English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700; Knights and knighthood -- Poetry; Virtues -- Poetry
Then pricking him with his sharpe-pointed dart, xxxvi
He said; Vp,[611] vp, thou womanish weake knight,
That here in Ladies lap entombed art,
Vnmindfull of thy praise and prowest might,
And weetlesse eke of lately wrought despight,
Whiles sad _Pyrochles_ lies on senselesse ground,
And groneth out his vtmost grudging spright,
Through many a stroke, and many a streaming wound,
Calling thy helpe in vaine, that here in ioyes art dround.
Suddeinly out of his delightfull dreame xxxvii
The man awoke, and would haue questiond more;
But he would not endure that wofull theame
For to dilate at large, but vrged sore
With percing words, and pittifull implore,
Him hastie to arise. As one affright
With hellish feends, or _Furies_ mad vprore,
He then vprose, inflam’d with fell despight,
And called for his armes; for he would algates fight.
They bene ybrought; he quickly does him dight, xxxviii
And lightly mounted, passeth on his way,
Ne Ladies loues, ne sweete entreaties might
Appease his heat, or hastie passage stay;
For he has vowd, to beene aueng’d that day,
(That day it selfe him seemed all too long:)
On him, that did _Pyrochles_ deare dismay:
So proudly pricketh on his courser strong,
And _Atin_ aie him pricks with spurs of shame and wrong.
FOOTNOTES:
[580] Arg. 2 _vnbinds_:] _vnbinds_ 1596: _vntyes_, _1590_
[581] 3, 4 _as in 1596_ (_except_ _Attin Gymochles_ _1596_): _Who him
sore wounds, whiles Atin to Gymochles for ayd flyes._ _1590_
[582] iii 2 chaffer _1609_
[583] iv 5 sell _1590_, _1596_
[584] v 9 doe me not much fayl _1590_
[585] viii 7 hurtle] hurle, _1596_: hurlen _1609_
[586] warlike] warelike _1596_
[587] x 7 enimye _1590_: enimies _1596_
[588] 8 relast _1596_
[589] xii 8 by] but _conj. ed._
[590] xv 3 atchieu’d _1590 &c._
[591] 9 who selfe] whose selfe _1609_
[592] xvi 8 a read, _1596_
[593] xvii 8 occasion _1590_: Occasion _1596_
[594] xviii 5 embayling _1590_: _corr. F. E._
[595] xix 4 shee] hee _1590_, _1596_
[596] 7 do] garre _1590_
[597] xxi 7 occasion _1609_
[598] xxii 5 spight] spright _1609_
[599] 6 fyer _1590_: fier _1609_
[600] 7 bright _1590_, _1596_
[601] xxiii 1 _that_] _the_ 1609
[602] xxiv 8 agayne. _1596_
[603] xxvii 3 her] his _1596_
[604] 6 trasforme _1590_
[605] xxviii 2 he,] he _1590_, _1596_
[606] xxix 5 pricking] prickling _1590_
[607] xxxi 5 Gaynd in _Nemea_] In _Netmus_ gayned _1590_: _Nemus_ _F.
E._
[608] xxxiii 3 lights _1596_
[609] xxxiv 6 conceit _1609_
[610] 8 So, he them _1590_, _1596_
[611] xxxvi 2 Vp,] vp, _1590_, _1596_
_Cant. VI._
[Illustration:
_Guyon is of immodest Merth[612]
led into loose desire,
Fights with Cymochles, whiles his brother
burnes in furious fire._
]
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