. The faerie queene : disposed into twelue books, fashioning XII morall vertues. end (quoth he) of life intemperate,And mournefull meed of ioyes delicious:But Palmer, if it mote thee fo aggrarc, Letthcm returned be vnto their former flate- Streight way he with his vertuous ftaffe them ftrooke»Andftrcightofbeaflesthey comely menbecamejYetbeingmen they did vnmanlylooke>And flared ghaftly, fome for inward fomc for wrath, to fee their c aptiue Dame:But one abouethereftinfpeciall,That had an hog bcene late, hight GrylU by name,Rcpyned greatly, and did him mhcall, That had f

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. The faerie queene : disposed into twelue books, fashioning XII morall vertues. end (quoth he) of life intemperate,And mournefull meed of ioyes delicious:But Palmer, if it mote thee fo aggrarc, Letthcm returned be vnto their former flate- Streight way he with his vertuous ftaffe them ftrooke»Andftrcightofbeaflesthey comely menbecamejYetbeingmen they did vnmanlylooke>And flared ghaftly, fome for inward fomc for wrath, to fee their c aptiue Dame:But one abouethereftinfpeciall,That had an hog bcene late, hight GrylU by name,Rcpyned greatly, and did him mhcall, That had from hoggifii forme him brought to natural^ Saide Guyw, See the mind of beaftly man,That hath fofbone forgot the excellenceOf his creation, when he life began,That now he choofeh, with vile difference^. To Cant XI7. the Faery Queen*. 3 87 To be a bead , and lackc whom the Palmer thus, The donghfll kindcDelightes in filth and fowle incontinence:Let Gryll be Gryll, and haue his hoggiih rainde;But let vs hence depart, whileft wether ferues & winde. Bb 1 389

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