Name: The Faerie Queen — Canto V
Author: Edmund Spenser

Quotes from The Faerie Queen — Canto V (Edmund Spenser)

Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen — Canto V

“ But answer none receives: the darkness him does shrowd.
XIV
In haste Duessa from her place arose,
⁠And to him running said, O prowest knight,
⁠That ever Ladie to her love did chose,
⁠Let now abate the terror of your might,
⁠And quench the flame of furious despight,
⁠And bloudie vengeance; lo th' infernall powres,
⁠Covering your foe with cloud of deadly night,
⁠Have borne him hence to Plutoes balefull bowres.
The conquest yours, I yours, the shield, the glory yours. ”

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Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen — Canto V

“ To gaze on earthly wight that with the Night durst ride.
XXXIII
They pas the bitter waves of Acheron,
⁠Where many soules sit wailing woefully,
⁠And come to fiery flood of Phlegeton,
⁠Whereas the damned ghosts in torments fry,
⁠And with sharpe shrilling shriekes doe bootlesse cry,
⁠Cursing high Jove, the which them thither sent.
⁠The house of endlesse paine is built thereby,
⁠In which ten thousand sorts of punishment
The cursed creatures doe eternally torment. ”

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Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen — Canto V

“ A shrilling trompet sownded from on hye,
⁠And unto battaill bad them selves addresse:
⁠Their shining shieldes about their wrestes they tye,
⁠And burning blades about their heads do blesse,
⁠The instruments of wrath and heavinesse:
⁠With greedy force each other doth assayle,
⁠And strike so fiercely, that they do impresse
⁠Deepe dinted furrowes in the battred mayle;
The yron walles to ward their blowes are weak and fraile. ”

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Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen — Canto V

“ As when a wearie traveller that strayes
⁠By muddy shore of broad seven-mouthed Nile,
⁠Unweeting of the perillous wandring wayes,
⁠Doth meete a cruell craftie Crocodile,
⁠Which in false griefe hyding his harmefull guile,
⁠Doth weepe full sore, and sheddeth tender teares:^
⁠The foolish man, that pitties all this while
⁠His mournefull plight, is swallowed up unawares,
Forgetfull of his owne, that mindes anothers cares. ”

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Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen — Canto V

“ And fifty sisters water in leake vessels draw.
XXXVI
They all beholding worldly wights in place,
⁠Leave off their worke, unmindfull of their smart,
⁠To gaze on them; who forth by them doe pace,
⁠Till they be come unto the furthest part ”

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Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen — Canto V

“ And to him brought the shield, the cause of enmitie.
XVI
Wherewith he goeth to that soveraine Queene,
⁠And falling her before on lowly knee,
⁠To her makes present of his service seene:
⁠Which she accepts, with thankes, and goodly gree,
⁠Greatly advauncing his gay chevalree.
⁠So marcheth home, and by her takes the knight,
⁠Whom all the people follow with great glee,
⁠Shouting, and clapping all their hands on hight,
That all the aire it fils, and flyes to heaven bright. ”

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Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen — Canto V

“ To make one great by others losse, is bad excheat.^
XXVI
Yet shall they not escape so freely all;
⁠For some shall pay the price of others guilt:
⁠And he the man that made Sansfoy to fall,
⁠Shall with his owne bloud^ price that he has spilt. ”

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