. The faerie queene : disposed into twelue books, fashioning XII morall vertues. To reach, when euer he for ought did fend;And oft when thinges were loft, or laid amis,That boy them fought,and vnto him did he Anamnejles cleped is, And that old man EumneJIeSjby their propertis. Thcknightes there entring, did him reuerence devrAnd wondred at his endjefTe exercifc,Then as they gan his Library to vew,And antique Regeders for to auife, X 3 There 324 The fecondHooh of QmtAX* There chaunced to the Princes hand to rize,An auncient booke3 hight Britonmommems,That of this lands fir ft con
. The faerie queene : disposed into twelue books, fashioning XII morall vertues. To reach, when euer he for ought did fend;And oft when thinges were loft, or laid amis,That boy them fought,and vnto him did he Anamnejles cleped is, And that old man EumneJIeSjby their propertis. Thcknightes there entring, did him reuerence devrAnd wondred at his endjefTe exercifc,Then as they gan his Library to vew,And antique Regeders for to auife, X 3 There 324 The fecondHooh of QmtAX* There chaunced to the Princes hand to rize,An auncient booke3 hight Britonmommems,That of this lands fir ft concjucft did deuizCjAnd old diuifion into Regiments, Till it reduced was ro one mansgouernements. Sir Guyon chaunft eke on another booke,ThatJiight, Antiqttitte ofFaery lotid,.In which whenas he greedily did lookc,Thoffpring of Elues and Faryes there he fond3As itdeliuered was from hond to hond:Whereat they burning both with fcrucnt fireyTheir coun treys aunccitry to vnderfiond^Craud leaue ofAlma, and that aged fire, To read thofe bookesjtvho gladly graunted their defirc. Cant*. the Faery Queeite: 3ZJ Cane. X- 9 A chronicle of Briton kings,From Brute tot) of Elfin Emperours,Till time ofCjlorianc, \ A 7 Ho now (hall giue vnto me words and (bun J,V Equall vnto this haughty enterprife?Or who (hall lend me wings, with which fro ground>My lowly verfe may loftily arifc,And life it felfe vnto the higheft skyes?More ample fpiritjthen hctherto was wount,Here needesme, whiles the famous aunceftryesOf my moft dreaded Soueraigne I recount,By which ail earthly Princes flie doth far furmounc* Ne vnderSunnc, that fhines fo wide and faire,Whence all that lines, does borrow life and light,Liues ought, that to her linage may compaire,Which though from earth it be deriued right,Yet doth it Cclfc ftrctch forth to heuens highr,And all the world with wonder ouerfpredjA labor huge, exceeding far my might:How fhallfraile pen, with fearedrfparaged, Conceiuefuchfoueraineglo
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