. Spenser's Faerie queene. A poem in six books; with the fragment Mutabilite . TO THE FOURTH BOOK OF THE FAERIE QUEENE. Title-Page ...... Page v FRONTISPIECES Canto I. VIII. Stanza vii Page 809 831 853 873 893911 929 947961 9739891011 1031 HEADINGS. Prologue . ...... Page 807 Canto I. . . . 811 II 833 HI. P \ . !>;.. 85S IV 875 V 895 VI 913 VII 931 VIII. 949 IX - 975 X 991 XI 1013 XII 1033 TAILPIECES. Canto I. ...... Page 829 II 851 III 872 IV 891 V. 910 VIII. . 972 X. . . . 1010 viii THe-FOURTHBOOK- OF TH€FAeRieoueenecort; TAYrilNGTH£LfeeNDOF-• CAriB
. Spenser's Faerie queene. A poem in six books; with the fragment Mutabilite . TO THE FOURTH BOOK OF THE FAERIE QUEENE. Title-Page ...... Page v FRONTISPIECES Canto I. VIII. Stanza vii Page 809 831 853 873 893911 929 947961 9739891011 1031 HEADINGS. Prologue . ...... Page 807 Canto I. . . . 811 II 833 HI. P \ . !>;.. 85S IV 875 V 895 VI 913 VII 931 VIII. 949 IX - 975 X 991 XI 1013 XII 1033 TAILPIECES. Canto I. ...... Page 829 II 851 III 872 IV 891 V. 910 VIII. . 972 X. . . . 1010 viii THe-FOURTHBOOK- OF TH€FAeRieoueenecort; TAYrilNGTH£LfeeNDOF-• CAriBO;TRlAMOND; OROFFR16WDSH1P ■ yL-. HE rugged forhead, that with grave foresightWelds kingdomes causes and affaires of state,My looser rimes (I wote) doth sharply witeFor praising love as I have done of late,And magnifying lovers deare debate;By which fraile youth is oft to follie led,Through false allurement of that pleasing baite,That better were in vertues discipled,Then with vaine poemes weeds to have their fancies fed. Such ones ill judge of love that cannot love,Ne in their frosen hearts feele kindly flame:Forthy they ought not thing unknowne reprove,Ne naturall affection faultlesse blameFor fault of few that have abusd the same;For it of honor and all vertue isThe roote, and brings forth glorious flowres of fame,That crowne true lovers with immortall blis,The meed of them that love, and do not live amisse. 807 4 z Which who so list looke backe to former ages,And call to count the things that then were donne,Shall find that all the workes of those wise sages,And brave exploits which great Heroes wonne,In love were
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