LX. "Safe1 her, I never any woman found My Ladies love, in such a desperate case, Seeking to match the chaste with th' unchaste Ladies traine." LXI. "Perdy," sayd Satyrane, "thou Squyre of Dames, 1 Safe, save. 2 Perdy, truly. Hent, taken. 3 Fondly, foolishly. 5 Land, place. LX. 1.- Safe her, &c.] Let it be remembered that these sentiments are put by Spenser into the mouth of a light and vain profligate, and that they are no more to be regarded as his own, than the language of the fallen angels, in Paradise Lost, is to be deemed as expressive of Milton's own opinions. No poet ever had a truer respect for woman than Spenser. LX. 9.- Seeking to match, &c.] Seeking to make up the number of three hundred of each. LXI. 6. XXXVIII. Where late he left, &c.] See stanzas XXXVI. and CANTO VIII. The Witch creates a snowy La dy like to Florimell; Who wrong'd by Carle, by Proteus sav'd, I. So oft as I this history record, My hart doth melt with meere compassion, I. 3. II. But that accursed Hag, her hostesse late, 1 Finde, choose. 2 Then, than. 3 Repriefe, reproof. Fate, fated term of life. Causelesse of her owne accord.] Without any act or consent of her own. Of Her rich spoyles whom he had earst1 destroyd She weend, and wondrous gladnes to her hart applyde: III. And, with it ronning hast❜ly to her sonne, Thought with that sight him much to have reliv'd2; Much more than earst,' and would have algates3 riv'd IV. With thought whereof exceeding mad he grew, Where she was wont her sprightes to entertaine, And them conjure, upon eternall paine, 8 To counsell her so carefully dismayd How she might heale her sonne whose senses were decayd.9 V. By their advice, and her owne wicked wit, She there deviz'd a wondrous worke to frame, 1 Earst, before. Reliv'd, reanimated. 6 Mew, hiding-place. 7 Faine, glad. 8 Carefully, sorrowfully. The thing itselfe: In hand she boldly tooke VI. The substance, whereof she the body made, By errant 2 sprights, but from all men conceald: VII. Instead of eyes two burning lampes she set To stirre and roll them like to womens eyes: 4 VIII. A wicked spright, yfraught with fawning guyle 1 Lively, life-like. Vermily, vermilion. VI. 4.- Riphaan hils.] These were mountains (probably imagi nary) in the north of Scythia. The name was applied to any cold mountains. VII. 7.- Was not so yellow thryse.] Was not a third part so yellow. And fayre resemblance above all the rest, Which with the Prince of Darkenes fell somewhyle1 From hevens blis and everlasting rest: Him needed not instruct which way were best Himselfe to fashion likest Florimell, Ne how to speake, ne how to use his gest2; And all the wyles of wemens wits knew passing well. IX. Him shaped thus she deckt in garments gay, Or fayrer then herselfe, if ought algate 4 Who seeing her gan streight upstart, and thought She was the Lady selfe whom he so long had sought. X. Tho, fast her clipping twixt his armës twayne, And soone forgot his former sickely payne: 1 Somewhyle, formerly. 2 Gest, deportment. 3 Counterfesaunce, counterfeiting. Algate, by any means. 5 Tho, then. • Clipping, embracing "Hight, was called. 8 Rebutted, repelled. |