. Spenser's Faerie queene. A poem in six books; with the fragment Mutabilite . % UT ah for pittie! that I have thus longLeft a fayre Ladie languishing in payne :Now well-away ! that I have doen such wrong,To let faire Florimell in bands remayne,ji In bands of love, and in sad thraldomes chayne;From which, unlesse some heavenly powre her freeBy miracle, not yet appearing playne,She lenger yet is like captivd to bee;That even to thinke thereof it inly pitties mee. Here neede you to remember, how erewhileUnlovely Proteus, missing to his mindThat Virgins love to win by wit or wile,Her threw into a

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. Spenser's Faerie queene. A poem in six books; with the fragment Mutabilite . % UT ah for pittie! that I have thus longLeft a fayre Ladie languishing in payne :Now well-away ! that I have doen such wrong,To let faire Florimell in bands remayne,ji In bands of love, and in sad thraldomes chayne;From which, unlesse some heavenly powre her freeBy miracle, not yet appearing playne,She lenger yet is like captivd to bee;That even to thinke thereof it inly pitties mee. Here neede you to remember, how erewhileUnlovely Proteus, missing to his mindThat Virgins love to win by wit or wile,Her threw into a dongeon deepe and blind,And there in chaynes her cruelly did bind,In hope thereby her to his bent to draw:For, when as neither gifts nor graces kindHer constant mind could move at all he saw,He thought her to compell by crueltie and awe. 1013 Deepe in the bottome of an huge great rockeThe dongeon was, in which her bound he left,That neither yron barres, nor brasen locke,Did neede to gard from force, or secret theftOf all her lovers which would her have reft:For walld it wa

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