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|* 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 . . .
