Faerie queene

|* THE FAERIE
          |* QVEENE.
          |* \Disposed into twelue bookes,\
          |* \Fashioning\
          |* XII. Morall vertues.
          |* LONDON
          |* Printed for VVilliam Ponsonbie.
          |* 1596.

1. D.  .1 |             TO
1. D.  .2 |     THE MOST HIGH,
1. D.  .3 |         MIGHTIE
1. D.  .4 |             And
1. D.  .5 |         MAGNIFICENT
1. D.  .6 |     EMPRESSE RENOVVMED
1. D.  .7 |     FOR PIETIE, VERTVE,
1. D.  .8 |     AND ALL GRATIOVS
1. D.  .9 | GOVERNMENT ELIZABETH BY
1. D.  .10| THE GRACE OF GOD QVEENE
1. D.  .11| OF ENGLAND FRAVNCE AND
1. D.  .12| IRELAND AND OF VIRGINIA,
1. D.  .13|     DEFENDOVR OF THE
1. D.  .14|     FAITH, &c. HER MOST
1. D.  .15|     HVMBLE SERVAVNT
1. D.  .16|         EDMVND SPENSER
1. D.  .17|     DOTH IN ALL HVMILITIE
1. D.  .18|         DEDICATE,
1. D.  .19|         PRESENT
1. D.  .21|     AND CONSECRATE THESE
1. D.  .22|     HIS LABOVRS TO LIVE
1. D.  .23|     VVITH THE ETERNITIE
1. D.  .24|         OF HER
1. D . . .

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2. t.  .1 | THE SECOND
2. t.  .2 |  BOOKE OF THE
2. t.  .3 |    FAERIE QVEENE.
2. t.  .4 |       Contayning,
2. t.  .5 | THE LEGEND OF SIR GVYON.
2. t.  .6 |            OR
2. t.  .7 |    \Of Temperaunce\.

2. p. 1.1 | Right well I wote most mighty Soueraine,
2. p. 1.2 |   That all this famous antique history,
2. p. 1.3 |   Of some th'=aboundance of an idle braine
2. p. 1.4 |   Will iudged be, and painted forgery,
2. p. 1.5 |   Rather then matter of iust memory,
2. p. 1.6 |   Sith none, that breatheth liuing aire, does know,
2. p. 1.7 |   Where is that happy land of Faery,
2. p. 1.8 |   Which I so much do vaunt, yet no where show,
2. p. 1.9 | But vouch antiquities, which no body can know.

2. p. 2.1 | But let that man with better sence aduize,
2. p. 2.2 |   That of the world least part to vs is red:
2. p. 2.3 |   And dayly how through hardy enterprize,
2. p. 2.4 |   Many great Regions are discouered,
2. p. 2.5 |   Which to late age were neuer mentioned.
2. p. 2.6 |   Who euer heard of t . . .

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3. t.  .1 | T H E  T H I R D
3. t.  .2 |   BOOKE OF THE
3. t.  .3 |    FAERIE QVEENE.
3. t.  .4 |     Contayning,
3. t.  .5 |  THE LEGEND OF BRITOMARTIS.
3. t.  .6 |             OR
3. t.  .7 |        \Of Chastitie\.

3. p. 1.1 | It falls me here to write of Chastity,
3. p. 1.2 |   That fairest vertue, farre aboue the rest;
3. p. 1.3 |   For which what needs me fetch from \Faery\
3. p. 1.4 |   Forreine ensamples, it to haue exprest?
3. p. 1.5 |   Sith it is shrined in my Soueraines brest,
3. p. 1.6 |   And form'd so liuely in each perfect part,
3. p. 1.7 |   That to all Ladies, which haue it profest,
3. p. 1.8 |   Need but behold the pourtraict of her hart,
3. p. 1.9 | If pourtrayd it might be by any liuing art.

3. p. 2.1 | But liuing art may not least part expresse,
3. p. 2.2 |   Nor life-resembling pencill it can paint,
3. p. 2.3 |   All were it \Zeuxis\ or \Praxiteles:\
3. p. 2.4 |   His da+edale hand would faile, and greatly faint,
3. p. 2.5 |   And her perfections with his error t . . .

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4. t.  .1 | THE FOVRTH
4. t.  .2 |   BOOKE OF THE
4. t.  .3 |     FAERIE QVEENE.
4. t.  .4 |     \Containing\
4. t.  .5 | The Legend of CAMBEL AND TELAMOND,
4. t.  .6 |               OR
4. t.  .7 |           OF FRIENDSHIP.

4. p. 1.1 | The rugged forhead that with graue foresight
4. p. 1.2 |   Welds kingdomes causes, and affaires of state,
4. p. 1.3 |   My looser rimes (I wote) doth sharply wite,
4. p. 1.4 |   For praising loue, as I haue done of late,
4. p. 1.5 |   And magnifying louers deare debate;
4. p. 1.6 |   By which fraile youth is oft to follie led,
4. p. 1.7 |   Through false allurement of that pleasing baite,
4. p. 1.8 |   That better were in vertues discipled,
4. p. 1.9 | Then with vaine poemes weeds to haue their fancies fed.


4. p. 2.1 | Such ones ill iudge of loue, that cannot loue,
4. p. 2.2 |   Ne in their frosen hearts feele kindly flame:
4. p. 2.3 |   For thy they ought not thing vnknowne reproue,
4. p. 2.4 |   Ne naturall affection faultlesse blame,
4. p. 2.5 |   F . . .

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5. t.  .1 |   THE FIFTH
5. t.  .2 |    BOOKE OF THE
5. t.  .3 |     FAERIE QVEENE.
5. t.  .4 |      \Contayning\,
5. t.  .5 | THE LEGEND OF ARTEGALL
5. t.  .6 |           \OR\
5. t.  .7 |        OF IVSTICE.

5. p. 1.1 | So oft as I with state of present time,
5. p. 1.2 |   The image of the antique world compare,
5. p. 1.3 |   When as mans age was in his freshest prime,
5. p. 1.4 |   And the first blossome of faire vertue bare,
5. p. 1.5 |   Such oddes I finde twixt those, and these which are,
5. p. 1.6 |   As that, through long continuance of his course,
5. p. 1.7 |   Me seemes the world is runne quite out of square,
5. p. 1.8 |   From the first point of his appointed sourse,
5. p. 1.9 | And being once amisse growes daily wourse and wourse.

5. p. 2.1 | For from the golden age, that first was named,
5. p. 2.2 |   It='s now at earst become a stonie one;
5. p. 2.3 |   And men themselues, the which at first were framed
5. p. 2.4 |   Of earthly mould, and form'd of flesh and bone,
5. p. 2 . . .

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6. t.  .1 | THE SIXTE
6. t.  .2 |   BOOKE OF THE
6. t.  .3 |   FAERIE QVEENE.
6. t.  .4 |   \Contayning\
6. t.  .5 | THE LEGEND OF S.  CALIDORE
6. t.  .6 |      \OR\
6. t.  .7 |   OF COVRTESIE.

6. p. 1.1 | The waies, through which my weary steps I guyde,
6. p. 1.2 |   In this delightfull land of Faery,
6. p. 1.3 |   Are so exceeding spacious and wyde,
6. p. 1.4 |   And sprinckled with such sweet variety,
6. p. 1.5 |   Of all that pleasant is to eare or eye,
6. p. 1.6 |   That I nigh rauisht with rare thoughts delight,
6. p. 1.7 |   My tedious trauell doe forget thereby;
6. p. 1.8 |   And when I gin to feele decay of might,
6. p. 1.9 | It strength to me supplies, and chears my dulled spright.

6. p. 2.1 | Such secret comfort, and such heauenly pleasures,
6. p. 2.2 |   Ye sacred imps, that on \Parnasso\ dwell,
6. p. 2.3 |   And there the keeping haue of learnings threasures,
6. p. 2.4 |   Which doe all worldly riches farre excell,
6. p. 2.5 |   Into the mindes of mortall men doe well, . . .

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7. t.  .1 | TWO CANTOS
7. t.  .2 | OF
7. t.  .3 | \MVTABILITIE:\
7. t.  .4 | Which, both for Forme and Matter, appeare
7. t.  .5 | to be parcell of some following Booke of the
7. t.  .6 | \FAERIE QVEENE,\
7. t.  .7 | VNDER THE LEGEND
7. t.  .8 | OF
7. t.  .9 | \Constancie.\
7. t. .10 | Neuer before imprinted.


7. 6. A.1 | \Proud\ Change \(not pleasd, in mortall things,\
7. 6. A.2 |   \beneath the Moone, to raigne)\
7. 6. A.3 | \Pretends, as well of Gods, as Men,\
7. 6. A.4 |   \to be the Soueraine.\

7. 6. 1.1 | What man that sees the euer-whirling wheele
7. 6. 1.2 |   Of \Change\, the which all mortall things doth sway,
7. 6. 1.3 |   But that therby doth find, and plainly feele,
7. 6. 1.4 |   How \MVTABILITY\ in them doth play
7. 6. 1.5 |   Her cruell sports, to many mens decay?
7. 6. 1.6 |   Which that to all may better yet appeare,
7. 6. 1.7 |   I will rehearse that whylome I heard say,
7. 6. 1.8 |   How she at first her selfe began to reare,
7. 6. 1.9 | Gainst all the Gods, and th . . .

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