The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser

THE VIII. CANTO, UNPERFITE.

1 WHEN I bethinke me on that speech whyleare Of Mutability, and well it way;

Me seemes, that though she all unworthy were Of the heav'ns rule, yet, very sooth to say, In all things else she beares the greatest sway: Which makes me loath this state of life so tickle, And love of things so vaine to cast away; Whose flowring pride, so fading and so fickle, Short Time shall soon cut down with his consuming sickle!

2 Then gin I thinke on that which Nature sayd,
Of that same time when no more change shall be,
But stedfast rest of all things, firmely stayd
Upon the pillours of eternity,

That is contrayr to Mutabilitie :

For all that moveth doth in change delight:

But thenceforth all shall rest eternally

With him that is the God of Sabbaoth hight:

O that great Sabbaoth God graunt me that Sabaoths sight!

II, 9.

Spenser confounds Sabaoth (hosts) with Sabbath (rest). He obviously means the latter only: all things are to "rest eter. nally with him that is the God of Rest." (v. 7, 8). C.

APPENDIX.

VARIATIONS FROM THE ORIGINAL EDITIONS.

Faerie Queene, Book VI.,

1596.

66 Cantos of Mutabilitie, 1609.

Shepheardes Calender,*

Colin Clout, etc.,

Page 5, st. 6, v. 9, fame, O. name.

1579.

1595.

15, st. 28, v. 6, ere he (ed. 1609), O. ere thou.

66 24, st. 3, v. 2, deed and word (ed. 1609), O. act and deed.

24, st. 3, v. 3, eares, 0. eyes.

"49, st. 24, v. 5, aloud to shew, O. aloud in vaine to shew.

66 51, st. 28, v. 6, soft footing, O. softing foot.

51, st. 30, v. 9, thorough (ed. 1609), O. through.

66 53, st. 35, v. 3, which (ed. 1609), O. that.

55, st. 42, v. 4, approve (ed. 1609), O. reprove.

66 56, st. 42, v. 7, reprove (ed. 1609), O. approve.

66 64, st. 13, v. 8, where (ed. 1609), O. there.

66 66, st. 16, v. 8, hurt, O. hurts.

66 75, Arg., v. 1, Serena, O. Matilda.

66 88, st. 39, v. 3, gree (ed. 1609), O. glee.

66 89, st. 41, v. 2, there (ed. 1609), O. their.

94, st. 11, v. 9, makes, O. make.

66 96, st. 17, v. 7, Calepine, O. Calidore.
"102, st. 35, v. 6, fight (ed. 1609), O. right.
66 129, st. 11, v. 9, two (ed. 1609), O. tow.
"131, st. 17, v. 6, from (ed. 1609), O. for.
"141, st. 47, v. 3, toyle (ed. 1609), O. toyles.

"156, st. 36, v. 8, Oenone, O. Benone.

“160, st. 46, v. 5, did dwell, O. did well.

Cited from Collier's reprint.

Page 161, st. 2, v. 9, in (ed. 1609), O. on.

168, st. 22, v. 5, Æacidee, O. AEcidee.