“The” poetical works of Edmund Spenser

XLVIII.

Her neather parts, the shame of all her kind,
My chaster Muse for ahame doth blush to write;
But at her rompe she growing had behind
A foxes taile, with dong all fowly dight:
And eke her feete most monstrous were in sight;
of them was like an eagles claw,

For one

With griping talaunts armd to greedy fight;
The other like a beares uneven paw.

More ugly shape yet never living creature saw.
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Which when the knights beheld, amaz'd they were,
And wondred at so fowle deformed wight.

"Such then," said Una, "as she seemeth here,
"Such is the face of Falshood, such the sight
"Of fowle Duessa, when her borrowed light
"Is laid away, and counterfesaunce knowne."
Thus when they had the witch disrobed quiglit,
And all her filthy feature open showne,

They let het goe at will, and wander waies unknowne,
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Shee flying fast from heaven's hated face,

And from the world that her discovered wide,
Fled to the wastfull wildernesse apace,

open shame to hide,

From living eies her
And lurkt in rocks and caves long unespide.
But that faire crew of knights, and Una faire,
Did in that castle afterwards abide,

To rest themselves, and weary powres repaire,
Where store they fownd of al that dainty was and rare.

THE Life of Spenser,

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An Essay on Allegorical Poetry, with Remarks

on the writings of Mr. Edmund Spenser,

Remarks on The Faery Queene,

Remarks on The Shepherd's Calendar, &c.

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A Letter of the Author's, to Sir Walter Raleigh,

expounding his whole intention in the course of

this Worke, viz. The Faery Queene,

Dedication of the Poem of the Faery Queene to d
Queen Elizabeth,

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VERSES TO THEAUTHOR OF THE FAERY QUEENE,VİZ.

AVision vpon this conceipt of The FaeryQueene, 102

Another on the same,

To the learned Shepheard,

"Fayre Thamis streame," &c.

"Grave Muses march," &c.

"When stout Achilles," &c.

"To looke upon a worke," &c.

ib.

103

SONNETS SENT WITH THE FAERY QUEENE, viz.

To the right honourable Sir Christopher Hatton,

Lord High Chancellor of England, &c.

To the right honourable the Lord Burleigh,
Lord High Threasurer of England,

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To the right honourable the Earl of Oxenford,
Lord High Chamberlayne of England, &c. rog
To the right honourable the Earle of Northum-
berland,

To the Right honourable theEarle of Cumberland, ib.

To the most honourable and excellent Lord, the

Earle of Essex, Great Maister of the Horse

to her Highnesse, and Knight of the noble

Order of the Garter, &c.

To the right honourable the Earle of Ormond

and Ossory,

To the right honourable the Lord Ch. Howard,

Lord High Admiral of England, Knight of the
noble Order of the Garter, and one of her Ma-
iestie's priuie Counsel, &c.

To the right honourable the Lord Hunsdon,

High Chamberlaine to her Maiestie,

To the most renowmed and valiant Lord, the

Lord Grey of Wilton, Knight of the noble

Order of the Garter, &c.

To the right honourable the Lord of Buckhurst,
one of her Maiestie's priuie Counsell,

To the right honourable Sir Fr. Walsingham

Knt. principall Secretary to her Maiesty, and

of her honourable priuy Counsell,

To the right noble lord and most valiaunt cap-
tain, Sir John Norris Knight, Lord President
of Mounster,

ib.

ib.

ib.

To the right noble and valorous knight, Sir
Walter Raleigh, Lord Wardein of the Stan-
neryes, and Lieftenaunt of Cornewaile,
To the right honourable and most vertuous lady,
the Countesse of Pembroke,

To the most vertuous and beautifull lady, the
Lady Carew,

To all the gratious and beautifull Ladies in the
Court,

THE FAERY QUEENE, BOOK I.

The Legend of the Knight of the Red-

crosse, or of Holinesse,

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