The Complete Works in Verse and Prose Volume 6; Faerie Queene

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ... nothing he from her reseru'd apart, Being his onely daughter and his hayre; Where when she had espyde that mirrhour fayre, 1. 186, 'glassy' 1. 194, 'Happy... remayned.' Her seife a while therein she vewd in vaine; 200 Tho her auizing of the vertues rare, Which thereof spoken were, she gan againe Her to bethinke of, that mote to her seife pertaine. But / as it falleth, in the gentlest harts Imperious Loue hath highest set his throne, And tyrannizeth in the bitter smarts Of them, that to him buxome are and prone: So thought this Mayd (as maydens vse to done) Whom fortune for her husband would allot, Not that she lusted after any one; 210 For she was pure from blame of finsull blot, Yet wist her life at last must lincke in that fame knot. Eftfoones there was presented to her eye A comely knight, all arm'd in complet wize, Through whose bright ventayle lifted vp on hye His manly face, that did his foes agrize, And friends to termes of gentle truce entize, Lookt foorth, as Ph bus face out of the east, Betwixt two shadie mountaines doth arize; Portly his person was, and much increast 220 Through his Heroicke grace, and honorable gest. His crest was couered with a couchant Hound, And all his armour seem'd of antique mould, But wondrous massie and assured sound, And round about ysretted all with gold, In which there written was with cyphers old, 1. 217, '/rends' 1. 219, 'Jhady mountaynes' 1. 222, 'Hownd, ' and so w in 1. 224: 1. 224, ' maffjr.' / Achilles armes, which Arthegall did win. And on his shield enueloped seuensold He bore a crowned litle Ermilin, That deckt the azure field with her faire pouldred skin. The Damzell well did vew his personage, 231 And liked well, ne further fastned not, But went her way; ne her vnguilty age Did weene, vnwares, that ...