English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700; Knights and knighthood -- Poetry; Virtues -- Poetry
Perdie (said _Trompart_) let her passe at will, xliv
Least by her presence daunger mote befall.
For who can tell (and sure I feare it ill)
But that she is some powre celestiall?
For whiles she spake, her great words did apall
My feeble courage, and my hart oppresse,
That yet I quake and tremble ouer all.
And I (said _Braggadocchio_) thought no lesse,
When first I heard her horne sound with such ghastlinesse.
For from my mothers wombe this grace I haue xlv
Me giuen by eternall destinie,
That earthly thing may not my courage braue
Dismay with feare, or cause one[550] foot to flie,
But either hellish feends, or powres on hie:
Which was the cause, when earst that horne I heard,
Weening it had beene thunder in the skie,
I hid my selfe from it, as one affeard;
But when I other knew, my selfe I boldly reard.
But now for feare of worse, that may betide, xlvi
Let vs soone hence depart. They soone agree;
So to his steed he got, and gan to ride,
As one vnfit therefore, that all might see
He had not trayned bene in cheualree.
Which well that valiant courser did discerne;
For he despysd to tread in dew degree,
But chaufd and fom’d, with courage fierce and sterne,
And to be easd of that base burden still did erne[551].
FOOTNOTES:
[525] ii 6 raught] rought _1590_: _corr. F. E._
[526] iv 5 glory vaine] glory he _1590_
[527] v 9 aduaunce _1590_
[528] vii 5 common _1609_
[529] ix 7 From] For _1596_
[530] 8 slattery _1590_
[531] x 1 _Braggadochio_ _1590 &c._
[532] xi 4 courser] course _1590_
[533] xviii 6 deuice] aduise _1596_, _1609_
[534] xx 5 does vnto them affeare _1590_: vnto _corr. to_ greatly _in
F. E._
[535] xxi 5 heed, _1590_, _1596_
[536] xxii 9 Able _1609 passim_
[537] xxiii 4 pearceant _1609_
[538] 8 drad _1609_
[539] xxvi 6 throughout, _1590 &c._
[540] xxvii 8 end _1609_
[541] their] the _1590_
[542] xxviii 1 were] did _1590_: _corr. F. E._
[543] 7 play] sport _conj. ed._ _Cf._ II ii 7, 42, _&c._
[544] xxx 4 disspred _1609_
[545] xxxv 1 hand _1596_: hand: _1609_
[546] 3 name, _1590 &c._
[547] xxxvi 6 forth, _1590_
[548] xxxviii 4 haue I] I haue _1590_
[549] xliii 2 greiued _1596_
[550] xlv 4 one] on _1590_, _1596_
[551] xlvi 9 yerne _1609_
_Cant. IIII._
[Illustration:
_Guyon does Furor bind in chaines,
and stops Occasion:
Deliuers Phedon[552], and therefore
by Strife[553] is rayld vpon._
]
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