THE FAERY QUEENE. BOOKII. CANTO II. Babes bloody handes may not be clensd. I. THUS when Sir Guyon, with his faithful guyde, Who with sweet pleasaunce and bold blandishment II. "Ah! lucklesse Babe! borne under cruell starre, " And in dead parents balefull ashes bred, "Full little weenest thou what sorrowes are "Left thee for porcion of thy livelyhed. "Poore Orphane! in the wide world scattered, " As budding braunch rent from the native tree, "And throwne forth till it be withered : "Such is the state of men; thus enter we "Into this life with woe, and end with miseree." III. ১ Then soft himselfe inclyning on his knee IV. 20 He wist not whether blott of fowle offence V. Whom thus at gaze the palmer gan to bord With goodly reason, and thus fayre bespake; " Ye bene right hard amated, gratious Lord, "And of your ignorance great merveill make, >>> "Whiles cause not well conceived ye mistake: "But know, that secret vertues are infusd " In every fountaine and in everie lake, "Which who hath skill them rightly to have chusd, "To proofe of passing wonders hath full often usd : २० VI. "Of those some were so from their sourse indewd "By great Dame Nature, from whose fruitfull pap "Their wel-heads spring, and are with moisture Strandeawd, amt asbend " Which feeds each living plant with liquid sap, " And filles with flowres fayre Floraes painted lap : " But other some by guifte of later grace, "Or by good prayers, or by other hap, " Had vertue pourd into their waters bace, " And thenceforth were renowmd, and sought from VII. [place to place. "Such is this well, wrought by occasion straunge, " Which to her nymph befell. Upon a day, "As she the woodes with bow and shaftes did raunge, "The hartlesse hynd and roebucke to dismay, "Dan Faunus chaunst to meet her by the way, "And kindling fire at her faire-burning eye, "Inflamed was to follow beauties chace, " And chaced her, that fast from him did fly; "As hynd from her, so she fled from her enimy. VIII. 25 "At last when fayling breath began to faint, " And saw no meanes to scape, of shame affrayd, "She set her downe to weepe for sore constraint, " And to Diana calling lowde for ayde, "Her deare besought to let her die a mayd. "The goddesse heard, and suddeine where she sate, " Welling out streames of teares, and quite dismayd "With stony feare of that rude rustick mate, [state. "Transformd her to a stone from stedfast virgin's IX. " Lo now she is that stone; from whose two heads, "As from two weeping eyes, fresh streames do flow, "Yet colde through feare and old conceived dreads : " And yet the stone her semblance seemes to show, " Shapt like a maide, that such you may her know; " And yet her vertues in her water byde, "For it is chaste and pure as purest snow, " Ne lets her waves with any filth be dyde,νίαΣ "But ever, like herselfe, unstayned hath been tryde. X. "From thence it comes, that this babe's bloody hand " May not be clensd with water of this well: "Ne certes, Sir, strive you it to withstand, opta "But let them still be bloody, as befell, "That they his mother's innocence may tell, "As she bequeathd in her last testament; "That as a sacred symbole it may dwell " In her sonnes flesh, to mind revengement, "And be for all chaste dames an endlesse moniment." XI. He hearkned to his reason; and the childe He is convaide; but how or where, here fits not tell. XII. Which when Sir Guyon saw, all were he wroth, JA ১১ 23 So long they traveiled with little ease, edit pode XIII. Therein three sisters dwelt of sundry sort, And both against the middest ineant to worken woe. XIV. Where when the knight arriv'd, he was right well |