English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700; Knights and knighthood -- Poetry; Virtues -- Poetry
Long after lay he musing at her mood, lv
Much grieu’d to thinke that gentle Dame so light,
For whose defence he was to shed his blood.
At last dull wearinesse of former fight
Hauing yrockt a sleepe his irkesome spright,
That troublous dreame gan freshly tosse his braine,
With bowres, and beds, and Ladies deare delight:
But when he saw his labour all was vaine,
With that misformed spright he backe returnd againe.
FOOTNOTES:
[18] Arg. 3 _entrape_ _1596_: _entrap_ _1609_
[19] i 4 bloody _1590 passim_
[20] ii 1 But] And _1590_
[21] iv 7 sat] sate _1590_
[22] v 1 and innocent _1590_: an Innocent _1609_
[23] 9 cõpeld _1590_, _1596 passim_
[24] viii 3 tempests _1609_
[25] ix 6 sweet, _1609_
[26] 9 sildom _1609 passim_
[27] x 4 They] The _1596_
[28] xii 5 your hardy stroke _1590 &c._: _corr. F. E._
[29] xiii 2 late, _1596_
[30] xv 6 poisnous _1590_
[31] xvii 1 perceiu’ed _1596_
[32] xix 2 ye] you _1609_
[33] xx 4 vilely _1609_
[34] xxi 5 spring] ebbe _1590 &c._: _corr. F. E._
[35] t’auale _1590_: _corr. F. E._
[36] xxii 3 lenger _1590_
[37] xxiii 2 _Phebus_ _1590_
[38] 5 cumbrous _1590_
[39] xxiv 6 stroke _1590_
[40] 8 reft _1609_
[41] xxv 7 wound. _1596_
[42] xxvi 8 longer _1609_
[43] xxvii 2 haste _1609_
[44] xxviii 8 passeth _1596_, _1609_
[45] xxx 9 fits _1609_
[46] xxxi 1 danger _1609_
[47] 2 euill _bis 1596_
[48] 3 strange _1609_
[49] 6 you] thee _1590_
[50] xxxii 6 for wearied _1596_
[51] xxxv 8 euemore _1596_
[52] xl 6 sleepe _1596_: sleep _1609_
[53] xli 3 euer] euery _1590_: _corr. F. E._
[54] xlii 2 waste _1590_, _1609_
[55] retournd _1590_
[56] 4 thrust] trust _1596_
[57] 8 sights] sighes _1590_: _corr. F. E._
[58] xliii 4 lompish _1590_
[59] 6 Hether _1590_
[60] xlvi 7 vsage] visage _1609_
[61] xlvii 8 boy, _1590_, _1596_
[62] xlviii 3 weene, _1590_, _1596_
[63] 9 with om. _1596_, _1609_
[64] xlix 3 starteth _1590_
[65] mistrust, _1590_, _1596_
[66] l 3 t’haue _1609_
[67] 7 womens _1609_
[68] lii 4 begonne _1590_
[69] liii 6 sith n’vntruth _1609_
[70] liv 8 chose _1590_
_Cant. II._
[Illustration:
_The guilefull great Enchaunter parts
The Redcrosse Knight from Truth:
Into whose stead[71] faire falshood steps,
And workes him wofull ruth._
]
By this the Northerne wagoner had set i
His seuenfold teme behind the stedfast starre,
That was in Ocean waues yet neuer wet,
But firme is fixt, and sendeth light from farre
To all, that in the wide deepe wandring arre:
And chearefull Chaunticlere with his note shrill
Had warned once, that _Phœbus_ fiery carre
In hast was climbing vp the Easterne hill,
Full enuious that night so long his roome did fill.
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