CONTENTS. VOL. IV. THE SIXTH BOOKE OF THE FAERIE QUEENE CONTAYNING THE LEGEND OF SIR CALIDORE, CANTO II. Calidore sees young Tristram slay HAT vertue is so fitting for a Knight, WH Or for a Ladie whom a Knight should love, As Curtesie; to beare themselves aright To all of each degree as doth behove? Thereto great helpe Dame Nature selfe doth lend: Doth best become and greatest grace doth gaine : 1 2 Yet praise likewise deserve good thewes enforst with paine. That well in courteous Calidore appeares ; A tall young man, from thence not farre away, And them beside a Ladie faire he saw Standing alone on foote in foule array; may: But, ere he came in place, that Youth had kild With great amazement, and his thought with wonder fild. Him stedfastly he markt, and saw to bee A goodly youth of amiable grace, 3 5 Yet but a slender slip, that scarse did see Yet seventeene yeares, but tall and faire of face, All in a Woodmans jacket he was clad Buskins he wore of costliest cordwayne, Pinckt upon gold, and paled part per part, That first unto his hand in chase did happen neare. |