else > elsewhere shadow > symbolize, depict 119 considering she bears two persons, the one of a most royal 120 queen or empress, the other of a most virtuous and beautiful 121 lady, this latter part in some places I do express in Belphoebe, 122 fashioning her name according to your own excellent 123 conceit of Cynthia (Phoebe and Cynthia being both names conceit > conception, idea Cynthia > (Raleigh's poem in praise of Queen Elizabeth is called _The Ocean's Love to Cynthia_; of this, only one book has survived) 124 of Diana). So in the person of Prince Arthur I set forth Diana > (Virgin goddess of hunting and of the moon) 125 magnificence in particular, which virtue (according to 126 Aristotle and the rest) is the perfection of all the rest, and 127 contains in it them all: therefore in the whole course I contains in it > [encompasses] 128 mention the deeds of Arthur appliable to that virtue, which appliable > {Having reference, applicable} 129 I write of in that book. But of the twelve other virtues, I 130 make twelve other knights the patrons, for the more variety patrons > patterns, exemplars; _also:_ champions more > greater 131 of the history: of which these three books contain three. The history > story these three books > (Books I-III, first published in 1590, with which this letter was included) 132 first of the Knight of the Redcross, in whom I express 133 Holiness; the second of Sir Guyon, in whom I set forth 134 Temperance; the third of Britomart, a lady knight, in 135 whom I picture Chastity. But because the beginning of the 136 whole work seems abrupt and as depending upon other as > [as though] 137 antecedents, it needs that you know the occasion of these needs > is necessary 138 three knights' several adventures. For the method of a poet several > different, individual 139 historical is not such as of a historiographer. For a historical > [writing historical or epic works] such as > [like that] historiographer > chronicler, historian 140 historiographer discourses of affairs orderly, as they were orderly > in sequence 141 done, accounting as well the times as the actions, but a poet well > [much] times > dates 142 thrusts into the middest, even where it most concerns him, middest > middle [of the story; cf. _in medias res_ (Horace, _Ars Poetica_ 148-9)] 143 and there, recoursing to the things forepassed, and divining recoursing > returning forepassed > [which have already happened] 144 of things to come, makes a pleasing analysis of all. The 145 beginning, therefore, of my history, if it were to be told by a 146 historiographer, should be the twelfth book, which is the 147 last, where I devise that the Faery Queen kept her annual