Edmund Spenser,
The Faerie Queen — Canto II
“ With faire disport and courting dalliaunce She intertainde her lover all the way: But when she saw the knight his speare advaunce, She soone left off her mirth and wanton play, And bade her knight addresse him to the fray: His foe was nigh at hand. He prickt with pride And hope to winne his Ladies heart that day, Forth spurred fast: adowne his coursers side The red bloud trickling staind the way, as he did ride. ”
Edmund Spenser,
The Faerie Queen — Canto II
“ That many errant knights hath brought to wretchednesse. XXXVIn prime of youthly yeares, when corage hot The fire of love and joy of chevalree First kindled in my brest, it was my lot To love this gentle Lady, whom ye see, Now not a Lady, but a seeming tree; With whom as once I rode accompanyde, Me chaunced of a knight encountred bee, That had a like faire Lady by his syde, Like a faire Lady, but did fowle Duessa hyde. XXXVIWhose forged beauty he did take in hand, All other Dames to have exceeded farre ”
Edmund Spenser,
The Faerie Queen — Canto II
“ For though a tree I seeme, yet cold and heat me paines. XXXIVSay on Fradubio then, or man, or tree, Quoth then the knight, by whose mischievous arts Art thou misshaped thus, as now I see? He oft finds med'cine, who his griefe imparts; But double griefs afflict concealing harts, As raging flames who striveth to suppresse. ”
