Spenser's Faerie Queene, Vol. 2 (of 2) : $b Books IV-VII

Name: Spenser's Faerie Queene, Vol. 2 (of 2) : $b Books IV-VII
Author: Spenser, Edmund

Spenser, Edmund

English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700; Knights and knighthood -- Poetry; Virtues -- Poetry

To the right honourable Sir Christopher Hatton                     492
    To the right honourable the Lo. Burleigh                           492
    To the right Honourable the Earle of Oxenford                      493
    To the right honourable the Earle of Northumberland                493
    To the right honourable the Earle of Cumberland                    494
    To the most honourable and excellent Lo. the Earle of Essex        494
    To the right Honourable the Earle of Ormond and Ossory             495
    To the right honourable the Lo. Ch. Howard                         495
    To the right honourable the Lord of Hunsdon                        496
    To the most renowmed and valiant Lord, the Lord Grey of Wilton     496
    To the right honourable the Lord of Buckhurst                      497
    To the right honourable Sir Fr. Walsingham knight                  497
    To the right noble Lord and most valiaunt Captaine, Sir Iohn
      Norris knight                                                    498
    To the right noble and valorous knight, Sir Walter Raleigh         498
    To the right honourable and most vertuous Lady, the Countesse
      of Penbroke                                                      499
    To the most vertuous, and beautifull Lady, the Lady Carew          499
    To all the gratious and beautifull Ladies in the Court             500


  CRITICAL APPENDIX                                                    501




  THE SECOND
  PART OF THE
  FAERIE QVEENE.

  _Containing_
  THE FOVRTH,
  FIFTH, AND
  SIXTH BOOKES.

  _By Ed. Spenser._

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  Imprinted at London for VVilliam
  Ponsonby. 1596.




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  THE FOVRTH
  BOOKE OF THE
  FAERIE QVEENE.

  _Containing_

  The Legend of CAMBEL and TELAMOND[1],

  OR

  OF FRIENDSHIP.


    The rugged forhead that with graue foresight                         i
      Welds[2] kingdomes causes, and affaires of state,
      My looser rimes (I wote) doth sharply wite,
      For praising loue, as I haue done of late,
      And magnifying louers deare debate;
      By which fraile youth is oft to follie led,
      Through false allurement of that pleasing baite,
      That better were in vertues discipled,
    Then with vaine poemes weeds to haue their fancies fed.

    Such ones ill iudge of loue, that cannot loue,                      ii
      Ne in their frosen hearts feele kindly flame:
      For thy they ought not thing vnknowne reproue,
      Ne naturall affection faultlesse blame,
      For fault of few that haue abusd the same.
      For it of honor and all vertue is
      The roote, and brings forth glorious flowres of fame,
      That crowne true louers with immortall blis,
    The meed of them that loue, and do not liue amisse.

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Spenser's Faerie Queene, Vol. 2 (of 2) : $b Books IV-VII

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