English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700; Knights and knighthood -- Poetry; Virtues -- Poetry
And cald, _Pyrochles_, what is this, I see? xlix
What hellish furie hath at earst thee hent?
Furious euer I thee knew to bee,
Yet neuer in this straunge astonishment.
These flames, these flames (he cryde) do me torment.
What flames (quoth he) when I thee present see,
In daunger rather to be drent, then brent?
Harrow, the flames, which me consume (said hee)
Ne can be quencht, within my secret bowels bee.
That cursed man, that cruell feend of hell, l
_Furor_, oh _Furor_ hath me thus bedight:
His deadly wounds within my liuers[648] swell,
And his whot fire burnes in mine entrails bright,
Kindled through his infernall brond of spight,
Sith late with him I batteil vaine would boste;
That now I weene _Ioues_ dreaded thunder light
Does scorch not halfe so sore, nor damned ghoste
In flaming _Phlegeton_ does not so felly roste.
Which when as _Archimago_ heard, his griefe li
He knew right well, and him attonce disarmd:
Then searcht his secret wounds, and made a priefe
Of euery place, that was with brusing harmd,
Or with the hidden fire too[649] inly warmd.
Which done, he balmes and herbes thereto applyde,
And euermore[650] with mighty spels them charmd,
That in short space he has them qualifyde,
And him restor’d to health, that would haue algates dyde.
FOOTNOTES:
[612] Arg. 1 _Merth_, _1590_, _1596_
[613] i 7 restraine] abstaine _1590_
[614] 8 their] her _1590_
[615] iii 4 that nigh her breth was gone,] as merry as Pope Ione, _1590_
[616] 6 might to her] to her might _1590_
[617] 7 none _1590 &c._
[618] vii 7 of] off _1590_
[619] viii 7 delight. _1590_
[620] xii 3 hand, _1590 &c._
[621] 9 her sweet smels throw] throwe her sweete smels _1590_
[622] xiv 9 loud] loue _1590_
[623] xv 1 take _1590_, _1596_
[624] 5 no man] noman _1590_
[625] xvii 8 thirst] thrist _1590_
[626] xviii 2 worldly] wordly _1590_
[627] 7 waue] waues _1609_
[628] griesly] griesy _1590_
[629] xxi 8 bounds _1609_
[630] xxiv 4 saw _1596_, _1609_
[631] xxvii 9 there] their _1590_, _1596_
[632] xxix 2 importune] importance _1596_: important _1609_
[633] xxx 1 before, _1590_, _1596_
[634] xxxv 2 shend] shent _1596_
[635] xxxvi 1 bent, _1590_, _1596_
[636] xxxviii 5 salied] sailed _1609_
[637] 8 Thereby _1590_, _1596_
[638] 9 flit] fleet _1609_
[639] xxxix 5 beastez _1609_
[640] xli 1 Whiles _1609_
[641] xlii 3 beduked _1596_
[642] 6 flasht, _1590 &c._
[643] xliii 7 lent but this his cursed light, _1590_
[644] 8 damnifyde _1590_, _1596_
[645] xlv 1 is it] it is _1609_
[646] 3 Burning] But _1596_
[647] xlviii 6 man, saw _1590_: _corr. F. E._
[648] l 3 liuer _1609_
[649] li 5 fire too] fier _1590_
[650] 7 euemore _1596_
_Cant. VII._
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