English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700; Knights and knighthood -- Poetry; Virtues -- Poetry
And more, to lulle him in his slumber soft,
2 A trickling streame from high rocke tumbling downe
And euer-drizling raine vpon the loft,
4 Mixt with a murmuring winde, much like the sowne
Of swarming Bees, did cast him in a swowne:
6 No other noyse, nor peoples troublous cryes,
As still are wont t'annoy the walled towne,
8 Might there be heard: but carelesse Quiet lyes,
Wrapt in eternall silence farre from enemyes.
1 And more, to lull him in his slumber soft,
2 A trickling stream from high rock tumbling down,
3 And ever-drizzling rain upon the loft,
loft > air, upper region; roof
4 Mixed with a murmuring wind, much like the sound
5 Of swarming bees, did cast him in a swoon:
6 No other noise, nor people's troublous cries,
7 As still are wont to annoy the walled town,
still > continually
wont > accustomed
8 Might there be heard: but careless Quiet lies
careless > unconscious, free from cares
9 Wrapped in eternal silence, far from enemies.
101.42
The messenger approching to him spake,
2 But his +wast+ wordes returnd to him in vaine:
So sound he slept, that nought mought him awake.
4 Then rudely he him +thrust+, and pusht with paine,
Whereat he gan to stretch: but he againe
6 Shooke him so hard, that forced him to speake.
As one then in a dreame, whose dryer braine
8 Is tost with troubled sights and fancies weake,
He mumbled soft, but would not all his silence breake.
2 wast > waste _1590, 1609_
4 thrust > trust _1596_
1 The messenger approaching to him spoke,
2 But his waste words returned to him in vain:
waste > futile
3 So sound he slept, that naught might him awake.
4 Then rudely he him thrust, and pushed with pain,
rudely > roughly
5 Whereat he began to stretch: but he again
6 Shook him so hard, that forced him to speak.
pain > pains, effort
7 As one then in a dream, whose drier brain
drier > {Too-dry: subject to uneasy dreams}
that > [that it]
8 Is tossed with troubled sights and fancies weak,
9 He mumbled soft, but would not all his silence break.
all > altogether, entirely
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The Sprite then gan more boldly him to wake,
2 And threatned vnto him the dreaded name
Of _Hecate_: whereat he gan to quake,
4 And lifting vp his lumpish head, with blame
Halfe angry asked him, for what he came.
6 Hither (quoth he) me _Archimago_ sent,
He that the stubborne Sprites can wisely tame,
8 He bids thee to him send for his intent
A fit false dreame, that can delude the sleepers sent.
1 The sprite then began more boldly him to wake,
2 And threatened to him the dreaded name
3 Of Hecate: whereat he began to quake,
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