The yeares of _Nestor_ nothing were to[759] his, lvii Ne yet _Mathusalem_, though longest liu’d; For he remembred both their infancies: Ne wonder then, if that he were depriu’d Of natiue strength now, that he them suruiu’d. His chamber all was hangd about with rolles, And old records from auncient times deriu’d, Some made in books, some in long parchment scrolles, That were all worme-eaten, and full of canker holes. Amidst them all he in a chaire was set, lviii Tossing and turning them withouten end; But for he was vnhable them to fet, A litle boy did on him still attend, To reach, when euer he for ought did send; And oft when things were lost, or laid amis, That boy them sought, and vnto him did lend. Therefore he _Anamnestes_ cleped is, And that old man _Eumnestes_, by their propertis. The knights there entring, did him reuerence dew lix And wondred at his endlesse exercise, Then as they gan his Librarie to vew, And antique Registers for to auise, There chaunced to the Princes hand to rize, An auncient booke, hight _Briton moniments_, That of this lands first conquest did deuize, And old diuision into Regiments, Till it reduced was to one mans gouernments. Sir _Guyon_ chaunst eke on another booke, lx That hight _Antiquitie_ of _Faerie_ lond,[760] In which when as he greedily did looke,[761] Th’off-spring of Elues and Faries there he fond, As it deliuered was from hond to hond: Whereat they burning both with feruent fire, Their countries auncestry to vnderstond, Crau’d leaue of _Alma_, and that aged sire, To read those bookes; who gladly graunted their desire. FOOTNOTES: [721] Arg. 4 _fight_ _1596_, _1609_ [722] i 5 incedent _1590_: _corr. F. E._ [723] v 3 thee] a _1609_ [724] vi 9 _Arthogall_, _1590_ [725] vii 5 Now hath] Seuen times _1590_ [726] 6 Walkt round] Hath walkte _1590_. _Cf._ I ix 15 [727] 7 Since _1609_ [728] viii 5 you _1596_ [729] ix 1 weete,] wote, _1590 &c. MS. corr. in Malone 615_ [730] xiii 1 spake _1609_ [731] xv 3 Captaine _1590_, _1596_ [732] xvi 8 with _om. 1596_ [733] xvii 4 perlous _1590_ [734] 5 comflict _1596_ [735] xix 9 crownd _1590_: _corr. F. E._ [736] xx 6 There] Then _1590_ [737] xxi 1 them] him _1590_ [738] 3 sensible _1596_, _1609_ [739] 7 lenger a time _1590_: _corr. F. E._ [740] xxii 9 _Dyapase_ _1590 &c._: _corr. F. E._ [741] xxix 3 thence, _1590 &c._ [742] xxxi 4 th’Achates] the cates _1609_ [743] xxxvii 1 gold, _1590_, _1596_ [744] 8 you loue,] your loue, _1590_, _1596_: _corr. 1609_ [745] xxxviii 2 mood] word _1590 &c._: _corr. Morris_ [746] 9 twelue moneths] three years _1590_ [747] xxxix 3 samblaunt _1596_ [748] xli 1 communed _1609_ [749] 6 Craftesman _1590_, _1596_