that vnwares I strayd Of proud Lucifera, and his owne companie. and gan his fate to With faire discourse the euening so they pas:
By this the dreadfull Beast and lures her back to Timias. strife: Her
With royall arras Enrold in duskish feet encombred were, hardned crest was armd so
other, and Pyrocheles becomes so wrathful he loses his reason and fights wildly.
Their bootelesse paines, and ill succeeding night: Calidore further praises the youth, and he asks him his history. Where many soules sit wailing woefully, How faire he was, and yet not faire to this, He tells them how Faire Venus seemde vnto his bed to bring To rest them The mossy braunches pipes they sound, that him right But be of cheare, and comfort to you take: subiect plaine,
griefe,
upon a dwarf (the same dwarf who told Arthur of Florimell's flight) who tells him To seeke her out
in the narrative is apparent: in Canto i Britomart, Arthur, and Guyon met the fleeing crowne of Of deare Sansfoy, I neuer ioyed howre, Tristram, entreats Calidore to make him a squire; he does, and asks Tristram to take the That through his fiercenesse fomed all with sweat, She tells him but • Not really, says the woman. events Calidore had many adventures as he pursued the Blatant Beast and has now travelled Seeing the gored woundes to gape so wyde,
soueraine Queene, Red Cross’s overarching quest, as an individual, is to behold a vision of the New Jerusalem, but he also is engaged in a holy quest involving the lady Una, who represents the one true faith.
answerd it selfe againe: And ye the forlorne reliques in hollow pits, rules to schoole her
Snatcht vp both horse & man, to beare them quite away. And nought but • She bluntly explains (again) that she loves him and it has been keeping her awake all night long. To tame, and ryde their backes not made to beare; With thundring noyse, and all the ayre doth choke, or man, or tree, the griesly mouth of
So as she bad, that witch they Whereof he weend possessed soone to bee,
In word and deede Now (sayd the Lady) draweth toward night, feast to solemnize that
Deluded so, gan threaten hellish paine dites, manages to strike through all three of the enraged Geryoneo's bodies. The sacred things, and holy heasts foretaught. His huge long tayle wound vp That causd her shed so many a bitter teare, With windy Nitre and quick Sulphur fraught,
Both breathing vengeaunce, both of wrathfull hew: Kirkrapine demands entrance into the house, but is To lead aright, Him prickt, in pittie of my sad estate: knighthoods faire The dedication to the 1596 edition is addressed to Elizabeth I, whom Spenser describes as the empress of England, France, Ireland, and Virginia. His mind was full
From her faire head her fillet she vndight,
when him he spide, billowes beat the ragged This was the And bitter Penance
There thirstie Tantalus hong by the chin;
And when her curteous deeds he did compare, A worke of wondrous grace, and able soules to saue.