English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700; Knights and knighthood -- Poetry; Virtues -- Poetry
Then led they her away, and eke that knight lxxxiv
They with them led, both sorrowfull and sad:
The way they came, the same retourn’d they right,
Till they arriued, where they lately had
Charm’d those wild-beasts, that rag’d with furie mad.
Which now awaking, fierce at them gan fly,
As in their mistresse reskew, whom they lad;
But them the Palmer soone did pacify.
Then _Guyon_ askt, what meant those beastes, which there did ly.
Said he, These[858] seeming beasts are men indeed, lxxxv
Whom this Enchauntresse hath transformed thus,
Whylome her louers, which her lusts did feed,
Now turned into figures hideous,
According to their mindes like monstruous.
Sad end (quoth he) of life intemperate,
And mournefull meed of ioyes delicious:
But Palmer, if it mote thee so aggrate,
Let them returned be vnto their former state.
Streight way he with his vertuous staffe them strooke, lxxxvi
And streight of beasts they comely men became;
Yet being men they did vnmanly looke,
And stared ghastly, some for inward shame,
And some for wrath, to see their captiue Dame:
But one aboue the rest in speciall,
That had an hog beene late, hight _Grille_ by name,
Repined greatly, and did him miscall,
That had from hoggish forme him brought to naturall.
Said _Guyon_, See the mind of beastly man, lxxxvii
That hath so soone forgot the excellence
Of his creation, when he life began,
That now he chooseth, with vile difference,
To be a beast, and lacke intelligence.
To whom the Palmer thus, The donghill kind
Delights in filth and foule incontinence:
Let _Grill_ be _Grill_, and haue his hoggish mind,
But let vs hence depart, whilest wether serues and wind.
FOOTNOTES:
[823] Arg. 1 _by_] _through_ _1590_
[824] 2 _through passing_ _1590_
[825] i 4 Formerly] Formally
[826] 6 that] this _1590 &c._: _corr. F. E._
[827] iii 9 do] did _1590_: _corr. F. E._
[828] viii 6 weiting _1590_: _corr. to_ wayting _in F. E._
[829] ix 2 behold _1590_, _1596_
[830] xii 2 disspred _1609_
[831] xiii 9 honor] temple _1590_
[832] xv 1 can] gan _1609_
[833] xix 4 misprize _1609_
[834] xx 8 their] the _1596_, _1609_
[835] xxi 1 heedfull] earnest _1590_
[836] xxiii 9 _Monoceros_ _1590 &c._: _corr. Child_
[837] xxvii 3 pittifull _1596_
[838] 4 sea resounding _1609_
[839] xxx 6 peasaunt _1596_
[840] 9 bathe _1609_
[841] deceitfull _1609_
[842] xxxii 4 That] Thou _1596_
[843] xxxiv 1 the] that _1609_
[844] xxxix 8 vpstarting] vpstaring _1590_
[845] xl 1 approch’t. _1609_
[846] threat _1609_
[847] xlii 7 dayntest _1590_
[848] xliii 5 their] they _conj. ed._
[849] 7 migtest _1590_
[850] li 1 Therewith 1590
[851] lii 9 Of Eden, if ought _1596_: Or Eden, if that ought _1609_
[852] lvii 9 nought] not _1596_, _1609_
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