. Spenser's Faerie queene. A poem in six books; with the fragment Mutabilite . T OFTEN fals, (as here it earst befell)That mortall foes doe turne to faithfull frends,And friends profest are chaungd to foemen fell:The cause of both, of both their minds depends,And thend of both likewise of both their ends:For enmitie, that of no ill proceedsBut of occasion, with thoccasion ends ;And friendship, which a faint affection breedsWithout regard of good, dyes like ill grounded seeds. That well (me seemes) appeares, by that of lateTwixt Cambell and Sir Triamond befell,As als by this, that now a new deb
. Spenser's Faerie queene. A poem in six books; with the fragment Mutabilite . T OFTEN fals, (as here it earst befell)That mortall foes doe turne to faithfull frends,And friends profest are chaungd to foemen fell:The cause of both, of both their minds depends,And thend of both likewise of both their ends:For enmitie, that of no ill proceedsBut of occasion, with thoccasion ends ;And friendship, which a faint affection breedsWithout regard of good, dyes like ill grounded seeds. That well (me seemes) appeares, by that of lateTwixt Cambell and Sir Triamond befell,As als by this, that now a new debateStird up twixt Blandamour and Paridell,The which by course befals me here to tell:Who having those two other Knights espideMarching afore, as ye remember well,Sent forth their Squire to have them both descride,And eke those masked Ladies riding them 875 THE FAERIE QUEENE. Book IV. Who backe returning told, as he had seene,That they were doughtie knights of dreaded name,And those two Ladies their two loves unseene ;And therefore wisht them without blot or blameTo let them passe at will, for dread of Blandamour full of vainglorious spright,And rather stird by his discordfull Dame,Upon them gladly would have provd his might,But that he yet was sore of his late lucklesse fight. Yet nigh approching he them fowle bespake,Disgracing them, him selfe thereby to grace,As was his wont: so weening way to makeTo Ladies love, where so he came in place,And with lewd termes their lovers to sharpe provokement them incenst so sore,That both were bent tavenge his usage base,And gan their shields addresse them selves afore:For evill deedes may better then bad words be bore. But faire Cambina with perswasions myldDid mitigate the fiercenesse of their mode,That for the present they were reconcyld,And gan to treate of de
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