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A12777	The faerie qveene disposed into twelue books, fashioning XII. morall vertues.	Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.	1590 (1590)	STC 23081A; ESTC S123180	296,829	616

astownd Vpstarted lightly from his looser make And his vnready weapons gan in hand to take But ere he could his armour on him dight Or gett his shield his monstrous enimy With sturdie steps came stalking in his sight An hideous Geaunt horrible and hye That with his tallnesse seemd to threat the skye The ground eke groned vnder him for dreed His liuing like saw neuer liuing eye Ne durst behold his stature did exceed The hight of three the tallest sonnes of mortall seed The greatest Earth his vncouth mother was And blustring AEolus his boasted syre Who with his breath which through the world doth pas Her hollow womb did secretly inspyre And fild her hidden caues with stormie yre That she conceiu'd and trebling the dew time In which the wombes of wemen doe expyre Brought forth this monstrous masse of earthly slyme Puft vp with emptie wynd and fild with sinfull cryme So growen great through arrogant delight Of th' high descent whereof he was yborne And through presumption of his matchlesse might All other powres and knighthood he did scorne Such now he marcheth to this man forlorne And left to losse his stalking steps are stayde Vpon a snaggy Oke which he had torne Out of his mothers bowelles and it made His mortall mace wherewith his foemen he dismayde That when the knight he spyde he gan aduaunce With huge force and insupportable mayne And towardes him with dreadfull fury praunce Who haplesse and eke hopelesse all in vaine Did to him pace sad battaile to darrayne Disarmd disgraste and inwardly dismayde And eke so faint in euery ioynt and vayne Through that fraile foūtain which him feeble made That scarsely could he weeld his bootlesse single blade The Geaunt strooke so maynly mercilesse That could haue ouerthrowne a stony towre And were not heuenly grace that him did blesse He had beene pouldred all as thin as flowre But he was wary of that deadly stowre And lightly lept from vnderneath the blow Yetso exceeding was the villeins powre That with the winde it did him ouerthrow And all his sences stoond that still he lay full low As when that diuelish yron Engin wrought In deepest Hell and framd by Furies skill With 〈◊〉 Nitre and quick Sulphur fraught And ramd with bollet rownd ordaind to kill Conceiueth fyre the heauens it doth fill With thundring noyse and all the ayre doth choke That none can breath nor see nor heare at will Through smouldry cloud of duskish stincking smok That th' onely breath him daunts who hath escapt the stroke So daunted when the Geaunt saw the knight His heauie hand he heaued vpon hye And him to dust thought to haue battred quight Vntill Duessa loud to him gan crye O great Orgoglio greatest vnder skye O hold thy mortall hand for Ladies sake Hold for my sake and doe him not to dye But vanquisht 〈◊〉 eternall bondflaue make And me thy worthy meed vnto thy Leman take He hearkned and did stay from further harmes To gayneso goodly guerdon as she spake So willingly she came into his armes Who her as willingly to grace did take And was possessed of his newfound make Then vp he tooke the slombred sencelesse corse And 〈◊〉 he could out of his swowne awake Him to his castle brought with hastie forse And in a Dongeon deep him threw without remorse From that day forth Duessa was his deare And highly honourd in his haughtie eye He gaue her gold and purple pall to weare And triple crowne set on her head full hye And her endowd with royall maiestye Then for to make her 〈◊〉 more of men And peoples hartes with awfull terror tye A monstrous beast ybredd in filthy fen He chose which he had kept long time in darksom den Such one it was as that renowmed Snake Which great Alcides in Stremona slew Long fostred in the filth of Lerna lake Whose many heades out budding euer new Did breed him endlesse labor to subdew But this same Monster much more vgly was For seuen great heads out of his body grew An yron brest and back of scaly bras And all embrewd in blood his eyes did shine as glas His tayle was stretched out in wondrous length That to the hous of heuenly gods it raught And with extorted powre and borrow'd strength The euerburning lamps from thence it braught And prowdly threw to ground as things of naught And vnderneath his filthy feer did tread The sacred thinges and holy heastes foretaught Vpon this dreadfull Beast with seuen fold head He sett the false Duessa for more aw and dread The wofull Dwarfe which saw his maisters fall Whiles he had keeping of his grasing steed And valiant knight become a cay 〈◊〉 thrall When all was past tooke vp his forlorne weed His mightie Armour missing most at need His siluer shield now idle maisterlesse His poynant speare that many made to bleed The ruefull moniments of heauinesse And with them all departes to tell his great distresse He had not trauaild long when on 〈◊〉 way He wofull Lady wofull Vna met Fast flying from that Paynims greedy pray Whilest Satyrane him from pursuit did let Who when her eyes she on the Dwarf had set And saw the signes that deadly tydinges spake She fell to ground for sorrowfull regret And liuely breath her sad brest did forsake Yet might her pittcous hart be seene to pant and quake The messenger of so vnhappie newes Would faine haue dyde dead was his hart within Yet outwardly some little comfort shewes At last recouering hart he does begin To rubb her temples and to chaufe her chin And euerie tender part does tosse and turne So hardly he the flitted life does win Vnto her natiue prison to retourne Then gins her grieued ghost thus to lament mourne Ye dreaty instruments of dolefull sight That doe this deadly spectacle behold Why do ye lenger feed on loathed light Or liking find to gaze on earthly mould Sith cruell fates the carefull threds vnfould The which my life and loue together tyde Now let the stony dart of sencelesse cold Perce to my hart and pas through euerie side And let eternall night so sad fro me hyde O light some day the lampe of highest Ioue First made by him mens wandring wayes to guyde When darknesse he in deepest 〈◊〉 droue Henceforth 〈◊〉 hated face for euer hyde And shut vp heauens windowes shyning wyde For earthly sight can nought but sorow breed And late 〈◊〉 which shall long abyde Mine eyes no more on 〈◊〉 shall feed But seeled vp with death shall haue their deadly meed Then downe againe she fell vnto the ground But he her quickly reared vp againe Thrise did she sinke 〈◊〉 in deadly swownd And thrise he her 〈◊〉 with busie paine At last when life recouer'd had the raine And ouer-wrestled his strong enimy With foltring tong and trembling euerie vaine Tell on quoth she the wofull Tragedy The which these reliques sad present vnto mine eye Tempestuous fortune hath spent all her spight And

his entrayles wast That neither blood in face nor life in hart It left but both did quite drye vp and blast As percing leuin which the inner part Of euery thing consumes and calcineth by art Which seeing fayre 〈◊〉 gan to feare Least that his wound were inly well not heald Or that the wicked steele empoysned were Litle shee weend that loue he close conceald Yet still he wasted as the snow congeald When the bright sunne his beams theron doth beat Yet neuer he his hart to her reueald But rather chose to dye for sorow great Then with dishonorable termes her to entreat She gracious Lady yet no paines did spare To doe him ease or doe him remedy Many Restoratiues of vertues rare And costly Cordialles she did apply To mitigate his stubborne malady But that sweet Cordiall which can restore A loue-sick hart she did to him enuy To him and to all th'vnworthy world forlore She did enuy that soueraine salue in secret store That 〈◊〉 Rose the daughter of her Morne More deare then life she tendered whose flowre The girlond of her honour did adorne Ne suffred she the Middayes scorching powre Ne the sharp Northerne wind thereon to showre But lapped vp her silken leaues most chayre When so the froward skye began to lowre But soone as calmed was the christall ayre She did it fayre dispred and let to florish fayre Eternall God in his almightie powre To make ensample of his heauenly grace In Paradize whylome did plant this flowre Whence he it 〈◊〉 out of her natiue place And did in stocke of earthly flesh enrace That mortall men her glory should admyre In gentle Ladies breste and bounteous race Of woman kind it fayrest flowre doth spyre And beareth fruit of honour and all chast desyre Fayre ympes of beautie whose bright shining beames Adorne the world with like to heauenly light And to your willes both royalties and Reames Subdew through cōquest of your wondrous might With this fayre flowre your goodly girlonds dight Of chastity and vertue virginall That shall embellish more your beautie bright And crowne your heades with heauenly coronall Such as the Angels were before Gods tribunall To youre faire selues a faire ensample frame Of this faire virgin this Belphebe fayre To whom in perfect loue and spotlesse fame Of chastitie none liuing may compayre Ne poysnous Enuy iustly can empayre The prayse of her fresh flowring May denhead For thy she standeth on the highest stayre Of th'honorable stage of womanhead That Ladies all may follow her ensample dead In so great prayse of stedfast chastity Nathlesse she was so courteous and kynde Tempred with grace and goodly modesty That seemed those two vertues stroue to fynd The higher place in her Heroick mynd So striuing each did other more augment And both encreast the prayse of woman kynde And both encreast her beautie excellent So all did make in her a perfect complement Cant. VI. The birth of fayre Belphoebe and Of Amorett is told The Gardins of Adonis fraught With pleasures manifold WEll may I weene faire Ladies all this while Ye wonder how this noble Damozell So great perfections did in her compile Sith that in saluage forests she did dwell So farre from court and royall Citadell The great schoolmaistresse of all courtesy Seemeth that such wilde woodes should far expell All ciuile vsage and gentility And gentle sprite deforme with rude rusticity But to this faire Belphoebe in her berth The heuens so fauorable were and free Looking with myld aspect vpon the earth In th' Horoscope of her natiuitee That all the gifts of grace and chastitee On her they poured forth of plenteous horne Ioue laught on Venus from his souerayne see And Phoebus with faire beames did her adorne And all the Graces rockt her cradle being borne Her berth was of the wombe of Morning dew And her conception of the ioyous Prime And all her whole creation did her shew Pure and 〈◊〉 from all loathly crime That is ingenerate in fleshly slime So was this virgin borne so was she bred So was she trayned vp from time to time In all chaste vertue and true bounti-hed Till to her dew perfection she were ripened Her mother was the faire Chrysogonee The daughter of Amphisa who by race A Faerie was yborne of high degree She bore Belphaebe she bore in like cace Fayre Amoretta in the second place These two were twinnes twixt them two did share The heritage of all celestiall grace That all the rest it seemd they robbed bare Of bounty and of beautie and all vertues rare It were a goodly storie to declare By what straunge accident faire Chrysogone Conceiu'd these infants and how them she bore In this wilde forrest wandring all alone After she had nine moneths fulfild and gone For not as other wemens commune brood They were enwombed in the sacred throne Of her chaste bodie nor with commune food As other wemens babes they sucked vitall blood But wondrously they were begot and bred Through influence of th'heuens fruitfull ray As it in antique bookes is mentioned It was vpon a Sommers 〈◊〉 day When Titan faire his beames did display In a fresh fountaine 〈◊〉 from all mens vew She bath'd her brest the boyling heat t' allay She bath'd with roses red and violets blew And all the sweetest flowres that in the forrest grew Till faint through yrkesome wearines adowne Vpon the grassy ground her selfe she layd To sleepe the whiles a gentle slombring swowne Vpon her fell all naked bare displayd The sunbeames bright vpon her body playd Being through former bathing mollifide And pierst into her wombe where they embayd With so sweet sence and secret power vnspide That in her pregnant flesh they shortly fructifide Miraculous may seeme to him that reades So straunge ensample of conception But reason teacheth that the fruitfull seades Of all things liuing through impression Of the sunbeames in moyst complexion Doe life conceiue and quickned are by kynd So after Nilus invndation Infinite shapes of creatures men doe fynd Informed in the mud on which the Sunne hath shynd Great father he of generation Is rightly cald th' authour of life and light And his faire sister for creation Ministreth matter fit which tempred right With heate and humour breedes the liuing wight So sprong these twinnes in womb of Chrysogone Yet wist she nought thereof but sore affright Wondred to see her belly so vpblone Which still increast till she her terme had full outgone Whereof conceiuing shame and foule disgrace Albe her guiltlesse conscience her cleard She fled into the wildernesse a space Till that vnweeldy burden she had reard And shund dishonor which as death she feard Where wearie of long traueill downe to rest Her selfe she set and comfortably cheard There a sad cloud of sleepe her ouerkest And seized euery sence with sorrow sore opprest It fortuned faire Venus hauing lost Her little sonne the winged god of loue Who for some light displeasure which him crost Was from