The faerie queene : Disposed into twelue bookes, fashioning XII morall vertues . Amoret rapt hy greedte lufl Belphebe fanes from dread^The Sijmre her loHes^ and bemg blamd ^; hU dayes in dole doth lead, g^;. GRcat God of loue^ that with thy cruell dartDoeft conquer greatcft conquerors on groundAnd fetft thy kingdome in the captiue hartsOf Kings and Keafars, to thy feruice gIorie3or what guerdon haft thou foundIn feeble Ladies tyranning lb fore 5And adding anguifli to the bitter woundWith which their hues thou lanchcdft long aforeBy heaping ftormes of trouble on them daily more ?* So


The faerie queene : Disposed into twelue bookes, fashioning XII morall vertues . Amoret rapt hy greedte lufl Belphebe fanes from dread^The Sijmre her loHes^ and bemg blamd ^; hU dayes in dole doth lead, g^;. GRcat God of loue^ that with thy cruell dartDoeft conquer greatcft conquerors on groundAnd fetft thy kingdome in the captiue hartsOf Kings and Keafars, to thy feruice gIorie3or what guerdon haft thou foundIn feeble Ladies tyranning lb fore 5And adding anguifli to the bitter woundWith which their hues thou lanchcdft long aforeBy heaping ftormes of trouble on them daily more ?* So whylomc didft thou to faire FlormelhAnd fo and fo to noble Britomart:So doeft thou now to her, of whom I tellThe louely Amoret^ whofe gentle hartTliou martyreft with forow and with fiiiart3In faluage forrcfts,and in deferts wide,With Beares and Tygers taking heauie part,Withouten comfort, and withoutcn guide. That pittie is to heare the perils, which ilie tride. So fbone as fhe with that braue BritoncflcHad left that Turneyment for beauties prifeThey trauePd long, that now for wearineffe^Both of the way ,and warlike cxerci/e. Both FAERIE QVEENE. 55 Both through aforeft ryding did dcuifeT*ali


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