Una and the red cross knight, and other tales from Spenser's Faery Queene; . Pope and sometimesfor King Philip of Spain, and Duessa who repre-sents Falsehood as well as Mary Queen of Scots. Lucifera and Orgoglio are two different kindsof Pride, and all the other characters in the storyrepresent either virtues or vices or else people wholived in those days. The Second Book tells the Adventures of SirGuyon or Temperance, and Acrasia is the spiritof Self-indulgence against whom he has to fight. The real book of the Faery Queene is written XX INTRODUCTION in verses, some of which will be found in
Una and the red cross knight, and other tales from Spenser's Faery Queene; . Pope and sometimesfor King Philip of Spain, and Duessa who repre-sents Falsehood as well as Mary Queen of Scots. Lucifera and Orgoglio are two different kindsof Pride, and all the other characters in the storyrepresent either virtues or vices or else people wholived in those days. The Second Book tells the Adventures of SirGuyon or Temperance, and Acrasia is the spiritof Self-indulgence against whom he has to fight. The real book of the Faery Queene is written XX INTRODUCTION in verses, some of which will be found in thesestories. In them many quaint and old-fashionedwords are used, but they are not difficult to under-stand, because Spenser was such a great poet, that,many parts of the poem he wrote more than threehundred years ago can be understood by childrento-day if they will read slowly and carefully. There are many other stories in the FaeryQueene besides those of Una and the Red CrossKnight, and some day you may read them foryourselves in the wonderful verses of the real
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