigured", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Prowdly to prune, and sett on every side;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She shakes off shame, ne thinks how erst she did her hide.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So when her goodly visage he beheld,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He gan himselfe to vaunt: but, when he vewd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Those deadly tooles which in her hand she held,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Soone into other fitts he was transmewd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till she to him her gracious speach renewd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“All haile, Sir knight! and well may thee befall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As all the like, which honor have pursewd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through deeds of armes and prowesse martiall.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All vertue merits praise, but such the most of all.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "To whom he thus: “O fairest under skie!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Trew be thy words, and worthie of thy praise,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That warlike feats doest highest glorifie.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therein I have spent all my youthly daies,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And many battailes fought and many fraies", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Throughout the world, wher-so they might be found,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Endevoring my dreaded name to raise", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Above the Moone, that fame may it resound", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In her eternall tromp, with laurell girlond cround.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“But what art thou, O Lady! which doest raunge", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In this wilde forest, where no pleasure is,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And doest not it for joyous court exchaunge,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Emongst thine equall peres, where happy blis", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all delight does raigne, much more then this?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There thou maist love, and dearly loved be,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And swim in pleasure, which thou here doest mis:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There maist thou best be seene, and best maist see:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The wood is fit for beasts, the court is fitt for thee.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Whoso in pompe of prowd estate” (quoth she)", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“Does swim, and bathes him selfe in courtly blis,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Does waste his dayes in darke obscuritee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in oblivion ever buried is;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where ease abownds yt’s eath to doe amis:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But who his limbs with labours, and his mynd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Behaves with cares, cannot so easy mis.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Abroad in armes, at home in studious kynd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who seekes with painfull toile shall honor soonest find:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“In woods, in waves, in warres, she wonts to dwell,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And wil be found with perill and with paine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne can the man that moulds in ydle cell", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto her happy mansion attaine:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Before her gate high God did Sweate ordaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And wakefull watches ever to abide;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But easy is the way and passage plaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To pleasures pallace: it may soone be spide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And day and night her dores to all stand open wide.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“In Princes court”⁠—The rest she would have sayd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But that the foolish man, fild with delight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or her sweete words that all his sence dismayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with her wondrous beauty ravisht quight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gan burne in filthy lust; and, leaping light,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thought in his bastard armes her to embrace.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With that she, swarving backe, her Javelin bright", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Against him bent, and fiercely did menace:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So turned her about, and fled away apace.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which when the Pesaunt saw, amazd he stood,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And grieved at her flight; yet durst he nott", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Pursew her steps through wild unknowen wood:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Besides he feard her wrath, and threatned shott,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whiles in the bush he lay, not yett forgott:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne car’d he greatly for her presence vayne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But turning said to Trompart; “What fowle blott", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Is this to knight, that Lady should agayne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Depart to woods untoucht, and leave so proud disdayne.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Perdy,” (said Trompart) “lett her pas at will,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Least by her presence daunger mote befall;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For who can tell (and sure I feare it ill)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But that shee is some powre celestiall?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For whiles she spake her great words did appall", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "My feeble corage, and my heart oppresse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That yet I quake and tremble over-all.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“And I,” (said Braggadocchio) “thought no lesse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When first I heard her horn sound with such ghastlinesse,", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“For from my mothers wombe this grace I have", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Me given by eternall destiny,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That earthly thing may not my corage brave", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Dismay with feare, or cause one foot to flye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But either hellish feends, or powres on hye:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which was the cause, when earst that horne I heard,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Weening it had beene thunder in the skye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I hid my selfe from it, as one affeard;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, when I other knew, my self I boldly reard.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“But now, for feare of worse that may betide,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Let us soone hence depart.” They soone agree:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So to his steed he gott, and gan to ride", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As one unfitt therefore, that all might see", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He had not trayned bene in chevalree.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which well that valiaunt courser did discerne;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For he despisd to tread in dew degree,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But chaufd and fom’d with corage fiers and sterne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to be easd of that base burden still did erne.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "In brave poursuitt of honorable deed,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "There is I know not (what) great difference", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Betweene the vulgar and the noble seed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which unto things of valorous pretence", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Seemes to be borne by native influence;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As feates of armes, and love to entertaine:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But chiefly skill to ride seemes a science", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Proper to gentle blood: some others faine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To menage steeds, as did this vaunter, but in vaine.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But he, the rightfull owner of that steede,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Who well could menage and subdew his pride,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The whiles on foot was forced for to yeed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With that blacke Palmer, his most trusty guide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who suffred not his wandring feete to slide;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But when strong passion, or weake fleshlinesse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Would from the right way seeke to draw him wide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He would, through temperaunce and stedfastnesse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Teach him the weak to strengthen, and the strong suppresse.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "It fortuned, forth faring on his way,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He saw from far, or seemed for to see,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some troublous uprore or contentious fray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereto he drew in hast it to agree.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A mad man, or that feigned mad to bee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Drew by the heare along upon the grownd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A handsom stripling with great crueltee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom sore he bett, and gor’d with many a wownd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That cheekes with teares, and sydes with blood, did all abownd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And him behynd a wicked Hag did stalke,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In ragged robes and filthy disaray;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her other leg was lame, that she no’te walke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But on a staffe her feeble steps did stay:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her lockes, that loathly were and hoarie gray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Grew all afore, and loosely hong unrold;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Bat all behinde was bald, and worne away,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That none thereof could ever taken hold;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke her face ill-favourd, full of wrinckles old.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And ever as she went her toung did walke", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In fowle reproch, and termes of vile despight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Provoking him, by her outrageous talke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To heape more vengeance on that wretched wight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sometimes she raught him stones, wherwith to smite,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sometimes her staffe, though it her one leg were,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Withouten which she could not goe upright;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne any evill meanes she did forbeare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That might him move to wrath, and indignation reare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The noble Guyon, mov’d with great remorse,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Approching, first the Hag did thrust away;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And after, adding more impetuous forse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His mighty hands did on the madman lay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And pluckt him backe; who, all on fire streight way,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Against him turning all his fell intent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With beastly brutish rage gan him assay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And smott, and bitt, and kickt, and scratcht, and rent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And did he wist not what in his avengement.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And sure he was a man of mickle might,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Had he had governaunce it well to guyde;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, when the frantick fitt inflamd his spright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His force was vaine, and strooke more often wyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then at the aymed marke which he had eyde:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And oft himselfe he chaunst to hurt unwares,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whylest reason, blent through passion, nought descryde;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, as a blindfold Bull, at randon fares,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And where he hits nought knowes, and whom he hurts nought cares.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "His rude assault and rugged handeling", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Straunge seemed to the knight, that aye with foe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In fayre defence and goodly menaging", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of armes was wont to fight; yet nathemoe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was he abashed now, not fighting so;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But more enfierced through his currish play,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him sternly grypt, and hailing to and fro,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To overthrow him strongly did assay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But overthrew himselfe unwares, and lower lay:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And being downe the villein sore did beate", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And bruze with clownish fistes his manly face;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke the Hag, with many a bitter threat,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Still cal’d upon to kill him in the place.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With whose reproch, and odious menace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The knight emboyling in his haughtie hart", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Knitt all his forces, and gan soone unbrace", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His grasping hold: so lightly did upstart,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And drew his deadly weapon to maintaine his part.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which when the Palmer saw, he loudly cryde,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“Not so, O Guyon! never thinke that so", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That Monster can be maistred or destroyd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He is not, ah! he is not such a foe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As steele can wound, or strength can overthroe.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That same is Furor, cursed cruel wight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That unto knighthood workes much shame and woe;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And that same Hag, his aged mother, hight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Occasion; the roote of all wrath and despight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“With her, whoso will raging Furor tame,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Must first begin, and well her amenage:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "First her restraine from her reprochfull blame", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And evill meanes, with which she doth enrage", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her frantick sonne, and kindles his corage;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then, when she is withdrawne or strong withstood,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It’s eath his ydle fury to aswage,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And calme the tempest of his passion wood:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The bankes are overflowne when stopped is the flood.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Therewith Sir Guyon left his first emprise,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And, turning to that woman, fast her hent", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By the hoare lockes that hong before her eyes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to the ground her threw: yet n’ould she stent", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her bitter rayling and foule revilement,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But still provokt her sonne to wreake her wrong;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But nathelesse he did her still torment,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, catching hold of her ungratious tonge", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thereon an yron lock did fasten firme and strong.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then, whenas use of speach was from her reft,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With her two crooked handes she signes did make,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And beckned him, the last help she had left;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But he that last left helpe away did take,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And both her handes fast bound unto a stake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That she note stirre. Then gan her sonne to flye", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Full fast away, and did her quite forsake;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Guyon after him in hast did hye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And soone him overtooke in sad perplexitye.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "In his strong armes he stifly him embraste,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Who him gainstriving nought at all prevaild;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For all his power was utterly defaste,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And furious fitts at earst quite weren quaild:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Oft he re’nforst, and oft his forces fayld,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet yield he would not, nor his rancor slack.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then him to ground he cast, and rudely hayld,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And both his hands fast bound behind his backe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And both his feet in fetters to an yron racke.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "With hundred yron chaines he did him bind,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And hundred knots, that did him sore constraine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet his great yron teeth he still did grind", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And grimly gnash, threatning revenge in vaine:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His burning eyen, whom bloody strakes did staine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Stared full wide, and threw forth sparkes of fyre;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And more for ranck despight then for great paine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shakt his long locks colourd like copper-wyre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And bitt his tawny beard to shew his raging yre.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thus when as Guyon Furor had captivd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Turning about he saw that wretched Squyre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom that mad man of life nigh late deprivd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Lying on ground, all soild with blood and myre:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom whenas he perceived to respyre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He gan to comfort, and his woundes to dresse.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Being at last recured, he gan inquyre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What hard mishap him brought to such distresse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And made that caytives thrall, the thrall of wretchednesse.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "With hart then throbbing, and with watry eyes,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“Fayre Sir” (quoth he) “what man can shun the hap,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That hidden lyes unwares him to surpryse?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Misfortune waites advantage to entrap", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The man most wary in her whelming lap:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So me weake wretch, of many weakest one,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unweeting and unware of such mishap,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She brought to mischiefe through Occasion,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where this same wicked villein did me light upon.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“It was a faithlesse Squire, that was the sourse", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of all my sorrow and of these sad teares,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With whom from tender dug of commune nourse", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Attonce I was upbrought; and eft, when yeares", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "More rype us reason lent to chose our Peares,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Our selves in league of vowed love wee knitt;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In which we long time, without gealous feares", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or faultie thoughts, contynewd as was fitt;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And for my part, I vow, dissembled not a whitt.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“It was my fortune, commune to that age,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To love a Lady fayre of great degree,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which was borne of noble parentage,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And set in highest seat of dignitee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet seemd no lesse to love then lov’d to bee:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Long I her serv’d, and found her faithfull still,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ever thing could cause us disagree.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Love, that two harts makes one, makes eke one will;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Each strove to please, and others pleasure to fulfill.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“My friend, hight Philemon, I did partake", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of all my love and all my privitie;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who greatly joyous seemed for my sake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And gratious to that Lady as to mee;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ever wight that mote so welcome bee", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As he to her, withouten blott or blame;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ever thing that she could think or see,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But unto him she would impart the same.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "O wretched man, that would abuse so gentle Dame!", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“At last such grace I found, and meanes I wrought,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That I that Lady to my spouse had wonne;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Accord of friendes, consent of Parents sought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Affyaunce made, my happinesse begonne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There wanted nought but few rites to be donne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which mariage make: that day too farre did seeme.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Most joyous man, on whom the shining Sunne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did shew his face, my selfe I did esteeme,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And that my falser friend did no less joyous deeme.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“But ear that wished day his beame disclosd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He, either envying my toward good,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or of him selfe to treason ill disposd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "One day unto me came in friendly mood,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And told for secret, how he understood", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That Lady, whom I had to me assynd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had both distaind her honorable blood,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke the faith which she to me did bynd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And therefore wisht me stay till I more truth should fynd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“The gnawing anguish, and sharp gelosy,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which his sad speach infixed in my brest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ranckled so sore, and festred inwardly,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That my engreeved mind could find no rest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till that the truth thereof I did out wrest;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And him besought, by that same sacred band", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Betwixt us both, to counsell me the best:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He then with solemne oath and plighted hand", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Assurd, ere long the truth to let me understand.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Ere long with like againe he boorded mee,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Saying, he now had boulted all the floure,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And that it was a groome of base degree,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which of my love was partener Paramoure:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who used in a darkesome inner bowre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her oft to meete: which better to approve,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He promised to bring me at that howre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When I should see that would me nearer move,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And drive me to withdraw my blind abused love.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“This gracelesse man, for furtherance of his guile,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Did court the handmayd of my Lady deare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who, glad t’embosome his affection vile,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did all she might more pleasing to appeare.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "One day, to worke her to his will more neare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He woo’d her thus: Pryene, (so she hight,)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What great despight doth fortune to thee beare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thus lowly to abase thy beautie bright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That it should not deface all others lesser light?", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“But if she had her least helpe to thee lent,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "T’adorne thy forme according thy desart,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their blazing pride thou wouldest soone have blent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And staynd their prayses with thy least good part;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne should faire Claribell with all her art,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tho’she thy Lady be, approch thee neare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For proofe thereof, this evening, as thou art,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Aray thyselfe in her most gorgeous geare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That I may more delight in thy embracement deare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“The Mayden, proud through praise and mad through love,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Him hearkned to, and soone herselfe aray’d,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The whiles to me the treachour did remove", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His craftie engin; and, as he had sayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Me leading, in a secret corner layd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The sad spectatour of my Tragedie:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where left, he went, and his owne false part playd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Disguised like that groome of base degree,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom he had feignd th’abuser of my love to bee.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Eftsoones he came unto th’appointed place,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And with him brought Pryene, rich arayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In Claribellaes clothes. Her proper face", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I not descerned in that darkesome shade,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But weend it was my love with whom he playd.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ah God! what horrour and tormenting griefe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "My hart, my handes, mine eies, and all assayd!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Me liefer were ten thousand deathes priefe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then wounde of gealous worme, and shame of such repriefe.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“I home retourning, fraught with fowle despight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And chawing vengeaunce all the way I went,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Soone as my loathed love appeard in sight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With wrathfull hand I slew her innocent.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That after soone I dearely did lament;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For, when the cause of that outrageous deede", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Demaunded, I made plaine and evident,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her faultie Handmayd, which that bale did breede,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Confest how Philemon her wrought to chaunge her weede.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Which when I heard, with horrible affright", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And hellish fury all enragd, I sought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon myselfe that vengeable despight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To punish: yet it better first I thought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To wreake my wrath on him that first it wrought:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To Philemon, false faytour Philemon,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I cast to pay that I so dearely bought.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of deadly drugs I gave him drink anon,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And washt away his guilt with guilty potion.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Thus heaping crime on crime, and griefe on griefe,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To losse of love adjoyning losse of frend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I meant to purge both with a third mischiefe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in my woes beginner it to end:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That was Pryene; she did first offend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She last should smart: with which cruell intent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When I at her my murdrous blade did bend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She fled away with ghastly dreriment,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And I, poursewing my fell purpose, after went.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Feare gave her winges, and rage enforst my flight;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Through woods and plaines so long I did her chace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till this mad man, whom your victorious might", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Hath now fast bound, me met in middle space.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As I her, so he me poursewd apace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And shortly overtooke: I, breathing yre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sore chauffed at my stay in such a cace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with my heat kindled his cruell fyre;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which kindled once, his mother did more rage inspyre.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Betwixt them both they have me doen to dye,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Through wounds, and strokes, and stubborne handeling,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That death were better then such agony", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As griefe and fury unto me did bring;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of which in me yet stickes the mortall sting,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That during life will never be appeasd!”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When he thus ended had his sorrowing,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Said Guyon; “Squyre, sore have ye beene diseasd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But all your hurts may soone through temperance be easd.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then gan the Palmer thus; “Most wretched man,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That to affections does the bridle lend!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In their beginning they are weake and wan,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But soone through suff’rance growe to fearefull end:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whiles they are weake, betimes with them contend;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For, when they once to perfect strength do grow,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Strong warres they make, and cruell battry bend", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gainst fort of Reason, it to overthrow:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Wrath, gelosy, griefe, love, this Squyre have laide thus low.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Wrath, gealosie, griefe, love, do thus expell:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Wrath is a fire; and gealosie a weede;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Griefe is a flood; and love a monster fell;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The fire of sparkes, the weede of little seede,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The flood of drops, the Monster filth did breede:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But sparks, seed, drops, and filth, do thus delay;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The sparks soone quench, the springing seed outweed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The drops dry up, and filth wipe cleane away:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So shall wrath, gealosy, griefe, love, die and decay.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Unlucky Squire,” (saide Guyon) “sith thou hast", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Falne into mischiefe through intemperaunce,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Henceforth take heede of that thou now hast past,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And guyde thy waies with warie governaunce,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Least worse betide thee by some later chaunce.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But read how art thou nam’d, and of what kin?”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Phaon I hight,” (quoth he) “and do advaunce", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Mine auncestry from famous Coradin,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who first to rayse our house to honour did begin.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thus as he spake, lo! far away they spyde", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A varlet ronning towardes hastily,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose flying feet so fast their way applyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That round about a cloud of dust did fly,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which, mingled all with sweate, did dim his eye.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He soone approched, panting, breathlesse, whot,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all so soyld that none could him descry:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His countenaunce was bold, and bashed not", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For Guyons lookes, but scornefull eyeglaunce at him shot.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Behind his backe he bore a brasen shield,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "On which was drawen faire, in colours fit,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A flaming fire in midst of bloody field,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And round about the wreath this word was writ,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Burnt I doe burne. Right well beseemed it", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To be the shield of some redoubted knight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in his hand two dartes, exceeding flit", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And deadly sharp, he held, whose heads were dight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In poyson and in blood of malice and despight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "When he in presence came, to Guyon first", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He boldly spake; “Sir knight, if knight thou bee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Abandon this forestalled place at erst,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For feare of further harme, I counsell thee;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or bide the chaunce at thine own jeopardee.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The knight at his great boldnesse wondered;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, though he scornd his ydle vanitee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet mildly him to purpose answered;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For not to grow of nought he it conjectured.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Varlet, this place most dew to me I deeme,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Yielded by him that held it forcibly:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But whence should come that harme, which thou dost seeme", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To threat to him that mindes his chaunce t’abye?”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Perdy,” (sayd he) “here comes, and is hard by,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A knight of wondrous powre and great assay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That never yet encountred enemy", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But did him deadly daunt, or fowle dismay;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne thou for better hope, if thou his presence stay.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“How hight he then,” (sayd Guyon) “and from whence?”", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“Pyrochles is his name, renowmed farre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For his bold feates and hardy confidence,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Full oft approvd in many a cruell warre;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The brother of Cymochles, both which arre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The sonnes of old Acrates and Despight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Acrates, sonne of Phlegeton and Jarre;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Phlegeton is sonne of Herebus and Night;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Herebus sonne of Aeternitie is hight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“So from immortall race he does proceede,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That mortall hands may not withstand his might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Drad for his derring doe and bloody deed;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For all in blood and spoile is his delight.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His am I Atin, his in wrong and right,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That matter make for him to worke upon,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And stirre him up to strife and cruell fight.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fly therefore, fly this fearefull stead anon,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Least thy foolhardize worke thy sad confusion.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“His be that care, whom most it doth concerne,”", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "(Sayd he) “but whither with such hasty flight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Art thou now bownd? for well mote I discerne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Great cause, that carries thee so swifte and light.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“My Lord,” (quoth he) “me sent, and streight behight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To seeke Occasion, where so she bee:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For he is all disposd to bloody fight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And breathes out wrath and hainous crueltee:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Hard is his hap that first fals in his jeopardee.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Mad man,” (said then the Palmer) “that does seeke", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Occasion to wrath, and cause of strife:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shee comes unsought, and shonned followes eke.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Happy! who can abstaine, when Rancor rife", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Kindles Revenge, and threats his rusty knife.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Woe never wants where every cause is caught;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And rash Occasion makes unquiet life!”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Then loe! wher bound she sits, whom thou hast sought,”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Said Guyon: “let that message to thy Lord be brought.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "That when the varlett heard and saw, streight way", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He wexed wondrous wroth, and said; “Vile knight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That knights and knighthood doest with shame upbray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And shewst th’ensample of thy childishe might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With silly weake old woman that did fight!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Great glory and gay spoile, sure hast thou gott,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And stoutly prov’d thy puissance here in sight.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That shall Pyrochles well requite, I wott,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with thy blood abolish so reprochfull blott.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "With that one of his thrillant darts he threw,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Headed with yre, and vengeable despight.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The quivering steele his aymed end wel knew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to his brest it selfe intended right.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But he was wary, and, ere it empight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In the meant marke, advaunst his shield atweene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On which it seizing no way enter might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But backe rebownding left the forckhead keene:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Eftsoones he fled away, and might no where be seene.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Who ever doth to temperaunce apply", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His stedfast life, and all his actions frame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Trust me, shal find no greater enimy", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then stubborne perturbation to the same.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To which right wel the wise doe give that name,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For it the goodly peace of staied mindes", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Does overthrow, and troublous warre proclame:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His owne woes author, who so bound it findes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As did Pyrochles, and it wilfully unbindes.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "After that varlets flight, it was not long", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ere on the plaine fast pricking Guyon spide", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "One in bright armes embatteiled full strong,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That, as the Sunny beames do glaunce and glide", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon the trembling wave, so shined bright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And round about him threw forth sparkling fire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That seemd him to enflame on every side:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His steed was bloody red, and fomed yre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When with the maistring spur he did him roughly stire.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Approching nigh, he never staid to greete,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ne chaffar words, prowd corage to provoke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But prickt so fiers, that underneath his feete", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The smouldring dust did rownd about him smoke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both horse and man nigh able for to choke;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And fayrly couching his steeleheaded speare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him first saluted with a sturdy stroke:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It booted nought Sir Guyon, comming neare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To thincke such hideous puissaunce on foot to beare;", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But lightly shunned it; and, passing by,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With his bright blade did smite at him so fell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That the sharpe steele, arriving forcibly", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On his broad shield, bitt not, but glauncing fell", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On his horse necke before the quilted sell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And from the head the body sundred quight.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So him dismounted low he did compell", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On foot with him to matchen equall fight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The truncked beast fast bleeding did him fowly dight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Sore bruzed with the fall he slow uprose,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And all enraged thus him loudly shent;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Disleall Knight, whose coward corage chose", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To wreake it selfe on beast all innocent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And shund the marke at which it should be ment;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therby thine armes seem strong, but manhood frayl:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So hast thou oft with guile thine honor blent;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But litle may such guile thee now avayl,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "If wonted force and fortune doe me not much fayl.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "With that he drew his flaming sword, and strooke", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "At him so fiercely, that the upper marge", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of his sevenfolded shield away it tooke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, glauncing on his helmet, made a large", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And open gash therein: were not his targe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That broke the violence of his intent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The weary sowle from thence it would discharge;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nathelesse so sore a buff to him it lent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That made him reele, and to his brest his bever bent.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Exceeding wroth was Guyon at that blow,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And much asham’d that stroke of living arme", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Should him dismay, and make him stoup so low,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Though otherwise it did him litle harme:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tho, hurling high his yron braced arme,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He smote so manly on his shoulder plate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all his left side it did quite disarme;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet there the steel stayd not, but inly bate", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Deepe in his flesh, and opened wide a red floodgate.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Deadly dismayd with horror of that dint", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Pyrochles was, and grieved eke entyre;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet nathemore did it his fury stint,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But added flame unto his former fire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That wel nigh molt his hart in raging yre:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne thenceforth his approved skill, to ward,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or strike, or hurtle rownd in warlike gyre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Remembred he, ne car’d for his saufgard,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But rudely rag’d, and like a cruell tygre far’d.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He hewd, and lasht, and foynd, and thondred blowes,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And every way did seeke into his life;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne plate, ne male, could ward so mighty throwes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But yeilded passage to his cruell knife.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Guyon, in the heat of all his strife,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was wary wise, and closely did awayt", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Avauntage, whilest his foe did rage most rife:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sometimes athwart, sometimes he strook him strayt,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And falsed oft his blowes t’illude him with such bayt.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Like as a Lyon, whose imperiall powre", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A prowd rebellious Unicorn defyes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "T’avoide the rash assault and wrathful stowre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of his fiers foe, him to a tree applyes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And when him ronning in full course he spyes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He slips aside; the whiles that furious beast", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His precious home, sought of his enimyes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Strikes in the stocke, ne thence can be releast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But to the mighty victor yields a bounteous feast.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "With such faire sleight him Guyon often fayld,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Till at the last all breathlesse, weary, faint,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him spying, with fresh onsett he assayld,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And kindling new his corage seeming queint,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Strooke him so hugely, that through great constraint", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He made him stoup perforce unto his knee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And doe unwilling worship to the Saint,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That on his shield depainted he did see:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Such homage till that instant never learned hee.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whom Guyon seeing stoup, poursewed fast", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The present offer of faire victory,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And soone his dreadfull blade about he cast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Wherewith he smote his haughty crest so hye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That streight on grownd made him full low to lye;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then on his brest his victor foote he thrust:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With that he cryde; “Mercy! doe me not dye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne deeme thy force by fortunes doome unjust,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That hath (maugre her spight) thus low me laid in dust.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Eftsoones his cruel hand Sir Guyon stayd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Tempring the passion with advizement slow,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And maistring might on enimy dismayd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For th’equall die of warre he well did know:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then to him said; “Live, and alleagaunce owe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To him that gives thee life and liberty;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And henceforth by this daies ensample trow,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That hasty wroth, and heedlesse hazardry,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Doe breede repentaunce late, and lasting infamy.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So up he let him rise; who, with grim looke", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And count’naunce sterne, upstanding, gan to grind", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His grated teeth for great disdeigne, and shooke", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His sandy lockes, long hanging downe behind,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Knotted in blood and dust, for grief of mind", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That he in ods of armes was conquered:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet in himselfe some comfort he did find,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That him so noble knight had maystered;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose bounty more then might, yet both, he wondered.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which Guyon marking said; “Be nought agriev’d,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Sir knight, that thus ye now subdewed arre:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was never man, who most conquestes atchiev’d,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But sometimes had the worse, and lost by warre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet shortly gaynd that losse exceeded farre.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Losse is no shame, nor to bee lesse then foe;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But to bee lesser then himselfe doth marre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both loosers lot, and victours prayse alsoe:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Vaine others ovcrthrowes who selfe doth overthrow.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Fly, O Pyrochles! fly the dreadfull warre", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That in thy selfe thy lesser partes do move;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Outrageous anger, and woe-working jarre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Direfull impatience, and hart-murdring love:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Those, those thy foes, those warriours far remove,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which thee to endlesse bale captived lead.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But sith in might thou didst my mercy prove,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of courtesie to mee the cause aread", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That thee against me drew with so impetuous dread.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Dreadlesse,” (said he) “that shall I soone declare.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "It was complaind that thou hadst done great tort", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto an aged woman, poore and bare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And thralled her in chaines with strong effort,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Voide of all succour and needfull comfort;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That ill beseemes thee, such as I thee see,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To worke such shame. Therefore, I thee exhort", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To chaunge thy will, and set Occasion free,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to her captive sonne yield his first libertee.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thereat Sir Guyon smylde; “And is that all,”", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "(Said he) “that thee so sore displeased hath?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Great mercy, sure, for to enlarge a thrall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose freedom shall thee turne to greatest scath!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nath’lesse now quench thy whott emboyling wrath:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Loe! there they bee; to thee I yield them free.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thereat he, wondrous glad, out of the path", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did lightly leape, where he them bound did see,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And gan to breake the bands of their captivitee.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Soone as Occasion felt her selfe untyde,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Before her sonne could well assoyled bee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She to her use returnd, and streight defyde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both Guyon and Pyrochles; th’one (said shee)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Bycause he wonne; the other, because hee", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was wonne. So matter did she make of nought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To stirre up strife, and garre them disagree:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, soone as Furor was enlargd, she sought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To kindle his quencht fyre, and thousand causes wrought.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "It was not long ere she inflam’d him so,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That he would algates with Pyrochles fight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And his redeemer chalengd for his foe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Because he had not well mainteind his right,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But yielded had to that same straunger knight.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now gan Pyrochles wex as wood as hee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And him affronted with impatient might:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So both together fiers engrasped bee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whyles Guyon standing by their uncouth strife does see.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Him all that while Occasion did provoke", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Against Pyrochles, and new matter fram’d", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon the old, him stirring to bee wroke", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of his late wronges, in which she oft him blam’d", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For suffering such abuse as knighthood sham’d,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And him dishabled quyte. But he was wise,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne would with vaine occasions be inflam’d;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet others she more urgent did devise;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet nothing could him to impatience entise.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Their fell contention still increased more,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And more thereby increased Furors might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That he his foe has hurt and wounded sore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And him in blood and durt deformed quight.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His mother eke, more to augment his spight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now brought to him a flaming fyer brond,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which she in Stygian lake, ay burning bright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had kindled: that she gave into his hond,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That armd with fire more hardly he mote him withstond.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Tho gan that villein wex so fiers and strong,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That nothing might sustaine his furious forse:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He cast him downe to ground, and all along", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Drew him through durt and myre without remorse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And fowly battered his comely corse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That Guyon much disdeigned so loathly sight.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At last he was compeld to cry perforse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Help, O Sir Guyon! helpe, most noble knight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To ridd a wretched man from handes of hellish wight!”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The knight was greatly moved at his playnt,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And gan him dight to succour his distresse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till that the Palmer, by his grave restraynt,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him stayd from yielding pitifull redresse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And said; “Deare sonne, thy causelesse ruth represse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne let thy stout hart melt in pitty vayne:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He that his sorrow sought through wilfulnesse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And his foe fettred would release agayne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Deserves to taste his follies fruit, repented payne.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Guyon obayd: So him away he drew", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "From needlesse trouble of renewing fight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Already fought, his voyage to poursew.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But rash Pyrochles varlett, Atin hight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When late he saw his Lord in heavie plight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Under Sir Guyons puissaunt stroke to fall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him deeming dead, as then he seemd in sight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fledd fast away to tell his funerall", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto his brother, whom Cymochles men did call.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He was a man of rare redoubted might,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Famous throughout the world for warlike prayse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And glorious spoiles, purchast in perilous fight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Full many doughtie knightes he in his dayes", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had doen to death, subdewde in equall frayes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose carkases, for terrour of his name,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of fowles and beastes he made the piteous prayes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And hong their conquerd armes, for more defame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On gallow trees, in honour of his dearest Dame.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "His dearest Dame is that Enchaunteresse,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The vyle Acrasia, that with vaine delightes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And ydle pleasures in her Bowre of Blisse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Does charme her lovers, and the feeble sprightes", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Can call out of the bodies of fraile wightes;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom then she does transforme to monstrous hewes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And horribly misshapes with ugly sightes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Captiv’d eternally in yron mewes", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And darksom dens, where Titan his face never shewes.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "There Atin fownd Cymochles sojourning,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To serve his Lemans love: for he by kynd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was given all to lust and loose living,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When ever his fiers handes he free mote fynd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And now he has pourd out his ydle mynd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In daintie delices, and lavish joyes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Having his warlike weapons cast behynd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And flowes in pleasures and vaine pleasing toyes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Mingled emongst loose Ladies and lascivious boyes.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And over him art, stryving to compayre", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With nature, did an Arber greene dispred,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Framed of wanton Yvie, flouring fayre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through which the fragrant Eglantine did spred", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His prickling armes, entrayld with roses red,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which daintie odours round about them threw:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all within with flowres was garnished,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That, when myld Zephyrus emongst them blew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did breath out bounteous smels, and painted colors shew.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And fast beside there trickled softly downe", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A gentle streame, whose murmuring wave did play", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Emongst the puny stones, and made a sowne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To lull him soft asleepe that by it lay:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The wearie Traveiler, wandring that way,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therein did often quench his thristy heat,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And then by it his wearie limbes display,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whiles creeping slomber made him to forget", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His former payne, and wypt away his toilsom sweat.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And on the other syde a pleasaunt grove", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Was shott up high, full of the stately tree", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That dedicated is t’Olympick Jove,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to his sonne Alcides, whenas hee", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In Nemus gayned goodly victoree:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therein the mery birdes of every sorte", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Chaunted alowd their chearefull harmonee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And made emongst them selves a sweete consort,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That quickned the dull spright with musicall comfort.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "There he him found all carelesly displaid,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In secrete shadow from the sunny ray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On a sweet bed of lillies softly laid,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Amidst a flock of Damzelles fresh and gay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That rownd about him dissolute did play", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their wanton follies and light meriments:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Every of which did loosely disaray", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her upper partes of meet habiliments,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And shewd them naked, deckt with many ornaments.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And every of them strove with most delights", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Him to aggrate, and greatest pleasures shew:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some framd faire lookes, glancing like evening lights;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Others sweet wordes, dropping like honny dew;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some bathed kisses, and did soft embrew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The sugred licour through his melting lips:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "One boastes her beautie, and does yield to vew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her dainty limbes above her tender hips;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Another her out boastes, and all for tryall strips.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He, like an Adder lurking in the weedes,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His wandring thought in deepe desire does steepe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And his frayle eye with spoyle of beauty feedes:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sometimes he falsely faines himselfe to sleepe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whiles through their lids his wanton eies do peepe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To steale a snatch of amorous conceipt,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereby close fire into his heart does creepe:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So he them deceives, deceivd in his deceipt,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Made dronke with drugs of deare voluptuous receipt.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Atin, arriving there, when him he spyde", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Thus in still waves of deepe delight to wade,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fiercely approching to him lowdly cryde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Cymochles; oh! no, but Cymochles shade,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In which that manly person late did fade.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What is become of great Acrates sonne?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or where hath he hong up his mortall blade,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That hath so many haughty conquests wonne?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Is all his force forlorne, and all his glory donne?”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then, pricking him with his sharp-pointed dart,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He saide; “Up, up! thou womanish weake knight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That here in Ladies lap entombed art,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unmindfull of thy praise and prowest might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And weetlesse eke of lately wrought despight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whiles sad Pyrochles lies on sencelesse ground,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And groneth out his utmost grudging spright", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through many a stroke and many a streaming wound,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Calling thy help in vaine that here in joyes art dround.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Suddeinly out of his delightfull dreame", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The man awoke, and would have questiond more;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But he would not endure that wofull theame", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For to dilate at large, but urged sore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With percing wordes and pittifull implore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him hasty to arise. As one affright", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With hellish feends, or Furies made uprore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He then uprose, inflamd with fell despight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And called for his armes, for he would algates fight:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "They bene ybrought; he quickly does him dight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And lightly mounted passeth on his way;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne Ladies loves, ne sweete entreaties, might", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Appease his heat, or hastie passage stay;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For he has vowd to beene avengd that day", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "(That day it selfe him seemed all too long)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On him, that did Pyrochles deare dismay:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So proudly pricketh on his courser strong,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Atin ay him pricks with spurs of shame and wrong.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "A harder lesson to learne Continence", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In joyous pleasure then in grievous paine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For sweetnesse doth allure the weaker sence", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So strongly, that uneathes it can refraine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From that which feeble nature covets faine:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But griefe and wrath, that be her enemies", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And foes of life, she better can abstaine:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet vertue vauntes in both her victories,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Guyon in them all shewes goodly maysteries.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whom bold Cymochles traveiling to finde,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With cruell purpose bent to wreake on him", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The wrath which Atin kindled in his mind,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Came to a river, by whose utmost brim", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Wayting to passe, he saw whereas did swim", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Along the shore, as swift as glaunce of eye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A litle Gondelay, bedecked trim", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With boughes and arbours woven cunningly,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That like a litle forrest seemed outwardly.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And therein sate a Lady fresh and fayre,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Making sweet solace to herselfe alone:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sometimes she song as lowd as larke in ayre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sometimes she laught, as merry as Pope Jone;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet was there not with her else any one,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That to her might move cause of meriment:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Matter of merth enough, though there were none,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She could devise; and thousand waies invent", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To feede her foolish humour and vaine jolliment.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which when far off Cymochles heard and saw,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He lowdly cald to such as were abord", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The little barke unto the shore to draw,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And him to ferry over that deepe ford.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The merry mariner unto his word", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Soone hearkned, and her painted bote streightway", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Turnd to the shore, where that same warlike Lord", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She in receiv’d; but Atin by no way", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She would admit, albe the knight her much did pray.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Eftsoones her shallow ship away did slide,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "More swift then swallow sheres the liquid skye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Withouten oare or Pilot it to guide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or winged canvas with the wind to fly:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Onely she turnd a pin, and by and by", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It cut away upon the yielding wave,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne cared she her course for to apply;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For it was taught the way which she would have,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And both from rocks and flats it selfe could wisely save.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And all the way the wanton Damsell found", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "New merth her passenger to entertaine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For she in pleasaunt purpose did abound,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And greatly joyed merry tales to faine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of which a store-house did with her remaine:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet seemed, nothing well they her became;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For all her wordes she drownd with laughter vaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And wanted grace in utt’ring of the same,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That turned all her pleasaunce to a scoffing game.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And other whiles vaine toyes she would devize,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As her fantasticke wit did most delight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sometimes her head she fondly would aguize", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With gaudy girlonds, or fresh flowrets dight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "About her necke, or rings of rushes plight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sometimes, to do him laugh, she would assay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To laugh at shaking of the leaves light,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or to behold the water worke and play", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "About her little frigot, therein making way.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Her light behaviour and loose dalliaunce", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Gave wondrous great contentment to the knight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That of his way he had no sovenaunce,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nor care of vow’d revenge and cruell fight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But to weake wench did yield his martiall might:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So easie was to quench his flamed minde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With one sweete drop of sensuall delight.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So easie is t’appease the stormy winde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of malice in the calme of pleasaunt womankind.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Diverse discourses in their way they spent;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Mongst which Cymochles of her questioned", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both what she was, and what that usage ment,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which in her cott she daily practized?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Vaine man,” (saide she) “that wouldest be reckoned", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A straunger in thy home, and ignoraunt", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of Phædria, (for so my name is red)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of Phædria, thine owne fellow servaunt;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For thou to serve Acrasia thy selfe doest vaunt.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“In this wide Inland sea, that hight by name", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The Idle lake, my wandring ship I row,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That knowes her port, and thither sayles by ayme,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne care, ne feare I how the wind do blow,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or whether swift I wend, or whether slow:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both slow and swift alike do serve my tourne;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne swelling Neptune ne lowd thundring Jove", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Can chaunge my cheare, or make me ever mourne:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "My little boat can safely passe this perilous bourne.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whiles thus she talked, and whiles thus she toyd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "They were far past the passage which he spake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And come unto an Island waste and voyd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That floted in the midst of that great lake;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There her small Gondelay her port did make,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And that gay payre, issewing on the shore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Disburdned her. Their way they forward take", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into the land that lay them faire before,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose pleasaunce she him shewd, and plentifull great store.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "It was a chosen plott of fertile land,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Emongst wide waves sett, like a litle nest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As if it had by Natures cunning hand", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Bene choycely picked out from all the rest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And laid forth for ensample of the best:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "No daintie flowre or herbe that growes on grownd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "No arborett with painted blossomes drest", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And smelling sweete, but there it might be fownd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To bud out faire, and throwe her sweete smels al arownd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "No tree whose braunches did not bravely spring;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "No braunch whereon a fine bird did not sitt;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "No bird but did her shrill notes sweetely sing;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "No song but did containe a lovely ditt.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Trees, braunches, birds, and songs, were framed fitt", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For to allure fraile mind to carelesse ease:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Carelesse the man soone woxe, and his weake witt", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was overcome of thing that did him please;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So pleased did his wrathfull purpose faire appease.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thus when shee had his eyes and sences fed", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With false delights, and fild with pleasures vayn,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into a shady dale she soft him led,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And layd him downe upon a grassy playn;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And her sweete selfe without dread or disdayn", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She sett beside, laying his head disarmd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In her loose lap, it softly to sustayn,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where soone he slumbred fearing not be harmd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The whiles with a love lay she thus him sweetly charmd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Behold, O man! that toilesome paines doest take,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The flowrs, the fields, and all that pleasaunt growes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "How they them selves doe thine ensample make,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whiles nothing envious nature them forth throwes", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Out of her fruitfull lap; how no man knowes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They spring, they bud, they blossome fresh and faire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And decke the world with their rich pompous showes;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet no man for them taketh paines or care,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet no man to them can his carefull paines compare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“The lilly, Lady of the flowring field,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The flowre-deluce, her lovely Paramoure,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Bid thee to them thy fruitlesse labors yield,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And soone leave off this toylsome weary stoure:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Loe, loe! how brave she decks her bounteous boure,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With silkin curtens and gold coverletts,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therein to shrowd her sumptuous Belamoure;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet nether spinnes nor cards, ne cares nor fretts,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But to her mother Nature all her care she letts.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Why then doest thou, O man! that of them all", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Art Lord, and eke of nature Soveraine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Wilfully make thyselfe a wretched thrall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And waste thy joyous howres in needelesse paine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Seeking for daunger and adventures vaine?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What bootes it al to have, and nothing use?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who shall him rew that swimming in the maine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Will die for thrist, and water doth refuse?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Refuse such fruitlesse toile, and present pleasures chuse.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "By this she had him lulled fast asleepe,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That of no worldly thing he care did take:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then she with liquors strong his eies did steepe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That nothing should him hastily awake.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So she him lefte, and did her selfe betake", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto her boat again, with which she clefte", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The slouthfull wave of that great griesy lake:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Soone shee that Island far behind her lefte,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And now is come to that same place where first she wefte.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "By this time was the worthy Guyon brought", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Unto the other side of that wide strond", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where she was rowing, and for passage sought.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him needed not long call; shee soone to hond", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her ferry brought, where him she byding fond", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With his sad guide: him selfe she tooke aboord,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But the Blacke Palmer suffred still to stond,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne would for price or prayers once affoord", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To ferry that old man over the perlous foord.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Guyon was loath to leave his guide behind,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Yet being entred might not backe retyre;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For the flitt barke, obaying to her mind,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Forth launched quickly as she did desire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne gave him leave to bid that aged sire", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Adieu; but nimbly ran her wonted course", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through the dull billowes thicke as troubled mire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom nether wind out of their seat could forse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nor timely tides did drive out of their sluggish sourse.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And by the way, as was her wonted guize,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Her mery fitt shee freshly gan to reare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And did of joy and jollity devize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her selfe to cherish, and her guest to cheare.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The knight was courteous, and did not forbeare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her honest merth and pleasaunce to partake;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But when he saw her toy, and gibe, and geare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And passe the bonds of modest merimake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her dalliaunce he despis’d, and follies did forsake.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Yet she still followed her former style,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And said and did all that mote him delight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till they arrived in that pleasaunt Ile,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where sleeping late she lefte her other knight.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But whenas Guyon of that land had sight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He wist him selfe amisse, and angry said;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Ah, Dame! perdy ye have not doen me right,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thus to mislead mee, whiles I you obaid:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Me litle needed from my right way to have straid.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Faire Sir,” (quoth she) “be not displeasd at all.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Who fares on sea may not commaund his way,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne wind and weather at his pleasure call:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The sea is wide, and easy for to stray;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The wind unstable, and doth never stay.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But here a while ye may in safety rest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till season serve new passage to assay:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Better safe port then be in seas distrest.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therewith she laught, and did her earnest end in jest,", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But he, halfe discontent, mote nathelesse", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Himselfe appease, and issewd forth on shore;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The joyes whereof and happy fruitfulnesse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Such as he saw she gan him lay before,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all, though pleasaunt, yet she made much more:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The fields did laugh, the flowres did freshly spring,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The trees did bud, and early blossomes bore;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all the quire of birds did sweetly sing,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And told that gardins pleasures in their caroling.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And she, more sweete then any bird on bough,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Would oftentimes emongst them beare a part,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And strive to passe (as she could well enough)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their native musicke by her skilful art:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So did she all that might his constant hart", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Withdraw from thought of warlike enterprize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And drowne in dissolute delights apart,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where noise of armes, or vew of martiall guize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Might not revive desire of knightly exercize.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But he was wise, and wary of her will,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And ever held his hand upon his hart;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet would not seeme so rude, and thewed ill,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As to despise so curteous seeming part", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That gentle Lady did to him impart:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, fairly tempring, fond desire subdewd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And ever her desired to depart.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She list not heare, but her disports poursewd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And ever bad him stay till time the tide renewd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And now by this Cymochles howre was spent,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That he awoke out of his ydle dreme;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, shaking off his drowsy dreriment,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gan him avize, howe ill did him beseme", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In slouthfull sleepe his molten hart to steme,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And quench the brond of his conceived yre:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tho up he started, stird with shame extreme,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne staied for his Damsell to inquire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But marched to the Strond there passage to require.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And in the way he with Sir Guyon mett,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Accompanyde with Phædria the faire:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Eftsoones he gan to rage, and inly frett,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Crying; “Let be that Lady debonaire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thou recreaunt knight, and soone thyselfe prepaire", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To batteile, if thou meane her love to gayn.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Loe, loe! already how the fowles in aire", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Doe flocke, awaiting shortly to obtayn", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thy carcas for their pray, the guerdon of thy payn.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And therewithall he fiersly at him flew,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And with importune outrage him assayld;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who, soone prepard to field, his sword forth drew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And him with equall valew countervayld:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their mightie strokes their haberjeons dismayld,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And naked made each others manly spalles;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The mortall steele despiteously entayld", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Deepe in their flesh, quite through the yron walles,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That a large purple streame adowne their giambeux falles.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Cymochles, that had never mett before", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "So puissant foe, with envious despight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His prowd presumed force increased more,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Disdeigning to bee held so long in fight.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sir Guyon, grudging not so much his might", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As those unknightly raylinges which he spoke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With wrathfull fire his corage kindled bright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thereof devising shortly to be wroke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And doubling all his powres redoubled every stroke.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Both of them high attonce their handes enhaunst,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And both attonce their huge blowes down did sway.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Cymochles sword on Guyons shield yglaunst,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And thereof nigh one quarter sheard away;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Guyons angry blade so fiers did play", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On th’others helmett, which as Titan shone,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That quite it clove his plumed crest in tway,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And bared all his head unto the bone;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Wherewith astonisht, still he stood as sencelesse stone.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Still as he stood, fayre Phædria, that beheld", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That deadly daunger, soone atweene them ran;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And at their feet her selfe most humbly feld,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Crying with pitteous voyce, and count’nance wan,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Ah, well away! most noble Lords, how can", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Your cruell eyes endure so pitteous sight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To shed your lives on ground? Wo worth the man,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That first did teach the cursed steele to bight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In his owne flesh, and make way to the living spright!", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“If ever love of Lady did empierce", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Your yron brestes, or pittie could find place,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Withhold your bloody handes from battaill fierce;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, sith for me ye fight, to me this grace", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both yield, to stay your deadly stryfe a space.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They stayd a while, and forth she gan proceede:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Most wretched woman and of wicked race,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That am the authour of this hainous deed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And cause of death betweene two doughtie knights do breed!", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“But, if for me ye fight, or me will serve,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Not this rude kynd of battaill, nor these armes", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Are meet, the which doe men in bale to sterve,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And doolefull sorrow heape with deadly harmes:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Such cruell game my scarmoges disarmes.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Another warre, and other weapons, I", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Doe love, where love does give his sweet Alarmes", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Without bloodshed, and where the enimy", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Does yield unto his foe a pleasaunt victory.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Debatefull strife, and cruell enmity,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The famous name of knighthood fowly shend;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But lovely peace, and gentle amity,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in Amours the passing howres to spend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The mightie martiall handes doe most commend:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of love they ever greater glory bore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then of their armes; Mars is Cupidoes frend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And is for Venus loves renowmed more", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then all his wars and spoiles, the which he did of yore.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Therewith she sweetly smyld. They, though full bent", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To prove extremities of bloody fight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet at her speach their rages gan relent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And calme the sea of their tempestuous spight.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Such powre have pleasing wordes: such is the might", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of courteous clemency in gentle hart.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now after all was ceast, the Faery knight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Besought that Damzell suffer him depart,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And yield him ready passage to that other part.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "She no lesse glad then he desirous was", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of his departure thence; for of her joy", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And vaine delight she saw he light did pas,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A foe of folly and immodest toy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Still solemne sad, or still disdainfull coy;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Delighting all in armes and cruell warre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That her sweet peace and pleasures did annoy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Troubled with terrour and unquiet jarre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That she well pleased was thence to amove him farre.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Tho him she brought abord, and her swift bote", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Forthwith directed to that further strand;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which on the dull waves did lightly flote,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And soone arrived on the shallow sand,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where gladsome Guyon salied forth to land,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to that Damsell thankes gave for reward.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon that shore he spyed Atin stand,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There by his maister left, when late he far’d", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In Phædrias flitt barck over that perlous shard.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Well could he him remember, sith of late", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He with Pyrochles sharp debatement made:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Streight gan he him revyle, and bitter rate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As Shepheardes curre, that in darke eveninges shade", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Hath tracted forth some salvage beastes trade:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Vile Miscreaunt,” (said he) “whither dost thou flye", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The shame and death, which will thee soone invade?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What coward hand shall doe thee next to dye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That art thus fowly fledd from famous enimy?”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "With that he stifly shooke his steelhead dart:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But sober Guyon, hearing him so rayle,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Though somewhat moved in his mightie hart,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet with strong reason maistred passion fraile,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And passed fayrely forth. He, turning taile,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Back to the strond retyrd, and there still stayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Awaiting passage which him late did faile;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The whiles Cymochles with that wanton mayd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The hasty heat of his avowd revenge delayd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whylest there the varlet stood, he saw from farre", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "An armed knight that towardes him fast ran;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He ran on foot, as if in lucklesse warre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His forlorne steed from him the victour wan:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He seemed breathlesse, hartlesse, faint, and wan;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all his armour sprinckled was with blood,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And soyld with durtie gore, that no man can", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Discerne the hew thereof. He never stood,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But bent his hastie course towardes the ydle flood.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The varlett saw, when to the flood he came,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "How without stop or stay he fiersly lept,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And deepe him selfe beducked in the same,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That in the lake his loftie crest was stept,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne of his safetie seemed care he kept;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But with his raging armes he rudely flasht", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The waves about, and all his armour swept,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all the blood and filth away was washt;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet still he bet the water, and the billowes dasht.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Atin drew nigh to weet what it mote bee,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For much he wondred at that uncouth sight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom should he but his owne deare Lord there see,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His owne deare Lord Pyrochles in sad plight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ready to drowne him selfe for fell despight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Harrow now out, and well away!” he cryde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“What dismall day hath lent this cursed light,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To see my Lord so deadly damnifyde?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Pyrochles, O Pyrochles! what is thee betyde?”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“I burne, I burne, I burne!” then lowd he cryde,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“O! how I burne with implacable fyre;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet nought can quench mine inly flaming syde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nor sea of licour cold, nor lake of myre:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nothing but death can doe me to respyre.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Ah! be it,” (said he) “from Pyrochles farre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "After pursewing death once to requyre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or think, that ought those puissant hands may marre:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Death is for wretches borne under unhappy starre.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Perdye, then is it fitt for me,” (said he)", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“That am, I weene, most wretched man alive;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Burning in flames, yet no flames can I see,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And dying dayly, dayly yet revive.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "O Atin! helpe to me last death to give.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The varlet at his plaint was grieved so sore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That his deepe wounded hart in two did rive;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, his owne health remembring now no more,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did follow that ensample which he blam’d afore.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Into the lake he lept his Lord to ayd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "(So Love the dread of daunger doth despise)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And of him catching hold him strongly stayd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From drowning. But more happy he then wise,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of that seas nature did him not avise:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The waves thereof so slow and sluggish were,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Engrost with mud which did them fowle agrise,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That every weighty thing they did upbeare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ought mote ever sinck downe to the bottom there.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whiles thus they strugled in that ydle wave,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And strove in vaine, the one him selfe to drowne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The other both from drowning for to save,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Lo! to that shore one in an auncient gowne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose hoary locks great gravitie did crowne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Holding in hand a goodly arming sword,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By fortune came, ledd with the troublous sowne:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where drenched deepe he fownd in that dull ford", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The carefull servaunt stryving with his raging Lord.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Him Atin spying knew right well of yore,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And lowdly cald; “Help, helpe! O Archimage!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To save my Lord in wretched plight forlore;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Helpe with thy hand, or with thy counsell sage:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Weake handes, but counsell is most strong in age.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him when the old man saw, he wondred sore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To see Pyrochles there so rudely rage;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet sithens helpe, he saw, he needed more", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then pitty, he in hast approched to the shore,", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And cald; “Pyrochles! what is this I see?", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "What hellish fury hath at earst thee hent?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Furious ever I thee knew to bee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet never in this straunge astonishment.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“These flames, these flames” (he cryde) “doe me torment.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“What flames,” (quoth he) “when I thee present see", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In daunger rather to be drent then brent?”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Harrow! the flames which me consume,” (said hee)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Ne can be quencht, within my secret bowelles bee.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“That cursed man, that cruel feend of hell,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Furor, oh! Furor hath me thus bedight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His deadly woundes within my liver swell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And his whott fyre burnes in mine entralles bright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Kindled through his infernall brond of spight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sith late with him I batteill vaine would boste;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That now, I weene, Joves dreaded thunder light", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Does scorch not halfe so sore, nor damned ghoste", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In flaming Phlegeton does not so felly roste.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which when as Archimago heard, his griefe", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He knew right well, and him attonce disarm’d;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then searcht his secret woundes, and made a priefe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of every place that was with bruzing harmd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or with the hidden fire too inly warmd.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which doen, he balmes and herbes thereto applyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And evermore with mightie spels them charmd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That in short space he has them qualifyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And him restor’d to helth that would have algates dyde.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "As pilot well expert in perilous wave,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That to a stedfast starre his course hath bent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When foggy mistes or cloudy tempests have", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The faithfull light of that faire lampe yblent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And cover’d heaven with hideous dreriment,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon his card and compas firmes his eye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The maysters of his long experiment,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to them does the steddy helme apply,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Bidding his winged vessell fairely forward fly:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So Guyon having lost his trustie guyde,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Late left beyond that Ydle lake, proceedes", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet on his way, of none accompanyde;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And evermore himselfe with comfort feedes", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of his own vertues and praise-worthie deedes.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So, long he yode, yet no adventure found,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which fame of her shrill trompet worthy reedes;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For still he traveild through wide wastfull ground,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That nought but desert wildernesse shewed all around.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "At last he came unto a gloomy glade,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Cover’d with boughes and shrubs from heavens light,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereas he sitting found in secret shade", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "An uncouth, salvage, and uncivile wight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of griesly hew and fowle ill favour’d sight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His face with smoke was tand, and eies were bleard,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His head and beard with sout were ill bedight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His cole-blacke hands did seeme to have ben seard", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In smythes fire-spitting forge, and nayles like clawes appeard.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "His yron cote, all overgrowne with rust,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Was underneath enveloped with gold;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose glistring glosse, darkned with filthy dust,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Well yet appeared to have beene of old", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A worke of rich entayle and curious mould,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Woven with antickes and wyld ymagery;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in his lap a masse of coyne he told,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And turned upside downe, to feede his eye", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And covetous desire with his huge threasury.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And round about him lay on every side", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Great heapes of gold that never could be spent;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of which some were rude owre, not purifide", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of Mulcibers devouring element;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some others were new driven, and distent", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into great Ingowes and to wedges square;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some in round plates withouten moniment;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But most were stampt, and in their metal bare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The antique shapes of kings and kesars straunge and rare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Soone as he Guyon saw, in great affright", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And haste he rose for to remove aside", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Those pretious hils from straungers envious sight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And downe them poured through an hole full wide", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into the hollow earth, them there to hide.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Guyon, lightly to him leaping, stayd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His hand that trembled as one terrifyde;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And though himselfe were at the sight dismayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet him perforce restraynd, and to him doubtfull sayd:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“What art thou, man, (if man at all thou art)", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That here in desert hast thine habitaunce,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And these rich hils of welth doest hide apart", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From the worldes eye, and from her right usaunce?”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thereat, with staring eyes fixed askaunce,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In great disdaine he answerd: “Hardy Elfe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That darest view my direfull countenaunce,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I read thee rash and heedlesse of thy selfe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To trouble my still seate, and heapes of pretious pelfe.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“God of the world and worldlings I me call,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Great Mammon, greatest god below the skye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That of my plenty poure out unto all,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And unto none my graces do envye:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Riches, renowme, and principality,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Honour, estate, and all this worldes good,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For which men swinck and sweat incessantly,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fro me do flow into an ample flood,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in the hollow earth have their eternall brood.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Wherefore, if me thou deigne to serve and sew,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "At thy commaund lo! all these mountaines bee:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or if to thy great mind, or greedy vew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All these may not suffise, there shall to thee", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ten times so much be nombred francke and free.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Mammon,” (said he) “thy godheads vaunt is vaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And idle offers of thy golden fee;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To them that covet such eye-glutting gaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Proffer thy giftes, and fitter servaunts entertaine.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Me ill besits, that in der-doing armes", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And honours suit my vowed daies do spend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto thy bounteous baytes and pleasing charmes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With which weake men thou witchest, to attend;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Regard of worldly mucke doth fowly blend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And low abase the high heroicke spright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That joyes for crownes and kingdomes to contend:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Faire shields, gay steedes, bright armes be my delight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Those be the riches fit for an advent’rous knight.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Vaine glorious Elfe,” (saide he) “doest not thou weet", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That money can thy wantes at will supply?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sheilds, steeds, and armes, and all things for thee meet,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It can purvay in twinckling of an eye;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And crownes and kingdomes to thee multiply.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Do not I kings create, and throw the crowne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sometimes to him that low in dust doth ly,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And him that raignd into his rowme thrust downe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And whom I lust do heape with glory and renowne?”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“All otherwise” (saide he) “I riches read,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And deeme them roote of all disquietnesse;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "First got with guile, and then preserv’d with dread,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And after spent with pride and lavishnesse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Leaving behind them griefe and heavinesse:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Infinite mischiefes of them doe arize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Strife and debate, bloodshed and bitternesse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Outrageous wrong, and hellish covetize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That noble heart as great dishonour doth despize.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Ne thine be kingdomes, ne the scepters thine;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But realmes and rulers thou doest both confound,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And loyall truth to treason doest incline:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Witnesse the guiltlesse blood pourd oft on ground,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The crowned often slaine, the slayer cround;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The sacred Diademe in peeces rent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And purple robe gored with many a wound,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Castles surprizd, great cities sackt and brent:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So mak’st thou kings, and gaynest wrongfull government.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Long were to tell the troublous stormes that tosse", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The private state, and make the life unsweet:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who swelling sayles in Caspian sea doth crosse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in frayle wood on Adrian gulf doth fleet,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Doth not, I weene, so many evils meet.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then Mammon wexing wroth; “And why then,” sayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Are mortall men so fond and undiscreet", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So evill thing to seeke unto their ayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And having not complaine, and having it upbrayd?”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Indeede,” (quoth he) “through fowle intemperaunce,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Frayle men are oft captiv’d to covetise;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But would they thinke with how small allowaunce", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Untroubled Nature doth her selfe suffise,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Such superfluities they would despise,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which with sad cares empeach our native joyes.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At the wellhead the purest streames arise;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But mucky filth his braunching armes annoyes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with uncomely weedes the gentle wave accloyes.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“The antique world, in his first flowring youth,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Fownd no defect in his Creators grace;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But with glad thankes, and unreproved truth,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The guifts of soveraine bounty did embrace:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like Angels life was then mens happy cace;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But later ages pride, like corn-fed steed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Abusd her plenty and fat swolne encreace", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To all licentious lust, and gan exceed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The measure of her meane and naturall first need.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Then gan a cursed hand the quiet wombe", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of his great Grandmother with steele to wound,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And the hid treasures in her sacred tombe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With Sacriledge to dig. Therein he fownd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fountaines of gold and silver to abownd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of which the matter of his huge desire", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And pompous pride eftsoones he did compownd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then avarice gan through his veines inspire", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His greedy flames, and kindled life-devouring fire.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Sonne,” (said he then) “lett be thy bitter scorne,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And leave the rudenesse of that antique age", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To them that liv’d therin in state forlorne:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thou, that doest live in later times, must wage", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thy workes for wealth, and life for gold engage.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "If then thee list my offred grace to use,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Take what thou please of all this surplusage;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "If thee list not, leave have thou to refuse:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But thing refused doe not afterward accuse.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Me list not” (said the Elfin knight) “receave", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Thing offred, till I know it well be gott;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne wote I but thou didst these goods bereave", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From rightfull owner by unrighteous lott,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or that bloodguiltinesse or guile them blott.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Perdy,” (quoth he) “yet never eie did vew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne tong did tell, ne hand these handled not;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But safe I have them kept in secret mew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From hevens sight, and powre of al which them poursew.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“What secret place” (quoth he) “can safely hold", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "So huge a masse, and hide from heavens eie?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or where hast thou thy wonne, that so much gold", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thou canst preserve from wrong and robbery?”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Come thou,” (quoth he) “and see.” So by and by", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through that thick covert he him led, and fownd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A darkesome way, which no man could descry,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That deep descended through the hollow grownd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And was with dread and horror compassed arownd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "At length they came into a larger space,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That stretcht itselfe into an ample playne;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through which a beaten broad high way did trace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That streight did lead to Plutoes griesly rayne.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By that wayes side there sate internall Payne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And fast beside him sat tumultuous Strife:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The one in hand an yron whip did strayne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The other brandished a bloody knife;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And both did gnash their teeth, and both did threten life.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "On thother side in one consort there sate", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Cruell Revenge, and rancorous Despight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Disloyall Treason, and hart-burning Hate;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But gnawing Gealosy, out of their sight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sitting alone, his bitter lips did bight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And trembling Feare still to and fro did fly,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And found no place wher safe he shroud him might:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Lamenting Sorrow did in darknes lye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And shame his ugly face did hide from living eye.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And over them sad horror with grim hew", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Did alwaies sore, beating his yron wings;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And after him Owles and Night-ravens flew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The hatefull messengers of heavy things,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of death and dolor telling sad tidings;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whiles sad Celeno, sitting on a clifte,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A song of bale and bitter sorrow sings,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That hart of flint asonder could have rifte;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which having ended after him she flyeth swifte.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "All these before the gates of Pluto lay,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "By whom they passing spake unto them nought;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But th’Elfin knight with wonder all the way", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did feed his eyes, and fild his inner thought.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At last him to a litle dore he brought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That to the gate of Hell, which gaped wide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was next adjoyning, ne them parted ought:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Betwixt them both was but a litle stride,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That did the house of Richesse from hell-mouth 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dore streight way", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did shutt, and from behind it forth there lept", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "An ugly feend, more fowle then dismall day,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which with monstrous stalke behind him stept,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And ever as he went dew watch upon him kept.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Well hoped hee, ere long that hardy guest,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "If ever covetous hand, or lustfull eye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or lips he layd on thing that likte him best,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or ever sleepe his eie-strings did untye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Should be his pray. And therefore still on hye", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He over him did hold his cruell clawes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Threatning with greedy gripe to doe him dye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And rend in peeces with his ravenous pawes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "If ever he transgrest the fatall Stygian lawes.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "That houses forme within was rude and strong,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Lyke an huge cave hewne out of rocky clifte,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From whose rough vaut the ragged breaches hong", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Embost with massy gold of glorious guifte,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with rich metall loaded every rifte,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That heavy ruine they did seeme to threatt;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And over them Arachne high did lifte", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her cunning web, and spred her subtile nett,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Enwrapped in fowle smoke and clouds more black then Jett.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Both roofe, and floore, and walls, were all of gold,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But overgrowne with dust and old decay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And hid in darkenes, that none could behold", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The hew thereof; for vew of cherefull day", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did never in that house it selfe display,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But a faint shadow of uncertein light:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Such as a lamp, whose life does fade away,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or as the Moone, cloathed with clowdy night,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Does show to him that walkes in feare and sad affright.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "In all that rowme was nothing to be seene", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But huge great yron chests, and coffers strong,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All bard with double bends, that none could weene", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Them to efforce by violence or wrong:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On every side they placed were along;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But all the grownd with sculs was scattered,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And dead mens bones, which round about were flong;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose lives, it seemed, whilome there were shed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And their vile carcases now left unburied.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "They forward passe; ne Guyon yet spoke word,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Till that they came unto an yron dore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which to them opened of his owne accord,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And shewd of richesse such exceeding store,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As eie of man did never see before,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ever could within one place be fownd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Though all the wealth which is, or was of yore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Could gathered be through all the world arownd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And that above were added to that under grownd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The charge thereof unto a covetous Spright", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Commaunded was, who thereby did attend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And warily awaited day and night,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From other covetous feends it to defend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who it to rob and ransacke did intend.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then Mammon, turning to that warriour, said;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Loe! here the worldes blis: loe! here the end,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To which al men doe ayme, rich to be made:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Such grace now to be happy is before thee laid.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Certes,” (sayd he) “I n’ill thine offred grace,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ne to be made so happy doe intend:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Another blis before mine eyes I place,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Another happines, another end.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To them that list these base regardes I lend;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But I in armes, and in atchievements brave,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Do rather choose my flitting houres to spend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to be Lord of those that riches have,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then them to have my selfe, and be their servile sclave.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thereat the feend his gnashing teeth did grate,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And griev’d so long to lacke his greedie pray;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For well he weened that so glorious bayte", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Would tempt his guest to take thereof assay;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had he so doen, he had him snatcht away,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "More light then Culver in the Faulcons fist.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Eternall God thee save from such decay!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, whenas Mammon saw his purpose mist,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him to entrap unwares another way he wist.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thence forward he him ledd, and shortly brought", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Unto another rowme, whose dore forthright", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To him did open, as it had beene taught.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therein an hundred raunges weren pight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And hundred fournaces all burning bright:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By every fournace many feendes did byde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Deformed creatures, horrible in sight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And every feend his busie paines applyde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To melt the golden metall, ready to be tryde.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "One with great bellowes gathered filling ayre,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And with forst wind the fewell did inflame;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Another did the dying bronds repayre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With yron tongs, and sprinckled ofte the same", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With liquid waves, fiers Vulcans rage to tame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who, maystring them, renewd his former heat:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some scumd the drosse that from the metall came;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some stird the molten owre with ladles great;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And every one did swincke, and every one did sweat.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But, when an earthly wight they present saw", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Glistring in armes and battailous aray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From their whot work they did themselves withdraw", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To wonder at the sight; for till that day", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They never creature saw that cam that way:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their staring eyes sparckling with fervent fyre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And ugly shapes did nigh the man dismay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That, were it not for shame, he would retyre;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till that him thus bespake their soveraine Lord and syre;", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Behold, thou Faeries sonne, with mortall eye,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That living eye before did never see.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The thing, that thou didst crave so earnestly,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To weet whence all the wealth late shewd by mee", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Proceeded, lo! now is reveald to thee.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Here is the fountaine of the worldes good:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now, therefore, if thou wilt enriched bee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Avise thee well, and chaunge thy wilfull mood,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Least thou perhaps hereafter wish, and be withstood.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Suffise it then, thou Money God,” (quoth hee)", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“That all thine ydle offers I refuse.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All that I need I have: what needeth mee", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To covet more then I have cause to use?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With such vaine shewes thy worldlinges vyle abuse;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But give me leave to follow mine emprise.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Mammon was much displeasd, yet no’te he chuse", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But beare the rigour of his bold mesprise;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And thence him forward ledd him further to entise.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He brought him, through a darksom narrow strayt,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To a broad gate all built of beaten gold:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The gate was open; but therein did wayt", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A sturdie villein, stryding stiffe and bold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As if the highest God defy he would:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In his right hand an yron club he held,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But he himselfe was all of golden mould,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet had both life and sence, and well could weld", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That cursed weapon, when his cruell foes he queld.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Disdayne he called was, and did disdayne", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To be so cald, and who so did him call:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sterne was his looke, and full of stomacke vayne;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His portaunce terrible, and stature tall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Far passing th’hight of men terrestriall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like an huge Gyant of the Titans race;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That made him scorne all creatures great and small,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with his pride all others powre deface:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "More fitt emongst black fiendes then men to have his place.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Soone as those glitterand armes he did espye,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That with their brightnesse made that darknes light,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His harmefull club he gan to hurtle hye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And threaten batteill to the Faery knight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who likewise gan himselfe to batteill dight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till Mammon did his hasty hand withhold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And counseld him abstaine from perilous fight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For nothing might abash the villein bold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne mortall steele emperce his miscreated mould.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So having him with reason pacifyde,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And that fiers Carle commaunding to forbeare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He brought him in. The rowme was large and wyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As it some Gyeld or solemne Temple weare.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Many great golden pillours did upbeare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The massy roofe, and riches huge sustayne;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And every pillour decked was full deare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With crownes, and Diademes, and titles vaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which mortall Princes wore whiles they on earth did rayne.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "A route of people there assembled were,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of every sort and nation under skye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which with great uprore preaced to draw nere", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To th’upper part, where was advaunced hye", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A stately siege of soveraine majestye;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And thereon satt a woman, gorgeous gay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And richly cladd in robes of royaltye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That never earthly Prince in such aray", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His glory did enhaunce, and pompous pryde display.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Her face right wondrous faire did seeme to bee,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That her broad beauties beam great brightnes threw", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through the dim shade, that all men might it see:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet was not that same her owne native hew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But wrought by art and counterfetted shew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thereby more lovers unto her to call:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nath’lesse most hevenly faire in deed and vew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She by creation was, till she did fall;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thenceforth she sought for helps to cloke her crime withall.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "There, as in glistring glory she did sitt,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "She held a great gold chaine ylincked well,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose upper end to highest heven was knitt,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And lower part did reach to lowest Hell;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all that preace did rownd about her swell", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To catchen hold of that long chaine, thereby", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To climbe aloft, and others to excell:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That was Ambition, rash desire to sty,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And every linck thereof a step of dignity.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Some thought to raise themselves to high degree", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "By riches and unrighteous reward;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some by close shouldring; some by flatteree;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Others through friendes; others for base regard,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all by wrong waies for themselves prepard:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Those that were up themselves kept others low;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Those that were low themselves held others hard,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne suffred them to ryse or greater grow;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But every one did strive his fellow downe to throw.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which whenas Guyon saw, he gan inquire,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "What meant that preace about that Ladies throne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And what she was that did so high aspyre?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him Mammon answered; “That goodly one,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom all that folke with such contention", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Doe flock about, my deare, my daughter is:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Honour and dignitie from her alone", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Derived are, and all this worldes blis,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For which ye men doe strive; few gett, but many mis:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“And fayre Philotime she rightly hight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The fairest wight that wonneth under skie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But that this darksom neather world her light", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Doth dim with horror and deformity;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Worthie of heven and hye felicitie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From whence the gods have her for envy thrust:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, sith thou hast found favour in mine eye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thy spouse I will her make, if that thou lust,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That she may thee advance for works and merits just.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Gramercy, Mammon,” (said the gentle knight)", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“For so great grace and offred high estate;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But I, that am fraile flesh and earthly wight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unworthy match for such immortall mate", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "My selfe well wote, and mine unequall fate:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And were I not, yet is my trouth yplight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And love avowd to other Lady late,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That to remove the same I have no might:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To chaunge love causelesse is reproch to warlike knight.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Mammon emmoved was with inward wrath;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Yet, forcing it to fayne, him forth thence ledd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through griesly shadowes by a beaten path,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into a gardin goodly garnished", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With hearbs and fruits, whose kinds mote not be redd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Not such as earth out of her fruitfull woomb", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Throwes forth to men, sweet and well savored,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But direfull deadly black, both leafe and bloom,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fitt to adorne the dead, and deck the drery toombe.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "There mournfull Cypresse grew in greatest store,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And trees of bitter Gall, and Heben sad;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Dead sleeping Poppy, and black Hellebore;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Cold Coloquintida, and Tetra mad;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Mortall Samnitis, and Cicuta bad,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With which th’unjust Atheniens made to dy", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Wise Socrates; who, thereof quaffing glad,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Pourd out his life and last Philosophy", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To the fayre Critias, his dearest Belamy!", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The Gardin of Proserpina this hight;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And in the midst thereof a silver seat,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With a thick Arber goodly overdight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In which she often usd from open heat", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her selfe to shroud, and pleasures to entreat:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Next thereunto did grow a goodly tree,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With braunches broad dispredd and body great,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Clothed with leaves, that none the wood mote see,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And loaden all with fruit as thick as it might bee.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Their fruit were golden apples glistring bright,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That goodly was their glory to behold;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On earth like never grew, ne living wight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like ever saw, but they from hence were sold;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For those which Hercules, with conquest bold", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Got from great Atlas daughters, hence began,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And planted there did bring forth fruit of gold;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And those with which th’Eubœan young man wan", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Swift Atalanta, when through craft he her out ran.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Here also sprong that goodly golden fruit,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With which Acontius got his lover trew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom he had long time sought with fruitlesse suit:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Here eke that famous golden Apple grew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which emongst the gods false Ate threw;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For which th’Idæan Ladies disagreed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till partiall Paris dempt it Venus dew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And had of her fayre Helen for his meed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That many noble Greekes and Trojans made to bleed.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The warlike Elfe much wondred at this tree,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "So fayre and great that shadowed all the ground,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And his broad braunches, laden with rich fee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did stretch themselves without the utmost bound", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of this great gardin, compast with a mound;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which over-hanging, they themselves did steepe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In a blacke flood, which flow’d about it round.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That is the river of Cocytus deepe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In which full many soules do endlesse wayle and weepe.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which to behold he clomb up to the bancke,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And looking downe saw many damned wightes", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In those sad waves, which direfull deadly stancke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Plonged continually of cruell Sprightes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That with their piteous cryes, and yelling shrightes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They made the further shore resounden wide.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Emongst the rest of those same ruefull sightes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "One cursed creature he by chaunce espide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That drenched lay full deepe under the Garden side.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Deepe was he drenched to the upmost chin,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Yet gaped still as coveting to drinke", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of the cold liquor which he waded in;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And stretching forth his hand did often thinke", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To reach the fruit which grew upon the brincke;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But both the fruit from hand, and flood from mouth,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did fly abacke, and made him vainely swincke;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The whiles he sterv’d with hunger, and with drouth,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He daily dyde, yet never throughly dyen couth.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The knight, him seeing labour so in vaine,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ask’t who he was, and what he ment thereby?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who, groning deepe, thus answerd him againe;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Most cursed of all creatures under skye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Lo! Tantalus, I here tormented lye:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of whom high Jove wont whylome feasted bee;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Lo! here I now for want of food doe dye:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, if that thou be such as I thee see,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of grace I pray thee, give to eat and drinke to mee!”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Nay, nay, thou greedy Tantalus,” (quoth he)", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“Abide the fortune of thy present fate;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And unto all that live in high degree,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ensample be of mind intemperate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To teach them how to use their present state.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then gan the cursed wretch alowd to cry,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Accusing highest Jove and gods ingrate;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke blaspheming heaven bitterly,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As author of unjustice, there to let him dye.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He lookt a litle further, and espyde", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Another wretch, whose carcas deepe was drent", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Within the river, which the same did hyde;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But both his handes, most filthy feculent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Above the water were on high extent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And faynd to wash themselves incessantly,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet nothing cleaner were for such intent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But rather fowler seemed to the eye;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So lost his labour vaine and ydle industry.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The knight him calling asked who he was?", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Who, lifting up his head, him answerd thus;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“I Pilate am, the falsest Judge, alas!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And most unjust; that, by unrighteous", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And wicked doome, to Jewes despiteous", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Delivered up the Lord of life to dye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And did acquite a murdrer felonous;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The whiles my handes I washt in purity,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The whiles my soule was soyld with fowle iniquity.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Infinite moe tormented in like paine", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He there beheld, too long here to be told:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne Mammon would there let him long remayne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For terrour of the tortures manifold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In which the damned soules he did behold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But roughly him bespake: “Thou fearefull foole,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Why takest not of that same fruite of gold?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne sittest downe on that same silver stoole,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To rest thy weary person in the shadow coole?”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "All which he did to do him deadly fall", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In frayle intemperaunce through sinfull bayt;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To which if he inclyned had at all,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That dreadfull feend, which did behinde him wayt,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Would him have rent in thousand peeces strayt:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But he was wary wise in all his way,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And well perceived his deceiptfull sleight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne suffred lust his safety to betray.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So goodly did beguile the Guyler of his pray.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And now he has so long remained theare,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That vitall powres gan wexe both weake and wan", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For want of food and sleepe, which two upbeare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like mightie pillours, this frayle life of man,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That none without the same enduren can:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For now three dayes of men were full outwrought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Since he this hardy enterprize began:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Forthy great Mammon fayrely he besought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into the world to guyde him backe, as he him brought.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The God, though loth, yet was constraynd t’obay;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For lenger time then that no living wight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Below the earth might suffred be to stay:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So backe againe him brought to living light.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But all so soone as his enfeebled spright", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gan sucke this vitall ayre into his brest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As overcome with too exceeding might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The life did flit away out of her nest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all his sences were with deadly fit opprest.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And is there care in heaven? And is there love", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In heavenly spirits to these creatures bace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That may compassion of their evilles move?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There is: else much more wretched were the cace", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of men then beasts. But O! th’exceeding grace", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of highest God that loves his creatures so,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all his workes with mercy doth embrace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That blessed Angels he sends to and fro,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "How oft do they their silver bowers leave,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To come to succour us that succour want!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "How oft do they with golden pineons cleave", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The flitting skyes, like flying Pursuivant,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Against fowle feendes to ayd us militant!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They for us fight, they watch and dewly ward,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And their bright Squadrons round about us plant;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all for love, and nothing for reward.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "O! why should hevenly God to men have such regard?", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "During the while that Guyon did abide", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Mamons house, the Palmer, whom whyleare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That wanton Mayd of passage had denide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By further search had passage found elsewhere;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, being on his way, approched neare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where Guyon lay in traunce; when suddeinly", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He heard a voyce that called lowd and cleare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Come hither! hither! O, come hastily!”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all the fields resounded with the ruefull cry.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The Palmer lent his eare unto the noyce,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To weet who called so importunely:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Againe he heard a more efforced voyce,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That bad him come in haste. He by and by", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His feeble feet directed to the cry;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which to that shady delve him brought at last,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where Mammon earst did sunne his threasury;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There the good Guyon he found slumbring fast", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In senceles dreame; which sight at first him sore aghast.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Beside his head there satt a faire young man,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of wondrous beauty and of freshest yeares,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose tender bud to blossome new began,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And florish faire above his equall peares:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His snowy front, curled with golden heares,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like Phœbus face adornd with sunny rayes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Divinely shone; and two sharpe winged sheares,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Decked with diverse plumes, like painted Jayes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Were fixed at his backe to cut his ayery wayes.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Like as Cupido on Idæan hill,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "When having laid his cruell bow away", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And mortall arrowes, wherewith he doth fill", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The world with murdrous spoiles and bloody pray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With his faire mother he him dights to play,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with his goodly sisters, Graces three:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The Goddesse, pleased with his wanton play,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Suffers her selfe through sleepe beguild to bee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The whiles the other Ladies mind theyr mery glee.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whom when the Palmer saw, abasht he was", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Through fear and wonder that he nought could say,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till him the childe bespoke; “Long lackt, alas!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Hath bene thy faithfull aide in hard assay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whiles deadly fitt thy pupill doth dismay.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Behold this heavy sight, thou reverend Sire!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But dread of death and dolor doe away;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For life ere long shall to her home retire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And he that breathlesse seems shal corage both respire.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“The charge, which God doth unto me arrett,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of his deare safety, I to thee commend;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet will I not forgoe, ne yet forgett", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The care thereof my selfe unto the end,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But evermore him succour, and defend", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Against his foe and mine: watch thou, I pray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For evill is at hand him to offend.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So having said, eftsoones he gan display", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His painted nimble wings, and vanisht quite away,", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The Palmer seeing his lefte empty place,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And his slow eies beguiled of their sight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Woxe sore affraid, and standing still a space", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gaz’d after him, as fowle escapt by flight.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At last, him turning to his charge behight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With trembling hand his troubled pulse gan try;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where finding life not yet dislodged quight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He much rejoyst, and courd it tenderly,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As chicken newly hatcht, from dreaded destiny.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "At last he spide where towards him did pace", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Two Paynim knights al armd as bright as skie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And them beside an aged Sire did trace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And far before a light-foote Page did flie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That breathed strife and troublous enmitie.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Those were the two sonnes of Acrates old,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who, meeting earst with Archimago slie", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Foreby that idle strond, of him were told", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That he which earst them combatted was Guyon bold.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which to avenge on him they dearly vowd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Where ever that on ground they mote him find:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "False Archimage provokte their corage prowd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And stryful Atin in their stubborne mind", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Coles of contention and whot vengeaunce tind.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now bene they come whereas the Palmer sate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Keeping that slombred corse to him assind:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Well knew they both his person, sith of late", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With him in bloody armes they rashly did debate.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whom when Pyrochles saw, inflam’d with rage", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That sire he fowl bespake: “Thou dotard vile,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That with thy brutenesse shendst thy comely age,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Abandon soone, I read, the caytive spoile", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of that same outcast carcas, that erewhile", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Made it selfe famous through false trechery,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And crownd his coward crest with knightly stile;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Loe! where he now inglorious doth lye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To proove he lived il that did thus fowly dye.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "To whom the Palmer fearlesse answered:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“Certes, Sir knight, ye bene too much to blame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thus for to blott the honor of the dead,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with fowle cowardize his carcas shame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose living handes immortalizd his name.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Vile is the vengeaunce on the ashes cold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And envy base to barke at sleeping fame.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was never wight that treason of him told:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Your self his prowesse prov’d, and found him fiers and bold.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then sayd Cymochles: “Palmer, thou doest dote,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ne canst of prowesse ne of knighthood deeme,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Save as thou seest or hearst. But well I wote,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That of his puissaunce tryall made extreeme:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet gold al is not that doth golden seeme;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne all good knights that shake well speare and shield.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The worth of all men by their end esteeme,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And then dew praise or dew reproch them yield;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Bad therefore I him deeme that thus lies dead on field.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Good or bad,” gan his brother fiers reply,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“What doe I recke, sith that he dide entire?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or what doth his bad death now satisfy", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The greedy hunger of revenging yre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sith wrathfull hand wrought not her owne desire?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet since no way is lefte to wreake my spight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I will him reave of armes, the victors hire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And of that shield, more worthy of good knight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For why should a dead dog be deckt in armour bright?”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Fayr Sir,” said then the Palmer suppliaunt,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“For knighthoods love doe not so fowle a deed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne blame your honor with so shamefull vaunt", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of vile revenge. To spoile the dead of weed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Is sacrilege, and doth all sinnes exceed:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But leave these relicks of his living might", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To decke his herce, and trap his tomb-blacke steed.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“What herce or steed” (said he) “should he have dight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But be entombed in the raven or the kight?”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "With that, rude hand upon his shield he laid,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And th’other brother gan his helme unlace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both fiercely bent to have him disaraid;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till that they spyde where towards them did pace", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "An armed knight, of bold and bounteous grace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose squire bore after him an heben launce", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And coverd shield. Well kend him so far space", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Th’enchaunter by his armes and amenaunce,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When under him he saw his Lybian steed to praunce;", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And to those brethren sayd; “Rise, rise by live,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And unto batteil doe your selves addresse;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For yonder comes the prowest knight alive,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Prince Arthur, flowre of grace and nobilesse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That hath to Paynim knights wrought gret distresse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And thousand Sar’zins fowly donne to dye.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That word so deepe did in their harts impresse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That both eftsoones upstarted furiously,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And gan themselves prepare to batteill greedily.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But fiers Pyrochles, lacking his owne sword,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The want thereof now greatly gan to plaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Archimage besought, him that afford", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which he had brought for Braggadochio vaine.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“So would I,” (said th’enchaunter) “glad and faine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Beteeme to you this sword, you to defend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or ought that els your honour might maintaine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But that this weapons powre I well have kend", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To be contrary to the worke which ye intend:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“For that same knights owne sword this is, of yore", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which Merlin made by his almightie art", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For that his noursling, when he knighthood swore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therewith to doen his foes eternall smart.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The metall first he mixt with Medæwart,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That no enchauntment from his dint might save;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then it in flames of Aetna wrought apart,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And seven times dipped in the bitter wave", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of hellish Styx, which hidden vertue to it gave.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“The vertue is, that nether steele nor stone", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The stroke thereof from entraunce may defend;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ever may be used by his fone,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne forst his rightful owner to offend;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ever will it breake, ne ever bend:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Wherefore Morddure it rightfully is hight.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In vaine therefore, Pyrochles, should I lend", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The same to thee, against his lord to fight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For sure yt would deceive thy labor and thy might.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Foolish old man,” said then the Pagan wroth,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“That weenest words or charms may force withstond:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Soone shalt thou see, and then beleeve for troth,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That I can carve with this inchaunted brond", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His Lords owne flesh.” Therewith out of his hond", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That vertuous steele he rudely snatcht away,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Guyons shield about his wrest he bond:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So ready dight fierce battaile to assay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And match his brother proud in battailous aray.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "By this, that straunger knight in presence came,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And goodly salued them; who nought againe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him answered, as courtesie became;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But with sterne lookes, and stomachous disdaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gave signes of grudge and discontentment vaine.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then, turning to the Palmer, he gan spy", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where at his feet, with sorrowfull demayne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And deadly hew, an armed corse did lye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In whose dead face he redd great magnanimity.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Sayd he then to the Palmer: “Reverend Syre,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "What great misfortune hath betidd this knight?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or did his lire her fatall date expyre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or did he fall by treason, or by fight?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "How ever, sure I rew his pitteous plight.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Not one, nor other,” sayd the Palmer grave,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Hath him befalne; but cloudes of deadly night", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A while his heavy eylids cover’d have,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all his sences drowned in deep sencelesse wave:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Which those his cruell foes, that stand hereby,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Making advauntage, to revenge their spight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Would him disarme and treaten shamefully;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unworthie usage of redoubted knight.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But you, faire Sir, whose honourable sight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Doth promise hope of helpe and timely grace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Mote I beseech to succour his sad plight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And by your powre protect his feeble cace?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "First prayse of knighthood is fowle outrage to deface.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Palmer,” (said he) “no knight so rude, I weene,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As to doen outrage to a sleeping ghost;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne was there ever noble corage seene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That in advauntage would his puissaunce bost:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Honour is least where oddes appeareth most.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "May bee, that better reason will aswage", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The rash revengers heat. Words, well dispost,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Have secrete powre t’appease inflamed rage:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "If not, leave unto me thy knights last patronage.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Tho, turning to those brethren, thus bespoke:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“Ye warlike payre, whose valorous great might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It seemes, just wronges to vengeaunce doe provoke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To wreake your wrath on this dead seeming knight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Mote ought allay the storme of your despight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And settle patience in so furious heat?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Not to debate the chalenge of your right,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But for his carkas pardon I entreat,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom fortune hath already laid in lowest seat.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "To whom Cymochles said; “For what art thou,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That mak’st thy selfe his dayes-man, to prolong", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The vengeaunce prest? Or who shall let me now", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On this vile body from to wreak my wrong,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And make his carkas as the outcast dong?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Why should not that dead carrion satisfye", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The guilt which, if he lived had thus long,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His life for dew revenge should deare abye?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The trespass still doth live, albee the person dye.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Indeed,” then said the Prince, “the evill donne", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Dyes not, when breath the body first doth leave;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But from the grandsyre to the Nephewes sonne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all his seede the curse doth often cleave,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till vengeaunce utterly the guilt bereave:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So streightly God doth judge. But gentle Knight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That doth against the dead his hand upheave,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His honour staines with rancour and despight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And great disparagment makes to his former might.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Pyrochles gan reply the second tyme,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And to him said: “Now, felon, sure I read,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "How that thou art partaker of his cryme:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therefore, by Termagaunt thou shalt be dead.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With that his hand, more sad then lomp of lead,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Uplifting high, he weened with Morddure,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His owne good sword Morddure, to cleave his head.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The faithfull steele such treason no’uld endure,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, swarving from the marke, his Lordes life did assure.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Yet was the force so furious and so fell,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That horse and man it made to reele asyde:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nath’lesse the Prince would not forsake his sell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For well of yore he learned had to ryde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But full of anger fiersly to him cryde;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“False traitour! miscreaunt! thou broken hast", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The law of armes to strike foe undefide:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But thou thy treasons fruit, I hope, shalt taste", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Right sowre, and feele the law the which thou hast defast.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "With that his balefull speare he fiercely bent", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Against the Pagans brest, and therewith thought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His cursed life out of her lodge have rent;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But ere the point arrived where it ought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That seven fold shield, which he from Guyon brought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He cast between to ward the bitter stownd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through all those foldes the steelehead passage wrought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And through his shoulder perst; wherwith to ground", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He groveling fell, all gored in his gushing wound.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which when his brother saw, fraught with great griefe", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And wrath, he to him leaped furiously,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And fowly saide: “By Mahoune, cursed thiefe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That direfull stroke thou dearely shalt aby:”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then, hurling up his harmefull blade on hy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Smote him so hugely on his haughtie crest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That from his saddle forced him to fly;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Els mote it needes downe to his manly brest", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Have cleft his head in twaine, and life thence dispossest.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Now was the Prince in daungerous distresse,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Wanting his sword when he on foot should fight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His single speare could doe him small redresse", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Against two foes of so exceeding might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The least of which was match for any knight.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And now the other, whom he earst did daunt,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had reard him selfe againe to cruel fight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Three times more furious and more puissaunt,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unmindfull of his wound, of his fate ignoraunt.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So both attonce him charge on either syde", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With hideous strokes and importable powre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That forced him his ground to traverse wyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And wisely watch to ward that deadly stowre;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For in his shield, as thicke as stormie showre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their strokes did raine: yet did he never quaile,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne backward shrinke, but as a stedfast towre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom foe with double battry doth assaile,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Them on her bulwarke beares, and bids them nought availe.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So stoutly he withstood their strong assay;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Till that at last, when he advantage spyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His poynant speare he thrust with puissant sway", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At proud Cymochles, whiles his shield was wyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That through his thigh the mortall steele did gryde:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He, swarving with the force, within his flesh", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did breake the launce, and let the head abyde.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Out of the wound the red blood flowed fresh,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That underneath his feet soone made a purple plesh.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Horribly then he gan to rage and rayle,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Cursing his Gods, and him selfe damning deepe:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Als when his brother saw the red blood rayle", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Adowne so fast, and all his armour steepe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For very felnesse lowd he gan to weepe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And said; “Caytive, curse on thy cruell hond,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That twise hath spedd; yet shall it not thee keepe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From the third brunt of this my fatall brond:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Lo! where the dreadfull Death behynd thy backe doth stond.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "With that he strooke, and thother strooke withall,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That nothing seemd mote beare so monstrous might:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The one upon his covered shield did fall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And glauncing downe would not his owner byte;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But thother did upon his troncheon smyte,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which hewing quite asunder, further way", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It made, and on his hacqueton did lyte,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which dividing with importune sway,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It seizd in his right side, and there the dint did stay.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Wyde was the wound, and a large lukewarme flood,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Red as the Rose, thence gushed grievously;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That when the Paynym spyde the streaming blood,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gave him great hart and hope of victory.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On th’other side, in huge perplexity", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The Prince now stood, having his weapon broke;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nought could he hurt, but still at warde did ly:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet with his troncheon he so rudely stroke", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Cymochles twise, that twise him forst his foot revoke.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whom when the Palmer saw in such distresse,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Sir Guyon’s sword he lightly to him raught,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And said; “Fayre Sonne, great God thy right hand blesse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To use that sword so well as he it ought!”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Glad was the knight, and with fresh courage fraught,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When as againe he armed felt his hond:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then like a Lyon, which hath long time saught", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His robbed whelpes, and at the last them fond", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Emongst the shepeheard swaynes, then wexeth wood and yond:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So fierce he laid about him, and dealt blowes", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "On either side, that neither mayle could hold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne shield defend the thunder of his throwes:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now to Pyrochles many strokes he told;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Eft to Cymochles twise so many fold;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then, backe againe turning his busie hond,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Them both atonce compeld with courage bold", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To yield wide way to his hart-thrilling brond;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And though they both stood stiffe, yet could not both withstond.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "As salvage Bull, whom two fierce mastives bayt,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "When rancour doth with rage him once engore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Forgets with wary warde them to awayt,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But with his dreadfull hornes them drives afore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or flings aloft, or treades downe in the flore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Breathing out wrath, and bellowing disdaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all the forest quakes to heare him rore:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So rag’d Prince Arthur twixt his foemen twaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That neither could his mightie puissaunce sustaine.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But ever at Pyrochles when he smitt,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "(Who Guyons shield cast ever him before,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereon the Faery Queenes pourtract was writt,)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His hand relented and the stroke forbore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And his deare hart the picture gan adore;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which oft the Paynim sav’d from deadly stowre:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But him henceforth the same can save no more;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For now arrived is his fatall howre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That no’te avoyded be by earthly skill or powre.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "For when Cymochles saw the fowle reproch,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which them appeached, prickt with guiltie shame", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And inward griefe, he fiercely gan approch,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Resolv’d to put away that loathly blame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or dye with honour and desert of fame;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And on the haubergh stroke the Prince so sore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That quite disparted all the linked frame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And pierced to the skin, but bit no more;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet made him twise to reele, that never moov’d afore.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whereat renfierst with wrath and sharp regret,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He stroke so hugely with his borrowd blade,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That it empierst the Pagans burganet;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, cleaving the hard steele, did deepe invade", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into his head, and cruell passage made", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Quite through his brayne. He, tombling downe on ground,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Breathd out his ghost, which, to th’infernall shade", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fast flying, there eternall torment found", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For all the sinnes wherewith his lewd life did abound.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which, when his german saw, the stony feare", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ran to his hart, and all his sence dismayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne thenceforth life ne corage did appeare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But as a man whom hellish feendes have frayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Long trembling still he stoode: at last thus sayd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Traytour, what hast thou doen? How ever may", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thy cursed hand so cruelly have swayd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Against that knight! Harrow and well away!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "After so wicked deede why liv’st thou lenger day?”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "With that all desperate, as loathing light,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And with revenge desyring soone to dye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Assembling all his force and utmost might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With his owne swerd he fierce at him did flye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And strooke, and foynd, and lasht outrageously,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Withouten reason or regard. Well knew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The Prince, with pacience and sufferaunce sly", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So hasty heat soone cooled to subdew:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tho, when this breathlesse woxe, that batteil gan renew.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "As when a windy tempest bloweth hye,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That nothing may withstand his stormy stowre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The clowdes, as thinges affrayd, before him flye;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But all so soone as his outrageous powre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Is layd, they fiercely then begin to showre;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, as in scorne of his spent stormy spight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now all attonce their malice forth do poure:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So did Prince Arthur beare himselfe in fight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And suffred rash Pyrochles waste his ydle might.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "At last, when as the Sarazin perceiv’d", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "How that straunge sword refusd to serve his neede,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But when he stroke most strong the dint deceiv’d,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He flong it from him; and, devoyd of dreed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon him lightly leaping without heed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Twixt his two mighty armes engrasped fast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thinking to overthrowe and downe him tred:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But him in strength and skill the Prince surpast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And through his nimble sleight did under him down cast.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Nought booted it the Paynim then to strive;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For as a Bittur in the Eagles clawe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That may not hope by flight to scape alive,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Still waytes for death with dread and trembling aw;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So he, now subject to the victours law,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did not once move, nor upward cast his eye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For vile disdaine and rancour, which did gnaw", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His hart in twaine with sad melancholy;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As one that loathed life, and yet despysd to dye.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But full of princely bounty and great mind,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The Conquerour nought cared him to slay;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But casting wronges and all revenge behind,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "More glory thought to give life then decay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And sayd; “Paynim, this is thy dismall day;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet if thou wilt renounce thy miscreaunce,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And my trew liegeman yield thy selfe for ay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Life will I graunt thee for thy valiaunce,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all thy wronges will wipe out of my sovenaunce.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Foole!” (sayd the Pagan) “I thy gift defye,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But use thy fortune as it doth befall;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And say, that I not overcome doe dye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But in despight of life for death doe call.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Wroth was the Prince, and sory yet withall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That he so wilfully refused grace;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet sith his fate so cruelly did fall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His shining Helmet he gan soone unlace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And left his headlesse body bleeding all the place.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "By this Sir Guyon from his traunce awakt,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Life having maystered her sencelesse foe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And looking up, whenas his shield he lakt", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And sword saw not, he wexed wondrous woe;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But when the Palmer, whom he long ygoe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had lost, he by him spyde, right glad he grew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And saide; “Deare sir, whom wandring to and fro", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I long have lackt, I joy thy face to vew:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Firme is thy faith, whom daunger never fro me drew.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“But read, what wicked hand hath robbed mee", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of my good sword and shield?” The Palmer glad", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With so fresh hew uprysing him to see,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him answered: “Fayre sonne, be no whit sad", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For want of weapons; they shall soone be had.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So gan he to discourse the whole debate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which that straunge knight for him sustained had,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And those two Sarazins confounded late,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose carcases on ground were horribly prostrate.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which when he heard, and saw the tokens trew,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His hart with great affection was embayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to the Prince, bowing with reverence dew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As to the patrone of his life, thus sayd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“My Lord, my liege, by whose most gratious ayd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I live this day, and see my foes subdewd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What may suffice to be for meede repayd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of so great graces as ye have me shewd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But to be ever bound”⁠—", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "To whom the Infant thus; “Fayre Sir, what need", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Good turnes be counted as a servile bond", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To bind their dooers to receive their meed?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Are not all knightes by oath bound to withstond", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Oppressours powre by armes and puissant hond?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Suffise that I have done my dew in place.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So goodly purpose they together fond", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of kindnesse and of courteous aggrace;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The whiles false Archimage and Atin fled apace.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Of all Gods workes which doe this worlde adorne,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "There is no one more faire and excellent", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then is mans body, both for powre and forme,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whiles it is kept in sober government;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But none then it more fowle and indecent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Distempred through misrule and passions bace;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It growes a Monster, and incontinent", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Doth loose his dignity and native grace:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Behold, who list, both one and other in this place.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "After the Paynim brethren conquer’d were,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The Briton Prince recov’ring his stolne sword,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Guyon his lost shield, they both yfere", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Forth passed on their way in fayre accord,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till him the Prince with gentle court did bord:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Sir knight, mote I of you this court’sy read,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To weet why on your shield, so goodly scord,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Beare ye the picture of that Ladies head?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Full lively is the semblaunt, though the substance dead.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Fayre Sir,” (sayd he) “if in that picture dead", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Such life ye read, and vertue in vaine shew;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What mote ye weene, if the trew lively-head", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of that most glorious visage ye did vew:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But yf the beauty of her mind ye knew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That is, her bountie, and imperiall powre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thousand times fairer then her mortall hew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "O! how great wonder would your thoughts devoure,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And infinite desire into your spirite poure!", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“She is the mighty Queene of Faery,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whose faire retraitt I in my shield doe beare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shee is the flowre of grace and chastity", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Throughout the world, renowmed far and neare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "My liefe, my liege, my Soveraine, my deare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose glory shineth as the morning starre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with her light the earth enlumines cleare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Far reach her mercies, and her praises farre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As well in state of peace, as puissaunce in warre.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Thrise happy man,” (said then the Briton knight)", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“Whom gracious lott and thy great valiaunce", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Have made thee soldier of that Princesse bright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which with her bounty and glad countenaunce", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Doth blesse her servaunts, and them high advaunce.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "How may straunge knight hope ever to aspire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By faithfull service and meete amenaunce,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto such blisse? sufficient were that hire", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For losse of thousand lives, to die at her desire.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Said Guyon, “Noble Lord, what meed so great,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Or grace of earthly Prince so soveraine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But by your wondrous worth and warlike feat", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ye well may hope, and easely attaine?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But were your will her sold to entertaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And numbred be mongst knights of Maydenhed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Great guerdon, well I wote, should you remaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in her favor high bee reckoned,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As Arthegall and Sophy now beene honored.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Certes,” (then said the Prince) “I God avow,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That sith I armes and knighthood first did plight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "My whole desire hath beene, and yet is now,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To serve that Queene with al my powre and might.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Seven times the Sunne, with his lamp-burning light,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Hath walkte about the world, and I no lesse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sith of that Goddesse I have sought the sight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet no where can her find: such happinesse", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Heven doth to me envy, and fortune favourlesse.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Fortune, the foe of famous chevisaunce,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Seldom” (said Guyon) “yields to vertue aide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But in her way throwes mischiefe and mischaunce,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereby her course is stopt and passage staid:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But you, faire Sir, be not herewith dismaid,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But constant keepe the way in which ye stand;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which, were it not that I am els delaid", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With hard adventure which I have in hand,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I labour would to guide you through al Faery land.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Gramercy Sir,” said he; “but mote I weete", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "What straunge adventure doe ye now pursew?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Perhaps my succour or advizement meete", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Mote stead you much your purpose to subdew.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then gan Sir Guyon all the story shew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of false Acrasia, and her wicked wiles;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which to avenge the Palmer him forth drew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From Faery court. So talked they, the whiles", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They wasted had much way, and measurd many miles.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And now faire Phoebus gan decline in haste", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His weary wagon to the Westerne vale,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whenas they spide a goodly castle, plaste", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Foreby a river in a pleasaunt dale;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which choosing for that evenings hospitale,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They thither marcht: but when they came in sight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And from their sweaty Coursers did avale,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They found the gates fast barred long ere night,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And every loup fast lockt, as fearing foes despight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which when they saw, they weened fowle reproch", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Was to them doen, their entraunce to forestall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till that the Squire gan nigher to approch,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And wind his horne under the castle wall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That with the noise it shooke as it would fall.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Eftsoones forth looked from the highest spire", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The watch, and lowd unto the knights did call,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To weete what they so rudely did require?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who gently answered, They entraunce did desire.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Fly fly, good knights,” (said he) “fly fast away,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "If that your lives ye love, as meete ye should;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fly fast, and save your selves from neare decay;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Here may ye not have entraunce, though we would:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "We would, and would againe, if that we could;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But thousand enemies about us rave,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with long siege us in the castle hould.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Seven yeares this wize they us besieged have,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And many good knights slaine that have us sought to save.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thus as he spoke, loe! with outragious cry", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A thousand villeins rownd about them swarmd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Out of the rockes and caves adjoyning nye;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Vile caitive wretches, ragged, rude, deformd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All threatning death, all in straunge manner armd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some with unweldy clubs, some with long speares,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some rusty knifes, some staves in fier warmd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sterne was their looke; like wild amazed steares,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Staring with hollow eies, and stiffe upstanding heares.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Fiersly at first those knights they did assayle,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And drove them to recoile; but when againe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They gave fresh charge, their forces gan to fayle,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unhable their encounter to sustaine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For with such puissaunce and impetuous maine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Those Champions broke on them, that forst them fly,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like scattered Sheepe, whenas the Shepherds swaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A Lyon and a Tigre doth espye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With greedy pace forth rushing from the forest nye.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "A while they fled, but soone retournd againe", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With greater fury then before was fownd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And evermore their cruell Capitaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sought with his raskall routs t’enclose them rownd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, overronne, to tread them to the grownd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But soone the knights with their bright burning blades", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Broke their rude troupes, and orders did confownd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Hewing and slashing at their idle shades;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For though they bodies seem, yet substaunce from them fades.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "As when a swarme of Gnats at eventide", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Out of the fennes of Allan doe arise,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their murmuring small trompetts sownden wide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whiles in the aire their clustring army flies,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That as a cloud doth seeme to dim the skies;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne man nor beast may rest, or take repast", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For their sharpe wounds and noyous injuries,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till the fierce Northerne wind with blustring blast", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Doth blow them quite away, and in the Ocean cast.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thus when they had that troublous rout disperst,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Unto the castle gate they come againe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And entraunce crav’d which was denied erst.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now when report of that their perlous paine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And combrous conflict which they did sustaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Came to the Ladies eare which there did dwell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shee forth issewed with a goodly traine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of Squires and Ladies equipaged well,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And entertained them right fairely, as befell.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Alma she called was; a virgin bright,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That had not yet felt Cupides wanton rage;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet was shee woo’d or many a gentle knight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And many a Lord of noble parentage,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That sought with her to lincke in marriage:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For shee was faire as faire mote ever bee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in the flowre now of her freshest age;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet full of grace and goodly modestee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That even heven rejoyced her sweete face to see.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "In robe of lilly white she was arayd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That from her shoulder to her heele downe raught;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The traine whereof loose far behind her strayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Braunched with gold and perle most richly wrought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And borne of two faire Damsels which were taught", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That service well. Her yellow golden heare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was trimly woven and in tresses wrought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne other tire she on her head did weare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But crowned with a garland of sweete Rosiere.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Goodly shee entertaind those noble knights,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And brought them up into her castle hall;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where gentle court and gracious delight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shee to them made, with mildnesse virginall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shewing her selfe both wise and liberall.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then, when they rested had a season dew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They her besought of favour speciall", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of that faire Castle to affoord them vew:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shee graunted; and, them leading forth, the same did shew.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "First she them led up to the Castle wall,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That was so high as foe might not it clime,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all so faire and fensible withall;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Not built of bricke, ne yet of stone and lime,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But of thing like to that Ægyptian slime,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereof king Nine whilome built Babell towre.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But O great pitty! that no lenger time", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So goodly workemanship should not endure:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Soone it must turne to earth; no earthly thing is sure.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The frame thereof seemd partly circulare,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And part triangulare; O worke divine!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Those two the first and last proportions are;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The one imperfect, mortall, fœminine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Th’other immortall, perfect, masculine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And twixt them both a quadrate was the base,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Proportiond equally by seven and nine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nine was the circle sett in heavens place:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All which compacted made a goodly Diapase.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Therein two gates were placed seemly well:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The one before, by which all in did pas,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did th’other far in workmanship excell;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For not of wood, nor of enduring bras,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But of more worthy substance fram’d it was:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Doubly disparted, it did locke and close,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That when it locked none might thorough pas,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And when it opened, no man might it close,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Still open to their friendes, and closed to their foes.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Of hewen stone the porch was fayrely wrought,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Stone more of valew, and more smooth and fine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then Jett or Marble far from Ireland brought;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Over the which was cast a wandring vine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Enchaced with a wanton yvie twine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And over it a fayre Portcullis hong,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which to the gate directly did incline", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With comely compasse and compacture strong,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nether unseemly short, nor yet exceeding long.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Within the Barbican a Porter sate,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Day and night duely keeping watch and ward;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nor wight nor word mote passe out of the gate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But in good order, and with dew regard;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Utterers of secrets he from thence debard,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Bablers of folly, and blazers of cryme:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His larumbell might lowd and wyde be hard", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When cause requyrd, but never out of time;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Early and late it rong, at evening and at prime.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And rownd about the porch on every syde", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Twise sixteene warders satt, all armed bright", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In glistring steele, and strongly fortifyde:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tall yeomen seemed they and of great might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And were enraunged ready still for fight.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By them as Alma passed with her guestes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They did obeysaunce, as beseemed right,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And then againe retourned to their restes:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The Porter eke to her did lout with humble gestes.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thence she them brought into a stately Hall,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Wherein were many tables fayre dispred,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And ready dight with drapets festivall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Against the viaundes should be ministred.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At th’upper end there sate, yclad in red", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Downe to the ground, a comely personage,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That in his hand a white rod menaged:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He Steward was, hight Diet; rype of age,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in demeanure sober, and in counsell sage.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And through the Hall there walked to and fro", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A jolly yeoman, Marshall of the same,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose name was Appetite: he did bestow", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both guestes and meate, when ever in they came,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And knew them how to order without blame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As him the Steward badd. They both attone", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did dewty to their Lady, as became;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who, passing by, forth ledd her guestes anone", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into the kitchin rowme, ne spard for nicenesse none.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "It was a vaut ybuilt for great dispence,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With many raunges reard along the wall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And one great chimney, whose long tonnell thence", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The smoke forth threw. And in the midst of all", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There placed was a caudron wide and tall", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon a mightie fornace, burning whott,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "More whott then Aetn’, or flaming Mongiball;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For day and night it brent, ne ceased not,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So long as any thing it in the caudron gott.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But to delay the heat, least by mischaunce", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "It might breake out and set the whole on fvre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There added was by goodly ordinaunce", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "An huge great payre of bellowes, which did styre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Continually, and cooling breath inspyre.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "About the Caudron many Cookes accoyld", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With hookes and ladles, as need did requyre;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The whyles the viaundes in the vessell boyld", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They did about their businesse sweat, and sorely toyld.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The maister Cooke was cald Concoction;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A carefull man, and full of comely guyse.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The kitchin clerke, that hight Digestion,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did order all th’Achates in seemely wise,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And set them forth, as well he could devise.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The rest had severall offices assynd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some to remove the scum as it did rise;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Others to beare the same away did mynd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And others it to use according to his kynd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But all the liquour, which was fowle and waste,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Not good nor serviceable elles for ought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They in another great rownd vessell plaste,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till by a conduit pipe it thence were brought:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all the rest, that noyous was and nought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By secret wayes, that none might it espy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was close convaid, and to the backgate brought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That cleped was Port Esquiline, whereby", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It was avoided quite, and throwne out privily.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which goodly order and great workmans skill", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whenas those knightes beheld, with rare delight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And gazing wonder they their mindes did fill;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For never had they seene so straunge a sight.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thence backe againe faire Alma led them right,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And soone into a goodly Parlour brought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That was with royall arras richly dight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In which was nothing pourtrahed nor wrought;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Not wrought nor pourtrahed, but easie to be thought.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And in the midst thereof upon the floure", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A lovely bevy of faire Ladies sate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Courted of many a jolly Paramoure,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which them did in modest wise amate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And each one sought his Lady to aggrate:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke emongst them litle Cupid playd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His wanton sportes, being retourned late", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From his fierce warres, and having from him layd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His cruel bow, wherewith he thousands hath dismayd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Diverse delights they fownd them selves to please;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Some song in sweet consort; some laught for joy;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some plaid with strawes; some ydly satt at ease;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But other some could not abide to toy;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All pleasaunce was to them griefe and annoy:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "This fround, that faund, the third for shame did blush,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Another seemed envious or coy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Another in her teeth did gnaw a rush;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But at these straungers presence every one did hush.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Soone as the gracious Alma came in place,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "They all attonce out of their seates arose,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to her homage made with humble grace:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom when the knights beheld, they gan dispose", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Themselves to court, and each a damzell chose.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The Prince by chaunce did on a Lady light,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That was right faire and fresh as morning rose,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But somwhat sad and solemne eke in sight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As if some pensive thought constraind her gentle spright.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "In a long purple pall, whose skirt with gold", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Was fretted all about, she was arayd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in her hand a Poplar braunch did hold:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To whom the Prince in courteous maner sayd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Gentle Madame, why beene ye thus dismayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And your faire beautie doe with sadnes spill?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Lives any that you hath thus ill apayd?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or doen you love? or doen you lack your will?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What ever bee the cause, it sure beseemes you ill.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Fayre Sir,” said she, halfe in disdaineful wise,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“How is it that this mood in me ye blame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in your selfe doe not the same advise?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him ill beseemes anothers fault to name,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That may unwares bee blotted with the same:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Pensive I yeeld I am, and sad in mind,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through great desire of glory and of fame;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ought, I weene, are ye therein behynd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That have three years sought one, yet no where can her find.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The Prince was inly moved at her speach,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Well weeting trew what she had rashly told;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet with faire semblaunt sought to hyde the breach,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which chaunge of colour did perforce unfold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now seeming flaming whott, now stony cold:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tho, turning soft aside, he did inquyre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What wight she was that Poplar braunch did hold?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It answered was, her name was Prays-desire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That by well doing sought to honour to aspyre.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The whyles the Faery knight did entertayne", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Another Damsell of that gentle crew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That was right fayre and modest of demayne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But that too oft she chaung’d her native hew.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Straunge was her tyre, and all her garment blew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Close rownd about her tuckt with many a plight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon her fist the bird, which shonneth vew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And keepes in coverts close from living wight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did sitt, as yet ashamd how rude Pan did her dight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So long as Guyon with her commoned,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Unto the grownd she cast her modest eye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And ever and anone with rosy red", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The bashfull blood her snowy cheekes did dye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That her became, as polisht yvory", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which cunning Craftesman hand hath overlayd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With fayre vermilion or pure Castory.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Great wonder had the knight to see the mayd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So straungely passioned, and to her gently said:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Fayre Damzell, seemeth by your troubled cheare,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That either me too bold ye weene, this wise", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "You to molest, or other ill to feare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That in the secret of your hart close lyes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From whence it doth, as cloud from sea, aryse.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "If it be I, of pardon I you pray;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But if ought else that I mote not devyse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I will, if please you it discure, assay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To ease you of that ill, so wisely as I may.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "She answerd nought, but more abasht for shame", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Held downe her head, the whiles her lovely face", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The flashing blood with blushing did inflame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And the strong passion mard her modest grace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That Guyon mervayld at her uncouth cace;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till Alma him bespake: “Why wonder yee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Faire Sir, at that which ye so much embrace?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She is the fountaine of your modestee:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "You shamefast are, but Shamefastnes it selfe is shee.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thereat the Elfe did blush in privitee,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And turnd his face away; but she the same", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Dissembled faire, and faynd to oversee.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thus they awhile with court and goodly game", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Themselves did solace each one with his Dame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till that great Lady thence away them sought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To vew her Castles other wondrous frame:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Up to a stately Turret she them brought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ascending by ten steps of Alabaster wrought.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "That Turrets frame most admirable was,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Like highest heaven compassed around,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And lifted high above this earthly masse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which it survewd as hils doen lower ground;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But not on ground mote like to this be found:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Not that, which antique Cadmus whylome built", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In Thebes, which Alexander did confound;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nor that proud towre of Troy, though richly guilt,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From which young Hectors blood by cruell Greekes was spilt.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The roofe hereof was arched over head,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And deckt with flowers and herbars daintily:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Two goodly Beacons, set in watches stead,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therein gave light, and flamd continually;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For they of living fire most subtilly", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Were made, and set in silver sockets bright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Cover’d with lids deviz’d of substance sly,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That readily they shut and open might.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "O! who can tell the prayses of that makers might?", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Ne can I tell, ne can I stay to tell,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "This parts great workemanship and wondrous powre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all this other worldes worke doth excell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And likest is unto that heavenly towre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That God hath built for his owne blessed bowre.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therein were divers rowmes, and divers stages;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But three the chiefest and of greatest powre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In which there dwelt three honorable sages,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The wisest men, I weene, that lived in their ages.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Not he, whom Greece, the Nourse of all good arts,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "By Phœbus doome the wisest thought alive,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Might be compar’d to these by many parts:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nor that sage Pylian syre, which did survive", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Three ages, such as mortall men contrive,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By whose advise old Priams cittie fell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With these in praise of pollicies mote strive.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "These three in these three rowmes did sondry dwell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And counselled faire Alma how to governe well.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The first of them could things to come foresee;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The next could of thinges present best advize;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The third things past could keep in memoree:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So that no time nor reason could arize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But that the same could one of these comprize.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Forthy the first did in the forepart sit,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That nought mote hinder his quicke prejudize:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He had a sharpe foresight and working wit", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That never idle was, ne once would rest a whit.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "His chamber was dispainted all within", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With sondry colours, in the which were writ", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Infinite shapes of thinges dispersed thin;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some such as in the world were never yit,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne can devized be of mortall wit;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some daily seene and knowen by their names,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Such as in idle fantasies do flit;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Infernall Hags, Centaurs, feendes, Hippodames,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Apes, Lyons, Aegles, Owles, fooles, lovers, children, Dames.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And all the chamber filled was with flyes", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which buzzed all about, and made such sound", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That they encombred all mens eares and eyes;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like many swarmes of Bees assembled round,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "After their hives with honny do abound.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All those were idle thoughtes and fantasies,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Devices, dreames, opinions unsound,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shewes, visions, soothsayes, and prophesies;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all that fained is, as leasings, tales, and lies.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Emongst them all sate he which wonned there,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That hight Phantastes by his nature trew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A man of yeares yet fresh, as mote appere,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of swarth complexion, and of crabbed hew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That him full of melancholy did shew;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Bent hollow beetle browes, sharpe staring eyes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That mad or foolish seemd: one by his vew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Mote deeme him borne with ill-disposed skyes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When oblique Saturne sate in th’house of agonyes.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whom Alma having shewed to her guestes,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Thence brought them to the second rowme, whose wals", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Were painted faire with memorable gestes", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of famous Wisards; and with picturals", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of Magistrates, of courts, of tribunals,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of commen-wealthes, of states, of pollicy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of lawes, of judgementes, and of decretals,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All artes, all science, all Philosophy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all that in the world was ay thought wittily.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Of those that rowme was full; and them among", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "There sate a man of ripe and perfect age,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who did them meditate all his life long,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That through continuall practise and usage", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He now was growne right wise and wondrous sage:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Great pleasure had those straunger knightes to see", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His goodly reason and grave personage,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That his disciples both desyrd to bee;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Alma thence them led to th’hindmost rowme of three.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "That chamber seemed ruinous and old,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And therefore was removed far behind,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet were the wals, that did the same uphold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Right firme and strong, though somwhat they declind;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And therein sat an old old man, halfe blind,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all decrepit in his feeble corse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet lively vigour rested in his mind,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And recompenst them with a better scorse:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Weake body wel is chang’d for minds redoubled forse.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "This man of infinite remembraunce was,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And things foregone through many ages held,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which he recorded still as they did pas,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne suffred them to perish through long eld,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As all things els the which this world doth weld;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But laid them up in his immortall scrine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where they for ever incorrupted dweld:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The warres he well remembred of king Nine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of old Assaracus, and Inachus divine.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The yeares of Nestor nothing were to his,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ne yet Mathusalem, though longest liv’d;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For he remembred both their infancis:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne wonder then, if that he were depriv’d", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of native strength now that he them surviv’d.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His chamber all was hangd about with rolls", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And old records from auncient times derivd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some made in books, some in long parchment scrolls,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That were all worm-eaten and full of canker holes.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Amidst them all he in a chaire was sett,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Tossing and turning them withouten end;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But for he was unhable them to fett,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A litle boy did on him still attend", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To reach, when ever he for ought did send;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And oft when thinges were lost, or laid amis,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That boy them sought and unto him did lend:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therefore he Anamnestes cleped is;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And that old man Eumnestes, by their propertis.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The knightes there entring did him reverence dew,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And wondred at his endlesse exercise:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then as they gan his Library to vew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And antique Regesters for to avise,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There chaunced to the Princes hand to rize", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "An auncient booke, hight Briton Moniments,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That of this lands first conquest did devize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And old division into Regiments,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till it reduced was to one mans governements.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Sir Guyon chaunst eke on another booke,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That hight Antiquitee of Faery lond:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In which whenas he greedily did looke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Th’ofspring of Elves and Faeryes there he fond,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As it delivered was from hond to hond:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereat they, burning both with fervent fire", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their countreys auncestry to understond,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Crav’d leave of Alma and that aged sire", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To read those bookes; who gladly graunted their desire.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Who now shall give unto me words and sound", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Equall unto this haughtie enterprise?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or who shall lend me wings, with which from ground", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "My lowly verse may loftily arise,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And lift it selfe unto the highest skies?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "More ample spirit then hitherto was wount", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Here needes me, whiles the famous auncestries", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of my most dreaded Soveraigne I recount,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By which all earthly Princes she doth far surmount.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Ne under Sunne that shines so wide and faire,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whence all that lives does borrow life and light,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Lives ought that to her linage may compaire;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which though from earth it be derived right,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet doth it selfe stretch forth to hevens hight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all the world with wonder overspred;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A labor huge, exceeding far my might.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "How shall fraile pen, with feare disparaged,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Conceive such soveraine glory and great bountyhed?", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Argument worthy of Mæonian quill;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Or rather worthy of great Phoebus rote,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereon the ruines of great Ossa hill,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And triumphes of Phlegræan Jove, he wrote,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all the Gods admird his lofty note.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But if some relish of that hevenly lay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His learned daughters would to me report", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To decke my song withall, I would assay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thy name, O soveraine Queene! to blazon far away.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thy name, O soveraine Queene! thy realme and race,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "From this renowmed Prince derived arre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who mightily upheld that royall mace", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which now thou bear’st, to thee descended farre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From mighty kings and conquerours in warre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thy fathers and great Grandfathers of old,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose noble deeds above the Northerne starre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Immortall fame for ever hath enrold;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As in that old mans booke they were in order told.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The land which warlike Britons now possesse,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And therein have their mighty empire raysd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In antique times was salvage wildernesse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unpeopled, unmannurd, unprovd, unpraysd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne was it Island then, ne was it paysd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Amid the ocean waves, ne was it sought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of merchants farre for profits therein praysd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But was all desolate, and of some thought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By sea to have bene from the Celticke mayn-land brought.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Ne did it then deserve a name to have,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Till that the venturous Mariner that way", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Learning his ship from those white rocks to save,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which all along the Southerne sea-coast lay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Threatning unheedy wrecke and rash decay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For safety that same his sea-marke made,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And namd it Albion: But later day,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Finding in it fit ports for fishers trade,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gan more the same frequent, and further to invade.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But far in land a salvage nation dwelt", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of hideous Giaunts, and halfe beastly men,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That never tasted grace, nor goodnes felt;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But wild like beastes lurking in loathsome den,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And flying fast as Roebucke through the fen,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All naked without shame or care of cold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By hunting and by spoiling liveden;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of stature huge, and 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"Corineus conquered, and cruelly did slay.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And eke that ample Pitt, yet far renownd", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For the large leape which Debon did compell", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Coulin to make, being eight lugs of grownd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into the which retourning backe he fell:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But those three monstrous stones doe most excell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which that huge sonne of hideous Albion,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose father Hercules in Fraunce did quell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Great Godmer threw, in fierce contention,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At bold Canutus; but of him was slaine anon.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "In meed of these great conquests by them gott,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Corineus had that Province utmost west", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To him assigned for his worthy lott,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which of his name and memorable gest", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He 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"text": "This land invaded with like violence,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And did themselves through all the North display:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Untill that Locrine for his Realmes defence,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did head against them make and strong munificence.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He them encountred, a confused rout,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Foreby the River that whylome was hight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The ancient Abus, where with courage stout", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He them defeated in victorious fight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And chaste so fiercely after fearefull flight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That forst their chiefetain, for his safeties sake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "(Their Chiefetain Humber named was aright,)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto the mighty streame him to betake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where he an end of batteill and of life did make.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The king retourned proud of victory,", 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"indent": 1 }, { "text": "And threw in bands, where he till death remaind;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Als his faire Leman flying through a brooke", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She overhent, nought moved with her piteous looke;", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But both her selfe, and eke her daughter deare,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Begotten by her kingly Paramoure,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The faire Sabrina, almost dead with feare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She there attached, far from all succoure;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The one she slew upon the present floure;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But the sad virgin, innocent of all,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Adowne the rolling river she did poure,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which of her name now Severne men do call:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Such was the end that to disloyall love did fall.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then for her sonne, which she to Locrin bore,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Madan was young, unmeet the rule 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puissaunce great,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Right well recur’d, and did away that blame", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With recompence of everlasting fame:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He with his victour sword first opened", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The bowels of wide Fraunce, a forlorne Dame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And taught her first how to be conquered;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Since which, with sondrie spoiles she hath been ransacked.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Let Scaldis tell, and let tell Hania,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And let the marsh of Esthambruges tell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What colour were their waters that same day,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all the moore twixt Elversham and Dell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With blood of Henalois which therein fell.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "How oft that day did sad Brunchildis see", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The greene shield dyde in dolorous vermell?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That not Scuith guiridh 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"And in their entrailles, full of quick Brimston,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nourish the flames which they are warmd upon,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That to their people wealth they forth do well,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And health to every forreyne nation:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet he at last, contending to excell", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The reach of men, through flight into fond mischief fell.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Next him king Leyr in happie peace long raynd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But had no issue male him to succeed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But three faire daughters, which were well uptraind", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In all that seemed fitt for kingly seed:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Mongst whom his realme he equally decreed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To have divided. Tho, when feeble age", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nigh to his utmost date he saw proceed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He cald his daughters, and with speeches sage", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Inquyrd, which of them most did love her parentage?", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The eldest, Gonorill, gan to protest", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That she much more than her owne life him lov’d;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Regan greater love to him profest", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then all the world, when ever it were proov’d;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Cordeill said she lov’d him as behoov’d:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose simple answere, wanting colours fayre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To paint it forth, him to displeasaunce moov’d,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That in his crown he counted her no hayre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But twixt the other twain his kingdom whole did shayre.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So wedded th’one to Maglan king of Scottes,", "indent": 0 }, { 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first well used every way;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But when of his departure she despayrd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her bountie she abated, and his cheare empayrd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The wretched man gan then avise too late,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That love is not where most it is profest;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Too truely tryde in his extremest state.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At last, resolv’d likewise to prove the rest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He to Cordelia him selfe addrest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who with entyre affection him receav’d,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As for her Syre and king her seemed best;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And after all an army strong she leav’d,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To war on those which him had of his realme bereav’d,", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So to his crowne she him restord againe;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In which he dyde, made ripe for death by eld,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And after wild it should to her remaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who peaceably the same long time did weld,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all mens harts in dew obedience held;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till that her sisters children, woxen strong,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through proud ambition against her rebeld,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And overcommen kept in prison long,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till weary of that wretched life her selfe she hong.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then gan the bloody brethren both to raine;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But fierce Cundah gan shortly to envy", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His brother Morgan, prickt with proud disdaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To have a pere in part of soverainty;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And kindling coles of cruell enmity,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Raisd warre, and him in batteill overthrew.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whence as he to those woody hilles did fly,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which hight of him Glamorgan, there him slew:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then did he raigne alone, when he none equall knew.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "His sonne Rivall’his dead rowme did supply;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In whose sad time blood did from heaven rayne.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Next great Gurgustus, then faire Cæcily,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In constant peace their kingdomes did contayne.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "After whom Lago, and Kinmarke did rayne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Gorbogud, till far in years he grew:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then his ambitious sonnes unto them twayne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Arraught the rule, and from their father drew;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Stout Ferrex and sterne Porrex him in prison threw.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But O! the greedy thirst of royall crowne,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That knowes no kinred, nor regardes no right,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Stird Porrex up to put his brother downe;", "indent": 1 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nominate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And that of Cambry king confirmed late,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He overthrew through his owne valiaunce;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose countries he redus’d to quiet state,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And shortly brought to civile governaunce,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now one, which earst were many made through variaunce.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then made he sacred lawes, which some men say", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Were unto him reveald in vision;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By which he freed the Traveilers high-way,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The Churches part, and Ploughmans portion,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Restraining stealth and strong extortion,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The gratious Numa of great Britany;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For till his dayes, the chiefe dominion", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By strength was wielded without pollicy:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therefore he first wore crowne of gold for 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dead fathers daies.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He also gave to fugitives of Spayne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom he at sea found wandring from their waies,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A seate in Ireland safely to remayne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which they should hold of him, as subject to Britayne.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "After him raigned Guitheline his hayre,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The justest man and trewest in his daies,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who had to wife Dame Mertia the fayre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A woman worthy of immortall praise,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which for this Realme found many goodly layes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And wholesome Statutes to her husband brought.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her many deemd to have beene of the Fayes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As was Aegerie that Numa tought:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Those yet of her be Mertian lawes both nam’d and thought.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Her sonne Sisillus after her did rayne;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And then Kimarus; and then Danius:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Next whom Morindus did the crowne sustayne;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who, had he not with wrath outrageous", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And cruell rancour dim’d his valorous", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And mightie deedes, should matched have the best:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As well in that same field victorious", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Against the forreine Morands he exprest;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet lives his memorie, though carcas sleepe in rest.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Five sonnes he left, begotten of one wife,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "All which successively by turnes did rayne:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "First Gorboman, a man of vertuous life;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Next Archigald, who for his proud disdayne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Deposed was from princedome soverayne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And pitteous Elidure put in his sted;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who shortly it to him restord agayne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till by his death he it recovered:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Peridure and Vigent him disthronized.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "In wretched prison long he did remaine,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Till they outraigned had their utmost date,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And then therein reseized was againe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And ruled long with honorable state,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till he surrendered Realme and life to fate.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then all the sonnes of these five brethren raynd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By dew successe, and all their Nephewes late;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Even thrise eleven descents the crowne retaynd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till aged Hely by dew heritage it gaynd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He had two sonnes, whose eldest, called Lud,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Left of his life most famous memory,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And endlesse moniments of his great good:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The ruin’d wals he did reædifye", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of Troynovant, gainst force of enimy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And built that gate which of his name is hight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By which he lyes entombed solemnly.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He left two sonnes, too young to rule aright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Androgeus and Tenantius, pictures of his might.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whilst they were young, Cassibalane, their Eme,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Was by the people chosen in their sted,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who on him tooke the roiall Diademe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And goodly well long time it governed;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till the prowde Romanes him disquieted,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And warlike Cæsar, tempted with the name", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of this sweet Island never conquered,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And envying the Britons blazed fame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "(O hideous hunger of dominion!) hither came.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Yet twise they were repulsed backe againe,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And twise renforst backe to their ships to fly;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The whiles with blood they all the shore did staine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And the gray Ocean into purple dy:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne had they footing found at last, perdie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had not Androgeus, false to native soyle,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And envious of Uncles soveraintie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Betrayd his countrey unto forreine spoyle.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nought els but treason from the first this land did foyle.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So by him Cæsar got the victory,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Through great bloodshed and many a sad assay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In which himselfe was charged heavily", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of hardy Nennius, whom he yet did slay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But lost his sword, yet to be seene this day.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thenceforth this land was tributarie made", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "T’ambitious Rome, and did their rule obay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till Arthur all that reckoning defrayd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet oft the Briton kings against them strongly swayd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Next him Tenantius raignd; them Kimbeline,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "What time th’eternall Lord in fleshly slime", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Enwombed was, from wretched Adams line", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To purge away the guilt of sinfull crime.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "O joyous memorie of happy time,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That heavenly grace so plenteously displayd!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "(O too high ditty for my simple rime!)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Soone after this the Romanes him warrayd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For that their tribute he refusd to let be payd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Good Claudius, that next was Emperour,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "An army brought, and with him batteile fought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In which the king was by a Treachetour", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Disguised slaine, ere any thereof thought:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet ceased not the bloody fight for ought;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For Arvirage his brothers place supplyde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both in his armes and crowne, and by that draught", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did drive the Romanes to the weaker syde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That they to peace agreed. So all was pacifyde.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Was never king more highly magnifide,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Nor dredd of Romanes, then was Arvirage;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For which the Emperour to him allide", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His daughter Genuiss’ in marriage:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet shortly he renounst the vassallage", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of Rome againe, who hither hastly sent", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Vespasian, that with great spoile and rage", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Forwasted all, till Genuissa gent", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Persuaded him to ceasse, and her lord to relent.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He dide; and him succeeded Marius,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Who joy’d his dayes in great tranquillity.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then Coyll; and after him good Lucius,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That first received Christianity,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The sacred pledge of Christes Evangely.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet true it is, that long before that day", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Hither came Joseph of Arimathy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who brought with him the holy grayle, they say,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And preacht the truth; but since it greatly did decay.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "This good king shortly without issew dide,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whereof great trouble in the kingdome grew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That did her selfe in sondry parts divide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with her powre her owne selfe overthrew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whilest Romanes daily did the weake subdew:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which seeing, stout Bunduca up arose,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And taking armes the Britons to her drew;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With whom she marched streight against her foes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And them unwares besides the Severne did enclose.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "There she with them a cruell batteill tryde,", "indent": 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"Triumphed oft against her enemis;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And yet, though overcome in haplesse fight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shee triumphed on death, in enemies despight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Her reliques Fulgent having gathered,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Fought with Severus, and him overthrew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet in the chace was slaine of them that fled,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So made them victors whome he did subdew.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then gan Carausius tirannize anew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And gainst the Romanes bent their proper powre;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But him Allectus treacherously slew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And tooke on him the robe of Emperoure:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nath’lesse the same enjoyed but short happy howre:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "For Asclepiodate him overcame,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And left inglorious on the vanquisht playne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Without or robe or rag to hide his shame:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then afterwards he in his stead did raigne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But shortly was by Coyll in batteill slaine:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who after long debate, since Lucies tyme,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was of the Britons first crownd Soveraine.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then gan this Realme renew her passed prime:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He of his name Coylchester built of stone and lime.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which when the Romanes heard, they hither sent", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Constantius, a man of mickle might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With whome king Coyll made an agreëment,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to him gave for wife his daughter bright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fayre Helena, the fairest living wight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who in all godly thewes and goodly praise", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did far excell, but was most famous hight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For skil in Musicke of all in her daies,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As well in curious instruments as cunning laies.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Of whom he did great Constantine begett,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Who afterward was Emperour of Rome,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To which whiles absent he his mind did sett,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Octavius here lept into his roome,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And it usurped by unrighteous doome:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But he his title justifide by might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Slaying Traherne, and having overcome", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The Romane legion in dreadfull fight.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So settled he his kingdome, and confirmd his right:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But wanting yssew male, his daughter deare", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He gave in wedlocke to Maximian,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And him with her made of his kingdome heyre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who soone by meanes thereof the Empire 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beare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For dread of whom, and for those Picts annoyes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He sent to Germany straunge aid to reare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From whence eftsoones arrived here three hoyes", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of Saxons, whom he for his safety imployes.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Two brethren were their Capitayns, which hight", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Hengist and Horsus, well approv’d in warre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And both of them men of renowmed might;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who making vantage of their civile jarre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And of those forreyners which came from farre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Grew great, and got large portions of land,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That in the Realme ere long they stronger arre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then they which sought at first their helping hand,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Vortiger have forst the kingdome to aband.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But by the helpe of Vortimere his sonne,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He is againe unto his rule restord;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Hengist, seeming sad for that was donne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Received is to grace and new accord,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through his faire daughters face and flattring word.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Soone after which three hundred Lords he slew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of British blood, all sitting at his bord;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose dolefull moniments who list to rew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Th’eternall marks of treason may at Stonheng vew.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "By this the sonnes of Constantine, which fled,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ambrose and Uther, did ripe yeares attayne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, here arriving, strongly challenged", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The crowne which Vortiger did long detayne:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who, flying from his guilt, by them was slayne;", "indent": 1 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"indent": 0 }, { "text": "The royall Ofspring of his native land,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Cryde out; “Deare countrey! O! how dearely deare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ought thy remembraunce and perpetuall band", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Be to thy foster Childe, that from thy hand", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did commun breath and nouriture receave.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "How brutish is it not to understand", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "How much to her we owe, that all us gave;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That gave unto us all what ever good we have.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But Guyon all this while his booke did read,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ne yet has ended; for it was a great", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And ample volume, that doth far exceed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "My leasure so long leaves here to repeat:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It told how first Prometheus did create", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A man, of many parts from beasts deryv’d,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And then stole fire from heven to animate", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His worke, for which he was by Jove depryv’d", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of life him self, and hartstrings of an Aegle ryv’d.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "That man so made he called Elfe, to weet", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Quick, the first author of all Elfin kynd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who, wandring through the world with wearie feet,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did in the gardins of Adonis fynd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A goodly creature, whom he deemd in mynd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To be no earthly wight, but either Spright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or Angell, th’authour of all woman kynd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therefore a Fay he her according hight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of whom all Faeryes spring, and fetch their lignage right.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Of these a mighty people shortly grew,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And puissant kinges which all the world warrayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to them selves all Nations did subdew.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The first and eldest, which that scepter swayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was Elfin; him all India obayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all that now America men call:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Next him was noble Elfinan, who laid", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Cleopolis foundation first of all:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Elfiline enclosd it with a golden wall.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "His sonne was Elfinell, who overcame", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The wicked Gobbelines in bloody field;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Elfant was of most renowmed fame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who all of Christall did Panthea build:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then Elfar, who two brethren gyauntes kild,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The one of which had two heades, th’other three:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then Elfinor, who was in magick skild;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He built by art upon the glassy See", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A bridge of bras, whose sound hevens thunder seem’d to bee.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He left three sonnes, the which in order raynd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And all their Ofspring, in their dew descents;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Even seven hundred Princes, which maintaynd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With mightie deedes their sondry governments;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That were too long their infinite contents", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Here to record, ne much materiall:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet should they be most famous moniments,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And brave ensample, both of martiall", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And civil rule, to kinges and states imperiall.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "After all these Elficleos did rayne,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The wise Elficleos, in great Majestie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who mightily that scepter did sustayne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with rich spoyles and famous victorie", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did high advaunce the crowne of Faery:", "indent": 1 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}, { "text": "And naturall desire of countryes state,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So long they redd in those antiquities,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That how the time was fled they quite forgate;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till gentle Alma, seeing it so late,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Perforce their studies broke, and them besought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To thinke how supper did them long awaite:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So halfe unwilling from their bookes them brought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And fayrely feasted as so noble knightes she ought.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "What warre so cruel, or what siege so sore,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As that which strong affections doe apply", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Against the forte of reason evermore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To bring the sowle into captivity?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their force is fiercer through infirmity", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of the fraile flesh, relenting to their rage,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And exercise most bitter tyranny", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon the partes brought into their bondage:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "No wretchednesse is like to sinfull vellenage.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But in a body which doth freely yeeld", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His partes to reasons rule obedient,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And letteth her that ought the scepter weeld,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All happy peace and goodly government", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Is setled there in sure establishment.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There Alma, like a virgin Queene most bright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Doth florish in all beautie excellent;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to her guestes doth bounteous banket dight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Attempred goodly well for health and for delight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Early, before the Morne with cremosin ray", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The windowes of bright heaven opened had,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through which into the world the dawning day", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Might looke, that maketh every creature glad,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Uprose Sir Guyon, in bright armour clad,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to his purposd journey him prepar’d:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With him the Palmer eke in habit sad", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him selfe addrest to that adventure hard:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So to the rivers syde they both together far’d:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Where them awaited ready at the ford", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The Ferriman, as Alma had behight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With his well-rigged bote: They goe abord,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And he eftsoones gan launch his barke forthright.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ere long they rowed were quite out of sight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And fast the land behynd them fled away.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But let them pas, whiles wind and wether right", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Doe serve their turnes: here I a while must stay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To see a cruell fight doen by the prince this day.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "For all so soone as Guyon thence was gon", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Upon his voyage with his trustie guyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That wicked band of villeins fresh begon", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That castle to assaile on every side,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And lay strong siege about it far and wyde.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So huge and infinite their numbers were,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all the land they under them did hyde;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So fowle and ugly, that exceeding feare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their visages imprest when they approched neare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Them in twelve troupes their Captein did dispart,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And round about in fittest steades did place,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where each might best offend his proper part,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And his contrary object most deface,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As every one seem’d meetest in that cace.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Seven of the same against the Castle gate", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In strong entrenchments he did closely place,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which with incessaunt force and endlesse hate", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They battred day and night, and entraunce did awate.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The other five five sondry wayes he sett", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Against the five great Bulwarkes of that pyle,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And unto each a Bulwarke did arrett,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "T’assayle with open force or hidden guyle,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In hope thereof to win victorious spoile.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They all that charge did fervently apply", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With greedie malice and importune toyle,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And planted there their huge 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"But soone as Titan gan his head exault,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And soone againe as he his light withhault,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their wicked engins they against it bent;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That is, each thing by which the eyes may fault:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But two then all more huge and violent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Beautie and Money, they that Bulwarke sorely rent.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The second Bulwarke was the Hearing sence,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Gainst which the second troupe assignment makes;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Deformed creatures, in straunge difference,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some having heads like Harts, some like to Snakes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some like wilde Bores late rouzd out of the brakes:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Slaunderous reproches, and fowle infamies,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Leasinges, backbytinges, and vainglorious crakes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Bad counsels, prayses, and false 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"text": "Some mouth’d like greedy Oystriges; some faste", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like loathly Toades; some fashioned in the waste", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like swine: for so deformd is luxury,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Surfeat, misdiet, and unthriftie waste,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Vaine feastes, and ydle superfluity:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All those this sences Fort assayle incessantly.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But the fift troupe, most horrible of hew", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And ferce of force, is dreadfull to report;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For some like Snailes, some did like spyders shew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And some like ugly Urchins thick and short:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Cruelly they assayed that fift Fort,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Armed with dartes of sensuall Delight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With stinges of carnall lust, and strong effort", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of feeling pleasures, with which day and night", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Against that same fift bulwarke they continued fight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thus these twelve troupes with dreadfull puissaunce", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Against that Castle restlesse siege did lay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And evermore their hideous Ordinaunce", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon the Bulwarkes cruelly did play,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That now it gan to threaten neare decay:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And evermore their wicked Capitayn", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Provoked them the breaches to assay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sometimes with threats, sometimes with hope of gayn,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which by the ransack of that peece they should attayn.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "On th’other syde, th’assieged Castles ward", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Their stedfast stonds did mightily maintaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And many bold repulse and many hard", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Achievement wrought, with perill and 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"text": "Fom the high mountaines, threates to overflow", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With suddein fury all the fertile playne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And the sad husbandmans long hope doth throw", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Adowne the streame, and all his vowes make vayne;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nor bounds nor banks his headlong ruine may sustayne.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Upon his shield their heaped hayle he bore,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And with his sword disperst the raskall flockes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which fled asonder, and him fell before;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As withered leaves drop from their dryed stockes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When the wroth Western wind does reave their locks:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And underneath him his courageous steed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The fierce Spumador, trode them downe like docks;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The fierce Spumador, borne of heavenly seed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Such as 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{ "text": "Such as the Indians in their quivers hide:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Those could he well direct and streight as line,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And bid them strike the marke which he had eyde;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne was there salve, ne was there medicine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That mote recure their wounds; so inly they did tine.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "As pale and wan as ashes was his looke,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His body leane and meagre as a rake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And skin all withered like a dryed rooke;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thereto as cold and drery as a snake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That seemd to tremble evermore and quake;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All in a canvas thin he was bedight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And girded with a belt of twisted brake:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon his head he wore an Helmet light,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Made of a dead mans skull, that seemd a ghastly sight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Maleger was his name; and after him", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "There follow’d fast at hand two wicked Hags,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With hoary lockes all loose, and visage grim;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their feet unshod, their bodies wrapt in rags,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And both as swift on foot as chased Stags;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And yet the one her other legge had lame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which with a staffe, all full of litle snags,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She did support, and Impotence her name:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But th’other was Impatience, arm’d with raging flame.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Soone as the Carle from far the Prince espyde", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Glistring in armes and warlike ornament,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His Beast he felly prickt on either syde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And his mischievous bow full readie bent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With which at him a cruell shaft he sent:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But he was warie, and it warded well", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon his shield, that it no further went,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But to the ground the idle quarrell fell:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then he another and another did expell.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which to prevent the Prince his mortall speare", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Soone to him raught, and fierce at him did ride,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To be avenged of that shot whyleare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But he was not so hardy to abide", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That bitter stownd, but turning quicke aside", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His light-foot beast, fled fast away for feare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom to poursue the Infant after hide", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So fast as his good Courser could him beare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But labour lost it was to weene approch him neare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "For as the winged wind his Tigre fled,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That vew of eye could scarse him overtake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne scarse his feet on ground were seene to tred:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through hils and dales he speedy way did make,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne hedge ne ditch his readie passage brake;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in his flight the villein turn’d his face", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "(As wonts the Tartar by the Caspian lake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whenas the Russian him in fight does chace)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto his Tygres taile, and shot at him apace.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Apace he shot, and yet he fled apace,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Still as the greedy knight nigh to him drew;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And oftentimes he would relent his pace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That him his foe more fiercely should poursew:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But when his uncouth manner he did vew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He gan avize to follow him no more,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But keepe his standing, and his shaftes eschew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Untill he quite had spent his perlous store,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And then assayle him fresh, ere he could shift for more.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But that lame Hag, still as abroad he strew", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His wicked arrowes, gathered them againe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to him brought, fresh batteill to renew;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which he espying cast her to restraine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From yielding succour to that cursed Swaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And her attaching thought her hands to tye;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But soone as him dismounted on the plaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That other Hag did far away espye", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Binding her sister, she to him ran hastily;", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And catching hold of him, as downe he lent,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Him backeward overthrew, and downe him stayd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With their rude handes and gryesly graplement;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till that the villein, comming to their ayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon him fell, and lode upon him layd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Full litle wanted but he had him slaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And of the battell balefull end had made,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had not his gentle Squire beheld his paine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And commen to his reskew, ere his bitter bane.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So greatest and most glorious thing on ground", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "May often need the helpe of weaker hand;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So feeble is mans state, and life unsound,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That in assuraunce it may never stand,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till it dissolved be from earthly band.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Proofe be thou, Prince, the prowest man alyve,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And noblest borne of all in Britayne land;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet thee fierce Fortune did so nearely drive,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That, had not grace thee blest, thou shouldest not survive.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The Squyre arriving fiercely in his armes", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Snatcht first the one, and then the other Jade,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His chiefest letts and authors of his harmes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And them perforce withheld with threatned blade,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Least that his Lord they should behinde invade;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The whiles the Prince, prickt with reprochful shame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As one awakte out of long slombring shade,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Revivyng thought of glory and of fame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "United all his powres to purge him selfe from blame.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Like as a fire, the which in hollow cave", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Hath long bene underkept and down supprest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With murmurous disdayne doth inly rave,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And grudge in so streight prison to be prest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At last breakes forth with furious unrest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And strives to mount unto his native seat;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All that did earst it hinder and molest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yt now devoures with flames and scorching heat,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And carries into smoake with rage and horror great.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So mightely the Briton Prince him rouzd", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Out of his holde, and broke his caytive bands;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And as a Beare, whom angry curres have touzd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Having off-shakt them and escapt their hands,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Becomes more fell, and all that him withstands", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Treads down and overthrowes. Now had the Carle", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Alighted from his Tigre, and his hands", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Discharged of his bow and deadly quar’le,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To seize upon his foe flatt lying on the marle.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which now him turnd to disavantage deare;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For neither can he fly, nor other harme,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But trust unto his strength and manhood meare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sith now he is far from his monstrous swarme,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And of his weapons did himselfe disarme.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The knight, yet wrothfull for his late disgrace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fiercely advaunst his valorous right arme,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And him so sore smott with his yron mace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That groveling to the ground he fell, and fild his place.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Wel weened hee that field was then his owne,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And all his labor brought to happy end;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When suddein up the villeine overthrowne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Out of his swowne arose, fresh to contend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And gan him selfe to second battaill bend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As hurt he had not beene. Thereby there lay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "An huge great stone, which stood upon one end,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And had not bene removed many a day;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some land-marke seemd to bee, or signe of sundry way:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The same he snatcht, and with exceeding sway", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Threw at his foe, who was right well aware", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To shonne the engin of his meant decay;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It booted not to thinke that throw to beare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But grownd he gave, and lightly lept areare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Eft fierce retourning, as a faulcon fayre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That once hath failed of her souse full neare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Remounts againe into the open ayre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And unto better fortune doth her selfe prepayre.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So brave retourning, with his brandisht blade", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He to the Carle him selfe agayn addrest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And strooke at him so sternely, that he made", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "An open passage through his riven brest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That halfe the steele behind his backe did rest;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which drawing backe, he looked evermore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When the hart blood should gush out of his chest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or his dead corse should fall upon the flore;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But his dead corse upon the flore fell nathemore.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Ne drop of blood appeared shed to bee,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "All were the wownd so wide and wonderous", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That through his carcas one might playnly see.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Halfe in amaze with horror hideous,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And halfe in rage to be deluded thus,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Again through both the sides he strooke him quight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That made his spright to grone full piteous;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet nathemore forth fled his groning spright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But freshly, as at first, prepard himselfe to fight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thereat he smitten was with great affright,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And trembling terror did his hart apall;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne wist he what to thinke of that same sight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne what to say, ne what to doe at all:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He doubted least it were some magicall", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Illusion that did beguile his sense,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or wandring ghost that wanted funerall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or aery spirite under false pretence,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or hellish feend raysd up through divelish science.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "His wonder far exceeded reasons reach,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That he began to doubt his dazeled sight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And oft of error did himselfe appeach:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Flesh without blood, a person without spright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Wounds without hurt, a body without might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That could doe harme, yet could not harmed bee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That could not die, yet seemd a mortall wight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That was most strong in most infirmitee;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like did he never heare, like did he never see.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Awhile he stood in this astonishment,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Yet would he not for all his great dismay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Give over to effect his first intent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And th’utmost meanes of victory assay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or th’utmost yssew of his owne decay.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His owne good sword Mordure, that never fayld", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At need till now, he lightly threw away,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And his bright shield that nought him now avayld;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with his naked hands him forcibly assayld.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Twixt his two mighty armes him up he snatcht,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And crusht his carcas so against his brest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That the disdainfull sowle he thence dispatcht,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And th’ydle breath all utterly exprest.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tho, when he felt him dead, adowne he kest", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The lumpish corse unto the sencelesse grownd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Adowne he kest it with so puissant wrest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That backe againe it did alofte rebownd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And gave against his mother earth a gronefull sownd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "As when Joves harnesse-bearing Bird from hye", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Stoupes at a flying heron with proud disdayne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The stone-dead quarrey falls so forciblye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That yt rebownds against the lowly playne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A second fall redoubling backe agayne.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then thought the Prince all peril sure was past,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And that he victor onely did remayne;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "No sooner thought, then that the Carle as fast", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gan heap huge strokes on him, as ere he down was cast.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Nigh his wits end then woxe th’amazed knight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And thought his labor lost, and travell vayne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Against this lifelesse shadow so to fight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet life he saw, and felt his mighty mayne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That, whiles he marveild still, did still him payne;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Forthy he gan some other wayes advize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "How to take life from that dead-living swayne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom still he marked freshly to arize", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From th’earth, and from her womb new spirits to reprize.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He then remembred well, that had bene sayd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "How th’Earth his mother was, and first him bore;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She eke, so often as his life decayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did life with usury to him restore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And reysd him up much stronger then before,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So soone as he unto her wombe did fall:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therefore to grownd he would him cast no more,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne him committ to grave terrestriall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But beare him farre from hope of succour usuall.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Tho up he caught him twixt his puissant hands,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And having scruzd out of his carrion corse", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The lothfull life, now loosd from sinfull bands,", 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did take,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So ryv’d her trembling hart, and wicked end did make.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thus now alone he conquerour remaines:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Tho, cumming to his Squyre that kept his steed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thought to have mounted; but his feeble vaines", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him faild thereto, and served not his need,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through losse of blood which from his wounds did bleed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That he began to faint, and life decay:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But his good Squyre, him helping up with speed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With stedfast hand upon his horse did stay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And led him to the Castle by the beaten way.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Where many Groomes and Squyres ready were", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To take him from his steed full tenderly;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke the fayrest Alma mett him there", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With balme, and wine, and costly spicery,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To comfort him in his infirmity.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Eftesoones shee causd him up to be convayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And of his armes despoyled easily", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In sumptuous bed shee made him to be layd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And al the while his wounds were dressing by him stayd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Now ginnes that goodly frame of Temperaunce", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Fayrely to rise, and her adorned hed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To pricke of highest prayse forth to advaunce,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Formerly grounded and fast setteled", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On firme foundation of true bountyhed:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And this brave knight, that for this vertue fightes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now comes to point of that same perilous sted,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where Pleasure dwelles in sensuall delights,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Mongst thousand dangers, and ten thousand Magick mights.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Two dayes now in that sea he sayled has,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ne ever land beheld, ne living wight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ought save perill still as he did pas:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tho, when appeared the third Morrow bright", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon the waves to spred her trembling light,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "An hideous roring far away they heard,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all their sences filled with affright;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And streight they saw the raging surges reard", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Up to the skyes, that them of drowning made affeard.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Said then the Boteman, “Palmer, stere aright,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And keepe an even course; for yonder way", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "We needes must pas (God doe us well acquight!)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That is the Gulfe of Greedinesse, they say,", 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helples wawes.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Forward they passe, and strongly he them rowes,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Untill they nigh unto that Gulfe arryve,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where streame more violent and greedy growes:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then he with all his puisaunce doth stryve", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To strike his oares, and mightily doth drive", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The hollow vessell through the threatfull wave;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which, gaping wide to swallow them alyve", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In th’huge abysse of his engulfing grave,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Doth rore at them in vaine, and with great terrour rave.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "They, passing by, that grisely mouth did see", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Sucking the seas into his entralles deepe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That seemd more horrible then hell to bee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or that darke dreadfull hole of Tartare steepe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through which the damned ghosts doen often creepe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Backe to the world, bad livers to torment:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But nought that falles into this direfull deepe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne that approcheth nigh the wyde descent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "May backe retourne, but is condemned to be drent.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "On thother side they saw that perilous Rocke,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Threatning it selfe on them to ruinate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On whose sharp cliftes the ribs of vessels broke;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And shivered ships, which had beene wrecked late,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet stuck with carkases exanimate", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of such, as having all their substance spent", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In wanton joyes and lustes intemperate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did afterwards make shipwrack violent", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both of their life and fame, for ever fowly blent.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Forthy this hight The Rocke of vile Reproch,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A daungerous and detestable place,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To which nor fish nor fowle did once approch,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But yelling Meawes, with Seagulles hoars and bace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Cormoyraunts, with birds of ravenous race,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which still sat waiting on that wastfull clift", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For spoile of wretches, whose unhappy cace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "After lost credit and consumed thrift,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At last them driven hath to this despairefull drift.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The Palmer, seeing them in safetie past,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Thus saide; “Behold th’ensamples in our sights", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of lustfull luxurie and thriftlesse wast.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What now is left of miserable wightes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which spent their looser daies in leud delightes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But shame and sad reproch, here to be red", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By these rent reliques, speaking their ill plightes?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Let all that live hereby be counselled", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To shunne Rocke of Reproch, and it as death to dred!”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So forth they rowed; and that Ferryman", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With his stiffe oares did brush the sea so strong,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That the hoare waters from his frigot ran,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And the light bubles daunced all along,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whiles the salt brine out of the billowes sprong.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At last fer off they many Islandes spy", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On every side floting the floodes emong:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then said the knight; “Lo! I the land descry;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therefore, old Syre, thy course doe thereunto apply.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“That may not bee,” said then the Ferryman,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“Least wee unweeting hap to be fordonne;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For those same Islands, seeming now and than,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Are not firme land, nor any certein wonne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But stragling plots which to and fro doe ronne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In the wide waters: therefore are they hight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The Wandring Islands. Therefore doe them shonne;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For they have ofte drawne many a wandring wight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into most deadly daunger and distressed plight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Yet well they seeme to him, that farre doth vew", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Both faire and fruitfull, and the grownd dispred", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With grassy greene of delectable hew;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And the tall trees with leaves appareled", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Are deckt with blossoms dyde in white and red,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That mote the passengers thereto allure;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But whosoever once hath fastened", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His foot thereon, may never it recure,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But wandreth evermore uncertein and unsure.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“As th’Isle of Delos whylome, men report,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Amid th’Aegæan sea long time did stray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne made for shipping any certeine port,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till that Latona traveiling that way,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Flying from Junoes wrath and hard assay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of her fayre twins was there delivered,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which afterwards did rule the night and day:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thenceforth it firmely was established,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And for Apolloes temple highly herried.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "They to him hearken, as beseemeth meete,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And passe on forward: so their way does ly,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That one of those same Islands, which doe fleet", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In the wide sea, they needes must passen by,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which seemd so sweet and pleasaunt to the eye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That it would tempt a man to touchen there:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon the banck they sitting did espy", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A daintie damsell dressing of her heare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By whom a little skippet floting did appeare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "She, them espying, loud to them can call,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Bidding them nigher draw unto the shore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For she had cause to busie them withall;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And therewith lowdly laught: But nathemore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Would they once turne, but kept on as afore:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which when she saw, she left her lockes undight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And running to her boat withouten ore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From the departing land it launched light,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And after them did drive with all her power and might.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whom overtaking, she in merry sort", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Them gan to bord, and purpose diversly;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now faining dalliaunce and wanton sport,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now throwing forth lewd wordes immodestly;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till that the Palmer gan full bitterly", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her to rebuke for being loose and light:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which not abiding, but more scornfully", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Scoffing at him that did her justly wite,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She turnd her bote about, and from them rowed quite.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "That was the wanton Phædria, which late", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Did ferry him over the Idle lake:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom nought regarding they kept on their gate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all her vaine allurements did forsake;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When them the wary Boteman thus bespake:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Here now behoveth us well to avyse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And of our safety good heede to take;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For here before a perlous passage lyes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where many Mermayds haunt making false melodies:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“But by the way there is a great Quicksand,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And a whirlepoole of hidden jeopardy;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therefore, Sir Palmer, keepe an even hand,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For twixt them both the narrow way doth ly.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Scarse had he saide, when hard at hand they spy", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That quicksand nigh with water covered;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But by the checked wave they did descry", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It plaine, and by the sea discoloured:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It called was the quickesand of Unthriftyhed.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "They, passing by, a goodly Ship did see", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Laden from far with precious merchandize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And bravely furnished as ship might bee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which through great disaventure, or mesprize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her selfe had ronne into that hazardize;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose mariners and merchants with much toyle", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Labour’d in vaine to have recur’d their prize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And the rich wares to save from pitteous spoyle;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But neither toyle nor traveill might her backe recoyle.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "On th’other side they see that perilous Poole,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That called was the Whirlepoole of decay;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In which full many had with haplesse doole", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Beene suncke, of whom no memorie did stay:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose circled waters rapt with whirling sway,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like to a restlesse wheele, still ronning round,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did covet, as they passed by that way,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To draw their bote within the utmost bound", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of his wide Labyrinth, and then to have them dround.", "indent": 0 } ], 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did appeare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all the three thereat woxe much afrayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unweeting what such horrour straunge did reare.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Eftsoones they saw an hideous hoast arrayd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of huge Sea monsters, such as living sence dismayd:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Most ugly shapes and horrible aspects,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Such as Dame Nature selfe mote feare to see,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or shame that ever should so fowle defects", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From her most cunning hand escaped bee;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All dreadfull pourtraicts of deformitee:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Spring-headed Hydres; and sea-shouldring Whales;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Great whirlpooles which all fishes make to flee;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Bright Scolopendraes arm’d with silver scales;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Mighty Monoceroses with immeasured tayles.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The dreadful Fish that hath deserv’d the name", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of Death, and like him lookes in dreadfull hew;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The griesly Wasserman, that makes his game", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The flying ships with swiftnes to pursew;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The horrible Sea-satyre, that doth shew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His fearefull face in time of greatest storme;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Huge Ziffius, whom Mariners eschew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "No lesse then rockes, (as travellers informe)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And greedy Rosmarines with visages deforme.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "All these, and thousand thousands many more,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And more deformed Monsters thousand fold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With dreadfull noise and hollow rombling rore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Came rushing, in the fomy waves enrold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which seem’d to fly for feare them to behold.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne wonder, if these did the knight appall;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For all that here on earth we dreadfull hold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Be but as bugs to fearen babes withall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Compared to the creatures in the seas entrall.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Feare nought,” then saide the Palmer well aviz’d,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“For these same Monsters are not these in deed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But are into these fearefull shapes disguiz’d", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By that same wicked witch, to worke us dreed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And draw from on this journey to proceed.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tho lifting up his vertuous staffe on hye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He smote the sea, which calmed was with speed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all that dreadfull Armie fast gan flye", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into great Tethys bosome, where they hidden lye.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Quit from that danger forth their course they kept;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And as they went they heard a ruefull cry", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of one that wayld and pittifully wept,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That through the sea resounding plaints did fly:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At last they in an Island did espy", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A seemely Maiden sitting by the shore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That with great sorrow and sad agony", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Seemed some great misfortune to deplore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And lowd to them for succour called evermore.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which Guyon hearing streight his Palmer bad", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To stere the bote towards that dolefull Mayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That he might know and ease her sorrow sad;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who, him avizing better, to him sayd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Faire Sir, be not displeasd if disobayd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For ill it were to hearken to her cry,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For she is inly nothing ill apayd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But onely womanish fine forgery,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Your stubborne hart t’affect with fraile infirmity.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“To which when she your courage hath inclind", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Through foolish pitty, then her guilefull bayt", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She will embosome deeper in your mind,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And for your ruine at the last awayt.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The Knight was ruled, and the Boteman strayt", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Held on his course with stayed stedfastnesse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ever shroncke, ne ever sought to bayt", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His tyred armes for toylesome wearinesse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But with his oares did sweepe the watry wildernesse.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And now they nigh approched to the sted", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whereas those Mermayds dwelt: it was a still", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And calmy bay, on th’one side sheltered", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With the brode shadow of an hoarie hill;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On th’other side an high rocke toured still,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That twixt them both a pleasaunt port they made,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And did like an halfe Theatre fulfill:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There those five sisters had continuall trade,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And usd to bath themselves in that deceiptfull shade.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "They were faire Ladies, till they fondly striv’d", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With th’Heliconian maides for maystery;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of whom they, overcomen, were depriv’d", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of their proud beautie, and th’one moyity", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Transformd to fish for their bold surquedry;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But th’upper halfe their hew retayned still,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And their sweet skill in wonted melody;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which ever after they abusd to ill,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "T’allure weake traveillers, whom gotten they did kill.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So now to Guyon, as he passed by,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Their pleasaunt tunes they sweetly thus applyde:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“O thou fayre sonne of gentle Faery,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That art in mightie armes most magnifyde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Above all knights that ever batteill tryde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "O! turne thy rudder hitherward awhile:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Here may thy storme-bett vessell safely ryde;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "This is the Port of rest from troublous toyle,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The worldes sweet In from paine and wearisome turmoyle.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "With that the rolling sea, resounding soft,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In his big base them fitly answered;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And on the rocke the waves breaking aloft", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A solemne Meane unto them measured;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The whiles sweet Zephyrus lowd whisteled", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His treble, a straunge kinde of harmony,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which Guyons senses softly tickeled,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That he the boteman bad row easily,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And let him heare some part of their rare melody.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But him the Palmer from that vanity", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With temperate advice discounselled,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That they it past, and shortly gan descry", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The land to which their course they leveled;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When suddeinly a grosse fog overspred", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With his dull vapour all that desert has,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And heavens chearefull face enveloped,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all things one, and one as nothing was,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And this great Universe seemd one confused mas.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thereat they greatly were dismayd, ne wist", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "How to direct theyr way in darkenes wide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But feard to wander in that wastefull mist,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For tombling into mischiefe unespide:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Worse is the daunger hidden then descride.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Suddeinly an innumerable flight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of harmefull fowles about them fluttering cride,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with their wicked wings them ofte did smight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And sore annoyed, groping in that griesly night.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Even all the nation of unfortunate", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And fatall birds about them flocked were,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Such as by nature men abhorre and hate;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The ill-faste Owle, deaths dreadfull messengere;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The hoars Night-raven, trump of dolefull drere;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The lether-winged Batt, dayes enimy;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The ruefull Strich, still waiting on the bere;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The whistler shrill, that whoso heares doth dy;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The hellish Harpyes, prophets of sad destiny.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "All those, and all that els does horror breed,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "About them flew, and fild their sayles with feare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet stayd they not, but forward did proceed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whiles th’one did row, and th’other stifly steare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till that at last the weather gan to cleare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And the faire land it selfe did playnly sheow.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Said then the Palmer; “Lo! where does appeare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The sacred soile where all our perills grow.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therfore, Sir knight, your ready arms about you throw.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He hearkned, and his armes about him tooke,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The whiles the nimble bote so well her sped,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That with her crooked keele the land she strooke:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then forth the noble Guyon sallied,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And his sage Palmer that him governed;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But th’other by his bote behind did stay.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They marched fayrly forth, of nought ydred,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both firmely armd for every hard assay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With constancy and care, gainst daunger and dismay.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Ere long they heard an hideous bellowing", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of many beasts, that roard outrageously,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As if that hungers poynt or Venus sting", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had them enraged with fell surquedry:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet nought they feard, but past on hardily,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Untill they came in vew of those wilde beasts,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who all attonce, gaping full greedily,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And rearing fercely their upstaring crests,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ran towards to devoure those unexpected guests.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But soone as they approcht with deadly threat,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The Palmer over them his staffe upheld,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His mighty staffe, that could all charmes defeat.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Eftesoones their stubborne corages were queld,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And high advaunced crests downe meekely feld;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Instead of fraying, they them selves did feare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And trembled as them passing they beheld:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Such wondrous powre did in that staffe appeare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All monsters to subdew to him that did it beare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Of that same wood it fram’d was cunningly,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of which Caduceus whilome was made,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Caduceus, the rod of Mercury,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With which he wonts the Stygian realmes invade", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through ghastly horror and eternall shade:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Th’infernall feends with it he can asswage,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Orcus tame, whome nothing can persuade,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And rule the Furyes when they most doe rage.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Such vertue in his staffe had eke this Palmer sage.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thence passing forth, they shortly doe arryve", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whereas the Bowre of Blisse was situate;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A place pickt out by choyce of best alyve,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That natures worke by art can imitate:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In which whatever in this worldly state", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Is sweete and pleasing unto living sense,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or that may dayntest fantasy aggrate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was poured forth with plentifull dispence,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And made there to abound with lavish affluence.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Goodly it was enclosed rownd about,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As well their entred guestes to keep within,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As those unruly beasts to hold without;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet was the fence thereof but weake and thin:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nought feard theyr force that fortilage to win,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But wisedomes powre, and temperaunces might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By which the mightiest things efforced bin:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke the gate was wrought of substaunce light,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Rather for pleasure then for battery or fight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Yt framed was of precious yvory,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That seemd a worke of admirable witt;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And therein all the famous history", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of Jason and Medæa was ywritt;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her mighty charmes, her furious loving fitt;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His goodly conquest of the golden fleece,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His raised fayth, and love too lightly flitt;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The wondred Argo, which in venturous peece", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "First through the Euxine seas bore all the flowr of Greece.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Ye might have seene the frothy billowes fry", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Under the ship as thorough them she went,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That seemd the waves were into yvory,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or yvory into the waves were sent;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And otherwhere the snowy substaunce sprent", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With vermell, like the boyes blood therein shed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A piteous spectacle did represent;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And otherwhiles, with gold besprinkeled,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yt seemd thenchaunted flame which did Crëusa wed.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "All this and more might in that goodly gate", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Be red, that ever open stood to all", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which thither came; but in the Porch there sate", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A comely personage of stature tall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And semblaunce pleasing, more then naturall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That traveilers to him seemd to entize:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His looser garment to the ground did fall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And flew about his heeles in wanton wize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Not fitt for speedy pace, or manly exercize.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "They in that place him Genius did call:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Not that celestiall powre, to whom the care", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of life, and generation of all", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That lives, perteines in charge particulare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who wondrous things concerning our welfare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And straunge phantomes doth lett us ofte foresee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And ofte of secret ill bids us beware:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That is our Selfe, whom though we do not see,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet each doth in him selfe it well perceive to bee.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Therefore a God him sage Antiquity", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Did wisely make, and good Agdistes call;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But this same was to that quite contrary,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The foe of life, that good envyes to all,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That secretly doth us procure to fall", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through guilefull semblants which he makes us see:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He of this Gardin had the governall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Pleasures porter was devizd to bee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Holding a staffe in hand for mere formalitee.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "With diverse flowres he daintily was deckt,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And strowed rownd about; and by his side", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A mighty Mazer bowle of wine was sett,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As if it had to him bene sacrifide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Wherewith all newcome guests he gratyfide:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So did he eke Sir Guyon passing by;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But he his ydle curtesie defide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And overthrew his bowle disdainfully,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And broke his staffe with which he charmed semblants sly.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thus being entred, they behold arownd", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A large and spacious plaine, on every side", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Strowed with pleasauns; whose fayre grassy grownd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Mantled with greene, and goodly beautifide", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With all the ornaments of Floraes pride,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Wherewith her mother Art, as halfe in scorne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of niggard Nature, like a pompous bride", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did decke her, and too lavishly adorne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When forth from virgin bowre she comes in th’early morne.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Therewith the Heavens alwayes joviall", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Lookte on them lovely, still in stedfast state,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne suffred storme nor frost on them to fall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their tender buds or leaves to violate;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nor scorching heat, nor cold intemperate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "T’afflict the creatures which therein did dwell;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But the milde ayre with season moderate", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gently attempred, and disposd so well,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That still it breathed forth sweet spirit and holesom smell:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "More sweet and holesome then the pleasaunt hill", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of Rhodope, on which the Nimphe that bore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A gyaunt babe herselfe for griefe did kill;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or the Thessalian Tempe, where of yore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fayre Daphne Phœbus hart with love did gqre;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or Ida, where the Gods lov’d to repayre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When ever they their heavenly bowres forlore;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or sweet Parnasse, the haunt of Muses fayre;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or Eden selfe, if ought with Eden mote compayre.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Much wondred Guyon at the fayre aspect", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of that sweet place, yet suffred no delight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To sincke into his sence, nor mind affect,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But passed forth, and lookt still forward right,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Brydling his will and maystering his might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till that he came unto another gate;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "No gate, but like one, being goodly dight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With bowes and braunches, which did broad dilate", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their clasping armes in wanton wreathings intricate:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So fashioned a Porch with rare device,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Archt over head with an embracing vine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose bounches hanging downe seemd to entice", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All passers by to taste their lushious wine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And did them selves into their hands incline,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As freely offering to be gathered;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some deepe empurpled as the Hyacine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some as the Rubine laughing sweetely red,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some like faire Emeraudes, not yet well ripened.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And them amongst some were of burnisht gold,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "So made by art to beautify the rest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which did themselves emongst the leaves enfold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As lurking from the vew of covetous guest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That the weake boughes, with so rich load opprest", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did bow adowne as overburdened.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Under that Porch a comely dame did rest", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Clad in fayre weedes but fowle disordered,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And garments loose that seemd unmeet for womanhed.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "In her left hand a Cup of gold she held,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And with her right the riper fruit did reach,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose sappy liquor, that with fulnesse sweld,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into her cup she scruzd with daintie breach", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of her fine fingers, without fowle empeach,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That so faire winepresse made the wine more sweet:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thereof she usd to give to drinke to each,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom passing by she happened to meet:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It was her guise all Straungers goodly so to greet.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So she to Guyon offred it to tast,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Who, taking it out of her tender hond,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The cup to ground did violently cast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all in peeces it was broken fond,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with the liquor stained all the lond:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereat Excesse exceedingly was wroth,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet no’te the same amend, ne yet withstond,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But suffered him to passe, all were she loth;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who, nought regarding her displeasure, forward goth.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "There the most daintie Paradise on ground", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "It selfe doth offer to his sober eye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In which all pleasures plenteously abownd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And none does others happinesse envye;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The painted flowres, the trees upshooting hye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The dales for shade, the hilles for breathing space,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The trembling groves, the christall running by,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, that which all faire workes doth most aggrace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The art which all that wrought appeared in no place.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "One would have thought, (so cunningly the rude", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And scorned partes were mingled with the fine)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That nature had for wantonesse ensude", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Art, and that Art at nature did repine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So striving each th’other to undermine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Each did the others worke more beautify;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So differing both in willes agreed in fine:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So all agreed, through sweete diversity,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "This Gardin to adorne with all variety.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And in the midst of all a fountaine stood,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of richest substance that on earth might bee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So pure and shiny that the silver flood", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through every channell running one might see;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Most goodly it with curious ymageree", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was overwrought, and shapes of naked boyes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of which some seemd with lively jollitee", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To fly about, playing their wanton toyes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whylest others did them selves embay in liquid joyes.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And over all of purest gold was spred", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A trayle of yvie in his native hew;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For the rich metall was so coloured,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That wight who did not well avis’d it vew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Would surely deeme it to bee yvie trew:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Low his lascivious armes adown did creepe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That themselves dipping in the silver dew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their fleecy flowres they fearefully did steepe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which drops of Christall seemd for wantones to weep.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Infinit streames continually did well", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Out of this fountaine, sweet and faire to see,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which into an ample laver fell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And shortly grew into so great quantitie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That like a litle lake it seemd to bee;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose depth exceeded not three cubits hight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That through the waves one might the bottom see,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All pav’d beneath with Jaspar shining bright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That seemd the fountaine in that sea did sayle upright.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And all the margent round about was sett", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With shady Laurell trees, thence to defend", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The sunny beames which on the billowes bett,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And those which therein bathed mote offend.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As Guyon hapned by the same to wend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Two naked Damzelles he therein espyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which therein bathing seemed to contend", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And wrestle wantonly, ne car’d to hyde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their dainty partes from vew of any which them eyd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Sometimes the one would lift the other quight", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Above the waters, and then downe againe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her plong, as over-maystered by might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where both awhile would covered remaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And each the other from to rise restraine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The whiles their snowy limbes, as through a vele,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So through the christall waves appeared plaine:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then suddeinly both would themselves unhele,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And th’amarous sweet spoiles to greedy eyes revele.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "As that faire Starre, the messenger of morne,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His deawy face out of the sea doth reare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or as the Cyprian goddesse, newly borne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of th’Ocean’s fruitfull froth, did first appeare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Such seemed they, and so their yellow heare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Christalline humor dropped downe apace.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom such when Guyon saw, he drew him neare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And somewhat gan relent his earnest pace;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His stubborne brest gan secret pleasaunce to embrace.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The wanton Maidens, him espying, stood", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Gazing awhile at his unwonted guise;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then th’one her selfe low ducked in the flood,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Abasht that her a straunger did avise;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But thother rather higher did arise,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And her two lilly paps aloft displayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all that might his melting hart entyse", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To her delights she unto him bewrayd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The rest hidd underneath him more desirous made.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "With that the other likewise up arose,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And her faire lockes, which formerly were bown’d", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Up in one knott, she low adowne did lose,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which flowing low and thick her cloth’d arownd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And th’yvorie in golden mantle gownd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So that faire spectacle from him was reft,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet that which reft it no lesse faire was fownd.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So hidd in lockes and waves from lookers theft,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nought but her lovely face she for his looking left.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Withall she laughed, and she blusht withall,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That blushing to her laughter gave more grace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And laughter to her blushing, as did fall.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now when they spyde the knight to slacke his pace", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Them to behold, and in his sparkling face", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The secrete signes of kindled lust appeare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their wanton meriments they did encreace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to him beckned to approch more neare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And shewd him many sights that corage cold could reare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "On which when gazing him the Palmer saw,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He much rebukt those wandring eyes of his,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And counseld well him forward thence did draw.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now are they come nigh to the Bowre of blis,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of her fond favorites so nam’d amis,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When thus the Palmer: “Now, Sir, well avise;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For here the end of all our traveill is:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Here wonnes Acrasia, whom we must surprise,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Els she will slip away, and all our drift despise.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Eftsoones they heard a most melodious sound,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of all that mote delight a daintie eare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Such as attonce might not on living ground,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Save in this Paradise, be heard elsewhere:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Right hard it was for wight which did it heare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To read what manner musicke that mote bee;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For all that pleasing is to living eare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was there consorted in one harmonee;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Birdes, voices, instruments, windes, waters, all agree", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The joyous birdes, shrouded in chearefull shade", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Their notes unto the voice attempred sweet;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Th’Angelicall soft trembling voyces made", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To th’instruments divine respondence meet;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The silver sounding instruments did meet", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With the base murmure of the waters fall;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The waters fall with difference discreet,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The gentle warbling wind low answered to all.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "There, whence that Musick seemed heard to bee,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Was the faire Witch her selfe now solacing", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With a new Lover, whom, through sorceree", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And witchcraft, she from farre did thither bring:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There she had him now laid aslombering", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In secret shade after long wanton joyes;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whilst round about them pleasauntly did sing", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Many faire Ladies and lascivious boyes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That ever mixt their song with light licentious toyes.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And all that while right over him she hong", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With her false eyes fast fixed in his sight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As seeking medicine whence she was stong,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or greedily depasturing delight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And oft inclining downe, with kisses light", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For feare of waking him, his lips bedewd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And through his humid eyes did sucke his spright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Quite molten into lust and pleasure lewd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Wherewith she sighed soft, as if his case she rewd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The whiles some one did chaunt this lovely lay:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ah! see, whoso fayre thing doest faine to see,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In springing flowre the image of thy day.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ah! see the Virgin Rose, how sweetly shee", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Doth first peepe foorth with bashfull modestee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That fairer seemes the lesse ye see her may.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Lo! see soone after how more bold and free", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her bared bosome she doth broad display;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Lo! see soone after how she fades and falls away.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So passeth, in the passing of a day,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of mortall life the leafe, the bud, the flowre;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne more doth florish after first decay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That earst was sought to deck both bed and bowre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of many a lady’, and many a Paramowre.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gather therefore the Rose whilest yet is prime,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For soone comes age that will her pride deflowre;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gather the Rose of love whilest yet is time,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whilest loving thou mayst loved be with equall crime.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He ceast; and then gan all the quire of birdes", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Their diverse notes t’attune unto his lay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As in approvaunce of his pleasing wordes.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The constant payre heard all that he did say,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet swarved not, but kept their forward way", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through many covert groves and thickets close,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In which they creeping did at last display", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That wanton Lady with her lover lose,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose sleepie head she in her lap did soft dispose.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Upon a bed of Roses she was layd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As faint through heat, or dight to pleasant sin;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And was arayd, or rather disarayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All in a vele of silke and silver thin,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That hid no whit her alablaster skin,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But rather shewd more white, if more might bee:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "More subtile web Arachne cannot spin;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nor the fine nets, which oft we woven see", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of scorched deaw, do not in th’ayre more lightly flee.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Her snowy brest was bare to ready spoyle", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of hungry eies, which n’ote therewith be fild;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And yet, through languour of her late sweet toyle,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Few drops, more cleare then Nectar, forth distild,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That like pure Orient perles adowne it trild;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And her faire eyes, sweet smyling in delight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Moystened their fierie beames, with which she thrild", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fraile harts, yet quenched not; like starry light,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which, sparckling on the silent waves, does seeme more bright.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The young man, sleeping by her, seemd to be", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Some goodly swayne of honorable place,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That certes it great pitty was to see", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him his nobility so fowle deface:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A sweet regard and amiable grace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Mixed with manly sternesse, did appeare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet sleeping, in his well proportiond face;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And on his tender lips the downy heare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did now but freshly spring, and silken blossoms beare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "His warlike Armes, the ydle instruments", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of sleeping praise, were hong upon a tree;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And his crave shield, full of old moniments,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was fowly ras’t, that none the signes might see:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne for them ne for honour cared hee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ought that did to his advauncement tend;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But in lewd loves, and wastfull luxuree,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His dayes, his goods, his bodie, he did spend:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "O horrible enchantment, that him so did blend!", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The noble Elfe and carefull Palmer drew", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "So nigh them, minding nought but lustfull game", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That suddein forth they on them rusht, and threw", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A subtile net, which only for that same", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The skilfull Palmer formally did frame:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So held them under fast; the whiles the rest", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fled all away for feare of fowler shame.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The faire Enchauntresse, so unwares opprest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tryde all her arts and all her sleights thence out to wrest.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And eke her lover strove, but all in vaine;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For that same net so cunningly was wound,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That neither guile nor force might it distraine.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They tooke them both, and both them strongly bound", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In captive bandes, which there they readie found:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But her in chaines of adamant he tyde;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For nothing else might keepe her safe and sound:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Verdant (so he hight) he soone untyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And counsell sage in steed thereof to him applyde.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But all those pleasaunt bowres, and Pallace brave,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Guyon broke downe with rigour pittilesse;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ought their goodly workmanship might save", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Them from the tempest of his wrathfulnesse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But that their blisse he turn’d to balefulnesse.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their groves he feld; their gardins did deface;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their arbers spoyle; their Cabinets suppresse;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their banket houses burne; their buildings race;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, of the fayrest late, now made the fowlest place.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then led they her away, and eke that knight", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "They with them led, both sorrowfull and sad.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The way they came, the same retourn’d they right,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till they arrived where they lately had", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Charm’d those wild-beasts that rag’d with furie mad;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which, now awaking, fierce at them gan fly,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As in their mistresse reskew whom they lad;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But them the Palmer soone did pacify.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then Guyon askt, what meant those beastes which there did ly?", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Sayd he; “These seeming beasts are men indeed,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whom this Enchauntresse hath transformed thus;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whylome her lovers, which her lustes did feed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now turned into figures hideous,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "According to their mindes like monstruous.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Sad end,” (quoth he) “of life intemperate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And mourneful meed of joyes delicious!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, Palmer, if it mote thee so aggrate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Let them returned be unto their former state.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Streight way he with his vertuous staffe them strooke,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And streight of beastes they comely men became;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet being men they did unmanly looke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And stared ghastly; some for inward shame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And some for wrath to see their captive Dame:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But one above the rest in speciall", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That had an hog beene late, hight Grylle by name,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Repyned greatly, and did him miscall", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That had from hoggish forme him brought to naturall.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Saide Guyon; “See the mind of beastly man,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That hath so soone forgot the excellence", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of his creation, when he life began,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That now he chooseth with vile difference", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To be a beast, and lacke intelligence!”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To whom the Palmer thus: “The donghill kinde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Delightes in filth and fowle incontinence:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Let Gryll be Gryll, and have his hoggish minde;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But let us hence depart whilest wether serves and winde.”", "indent": 0 } ] ] }