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 "title": "The Legend of the Knight of the Red Cross, or of Holiness",
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   {
    "text": "Lo! I, the man whose Muse whylome did maske,",
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   {
    "text": "As time her taught, in lowly Shephards weeds,",
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   {
    "text": "Am now enforst, a farre unfitter taske,",
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   {
    "text": "For trumpets sterne to chaunge mine Oaten reeds,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And sing of Knights and Ladies gentle deeds;",
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   {
    "text": "Whose praises having slept in silence long,",
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   {
    "text": "Me, all too meane, the sacred Muse areeds",
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   {
    "text": "To blazon broade emongst her learned throng:",
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   {
    "text": "Fierce warres and faithful loves shall moralize my song.",
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   {
    "text": "Helpe then, O holy Virgin! chiefe of nyne,",
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   {
    "text": "Thy weaker Novice to performe thy will;",
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   {
    "text": "Lay forth out of thine everlasting scryne",
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   {
    "text": "The antique rolles, which there lye hidden still,",
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   {
    "text": "Of Faerie knights, and fayrest Tanaquill,",
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   {
    "text": "Whom that most noble Briton Prince so long",
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   {
    "text": "Sought through the world, and suffered so much ill,",
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   {
    "text": "That I must rue his undeserved wrong:",
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   {
    "text": "O, helpe thou my weake wit, and sharpen my dull tong!",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "And thou, most dreaded impe of highest Jove,",
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   {
    "text": "Faire Venus sonne, that with thy cruell dart",
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   {
    "text": "At that good knight so cunningly didst rove,",
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   {
    "text": "That glorious fire it kindled in his hart;",
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   {
    "text": "Lay now thy deadly Heben bowe apart,",
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   {
    "text": "And with thy mother mylde come to myne ayde;",
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   {
    "text": "Come, both; and with you bring triumphant Mart,",
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   {
    "text": "In loves and gentle jollities arraid,",
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   {
    "text": "After his murdrous spoyles and bloudie rage allayd.",
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   {
    "text": "And with them eke, O Goddesse heavenly bright!",
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   {
    "text": "Mirrour of grace and Majestie divine,",
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   {
    "text": "Great Ladie of the greatest Isle, whose light",
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   {
    "text": "Like Phœbus lampe throughout the world doth shine,",
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   {
    "text": "Shed thy faire beames into my feeble eyne,",
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   {
    "text": "And raise my thoughtes, too humble and too vile,",
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   {
    "text": "To thinke of that true glorious type of thine,",
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   {
    "text": "The argument of mine afflicted stile:",
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    "text": "The which to heare vouchsafe, O dearest dread, awhile!",
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   {
    "text": "A gentle knight was pricking on the plaine,",
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   {
    "text": "Ycladd in mightie armes and silver shielde,",
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    "text": "Wherein old dints of deepe woundes did remaine.",
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   {
    "text": "The cruell markes of many a bloodie fielde;",
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   {
    "text": "Yet armes till that time did he never wield.",
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   {
    "text": "His angry steede did chide his foming bitt,",
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   {
    "text": "As much disdayning to the curbe to yield.",
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   {
    "text": "Full jolly knight he seemd, and faire did sitt,",
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    "text": "As one for knightly giusts and fierce encounters fitt.",
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   {
    "text": "And on his brest a bloodie Crosse he bore,",
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   {
    "text": "The deare remembrance of his dying Lord,",
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   {
    "text": "For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore,",
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   {
    "text": "And dead, as living, ever him ador’d:",
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   {
    "text": "Upon his shield the like was also scor’d,",
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   {
    "text": "For soveraine hope which in his helpe he had.",
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   {
    "text": "Right faithfull true he was in deede and word;",
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   {
    "text": "But of his cheere did seeme too solemne sad;",
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   {
    "text": "Yet nothing did he dread, but ever was ydrad.",
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    "text": "Upon a great adventure he was bond,",
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   {
    "text": "That greatest Gloriana to him gave,",
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   {
    "text": "(That greatest Glorious Queene of Faery lond)",
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   {
    "text": "To winne him worshippe, and her grace to have,",
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   {
    "text": "Which of all earthly thinges he most did crave:",
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    "text": "And ever as he rode his hart did earne",
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    "text": "To prove his puissance in battell brave",
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    "text": "Upon his foe, and his new force to learne",
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   {
    "text": "Upon his foe, a Dragon horrible and stearne.",
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    "text": "A lovely Lady rode him faire beside,",
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   {
    "text": "Upon a lowly Asse more white than snow,",
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   {
    "text": "Yet she much whiter; but the same did hide",
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   {
    "text": "Under a vele, that wimpled was full low;",
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   {
    "text": "And over all a blacke stole she did throw:",
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   {
    "text": "As one that inly mournd, so was she sad,",
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   {
    "text": "And heavie sate upon her palfry slow;",
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   {
    "text": "Seemed in heart some hidden care she had,",
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   {
    "text": "And by her, in her line, a milkewhite lambe she lad.",
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   {
    "text": "So pure and innocent, as that same lambe,",
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   {
    "text": "She was in life, and every vertuous lore;",
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   {
    "text": "And by descent from Royall lynage came",
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   {
    "text": "Of ancient Kings and Queenes, that had of yore",
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    "text": "Their scepters stretcht from East to Westerne shore,",
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   {
    "text": "And all the world in their subjection held;",
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    "text": "Till that infernall feend with foule uprore",
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    "text": "Forwasted all their land, and them expeld;",
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    "text": "Whom to avenge she had this Knight from far compeld.",
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    "text": "Behind her farre away a Dwarfe did lag,",
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   {
    "text": "That lasie seemd, in being ever last,",
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   {
    "text": "Or wearied with bearing of her bag",
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   {
    "text": "Of needments at his backe. Thus as they past,",
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   {
    "text": "The day with cloudes was suddeine overcast,",
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    "text": "And angry Jove an hideous storme of raine",
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    "text": "Did poure into his Lemans lap so fast,",
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    "text": "That everie wight to shrowd it did constrain;",
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    "text": "And this faire couple eke to shroud themselves were fain.",
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    "text": "Enforst to seeke some covert nigh at hand,",
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    "text": "A shadie grove not farr away they spide,",
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    "text": "That promist ayde the tempest to withstand;",
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    "text": "Whose loftie trees, yclad with sommers pride,",
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    "text": "Did spred so broad, that heavens light did hide,",
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    "text": "Not perceable with power of any starr:",
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    "text": "And all within were pathes and alleies wide,",
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    "text": "With footing worne, and leading inward farr.",
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    "text": "Faire harbour that them seems; so in they entred ar.",
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    "text": "And foorth they passe, with pleasure forward led,",
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    "text": "Joying to heare the birdes sweete harmony,",
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   {
    "text": "Which, therein shrouded from the tempest dred,",
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   {
    "text": "Seemd in their song to scorne the cruell sky.",
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   {
    "text": "Much can they praise the trees so straight and hy,",
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   {
    "text": "The sayling Pine; the Cedar proud and tall;",
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   {
    "text": "The vine-propp Elme; the Poplar never dry;",
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   {
    "text": "The builder Oake, sole king of forrests all;",
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    "text": "The Alpine good for staves; the Cypresse funerall;",
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    "text": "The Laurell, mede of mightie Conquerours",
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    "text": "And Poets sage; the Firre that weepeth still;",
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    "text": "The Willow, worne of forlorne Paramours;",
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    "text": "The Eugh, obedient to the benders will;",
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    "text": "The Birch for shaftes; the Sallow for the mill;",
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    "text": "The Mirrhe sweete-bleeding in the bitter wound;",
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    "text": "The warlike Beech; the Ash for nothing ill;",
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    "text": "The fruitful Olive; and the Platane round;",
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   {
    "text": "The carver Holme; the Maple seeldom inward sound.",
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    "text": "Led with delight, they thus beguile the way,",
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    "text": "Until the blustring storme is overblowne;",
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    "text": "When, weening to returne whence they did stray,",
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    "text": "They cannot finde that path, which first was showne,",
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    "text": "But wander too and fro in waies unknowne,",
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    "text": "Furthest from end then, when they neerest weene,",
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    "text": "That makes them doubt their wits be not their owne:",
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   {
    "text": "So many pathes, so many turnings seene,",
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    "text": "That which of them to take in diverse doubt they been.",
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    "text": "At last resolving forward still to fare,",
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   {
    "text": "Till that some end they finde, or in or out,",
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   {
    "text": "That path they take that beaten seemd most bare,",
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    "text": "And like to lead the labyrinth about;",
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    "text": "Which when by tract they hunted had throughout,",
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    "text": "At length it brought them to a hollowe cave",
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    "text": "Amid the thickest woods. The Champion stout",
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   {
    "text": "Eftsoones dismounted from his courser brave,",
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   {
    "text": "And to the Dwarfe awhile his needlesse spere he gave.",
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    "text": "“Be well aware,” quoth then that Ladie milde,",
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   {
    "text": "“Least suddaine mischiefe ye too rash provoke:",
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    "text": "The danger hid, the place unknowne and wilde,",
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   {
    "text": "Breedes dreadful doubts. Oft fire is without smoke,",
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    "text": "And perill without show: therefore your stroke,",
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   {
    "text": "Sir Knight, withhold, till further tryall made.”",
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    "text": "“Ah Ladie,” (sayd he) “shame were to revoke",
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    "text": "The forward footing for an hidden shade:",
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    "text": "Vertue gives herself light through darknesse for to wade.”",
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    "text": "“Yea but” (quoth she) “the perill of this place",
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    "text": "I better wot than you: though nowe too late",
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   {
    "text": "To wish you backe returne with foule disgrace,",
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   {
    "text": "Yet wisedome warnes, whilest foot is in the gate,",
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   {
    "text": "To stay the steppe, ere forced to retrate.",
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   {
    "text": "This is the wandring wood, this Errours den,",
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   {
    "text": "A monster vile, whom God and man does hate:",
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   {
    "text": "Therefore I read beware.” “Fly, Fly!” (quoth then",
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    "text": "The fearefull Dwarfe) “this is no place for living men.”",
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    "text": "But, full of fire and greedy hardiment,",
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    "text": "The youthfull Knight could not for ought be staide;",
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    "text": "But forth unto the darksom hole he went,",
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    "text": "And looked in: his glistring armor made",
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   {
    "text": "A little glooming light, much like a shade;",
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   {
    "text": "By which he saw the ugly monster plaine,",
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    "text": "Halfe like a serpent horribly displaide,",
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   {
    "text": "But th’other halfe did womans shape retaine,",
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    "text": "Most lothsom, filthie, foule, and full of vile disdaine.",
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    "text": "And, as she lay upon the durtie ground,",
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    "text": "Her huge long taile her den all overspred,",
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    "text": "Yet was in knots and many boughtes upwound,",
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    "text": "Pointed with mortall sting. Of her there bred",
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    "text": "A thousand yong ones, which she dayly fed,",
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   {
    "text": "Sucking upon her poisnous dugs; each one",
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   {
    "text": "Of sundrie shape, yet all ill-favored:",
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   {
    "text": "Soone as that uncouth light upon them shone,",
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   {
    "text": "Into her mouth they crept, and suddain all were gone.",
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    "text": "Their dam upstart out of her den affraide,",
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    "text": "And rushed forth, hurling her hideous taile",
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    "text": "About her cursed head; whose folds displaid",
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    "text": "Were stretcht now forth at length without entraile.",
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    "text": "She lookt about, and seeing one in mayle,",
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    "text": "Armed to point, sought backe to turne againe;",
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   {
    "text": "For light she hated as the deadly bale,",
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   {
    "text": "Ay wont in desert darkness to remaine,",
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    "text": "Where plain none might her see, nor she see any plaine.",
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    "text": "Which when the valiant Elfe perceiv’d, he lept",
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    "text": "As Lyon fierce upon the flying pray,",
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   {
    "text": "And with his trenchand blade her boldly kept",
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   {
    "text": "From turning backe, and forced her to stay:",
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   {
    "text": "Therewith enrag’d she loudly gan to bray,",
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   {
    "text": "And turning fierce her speckled taile advaunst,",
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   {
    "text": "Threatning her angrie sting, him to dismay;",
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    "text": "Who, nought aghast, his mightie hand enhaunst:",
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   {
    "text": "The stroke down from her head unto her shoulder glaunst.",
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   {
    "text": "Much daunted with that dint her fence was dazd;",
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   {
    "text": "Yet kindling rage her selfe she gathered round,",
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   {
    "text": "And all attonce her beastly bodie raizd",
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   {
    "text": "With doubled forces high above the ground:",
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   {
    "text": "Tho, wrapping up her wrethed sterne arownd,",
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    "text": "Lept fierce upon his shield, and her huge traine",
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   {
    "text": "All suddenly about his body wound,",
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   {
    "text": "That hand or foot to stirr he strove in vaine.",
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   {
    "text": "God helpe the man so wrapt in Errours endlesse traine!",
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    "text": "His Lady, sad to see his sore constraint,",
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    "text": "Cried out, “Now, now, Sir knight, shew what ye bee;",
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    "text": "Add faith unto your force, and be not faint;",
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   {
    "text": "Strangle her, els she sure will strangle thee.”",
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   {
    "text": "That when he heard, in great perplexitie,",
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   {
    "text": "His gall did grate for griefe and high disdaine;",
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    "text": "And, knitting all his force, got one hand free,",
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    "text": "Wherewith he grypt her gorge with so great paine,",
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    "text": "That soon to loose her wicked bands did her constraine.",
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    "text": "Her filthie parbreake all the place defiled has.",
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    "text": "His fattie waves doe fertile slime outwell,",
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    "text": "Such ugly monstrous shapes elswher may no man reed.",
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    "text": "The same so sore annoyed has the knight,",
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    "text": "That, welnigh choked with the deadly stinke,",
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    "text": "His forces faile, ne can no lenger fight:",
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    "text": "She poured forth out of her hellish sinke",
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    "text": "High on an hill, his flocke to vewen wide,",
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    "text": "Markes which doe byte their hasty supper best;",
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    "text": "A cloud of cumbrous gnattes doe him molest,",
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    "text": "That from their noyance he no where can rest;",
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    "text": "But with his clownish hands their tender wings",
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    "text": "He trusheth oft, and oft doth mar their murmurings.",
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    "text": "Or soone to lose, before he once would lin;",
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    "text": "A streame of cole-black blood forth gushed from her corse.",
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    "text": "Her scattred brood, soone as their Parent deare",
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    "text": "Groning full deadly, all with troublous feare",
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    "text": "At her wide mouth: but being there withstood,",
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    "text": "They flocked all about her bleeding wound,",
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    "text": "And sucked up their dying mother’s blood;",
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    "text": "Making her death their life, and eke her hurt their good",
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    "text": "That detestable sight him much amazde,",
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    "text": "To see th’unkindly Impes, of heaven accurst,",
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    "text": "Devoure their dam; on whom while so he gazd,",
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    "text": "Having all satisfide their bloudy thurst,",
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    "text": "Their bellies swolne he saw with fulnesse burst,",
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    "text": "And bowels gushing forth: well worthy end",
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    "text": "Of such as drunke her life the which them nurst!",
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    "text": "Now needeth him no lenger labour spend,",
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    "text": "His foes have slaine themselves, with whom he should contend.",
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    "text": "His Lady, seeing all that chaunst from farre,",
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    "text": "Approcht in hast to greet his victorie;",
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    "text": "And saide, “Faire knight, borne under happie starre,",
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    "text": "Who see your vanquisht foes before you lye,",
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   {
    "text": "Well worthie be you of that Armory,",
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   {
    "text": "Wherein ye have great glory wonne this day,",
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   {
    "text": "And proov’d your strength on a strong enimie;",
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   {
    "text": "Your first adventure: many such I pray,",
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    "text": "And henceforth ever wish that like succeed it may!”",
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    "text": "Then mounted he upon his Steede again,",
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    "text": "And with the Lady backward sought to wend.",
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    "text": "That path he kept which beaten was most plaine,",
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    "text": "Ne ever would to any byway bend,",
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    "text": "But still did follow one unto the end;",
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   {
    "text": "The which at last out of the wood them brought.",
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    "text": "So forward on his way (with God to frend)",
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    "text": "He passed forth, and new adventure sought:",
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    "text": "Long way he traveiled before he heard of ought.",
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    "text": "At length they chaunst to meet upon the way",
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    "text": "An aged Sire, in long blacke weedes yclad,",
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    "text": "His feete all bare, his beard all hoarie gray,",
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    "text": "And by his belt his booke he hanging had:",
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    "text": "Sober he seemde, and very sagely sad,",
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    "text": "And to the ground his eyes were lowly bent,",
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    "text": "Simple in shew, and voide of malice bad;",
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    "text": "And all the way he prayed as he went,",
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    "text": "And often knockt his brest, as one that did repent.",
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    "text": "He faire the knight saluted, looting low,",
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    "text": "Who faire him quited, as that courteous was;",
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    "text": "And after asked him, if he did know",
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    "text": "Of straunge adventures, which abroad did pas?",
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    "text": "“Ah! my dear sonne,” (quoth he) “how should, alas!",
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    "text": "Silly old man, that lives in hidden cell,",
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    "text": "Bidding his beades all day for his trespas,",
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   {
    "text": "Tydings of warre and worldly trouble tell?",
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    "text": "With holy father fits not with such thinges to mell.",
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    "text": "“But if of daunger, which hereby doth dwell,",
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   {
    "text": "And homebredd evil ye desire to heare,",
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   {
    "text": "Of a straunge man I can you tidings tell,",
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    "text": "That wasteth all this countrie, farre and neare.”",
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    "text": "“Of such,” (saide he) “I chiefly doe inquere,",
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    "text": "And shall thee well rewarde to shew the place,",
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    "text": "In which that wicked wight his dayes doth weare;",
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   {
    "text": "For to all knighthood it is foule disgrace,",
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    "text": "That such a cursed creature lives so long a space.”",
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    "text": "“Far hence” (quoth he) “in wastfull wildernesse",
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   {
    "text": "His dwelling is, by which no living wight",
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    "text": "May ever passe, but thorough great distresse.”",
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   {
    "text": "“Now,” (said the Ladie,) “draweth toward night;",
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    "text": "And well I wote, that of your later fight",
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   {
    "text": "Ye all forwearied be; for what so strong,",
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    "text": "But, wanting rest, will also want of might?",
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   {
    "text": "The Sunne, that measures heaven all day long,",
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    "text": "At night doth baite his steedes the Ocean waves emong.",
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    "text": "“Then with the Sunne take, Sir, your timely rest,",
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    "text": "And with new day new worke at once begin:",
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    "text": "Untroubled night, they say, gives counsell best.”",
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   {
    "text": "“Right well, Sir knight, ye have advised bin,”",
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   {
    "text": "Quoth then that aged man: “the way to win",
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   {
    "text": "Is wisely to advise; now day is spent:",
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   {
    "text": "Therefore with me ye may take up your In",
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   {
    "text": "For this same night.” The knight was well content;",
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    "text": "So with that godly father to his home they went.",
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    "text": "A litle lowly Hermitage it was,",
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    "text": "In traveill to and froe: a little wyde",
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    "text": "There was an holy chappell edifyde,",
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    "text": "Wherein the Hermite dewly wont to say",
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    "text": "His holy thinges each morne and eventyde;",
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    "text": "Thereby a christall streame did gently play,",
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    "text": "Arrived there, the litle house they fill,",
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    "text": "With faire discourse the evening so they pas;",
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    "text": "Then choosing out few words most horrible,",
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    "text": "(Let none them read) thereof did verses frame;",
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    "text": "With which, and other spelles like terrible,",
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    "text": "He bade awake blacke Plutoes griesly Dame;",
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    "text": "And cursed heven; and spake reprochful shame",
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    "text": "“Hether” (quoth he,) “me Archimago sent,",
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    "text": "He bids thee to him send for his intent",
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    "text": "A fit false dreame, that can delude the sleepers sent.”",
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    "text": "The God obayde; and, calling forth straight way",
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    "text": "A diverse Dreame out of his prison darke,",
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    "text": "His heavie head, devoide of careful carke;",
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    "text": "In haste unto his Lord, where he him left afore.",
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    "text": "Who all this while, with charmes and hidden artes,",
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   {
    "text": "Had made a Lady of that other Spright,",
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   {
    "text": "And fram’d of liquid ayre her tender partes,",
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   {
    "text": "So lively and so like in all mens sight,",
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   {
    "text": "That weaker sence it could have ravisht quight:",
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   {
    "text": "The maker-selfe, for all his wondrous witt,",
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   {
    "text": "Was nigh beguiled with so goodly sight.",
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   {
    "text": "Her all in white he clad, and over it",
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    "text": "Cast a black stole, most like to seeme for Una fit.",
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    "text": "Now, when that ydle dream was to him brought,",
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   {
    "text": "Unto that Elfin knight he bad him fly,",
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   {
    "text": "Where he slept soundly void of evil thought,",
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   {
    "text": "And with false shewes abuse his fantasy,",
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   {
    "text": "In sort as he him schooled privily:",
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    "text": "And that new creature, borne without her dew,",
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    "text": "Full of the makers guile, with usage sly",
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    "text": "He taught to imitate that Lady trew,",
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    "text": "Whose semblance she did carrie under feigned hew.",
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    "text": "Thus, well instructed, to their worke they haste;",
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   {
    "text": "And, comming where the knight in slomber lay,",
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   {
    "text": "The one upon his hardie head him plaste,",
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   {
    "text": "And made him dream of loves and lustfull play,",
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    "text": "That nigh his manly hart did melt away,",
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    "text": "Bathed in wanton blis and wicked joy.",
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   {
    "text": "Then seemed him his Lady by him lay,",
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    "text": "And to him playnd, how that false winged boy",
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    "text": "Her chaste hart had subdewd to learne Dame Pleasures toy.",
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    "text": "And she her selfe, of beautie soveraigne Queene,",
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   {
    "text": "Fayre Venus, seemde unto his bed to bring",
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    "text": "Her, whom he, waking, evermore did weene",
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    "text": "To bee the chastest flowre that aye did spring",
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    "text": "On earthly braunch; the daughter of a king,",
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    "text": "Now a loose Leman to vile service bound:",
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   {
    "text": "And eke the Graces seemed all to sing,",
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    "text": "Hymen Iö Hymen! dauncing all around;",
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    "text": "Whylst freshest Flora her with Yvie girlond crownd.",
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    "text": "In this great passion of unwonted lust,",
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   {
    "text": "Or wonted feare of doing ought amis,",
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   {
    "text": "He starteth up, as seeming to mistrust",
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    "text": "Some secret ill, or hidden foe of his.",
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    "text": "Lo! there before his face his Ladie is,",
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    "text": "Under blacke stole hyding her bayted hooke;",
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    "text": "And as halfe blushing offred him to kiss,",
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    "text": "With gentle blandishment and lovely look,",
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    "text": "Most like that Virgin true which for her Knight him took.",
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    "text": "All cleane dismayd to see so uncouth sight,",
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    "text": "And halfe enraged at her shamelesse guise,",
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    "text": "He thought have slaine her in his fierce despight;",
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    "text": "But hastie heat tempring with sufferance wise,",
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    "text": "He stayde his hand; and gan himselfe advise",
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   {
    "text": "To prove his sense, and tempt her faigned truth.",
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    "text": "Wringing her hands, in wemens pitteous wise,",
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    "text": "Tho can she weepe, to stirre up gentle ruth",
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    "text": "Both for her noble blood, and for her tender youth.",
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    "text": "And sayd, “Ah Sir, my liege Lord, and my love,",
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   {
    "text": "Shall I accuse the hidden cruell fate,",
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    "text": "And mightie causes wrought in heaven above,",
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   {
    "text": "Or the blind God that doth me thus amate,",
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   {
    "text": "For hoped love to winne me certaine hate?",
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   {
    "text": "Yet thus perforce he bids me do, or die.",
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   {
    "text": "Die is my dew; yet rew my wretched state,",
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   {
    "text": "You, whom my hard avenging destinie",
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    "text": "Hath made judge of my life or death indifferently.",
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    "text": "“Your owne deare sake forst me at first to leave",
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    "text": "My father’s kingdom”⁠—There she stopt with teares;",
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    "text": "Her swollen hart her speech seemd to bereave,",
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    "text": "And then again begonne; “My weaker yeares,",
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   {
    "text": "Captiv’d to fortune and frayle worldly feares,",
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   {
    "text": "Fly to your fayth for succour and sure ayde:",
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   {
    "text": "Let me not die in languor and long teares.”",
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   {
    "text": "“Why, Dame,” (quoth he), “what hath ye thus dismayd?",
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    "text": "What frayes ye, that were wont to comfort me affrayd?”",
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    "text": "“Love of your selfe,” she saide, “and deare constraint,",
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    "text": "Lets me not sleepe, but waste the wearie night",
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    "text": "In secret anguish and unpittied plaint,",
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   {
    "text": "Whiles you in carelesse sleepe are drowned quight.”",
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   {
    "text": "Her doubtfull words made that redoubted knight",
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   {
    "text": "Suspect her truth; yet since no’ untruth he knew,",
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    "text": "Her fawning love with foule disdainefull spight",
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    "text": "He would not shend; but said, “Deare dame, I rew,",
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    "text": "That for my sake unknowne such griefe unto you grew.",
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    "text": "“Assure your selfe, it fell not all to ground;",
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   {
    "text": "For all so dear as life is to my hart,",
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   {
    "text": "I deeme your love, and hold me to you bound:",
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   {
    "text": "Ne let vaine feares procure your needlesse smart,",
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   {
    "text": "Where cause is none; but to your rest depart.”",
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    "text": "Not all content, yet seemd she to appease",
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    "text": "Her mournefull plaintes, beguiled of her art,",
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    "text": "And fed with words that could not chose but please:",
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    "text": "So, slyding softly forth, she turnd as to her ease.",
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    "text": "Long after lay he musing at her mood,",
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    "text": "Much griev’d to thinke that gentle Dame so light,",
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    "text": "For whose defence he was to shed his blood.",
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    "text": "At last, dull wearines of former fight",
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    "text": "Having yrockt asleepe his irkesome spright,",
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    "text": "That troublous dreame gan freshly tosse his braine",
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    "text": "With bowres, and beds, and ladies deare delight:",
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    "text": "But, when he saw his labour all was vaine,",
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    "text": "With that misformed spright he back returnd againe.",
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    "text": "By this the Northerne wagoner had set",
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    "text": "His sevenfold teme behind the stedfast starre",
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    "text": "That was in Ocean waves yet never wet,",
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    "text": "But firme is fixt, and sendeth light from farre",
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    "text": "To al that in the wide deepe wandring arre;",
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    "text": "And chearefull Chaunticlere with his note shrill",
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    "text": "Had warned once, that Phœbus fiery carre",
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    "text": "In hast was climbing up the Easterne hill,",
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    "text": "Full envious that night so long his roome did fill.",
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    "text": "When those accursed messengers of hell,",
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    "text": "That feigning dreame, and that faire-forged Spright,",
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    "text": "Came to their wicked maister, and gan tel",
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    "text": "Their bootelesse paines, and ill succeeding night:",
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    "text": "Who, all in rage to see his skilfull might",
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    "text": "Deluded so, gan threaten hellish paine,",
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    "text": "And sad Proserpines wrath, them to affright;",
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    "text": "But, when he saw his threatning was but vaine,",
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    "text": "He cast about, and searcht his baleful bokes againe.",
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    "text": "Eftsoones he tooke that miscreated faire,",
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    "text": "Those twoo he tooke, and in a secrete bed,",
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    "text": "Covered with darkenes and misdeeming night,",
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    "text": "Them both together laid to joy in vaine delight.",
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    "text": "Forthwith he runnes with feigned faithfull hast",
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    "text": "Unto his guest, who, after troublous sights",
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    "text": "And dreames, gan now to take more sound repast;",
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    "text": "Whom suddenly he wakes with fearful frights,",
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    "text": "And to him cals; “Rise, rise! unhappy Swaine,",
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    "text": "That here wex old in sleepe, whiles wicked wights",
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    "text": "Have knit themselves in Venus shameful chaine:",
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    "text": "Come, see where your false Lady doth her honor staine.”",
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    "text": "All in amaze he suddenly up start",
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    "text": "Which when he saw, he burnt with gealous fire;",
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    "text": "The eie of reason was with rage yblent;",
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    "text": "And would have slaine them in his furious ire,",
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    "text": "But hardly was restreined of that aged sire.",
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    "text": "Retourning to his bed in torment great,",
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    "text": "And bitter anguish of his guilty sight,",
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    "text": "He could not rest; but did his stout heart eat,",
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    "text": "Yrkesome of life, and too long lingring night.",
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    "text": "Had spent his lampe, and brought forth dawning light;",
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    "text": "The dwarfe him brought his steed; so both away do fly.",
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    "text": "Now when the rosy fingred Morning faire,",
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    "text": "That him to follow was but fruitlesse paine:",
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    "text": "Yet she her weary limbes would never rest;",
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    "text": "Did search, sore grieved in her gentle brest,",
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    "text": "He so ungently left her, whom she loved best.",
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    "text": "But subtill Archimago, when his guests",
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    "text": "He saw divided into double parts,",
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    "text": "Th’end of his drift, he praisd his divelish arts,",
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    "text": "Yet rests not so, but other meanes doth make,",
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    "text": "How he may worke unto her further smarts;",
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    "text": "For her he hated as the hissing snake,",
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    "text": "He then devisde himselfe how to disguise;",
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    "text": "And oft would flie away. O! who can tell",
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    "text": "The hidden powre of herbes, and might of Magick spell?",
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    "text": "But now seemde best the person to put on",
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    "text": "Of that good knight, his late beguiled guest:",
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    "text": "In mighty armes he was yclad anon,",
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    "text": "Full jolly knight he seemde, and wel addrest;",
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    "text": "And when he sate uppon his courser free,",
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    "text": "Saint George himselfe ye would have deemed him to be.",
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    "text": "But he, the knight whose semblaunt he did beare,",
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    "text": "The true Saint George, was wandred far away,",
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    "text": "At last him chaunst to meete upon the way",
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    "text": "Hee had a faire companion of his way,",
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    "text": "Shee wore, with crowns and owches garnished,",
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    "text": "With faire disport, and courting dalliaunce,",
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    "text": "She intertainde her lover all the way;",
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    "text": "But, when she saw the knight his speare advaunce,",
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    "text": "She soon left of her mirth and wanton play,",
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    "text": "And bad her knight addresse him to the fray,",
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    "text": "His foe was nigh at hand. He, prickte with pride,",
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    "text": "And hope to winne his Ladies hearte that day,",
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    "text": "Forth spurred fast: adowne his coursers side",
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    "text": "The red bloud trickling staind the way, as he did ride.",
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    "text": "The knight of the Red Crosse, when him he spide",
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    "text": "Spurring so hote with rage dispiteous,",
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    "text": "Gan fairly couch his speare, and towards ride.",
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   {
    "text": "Soone meete they both, both fell and furious,",
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   {
    "text": "That, daunted with theyr forces hideous,",
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   {
    "text": "Their steeds doe stagger, and amazed stand;",
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   {
    "text": "And eke themselves, too rudely rigorous,",
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   {
    "text": "Astonied with the stroke of their owne hand,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Doe backe rebutte, and ech to other yealdeth land.",
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   {
    "text": "As when two rams, stird with ambitious pride,",
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   {
    "text": "Fight for the rule of the rich fleeced flocke,",
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   {
    "text": "Their horned fronts so fierce on either side",
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   {
    "text": "Doe meete, that, with the terror of the shocke",
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   {
    "text": "Astonied, both stand sencelesse as a blocke,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Forgetfull of the hanging victory:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "So stood these twaine, unmoved as a rocke,",
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   {
    "text": "Both staring fierce, and holding idely",
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   {
    "text": "The broken reliques of their former cruelty.",
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   {
    "text": "The Sarazin, sore daunted with the buffe,",
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   {
    "text": "Snatcheth his sword, and fiercely to him flies;",
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   {
    "text": "Who well it wards, and quyteth cuff with cuff:",
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   {
    "text": "Each others equall puissance envies,",
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   {
    "text": "And through their iron sides with cruell spies",
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   {
    "text": "Does seeke to perce; repining courage yields",
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   {
    "text": "No foote to foe: the flashing fier flies,",
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   {
    "text": "As from a forge, out of their burning shields;",
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   {
    "text": "And streams of purple blood new die the verdant fields.",
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   {
    "text": "“Curse on that Crosse,” (quoth then the Sarazin,)",
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   {
    "text": "“That keepes thy body from the bitter fitt!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Dead long ygoe, I wote, thou haddest bin,",
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   {
    "text": "Had not thy charme from thee forwarned itt:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But yet I warne thee now assured sitt,",
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   {
    "text": "And hide thy head.” Therewith upon his crest",
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   {
    "text": "With rigor so outrageous he smitt,",
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    "text": "That a large share it hewd out of the rest,",
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   {
    "text": "And glauncing downe his shield from blame him fairly blest.",
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    "text": "Who, thereat wondrous wroth, the sleeping spark",
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   {
    "text": "Of native vertue gan eftsoones revive;",
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   {
    "text": "And at his haughty helmet making mark,",
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   {
    "text": "So hugely stroke, that it the steele did rive,",
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   {
    "text": "And cleft his head. He, tumbling downe alive,",
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   {
    "text": "With bloudy mouth his mother earth did kis,",
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   {
    "text": "Greeting his grave: his grudging ghost did strive",
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   {
    "text": "With the fraile flesh; at last it flitted is,",
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   {
    "text": "Whether the soules doe fly of men that live amis.",
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    "text": "The Lady, when she saw her champion fall",
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   {
    "text": "Like the old ruines of a broken towre,",
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   {
    "text": "Staid not to waile his woefull funerall,",
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   {
    "text": "But from him fled away with all her powre;",
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   {
    "text": "Who after her as hastily gan scowre,",
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   {
    "text": "Bidding the dwarfe with him to bring away",
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   {
    "text": "The Sarazins shield, signe of his conqueroure.",
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   {
    "text": "Her soone he overtooke, and bad to stay;",
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   {
    "text": "For present cause was none of dread her to dismay.",
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   {
    "text": "She turning backe, with ruefull countenaunce,",
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   {
    "text": "Cride, “Mercy, mercy, Sir, vouchsafe to show",
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   },
   {
    "text": "On silly Dame, subject to hard mischaunce,",
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   {
    "text": "And to your mighty wil!” Her humblesse low,",
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   {
    "text": "In so ritch weedes, and seeming glorious show,",
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   {
    "text": "Did much emmove his stout heroïcke heart;",
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   {
    "text": "And said, “Deare dame, your suddein overthrow",
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   {
    "text": "Much rueth me; but now put feare apart,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And tel both who ye be, and who that tooke your part.”",
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   {
    "text": "Melting in teares, then gan she thus lament.",
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   {
    "text": "“The wretched woman, whom unhappy howre",
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   {
    "text": "Hath now made thrall to your commandement,",
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   {
    "text": "Before that angry heavens lift to lowre,",
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   {
    "text": "And fortune false betraide me to thy powre,",
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   {
    "text": "Was (O! what now availeth that I was?)",
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   {
    "text": "Borne the sole daughter of an Emperour;",
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   {
    "text": "He that the wide West under his rule has,",
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   {
    "text": "And high hath set his throne where Tiberis doth pas.",
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   {
    "text": "“He, in the first flowre of my freshest age,",
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   {
    "text": "Betrothed me unto the onely haire",
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   {
    "text": "Of a most mighty king, most rich and sage:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Was never Prince so faithfull and so faire,",
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   {
    "text": "Was never Prince so meeke and debonaire;",
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   {
    "text": "But ere my hoped day of spousall shone,",
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   {
    "text": "My dearest Lord fell from high honors staire",
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   {
    "text": "Into the hands of his accursed fone,",
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   {
    "text": "And cruelly was slaine; that shall I ever mone.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "“His blessed body, spoild of lively breath,",
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   {
    "text": "Was afterward, I know not how, convaid,",
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   {
    "text": "And fro me hid: of whose most innocent death",
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   {
    "text": "When tidings came to mee, unhappy maid,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O, how great sorrow my sad soule assaid!",
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   {
    "text": "Then forth I went his woefull course to find,",
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   {
    "text": "And many yeares throughout the world I straid,",
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   {
    "text": "A virgin widow; whose deepe wounded mind",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With love long time did languish, as the striken hind.",
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   {
    "text": "“At last it chaunced this proud Sarazin",
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   {
    "text": "To meete me wandring; who perforce me led",
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   {
    "text": "With him away, but yet could never win",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The Fort, that Ladies hold in soveraigne dread.",
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   {
    "text": "There lies he now with foule dishonor dead,",
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   {
    "text": "Who, whiles he livde, was called proud Sans foy,",
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    "text": "The eldest of three brethren; all three bred",
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   {
    "text": "Of one bad sire, whose youngest is Sans joy;",
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   {
    "text": "And twixt them both was born the bloody bold Sans loy.",
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   {
    "text": "“In this sad plight, friendlesse, unfortunate,",
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   {
    "text": "Now miserable I, Fidessa, dwell,",
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   {
    "text": "Craving of you, in pity of my state,",
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   {
    "text": "To doe none ill, if please ye not doe well.”",
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   },
   {
    "text": "He in great passion al this while did dwell,",
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   {
    "text": "More busying his quicke eies her face to view,",
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   {
    "text": "Then his dull eares to heare what shee did tell;",
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   {
    "text": "And said, “faire lady, hart of flint would rew",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The undeserved woes and sorrowes, which me shew.",
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   {
    "text": "“Henceforth in safe assuraunce may ye rest,",
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   {
    "text": "Having both found a new friend to your aid,",
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   {
    "text": "And lost an old foe that did you molest:",
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   {
    "text": "Better new friend than an old foe is said.”",
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   {
    "text": "With chaunge of chear the seeming simple maid",
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   {
    "text": "Let fal her eien, as shamefast, to the earth,",
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   {
    "text": "And yeelding soft, in that she nought gainsaid,",
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   {
    "text": "So forth they rode, he feining seemely merth,",
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   {
    "text": "And shee coy lookes: so dainty, they say, maketh derth.",
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    "text": "Long time they thus together traveiled;",
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   {
    "text": "Til, weary of their way, they came at last",
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   {
    "text": "Where grew two goodly trees, that faire did spred",
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   {
    "text": "Their armes abroad, with gray mosse overcast;",
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   {
    "text": "And their greene leaves, trembling with every blast,",
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   {
    "text": "Made a calme shadowe far in compasse round:",
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   {
    "text": "The fearefull shepheard, often there aghast,",
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   {
    "text": "Under them never sat, ne wont there sound",
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   {
    "text": "His mery oaten pipe, but shund th’unlucky ground.",
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   {
    "text": "But this good knight, soone as he them can spie,",
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   {
    "text": "For the coole shade him thither hastly got:",
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   {
    "text": "For golden Phœbus, now ymounted hie,",
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    "text": "From fiery wheeles of his faire chariot",
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   {
    "text": "Hurled his beame so scorching cruell hot,",
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   {
    "text": "That living creature mote it not abide;",
    "indent": 1
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   {
    "text": "And his new Lady it endured not.",
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   {
    "text": "There they alight, in hope themselves to hide",
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   {
    "text": "From the fierce heat, and rest their weary limbs a tide.",
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   {
    "text": "Faire seemely pleasaunce each to other makes,",
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   {
    "text": "With goodly purposes, there as they sit;",
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   {
    "text": "And in his falsed fancy he her takes",
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   {
    "text": "To be the fairest wight that lived yit;",
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   {
    "text": "Which to expresse he bends his gentle wit;",
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   {
    "text": "And, thinking of those braunches greene to frame",
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   {
    "text": "A girlond for her dainty forehead fit,",
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   {
    "text": "He pluckt a bough; out of whose rifte there came",
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   {
    "text": "Small drops of gory blood, that trickled down the same.",
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   {
    "text": "Therewith a piteous yelling voice was heard,",
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   {
    "text": "Crying, “O! spare with guilty hands to teare",
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   {
    "text": "My tender sides in this rough rynd embard;",
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   {
    "text": "But fly, ah! fly far hence away, for feare",
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   {
    "text": "Least to you hap that happened to me heare,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And to this wretched Lady, my deare love;",
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   {
    "text": "O, too deare love, love bought with death too deare!”",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Astond he stood, and up his heare did hove;",
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    "text": "And with that suddein horror could no member move.",
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   {
    "text": "At last whenas the dreadfull passion",
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   {
    "text": "Was overpast, and manhood well awake,",
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    "text": "Yet musing at the straunge occasion,",
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   {
    "text": "And doubting much his fence, he thus bespake:",
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   {
    "text": "“What voice of damned Ghost from Limbo lake,",
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   {
    "text": "Or guilefull spright wandring in empty aire,",
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   {
    "text": "Both which fraile men doe oftentimes mistake,",
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   {
    "text": "Sends to my doubtful eares these speaches rare,",
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    "text": "And ruefull plaints, me bidding guiltlesse blood to spare?”",
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   {
    "text": "Then groning deep; “Nor damned Ghost,” (quoth he,)",
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   {
    "text": "“Nor guileful sprite to thee these words doth speake;",
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   {
    "text": "But once a man, Fradubio, now a tree;",
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   {
    "text": "Wretched man, wretched tree! whose nature weake",
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   {
    "text": "A cruell witch, her cursed will to wreake,",
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   {
    "text": "Hath thus transformed, and plast in open plaines,",
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   {
    "text": "Where Boreas doth blow full bitter bleake,",
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   {
    "text": "And scorching Sunne does dry my secret vaines;",
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   {
    "text": "For though a tree I seme, yet cold and heat me paines.”",
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    "text": "“Say on Fradubio, then, or man or tree,”",
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   {
    "text": "Quoth then the Knight; “by whose mischievous arts",
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   {
    "text": "Art thou misshaped thus, as now I see?",
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   {
    "text": "He oft finds med’cine who his griefe imparts,",
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   {
    "text": "But double griefs afflict concealing harts,",
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   {
    "text": "As raging flames who striveth to suppresse.”",
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   {
    "text": "“The author then,” (said he) “of all my smarts,",
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   {
    "text": "Is one Duessa, a false sorceresse,",
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   {
    "text": "That many errant knights hath broght to wretchednesse.",
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   {
    "text": "“In prime of youthly yeares, when corage hott",
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   {
    "text": "The fire of love, and joy of chevalree,",
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   {
    "text": "First kindled in my breast, it was my lott",
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   {
    "text": "To love this gentle Lady, whome ye see",
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   {
    "text": "Now not a Lady, but a teeming tree;",
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   {
    "text": "With whome, as once I rode accompanyde,",
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   {
    "text": "Me chaunced of a knight encountred be,",
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   {
    "text": "That had a like faire Lady by his syde;",
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   {
    "text": "Like a faire Lady, but did fowle Duessa hyde.",
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    "text": "“Whose forged beauty he did take in hand",
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    "text": "All other Dames to have exceeded farre:",
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   {
    "text": "I in defence of mine did likewise stand,",
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   {
    "text": "Mine, that did then shine as the Morning starre.",
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   {
    "text": "So both to batteill fierce arraunged arre;",
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   {
    "text": "In which his harder fortune was to fall",
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   {
    "text": "Under my speare: such is the dye of warre.",
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   {
    "text": "His Lady, left as a prise martiall,",
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   {
    "text": "Did yield her comely person to be at my call.",
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   {
    "text": "“So doubly lov’d of ladies, unlike faire,",
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   {
    "text": "Th’one seeming such, the other such indeede,",
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   {
    "text": "One day in doubt I cast for to compare",
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   {
    "text": "Whether in beauties glorie did exceede:",
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   {
    "text": "A Rosy girlond was the victors meede.",
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   {
    "text": "Both seemde to win, and both seemde won to bee,",
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   {
    "text": "So hard the discord was to be agreede.",
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   {
    "text": "Frælissa was as faire as faire mote bee,",
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    "text": "And ever false Duessa seemde as faire as shee.",
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    "text": "“The wicked witch, now seeing all this while",
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    "text": "The doubtfull ballaunce equally to sway,",
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   {
    "text": "What not by right she cast to win by guile;",
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    "text": "And by her hellish science raisd streight way",
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   {
    "text": "A foggy mist, that overcast the day,",
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    "text": "And a dull blast, that breathing on her face",
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   {
    "text": "Dimmed her former beauties shining ray,",
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   {
    "text": "And with foule ugly forme did her disgrace:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Then was she fayre alone, when none was faire in place.",
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   {
    "text": "“Then cride she out, ‘Fye, fye! deformed wight,",
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   {
    "text": "Whose borrowed beautie now appeareth plaine",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To have before bewitched all mens sight:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "O! leave her soone, or let her soone be slaine.’",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Her loathly visage viewing with disdaine,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Eftsoones I thought her such as she me told,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And would have killed her; but with faigned paine",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The false witch did my wrathfull hand withhold:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "So left her, where she now is turnd to treen mould.",
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   {
    "text": "“Thensforth I tooke Duessa for my Dame,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And in the witch unweeting joyd long time;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Ne ever wist but that she was the same;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Till on a day (that day is everie Prime,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "When Witches wont do penance for their crime,)",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I chaunst to see her in her proper hew,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Bathing her selfe in origane and thyme:",
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    "text": "A filthy foule old woman I did vew,",
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    "text": "That ever to have toucht her I did deadly rew.",
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    "text": "“Her neather partes misshapen, monstruous,",
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    "text": "Were hidd in water, that I could not see;",
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    "text": "But they did seeme more foule and hideous,",
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    "text": "Then womans shape man would believe to bee.",
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    "text": "Thensforth from her most beastly companie",
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   {
    "text": "I gan refraine, in minde to slipp away,",
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    "text": "Soone as appeard safe opportunitie:",
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   {
    "text": "For danger great, if not assurd decay,",
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   {
    "text": "I saw before mine eyes, if I were knowne to stray.",
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    "text": "“The divelish hag by chaunges of my cheare",
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    "text": "Perceiv’d my thought; and, drownd in sleepie night,",
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    "text": "With wicked herbes and oyntments did besmeare",
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    "text": "My body all, through charmes and magicke might,",
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    "text": "That all my senses were bereaved quight:",
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    "text": "Then brought she me into this desert waste,",
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    "text": "And by my wretched lovers side me pight;",
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   {
    "text": "Where now, enclosd in wooden wals full faste,",
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   {
    "text": "Banisht from living wights, our wearie daies we waste.”",
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    "text": "“But how long time,” said then the Elfin knight,",
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   {
    "text": "“Are you in this misformed house to dwell?”",
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    "text": "“We may not chaunge,” (quoth he,) “this evil plight,",
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   {
    "text": "Till we be bathed in a living well:",
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   {
    "text": "That is the terme prescribed by the spell.”",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“O! how,” sayd he, “mote I that well out find,",
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   {
    "text": "That may restore you to your wonted well?”",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Time and suffised fates to former kynd",
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   {
    "text": "Shall us restore; none else from hence may us unbynd.”",
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    "text": "The false Duessa, now Fidessa hight,",
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   {
    "text": "Heard how in vaine Fradubio did lament,",
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   {
    "text": "And knew well all was true. But the good knight,",
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    "text": "Full of sad feare and ghastly dreriment,",
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   {
    "text": "When all this speech the living tree had spent,",
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    "text": "The bleeding bough did thrust into the ground,",
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    "text": "That from the blood he might be innocent,",
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    "text": "And with fresh clay did close the wooden wound:",
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    "text": "Then, turning to his Lady, dead with feare her fownd.",
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    "text": "Her seeming dead he found with feigned feare,",
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    "text": "As all unweeting of that well she knew;",
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    "text": "And paynd himselfe with busie care to reare",
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   {
    "text": "Her out of carelesse swowne. Her eyelids blew,",
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    "text": "And dimmed sight, with pale and deadly hew,",
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    "text": "At last she up gan lift: with trembling cheare",
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    "text": "Her up he tooke, (too simple and too trew)",
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    "text": "And oft her kist. At length, all passed feare,",
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    "text": "He set her on her steede, and forward forth did beare.",
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    "text": "Nought is there under heav’ns wide hollownesse,",
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   {
    "text": "That moves more deare compassion of mind,",
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    "text": "Then beautie brought t’unworthie wretchednesse",
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    "text": "Through envies snares, or fortunes freakes unkind.",
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   {
    "text": "I, whether lately through her brightnes blynd,",
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    "text": "Or through alleageance, and fast fealty,",
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   {
    "text": "Which I do owe unto all womankynd,",
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   {
    "text": "Feele my hart perst with so great agony,",
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    "text": "When such I see, that all for pitty I could dy.",
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    "text": "And now it is empassioned so deepe,",
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    "text": "For fairest Unaes sake, of whom I sing,",
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    "text": "That my frayle eies these lines with teares do steepe,",
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    "text": "To thinke how she through guyleful handeling,",
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    "text": "Though true as touch, though daughter of a king,",
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   {
    "text": "Though faire as ever living wight was fayre,",
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   {
    "text": "Though nor in word nor deede ill meriting,",
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   {
    "text": "Is from her knight divorced in despayre,",
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    "text": "And her dew loves deryv’d to that vile witches shayre.",
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    "text": "Yet she, most faithfull Ladie, all this while",
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    "text": "Forsaken, wofull, solitarie mayd,",
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    "text": "Far from all peoples preace, as in exile,",
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   {
    "text": "In wildernesse and wastfull deserts strayd,",
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    "text": "To seeke her knight; who, subtily betrayd",
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   {
    "text": "Through that late vision which th’Enchaunter wrought,",
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    "text": "Had her abandond. She, of nought affrayd,",
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    "text": "Through woods and wastnes wide him daily sought;",
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    "text": "Yet wished tydinges none of him unto her brought.",
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    "text": "One day, nigh wearie of the yrkesome way,",
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   {
    "text": "From her unhastie beast she did alight;",
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   {
    "text": "And on the grasse her dainty limbs did lay",
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    "text": "In secrete shadow, far from all mens sight:",
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   {
    "text": "From her fayre head her fillet she undight,",
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    "text": "And layd her stole aside. Her angels face,",
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    "text": "As the great eye of heaven, shyned bright,",
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    "text": "And made a sunshine in the shady place:",
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   {
    "text": "Did never mortall eye behold such heavenly grace.",
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    "text": "It fortuned, out of the thickest wood",
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    "text": "A ramping Lyon rushed suddeinly,",
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    "text": "Hunting full greedy after salvage blood.",
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    "text": "Soone as the royall virgin he did spy,",
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    "text": "With gaping mouth at her ran greedily,",
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    "text": "But to the pray when as he drew more ny,",
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    "text": "His bloody rage aswaged with remorse,",
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    "text": "And, with the sight amazd, forgat his furious forse.",
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    "text": "In stead thereof he kist her wearie feet,",
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    "text": "As he her wronged innocence did weet.",
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   {
    "text": "O, how can beautie maister the most strong,",
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    "text": "And simple truth subdue avenging wrong!",
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    "text": "Whose yielded pryde and proud submission,",
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    "text": "Still dreading death, when she had marked long,",
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    "text": "Her hart gan melt in great compassion;",
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    "text": "“The Lyon, Lord of everie beast in field,”",
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    "text": "Quoth she, “his princely puissance doth abate,",
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    "text": "And mightie proud to humble weake does yield,",
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    "text": "Forgetfull of the hungry rage, which late",
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    "text": "Him prickt, in pittie of my sad estate;",
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   {
    "text": "But he, my Lyon, and my noble Lord,",
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    "text": "How does he find in cruell hart to hate",
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    "text": "Her, that him lov’d, and ever most adord",
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    "text": "As the God of my life? why hath he me abhord?”",
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    "text": "Redounding teares did choke th’end of her plaint,",
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    "text": "Which softly ecchoed from the neighbour wood;",
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    "text": "And, sad to see her sorrowfull constraint,",
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    "text": "The kingly beast upon her gazing stood:",
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   {
    "text": "With pittie calmd downe fell his angry mood.",
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    "text": "At last, in close hart shutting up her payne,",
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    "text": "Arose the virgin, borne of heavenly brood,",
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    "text": "The Lyon would not leave her desolate,",
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    "text": "Of her chast person, and a faythfull mate",
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    "text": "From her fayre eyes he tooke commandement,",
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    "text": "Long she thus traveiled through deserts wyde,",
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   {
    "text": "By which she thought her wandring knight shold pas,",
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    "text": "Yet never shew of living wight espyde;",
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    "text": "Till that at length she found the troden gras,",
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    "text": "In which the tract of peoples footing was,",
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   {
    "text": "Under the steepe foot of a mountaine hore:",
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    "text": "The same she followes, till at last she has",
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    "text": "A damzel spyde, slow footing her before,",
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    "text": "That on her shoulders sad a pot of water bore.",
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    "text": "To whom approching she to her gan call,",
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    "text": "To weet, if dwelling place were nigh at hand;",
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    "text": "But the rude wench her answer’d nought at all,",
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    "text": "She could not heare, nor speake, nor understand;",
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    "text": "Till, seeing by her side the Lyon stand,",
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    "text": "With suddeine feare her pitcher downe she threw,",
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    "text": "And fled away: for never in that land",
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    "text": "Face of fayre Ladie she before did vew,",
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    "text": "And that dredd Lyons looke her cast in deadly hew.",
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    "text": "Full fast she fled, ne ever lookt behynd,",
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    "text": "As if her life upon the wager lay;",
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    "text": "And home she came, whereas her mother blynd",
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    "text": "Sate in eternall night: nought could she say;",
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    "text": "But, suddeine catching hold, did her dismay",
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    "text": "With quaking hands, and other signes of feare:",
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    "text": "Who, full of ghastly fright and cold affray,",
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    "text": "Dame Una, weary Dame, and entrance did requere.",
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    "text": "Which when none yielded, her unruly Page",
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    "text": "Shee found them both in darksome corner pent;",
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    "text": "Where that old woman day and night did pray",
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    "text": "And to augment her painefull penaunce more,",
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    "text": "And next her wrinkled skin rough sackecloth wore,",
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    "text": "And thrise three times did fast from any bitt;",
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    "text": "But now, for feare her beads she did forgett:",
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    "text": "Whose needlesse dread for to remove away,",
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    "text": "Faire Una framed words and count’naunce fitt;",
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    "text": "Which hardly doen, at length she gan them pray,",
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    "text": "That in their cotage small that night she rest her may.",
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    "text": "The day is spent; and commeth drowsie night,",
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    "text": "When every creature shrowded is in sleepe.",
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    "text": "Sad Una downe her laies in weary plight,",
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    "text": "And at her feete the Lyon watch doth keepe:",
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    "text": "In stead of rest she does lament and weepe,",
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    "text": "For the late losse of her deare loved knight,",
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    "text": "And sighes, and grones, and evermore does steepe",
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    "text": "He knocked fast, and often curst, and sware,",
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    "text": "That ready entraunce was not at his call;",
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    "text": "Then he by conning sleights in at the window crept.",
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    "text": "And all that he by right or wrong could find,",
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    "text": "Unto this house he brought, and did bestow",
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    "text": "Upon the daughter of this woman blind,",
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    "text": "With whom he whoredome usd, that few did know,",
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    "text": "And now he to her brought part of his stolen things.",
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    "text": "Thus, long the dore with rage and threats he bett,",
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   {
    "text": "Yet of those fearfull women none durst rize,",
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    "text": "The Lyon frayed them, him in to lett.",
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    "text": "He would no lenger stay him to advize,",
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    "text": "But open breakes the dore in furious wize,",
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    "text": "And entring is, when that disdainfull beast,",
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    "text": "Under his Lordly foot him proudly hath supprest.",
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    "text": "Him booteth not resist, nor succour call,",
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    "text": "His bleeding hart is in the vengers hand;",
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   {
    "text": "Who streight him rent in thousand peeces small,",
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    "text": "And quite dismembred hath: the thirsty land",
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    "text": "Dronke up his life; his corse left on the strand.",
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   {
    "text": "His fearefull freends weare out the wofull night,",
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    "text": "Ne dare to weepe, nor seeme to understand",
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   {
    "text": "The heavie hap which on them is alight;",
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    "text": "Affraid least to themselves the like mishappen might.",
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    "text": "Now when broad day the world discovered has,",
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    "text": "Up Una rose, up rose the lyon eke;",
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   {
    "text": "And on their former journey forward pas,",
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   {
    "text": "In waies unknowne, her wandring knight to seeke,",
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   {
    "text": "With paines far passing that long wandring Greeke,",
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   {
    "text": "That for his love refused deitye.",
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   {
    "text": "Such were the labours of this Lady meeke,",
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   {
    "text": "Still seeking him, that from her still did flye;",
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   {
    "text": "Then furthest from her hope, when most she weened nye.",
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   {
    "text": "Soone as she parted thence, the fearfull twayne,",
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   {
    "text": "That blind old woman, and her daughter deare",
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   {
    "text": "Came forth; and, finding Kirkrapine there slayne,",
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   {
    "text": "For anguish great they gan to rend their heare,",
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   {
    "text": "And beat their brests, and naked flesh to teare:",
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   {
    "text": "And when they both had wept and wayld their fill,",
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   {
    "text": "Then forth they ran, like two amazed deare,",
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   {
    "text": "Halfe mad through malice and revenging will,",
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   {
    "text": "To follow her that was the causer of their ill.",
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   {
    "text": "Whome overtaking, they gan loudly bray,",
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   {
    "text": "With hollow houling, and lamenting cry;",
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   {
    "text": "Shamefully at her rayling all the way,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And her accusing of dishonesty,",
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   {
    "text": "That was the flowre of faith and chastity:",
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   {
    "text": "And still, amidst her rayling, she did pray",
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   {
    "text": "That plagues, and mischiefes, and long misery,",
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   {
    "text": "Might fall on her, and follow all the way,",
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   {
    "text": "And that in endlesse error she might ever stray.",
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   {
    "text": "But, when she saw her prayers nought prevaile,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Shee backe retourned with some labour lost;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And in the way, as shee did weepe and waile,",
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   {
    "text": "A knight her met in mighty armes embost,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Yet knight was not for all his bragging bost;",
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   {
    "text": "But subtill Archimag, that Una sought",
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   {
    "text": "By traynes into new troubles to have toste:",
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   {
    "text": "Of that old woman tidings he besought,",
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   {
    "text": "If that of such a Lady shee could tellen ought.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Therewith she gan her passion to renew,",
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   {
    "text": "And cry, and curse, and raile, and rend her heare,",
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   {
    "text": "Saying, that harlott she too lately knew,",
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   {
    "text": "That causd her shed so many a bitter teare;",
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   {
    "text": "And so forth told the story of her feare.",
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   {
    "text": "Much seemed he to mone her haplesse chaunce,",
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   {
    "text": "And after for that Lady did inquere;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Which being taught, he forward gan advaunce",
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   },
   {
    "text": "His fair enchaunted steed, and eke his charmed launce.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Ere long he came where Una traveild slow,",
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   {
    "text": "And that wilde champion wayting her besyde;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Whome seeing such, for dread hee durst not show",
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   {
    "text": "Him selfe too nigh at hand, but turned wyde",
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   {
    "text": "Unto an hil; from whence when she him spyde,",
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   {
    "text": "By his like seeming shield her knight by name",
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   {
    "text": "She weend it was, and towards him gan ride:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Approaching nigh she wist it was the same;",
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   {
    "text": "And with faire fearefull humblesse towards him shee came:",
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   {
    "text": "And weeping said, “Ah, my long lacked Lord,",
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   {
    "text": "Where have ye bene thus long out of my sight?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Much feared I to have bene quite abhord,",
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   {
    "text": "Or ought have done, that ye displeasen might,",
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   {
    "text": "That should as death unto my deare heart light:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For since mine eye your joyous sight did mis,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "My chearefull day is turnd to chearelesse night,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And eke my night of death the shadow is;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But welcome now, my light, and shining lampe of blis!”",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "He thereto meeting said, “My dearest Dame,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Far be it from your thought, and fro my wil,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "To thinke that knighthood I so much should shame,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As you to leave that have me loved stil,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And chose in Faery court, of meere goodwil,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Where noblest knights were to be found on earth.",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "The earth shall sooner leave her kindly skil",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "To bring forth fruit, and make eternal derth,",
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   {
    "text": "Then I leave you, my liefe, yborn of hevenly berth.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "“And sooth to say, why I lefte you so long,",
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   {
    "text": "Was for to seeke adventure in straunge place;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Where, Archimago said, a felon strong",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To many knights did daily worke disgrace;",
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   {
    "text": "But knight he now shall never more deface:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Good cause of mine excuse, that mote ye please",
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   {
    "text": "Well to accept, and evermore embrace",
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   },
   {
    "text": "My faithfull service, that by land and seas",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Have vowd you to defend. Now then, your plaint appease.”",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "His lovely words her seemd due recompence",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of all her passed paines: one loving howre",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "For many yeares of sorrow can dispence;",
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   {
    "text": "A dram of sweete is worth a pound of sowre.",
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   {
    "text": "Shee has forgott how many a woeful stowre",
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   {
    "text": "For him she late endurd; she speakes no more",
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   {
    "text": "Of past: true is, that true love hath no powre",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To looken backe; his eies be fixt before.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Before her stands her knight, for whom she toyld so sore.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "Much like, as when the beaten marinere,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That long hath wandred in the Ocean wide,",
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   {
    "text": "Ofte soust in swelling Tethys saltish teare;",
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   {
    "text": "And long time having tand his tawney hide",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With blustring breath of Heaven, that none can bide,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And scorching flames of fierce Orions hound;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Soone as the port from far he has espide,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "His chearfull whistle merily doth sound,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And Nereus crownes with cups; his mates him pledg around.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Such joy made Una, when her knight she found;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And eke th’enchaunter joyous seemde no lesse",
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   {
    "text": "Then the glad marchant, that does vew from ground",
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   },
   {
    "text": "His ship far come from watrie wildernesse;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "He hurles out vowes, and Neptune oft doth blesse.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "So forth they past; and all the way they spent",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Discoursing of her dreadful late distresse,",
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   {
    "text": "In which he askt her, what the Lyon ment;",
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   {
    "text": "Who told her all that fell, in journey as she went.",
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   {
    "text": "They had not ridden far, when they might see",
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   },
   {
    "text": "One pricking towards them with hastie heat,",
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   {
    "text": "Full strongly armd, and on a courser free",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That through his fiersnesse fomed all with sweat,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And the sharpe yron did for anger eat,",
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   {
    "text": "When his hot ryder spurd his chauffed side:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "His looke was sterne, and seemed still to threat",
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   {
    "text": "Cruell revenge, which he in hart did hyde;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And on his shield Sansloy in bloody lines was dyde.",
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   {
    "text": "When nigh he drew unto this gentle payre,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And saw the Red crosse which the knight did beare,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "He burnt in fire; and gan eftsoones prepare",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Himselfe to batteill with his couched speare.",
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   {
    "text": "Loth was that other, and did faint through feare,",
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   {
    "text": "To taste th’untryed dint of deadly steele:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But yet his Lady did so well him cheare,",
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   {
    "text": "That hope of new good hap he gan to feele;",
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   {
    "text": "So bent his speare, and spurd his horse with yron heele.",
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   {
    "text": "But that proud Paynim forward came so ferce",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And full of wrath, that, with his sharphead speare,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Through vainly crossed shield he quite did perce;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And, had his staggering steed not shronke for feare,",
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   {
    "text": "Through shield and body eke he should him beare:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Yet, so great was the puissance of his push,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That from his sadle quite he did him beare.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "He, tombling rudely downe, to ground did rush,",
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   {
    "text": "And from his gored wound a well of bloud did gush.",
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   {
    "text": "Dismounting lightly from his loftie steed,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "He to him lept, in minde to reave his life,",
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   {
    "text": "And proudly said; “Lo! there the worthie meed",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of him that slew Sansfoy with bloody knife:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Henceforth his ghost, freed from repining strife,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In peace may passen over Lethe lake;",
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   {
    "text": "When mourning altars, purgd with enimies life,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The black infernall Furies doen aslake:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Life from Sansfoy thou tookst, Sansloy shall from thee take.”",
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   {
    "text": "Therewith in haste his helmet gan unlace,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Till Una cride, “O! hold that heavie hand,",
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   {
    "text": "Deare Sir, what ever that thou be in place:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Enough is, that thy foe doth vanquisht stand",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Now at thy mercy: Mercy not withstand;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For he is one the truest knight alive,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Though conquered now he lye on lowly land;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And, whilest him fortune favourd, fayre did thrive",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In bloudy field; therefore, of life him not deprive.”",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Her piteous wordes might not abate his rage,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But, rudely rending up his helmet, would",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Have slayne him streight; but when he sees his age,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And hoarie head of Archimago old,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "His hasty hand he doth amased hold,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And halfe ashamed wondred at the sight:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For the old man well knew he, though untold,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In charmes and magick to have wondrous might,",
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   {
    "text": "Ne ever wont in field, ne in round lists, to fight:",
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   {
    "text": "And said, “Why Archimago, lucklesse syre,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "What doe I see? what hard mishap is this,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "That hath thee hether brought to taste mine yre?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Or thine the fault, or mine the error is,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In stead of foe to wound my friend amis?”",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "He answered nought, but in a traunce still lay,",
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   {
    "text": "And on those guilefull dazed eyes of his",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "The cloude of death did sit. Which doen away,",
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   {
    "text": "He left him lying so, ne would no lenger stay:",
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   {
    "text": "But to the virgin comes; who all this while",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Amased stands, her selfe so mockt to see",
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   },
   {
    "text": "By him, who has the guerdon of his guile,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For so misfeigning her true knight to bee:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Yet is she now in more perplexitie,",
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   {
    "text": "Left in the hand of that same Paynim bold,",
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   {
    "text": "From whom her booteth not at all to flie:",
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   {
    "text": "Who, by her cleanly garment catching hold,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Her from her Palfrey pluckt, her visage to behold.",
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   {
    "text": "But her fiers servant, full of kingly aw",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And high disdaine, whenas his soveraine Dame",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "So rudely handled by her foe he saw,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With gaping jawes full greedy at him came,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And, ramping on his shield, did weene the same",
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   {
    "text": "Have reft away with his sharp rending clawes:",
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   {
    "text": "But he was stout, and lust did now inflame",
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   {
    "text": "His corage more, that from his griping pawes",
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   {
    "text": "He hath his shield redeemd, and forth his swerd he drawes.",
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   {
    "text": "O! then, too weake and feeble was the forse",
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   {
    "text": "Of salvage beast his puissance to withstand;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For he was strong, and of so mightie corse,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As ever wielded speare in warlike hand,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And feates of armes did wisely understand.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Eft soones he perced through his chaufed chest",
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   {
    "text": "With thrilling point of deadly yron brand,",
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   {
    "text": "And launcht his Lordly hart: with death opprest",
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   {
    "text": "He ror’d aloud, whiles life forsooke his stubborne brest.",
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   {
    "text": "Who now is left to keepe the forlorne maid",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "From raging spoile of lawlesse victors will?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Her faithfull gard remov’d, her hope dismaid,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Her selfe a yielded pray to save or spill:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "He now, Lord of the field, his pride to fill,",
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   {
    "text": "With foule reproches and disdaineful spight",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Her vildly entertaines; and, will or nill,",
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   {
    "text": "Beares her away upon his courser light:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Her prayers nought prevaile, his rage is more of might.",
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   {
    "text": "And all the way, with great lamenting paine,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And piteous plaintes, she filleth his dull eares,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "That stony hart could riven have in twaine;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And all the way she wetts with flowing teares;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But he, enrag’d with rancor, nothing heares.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Her servile beast yet would not leave her so,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But followes her far off, ne ought he feares",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To be partaker of her wandring woe;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "More mild in beastly kind then that her beastly foe.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "Young knight whatever, that dost armes professe,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And through long labours huntest after fame,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Beware of fraud, beware of ficklenesse,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In choice, and chaunge of thy deare-loved Dame;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Least thou of her believe too lightly blame,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And rash misweening doe thy hart remove:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "For unto knight there is no greater shame",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Then lightnesse and inconstancie in love:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "That doth this Redcrosse knights ensample plainly prove.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "Who, after that he had faire Una lorne,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Through light misdeeming of her loialtie;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And false Duessa in her sted had borne,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Called Fidess’, and so supposd to be,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Long with her traveild; till at last they see",
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    "text": "But joyd weake wemens hearts to tempt, and prove,",
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    "text": "And right and wrong ylike in equall ballaunce waide.",
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    "text": "And thred-bare cote, and cobled shoes, hee ware;",
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    "text": "To fill his bags, and richesse to compare:",
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    "text": "Yet childe ne kinsman living had he none",
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    "text": "Such one was Avarice, the fourth of this faire band.",
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    "text": "For of his hands he had no governement:",
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    "text": "Such one was Wrath, the last of this ungodly tire.",
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   {
    "text": "So oft as Slowth still in the mire did stand.",
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    "text": "Huge routs of people did about them band,",
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    "text": "Of proud Lucifer’, as one of the traine:",
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    "text": "But that good knight would not so nigh repaire,",
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    "text": "Him selfe estraunging from their joyaunce vaine,",
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    "text": "Whose fellowship seemd far unfitt for warlike swaine.",
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    "text": "So, having solaced themselves a space",
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    "text": "With pleasaunce of the breathing fields yfed,",
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    "text": "Whereas an errant knight in armes ycled,",
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    "text": "And heathnish shield, wherein with letters red,",
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    "text": "Was writt Sansjoy, they new arrived find:",
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    "text": "Enflam’d with fury and fiers hardy hed,",
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    "text": "He seemd in hart to harbour thoughts unkind,",
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    "text": "Who, when the shamed shield of slaine Sansfoy",
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   {
    "text": "He spide with that same Faery champions page,",
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    "text": "Bewraying him that did of late destroy",
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    "text": "His eldest brother; burning all with rage,",
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    "text": "He to him lept, and that same envious gage",
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    "text": "Of victors glory from him snacht away:",
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   {
    "text": "But th’Elfin knight, which ought that warlike wage,",
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   {
    "text": "Disdaind to loose the meed he wonne in fray;",
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   {
    "text": "And, him rencountring fierce, reskewd the noble pray.",
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    "text": "Therewith they gan to hurtlen greedily,",
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    "text": "Redoubted battaile ready to darrayne,",
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    "text": "And clash their shields, and shake their swerds on hy,",
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    "text": "That with their sturre they troubled all the traine;",
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    "text": "Till that great Queene, upon eternall paine",
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    "text": "Of high displeasure that ensewen might,",
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    "text": "Commaunded them their fury to refraine;",
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   {
    "text": "And, if that either to that shield had right,",
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    "text": "In equall lists they should the morrow next it fight.",
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    "text": "“Ah dearest Dame,” quoth then the Paynim bold,",
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   {
    "text": "“Pardon the error of enraged wight,",
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   {
    "text": "Whome great griefe made forgett the raines to hold",
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   {
    "text": "Of reasons rule, to see this recreaunt knight,",
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    "text": "No knight, but treachour full of false despight",
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   {
    "text": "And shameful treason, who through guile hath slayn",
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    "text": "The prowest knight that ever field did fight,",
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    "text": "Even stout Sansfoy, (O who can then refrayn?)",
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   {
    "text": "Whose shield he beares renverst, the more to heap disdayn.",
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    "text": "“And, to augment the glorie of his guile,",
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    "text": "His dearest love, the faire Fidessa, loe!",
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   {
    "text": "Is there possessed of the traytour vile;",
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   {
    "text": "Who reapes the harvest sowen by his foe,",
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    "text": "Sowen in bloodie field, and bought with woe:",
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   {
    "text": "That brothers hand shall dearely well requight,",
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   {
    "text": "So be, O Queene! you equall favour showe.”",
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   {
    "text": "Him litle answerd th’angry Elfin knight;",
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    "text": "He never meant with words, but swords, to plead his right:",
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    "text": "But threw his gauntlet, as a sacred pledge",
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    "text": "His cause in combat the next day to try:",
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    "text": "So been they parted both, with harts on edge",
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    "text": "That night they pas in joy and jollity,",
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    "text": "Feasting and courting both in bowre and hall;",
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    "text": "For Steward was excessive Gluttony,",
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    "text": "That of his plenty poured forth to all",
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    "text": "Which doen, the Chamberlain, Slowth, did to rest them call.",
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    "text": "Now whenas darkesome night had all displayd",
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    "text": "Her cole-blacke curtein over brightest skye;",
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    "text": "The warlike youthes, on dayntie couches layd,",
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    "text": "Did chace away sweet sleepe from sluggish eye,",
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    "text": "To muse on meanes of hoped victory.",
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    "text": "Uprose Duessa from her resting place,",
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    "text": "And to the Paynims lodging comes with silent pace.",
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    "text": "Whom broad awake she findes, in troublous fitt,",
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    "text": "Fore-casting how his foe he might annoy;",
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    "text": "And him amoves with speaches seeming fitt:",
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   {
    "text": "“Ah deare Sansjoy, next dearest to Sansfoy,",
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    "text": "Cause of my new griefe, cause of my new joy;",
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    "text": "Joyous to see his ymage in mine eye,",
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    "text": "And greevd to thinke how foe did him destroy,",
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   {
    "text": "That was the flowre of grace and chevalrye;",
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   {
    "text": "Lo! his Fidessa, to thy secret faith I flye.”",
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    "text": "With gentle wordes he can her fayrely greet,",
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   {
    "text": "And bad say on the secrete of her hart.",
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    "text": "Then, sighing soft; “I learne that litle sweet",
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   {
    "text": "Oft tempred is,” (quoth she,) “with muchell smart:",
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   {
    "text": "For since my brest was launcht with lovely dart",
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   {
    "text": "Of deare Sansfoy, I never joyed howre,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But in eternall woes my weaker hart",
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   {
    "text": "Have wasted, loving him with all my powre,",
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   {
    "text": "And for his sake have felt full many an heavie stowre.",
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    "text": "“At last, when perils all I weened past,",
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   {
    "text": "And hop’d to reape the crop of all my care,",
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   {
    "text": "Into new woes unweeting I was cast",
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   {
    "text": "By this false faytor, who unworthie ware",
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    "text": "His worthie shield; whom he with guilefull snare",
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    "text": "Entrapped slew, and brought to shamefull grave:",
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   {
    "text": "Me, silly maid, away with him he bare,",
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   {
    "text": "And ever since hath kept in darksom cave,",
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   {
    "text": "For that I would not yeeld that to Sansfoy I gave.",
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    "text": "“But since faire Sunne hath sperst that lowring clowd,",
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   {
    "text": "And to my loathed life now shewes some light,",
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   {
    "text": "Under your beames I will me safely shrowd",
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   {
    "text": "From dreaded storme of his disdainfull spight:",
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   {
    "text": "To you th’inheritance belonges by right",
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   {
    "text": "Of brothers prayse, to you eke longes his love.",
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   {
    "text": "Let not his love, let not his restlesse spright,",
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   {
    "text": "Be unreveng’d, that calles to you above",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From wandring Stygian shores, where it doth endlesse move.”",
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    "text": "Thereto said he, “Faire Dame, be nought dismaid",
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   {
    "text": "For sorrowes past; their griefe is with them gone:",
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   {
    "text": "Ne yet of present perill be affraid,",
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   {
    "text": "For needlesse feare did never vantage none;",
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   {
    "text": "And helplesse hap it booteth not to mone.",
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   {
    "text": "Dead is Sansfoy, his vitall paines are past,",
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    "text": "Though greeved ghost for vengeance deep do grone:",
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   {
    "text": "He lives that shall him pay his dewties last,",
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   {
    "text": "And guiltie Elfin blood shall sacrifice in hast.”",
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    "text": "“O! but I feare the fickle freakes,” (quoth shee)",
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   {
    "text": "“Of fortune false, and oddes of armes in field.”",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Why, dame,” (quoth he) “what oddes can ever bee,",
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   {
    "text": "Where both doe fight alike, to win or yield?”",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "“Yea, but,” (quoth she) “he beares a charmed shield,",
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   {
    "text": "And eke enchaunted armes, that none can perce;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Ne none can wound the man that does them wield.”",
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   {
    "text": "“Charmed or enchaunted,” answerd he then ferce,",
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   {
    "text": "“I no whitt reck; ne you the like need to reherce.",
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    "text": "“But, faire Fidessa, sithens fortunes guile,",
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   {
    "text": "Or enimies powre, hath now captived you,",
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   {
    "text": "Returne from whence ye came, and rest a while,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Till morrow next that I the Elfe subdew,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And with Sansfoyes dead dowry you endew.”",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "“Ah me! that is a double death,” (she said)",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“With proud foes sight my sorrow to renew:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Where ever yet I be, my secret aide",
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   {
    "text": "Shall follow you.” So, passing forth, she him obaid.",
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    "text": "The noble hart that harbours vertuous thought,",
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   {
    "text": "And is with childe of glorious great intent,",
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   {
    "text": "Can never rest, untill it forth have brought",
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   {
    "text": "Th’eternall brood of glorie excellent:",
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   {
    "text": "Such restlesse passion did all night torment",
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   {
    "text": "The flaming corage of that Faery knight,",
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   {
    "text": "Devizing how that doughtie turnament",
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   {
    "text": "With greatest honour he atchieven might:",
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    "text": "Still did he wake, and still did watch for dawning light.",
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    "text": "At last, the golden Orientall gate",
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   {
    "text": "Of greatest heaven gan to open fayre;",
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    "text": "And Phoebus, fresh as brydegrome to his mate,",
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   {
    "text": "Came dauncing forth, shaking his deawie hayre,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And hurld his glistring beams through gloomy ayre.",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Which when the wakeful Elfe perceiv’d, streight way,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "He started up, and did him selfe prepayre",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "In sunbright armes, and battailous array;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "For with that Pagan proud he combatt will that day.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "And forth he comes into the commune hall;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Where earely waite him many a gazing eye,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "To weet what end to straunger knights may fall.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "There many Minstrales maken melody,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "To drive away the dull melancholy;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And many Bardes, that to the trembling chord",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Can tune their timely voices cunningly;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And many Chroniclers, that can record",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Old loves, and warres for Ladies doen by many a Lord.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "Soone after comes the cruell Sarazin,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In woven maile all armed warily;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And sternly lookes at him, who not a pin",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Does care for looke of living creatures eye.",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "They bring them wines of Greece and Araby,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And daintie spices fetch from furthest Ynd,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "To kindle heat of corage privily;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And in the wine a solemne oth they bynd",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "T’observe the sacred lawes of armes that are assynd.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "At last forth comes that far renowmed Queene:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With royall pomp and princely majestie",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "She is ybrought unto a paled greene,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And placed under stately canapee,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "The warlike feates of both those knights to see.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "On th’other side in all mens open vew",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Duessa placed is, and on a tree",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Sansfoy his shield is hangd with bloody hew;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Both those the lawrell girlonds to the victor dew.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "A shrilling trompett sownded from on hye,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And unto battaill bad them selves addresse:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Their shining shieldes about their wrestes they tye,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And burning blades about their heades doe blesse,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "The instruments of wrath and heavinesse.",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "With greedy force each other doth assayle,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And strike so fiercely, that they do impresse",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Deepe dinted furrowes in the battred mayle:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "The yron walles to ward their blowes are weak and fraile.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "The Sarazin was stout and wondrous strong,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And heaped blowes like yron hammers great;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "For after blood and vengeance he did long:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "The knight was fiers, and full of youthly heat,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And doubled strokes, like dreaded thunders threat;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "For all for praise and honour he did fight.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Both stricken stryke, and beaten both doe beat,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "That from their shields forth flyeth fine light,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And hewen helmets deepe shew marks of eithers might.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "So th’one for wrong, the other strives for right.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As when a Gryfon, seized of his pray,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A Dragon fiers encountreth in his flight,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Through widest ayre making his ydle way,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "That would his rightfull ravine rend away:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "With hideous horror both together smight,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And souce so sore that they the heavens affray;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "The wise Southsayer, seeing so sad sight,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Th’amazed vulgar telles of warres and mortall fight.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "So th’one for wrong, the other strives for right,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And each to deadly shame would drive his foe:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "The cruell steele so greedily doth bight",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "In tender flesh, that streames of blood down flow;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "With which the armes, that earst so bright did show,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Into a pure vermillion now are dyde.",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Great ruth in all the gazers harts did grow,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Seeing the gored woundes to gape so wyde,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "That victory they dare not wish to either side.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "At last the Paynim chaunst to cast his eye,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "His suddein eye flaming with wrathfull fyre,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Upon his brothers shield, which hong thereby:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Therewith redoubled was his raging yre,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And said; “Ah! wretched sonne of wofull syre,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Doest thou sit wayling by blacke Stygian lake,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Whylest here thy shield is hangd for victors hyre?",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And, sluggish german, doest thy forces slake",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "To after-send his foe, that him may overtake?",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“Goe, caytive Elfe, him quickly overtake,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And soone redeeme from his long-wandring woe:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Goe, guiltie ghost, to him my message make,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "That I his shield have quit from dying foe.”",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Therewith upon his crest he stroke him so,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "That twise he reeled, readie twise to fall:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "End of the doubtfull battaile deemed tho",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "The lookers on; and lowd to him gan call",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The false Duessa, “Thine the shield, and I, and all!”",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Soone as the Faerie heard his Ladie speake,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Out of his swowning dreame he gan awake;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And quickning faith, that earst was woxen weake,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "The creeping deadly cold away did shake:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Tho mov’d with wrath, and shame, and Ladies sake,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Of all attonce he cast avengd to be,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And with so’ exceeding furie at him strake,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "That forced him to stoupe upon his knee:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Had he not stouped so, he should have cloven bee.",
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   }
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   {
    "text": "And to him said; “Goe now, proud Miscreant,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thyselfe thy message do to german deare;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Alone he, wandring, thee too long doth want:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Goe say, his foe thy shield with his doth beare.”",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Therewith his heavie hand he high gan reare,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Him to have slaine; when lo! a darkesome clowd",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Upon him fell: he no where doth appeare,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "But vanisht is. The Elfe him calls alowd,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "But answer none receives; the darknes him does shrowd.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "In haste Duessa from her place arose,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And to him running said; “O! prowest knight,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That ever Ladie to her love did chose,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Let now abate the terrour of your might,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And quench the flame of furious despight,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And bloodie vengeance: lo! th’infernall powres,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Covering your foe with cloud of deadly night,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Have borne him hence to Plutoes balefull bowres:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The conquest yours, I yours, the shield and glory yours.”",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Not all so satisfide, with greedy eye",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "He sought all round about, his thristy blade",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To bathe in blood of faithlesse enimy;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Who all that while lay hid in secret shade.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "He standes amazed how he thence should fade:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "At last the trumpets Triumph sound on hie;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And running Heralds humble homage made,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Greeting him goodly with new victorie,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And to him brought the shield, the cause of enmitie.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Wherewith he goeth to that soveraine Queene;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And falling her before on lowly knee,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To her makes present of his service seene:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Which she accepts with thankes and goodly gree,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Greatly advauncing his gay chevalree:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "So marcheth home, and by her takes the knight,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Whom all the people followe with great glee,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Shouting, and clapping all their hands on hight,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That all the ayre it fills, and flyes to heaven bright.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Home is he brought, and layd in sumptous bed,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Where many skilfull leaches him abide",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To salve his hurts, that yet still freshly bled.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In wine and oyle they wash his woundes wide,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And softly gan embalme on everie side:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And all the while most heavenly melody",
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   },
   {
    "text": "About the bed sweet musicke did divide,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Him to beguile of griefe and agony;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And all the while Duessa wept full bitterly.",
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   {
    "text": "As when a wearie traveiler, that strayes",
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   },
   {
    "text": "By muddy shore of broad seven-mouthed Nile,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Unweeting of the perillous wandring wayes,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Doth meete a cruell craftie Crocodile,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Which, in false griefe hyding his harmefull guile,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Doth weepe full sore, and sheddeth tender teares;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The foolish man, that pities all this while",
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   },
   {
    "text": "His mournefull plight, is swallowed up unwares,",
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   {
    "text": "Forgetfull of his owne that mindes an others cares.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "So wept Duessa untill eventyde,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That shyning lampes in Joves high house were light;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Then forth she rose, ne lenger would abide,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But comes unto the place where th’Hethen knight,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In slombring swownd, nigh voyd of vitall spright,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Lay cover’d with inchaunted cloud all day:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Whom when she found, as she him left in plight,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To wayle his wofull case she would not stay,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But to the Easterne coast of heaven makes speedy way:",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "Where griesly Night, with visage deadly sad,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That Phœbus chearefull face durst never vew,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And in a foule blacke pitchy mantle clad,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "She findes forth comming from her darksome mew,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Where she all day did hide her hated hew.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Before the dore her yron charet stood,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Already harnessed for journey new,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And cole blacke steedes yborne of hellish brood,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That on their rusty bits did champ as they were wood.",
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   }
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   {
    "text": "Who when she saw Duessa, sunny bright,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Adornd with gold and jewels shining cleare,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "She greatly grew amazed at the sight,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And th’unacquainted light began to feare,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For never did such brightnes there appeare;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And would have backe retyred to her cave,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Untill the witches speach she gan to heare,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Saying; “Yet, O thou dreaded Dame! I crave",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Abyde, till I have told the message which I have.”",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "She stayd; and foorth Duessa gan proceede:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“O! thou most auncient Grandmother of all,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "More old then Jove, whom thou at first didst breede,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Or that great house of Gods cælestiall,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Which wast begot in Dæmogorgons hall,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And sawst the secrets of the world unmade:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Why suffredst thou thy Nephewes deare to fall,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "With Elfin sword most shamefully betrade?",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Lo! where the stout Sansjoy doth sleepe in deadly shade.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "“And him before, I saw with bitter eyes",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "The bold Sansfoy shrinck underneath his speare:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And now the pray of fowles in field he lyes,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Nor wayld of friends, nor layd on groning beare,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "That whylome was to me too dearely deare.",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "O! what of gods then boots it to be borne,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "If old Aveugles sonnes so evill heare?",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Or who shall not great Nightes children scorne,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "When two of three her Nephewes are so fowle forlorne?",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "“Up, then! up, dreary Dame, of darknes Queene!",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Go, gather up the reliques of thy race;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Or else goe them avenge, and let be seene",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "That dreaded Night in brightest day hath place,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And can the children of fayre light deface.”",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Her feeling speaches some compassion mov’d",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "In hart, and chaunge in that great mothers face:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Yet pitty in her hart was never prov’d",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Till then, for evermore she hated, never lov’d:",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "And said, “Deare daughter, rightly may I rew",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "The fall of famous children borne of mee,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And good successes which their foes ensew:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "But who can turne the stream of destinee,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Or breake the chayne of strong necessitee,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Which fast is tyde to Joves eternall seat?",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "The sonnes of Day he favoureth, I see,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And by my ruines thinkes to make them great:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "To make one great by others losse is bad excheat.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“Yet shall they not escape so freely all,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "For some shall pay the price of others guilt;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And he the man that made Sansfoy to fall,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Shall with his owne blood price that he hath spilt.",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "But what art thou, that telst of Nephews kilt?”",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "“I, that do seeme not I, Duessa ame,”",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Quoth she, “how ever now, in garments gilt",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And gorgeous gold arayd, I to thee came,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Duessa I, the daughter of Deceipt and Shame.”",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "Then, bowing downe her aged backe, she kist",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "The wicked witch, saying, “In that fayre face",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "The false resemblaunce of Deceipt, I wist,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Did closely lurke; yet so true-seeming grace",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "It carried, that I scarse in darksome place",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Could it discerne, though I the mother bee",
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    "text": "Of falshood, and roote of Duessaes race.",
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    "text": "O welcome, child! whom I have longd to see,",
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    "text": "And now have seene unwares. Lo! now I goe with thee.”",
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    "text": "Then to her yron wagon she betakes,",
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    "text": "Unto the place whereas the Paynim lay,",
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    "text": "And downe to Plutoes house are come bilive:",
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    "text": "The house of endlesse paine is built thereby,",
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    "text": "The cursed creatures doe eternally torment.",
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    "text": "At them he gan to reare his bristles strong,",
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    "text": "And felly gnarre, untill Dayes enemy",
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    "text": "Did him appease; then downe his taile he hong,",
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    "text": "But Ladies love as losse of time forbore:",
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    "text": "His wanton stepdame loved him the more;",
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    "text": "Of endlesse life he might him not deprive,",
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    "text": "Tho gan to him discover all his harmes,",
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    "text": "“Ah Dame,” (quoth he) “thou temptest me in vaine,",
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    "text": "To dare the thing, which daily yet I rew,",
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    "text": "And the old cause of my continued paine",
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    "text": "With like attempt to like end to renew.",
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    "text": "Is not enough, that, thrust from heaven dew,",
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    "text": "Here endlesse penaunce for one fault I pay,",
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    "text": "Thou biddest me to eeke? Can Night defray",
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    "text": "The wrath of thundring Jove, that rules both night and day?”",
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    "text": "“Not so,” (quoth she) “but, sith that heavens king",
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    "text": "From hope of heaven hath thee excluded quight,",
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    "text": "Why fearest thou, that canst not hope for thing;",
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    "text": "And fearest not that more thee hurten might,",
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    "text": "Now in the powre of everlasting Night?",
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    "text": "Goe to then, O thou far renowmed sonne",
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    "text": "Of great Apollo! shew thy famous might",
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    "text": "In medicine, that els hath to thee wonne",
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    "text": "Great pains, and greater praise, both never to be donne.”",
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    "text": "Her words prevaild: And then the learned leach",
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    "text": "Not throughly heald unready were to ryde.",
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    "text": "Through wastfull Pride and wanton Riotise,",
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    "text": "But earely rose; and, ere that dawning light",
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    "text": "Discovered had the world to heaven wyde,",
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    "text": "Scarse could he footing find in that fowle way,",
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   {
    "text": "For many corses, like a great Lay-stall,",
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   {
    "text": "Of murdred men, which therein strowed lay",
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    "text": "Without remorse or decent funerall;",
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   {
    "text": "Which al through that great Princesse pride did fall,",
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   {
    "text": "And came to shamefull end. And them besyde,",
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   {
    "text": "Forth ryding underneath the castell wall,",
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   {
    "text": "A Donghill of dead carcases he spyde;",
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   {
    "text": "The dreadfull spectacle of that sad house of Pryde.",
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    "text": "As when a ship, that flyes fayre under sayle,",
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   {
    "text": "An hidden rocke escaped hath unwares,",
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   {
    "text": "That lay in waite her wrack for to bewaile,",
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   {
    "text": "The Marriner yet halfe amazed stares",
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    "text": "At perill past, and yet in doubt ne dares",
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    "text": "To joy at his foolhappie oversight:",
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    "text": "So doubly is distrest twixt joy and cares",
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   {
    "text": "The dreadlesse corage of this Elfin knight,",
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    "text": "Having escapt so sad ensamples in his sight.",
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    "text": "Yet sad he was, that his too hastie speed",
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    "text": "The fayre Duess’ had forst him leave behind;",
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    "text": "And yet more sad, that Una, his deare dreed,",
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    "text": "Her truth had staynd with treason so unkind:",
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   {
    "text": "Yet cryme in her could never creature find;",
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   {
    "text": "But for his love, and for her own selfe sake,",
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   {
    "text": "She wandred had from one to other Ynd,",
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   {
    "text": "Him for to seeke, ne ever would forsake,",
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    "text": "Till her unwares the fiers Sansloy did overtake:",
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    "text": "Who, after Archimagoes fowle defeat,",
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   {
    "text": "Led her away into a forest wilde;",
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   {
    "text": "And, turning wrathfull fyre to lustfull heat,",
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   {
    "text": "With beastly sin thought her to have defilde,",
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   {
    "text": "And made the vassall of his pleasures vilde.",
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   {
    "text": "Yet first he cast by treatie, and by traynes",
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   {
    "text": "Her to persuade that stubborne fort to yilde:",
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   {
    "text": "For greater conquest of hard love he gaynes,",
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   {
    "text": "That workes it to his will, then he that it constraines.",
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    "text": "With fawning wordes he courted her a while;",
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   {
    "text": "And, looking lovely and oft sighing sore,",
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   {
    "text": "Her constant hart did tempt with diverse guile.",
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   {
    "text": "But wordes, and lookes, and sighes she did abhore;",
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   {
    "text": "As rock of Diamond stedfast evermore.",
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   {
    "text": "Yet for to feed his fyrie lustfull eye,",
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   {
    "text": "He snatcht the vele that hong her face before:",
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   {
    "text": "Then gan her beautie shyne as brightest skye,",
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   {
    "text": "And burnt his beastly hart t’efforce her chastitye.",
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    "text": "So when he saw his flatt’ring artes to fayle,",
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   {
    "text": "And subtile engines bett from batteree;",
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   {
    "text": "With greedy force he gan the fort assayle,",
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   {
    "text": "Whereof he weend possessed soone to bee,",
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   {
    "text": "And win rich spoile of ransackt chastitee.",
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   {
    "text": "Ah heavens! that doe this hideous act behold,",
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   {
    "text": "And heavenly virgin thus outraged see,",
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   {
    "text": "How can ye vengeance just so long withhold,",
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   {
    "text": "And hurle not flashing flames upon that Paynim bold?",
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    "text": "The pitteous mayden, carefull, comfortlesse,",
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    "text": "Does throw out thrilling shriekes, and shrieking cryes,",
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   {
    "text": "The last vaine helpe of wemens great distresse,",
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   {
    "text": "And with loud plaintes importuneth the skyes,",
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   {
    "text": "That molten starres doe drop like weeping eyes;",
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   {
    "text": "And Phœbus, flying so most shamefull sight,",
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   {
    "text": "His blushing face in foggy cloud implyes,",
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    "text": "And hydes for shame. What witt of mortal wight",
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   {
    "text": "Can now devise to quitt a thrall from such a plight?",
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    "text": "Eternall providence, exceeding thought,",
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   {
    "text": "Where none appeares can make her selfe a way.",
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   {
    "text": "A wondrous way it for this Lady wrought,",
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   {
    "text": "From Lyons clawes to pluck the gryped pray.",
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   {
    "text": "Her shrill outcryes and shrieks so loud did bray,",
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    "text": "That all the woodes and forestes did resownd:",
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   {
    "text": "A troupe of Faunes and Satyres far away",
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   {
    "text": "Within the wood were dauncing in a rownd,",
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    "text": "Whiles old Sylvanus slept in shady arber sownd:",
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    "text": "Who, when they heard that pitteous strained voice,",
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   {
    "text": "In haste forsooke their rurall meriment,",
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   {
    "text": "And ran towardes the far rebownded noyce,",
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   {
    "text": "To weet what wight so loudly did lament.",
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   {
    "text": "Unto the place they come incontinent:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Whom when the raging Sarazin espyde,",
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   {
    "text": "A rude, mishapen, monstrous rablement,",
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   {
    "text": "Whose like he never saw, he durst not byde,",
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   {
    "text": "But got his ready steed, and fast away gan ryde.",
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    "text": "The wyld wood-gods, arrived in the place,",
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    "text": "There find the virgin, doolfull, desolate,",
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    "text": "With ruffled rayments, and fayre blubbred face,",
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   {
    "text": "As her outrageous foe had left her late;",
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   {
    "text": "And trembling yet through feare of former hate.",
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   {
    "text": "All stand amazed at so uncouth sight,",
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   {
    "text": "And gin to pittie her unhappie state:",
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   {
    "text": "All stand astonied at her beautie bright,",
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   {
    "text": "In their rude eyes unworthie of so wofull plight.",
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    "text": "She, more amazd, in double dread doth dwell;",
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    "text": "And every tender part for feare does shake.",
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   {
    "text": "As when a greedy Wolfe, through honger fell,",
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   {
    "text": "A seely Lamb far from the flock does take,",
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   {
    "text": "Of whom he meanes his bloody feast to make,",
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   {
    "text": "A Lyon spyes fast running towards him,",
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   {
    "text": "The innocent pray in hast he does forsake;",
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   {
    "text": "Which, quitt from death, yet quakes in every lim,",
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    "text": "With chaunge of feare, to see the Lyon looke so grim.",
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    "text": "Such fearefull fitt assaid her trembling hart,",
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    "text": "Ne word to speake, ne joynt to move, she had;",
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    "text": "The salvage nation feele her secret smart,",
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    "text": "And read her sorrow in her count’nance sad;",
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    "text": "Their frowning forheades, with rough hornes yclad,",
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    "text": "And rustick horror, all asyde doe lay;",
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   {
    "text": "And, gently grenning, shew a semblance glad",
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    "text": "To comfort her; and, feare to put away,",
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    "text": "Their backward bent knees teach her humbly to obay.",
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    "text": "The doubtfull Damzell dare not yet committ",
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    "text": "Her single person to their barbarous truth;",
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    "text": "But still twixt feare and hope amazd does sitt,",
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    "text": "Late learnd what harme to hasty trust ensu’th.",
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    "text": "And wonder of her beautie soverayne,",
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    "text": "Are wonne with pitty and unwonted ruth;",
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    "text": "And, all prostrate upon the lowly playne,",
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    "text": "Doe kisse her feete, and fawne on her with count’nance fayne.",
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    "text": "Their harts she ghesseth by their humble guise,",
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    "text": "And yieldes her to extremitie of time:",
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   {
    "text": "So from the ground she fearelesse doth arise,",
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    "text": "And walketh forth without suspect of crime.",
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    "text": "They, all as glad as birdes of joyous Pryme,",
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    "text": "Thence lead her forth, about her dauncing round,",
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    "text": "And with greene braunches strowing all the ground,",
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    "text": "Do worship her as Queene with olive girlond cround.",
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    "text": "And all the way their merry pipes they sound,",
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    "text": "That all the woods with doubled Eccho ring;",
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    "text": "And with their horned feet doe weare the ground,",
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    "text": "So towards old Sylvanus they her bring;",
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    "text": "Who, with the noyse awaked, commeth out",
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    "text": "To weet the cause, his weake steps governing",
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    "text": "And aged limbs on cypresse stadle stout;",
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    "text": "And with an yvie twyne his waste is girt about.",
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    "text": "Far off he wonders what them makes so glad;",
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    "text": "Or Bacchus merry fruit they did invent,",
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    "text": "Or Cybeles franticke rites have made them mad:",
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    "text": "They, drawing nigh, unto their God present",
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    "text": "That flowre of fayth and beautie excellent.",
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    "text": "The God himselfe, vewing that mirrhour rare,",
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    "text": "Stood long amazd, and burnt in his intent:",
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    "text": "His owne fayre Dryope now he thinkes not faire,",
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    "text": "And Pholoe fowle, when her to this he doth compaire.",
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    "text": "In doubt to deeme her borne of earthly brood:",
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    "text": "But Venus never had so sober mood:",
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    "text": "By vew of her he ginneth to revive",
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    "text": "How fayre he was, and yet not fayre to this;",
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    "text": "And how he slew with glauncing dart amisse",
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    "text": "A gentle Hynd, the which the lovely boy",
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    "text": "For griefe whereof the lad n’ould after joy,",
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    "text": "But pynd away in anguish and selfe-wild annoy.",
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    "text": "The wooddy nymphes, faire Hamadryades,",
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    "text": "Her to behold do thither runne apace;",
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    "text": "Flocke all about to see her lovely face;",
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    "text": "But, when they vewed have her heavenly grace,",
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    "text": "And henceforth nothing faire but her on earth they find.",
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    "text": "And ever lov’d to fight for Ladies right;",
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    "text": "But in vaine glorious frayes he litle did delight.",
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    "text": "A Satyres sonne, yborne in forrest wyld,",
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    "text": "By straunge adventure as it did betyde,",
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    "text": "And there begotten of a Lady myld,",
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    "text": "Fayre Thyamis, the daughter of Labryde;",
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    "text": "To Therion, a loose unruly swayne,",
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    "text": "Then serve his Ladies love, and waste in pleasures vayne.",
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    "text": "The forlorne mayd did with loves longing burne,",
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    "text": "A Satyre chaunst her wandring for to finde;",
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    "text": "And, kindling coles of lust in brutish eye,",
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    "text": "So long in secret cabin there he held",
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    "text": "Her captive to his sensuall desyre,",
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    "text": "Then home he suffred her for to retyre,",
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    "text": "Whom, till to ryper yeares he gan aspyre,",
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    "text": "He nousled up in life and manners wilde,",
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    "text": "Emongst wild beastes and woods, from lawes of men exilde.",
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    "text": "For all he taught the tender ymp was but",
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   {
    "text": "To banish cowardize and bastard feare:",
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    "text": "His trembling hand he would him force to put",
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    "text": "Upon the Lyon and the rugged Beare;",
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    "text": "And from the she Beares teats her whelps to teare;",
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    "text": "And eke wyld roring Buls he would him make",
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    "text": "That everie beast for feare of him did fly, and quake.",
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    "text": "Thereby so fearlesse and so fell he grew,",
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   {
    "text": "That his own syre, and maister of his guise,",
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    "text": "Did often tremble at his horrid vew;",
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    "text": "And oft, for dread of hurt, would him advise",
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   {
    "text": "The angry beastes not rashly to despise,",
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   {
    "text": "Nor too much to provoke; for he would learne",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The Lyon stoup to him in lowly wise,",
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   {
    "text": "(A lesson hard) and make the Libbard sterne",
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   {
    "text": "Leave roaring, when in rage he for revenge did earne.",
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   {
    "text": "And for to make his powre approved more,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Wyld beastes in yron yokes he would compell;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The spotted Panther, and the tusked Bore,",
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   {
    "text": "The Pardale swift, and the Tigre cruell,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The Antelope, and Wolfe both fiers and fell;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And them constraine in equall teme to draw.",
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   {
    "text": "Such joy he had their stubborne harts to quell,",
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   {
    "text": "And sturdie courage tame with dreadfull aw,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That his beheast they feared as a tyrans law.",
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   {
    "text": "His loving mother came upon a day",
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   {
    "text": "Unto the woodes, to see her little sonne;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And chaunst unwares to meet him in the way,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "After his sportes and cruell pastime donne;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When after him a Lyonesse did runne,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That roaring all with rage did lowd requere",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Her children deare, whom he away had wonne:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The Lyon whelpes she saw how he did beare,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And lull in rugged armes withouten childish feare.",
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   {
    "text": "The fearefull Dame all quaked at the sight,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And turning backe gan fast to fly away;",
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   {
    "text": "Untill, with love revokt from vaine affright,",
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   {
    "text": "She hardly yet perswaded was to stay,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And then to him these womanish words gan say:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Ah Satyrane, my dearling and my joy,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For love of me leave off this dreadfull play;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To dally thus with death is no fit toy:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Go, find some other play-fellowes, mine own sweet boy.”",
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    "text": "In these and like delightes of bloody game",
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   {
    "text": "He trayned was, till ryper years he raught;",
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   {
    "text": "And there abode, whylst any beast of name",
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   {
    "text": "Walkt in that forrest, whom he had not taught",
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   {
    "text": "To feare his force: and then his courage haught",
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   {
    "text": "Desyrd of forreine foemen to be knowne,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And far abroad for straunge adventures sought;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In which his might was never overthrowne;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But through al Faery lond his famous worth was blown.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Yet evermore it was his maner faire,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "After long labours and adventures spent,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Unto those native woods for to repaire,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To see his syre and ofspring auncient.",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And now he thither came for like intent;",
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   {
    "text": "Where he unwares the fairest Una found;",
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   {
    "text": "Straunge Lady in so straunge habiliment,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Teaching the Satyres, which her sat around,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Trew sacred lore, which from her sweet lips did redound.",
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   {
    "text": "He wondred at her wisedome hevenly rare,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Whose like in womens witt he never knew;",
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   {
    "text": "And, when her curteous deeds he did compare,",
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   {
    "text": "Gan her admire, and her sad sorrowes rew;",
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   {
    "text": "Blaming of Fortune, which such troubles threw,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And joyd to make proofe of her cruelty",
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   },
   {
    "text": "On gentle Dame, so hurtlesse and so trew:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thenceforth he kept her goodly company,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And learnd her discipline of faith and verity.",
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   {
    "text": "But she, all vowd unto the Redcrosse Knight,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "His wandring perill closely did lament,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Ne in this new acquaintaunce could delight;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But her deare heart with anguish did torment,",
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   {
    "text": "And all her witt in secret counsels spent,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "How to escape. At last in privy wise",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To Satyrane she shewed her intent;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Who, glad to gain such favour, gan devise,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "How with that pensive Maid he best might thence arise.",
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   {
    "text": "So on a day, when Satyres all were gone",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To do their service to Sylvanus old,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The gentle virgin, left behinde alone,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "He led away with corage stout and bold.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Too late it was to Satyres to be told,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Or ever hope recover her againe:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In vaine he seekes that having cannot hold.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "So fast he carried her with carefull paine,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That they the woods are past, and come now to the plaine.",
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    "text": "The better part now of the lingring day",
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   },
   {
    "text": "They traveild had, whenas they far espide",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A weary wight forwandring by the way;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And towards him they gan in haste to ride,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To weete of newes that did abroad betide,",
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   {
    "text": "Or tidings of her knight of the Redcrosse;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But he them spying gan to turne aside",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For feare, as seemd, or for some feigned losse:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "More greedy they of newes fast towards him do crosse.",
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   {
    "text": "A silly man, in simple weeds forworne,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And soild with dust of the long dried way;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "His sandales were with toilsome travell torne,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And face all tand with scorching sunny ray,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As he had traveild many a sommers day",
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   {
    "text": "Through boyling sands of Arabie and Ynde,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And in his hand a Jacobs staffe, to stay",
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   },
   {
    "text": "His weary limbs upon; and eke behind",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "His scrip did hang, in which his needments he did bind.",
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   {
    "text": "The knight, approching nigh, of him inquerd",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Tidings of warre, and of adventures new;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But warres, nor new adventures, none he herd.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Then Una gan to aske, if ought he knew,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Or heard abroad of that her champion trew,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That in his armour bare a croslet red?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Ay me! Deare dame,” (quoth he) “well may I rew",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To tell the sad sight which mine eies have red;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "These eies did see that knight both living and eke ded.”",
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   {
    "text": "That cruell word her tender hart so thrild,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That suddein cold did ronne through every vaine,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And stony horrour all her sences fild",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With dying fitt, that downe she fell for paine.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The knight her lightly reared up againe,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And comforted with curteous kind reliefe:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Then, wonne from death, she bad him tellen plaine",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The further processe of her hidden griefe:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The lesser pangs can beare who hath endur’d the chief.",
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   {
    "text": "Then gan the Pilgrim thus: “I chaunst this day,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "This fatall day that shall I ever rew,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To see two knights, in travell on my way,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "(A sory sight) arraung’d in batteill new,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Both breathing vengeaunce, both of wrathfull hew.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "My feareful flesh did tremble at their strife,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To see their blades so greedily imbrew,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That, dronke with blood, yet thristed after life:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "What more? the Redcrosse knight was slain with Paynim knife.”",
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   }
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   {
    "text": "“Ah! dearest Lord,” (quoth she) “how might that bee,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And he the stoutest knight that ever wonne?”",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "“Ah! dearest dame,” (quoth hee) “how might I see",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The thing that might not be, and yet was donne?”",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "“Where is,” (said Satyrane) “that Paynims sonne,",
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   {
    "text": "That him of life, and us of joy, hath refte?”",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Not far away,” (quoth he) “he hence doth wonne,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Foreby a fountaine, where I late him lefte",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Washing his bloody wounds, that through the steele were cleft.”",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "Therewith the knight thence marched forth in hast,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Whiles Una, with huge heavinesse opprest,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Could not for sorrow follow him so fast;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And soone he came, as he the place had ghest,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Whereas that Pagan proud him selfe did rest",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In secret shadow by a fountaine side:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Even he it was, that earst would have supprest",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Faire Una; whom when Satyrane espide,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With foule reprochfull words he boldly him defide.",
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   {
    "text": "And said; “Arise, thou cursed Miscreaunt,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That hast with knightlesse guile, and trecherous train,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Faire knighthood fowly shamed, and doest vaunt",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That good knight of the Redcrosse to have slain:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Arise, and with like treason now maintain",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thy guilty wrong, or els thee guilty yield.”",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The Sarazin, this hearing, rose amain,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And, catching up in hast his three-square shield",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And shining helmet, soone him buckled to the field.",
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   }
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   {
    "text": "And, drawing nigh him, said; “Ah! misborn Elfe,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In evill houre thy foes thee hither sent",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Anothers wrongs to wreak upon thy selfe:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Yet ill thou blamest me for having blent",
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   },
   {
    "text": "My name with guile and traiterous intent:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That Redcrosse knight, perdie, I never slew;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But had he beene where earst his armes were lent,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Th’enchaunter vaine his errour should not rew:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "But thou his errour shalt, I hope, now proven trew.”",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "Therewith they gan, both furious and fell,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To thunder blowes, and fiersly to assaile",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Each other, bent his enimy to quell,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That with their force they perst both plate and maile,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And made wide furrowes in their fleshes fraile,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That it would pitty any living eie.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Large floods of blood adowne their sides did raile;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But floods of blood could not them satisfie:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Both hongred after death; both chose to win, or die.",
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   {
    "text": "So long they fight, and full revenge pursue,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That, fainting, each themselves to breathen lett,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And, ofte refreshed, battell oft renue.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As when two Bores, with rancling malice mett,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Their gory sides fresh bleeding fiercely frett;",
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   {
    "text": "Til breathlesse both themselves aside retire,",
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   {
    "text": "Where foming wrath their cruell tuskes they whett,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And trample th’earth, the whiles they may respire,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Then backe to fight againe, new breathed and entire.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "So fiersly, when these knights had breathed once,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "They gan to fight retourne, increasing more",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Their puissant force, and cruell rage attonce,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With heaped strokes more hugely then before;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That with their drery wounds, and bloody gore,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "They both, deformed, scarsely could bee known.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "By this, sad Una fraught with anguish sore,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Led with their noise which through the aire was thrown,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Arriv’d wher they in erth their fruitles blood had sown.",
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   {
    "text": "Whom all so soone as that proud Sarazin",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Espide, he gan revive the memory",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of his leud lusts, and late attempted sin,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And lefte the doubtfull battell hastily,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To catch her, newly offred to his eie;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But Satyrane, with strokes him turning, staid,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And sternely bad him other businesse plie",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Then hunt the steps of pure unspotted Maid:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Wherewith he al enrag’d these bitter speaches said.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "“O foolish faeries’ sonne! what fury mad",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Hath thee incenst to hast thy dolefull fate?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Were it not better I that Lady had",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Then that thou hadst repented it too late?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Most sencelesse man he, that himselfe doth hate,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To love another: Lo! then, for thine ayd,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Here take thy lovers token on thy pate.”",
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   },
   {
    "text": "So they to fight; the whiles the royall Mayd",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Fledd farre away, of that proud Paynim sore afrayd.",
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   {
    "text": "But that false Pilgrim, which that leasing told,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Being in deed old Archimage, did stay",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In secret shadow all this to behold;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And much rejoyced in their bloody fray:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But, when he saw the Damsell passe away,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "He left his stond, and her pursewd apace,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "In hope to bring her to her last decay.",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "But for to tell her lamentable cace,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And eke this battels end, will need another place.",
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   {
    "text": "What man so wise, what earthly witt so ware,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As to discry the crafty cunning traine,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "By which deceipt doth maske in visour faire,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And cast her coulours, died deepe in graine,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To seeme like truth, whose shape she well can faine,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And fitting gestures to her purpose frame,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The guiltlesse man with guile to entertaine?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Great maistresse of her art was that false Dame,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The false Duessa, cloked with Fidessaes name.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "Who when, returning from the drery Night,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "She fownd not in that perilous hous of Pryde,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Where she had left the noble Redcrosse knight,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Her hoped pray, she would no lenger byde,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But forth she went to seeke him far and wide.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Ere long she fownd, whereas he wearie sate",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To reste him selfe foreby a fountaine syde,",
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    "text": "But vanquisht thine eternall bondslave make,",
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    "text": "And me, thy worthy meed, unto thy Leman take.”",
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    "text": "He hearkned, and did stay from further harmes,",
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    "text": "Would faine have dyde: dead was his hart within,",
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    "text": "At last, recovering hart, he does begin",
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    "text": "Then gins her grieved ghost thus to lament and mourne:",
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    "text": "“Ye dreary instruments of dolefull sight,",
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    "text": "That doe this deadly spectacle behold,",
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   {
    "text": "Why doe ye lenger feed on loathed light,",
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    "text": "Or liking find to gaze on earthly mould,",
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    "text": "Sith cruell fates the carefull threds unfould,",
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    "text": "The which my life and love together tyde?",
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    "text": "Now let the stony dart of sencelesse cold",
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    "text": "Perce to my hart, and pas through everie side,",
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    "text": "And let eternall night so sad sight fro me hyde.",
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    "text": "“O lightsome day! the lampe of highest Jove,",
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    "text": "When darknesse he in deepest dongeon drove;",
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    "text": "Henceforth thy hated face for ever hyde,",
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    "text": "And shut up heavens windowes shyning wyde;",
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    "text": "For earthly sight can nought but sorrow breed,",
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    "text": "Mine eyes no more on vanitie shall feed,",
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    "text": "But seeled up with death shall have their deadly meed.”",
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    "text": "Then downe againe she fell unto the ground,",
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    "text": "The which these reliques sad present unto mine eye.",
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    "text": "“Tempestuous fortune hath spent all her spight,",
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    "text": "Then that I feele, and harbour in mine hart:",
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    "text": "Who hath endur’d the whole can beare ech part.",
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    "text": "If death it be, it is not the first wound",
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    "text": "That launched hath my brest with bleeding smart.",
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    "text": "Begin, and end the bitter balefull stound;",
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    "text": "If lesse then that I feare, more favour I have found.”",
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    "text": "Then gan the Dwarfe the whole discourse declare;",
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    "text": "The subtile traines of Archimago old;",
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    "text": "The wanton loves of false Fidessa fayre,",
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    "text": "Bought with the blood of vanquisht Paynim bold;",
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    "text": "The house of Pryde, and perilles round about;",
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    "text": "The combat which he with Sansjoy did hould;",
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    "text": "The lucklesse conflict with the Gyaunt stout,",
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    "text": "She heard with patience all unto the end,",
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    "text": "Which greater grew the more she did contend,",
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    "text": "And almost rent her tender hart in tway;",
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    "text": "And love fresh coles unto her fire did lay;",
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    "text": "For greater love, the greater is the losse.",
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    "text": "Was never Lady loved dearer day",
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    "text": "At last when fervent sorrow slaked was,",
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    "text": "She up arose, resolving him to find",
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    "text": "Alive or dead; and forward forth doth pas,",
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    "text": "All as the Dwarfe the way to her assynd;",
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    "text": "And evermore, in constant carefull mind,",
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    "text": "She fedd her wound with fresh renewed bale.",
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    "text": "High over hills, and lowe adowne the dale,",
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    "text": "She wandred many a wood, and measurd many a vale.",
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    "text": "At last she chaunced by good hap to meet",
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    "text": "A goodly knight, faire marching by the way,",
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   {
    "text": "Together with his Squyre, arayed meet:",
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    "text": "His glitterand armour shined far away,",
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    "text": "Like glauncing light of Phœbus brightest ray;",
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    "text": "From top to toe no place appeared bare,",
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    "text": "That deadly dint of steele endanger may.",
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    "text": "Athwart his brest a bauldrick brave he ware,",
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    "text": "That shind, like twinkling stars, with stones most pretious rare.",
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    "text": "And in the midst thereof one pretious stone",
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    "text": "Of wondrous worth, and eke of wondrous mights,",
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    "text": "Shapt like a Ladies head, exceeding shone,",
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    "text": "In yvory sheath, ycarv’d with curious slights,",
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    "text": "Of mother perle; and buckled with a golden tong.",
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    "text": "His haughtie Helmet, horrid all with gold,",
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    "text": "Both glorious brightnesse and great terrour bredd:",
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    "text": "For all the crest a Dragon did enfold",
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    "text": "His golden winges: his dreadfull hideous hedd,",
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    "text": "Close couched on the bever, seemd to throw",
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    "text": "From flaming mouth bright sparckles fiery redd,",
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    "text": "That suddeine horrour to faint hartes did show;",
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    "text": "And scaly tayle was stretcht adowne his back full low.",
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    "text": "At everie little breath that under heaven is blowne.",
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    "text": "Ne dint of direfull sword divide the substance would.",
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    "text": "The same to wight he never wont disclose,",
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    "text": "Or when the flying heavens he would affray;",
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    "text": "For so exceeding shone his glistring ray,",
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    "text": "And silver Cynthia wexed pale and faynt,",
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    "text": "As when her face is staynd with magicke arts constraint.",
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    "text": "No magicke arts hereof had any might,",
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    "text": "Nor bloody wordes of bold Enchaunters call;",
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    "text": "Before that shield did fade, and suddeine fall:",
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    "text": "And when him list the raskall routes appall,",
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    "text": "Men into stones therewith he could transmew,",
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    "text": "And stones to dust, and dust to nought at all;",
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    "text": "And, when him list the prouder lookes subdew,",
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    "text": "He would them gazing blind, or turne to other hew.",
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    "text": "Ne let it seeme that credence this exceedes;",
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   {
    "text": "For he that made the same was knowne right well",
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   {
    "text": "To have done much more admirable deedes.",
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    "text": "It Merlin was, which whylome did excell",
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    "text": "All living wightes in might of magicke spell:",
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    "text": "Both shield and sword, and armour all he wrought",
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    "text": "For this young Prince, when first to armes he fell;",
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    "text": "But, when he dyde, the Faery Queene it brought",
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    "text": "To Faerie lond, where yet it may be seene, if sought:",
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    "text": "A gentle youth, his dearely loved Squire,",
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   {
    "text": "His speare of heben wood behind him bare,",
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    "text": "Whose harmeful head, thrise heated in the fire,",
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    "text": "Had riven many a brest with pikehead square:",
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    "text": "A goodly person, and could menage faire",
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    "text": "His stubborne steed with curbed canon bitt,",
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    "text": "Who under him did trample as the aire,",
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    "text": "And chauft that any on his backe should sitt:",
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   {
    "text": "The yron rowels into frothy fome he bitt.",
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    "text": "Whenas this knight nigh to the Lady drew,",
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   {
    "text": "With lovely court he gan her entertaine;",
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   {
    "text": "But, when he heard her answers loth, he knew",
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    "text": "Some secret sorrow did her heart distraine;",
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    "text": "Which to allay, and calme her storming paine,",
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    "text": "Faire feeling words he wisely gan display,",
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    "text": "And for her humor fitting purpose faine,",
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   {
    "text": "To tempt the cause it selfe for to bewray,",
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   {
    "text": "Wherewith enmovd, these bleeding words she gan to say.",
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   {
    "text": "“What worlds delight, or joy of living speach,",
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   {
    "text": "Can hart, so plungd in sea of sorrowes deep,",
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   {
    "text": "And heaped with so huge misfortunes, reach?",
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   {
    "text": "The carefull cold beginneth for to creep,",
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   {
    "text": "And in my heart his yron arrow steep,",
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   {
    "text": "Soone as I thinke upon my bitter bale.",
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   {
    "text": "Such helplesse harmes yts better hidden keep,",
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   {
    "text": "Then rip up griefe where it may not availe:",
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   {
    "text": "My last left comfort is my woes to weepe and waile.”",
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   {
    "text": "“Ah Lady deare,” quoth then the gentle knight,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Well may I ween your griefe is wondrous great;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For wondrous great griefe groneth in my spright,",
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   {
    "text": "Whiles thus I heare you of your sorrowes treat.",
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   {
    "text": "But, woefull Lady, let me you intrete,",
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   {
    "text": "For to unfold the anguish of your hart:",
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   {
    "text": "Mishaps are maistred by advice discrete,",
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   {
    "text": "And counsell mitigates the greatest smart:",
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   {
    "text": "Found never help who never would his hurts impart.”",
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   {
    "text": "“O, but,” (quoth she) “great griefe will not be tould,",
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   {
    "text": "And can more easily be thought then said.”",
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   {
    "text": "“Right so,” (quoth he) “but he that never would",
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   {
    "text": "Could never: will to might gives greatest aid.”",
    "indent": 1
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   {
    "text": "“But griefe,” (quoth she) “does greater grow displaid,",
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   {
    "text": "If then it find not helpe, and breeds despaire.”",
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   {
    "text": "“Despaire breeds not,” (quoth he) “where faith is staid.”",
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   {
    "text": "“No faith so fast,” (quoth she) “but flesh does paire.”",
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   {
    "text": "“Flesh may empaire,” (quoth he) “but reason can repaire.”",
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    "text": "His goodly reason, and well-guided speach,",
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    "text": "So deepe did settle in her gracious thought,",
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   {
    "text": "That her perswaded to disclose the breach",
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   {
    "text": "Which love and fortune in her heart had wrought;",
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   {
    "text": "And said; “Faire Sir, I hope good hap hath brought",
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   {
    "text": "You to inquere the secrets of my griefe,",
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    "text": "Or that your wisedome will direct my thought,",
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   {
    "text": "Or that your prowesse can me yield reliefe:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Then, heare the story sad, which I shall tell you briefe.",
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    "text": "“The forlorne Maiden, whom your eies have seene",
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    "text": "The laughing stocke of fortunes mockeries,",
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   {
    "text": "Am th’onely daughter of a King and Queene,",
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   {
    "text": "Whose parents deare, whiles equal destinies",
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   {
    "text": "Did ronne about, and their felicities",
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   {
    "text": "The favourable heavens did not envy,",
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    "text": "Did spred their rule through all the territories,",
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   {
    "text": "Which Phison and Euphrates floweth by,",
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    "text": "And Gehons golden waves doe wash continually:",
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    "text": "“Till that their cruell cursed enemy,",
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    "text": "An huge great Dragon, horrible in sight,",
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   {
    "text": "Bred in the loathly lakes of Tartary,",
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    "text": "With murdrous ravine, and devouring might,",
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    "text": "Their kingdome spoild, and countrey wasted quight:",
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   {
    "text": "Themselves, for feare into his jawes to fall,",
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   {
    "text": "He forst to castle strong to take their flight;",
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   {
    "text": "Where, fast embard in mighty brasen wall,",
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   {
    "text": "He has them now fowr years besiegd to make them thrall.",
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    "text": "“Full many knights, adventurous and stout,",
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   {
    "text": "Have enterpriz’d that Monster to subdew:",
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   {
    "text": "From every coast that heaven walks about",
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    "text": "Have thither come the noble Martial crew,",
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    "text": "That famous harde atchievements still pursew;",
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    "text": "Yet never any could that girlond win,",
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    "text": "But all still shronke, and still he greater grew:",
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   {
    "text": "All they, for want of faith, or guilt of sin,",
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   {
    "text": "The pitteous pray of his fiers cruelty have bin.",
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    "text": "“At last, yled with far reported praise,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Which flying fame throughout the world had spred,",
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   {
    "text": "Of doughty knights, whom Faery land did raise,",
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   {
    "text": "That noble order hight of maidenhed,",
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   {
    "text": "Forthwith to court of Gloriane I sped,",
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   {
    "text": "Of Gloriane, great Queene of glory bright,",
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   {
    "text": "Whose kingdomes seat Cleopolis is red;",
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   {
    "text": "There to obtaine some such redoubted knight,",
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   {
    "text": "That Parents deare from tyrants powre deliver might.",
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   {
    "text": "“Yt was my chaunce (my chaunce was faire and good)",
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   {
    "text": "There for to find a fresh unproved knight;",
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   {
    "text": "Whose manly hands imbrewd in guilty blood",
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   {
    "text": "Had never beene, ne ever by his might",
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    "text": "Had throwne to ground the unregarded right:",
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   {
    "text": "Yet of his prowesse proofe he since hath made",
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   {
    "text": "(I witnes am) in many a cruell fight;",
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   {
    "text": "The groning ghosts of many one dismaide",
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   {
    "text": "Have felt the bitter dint of his avenging blade.",
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    "text": "“And ye, the forlorne reliques of his powre,",
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   {
    "text": "His biting sword, and his devouring speare,",
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   {
    "text": "Which have endured many a dreadfull-stowre,",
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   {
    "text": "Can speake his prowesse that did earst you beare,",
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   {
    "text": "And well could rule; now he hath left you heare",
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   {
    "text": "To be the record of his ruefull losse,",
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   {
    "text": "And of my dolefull disaventurous deare.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O! heavie record of the good Red Crosse,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Where have yee left your lord that could so well you tosse?",
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   {
    "text": "“Well hoped I, and faire beginnings had,",
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   {
    "text": "That he my captive languor should redeeme:",
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   {
    "text": "Till, all unweeting, an Enchaunter bad",
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   {
    "text": "His sence abusd, and made him to misdeeme",
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   {
    "text": "My loyalty, not such as it did seeme,",
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   {
    "text": "That rather death desire then such despight.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Be judge, ye heavens, that all things right esteeme,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "How I him lov’d, and love with all my might.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "So thought I eke of him, and think I thought aright.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "“Thenceforth me desolate he quite forsooke,",
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   {
    "text": "To wander where wilde fortune would me lead,",
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   {
    "text": "And other bywaies he himselfe betooke,",
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   {
    "text": "Where never foote of living wight did tread,",
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   {
    "text": "That brought not backe the balefull body dead:",
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   {
    "text": "In which him chaunced false Duessa meete,",
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   {
    "text": "Mine onely foe, mine onely deadly dread;",
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   {
    "text": "Who with her witchcraft, and misseeming sweete,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Inveigled him to follow her desires unmeete.",
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   {
    "text": "“At last, by subtile sleights she him betraid",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Unto his foe, a Gyaunt huge and tall;",
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   {
    "text": "Who him disarmed, dissolute, dismaid,",
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   {
    "text": "Unwares surprised, and with mighty mall",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The monster mercilesse him made to fall,",
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   {
    "text": "Whose fall did never foe before behold:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And now in darkesome dungeon, wretched thrall,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Remedilesse for aie he doth him hold.",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "This is my cause of griefe, more great then may be told.”",
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   {
    "text": "Ere she had ended all she gan to faint:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But he her comforted, and faire bespake:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Certes, Madame, ye have great cause of plaint;",
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   {
    "text": "That stoutest heart, I weene, could cause to quake:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But be of cheare, and comfort to you take;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For till I have acquitt your captive knight,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Assure your selfe I will you not forsake.”",
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   },
   {
    "text": "His chearefull words reviv’d her chearelesse spright,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "So forth they went, the Dwarfe them guiding ever right.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Ay me! how many perils doe enfold",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The righteous man, to make him daily fall,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Were not that heavenly grace doth him uphold,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And stedfast truth acquite him out of all.",
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    "text": "Her love is firme, her care continuall,",
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   {
    "text": "So oft as he, through his own foolish pride",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Or weaknes, is to sinfull bands made thrall:",
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   {
    "text": "Els should this Redcrosse knight in bands have dyde,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For whose deliverance she this Prince doth thither guyd.",
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    "text": "They sadly traveild thus, untill they came",
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   {
    "text": "Nigh to a castle builded strong and hye:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Then cryde the Dwarfe, “Lo! yonder is the same,",
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   {
    "text": "In which my Lord, my liege, doth lucklesse ly",
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   {
    "text": "Thrall to that Gyaunts hatefull tyranny:",
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   {
    "text": "Therefore, deare Sir, your mightie powres assay.”",
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   {
    "text": "The noble knight alighted by and by",
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   {
    "text": "From loftie steed, and badd the Ladie stay,",
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   {
    "text": "To see what end of fight should him befall that day.",
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    "text": "So with his Squire, th’admirer of his might,",
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   {
    "text": "He marched forth towardes that castle wall,",
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   {
    "text": "Whose gates he fownd fast shutt, ne living wight",
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   {
    "text": "To warde the same, nor answere commers call.",
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   {
    "text": "Then tooke that Squire an horne of bugle small,",
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   {
    "text": "Which hong adowne his side in twisted gold",
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   {
    "text": "And tasselles gay. Wyde wonders over all",
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   {
    "text": "Of that same hornes great virtues weren told,",
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   {
    "text": "Which had approved bene in uses manifold.",
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    "text": "Was never wight that heard that shrilling sownd,",
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   {
    "text": "But trembling feare did feel in every vaine:",
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   {
    "text": "Three miles it might be easy heard arownd,",
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   {
    "text": "And Ecchoes three aunswer’d it selfe againe:",
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   {
    "text": "No false enchauntment, nor deceiptfull traine,",
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   {
    "text": "Might once abide the terror of that blast,",
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   {
    "text": "But presently was void and wholly vaine:",
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   {
    "text": "No gate so strong, no locke so firme and fast,",
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   {
    "text": "But with that percing noise flew open quite, or brast.",
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    "text": "The same before the Geaunts gate he blew,",
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   {
    "text": "That all the castle quaked from the grownd,",
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   {
    "text": "And every dore of freewill open flew.",
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    "text": "The Gyaunt selfe, dismaied with that sownd,",
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    "text": "Where he with his Duessa dalliaunce fownd,",
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   {
    "text": "In hast came rushing forth from inner bowre,",
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   {
    "text": "With staring countenance sterne, as one astownd,",
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   {
    "text": "And staggering steps, to weet what suddein stowre",
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   {
    "text": "Had wrought that horror strange, and dar’d his dreaded powre.",
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    "text": "And after him the proud Duessa came,",
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    "text": "High mounted on her many headed beast,",
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    "text": "And every head with fyrie tongue did flame,",
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   {
    "text": "And every head was crowned on his creast,",
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    "text": "And bloody mouthed with late cruell feast.",
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   {
    "text": "That when the knight beheld, his mightie shild",
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   {
    "text": "Upon his manly arme he soone addrest,",
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   {
    "text": "And at him fiersly flew, with corage fild,",
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   {
    "text": "And eger greedinesse through every member thrild.",
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    "text": "Therewith the Gyant buckled him to fight,",
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   {
    "text": "Inflamd with scornefull wrath and high disdaine,",
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    "text": "And lifting up his dreadfull club on hight,",
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   {
    "text": "All armd with ragged snubbes and knottie graine,",
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   {
    "text": "Him thought at first encounter to have slaine.",
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    "text": "But wise and wary was that noble Pere;",
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    "text": "And, lightly leaping from so monstrous maine,",
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    "text": "Did fayre avoide the violence him nere:",
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    "text": "It booted nought to thinke such thunderbolts to beare.",
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    "text": "Ne shame he thought to shonne so hideous might:",
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    "text": "The ydle stroke, enforcing furious way,",
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    "text": "Missing the marke of his misaymed sight,",
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    "text": "Did fall to ground, and with his heavy sway",
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    "text": "So deepely dinted in the driven clay,",
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    "text": "That three yardes deepe a furrow up did throw.",
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    "text": "The sad earth, wounded with so sore assay,",
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    "text": "Did grone full grievous underneath the blow,",
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    "text": "And trembling with strange feare did like an erthquake show.",
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    "text": "As when almightie Jove, in wrathfull mood,",
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    "text": "To wreake the guilt of mortall sins is bent,",
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    "text": "Hurles forth his thundring dart with deadly food",
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    "text": "Enrold in flames, and smouldring dreriment,",
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    "text": "Through riven cloudes and molten firmament;",
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    "text": "The fiers threeforked engin, making way,",
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    "text": "Both loftie towres and highest trees hath rent,",
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    "text": "And all that might his angry passage stay;",
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    "text": "And, shooting in the earth, castes up a mount of clay.",
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    "text": "His boystrous club, so buried in the grownd,",
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    "text": "He could not rearen up againe so light,",
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   {
    "text": "But that the Knight him at advantage fownd;",
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    "text": "And, whiles he strove his combred clubbe to quight",
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    "text": "Out of the earth, with blade all burning bright",
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    "text": "He smott off his left arme, which like a block",
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    "text": "Did fall to ground, depriv’d of native might:",
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    "text": "Large streames of blood out of the truncked stock",
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    "text": "Forth gushed, like fresh water streame from riven rocke.",
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    "text": "Dismayed with so desperate deadly wound,",
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    "text": "And eke impatient of unwonted payne,",
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    "text": "He loudly brayd with beastly yelling sownd,",
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   {
    "text": "That all the fieldes rebellowed againe.",
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    "text": "As great a noyse, as when in Cymbrian plaine",
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    "text": "An heard of Bulles, whom kindly rage doth sting,",
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   {
    "text": "Doe for the milky mothers want complaine,",
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    "text": "And fill the fieldes with troublous bellowing:",
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    "text": "The neighbor woods arownd with hollow murmur ring.",
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    "text": "That when his deare Duessa heard, and saw",
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    "text": "The evil stownd that daungerd her estate,",
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    "text": "Unto his aide she hastily did draw",
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    "text": "Her dreadfull beast; who, swolne with blood of late,",
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    "text": "Came ramping forth with proud presumpteous gate,",
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   {
    "text": "And threatned all his heades like flaming brandes.",
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   {
    "text": "But him the Squire made quickly to retrate,",
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    "text": "Encountring fiers with single sword in hand;",
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    "text": "And twixt him and his Lord did like a bulwarke stand.",
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    "text": "The proud Duessa, full of wrathfull spight,",
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    "text": "And fiers disdaine to be affronted so,",
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    "text": "Enforst her purple beast with all her might,",
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    "text": "That stop out of the way to overthroe,",
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    "text": "Scorning the let of so unequall foe:",
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    "text": "But nathemore would that corageous swayne",
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    "text": "To her yeeld passage gainst his Lord to goe,",
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    "text": "But with outrageous strokes did him restraine,",
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    "text": "And with his body bard the way atwixt them twaine.",
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    "text": "Then tooke the angrie witch her golden cup,",
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    "text": "Which still she bore, replete with magick artes;",
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    "text": "Death and despeyre did many thereof sup,",
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    "text": "And secret poyson through their inner partes,",
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    "text": "Th’eternall bale of heavie wounded harts:",
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    "text": "Which, after charmes and some enchauntments said,",
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    "text": "She lightly sprinkled on his weaker partes:",
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    "text": "Therewith his sturdie corage soon was quayd,",
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    "text": "And all his sences were with suddein dread dismayd.",
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    "text": "So downe he fell before the cruell beast,",
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    "text": "Who on his neck his bloody clawes did seize,",
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    "text": "That life nigh crusht out of his panting brest:",
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   {
    "text": "No powre he had to stirre, nor will to rize.",
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   {
    "text": "That when the carefull knight gan well avise,",
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    "text": "He lightly left the foe with whom he fought,",
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    "text": "And to the beast gan turne his enterprise;",
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    "text": "For wondrous anguish in his hart it wrought,",
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    "text": "To see his loved Squyre into such thraldom brought:",
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    "text": "And, high advauncing his blood-thirstie blade,",
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    "text": "Stroke one of those deformed heades so sore,",
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    "text": "That of his puissaunce proud ensample made:",
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    "text": "His monstrous scalpe downe to his teeth it tore,",
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    "text": "And that misformed shape misshaped more.",
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    "text": "A sea of blood gusht from the gaping wownd,",
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    "text": "And overflowed all the field arownd,",
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    "text": "That over shoes in blood he waded on the grownd.",
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    "text": "Thereat he rored for exceeding paine,",
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    "text": "That to have heard great horror would have bred;",
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    "text": "And scourging th’emptie ayre with his long trayne,",
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    "text": "Through great impatience of his grieved hed,",
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    "text": "His gorgeous ryder from her loftie sted",
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    "text": "Would have cast downe, and trodd in durty myre,",
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    "text": "Had not the Gyaunt soone her succoured;",
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    "text": "Who, all enrag’d with smart and frantick yre,",
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    "text": "Came hurtling in full fiers, and forst the knight retyre.",
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    "text": "The force, which wont in two to be disperst,",
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    "text": "In one alone left hand he now unites,",
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    "text": "With which his hideous club aloft he dites,",
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    "text": "That strongest Oake might seeme to overthrow.",
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    "text": "The stroke upon his shield so heavie lites,",
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    "text": "That to the ground it doubleth him full low:",
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   {
    "text": "What mortall wight could ever beare so monstrous blow?",
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    "text": "And in his fall his shield, that covered was,",
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    "text": "Did loose his vele by chaunce, and open flew;",
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   {
    "text": "The light whereof, that hevens light did pas,",
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    "text": "Such blazing brightnesse through the ayer threw,",
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    "text": "That eye mote not the same endure to vew.",
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    "text": "He downe let fall his arme, and soft withdrew",
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    "text": "His weapon huge, that heaved was on hye",
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    "text": "For to have slain the man, that on the ground did lye.",
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    "text": "And eke the fruitfull-headed beast, amazd",
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    "text": "At flashing beames of that sunshiny shield,",
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    "text": "Became stark blind, and all his sences dazd,",
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    "text": "That downe he tumbled on the durtie field,",
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    "text": "And seemd himselfe as conquered to yield.",
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    "text": "Whom when his maistresse proud perceiv’d to fall,",
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    "text": "Whiles yet his feeble feet for faintnesse reeld,",
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    "text": "Unto the Gyaunt lowdly she gan call;",
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    "text": "“O! helpe, Orgoglio; helpe! or els we perish all.”",
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    "text": "At her so pitteous cry was much amoov’d",
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    "text": "Her champion stout; and for to ayde his frend,",
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    "text": "Againe his wonted angry weapon proov’d,",
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    "text": "But all in vaine, for he has redd his end",
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    "text": "In that bright shield, and all their forces spend",
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    "text": "Them selves in vaine: for, since that glauncing sight,",
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    "text": "He hath no powre to hurt, nor to defend.",
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   {
    "text": "As where th’Almighties lightning brond does light,",
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    "text": "It dimmes the dazed eyen, and daunts the sences quight.",
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    "text": "Whom when the Prince, to batteill new addrest",
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   {
    "text": "And threatning high his dreadfull stroke, did see,",
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    "text": "His sparkling blade about his head he blest,",
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    "text": "That downe he tombled; as an aged tree,",
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    "text": "Or as a Castle, reared high and round,",
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    "text": "And her foundation forst, and feebled quight,",
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    "text": "At last downe falles; and with her heaped hight",
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    "text": "Her hastie ruine does more heavie make,",
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    "text": "Such was this Gyaunts fall, that seemd to shake",
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    "text": "The stedfast globe of earth, as it for feare did quake.",
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    "text": "The knight, then lightly leaping to the pray,",
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    "text": "With mortall steele him smot againe so sore,",
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    "text": "That headlesse his unweldy bodie lay,",
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    "text": "All wallowd in his owne fowle bloody gore,",
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    "text": "Which flowed from his wounds in wondrous store.",
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    "text": "But, soone as breath out of his brest did pas,",
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    "text": "Her golden cup she cast unto the ground,",
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    "text": "And crowned mitre rudely threw asyde:",
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    "text": "Such percing griefe her stubborne hart did wound,",
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    "text": "That she could not endure that dolefull stound,",
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   {
    "text": "But leaving all behind her fled away:",
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    "text": "The light-foot Squyre her quickly turnd around,",
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    "text": "And, by hard meanes enforcing her to stay,",
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    "text": "So brought unto his Lord as his deserved pray.",
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    "text": "The roiall Virgin which beheld from farre,",
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   {
    "text": "In pensive plight and sad perplexitie,",
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    "text": "The whole atchievement of this doubtfull warre,",
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    "text": "Came running fast to greet his victorie,",
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    "text": "With sober gladnesse and myld modestie;",
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    "text": "And with sweet joyous cheare him thus bespake:",
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    "text": "“Fayre braunch of noblesse, flowre of chevalrie,",
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   {
    "text": "That with your worth the world amazed make,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "How shall I quite the paynes ye suffer for my sake?",
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   {
    "text": "“And you, fresh budd of vertue springing fast,",
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   {
    "text": "Whom these sad eyes saw nigh unto deaths dore,",
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   {
    "text": "What hath poore Virgin for such perill past",
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   {
    "text": "Wherewith you to reward? Accept therefore",
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   {
    "text": "My simple selfe, and service evermore:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And he that high does sit, and all things see",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With equall eye, their merites to restore,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Behold what ye this day have done for mee,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And what I cannot quite requite with usuree.",
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   }
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   {
    "text": "“But sith the heavens, and your faire handeling,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Have made you master of the field this day,",
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   {
    "text": "Your fortune maister eke with governing,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And, well begonne, end all so well, I pray!",
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   {
    "text": "Ne let that wicked woman scape away;",
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   {
    "text": "For she it is, that did my Lord bethrall,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "My dearest Lord, and deepe in dongeon lay,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Where he his better dayes hath wasted all:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O heare, how piteous he to you for ayd does call!”",
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   {
    "text": "Forthwith he gave in charge unto his Squyre,",
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   {
    "text": "That scarlot whore to keepen carefully;",
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   {
    "text": "Whyles he himselfe with greedie great desyre",
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   {
    "text": "Into the Castle entred forcibly,",
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   {
    "text": "Where living creature none he did espye.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Then gan he lowdly through the house to call;",
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   {
    "text": "But no man car’d to answere to his crye:",
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   {
    "text": "There raignd a solemne silence over all;",
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   {
    "text": "Nor voice was heard, nor wight was seene in bowre or hall.",
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    "text": "At last, with creeping crooked pace forth came",
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   {
    "text": "An old old man, with beard as white as snow,",
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   {
    "text": "That on a staffe his feeble steps did frame,",
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   {
    "text": "And guyde his wearie gate both too and fro,",
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   {
    "text": "For his eye sight him fayled long ygo;",
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   {
    "text": "And on his arme a bounch of keyes he bore,",
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    "text": "The which unused rust did overgrow:",
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   {
    "text": "Those were the keyes of every inner dore;",
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    "text": "But he could not them use, but kept them still in store.",
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    "text": "But very uncouth sight was to behold,",
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   {
    "text": "How he did fashion his untoward pace;",
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   {
    "text": "For as he forward moovd his footing old,",
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   {
    "text": "So backward still was turnd his wrincled face:",
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   {
    "text": "Unlike to men, who ever, as they trace,",
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   {
    "text": "Both feet and face one way are wont to lead.",
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   {
    "text": "This was the auncient keeper of that place,",
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    "text": "And foster father of the Gyaunt dead;",
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    "text": "His name Ignaro did his nature right aread.",
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    "text": "His reverend heares and holy gravitee",
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   {
    "text": "The knight much honord, as beseemed well;",
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   {
    "text": "And gently askt, where all the people bee,",
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   {
    "text": "Which in that stately building wont to dwell:",
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   {
    "text": "Who answerd him full soft, he could not tell.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Again he askt, where that same knight was layd,",
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   {
    "text": "Whom great Orgoglio with his puissaunce fell",
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   {
    "text": "Had made his caytive thrall: againe he sayde,",
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   {
    "text": "He could not tell; ne ever other answere made.",
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   {
    "text": "Then asked he, which way he in might pas?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "He could not tell, againe he answered.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thereat the courteous knight displeased was,",
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   {
    "text": "And said; “Old syre, it seemes thou hast not red",
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   {
    "text": "How ill it sits with that same silver hed,",
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   {
    "text": "In vaine to mocke, or mockt in vaine to bee:",
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   {
    "text": "But if thou be, as thou art pourtrahed",
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   {
    "text": "With natures pen, in ages grave degree,",
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   {
    "text": "Aread in graver wise what I demaund of thee.”",
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   {
    "text": "His answere likewise was, he could not tell:",
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   {
    "text": "Whose sencelesse speach, and doted ignorance,",
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   {
    "text": "Whenas the noble Prince had marked well,",
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   {
    "text": "He ghest his nature by his countenance,",
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   {
    "text": "And calmd his wrath with goodly temperance.",
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   {
    "text": "Then, to him stepping, from his arme did reach",
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   {
    "text": "Those keyes, and made himselfe free enterance.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Each dore he opened without any breach,",
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   {
    "text": "There was no barre to stop, nor foe him to empeach.",
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   {
    "text": "There all within full rich arayd he found,",
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   {
    "text": "With royall arras, and resplendent gold,",
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   {
    "text": "And did with store of every thing abound,",
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   {
    "text": "That greatest Princes presence might behold.",
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   {
    "text": "But all the floore (too filthy to be told)",
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   {
    "text": "With blood of guiltlesse babes, and innocents trew,",
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   {
    "text": "Which there were slaine as sheepe out of the fold,",
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   {
    "text": "Defiled was, that dreadfull was to vew;",
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   {
    "text": "And sacred ashes over it was strowed new.",
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   {
    "text": "And there beside of marble stone was built",
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   {
    "text": "An Altare, carv’d with cunning ymagery,",
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   {
    "text": "On which trew Christians blood was often spilt,",
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   {
    "text": "And holy Martyres often doen to dye",
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   {
    "text": "With cruell malice and strong tyranny:",
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   {
    "text": "Whose blessed sprites, from underneath the stone,",
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   {
    "text": "To God for vengeance cryde continually;",
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   {
    "text": "And with great griefe were often heard to grone,",
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   {
    "text": "That hardest heart would bleede to hear their piteous mone.",
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   {
    "text": "Through every rowme he sought, and everie bowr,",
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   {
    "text": "But no where could he find that wofull thrall:",
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   {
    "text": "At last he came unto an yron doore,",
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   {
    "text": "That fast was lockt, but key found not at all",
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   {
    "text": "Emongst that bounch to open it withall;",
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   {
    "text": "But in the same a little grate was pight,",
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    "text": "Through which he sent his voyce, and lowd did call",
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    "text": "With all his powre, to weet if living wight",
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   {
    "text": "Were housed therewithin, whom he enlargen might.",
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    "text": "Therewith an hollow, dreary, murmuring voyce",
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   {
    "text": "These pitteous plaintes and dolours did resound:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“O! who is that, which bringes me happy choyce",
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   {
    "text": "Of death, that here lye dying every stound,",
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   {
    "text": "Yet live perforce in balefull darkenesse bound?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For now three Moones have changed thrice their hew,",
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   {
    "text": "And have been thrice hid underneath the ground,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Since I the heavens chearefull face did vew.",
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   {
    "text": "O! welcome thou, that doest of death bring tydings trew.”",
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    "text": "Which when that Champion heard, with percing point",
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   {
    "text": "Of pitty deare his heart was thrilled sore;",
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   {
    "text": "And trembling horrour ran through every joynt,",
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   {
    "text": "For ruth of gentle knight so fowle forlore:",
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   {
    "text": "Which shaking off, he rent that yron dore",
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   {
    "text": "With furious force and indignation fell;",
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   {
    "text": "Where entred in, his foot could find no flore,",
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   {
    "text": "But all a deepe descent, as darke as hell,",
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    "text": "That breathed ever forth a filthie banefull smell.",
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   {
    "text": "But nether darkenesse fowle, nor filthy bands,",
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   {
    "text": "Nor noyous smell, his purpose could withhold,",
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   {
    "text": "(Entire affection hateth nicer hands)",
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   {
    "text": "But that with constant zele and corage bold,",
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   {
    "text": "After long paines and labors manifold,",
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   {
    "text": "He found the meanes that Prisoner up to reare;",
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   {
    "text": "Whose feeble thighes, unable to uphold",
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   {
    "text": "His pined corse, him scarse to light could beare;",
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   {
    "text": "A ruefull spectacle of death and ghastly drere.",
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    "text": "His sad dull eies, deepe sunck in hollow pits,",
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   {
    "text": "Could not endure th’unwonted sunne to view;",
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   {
    "text": "His bare thin cheekes for want of better bits,",
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   {
    "text": "And empty sides deceived of their dew,",
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   {
    "text": "Could make a stony hart his hap to rew;",
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    "text": "His rawbone armes, whose mighty brawned bowrs",
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   {
    "text": "Were wont to rive steele plates, and helmets hew,",
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   {
    "text": "Were clene consum’d; and all his vitall powres",
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   {
    "text": "Decayd, and al his flesh shronk up like withered flowres.",
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    "text": "Whome when his Lady saw, to him she ran",
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   {
    "text": "With hasty joy: to see him made her glad,",
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   {
    "text": "And sad to view his visage pale and wan,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Who earst in flowres of freshest youth was clad.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Tho, when her well of teares she wasted had,",
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   {
    "text": "She said; “Ah dearest Lord! what evill starre",
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   },
   {
    "text": "On you hath frownd, and pourd his influence bad,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That of your selfe ye thus berobbed arre,",
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   {
    "text": "And this misseeming hew your manly looks doth marre?",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "“But welcome now, my Lord in wele or woe,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Whose presence I have lackt too long a day:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And fie on Fortune, mine avowed foe,",
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   {
    "text": "Whose wrathful wreakes them selves doe now alay;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And for these wronges shall treble penaunce pay",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of treble good: good growes of evils priefe.”",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The chearelesse man, whom sorrow did dismay,",
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   {
    "text": "Had no delight to treaten of his griefe;",
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   {
    "text": "His long endured famine needed more reliefe.",
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   {
    "text": "“Faire Lady,” then said that victorious knight,",
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   {
    "text": "“The things, that grievous were to doe, or beare,",
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   {
    "text": "Them to renew, I wote, breeds no delight,",
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   {
    "text": "Best musicke breeds delight in loathing eare:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But th’only good that growes of passed feare",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Is to be wise, and ware of like agein.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "This daies ensample hath this lesson deare",
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   {
    "text": "Deepe written in my heart with yron pen,",
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   {
    "text": "That blisse may not abide in state of mortall men.",
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   {
    "text": "“Henceforth, Sir knight, take to you wonted strength,",
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   {
    "text": "And maister these mishaps with patient might.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Loe! where your foe lies strecht in monstrous length;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And loe! that wicked woman in your sight,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The roote of all your care and wretched plight,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Now in your powre, to let her live, or die.”",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“To doe her die,” (quoth Una) “were despight,",
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   {
    "text": "And shame t’avenge so weake an enimy;",
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   {
    "text": "But spoile her of her scarlot robe, and let her fly.”",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "So, as she bad, that witch they disaraid,",
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    "text": "And robd of roiall robes, and purple pall,",
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   {
    "text": "And ornaments that richly were displaid;",
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   {
    "text": "Ne spared they to strip her naked all.",
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   {
    "text": "Then, when they had despoyld her tire and call,",
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   {
    "text": "Such as she was their eies might her behold,",
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   {
    "text": "That her misshaped parts did them appall:",
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   {
    "text": "A loathly, wrinckled hag, ill favoured, old,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Whose secret filth good manners biddeth not be told.",
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   }
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   {
    "text": "Her crafty head was altogether bald,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And, as in hate of honorable eld,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Was overgrowne with scurfe and filthy scald;",
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   {
    "text": "Her teeth out of her rotten gummes were feld,",
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   {
    "text": "And her sowre breath abhominably smeld;",
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   {
    "text": "Her dried dugs, lyke bladders lacking wind,",
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   {
    "text": "Hong downe, and filthy matter from them weld;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Her wrizled skin, as rough as maple rind,",
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   {
    "text": "So scabby was that would have loathd all womankind.",
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   {
    "text": "Her neather parts, the shame of all her kind,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "My chaster Muse for shame doth blush to write;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But at her rompe she growing had behind",
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   {
    "text": "A foxes taile, with dong all fowly dight;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And eke her feete most monstrous were in sight;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For one of them was like an Eagles claw,",
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   {
    "text": "With griping talaunts armd to greedy fight;",
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   {
    "text": "The other like a beares uneven paw.",
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   {
    "text": "More ugly shape yet never living creature saw.",
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   {
    "text": "Which when the knights beheld amazd they were,",
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   {
    "text": "And wondred at so fowle deformed wight.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Such then,” (said Una,) “as she seemeth here,",
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   {
    "text": "Such is the face of falshood: such the sight",
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   {
    "text": "Of fowle Duessa, when her borrowed light",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Is laid away, and counterfesaunce knowne.”",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thus when they had the witch disrobed quight,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And all her filthy feature open showne,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "They let her goe at will, and wander waies unknowne.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Shee, flying fast from heavens hated face,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And from the world that her discovered wide,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Fled to the wastfull wildernesse apace,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From living eies her open shame to hide,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And lurkt in rocks and caves, long unespide.",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "But that faire crew of knights, and Una faire,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Did in that castle afterwards abide,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To rest them selves, and weary powres repaire;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Where store they fownd of al that dainty was and rare.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "O goodly golden chayne, wherewith yfere",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The vertues linked are in lovely wize;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And noble mindes of yore allyed were,",
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   {
    "text": "In brave poursuitt of chevalrous emprize,",
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   {
    "text": "That none did others safety despize,",
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   {
    "text": "Nor aid envy to him in need that stands;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But friendly each did others praise devize,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "How to advaunce with favourable hands,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As this good Prince redeemd the Redcrosse knight from bands.",
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    "text": "Who when their powres, empayrd through labor long,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With dew repast they had recured well,",
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   {
    "text": "And that weake captive wight now wexed strong,",
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   {
    "text": "Them list no lenger there at leasure dwell,",
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   {
    "text": "But forward fare as their adventures fell:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But, ere they parted, Una faire besought",
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   {
    "text": "That straunger knight his name and nation tell;",
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   {
    "text": "Least so great good, as he for her had wrought,",
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    "text": "Should die unknown, and buried be in thankles thought.",
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    "text": "“Faire virgin,” (said the Prince,) “yee me require",
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   {
    "text": "A thing without the compas of my witt;",
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   {
    "text": "For both the lignage, and the certein Sire,",
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   {
    "text": "From which I sprong, from mee are hidden yitt;",
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   {
    "text": "For all so soone as life did me admitt",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Into this world, and shewed hevens light,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From mothers pap I taken was unfitt,",
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   {
    "text": "And streight deliver’d to a Fary knight,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To be upbrought in gentle thewes and martiall might.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "“Unto Old Timon he me brought bylive;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Old Timon, who in youthly yeares hath beene",
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   {
    "text": "In warlike feates th’expertest man alive,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And is the wisest now on earth I weene:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "His dwelling is low in a valley greene,",
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   {
    "text": "Under the foot of Rauran mossy hore,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From whence the river Dee, as silver cleene,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "His tombling billowes rolls with gentle rore;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "There all my daies he traind mee up in vertuous lore.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“Thither the great magicien Merlin came,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As was his use, ofttimes to visitt mee;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For he had charge my discipline to frame,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And Tutors nouriture to oversee.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Him oft and oft I askt in privity,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of what loines and what lignage I did spring;",
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   {
    "text": "Whose aunswere bad me still assured bee,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That I was sonne and heire unto a king,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As time in her just term the truth to light should bring.”",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "“Well worthy impe,” said then the Lady gent,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“And Pupill fitt for such a Tutors hand!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But what adventure, or what high intent,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Hath brought you hither into Faery land,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Aread, Prince Arthure, crowne of Martiall band?”",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Full hard it is,” (quoth he) “to read aright",
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   {
    "text": "The course of heavenly cause, or understand",
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   {
    "text": "The secret meaning of th’eternall might,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That rules mens waies, and rules the thoughts of living wight.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“For whether he, through fatal deepe foresight,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Me hither sent for cause to me unghest;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Or that fresh bleeding wound, which day and night",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Whilome doth rancle in my riven brest,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With forced fury following his behest,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Me hither brought by wayes yet never found,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "You to have helpt I hold my selfe yet blest.”",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Ah! courteous Knight,” (quoth she) “what secret wound",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Could ever find to grieve the gentlest hart on ground?”",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“Dear Dame,” (quoth he) “you sleeping sparkes awake,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Which, troubled once, into huge flames will grow;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Ne ever will their fervent fury slake,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Till living moysture into smoke do flow,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And wasted life doe lye in ashes low:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Yet sithens silence lesseneth not my fire,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But, told, it flames; and, hidden, it does glow,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I will revele what ye so much desire.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Ah, Love! lay down thy bow, the whiles I may respyre.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“It was in freshest flowre of youthly yeares,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When corage first does creepe in manly chest,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Then first the cole of kindly heat appeares",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To kindle love in every living brest:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But me had warnd old Timons wise behest,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Those creeping flames by reason to subdew,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Before their rage grew to so great unrest,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As miserable lovers use to rew,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Which still wex old in woe, whiles wo stil wexeth new.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“That ydle name of love, and lovers life,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As losse of time, and vertues enimy,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I ever scornd, and joyd to stirre up strife,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In middest of their mournfull Tragedy;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Ay wont to laugh when them I heard to cry,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And blow the fire which them to ashes brent:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Their God himselfe, grievd at my libertie,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Shott many a dart at me with fiers intent;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But I them warded all with wary government.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“But all in vaine: no fort can be so strong,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Ne fleshly brest can armed be so sownd,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But will at last be wonne with battrie long,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Or unawares at disavantage fownd.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Nothing is sure that growes on earthly grownd;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And who most trustes in arme of fleshly might,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And boastes in beauties chaine not to be bownd,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Doth soonest fall in disaventrous fight,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And yeeldes his caytive neck to victours most despight.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“Ensample make of him your haplesse joy,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And of my selfe now mated, as ye see;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Whose prouder vaunt that proud avenging boy",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Did soone pluck downe, and curbd my libertee.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For on a day, prickt forth with jollitee",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of looser life and heat of hardiment,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Raunging the forest wide on courser free,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The fields, the floods, the heavens, with one consent,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Did seeme to laugh on me, and favour mine intent.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "“Forwearied with my sportes, I did alight",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From loftie steed, and downe to sleepe me layd;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The verdant gras my couch did goodly dight,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And pillow was my helmett fayre displayd;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Whiles every sence the humour sweet embayd,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And slombring soft my hart did steale away,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Me seemed, by my side a royall Mayd",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Her daintie limbes full softly down did lay:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "So fayre a creature yet saw never sunny day.",
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   {
    "text": "“Most goodly glee and lovely blandishment",
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   },
   {
    "text": "She to me made, and badd me love her deare;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For dearely sure her love was to me bent,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As, when just time expired, should appeare.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But whether dreames delude, or true it were,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Was never hart so ravisht with delight,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Ne living man like wordes did ever heare,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As she to me delivered all that night;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And at her parting said, She Queene of Faeries hight.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“When I awoke, and found her place devoyd,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And nought but pressed gras where she had lyen,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I sorrowed all so much as earst I joyd,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And washed all her place with watry eyen.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From that day forth I lov’d that face divyne;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From that day forth I cast in carefull mynd,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To seek her out with labor and long tyne,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And never vowd to rest till her I fynd:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Nyne monethes I seek in vain, yet ni’ll that vow unbynd.”",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Thus as he spake, his visage wexed pale,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And chaunge of hew great passion did bewray;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Yett still he strove to cloke his inward bale,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And hide the smoke that did his fire display,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Till gentle Una thus to him gan say:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“O happy Queene of Faeries! that hast fownd,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Mongst many, one that with his prowesse may",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Defend thine honour, and thy foes confownd.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "True loves are often sown, but seldom grow on grownd.”",
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   }
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   {
    "text": "“Thine, O! then,” said the gentle Redcrosse knight,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Next to that Ladies love, shalbe the place,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O fayrest virgin! full of heavenly light,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Whose wondrous faith, exceeding earthly race,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Was firmest fixt in myne extremest case.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And you, my Lord, the Patrone of my life,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of that great Queene may well gaine worthie grace,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For onely worthie you through prowes priefe,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Yf living man mote worthie be to be her liefe.”",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "So diversly discoursing of their loves,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The golden Sunne his glistring head gan shew,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And sad remembraunce now the Prince amoves",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With fresh desire his voyage to pursew;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Als Una earnd her traveill to renew.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Then those two knights, fast friendship for to bynd,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And love establish each to other trew,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Gave goodly gifts, the signes of gratefull mynd,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And eke, as pledges firme, right hands together joynd.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "Prince Arthur gave a boxe of Diamond sure,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Embowd with gold and gorgeous ornament,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Wherein were closd few drops of liquor pure,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of wondrous worth, and vertue excellent,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That any wownd could heale incontinent.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Which to requite, the Redcrosse knight him gave",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A booke, wherein his Saveours testament",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Was writt with golden letters rich and brave:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A worke of wondrous grace, and hable soules to save.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "Thus beene they parted; Arthur on his way",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To seeke his love, and th’other for to fight",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With Unaes foe, that all her realme did pray.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But she, now weighing the decayed plight,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And shrunken synewes of her chosen knight,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Would not a while her forward course pursew,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Ne bring him forth in face of dreadfull fight,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Till he recovered had his former hew;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For him to be yet weake and wearie well she knew.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "So as they traveild, lo! they gan espy",
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   },
   {
    "text": "An armed knight towards them gallop fast,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That seemed from some feared foe to fly,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Or other griesly thing that him aghast.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Still as he fledd his eye was backward cast,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As if his feare still followed him behynd:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Als flew his steed as he his bandes had brast,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And with his winged heeles did tread the wynd,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As he had beene a fole of Pegasus his kynd.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Nigh as he drew, they might perceive his head",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To bee unarmd, and curld uncombed heares",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Upstaring stiffe, dismaid with uncouth dread:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Nor drop of blood in all his face appeares,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Nor life in limbe; and, to increase his feares,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In fowle reproch of knighthoodes fayre degree,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "About his neck an hempen rope he weares,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That with his glistring armes does ill agree;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But he of rope or armes has now no memoree.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "The Redcrosse knight toward him crossed fast,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To weet what mister wight was so dismayd.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "There him he findes all sencelesse and aghast,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That of him selfe he seemd to be afrayd;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Whom hardly he from flying forward stayd,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Till he these wordes to him deliver might:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Sir knight, aread who hath ye thus arayd,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And eke from whom make ye this hasty flight?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For never knight I saw in such misseeming plight.”",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "He answerd nought at all; but adding new",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Feare to his first amazment, staring wyde",
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   {
    "text": "With stony eyes and hartlesse hollow hew,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Astonisht stood, as one that had aspyde",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Infernall furies with their chaines untyde.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Him yett againe, and yett againe, bespake",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The gentle knight; who nought to him replyde;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But, trembling every joynt, did inly quake,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And foltring tongue, at last, these words seemd forth to shake;",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "“For Gods deare love, Sir knight, doe me not stay;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For loe! he comes, he comes fast after mee.”",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Eft looking back would faine have runne away;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But he him forst to stay, and tellen free",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The secrete cause of his perplexitie:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Yet nathemore by his bold hartie speach",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Could his blood frosen hart emboldened bee,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But through his boldnes rather feare did reach;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Yett, forst, at last he made through silence suddein breach.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“And am I now in safetie sure,” (quoth he)",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“From him that would have forced me to dye?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And is the point of death now turnd fro mee,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That I may tell this haplesse history?”",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "“Fear nought,” (quoth he) “no daunger now is nye.”",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "“Then shall I you recount a ruefull cace,”",
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   },
   {
    "text": "(Said he) “the which with this unlucky eye",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "I late beheld; and, had not greater grace",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Me reft from it, had bene partaker of the place.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“I lately chaunst (Would I had never chaunst!)",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With a fayre knight to keepen companee,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Sir Terwin hight, that well himselfe advaunst",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In all affayres, and was both bold and free;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "But not so happy as mote happy bee:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "He lov’d, as was his lot, a Lady gent,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "That him againe lov’d in the least degree;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "For she was proud, and of too high intent,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And joyd to see her lover languish and lament:",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“From whom retourning sad and comfortlesse,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "As on the way together we did fare,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "We met that villen, (God from him me blesse!)",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "That cursed wight, from whom I scapt whyleare,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "A man of hell that calls himselfe Despayre:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Who first us greets, and after fayre areedes",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Of tydinges straunge, and of adventures rare:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "So creeping close, as Snake in hidden weedes,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Inquireth of our states, and of our knightly deedes.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“Which when he knew, and felt our feeble harts",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Embost with bale, and bitter byting griefe,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Which love had launched with his deadly darts,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "With wounding words, and termes of foule repriefe,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "He pluckt from us all hope of dew reliefe,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "That earst us held in love of lingring life;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Then hopelesse, hartlesse, gan the cunning thiefe",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Perswade us dye, to stint all further strife:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "To me he lent this rope, to him a rusty knife.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“With which sad instrument of hasty death,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "That wofull lover, loathing lenger light,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "A wyde way made to let forth living breath:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "But I, more fearefull or more lucky wight,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Dismayd with that deformed dismall sight,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Fledd fast away, halfe dead with dying feare;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Ne yet assur’d of life by you, Sir knight,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Whose like infirmity like chaunce may beare;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "But God you never let his charmed speaches heare!”",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“How may a man,” (said he) “with idle speach",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Be wonne to spoyle the Castle of his health?”",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "“I wote,” (quoth he) “whom tryall late did teach,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That like would not for all this worldes wealth,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "His subtile tong like dropping honny mealt’h",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Into the heart, and searcheth every vaine;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "That, ere one be aware, by secret stealth",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "His powre is reft, and weaknes doth remaine.",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "O! never, Sir, desire to try his guilefull traine.”",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "“Certes,” (sayd he) “hence shall I never rest,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Till I that treachours art have heard and tryde:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And you, Sir knight, whose name mote I request,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Of grace do me unto his cabin guyde.”",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "“I, that hight Trevisan,” (quoth he) “will ryde",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Against my liking backe to doe you grace:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "But nor for gold nor glee will I abyde",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "By you, when ye arrive in that same place;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "For lever had I die then see his deadly face.”",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Ere long they come where that same wicked wight",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "His dwelling has, low in an hollow cave,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Far underneath a craggy cliff ypight,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Darke, dolefull, dreary, like a greedy grave,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "That still for carrion carcases doth crave:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "On top whereof ay dwelt the ghastly Owle,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Shrieking his balefull note, which ever drave",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Far from that haunt all other chearefull fowle;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And all about it wandring ghostes did wayle and howle.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "And all about old stockes and stubs of trees,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Whereon nor fruit nor leafe was ever seene,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Did hang upon the ragged rocky knees;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "On which had many wretches hanged beene,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Whose carcases were scattred on the greene,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And throwne about the cliffs. Arrived there,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "That bare-head knight, for dread and dolefull teene,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Would faine have fled, ne durst approchen neare;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "But th’other forst him staye, and comforted in feare.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "That darkesome cave they enter, where they find",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "That cursed man, low sitting on the ground,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Musing full sadly in his sullein mind:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "His griesie lockes, long growen and unbound,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Disordred hong about his shoulders round,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And hid his face; through which his hollow eyne",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Lookt deadly dull, and stared as astound;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "His rawbone cheekes, through penurie and pine,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Were shronke into his jawes, as he did never dyne.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "His garment, nought but many ragged clouts,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "With thornes together pind and patched was,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "The which his naked sides he wrapt abouts;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And him beside there lay upon the gras",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "A dreary corse, whose life away did pas,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "All wallowd in his own yet lukewarme blood,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "That from his wound yet welled fresh, alas!",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "In which a rusty knife fast fixed stood,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And made an open passage for the gushing flood.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Which piteous spectacle, approving trew",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "The wofull tale that Trevisan had told,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Whenas the gentle Redcrosse knight did vew,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "With firie zeale he burnt in courage bold",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Him to avenge before his blood were cold,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And to the villein sayd; “Thou damned wight,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The authour of this fact we here behold,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "What justice can but judge against thee right,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "With thine owne blood to price his blood, here shed in sight?”",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“What franticke fit,” (quoth he) “hath thus distraught",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Thee, foolish man, so rash a doome to give?",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "What justice ever other judgement taught,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But he should dye who merites not to live?",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "None els to death this man despayring drive",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "But his owne guiltie mind, deserving death.",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Is then unjust to each his dew to give?",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Or let him dye, that loatheth living breath,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Or let him die at ease, that liveth here uneath?",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“Who travailes by the wearie wandring way,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "To come unto his wished home in haste,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And meetes a flood that doth his passage stay,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Is not great grace to helpe him over past,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Or free his feet that in the myre sticke fast?",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Most envious man, that grieves at neighbours good;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And fond, that joyest in the woe thou hast!",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Why wilt not let him passe, that long hath stood",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Upon the bancke, yet wilt thy selfe not pas the flood?",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“He there does now enjoy eternall rest",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And happy ease, which thou doest want and crave,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And further from it daily wanderest:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "What if some little payne the passage have,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "That makes frayle flesh to feare the bitter wave,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Is not short payne well borne, that bringes long ease,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And layes the soule to sleepe in quiet grave?",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.”",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "The knight much wondred at his suddeine wit,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And sayd; “The terme of life is limited,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Ne may a man prolong, nor shorten, it:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "The souldier may not move from watchfull sted,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Nor leave his stand untill his Captaine bed.”",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "“Who life did limit by almightie doome,”",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "(Quoth he) “knowes best the termes established;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And he, that points the Centonell his roome,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Doth license him depart at sound of morning droome.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“Is not his deed, what ever thing is donne",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "In heaven and earth? Did not he all create",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "To die againe? All ends that was begonne:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Their times in his eternall booke of fate",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Are written sure, and have their certein date.",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Who then can strive with strong necessitie,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That holds the world in its still chaunging state,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Or shunne the death ordaynd by destinie?",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "When houre of death is come, let none aske whence, nor why.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“The lenger life, I wote, the greater sin;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "The greater sin, the greater punishment:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "All those great battels, which thou boasts to win",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Through strife, and bloodshed, and avengement,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Now praysd, hereafter deare thou shalt repent;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "For life must life, and blood must blood, repay.",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Is not enough thy evill life forespent?",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "For he that once hath missed the right way,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "The further he doth goe, the further he doth stray.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“Then doe no further goe, no further stray,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "But here ly downe, and to thy rest betake,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Th’ill to prevent, that life ensewen may;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "For what hath life that may it loved make,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And gives not rather cause it to forsake?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Feare, sicknesse, age, losse, labour, sorrow, strife,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Payne, hunger, cold that makes the hart to quake,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And ever fickle fortune rageth rife;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "All which, and thousands mo, do make a loathsome life.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“Thou, wretched man, of death hast greatest need,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "If in true ballaunce thou wilt weigh thy state;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "For never knight, that dared warlike deed,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "More luckless dissaventures did amate:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Witnes the dungeon deepe, wherein of late",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Thy life shutt up for death so oft did call;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And though good lucke prolonged hath thy date,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Yet death then would the like mishaps forestall,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Into the which hereafter thou maist happen fall.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“Why then doest thou, O man of sin! desire",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "To draw thy dayes forth to their last degree?",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Is not the measure of thy sinfull hire",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "High heaped up with huge iniquitee,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Against the day of wrath to burden thee?",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Is not enough, that to this Lady mild",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Thou falsed hast thy faith with perjuree,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And sold thy selfe to serve Duessa vild,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "With whom in al abuse thou hast thy selfe defild?",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“Is not he just, that all this doth behold",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "From highest heven, and beares an equall eie?",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Shall he thy sins up in his knowledge fold,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And guilty be of thine impietie?",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Is not his lawe, Let every sinner die;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Die shall all flesh? What then must needs be donne,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Is it not better to doe willinglie,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Then linger till the glas be all out ronne?",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Death is the end of woes: die soone, O faeries sonne!”",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "The knight was much enmoved with his speach,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "That as a swords poynt through his hart did perse,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And in his conscience made a secrete breach,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Well knowing trew all that he did reherse,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And to his fresh remembraunce did reverse",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "The ugly vew of his deformed crimes;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "That all his manly powres it did disperse,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "As he were charmed with inchaunted rimes;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "That oftentimes he quakt, and fainted oftentimes.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "In which amazement when the Miscreaunt",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Perceived him to waver, weake and fraile,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Whiles trembling horror did his conscience daunt,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And hellish anguish did his soule assaile;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "To drive him to despaire, and quite to quaile,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Hee shewd him, painted in a table plaine,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "The damned ghosts that doe in torments waile;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And thousand feends that doe them endlesse paine",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "With fire and brimstone, which for ever shall remaine.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "The sight whereof so throughly him dismaid,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "That nought but death before his eies he saw,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And ever burning wrath before him laid,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "By righteous sentence of th’Almighties law.",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Then gan the villein him to overcraw,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And brought unto him swords, ropes, poison, fire,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And all that might him to perdition draw;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And bad him choose what death he would desire;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "For death was due to him that had provokt Gods ire.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "But, whenas none of them he saw him take,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "He to him raught a dagger sharpe and keene,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And gave it him in hand: his hand did quake",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And tremble like a leafe of Aspin greene,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And troubled blood through his pale face was seene",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "To come and goe with tidings from the heart,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "As it a ronning messenger had beene.",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "At last, resolv’d to work his finall smart,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "He lifted up his hand, that backe againe did start.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Which whenas Una saw, through every vaine",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "The crudled cold ran to her well of life,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "As in a swowne: but, soone reliv’d againe,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Out of his hand she snatcht the cursed knife,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And threw it to the ground, enraged rife,",
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   {
    "text": "And to him said; “Fie, fie, faint hearted Knight!",
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   {
    "text": "What meanest thou by this reprochfull strife?",
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   {
    "text": "Is this the battaile which thou vauntst to fight",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With that fire-mouthed Dragon, horrible and bright?",
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    "text": "“Come; come away, fraile, feeble, fleshly wight,",
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   {
    "text": "Ne let vaine words bewitch thy manly hart,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Ne divelish thoughts dismay thy constant spright:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In heavenly mercies hast thou not a part?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Why shouldst thou then despeire, that chosen art?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Where justice growes, there grows eke greater grace,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The which doth quench the brond of hellish smart,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And that accurst hand-writing doth deface.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Arise, sir Knight; arise, and leave this cursed place.”",
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    "text": "So up he rose, and thence amounted streight.",
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   {
    "text": "Which when the carle beheld, and saw his guest",
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   {
    "text": "Would safe depart, for all his subtile sleight,",
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   {
    "text": "He chose an halter from among the rest,",
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   {
    "text": "And with it hong him selfe, unbid, unblest.",
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   {
    "text": "But death he could not worke himselfe thereby;",
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   {
    "text": "For thousand times he so him selfe had drest,",
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   {
    "text": "Yet nathelesse it could not doe him die,",
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    "text": "Till he should die his last, that is, eternally.",
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    "text": "What man is he, that boasts of fleshly might",
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   {
    "text": "And vaine assuraunce of mortality,",
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    "text": "Which, all so soone as it doth come to fight",
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   {
    "text": "Against spirituall foes, yields by and by,",
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   {
    "text": "Or from the fielde most cowardly doth fly!",
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   {
    "text": "Ne let the man ascribe it to his skill,",
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   {
    "text": "That thorough grace hath gained victory:",
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   {
    "text": "If any strength we have, it is to ill,",
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   {
    "text": "But all the good is Gods, both power and eke will.",
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    "text": "By that which lately hapned Una saw",
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   {
    "text": "That this her knight was feeble, and too faint;",
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   {
    "text": "And all his sinewes woxen weake and raw,",
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   {
    "text": "Through long enprisonment, and hard constraint,",
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   {
    "text": "Which he endured in his late restraint,",
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   {
    "text": "That yet he was unfitt for bloody fight.",
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   {
    "text": "Therefore, to cherish him with diets daint,",
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   {
    "text": "She cast to bring him where he chearen might,",
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   {
    "text": "Till he recovered had his late decayed plight.",
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    "text": "There was an auncient house nor far away,",
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    "text": "Renowmd throughout the world for sacred lore",
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   {
    "text": "And pure unspotted life: so well, they say,",
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    "text": "It governd was, and guided evermore,",
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   {
    "text": "Through wisedome of a matrone grave and hore;",
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   {
    "text": "Whose onely joy was to relieve the needes",
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    "text": "Of wretched soules, and helpe the helpelesse pore:",
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    "text": "All night she spent in bidding of her bedes,",
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    "text": "And all the day in doing good and godly deedes.",
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    "text": "Dame Cælia men did her call, as thought",
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    "text": "From heaven to come, or thither to arise;",
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    "text": "The mother of three daughters, well upbrought",
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    "text": "In goodly thewes, and godly exercise:",
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    "text": "The eldest two, most sober, chast, and wise,",
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    "text": "Fidelia and Speranza, virgins were;",
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    "text": "Though spousd, yet wanting wedlocks solemnize;",
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    "text": "But faire Charissa to a lovely fere",
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    "text": "Was lincked, and by him had many pledges dere.",
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    "text": "Arrived there, the dore they find fast lockt,",
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    "text": "For it was warely watched night and day,",
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    "text": "For feare of many foes; but, when they knockt,",
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    "text": "The Porter opened unto them streight way.",
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    "text": "He was an aged syre, all hory gray,",
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    "text": "With lookes full lowly cast, and gate full slow,",
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   {
    "text": "Wont on a staffe his feeble steps to stay,",
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   {
    "text": "Hight Humiltá. They passe in, stouping low;",
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   {
    "text": "For streight and narrow was the way which he did show.",
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    "text": "Each goodly thing is hardest to begin;",
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   {
    "text": "But, entred in, a spatious court they see,",
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   {
    "text": "Both plaine and pleasaunt to be walked in;",
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   {
    "text": "Where them does meete a francklin faire and free,",
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    "text": "And entertaines with comely courteous glee;",
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   {
    "text": "His name was Zele, that him right well became:",
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    "text": "For in his speaches and behaveour hee",
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    "text": "Did labour lively to expresse the same,",
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    "text": "And gladly did them guide, till to the Hall they came.",
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    "text": "There fayrely them receives a gentle Squyre,",
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    "text": "Of myld demeanure and rare courtesee,",
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    "text": "Right cleanly clad in comely sad attyre;",
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    "text": "In word and deede that shewd great modestee,",
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    "text": "And knew his good to all of each degree,",
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    "text": "Hight Reverence. He them with speaches meet",
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    "text": "Does faire entreat; no courting nicetee,",
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    "text": "But simple, trew, and eke unfained sweet,",
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    "text": "As might become a Squyre so great persons to greet.",
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    "text": "And afterwardes them to his Dame he leades,",
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    "text": "That aged Dame, the Lady of the place,",
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    "text": "Who all this while was busy at her beades;",
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   {
    "text": "Which doen, she up arose with seemely grace,",
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    "text": "And toward them full matronely did pace.",
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   {
    "text": "Where, when that fairest Una she beheld,",
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    "text": "Whom well she knew to spring from hevenly race,",
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   {
    "text": "Her heart with joy unwonted inly sweld,",
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    "text": "As feeling wondrous comfort in her weaker eld:",
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    "text": "And, her embracing, said; “O happy earth,",
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   {
    "text": "Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Most vertuous virgin, borne of hevenly berth,",
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   {
    "text": "That, to redeeme thy woefull parents head",
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   {
    "text": "From tyrans rage and ever-dying dread,",
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   {
    "text": "Hast wandred through the world now long a day,",
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   {
    "text": "Yett ceassest not thy weary soles to lead;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "What grace hath thee now hither brought this way?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Or doen thy feeble feet unweeting hither stray?",
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    "text": "“Straunge thing it is an errant knight to see",
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    "text": "Here in this place; or any other wight,",
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   {
    "text": "That hither turnes his steps. So few there bee,",
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    "text": "That chose the narrow path, or seeke the right:",
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   {
    "text": "All keepe the broad high way, and take delight",
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   {
    "text": "With many rather for to goe astray,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And be partakers of their evill plight,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Then with a few to walke the rightest way.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O foolish men! why hast ye to your own decay?”",
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    "text": "“Thy selfe to see, and tyred limbes to rest,",
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   {
    "text": "O matrone sage,” (quoth she) “I hither came;",
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   {
    "text": "And this good knight his way with me addrest,",
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   {
    "text": "Ledd with thy prayses, and broad-blazed fame,",
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   {
    "text": "That up to heven is blowne.” The auncient Dame",
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    "text": "Him goodly greeted in her modest guyse,",
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   {
    "text": "And enterteynd them both, as best became,",
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   {
    "text": "With all the court’sies that she could devyse,",
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   {
    "text": "Ne wanted ought to shew her bounteous or wise.",
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    "text": "Thus as they gan of sondrie things devise,",
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   {
    "text": "Loe! two most goodly virgins came in place,",
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    "text": "Ylinked arme in arme in lovely wise:",
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    "text": "With countenance demure, and modest grace,",
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    "text": "They numbred even steps and equall pace;",
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    "text": "Of which the eldest, that Fidelia hight,",
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    "text": "Like sunny beames threw from her Christall face",
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    "text": "That could have dazd the rash beholders sight,",
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    "text": "And round about her head did shine like hevens light.",
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    "text": "She was araied all in lilly white,",
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    "text": "And in her right hand bore a cup of gold,",
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    "text": "With wine and water fild up to the hight,",
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    "text": "In which a Serpent did himselfe enfold,",
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    "text": "That horrour made to all that did behold;",
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    "text": "But she no whitt did chaunge her constant mood:",
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    "text": "A booke, that was both signd and seald with blood;",
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    "text": "Wherein darke things were writt, hard to be understood.",
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    "text": "Her younger sister, that Speranza hight,",
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    "text": "Was clad in blew, that her beseemed well;",
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    "text": "Not all so chearefull seemed she of sight,",
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    "text": "Or anguish in her hart, is hard to tell.",
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    "text": "Upon her arme a silver anchor lay,",
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    "text": "Whereon she leaned ever, as befell;",
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    "text": "And ever up to heven, as she did pray,",
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    "text": "Her stedfast eyes were bent, ne swarved other way.",
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    "text": "They, seeing Una, towardes her gan wend,",
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   {
    "text": "Who them encounters with like courtesee;",
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    "text": "Many kind speeches they betweene them spend,",
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    "text": "And greatly joy each other for to see:",
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    "text": "Then to the knight with shamefast modestie",
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    "text": "They turne themselves, at Unaes meeke request,",
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    "text": "And him salute with well beseeming glee;",
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    "text": "Who faire them quites, as him beseemed best,",
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    "text": "And goodly gan discourse of many a noble gest.",
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    "text": "Then Una thus: “But she, your sister deare,",
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    "text": "The deare Charissa, where is she become?",
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    "text": "Or wants she health, or busie is elswhere?”",
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   {
    "text": "“Ah! no,” said they, “but forth she may not come;",
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    "text": "For she of late is lightned of her wombe,",
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   {
    "text": "And hath encreast the world with one sonne more,",
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   {
    "text": "That her to see should be but troublesome.”",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Indeed,” (quoth she) “that should her trouble sore;",
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   {
    "text": "But thankt be God, and her encrease so evermore!”",
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    "text": "Then said the aged Cælia, “Deare dame,",
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   {
    "text": "And you, good Sir, I wote that of your toyle",
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   {
    "text": "And labors long, through which ye hither came,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Ye both forwearied be: therefore, a whyle",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I read you rest, and to your bowres recoyle.”",
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   {
    "text": "Then called she a Groome, that forth him ledd",
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    "text": "Into a goodly lodge, and gan despoile",
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    "text": "Of puissant armes, and laid in easie bedd.",
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    "text": "His name was meeke Obedience, rightfully aredd.",
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    "text": "Now when their wearie limbes with kindly rest,",
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    "text": "And bodies were refresht with dew repast,",
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    "text": "Fayre Una gan Fidelia fayre request,",
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   {
    "text": "To have her knight into her schoolehous plaste,",
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   {
    "text": "That of her heavenly learning he might taste,",
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   {
    "text": "And heare the wisedom of her wordes divine.",
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    "text": "She graunted; and that knight so much agraste,",
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    "text": "That she him taught celestiall discipline,",
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    "text": "And opened his dull eyes, that light mote in them shine.",
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    "text": "And that her sacred Booke, with blood ywritt,",
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    "text": "That none could reade except she did them teach,",
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    "text": "She unto him disclosed every whitt;",
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    "text": "And heavenly documents thereout did preach,",
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   {
    "text": "That weaker witt of man could never reach;",
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   {
    "text": "Of God; of grace; of justice; of freewill;",
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    "text": "That wonder was to heare her goodly speach;",
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   {
    "text": "For she was hable with her wordes to kill,",
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    "text": "And rayse againe to life the hart that she did thrill.",
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    "text": "And, when she list poure out her larger spright,",
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    "text": "She would commaund the hasty Sunne to stay,",
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   {
    "text": "Or backward turne his course from hevens hight:",
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   {
    "text": "Sometimes great hostes of men she could dismay;",
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   {
    "text": "Dry-shod to passe she parts the flouds in tway;",
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    "text": "And eke huge mountaines from their native seat",
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    "text": "She would commaund themselves to beare away,",
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    "text": "And throw in raging sea with roaring threat.",
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    "text": "Almightie God her gave such powre and puissaunce great.",
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    "text": "The faithfull knight now grew in little space,",
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    "text": "By hearing her, and by her sisters lore,",
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   {
    "text": "To such perfection of all hevenly grace,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That wretched world he gan for to abhore,",
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    "text": "And mortall life gan loath as thing forlore;",
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   {
    "text": "Greevd with remembrance of his wicked wayes,",
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   {
    "text": "And prickt with anguish of his sinnes so sore,",
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    "text": "That he desirde to end his wretched dayes:",
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    "text": "So much the dart of sinfull guilt the soule dismayes.",
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    "text": "But wise Speranza gave him comfort sweet,",
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    "text": "Upon her silver anchor, as was meet;",
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   {
    "text": "Els had his sinnes, so great and manifold,",
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   {
    "text": "Made him forget all that Fidelia told.",
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   {
    "text": "In this distressed doubtfull agony,",
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    "text": "When him his dearest Una did behold",
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    "text": "Disdeining life, desiring leave to dye,",
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    "text": "She found her selfe assayld with great perplexity;",
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    "text": "And came to Cælia to declare her smart;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Who, well acquainted with that commune plight,",
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   {
    "text": "Which sinfull horror workes in wounded hart,",
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   {
    "text": "Her wisely comforted all that she might,",
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   {
    "text": "With goodly counsell and advisement right;",
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   {
    "text": "And streightway sent with carefull diligence,",
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    "text": "To fetch a Leach, the which had great insight",
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   {
    "text": "In that disease of grieved conscience,",
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    "text": "And well could cure the same: His name was Patience.",
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    "text": "Which knowne, and all that noyd his heavie spright",
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    "text": "Well searcht, eftsoones he gan apply relief",
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    "text": "Of salves and med’cines, which had passing prief;",
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    "text": "And thereto added wordes of wondrous might.",
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    "text": "By which to ease he him recured brief,",
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    "text": "That he his paine endur’d, as seeming now more light.",
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    "text": "But yet the cause and root of all his ill,",
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    "text": "Amendment readie still at hand did wayt,",
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    "text": "So in short space they did to health restore",
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    "text": "The man that would not live, but erst lay at deathes dore.",
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    "text": "For pitty of his payne and anguish sore:",
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    "text": "And trew Repentaunce, they to Una brought;",
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    "text": "She was right joyous of her just request;",
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    "text": "And wrath and hatred warely to shonne,",
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    "text": "In which when him she well instructed hath,",
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    "text": "That was foreby the way, she did him bring;",
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    "text": "For as the tree does fall, so lyes it ever low.",
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    "text": "And asked to what end they clomb that tedious hight?",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“What end,” (quoth she) “should cause us take such paine,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But that same end, which every living wight",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Should make his marke high heaven to attaine?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Is not from hence the way, that leadeth right",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To that most glorious house, that glistreth bright",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With burning starres and everliving fire,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Whereof the keies are to thy hand behight",
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   },
   {
    "text": "By wise Fidelia? Shee doth thee require,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "To shew it to this knight, according his desire.”",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“Thrise happy man,” said then the father grave,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Whose staggering steps thy steady hand doth lead,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And shewes the way his sinfull soule to save!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Who better can the way to heaven aread",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Then thou thyselfe, that was both borne and bred",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In Hevenly throne, where thousand Angels shine?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thou doest the praiers of the righteous sead",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Present before the majesty divine,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And his avenging wrath to clemency incline.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“Yet, since thou bidst, thy pleasure shalbe donne.",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Then come, thou man of earth, and see the way,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "That never yet was seene of Faeries sonne;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "That never leads the traveiler astray,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But after labors long and sad delay,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Brings them to joyous rest and endlesse blis.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But first thou must a season fast and pray,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Till from her bands the spright assoiled is,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And have her strength recur’d from fraile infirmitis.”",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "That done, he leads him to the highest Mount;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Such one as that same mighty man of God,",
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   {
    "text": "That blood-red billowes, like a walled front,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "On either side disparted with his rod,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Till that his army dry-foot through them yod,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Dwelt forty daies upon; where, writt in stone",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With bloody letters by the hand of God,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The bitter doome of death and balefull mone",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "He did receive, whiles flashing fire about him shone:",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Or like that sacred hill, whose head full hie,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Adornd with fruitfull Olives all arownd,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Is, as it were for endlesse memory",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of that deare Lord who oft thereon was fownd,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For ever with a flowring girlond crownd:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Or like that pleasaunt Mount, that is for ay",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Through famous Poets verse each where renownd,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "On which the thrise three learned Ladies play",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Their hevenly notes, and make full many a lovely lay.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "From thence, far off he unto him did shew",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A little path that was both steepe and long,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Which to a goodly Citty led his vew;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Whose wals and towres were builded high and strong",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of perle and precious stone, that earthly tong",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Cannot describe, nor wit of man can tell;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Too high a ditty for my simple song.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The Citty of the greate king hight it well,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Wherein eternall peace and happinesse doth dwell.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "As he thereon stood gazing, he might see",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The blessed Angels to and fro descend",
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   {
    "text": "From highest heven in gladsome companee,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And with great joy into that Citty wend,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As commonly as frend does with his frend.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Whereat he wondred much, and gan enquere,",
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   {
    "text": "What stately building durst so high extend",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Her lofty towres unto the starry sphere,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And what unknowen nation there empeopled were?",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "“Faire Knight,” (quoth he) “Hierusalem that is,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The new Hierusalem, that God has built",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For those to dwell in that are chosen his,",
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   {
    "text": "His chosen people, purg’d from sinful guilt",
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   {
    "text": "With pretious blood, which cruelly was spilt",
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   },
   {
    "text": "On cursed tree, of that unspotted lam,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That for the sinnes of al the world was kilt:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Now are they Saints all in that Citty sam,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "More dear unto their God then younglings to their dam.”",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "“Till now,” said then the knight, “I weened well,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That great Cleopolis, where I have beene,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In which that fairest Faery Queene doth dwell,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The fairest citty was that might be seene;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And that bright towre, all built of christall clene,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Panthea, seemd the brightest thing that was;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "But now by proofe all otherwise I weene,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For this great Citty that does far surpas,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And this bright Angels towre quite dims that towre of glas.”",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“Most trew,” then said the holy aged man;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "“Yet is Cleopolis, for earthly frame,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The fairest peece that eie beholden can;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And well beseemes all knights of noble name,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That covett in th’immortall booke of fame",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To be eternized, that same to haunt,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And doen their service to that soveraigne Dame,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That glory does to them for guerdon graunt:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For she is hevenly borne, and heaven may justly vaunt.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“And thou, faire ymp, sprong out from English race,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "How ever now accompted Elfins sonne,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Well worthy doest thy service for her grace,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To aide a virgin desolate, foredonne;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But when thou famous victory hast wonne,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And high emongst all knights hast hong thy shield,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thenceforth the suitt of earthly conquest shonne,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And wash thy hands from guilt of bloody field:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "For blood can nought but sin, and wars but sorrows yield.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“Then seek this path that I to thee presage,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Which after all to heaven shall thee send;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Then peaceably thy painefull pilgrimage",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To yonder same Hierusalem doe bend,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Where is for thee ordaind a blessed end:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For thou, emongst those Saints whom thou doest see,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Shalt be a Saint, and thine owne nations frend",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And Patrone: thou Saint George shalt called bee,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Saint George of mery England, the signe of victoree.”",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“Unworthy wretch,” (quoth he) “of so great grace,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "How dare I thinke such glory to attaine?”",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "“These, that have it attaynd, were in like cace,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "As wretched men, and lived in like paine.”",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "“But deeds of armes must I at last be faine",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And Ladies love to leave, so dearely bought?”",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "“What need of armes, where peace doth ay remaine,”",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "(Said he) “and bitter battailes all are fought?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As for loose loves, they’are vaine, and vanish into nought.”",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“O! let me not,” (quoth he) “then turne againe",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Backe to the world, whose joyes so fruitlesse are;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But let me heare for aye in peace remaine,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Or streightway on that last long voiage fare,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "That nothing may my present hope empare.”",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "“That may not be,” (said he) “ne maist thou yitt",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Forgoe that royal maides bequeathed care,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Who did her cause into thy hand committ,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Till from her cursed foe thou have her freely quitt.”",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“Then shall I soone,” (quoth he) “so God me grace,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Abett that virgins cause disconsolate,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And shortly back returne unto this place,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To walke this way in Pilgrims poore estate.",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "But now aread, old father, why of late",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Didst thou behight me borne of English blood,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Whom all a Faeries sonne doen nominate?”",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "“That word shall I,” (said he) “avouchen good,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Sith to thee is unknowne the cradle of thy brood.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“For, well I wote, thou springst from ancient race",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of Saxon kinges, that have with mightie hand,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And many bloody battailes fought in face,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "High reard their royall throne in Britans land,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And vanquisht them, unable to withstand:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From thence a Faery thee unweeting reft,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "There as thou slepst in tender swadling band,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And her base Elfin brood there for thee left:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Such, men do Chaungelings call, so chaung’d by Faeries theft.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“Thence she thee brought into this Faery lond,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And in an heaped furrow did thee hyde;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Where thee a Ploughman all unweeting fond,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As he his toylesome teme that way did guyde,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And brought thee up in ploughmans state to byde,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Whereof Georgos he thee gave to name;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Till prickt with courage, and thy forces pryde,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "To Faery court thou cam’st to seek for fame,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And prove thy puissant armes, as seemes thee best became.”",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“O holy Sire!” (quoth he) “how shall I quight,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "The many favours I with thee have fownd,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "That hast my name and nation redd aright,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And taught the way that does to heaven bownd!”",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "This saide, adowne he looked to the grownd",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "To have returnd; but dazed were his eyne",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Through passing brightnes, which did quite confound",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "His feeble sence, and too exceeding shyne.",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "So darke are earthly thinges compar’d to things divine.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "At last, whenas himselfe he gan to fynd,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To Una back he cast him to retyre,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Who him awaited still with pensive mynd.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Great thankes, and goodly meed, to that good syre",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "He thens departing gave for his paynes hyre:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "So came to Una, who him joyd to see;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And, after litle rest, gan him desyre",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Of her adventure myndfull for to bee.",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "So leave they take of Cælia and her daughters three.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "High time now gan it wex for Una fayre",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "To thinke of those her captive Parents deare,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And their forwasted kingdom to repayre:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Whereto whenas they now approched neare,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With hartie wordes her knight she gan to cheare,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And in her modest maner thus bespake:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "“Deare knight, as deare as ever knight was deare,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "That all these sorrowes suffer for my sake,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "High heven behold the tedious toyle ye for me take!",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“Now are we come unto my native soyle,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And to the place where all our perilles dwell;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Here hauntes that feend, and does his dayly spoyle;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Therefore, henceforth, bee at your keeping well,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And ever ready for your foeman fell:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "The sparke of noble corage now awake,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And strive your excellent selfe to excell:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "That shall ye evermore renowmed make",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Above all knights on earth, that batteill undertake.”",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "And pointing forth, “Lo! yonder is,” (said she)",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“The brasen towre, in which my parents deare",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "For dread of that huge feend emprisond be;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Whom I from far see on the walles appeare,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Whose sight my feeble soule doth greatly cheare:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And on the top of all I do espye",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "The watchman wayting tydings glad to heare;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "That, (O my Parents!) might I happily",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Unto you bring, to ease you of your misery!”",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "With that they heard a roaring hideous sownd,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That all the ayre with terror filled wyde,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And seemd uneath to shake the stedfast ground.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Eftsoones that dreadful Dragon they espyde,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Where stretcht he lay upon the sunny side",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Of a great hill, himselfe like a great hill:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "But, all so soone as he from far descryde",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Those glistring armes that heven with light did fill,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "He rousd himselfe full blyth, and hastned them untill.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Then badd the knight his Lady yede aloof,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And to an hill herselfe withdraw asyde;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "From whence she might behold that battailles proof,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And eke be safe from daunger far descryde.",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "She him obayd, and turnd a little wyde.⁠—",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Now, O thou sacred Muse! most learned Dame,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Fayre ympe of Phœbus and his aged bryde,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The Nourse of time and everlasting fame,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "That warlike handes ennoblest with immortall name;",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "O! gently come into my feeble brest;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Come gently, but not with that mightie rage,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Wherewith the martiall troupes thou doest infest,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And hartes of great Heroës doest enrage,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "That nought their kindled corage may aswage:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Soone as thy dreadfull trompe begins to sownd,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "The God of warre with his fiers equipage",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Thou doest awake, sleepe never he so sownd;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And scared nations doest with horror sterne astownd.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Fayre Goddesse, lay that furious fitt asyde,",
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   {
    "text": "Till I of warres and bloody Mars doe sing,",
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    "text": "And Bryton fieldes with Sarazin blood be dyde,",
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    "text": "Twixt that great faery Queene and Paynim king,",
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    "text": "That with their horror heven and earth did ring;",
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    "text": "A worke of labour long, and endlesse prayse:",
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    "text": "But now a while lett downe that haughtie string,",
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   {
    "text": "And to my tunes thy second tenor rayse,",
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    "text": "That I this man of God his godly armes may blaze.",
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    "text": "As mountaine doth the valley overcaste.",
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    "text": "Approching nigh, he reared high afore",
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    "text": "His body monstrous, horrible, and vaste;",
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    "text": "Which, to increase his wondrous greatnes more,",
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    "text": "Was swoln with wrath and poyson, and with bloody gore;",
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    "text": "Like plated cote of steele, so couched neare",
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    "text": "With dint of swerd, nor push of pointed speare:",
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    "text": "Which as an Eagle, seeing pray appeare,",
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    "text": "His aery plumes doth rouze, full rudely dight;",
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    "text": "So shaked he, that horror was to heare:",
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    "text": "For as the clashing of an Armor bright,",
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    "text": "Such noyse his rouzed scales did send unto the knight.",
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    "text": "His flaggy winges, when forth he did display,",
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    "text": "The pointed steele, arriving rudely theare,",
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    "text": "That feared chaunce from her to turne away:",
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    "text": "With folded hands, and knees full lowly bent,",
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    "text": "All night shee watcht, ne once adowne would lay",
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    "text": "Her dainty limbs in her sad dreriment,",
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    "text": "But praying still did wake, and waking did lament.",
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    "text": "The morrow next gan earely to appeare,",
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    "text": "That Titan rose to runne his daily race;",
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    "text": "But earely, ere the morrow next gan reare",
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    "text": "Out of the sea faire Titans deawy face,",
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    "text": "Up rose the gentle virgin from her place,",
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    "text": "And looked all about, if she might spy",
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    "text": "Her loved knight to move his manly pace:",
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    "text": "For she had great doubt of his safety,",
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    "text": "Out of the well, wherein he drenched lay:",
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    "text": "As Eagle, fresh out of the ocean wave,",
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    "text": "And marveiles at himselfe stil as he flies:",
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    "text": "So new this newborne knight to battell new did rise.",
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    "text": "Whom when the damned feend so fresh did spy,",
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    "text": "The deadly dint his dulled sences all dismaid.",
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    "text": "I wote not whether the revenging steele",
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    "text": "Els never could the force of fleshly arme,",
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    "text": "Ne molten mettall, in his blood embrew;",
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    "text": "For till that stownd could never wight him harme",
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    "text": "By subtilty, nor slight, nor might, nor mighty charme.",
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    "text": "Then gan he tosse aloft his stretched traine,",
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    "text": "That to his force to yielden it was faine;",
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    "text": "Ne ought his sturdy strokes might stand afore,",
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    "text": "The same advauncing high above his head,",
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    "text": "With sharpe intended sting so rude him smott,",
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    "text": "The griefe thereof him wondrous sore diseasd,",
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    "text": "Hart cannot thinke what outrage and what cries,",
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    "text": "The hell-bred beast threw forth unto the skies,",
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    "text": "That all was covered with darknesse dire:",
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    "text": "Ne wist yett how his talaunts to unfold;",
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    "text": "To reave by strength the griped gage away:",
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    "text": "It booted nought to thinke to robbe him of his pray.",
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    "text": "And double blowes about him stoutly laid,",
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    "text": "That glauncing fire out of the yron plaid,",
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    "text": "As sparkles from the Andvile use to fly,",
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    "text": "Whenas no strength nor stroks mote him constraine",
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    "text": "To loose, ne yet the warlike pledge to yield,",
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    "text": "He smott thereat with all his might and maine,",
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    "text": "Upon the joint the lucky steele did light,",
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    "text": "For griefe thereof and divelish despight,",
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    "text": "From his infernall fournace forth he threw",
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    "text": "Enwrapt in cole-blacke clowds and filthy smoke,",
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    "text": "That all the land with stench and heven with horror choke.",
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    "text": "The heate whereof, and harmefull pestilence,",
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    "text": "So sore him noyd, that forst him to retire",
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    "text": "A little backeward for his best defence,",
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    "text": "Which he from hellish entrailes did expire.",
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   {
    "text": "It chaunst, (eternall God that chaunce did guide)",
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    "text": "As he recoiled backeward, in the mire",
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    "text": "His nigh foreweried feeble feet did slide,",
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    "text": "And downe he fell, with dread of shame sore terrifide.",
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    "text": "There grew a goodly tree him faire beside,",
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    "text": "As they in pure vermilion had been dide,",
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    "text": "Whereof great vertues over-all were redd;",
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    "text": "For happy life to all which thereon fedd,",
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    "text": "And life eke everlasting did befall:",
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    "text": "Great God it planted in that blessed stedd",
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    "text": "With his Almighty hand, and did it call",
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    "text": "The tree of life, the crime of our first fathers fall.",
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    "text": "In all the world like was not to be fownd,",
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    "text": "Save in that soile, where all good things did grow,",
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    "text": "And freely sprong out of the fruitfull grownd,",
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   {
    "text": "As incorrupted Nature did them sow,",
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    "text": "Till that dredd Dragon all did overthrow.",
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    "text": "Another like faire tree eke grew thereby,",
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    "text": "Both good and ill. O mournfull memory!",
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    "text": "That tree through one mans fault hath doen us all to dy.",
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    "text": "From that first tree forth flowd, as from a well,",
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    "text": "And dainty deare, which on the ground still fell,",
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    "text": "As it had deawed bene with timely raine:",
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   {
    "text": "Life and long health that gracious ointment gave,",
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    "text": "The sencelesse corse appointed for the grave:",
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    "text": "Into that same he fell, which did from death him save.",
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    "text": "For nigh thereto the ever damned Beast",
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    "text": "Durst not approch, for he was deadly made,",
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    "text": "And al that life preserved did detest;",
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    "text": "Yet he it oft adventur’d to invade.",
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    "text": "By this the drouping day-light gan to fade,",
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    "text": "And high her burning torch set up in heaven bright.",
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    "text": "And faint through losse of blood, moov’d not at all,",
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    "text": "But lay, as in a dreame of deepe delight,",
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    "text": "He woxe dismaid, and gan his fate to feare:",
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    "text": "Nathlesse with wonted rage he him advaunced neare.",
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    "text": "And rusht upon him with outragious pryde;",
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    "text": "So downe he fell, and forth his life did breath,",
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    "text": "That vanisht into smoke and cloudes swift;",
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    "text": "So downe he fell, that th’earth him underneath",
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    "text": "So downe he fell, as an huge rocky clift,",
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    "text": "With dreadfull poyse is from the mayneland rift,",
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    "text": "And rolling downe great Neptune doth dismay:",
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    "text": "So downe he fell, and like an heaped mountaine lay.",
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    "text": "The knight him selfe even trembled at his fall,",
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    "text": "So huge and horrible a masse it seemd;",
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    "text": "But yet at last, whenas the direfull feend",
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   {
    "text": "She nigher drew, and saw that joyous end:",
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   {
    "text": "Then God she praysd, and thankt her faithfull knight,",
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    "text": "That had atchievde so great a conquest by his might.",
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    "text": "Behold! I see the haven nigh at hand",
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   {
    "text": "To which I meane my wearie course to bend;",
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   {
    "text": "Vere the maine shete, and beare up with the land,",
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   {
    "text": "The which afore is fayrly to be kend,",
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   {
    "text": "And seemeth safe from storms that may offend;",
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    "text": "There this fayre virgin wearie of her way",
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   {
    "text": "Must landed bee, now at her journeyes end;",
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    "text": "There eke my feeble barke a while may stay,",
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    "text": "Till mery wynd and weather call her thence away.",
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    "text": "Scarsely had Phœbus in the glooming East",
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   {
    "text": "Yett harnessed his fyrie-footed teeme,",
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   {
    "text": "Ne reard above the earth his flaming creast,",
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    "text": "When the last deadly smoke aloft did steeme,",
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    "text": "Unto the watchman on the castle-wall;",
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    "text": "And to his Lord and Lady lowd gan call,",
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    "text": "To tell how he had seene the Dragons fatall fall.",
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    "text": "Uprose with hasty joy, and feeble speed,",
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    "text": "That aged Syre, the lord of all that land,",
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    "text": "And looked forth, to weet if trew indeed",
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    "text": "Those tydinges were, as he did understand:",
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    "text": "Which whenas trew by tryall he out fond,",
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    "text": "He badd to open wyde his brasen gate,",
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    "text": "Which long time had beene shut, and out of hond",
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    "text": "Proclaymed joy and peace through all his state;",
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    "text": "For dead now was their foe, which them forrayed late.",
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    "text": "Then gan triumphant Trompets sownd on hye,",
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    "text": "That sent to heven the ecchoed report",
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    "text": "Gainst him, that had them long opprest with tort,",
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    "text": "Then all the people, as in solemne feast,",
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    "text": "To him assembled with one full consort,",
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    "text": "Rejoycing at the fall of that great beast,",
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    "text": "From whose eternall bondage now they were releast.",
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    "text": "Forth came that auncient Lord, and aged Queene,",
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    "text": "Arayd in antique robes downe to the grownd,",
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    "text": "Glad signe of victory and peace in all their land.",
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    "text": "And him before themselves prostrating low,",
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    "text": "Their Lord and Patrone loud did him proclame,",
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    "text": "And at his feet their lawrell boughes did throw.",
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    "text": "Soone after them, all dauncing on a row,",
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    "text": "The comely virgins came, with girlands dight,",
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    "text": "As fresh as flowres in medow greene doe grow",
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    "text": "And in their handes sweet Timbrels all upheld on hight.",
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    "text": "Their wanton sportes and childish mirth did play,",
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    "text": "In well attuned notes a joyous lay,",
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    "text": "As fayre Diana in fresh sommers day",
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    "text": "Beholdes her nymphes enraung’d in shady wood,",
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    "text": "Some wrestle, some do run, some bathe in christall flood.",
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    "text": "So she beheld those maydens meriment",
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    "text": "With chearefull vew; who, when to her they came,",
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    "text": "And her ador’d by honorable name,",
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    "text": "Lifting to heven her everlasting fame:",
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    "text": "Then on her head they sett a girlond greene,",
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    "text": "And crowned her twixt earnest and twixt game:",
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    "text": "Who, in her self-resemblance well beseene,",
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    "text": "Did seeme, such as she was, a goodly maiden Queene.",
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    "text": "And after all the raskall many ran,",
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    "text": "Heaped together in rude rablement,",
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    "text": "To see the face of that victorious man,",
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    "text": "And gazd upon with gaping wonderment;",
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    "text": "But when they came where that dead Dragon lay,",
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    "text": "Stretcht on the ground in monstrous large extent,",
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    "text": "The sight with ydle feare did them dismay,",
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    "text": "Some feard, and fledd; some feard, and well it faynd;",
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    "text": "One, that would wiser seeme then all the rest,",
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    "text": "Warnd him not touch, for yet perhaps remaynd",
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    "text": "Or in his wombe might lurke some hidden nest",
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    "text": "Of many Dragonettes, his fruitfull seede:",
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    "text": "Another saide, that in his eyes did rest",
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    "text": "Yet sparckling fyre, and badd thereof take heed;",
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    "text": "Another said, he saw him move his eyes indeed.",
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    "text": "One mother, whenas her foolehardy chyld",
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    "text": "Did come too neare, and with his talants play,",
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    "text": "Halfe dead through feare, her litle babe revyld,",
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    "text": "And to her gossibs gan in counsell say;",
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    "text": "“How can I tell, but that his talants may",
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    "text": "Yet scratch my sonne, or rend his tender hand?”",
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    "text": "So diversly them selves in vaine they fray;",
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    "text": "Whiles some more bold to measure him nigh stand,",
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    "text": "To prove how many acres he did spred of land.",
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    "text": "Thus flocked all the folke him rownd about;",
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    "text": "The whiles that hoarie king, with all his traine,",
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    "text": "Being arrived where that champion stout",
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    "text": "And thousand thankes him yeeldes for all his paine.",
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    "text": "Then when his daughter deare he does behold,",
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   {
    "text": "Her dearely doth imbrace, and kisseth manifold.",
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    "text": "And after to his Pallace he them bringes,",
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    "text": "With shaumes, and trompets, and with Clarions sweet;",
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    "text": "And with their garments strowes the paved street;",
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    "text": "Whence mounting up, they fynd purveyaunce meet",
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   {
    "text": "Of all, that royall Princes court became;",
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    "text": "And all the floore was underneath their feet",
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    "text": "On which they lowly sitt, and fitting purpose frame.",
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    "text": "What needes me tell their feast and goodly guize,",
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   {
    "text": "In which was nothing riotous nor vaine?",
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   {
    "text": "What needes of dainty dishes to devize,",
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   {
    "text": "Of comely services, or courtly trayne?",
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   {
    "text": "My narrow leaves cannot in them contayne",
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   {
    "text": "The large discourse of roiall Princes state.",
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   {
    "text": "Yet was their manner then but bare and playne;",
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    "text": "For th’antique world excesse and pryde did hate:",
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    "text": "Such proud luxurious pompe is swollen up but late.",
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    "text": "Then, when with meates and drinkes of every kinde",
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    "text": "Their fervent appetites they quenched had,",
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    "text": "That auncient Lord gan fit occasion finde,",
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    "text": "Of straunge adventures, and of perils sad",
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    "text": "Which in his travell him befallen had,",
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    "text": "For to demaund of his renowmed guest:",
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    "text": "Who then with utt’rance grave, and count’nance sad,",
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    "text": "From poynt to poynt, as is before exprest,",
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    "text": "Discourst his voyage long, according his request.",
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    "text": "Great pleasure, mixt with pittifull regard,",
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   {
    "text": "That godly King and Queene did passionate,",
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    "text": "Whyles they his pittifull adventures heard;",
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   {
    "text": "That oft they did lament his lucklesse state,",
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    "text": "And often blame the too importune fate",
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   {
    "text": "That heapd on him so many wrathfull wreakes;",
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    "text": "For never gentle knight, as he of late,",
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   {
    "text": "So tossed was in fortunes cruell freakes:",
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    "text": "And all the while salt teares bedeawd the hearers cheaks.",
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    "text": "Then sayd that royall Pere in sober wise;",
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   {
    "text": "“Deare Sonne, great beene the evils which ye bore",
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    "text": "From first to last in your late enterprise,",
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   {
    "text": "That I note whether praise or pitty more;",
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    "text": "For never living man, I weene, so sore",
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    "text": "In sea of deadly daungers was distrest:",
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    "text": "But since now safe ye seised have the shore,",
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   {
    "text": "And well arrived are, (high God be blest!)",
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    "text": "Let us devize of ease and everlasting rest.”",
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    "text": "“Ah dearest Lord!” said then that doughty knight,",
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   {
    "text": "“Of ease or rest I may not yet devize;",
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   {
    "text": "For by the faith which I to armes have plight,",
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   {
    "text": "I bownden am streight after this emprize,",
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   {
    "text": "As that your daughter can ye well advize,",
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   {
    "text": "Backe to retourne to that great Faery Queene,",
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    "text": "And her to serve sixe yeares in warlike wize,",
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   {
    "text": "Gainst that proud Paynim king that works her teene:",
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   {
    "text": "Therefore I ought crave pardon, till I there have beene.”",
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    "text": "“Unhappy falls that hard necessity,”",
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   {
    "text": "(Quoth he) “the troubler of my happy peace,",
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    "text": "And vowed foe of my felicity;",
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   {
    "text": "Ne I against the same can justly preace:",
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   {
    "text": "But since that band ye cannot now release,",
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    "text": "Nor doen undo, (for vowes may not be vayne)",
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   {
    "text": "Soone as the terme of those six yeares shall cease,",
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   {
    "text": "Ye then shall hither backe retourne agayne,",
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    "text": "The marriage to accomplish vowd betwixt you twayn.",
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    "text": "“Which, for my part, I covet to performe",
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    "text": "In sort as through the world I did proclame,",
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    "text": "That whoso kild that monster most deforme,",
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    "text": "And him in hardy battayle overcame,",
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   {
    "text": "Should have mine onely daughter to his Dame,",
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   {
    "text": "And of my kingdome heyre apparaunt bee:",
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   {
    "text": "Therefore, since now to thee perteynes the same",
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   {
    "text": "By dew desert of noble chevalree,",
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   {
    "text": "Both daughter and eke kingdome lo! I yield to thee.",
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    "text": "Then forth he called that his daughter fayre,",
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    "text": "The fairest Un’, his onely daughter deare,",
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    "text": "His onely daughter and his only hayre;",
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    "text": "As bright as doth the morning starre appeare",
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    "text": "Out of the East, with flaming lockes bedight,",
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    "text": "To tell that dawning day is drawing neare,",
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    "text": "And to the world does bring long-wished light,",
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    "text": "So faire and fresh that Lady shewd herselfe in sight.",
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    "text": "So faire and fresh, as freshest flowre in May;",
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    "text": "For she had layd her mournefull stole aside,",
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    "text": "And widow-like sad wimple throwne away,",
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   {
    "text": "Wherewith her heavenly beautie she did hide,",
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   {
    "text": "Whiles on her wearie journey she did ride;",
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    "text": "And on her now a garment she did weare",
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    "text": "All lilly white, withoutten spot or pride,",
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    "text": "That seemd like silke and silver woven neare;",
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    "text": "But neither silke nor silver therein did appeare.",
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    "text": "The blazing brightnesse of her beauties beame,",
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    "text": "And glorious light of her sunshyny face,",
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   {
    "text": "To tell were as to strive against the streame:",
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   {
    "text": "My ragged rimes are all too rude and bace",
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   {
    "text": "Her heavenly lineaments for to enchace.",
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   {
    "text": "Ne wonder; for her own deare loved knight,",
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    "text": "All were she daily with himselfe in place,",
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    "text": "Did wonder much at her celestial sight:",
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    "text": "Oft had he seene her faire, but never so faire dight.",
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    "text": "So fairely dight when she in presence came,",
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    "text": "She to her Syre made humble reverence,",
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    "text": "And added grace unto her excellence:",
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   {
    "text": "Who with great wisedome and grave eloquence",
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    "text": "Thus gan to say⁠—But, eare he thus had sayd,",
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   {
    "text": "With flying speede, and seeming great pretence,",
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    "text": "Came running in, much like a man dismayd,",
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    "text": "A messenger with letters, which his message sayd.",
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    "text": "All in the open hall amazed stood",
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    "text": "At suddeinnesse of that unwary sight,",
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   {
    "text": "And wondred at his breathlesse hasty mood:",
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   {
    "text": "But he for nought would stay his passage right,",
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   {
    "text": "Till fast before the king he did alight;",
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   {
    "text": "Where falling flat great humblesse he did make,",
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   {
    "text": "And kist the ground whereon his foot was pight;",
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    "text": "Then to his handes that writt he did betake,",
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    "text": "Which he disclosing read thus, as the paper spake:",
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    "text": "“To thee, most mighty king of Eden fayre,",
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   {
    "text": "Her greeting sends in these sad lines addrest",
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   {
    "text": "The wofull daughter and forsaken heyre",
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   {
    "text": "Of that great Emperour of all the West;",
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   {
    "text": "And bids thee be advized for the best,",
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   {
    "text": "Ere thou thy daughter linck in holy band",
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    "text": "Of wedlocke to that new unknowen guest:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For he already plighted his right hand",
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    "text": "Unto another love, and to another land.",
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    "text": "“To me, sad mayd, or rather widow sad,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "He was affyaunced long time before,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And sacred pledges he both gave, and had,",
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   {
    "text": "False erraunt knight, infamous, and forswore!",
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   {
    "text": "Witnesse the burning Altars, which he swore,",
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   {
    "text": "And guilty heavens of his bold perjury;",
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   {
    "text": "Which though he hath polluted oft of yore,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Yet I to them for judgement just doe fly,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And them conjure t’avenge this shamefull injury.",
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   {
    "text": "“Therefore, since mine he is, or free or bond,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Or false or trew, or living or else dead,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Withhold, O soverayne Prince! your hasty hond",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From knitting league with him, I you aread;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Ne weene my right with strength adowne to tread,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Through weaknesse of my widowhed or woe;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "For truth is strong her rightfull cause to plead,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And shall finde friends, if need requireth soe.",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "So bids thee well to fare, Thy neither friend nor foe, Fidessa.”",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "When he these bitter byting wordes had red,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "The tydings straunge did him abashed make,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "That still he sate long time astonished,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "As in great muse, ne word to creature spake.",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "At last his solemn silence thus he brake,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "With doubtfull eyes fast fixed on his guest:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "“Redoubted knight, that for myne only sake",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Thy life and honor late adventurest,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Let nought be hid from me that ought to be exprest.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“What meane these bloody vowes and idle threats,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Throwne out from womanish impatient mynd?",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "What hevens? what altars? what enraged heates,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Here heaped up with termes of love unkynd,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "My conscience cleare with guilty bands would bynd?",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "High God be witnesse that I guiltlesse ame;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "But if yourselfe, Sir knight, ye faulty fynd,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Or wrapped be in loves of former Dame,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "With cryme doe not it cover, but disclose the same.”",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "To whom the Redcrosse knight this answere sent:",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "“My Lord, my king, be nought hereat dismayd,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Till well ye wote by grave intendiment,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "What woman, and wherefore, doth me upbrayd",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "With breach of love and loialty betrayd.",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "It was in my mishaps, as hitherward",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I lately traveild, that unwares I strayd",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Out of my way, through perils straunge and hard,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "That day should faile me ere I had them all declard.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“There did I find, or rather I was fownd",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Of this false woman that Fidessa hight,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Fidessa hight the falsest Dame on grownd,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Most false Duessa, royall richly dight,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "That easy was t’inveigle weaker sight:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Who by her wicked arts and wylie skill,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Too false and strong for earthly skill or might,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Unwares me wrought unto her wicked will,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And to my foe betrayd when least I feared ill.”",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Then stepped forth the goodly royall Mayd,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And on the ground herselfe prostrating low,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "With sober countenance thus to him sayd:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "“O! pardon me, my soveraine Lord, to sheow",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "The secret treasons, which of late I know",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "To have bene wrought by that false sorceresse:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Shee, onely she, it is, that earst did throw",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "This gentle knight into so great distresse,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "That death him did awaite in daily wretchednesse.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“And now it seemes, that she suborned hath",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "This crafty messenger with letters vaine,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "To worke new woe and improvided scath,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "By breaking of the band betwixt us twaine;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Wherein she used hath the practicke paine",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Of this false footman, clokt with simplenesse,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Whome if ye please for to discover plaine,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Ye shall him Archimago find, I ghesse,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "The falsest man alive: who tries, shall find no lesse.”",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "The king was greatly moved at her speach;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And, all with suddein indignation fraight,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Bad on that Messenger rude hands to reach.",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Eftsoones the Gard, which on his state did wait,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Attacht that faytor false, and bound him strait,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Who seeming sorely chauffed at his band,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "As chained beare whom cruell dogs doe bait,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "With ydle force did faine them to withstand,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And often semblaunce made to scape out of their hand.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "But they him layd full low in dungeon deepe,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And bound him hand and foote with yron chains;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And with continual watch did warely keepe.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Who then would thinke that by his subtile trains",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "He could escape fowle death or deadly pains?",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Thus, when that Princes wrath was pacifide,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "He gan renew the late forbidden bains,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And to the knight his daughter deare he tyde",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "With sacred rites and vowes for ever to abyde.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "His owne two hands the holy knotts did knitt,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "That none but death for ever can divide;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "His owne two hands, for such a turne most fitt,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "The housling fire did kindle and provide,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And holy water thereon sprinckled wide;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "At which the bushy Teade a groome did light,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And sacred lamp in secret chamber hide,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Where it should not be quenched day nor night,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "For feare of evil fates, but burnen ever bright.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Then gan they sprinckle all the posts with wine,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And made great feast to solemnize that day:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "They all perfumde with frankincense divine,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And precious odours fetcht from far away,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "That all the house did sweat with great aray:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And all the while sweete Musicke did apply",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Her curious skill the warbling notes to play,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "To drive away the dull Melancholy;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "The whiles one sung a song of love and jollity.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "During the which there was an heavenly noise",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Heard sownd through all the Pallace pleasantly,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Like as it had bene many an Angels voice",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Singing before th’eternall majesty,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "In their trinall triplicities on hye:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Yett wist no creature whence that hevenly sweet",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Proceeded, yet each one felt secretly",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Himselfe thereby refte of his sences meet,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And ravished with rare impression in his sprite.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Great joy was made that day of young and old,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And solemne feast proclaymd throughout the land,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "That their exceeding merth may not be told:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Suffice it heare by signes to understand",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "The usuall joyes at knitting of loves band.",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Thrise happy man the knight himselfe did hold,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Possessed of his Ladies hart and hand;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And ever, when his eie did her behold,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "His heart did seeme to melt in pleasures manifold.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Her joyous presence and sweet company",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "In full content he there did long enjoy;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Ne wicked envy, ne vile gealosy,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "His deare delights were hable to annoy:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Yet, swimming in that sea of blisfull joy,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "He nought forgott how he whilome had sworne,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "In case he could that monstrous beast destroy,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Unto his Faery Queene backe to retourne;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "The which he shortly did, and Una left to mourne.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Now, strike your sailes, yee jolly Mariners,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "For we be come unto a quiet rode,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Where we must land some of our passengers,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And light this weary vessell of her lode:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Here she a while may make her safe abode,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Till she repaired have her tackles spent,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And wants supplide; And then againe abroad",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "On the long voiage whereto she is bent:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Well may she speede, and fairely finish her intent!",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ]
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}