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THE POETICAL WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER
IN THREE VOLUMES
VOLUME II
EDITED BY
J. C. SMITH
VOLUME I: BOOKS I-III
OXFORD
AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
Oxford University Press, Amen House, London E.C.4
GLASGOW NEW YORK TORONTO MELBOURNE WELLINGTON
BOMBAY CALCUTTA MADRAS KARACHI LAHORE DACCA
CAPE TOWN SALISBURY NAIROBI IBADAN ACCRA
KUALA LUMPUR HONG KONG
FIRST PUBLISHED 1909
REPRINTED LITHOGRAPHICALLY IN GREAT BRITAIN
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD
FROM SHEETS OF THE FIRST IMPRESSION
1961, 1964
INTRODUCTION.
I.
In these volumes I seek to present a true text of the Faerie Queene, founded upon a fresh collation of the Quartos of 1590 and 1596 and the Folio of 1609. I shall call these editions by their dates for short.
The fragmentary Seventh Book appeared first in 1609: for the rest the text is based on 1596. Some typographical peculiarities—long s, &, ô, and superscribed m and n (e.g. frõ, whẽ)—have not been reproduced, but noted only where they first occur. With these exceptions, the readings of 1596 if not adopted in the text are recorded in the notes; so that text and notes together amount, in effect, to a complete reprint of 1596. No such completeness has been attempted in recording variants from 1590 and 1609. But all verbal differences are recorded, and all differences of punctuation that imply a different view of the meaning. Mere changes of spelling that answer to no change of pronunciation are, as a rule, ignored; but I have recorded such differences of spelling as seemed likely to interest students of Elizabethan phonology, grammar, and usage. The evidence of these variants must be used with caution in view of Spenser’s deliberate archaism. Yet I believe that they have some value. I give one instance in each kind:—
1. A fluid e-sound is indicated by the variants ‘seeldome’ 1590, ‘seldome’ 1596, ‘sildom’ 1609, at I. iv. 23, l. 5.
2. Syllabic -es in possessives and plurals, which still lingered in the early fifteen-nineties, has grown quite strange to the editor of 1609. To this point I shall return.
3. The conjunctions ‘since’ and ‘sith’ are used indifferently in 1590 and 1596, choice of one or other form being determined by euphony alone. But 1609 makes a deliberate, though not quite consistent, attempt to appropriate ‘since’ to the temporal, ‘sith’ to the causal sense. The attempt unfortunately did not avail to save the more primitive form.
I have departed from the punctuation of 1596 only where it seemed likely to puzzle or mislead a modern reader. These departures, which are all recorded, are not very numerous. Spenser’s punctuation, though by no means sacrosanct, is less arbitrary than might at first appear; but, as Mr. Gregory Smith says of the punctuation of Addison, it has a rhetorical rather than a logical value. We feel its force best when we read the poem aloud. Two peculiarities are so common that the reader may be warned of them here. One is the absence of punctuation with vocatives: the other is the single comma after qualifying phrases. With this warning I leave these peculiarities, as a rule, unchanged.
In the treatment of capitals and in the distribution of roman and italic type I have followed the same principle of adhering, wherever possible, to the original text.
I have regularized the spelling of proper names wherever the variation seemed to be due to the printer rather than the poet. And this is generally the case with double letters. But for many variations in proper names Spenser was himself responsible. He varied them sometimes for the sake of the metre, as Serena, Serene; or of the rhyme, as Florimell, Florimele. In two instances he seems actually to have wavered or changed his mind. Braggadocchio’s name is generally spelt thus in Book II; in Books III and IV it varies; in V. iii it is regularly Braggadochio. So we generally find Arthegall in Book III, but Artegall regularly in Book V; 1609, however, returns to Arthegall.
II.
Aiming not at a reprint but a true text, I have not hesitated to depart from 1596 wherever I believed it to be in error and the error the printer’s. But it is no part of an editor’s duty to correct, though he may indicate, mistakes made by the author himself. There are many such in the Faerie Queene.
(1) There are mistakes of fact, of literary allusion, of quantity in classical names, hardly to be avoided by a poet writing far from libraries.
(2) There are confusions of personages, or of names of personages, within the poem itself. Sir Guyon is confused with the Redcrosse Knight in III. ii. 4, and with Prince Arthur in II. viii. 48 (but not in 1609); Æmylia with Pœana in IV. ix. Arg.; Calepine with Calidore in VI. vi. 17; while over Serena Spenser’s confusion becomes comical—he calls her Crispina in VI. iii. 23,[1] and Matilda in VI. v. Arg.
(3) Some lines are hypermetrical; some are short by a foot; and there are two or three broken lines. One of these last (III. iv. 39, l. 7) is certainly intentional, and all may be so; the supposed example of Virgil may have influenced Spenser in this.
(4) Imperfect rhymes and concords are numerous, especially in Books IV, V, and VI.
(5) There is one form of imperfect rhyme so singular as to deserve a fuller discussion. Its nature will be best seen in an example:—
Here ‘play’ in l. 7 is rhymed to ‘support’, ‘resort’, ‘port’: ‘sport’ is the obvious correction. There are, in all, nine instances of this singularity in the Faerie Queene. I subjoin them all, citing the rhyme-words only: the number following each word shows the line that it ends:—
In every case the correction is obvious: ‘chace’ should be ‘pray’ (i.e. prey); ‘make’, ‘hold’; ‘play’, ‘sport’; ‘vpreare’, ‘vpheaue’; ‘spyde’, ‘saw’; ‘enclose’, ‘containe’; ‘times’, ‘age’; ‘place’, ‘stead’ (as in 1609); ‘meed’, ‘hyre’. The phenomenon may now be described in general terms: in these nine places Spenser substitutes for a rhyming word a metrically equivalent synonym which does not rhyme. Our analysis shows further that, the rhyme-scheme of the Spenserian stanza being ababbcbcc, this substitution occurs only in the first or last of the b-group, or in the first of the c-group. It seems as if, borne along on the swell of his metre and the easy flow of his imagination, two words identical in sense and metre but different in sound rose to the poet’s mind almost simultaneously; and the one which he meant to reject slipped nevertheless from his pen, having been (we infer) the first to occur. This explains why this phenomenon always occurs either in the first word of a rhyme-group, where the rhyme is still undetermined; or, if in the last, then only in the last of the b-group, where the ear has already been satisfied with as many as three rhymes; and why it never occurs in the a-group, where two rhymeless endings would at once have alarmed the ear. I have dwelt on this phenomenon at some length because it is, so far as I know, peculiar to Spenser.[2]
(6) I must glance at another, though a rare, source of error. Our sage and serious Spenser was a thoughtful, even a philosophic writer; but his thought is large, simple, contemplative, not acute and analytic. When he has to deal with a subtle or complex situation he sometimes involves himself inextricably. If any lover of Spenser resent this judgement, let him apply his devotion to explain or emend II. v. 12, ll. 8 and 9; V. vi. 5, ll. 6 and 7; V. vi. 26, ll. 5 and 6: to me these passages appear incorrigible.
III.
The first mention of the Faerie Queene occurs in a letter of Spenser’s to Gabriel Harvey, dated Quarto Nonas Aprilis 1580. ‘I wil in hande forthwith,’ he writes, ‘with my Faery Queene, whyche I praye you hartily send me with al expedition: and your frendly Letters, and long expected Judgement wythal.’ ‘I haue nowe sent hir home at the laste,’ writes Harvey in reply. These phrases show that the parcel of the Faerie Queene had been in Harvey’s hands for some considerable time. The poem must therefore have been begun not later than 1579. Now in 1579 Spenser was an inmate of Leicester House, and the constant associate of Sir Philip Sidney. There is therefore no reason to doubt the assertion of W. L. in his commendatory verses that by Sidney the poem was originally inspired.
Harvey’s long-expected judgement, when it came, was far from favourable. But the poet was not discouraged, and doubtless took the manuscript with him when he went to Ireland with Lord Grey in August, 1580. Though he afterwards spoke of the poem as ‘wilde fruit which salvage soyl hath bred’, there is some reason to think that he had actually written as much as a book and a half before he left England. For though allusions to Ireland are not rare in the Faerie Queene, the first of them occurs in II. ix. 16.[3] Moreover, the industry of commentators has discovered in Book I only one imitation of Tasso’s Gierusalemme Liberata, and that doubtful[4] (I. vii. 31); undoubted imitations begin to appear in II. v, vi, vii, viii, and II. xii blazes with spoils from the Garden of Armida. Now the Gierusalemme Liberata was published in 1581; an imperfect edition had been issued surreptitiously in 1580.
Our next glimpse of the Faerie Queene we owe to Lodovick Bryskett, whose Discourse of Civill Life, though not published till 1606, purports to record a conversation held in his cottage near Dublin as early, it would seem, as the spring of 1583. Spenser is one of the interlocutors. He is made to say that he has already undertaken a work ‘which is in heroical verse under the title of a Faerie Queene’; which work he has ‘already well entered into’. The company express an ‘extreme longing’ after this Faerie Queene, ‘whereof some parcels had been by some of them seene’.
Parcels of the Faerie Queene had been seen, it appears, not only by Spenser’s friends in Dublin, but by his literary contemporaries in London. I. v. 2 is imitated in Peele’s David and Bethsabe (date unknown, but probably before 1590). I. vii. 32 and I. viii. 11 are imitated in Act IV, Sc. 4 and Act IV, Sc. 3 respectively of the second part of Marlowe’s Tamburlaine (published 1590, but acted some years earlier). Finally, Abraham Fraunce in his Arcadian Rhetorike (1588) quotes Spenser ‘in his Fairie Queene, 2 booke, cant. 4’. Fraunce’s quotation is the more interesting inasmuch as it shows that by 1588[5] the F. Q. had not only been composed, but disposed into its present arrangement of books and cantos so far at least as II. iv. It is worth remarking that all these imitations of and quotations from F. Q. before it was published are from that part of the poem which we have seen some reason to think was written before Spenser left England. Allusions in the poem shed no certain light on the progress of its composition.
There is no reason to suppose that Spenser composed the whole of the F. Q. in the order in which he gave it to the world. It is more likely that he worked up many incidents and episodes as they occurred to him, and afterwards placed them in the poem. We know that the Wedding of Thames and Medway, which now forms IV. xi, is a redaction of an Epithalamium Thamesis which he originally undertook as an experiment in quantitative metre before April, 1580. And it seems probable that the Legendes and Court of Cupid mentioned by E. K. in his preface to the Shepheards Calender, as well as the Pageaunts[6] mentioned in the Glosse on June, were similarly worked over and incorporated in the F. Q.
Combining these pieces of evidence, we receive the impression that for some time after he came to Ireland Spenser worked but intermittently on the F. Q., resuming the regular composition and arrangement of the poem about the time when he ceased to reside in Dublin.[7] By 1588—the date of Fraunce’s quotation—he may have already been settled at Kilcolman. There, at least, Raleigh found him in 1589, and was shown the poem; with the result that in the autumn of that year Spenser accompanied Raleigh to London, and set about the publication of Books I-III.
The volume was licensed to William Ponsonbye on Dec. 1, 1589. Spenser’s explanatory letter to Raleigh bears date Jan. 23, 1589 (i. e. 1590 N. S.). In the course of 1590, but not before March 25, the volume was published. The printing shows some signs of haste; there is a long list of errata or ‘Faults Escaped in the Print’. This list, though not itself faultless, is of paramount authority in determining the text of Books I-III; it is cited in the notes as F. E.
In 1591 Spenser returned to Ireland, a disappointed man. I fear that Burleigh had taken occasion of the Milesian tone of certain episodes in Book III to stir the ashes of an old resentment: the second part of F. Q. begins and ends with complaints of misconstruction by that ‘mighty Pere’. But once back at Kilcolman he resumed his task. At first the stream of poetry flows languidly. The fable rambles, dispersing its force in many channels, like a river choked with sand; the verse flags; the play of alliteration is fitful; and Spenser essays a new, but to my ear an unhappy, variation in the form of a feminine ending.[8] But presently he gathers strength again under some new influence, which one would fain associate with his courtship of Elizabeth Boyle. The treatment of Britomart in Book V has strong, dramatic touches beyond anything in the earlier books; and in the lovely pastoral episodes of Book VI the poet lives once more in Arcadia. But positive indications of date are very rare. Book V Canto xi must be later than July 25, 1593, when Henri IV heard that mass which was the price of Paris: the singular dislocation of the Argument to Canto xii—half of which refers to the incidents of Canto xi—suggests that this Burbon episode was an afterthought; that it was inserted after Book V had been disposed into Cantos; and that Spenser meant it to form part of Canto xii. On the ordinary interpretation of the Amoretti,[9] all these books were finished before, but not long before, his wedding on June 11, 1594 (v. Sonnet 80); and on any interpretation they must have been finished by 1595, when Sir Robert Needham brought the manuscript of the Amoretti to London. Yet Spenser may have added and retouched up to the date of publication. For, in spite of Sonnet 80, I have fancied that when he wrote certain descriptions in Books V and VI Spenser was not only a husband but a father. See especially V. v. 53 (simile of the nurse and infant); V. vi. 14 (the child crying in the night); VI. iv. 18, 23, 24 (Calepine’s treatment of the foundling, which should be compared with Guyon’s behaviour in a similar situation, II. ii. 1); also VI. iv. 37, particularly line 8. Now Spenser’s eldest child was born in 1595. This may be fanciful. What is certain is that towards the close of 1595 Spenser followed Needham to London with the manuscript of the second part of F. Q. It was licensed to Ponsonbye on Jan. 20, 1596, and published by autumn of that year. James VI took offence at the treatment of Duessa, and had to be appeased by the English Ambassador, whose letter detailing the incident is dated Nov. 12, 1596. The new edition was in two volumes, the first being a reprint, with alterations, of 1590.
Late in 1596, or early in 1597, Spenser returned to Ireland. In 1598 Tyrone’s rebellion broke out. In October the rebels attacked and burned Kilcolman Castle. Spenser fled to Cork, whence in December he made his way to London; and there, on Jan. 16, 1599, he died. Ten years after his death a folio edition of F. Q. was published by Mathew Lownes, which added to the six books already published two Cantos of Mutabilitie, ‘which, both for Forme and Matter, appeare to be parcell of some following Booke of the Faerie Queene, vnder the Legend of Constancie.’ These two cantos, with two stanzas of a third, are all that remain of the third part of F. Q. Whether Spenser wrote more is unknown. But the fact that the two cantos are numbered vi and vii makes it fairly certain that he had at least sketched the whole Seventh Book. I cannot accept the view that these two cantos are an independent poem, in the sense that they were not designed to form part of F. Q. The lines (VII. vi. 37)—
show clearly that they were so designed. That they may have been written independently, in the sense in which the Wedding of Thames and Medway was written independently, I am not concerned to deny. The view that these cantos are spurious is unworthy of serious discussion. If they are spurious, there must have been living in 1609 an unknown poet who could write the Spenserian style and stanza as well as Spenser at his best. For there is nothing of its kind in F. Q. superior to the pageant[10] of the months and seasons; and no one who really knows Spenser can doubt that the two stanzas which alone remain of the ‘vnperfite’ eighth canto came from his heart.
IV.
The chief critical problem that confronts an editor of F. Q. concerns the text of Books I-III. Should the text of these books be based on 1590 or on 1596? I have chosen the latter. And I have done so, in the main, for a quite general reason. 1596 was produced under Spenser’s eye and by his authority. That authority must be held to cover both volumes, not the second only. Behind this we cannot go. The case is quite different with the later quartos of the Shepheards Calender, which were produced in Spenser’s absence.
This general position is confirmed by a minute comparison of 1590 and 1596. To take the more massive changes first: in 1 596 Spenser completely remodelled the conclusion of Book III. Instead of bringing Scudamour and Amoret together, as in 1590, he left them still parted, hoping thus to prolong the interest of their story into Book IV, and so to form a link between the two volumes, which he desired to be read as one continuous poem. For this he sacrificed five glorious stanzas, one of them the most rapturous that he ever wrote. The three stanzas which he substituted are far inferior, as he must have known; but they served his purpose. He also added a new stanza at I. xi. 3. He rewrote single lines, in the interests of sound or sense; he altered single words or phrases; and he made—what is even more significant—several minute changes of order designed to improve the rhythm. Let me add that most of these changes are more happily inspired than the second-thoughts of poets have sometimes been.
I hasten to make two admissions. The first volume of 1596 was not reset afresh from Spenser’s manuscript. It was printed from a copy of 1590. In the nature of the case, while it escapes some of the blunders of its original, it reproduces others, and perpetrates some new. Nor did Spenser do more than glance at the proof. The 1596 volumes, as we have seen, were printed rapidly; the poet was busy,[11] and such time as he had for proof-reading was given to the new books. I infer that the alterations which he made in 1590 were made not on the proof, but on the copy. In no other way can we account for that combination of author’s corrections with printer’s errors which marks the first volume of 1596. And this conclusion is strengthened by another consideration. It is one of the worst faults of 1596 that it so often ignores F. E. But the significance of the fault has been overlooked. Making corrections on the copy, Spenser did not trouble himself about errors that he had already noted in F. E.; had he made his corrections on the proof, they could not have escaped him.
I believe this to be a true account of the relations of these two texts. But when all is said there remain many places where we cannot pronounce on mere inspection whether an alteration is the author’s or the printer’s, but must be guided by a calculation of probabilities, inclining (e. g.) to the author where there is clear evidence of his hand in the neighbourhood of the vexed passage, to the printer where the ductus litterarum in both readings is suspiciously alike. The most important of these places are discussed in the Critical Appendix to Vol. III.
Has 1609 any independent authority? In the main a reprint of 1596, it is certainly a respectable piece of work, in punctuation especially far more logical and consistent than either of the quartos: the editor seldom fails to show exactly how he understands his text. Our respect for 1609 would be enhanced if we could believe that the editor was Gabriel Harvey, as Todd at one time fancied. But that notion is untenable, and Todd himself abandoned it. We may go further: the editor of 1609 did not belong to the generation of Harvey and Spenser. For this conclusion I will adduce only one piece of evidence, but it is decisive. In the last decade of the sixteenth century syllabic -es in possessives and plurals still lingered even in verse not deliberately archaic. But it was strange to the editor of 1609. Sometimes he remarks it, and signalizes his discovery by printing it -ez, as ‘woundez’, ‘beastez’, ‘clothez’. Sometimes he fails to remark it, and fills up the syllable by conjecture: thus ‘Nightes children’ becomes ‘Nights drad children’ (I. v. 23); ‘th’Earthes gloomy shade’ becomes ‘the Earthes gloomy shade’ (III. x. 46). He seems, moreover, to have made little or no use of 1590. When, as sometimes happens, a word has been dropped in 1596, he emends by conjecture: thus at I. ii. 29:—
‘For the coole shade him thither hastly got’ 1590;
‘For the coole shade thither hastly got’ 1596;
‘For the coole shadow thither hast’ly got’ 1609.
Cf. also III. ix. 13, l. 9, III. xi. 26, l. 7, &c. The few instances in which 1590 and 1609 agree as against 1596 may fairly be set down to coincidence.
Yet I am disposed to assign some independent authority to 1609.[12] The grounds for this view are slight, and may be stated in full:—
(1) At I. x. 20, l. 5, 1609 adds the missing line, ‘Dry-shod to passe, she parts the flouds in tway.’
(2) At II. viii. 48, l. 8, it corrects ‘Sir Guyon’ to ‘Prince Arthur’.
(3) At III. iii. 50, l. 9, it completes the imperfect Alexandrine by adding ‘as earst’.
(4) At III. vi. 45, l. 4, it adds a broken line, ‘And dearest loue,’ to an eight-line stanza.
(5) At IV. xii. 13, ll. 1, 2, 1596 reads:—
1609 reads:—
(6) At V. Proem 11, l. 2, it reads ‘stead’ for the non-rhyming ‘place’.
Of these changes, (2) and (3) are not beyond the capacity of an ordinary editor; yet it is worth noting that 1609 does not correct other confusions of names almost as obvious as (2). Even the missing line (1), Spenserian as it sounds, might conceivably be editorial. But to add a broken line, like (4), seems to me a touch beyond an editor. And (5) is most easily explained by supposing that Spenser altered the text, meaning to omit ‘tender’, but left that word standing. (6) is an instance of a phenomenon that has already been discussed. The significant point is that this is the only instance of that phenomenon which is corrected in 1609. An editor who corrected one of these mistakes might be expected to correct others; but the author who perpetrated these non-rhymes would more easily overlook them.
The addition of the Mutabilitie cantos in 1609 must be allowed to create a prejudice in favour of the view for which I argue. The editor who recovered so much of Spenser’s manuscript may have recovered more: parcels of F. Q., as we have seen, were handed about in London in Spenser’s absence. Or—and the form of the variants at IV. xii. 13 makes this the more probable hypothesis—the editor of 1609 may have had a copy of 1596 with some corrections by the author. Finally, it is not impossible that these corrections were actually embodied in exemplars of 1596 which no longer survive. Elizabethan writers were in the habit of correcting sheets as they passed through the press: in F. Q. itself I have noted more than a score of places in which the readings of the copies used for this edition differ from those of other copies in the Bodleian or the British Museum, or of copies used by previous editors; and the notes of Church, Upton, and Todd show that they had seen copies which differ in minute points from any now available. As the sheets were probably bound indiscriminately, it is possible that no two exemplars exactly correspond. The charges of careless collation freely bandied among Spenser’s editors are sometimes due to this cause.
It remains for me to acknowledge with gratitude the unwearied help that I have received in preparing this edition, first, from my wife, who read 1609 with me twice; next, from my friend Dr. Soutar, of University College, Dundee, who revised the difficult proofs of Books I-III; last, from an unknown coadjutor, Mr. Ostler of the Clarendon Press, to whose skill and vigilance above all I owe whatever measure of accuracy has been secured. An edition like this has little claim to any higher virtue; yet perfect accuracy, even, is too much to hope for in the reproduction, by ordinary typography, of the original spelling and punctuation of a poem which runs to more than 35,000 lines. In the Critical Appendix I have called attention to one or two places in which I have noted what now seem to me to be errors, or on which I have changed my mind since the sheets were printed.
I have also to thank Sir James Murray, Dr. Bradley, and Dr. Craigie for information on points of lexicography; and Mr. Charles Cannan for the protracted loan of his copy of the first folio.
St. Andrews,
September, 1909.
[1] But this was corrected as the sheet passed through the press. See note ad loc. in the Critical Appendix.
[2] The peculiarity consists not in the occasional occurrence of a rhymeless line—a thing that can easily be paralleled from Shelley or any poet of equal fluency—but in the fact that the right word is in every case so obvious that we cannot but believe it to have been in Spenser’s mind.
[3] This argument loses some of its weight from the likelihood that Spenser had been in Ireland before 1580. In his View of the Present State of Ireland, Irenæus, who is Spenser’s mouthpiece, speaks of himself as an eyewitness of the execution of Murrogh O’Brien, which took place at Limerick in July, 1577. The statement, of course, is not conclusive, as it would be if made in Spenser’s own person. Yet Spenser’s account of this hideous incident has the stamp of personal observation, and, taken with the evidence of Phillips’s Theatrum Poetarum Anglicorum, points to the conclusion that in 1577 Spenser had been sent to Ireland by Leicester with letters to Sir Henry Sidney. His visit, however, must have been brief, and may well have left no trace in his poetry.
Upton believed that the Ruddymane episode in II. ii referred to the O’Neills, whose badge was a bloody hand (v. the View of the Present State of Ireland). If there be anything in this, it makes against the view that a book and a half had been written by August, 1580; for Spenser is not likely to have known the O’Neill ‘badge’ till he settled in Ireland.
[4] The passage in Tasso (G. L. ix. 25) is itself an imitation of Virgil, Aen. vii. 785. Yet the ‘greedie pawes’ and ‘golden wings’ of Spenser’s picture seem due to Tasso’s ‘Sù le zampe s’inalza, e l’ali spande.’
Both these arguments, then, are indecisive; and in the absence of decisive proof I find it hard to believe that Harvey, who though a pedant was no fool, can have seen anything like the whole of Book I without recognizing its superlative merits.
[5] Fraunce’s book was licensed on June 11.
[6] From these Pageaunts E. K. quotes a line:
which appears, slightly altered, in F. Q. II. iii. 25.
[7] The ‘fennes of Allan’ (II. ix. 16) would be near New Abbey in Co. Kildare, where Spenser seems to have occasionally resided in the years 1582-4.
[8] In the whole of Books I-III there is only one feminine ending, viz. in II. ix. 47. In Books IV-VI such endings abound.
[9] ‘On the ordinary interpretation,’ I say; for an attempt has recently been made (Mod. Lang. Rev. 1908) to prove that the lady of the Amoretti and the ‘countrey lasse’ of F. Q. VI was not Elizabeth Boyle, but Lady Elizabeth Carey.
[10] The occurrence of feminine endings makes it very unlikely that this was among the Pageaunts mentioned by E. K. The greater part of the Mutabilitie cantos was certainly written in Ireland, probably in 1597-8.
[11] The scene of the dialogue on the Present State of Ireland is laid in England; so that, unless this is a mere literary device, the tract must have been written, or at least begun, during this visit in 1596.
[12] No such authority, I think, belongs to the ‘Second Folio’, though it sometimes corrects printer’s errors. In the Critical Appendix I have cited some of its characteristic variants in support of this view.
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
Of the copies collated for this edition, three are in the Bodleian, viz.:—
(1) Malone 615, Books I-III, 1590.
(2) Malone 616, Books IV-VI, 1596.
(3) 4o Art. Seld. S. 22, Books I-VI, 1596 (collated for Books I-III).
For 1609 I have used (4) a copy belonging to Mr. Charles Cannan.
The following copies, though not collated verbatim, have been examined for variants:—
| (5) | Malone 7, 1609 | } | ||
| (6) | M. 4. 5 Art. | { Books I-III, 1611 | } | |
| { Books IV-VII, 1612 | } | in the Bodleian. | ||
| (7) | Douce S. 817 | { Books I-III, 1609 | } | |
| { Books IV-VII, 1613 | } | |||
| (8) | G. 11535, 6 | { Books I-III, 1590 | } | |
| { Books IV-VI, 1596 | } | |||
| (9) | C. 12. h. 17, 18 | { Books I-III, 1590 | } | |
| { Books IV-VI, 1596 | } | |||
| (10) | 686 g. 21, 22, 1596 | } | ||
| (11) | G. 11537, 1596 | } | in the British Museum. | |
| (12) | C. 57. f. 6, 1609 | } | ||
| (13) | 78 g. 13 | { Books I-III, 1609 | } | |
| { Books IV-VII, 1613 | } | |||
| (14) | 79 h. 23 | { Books I-III, 1611 | } | |
| { Books IV-VII, 1613 | } |
The bibliographical note on Spenser in the Dictionary of National Biography appears to ignore 4o Art. Seld. S. 22.
The 1590, 1596, 1609 editions of F. Q. have been described already. In 1611 Lownes (the publisher of the 1609 F. Q.) set about a complete edition of Spenser’s poems. But having on hand unsold copies of 1609, he incorporated parts of these under the new title-page.[13] This has happened to (6), the first part of which is identical with 1609, except for the title-page and dedication. The genuine 1611 edition of F. Q. I-III is represented by
the first part of (14). The second part of (6), bearing date 1612, has been reset: it is identical with the second parts of (7), (13), (14), which bear date 1613. No 1611 edition of F. Q. IV-VII is known to me. But in the footnotes I have followed the custom of citing this ‘Second Folio’ as 1611, except where readings not found by me in editions prior to 1612-13 have been attributed to 1609 by previous editors, misled perhaps by the omission from the British Museum catalogue of the second title to (13). In the Critical Appendix on Books IV-VII I cite this Second Folio (for these Books) as 16(11)-12-13.
Subsequent editions of Spenser’s works:—The folios of 1617, 1679 (the latter said to have been overseen by Dryden); ed. J. Hughes, 1715; H. J. Todd, 1805; F. J. Child, 1855; J. P. Collier, 1862; R. Morris, 1869; A. B. Grosart, 1882-4.
Separate editions of Faerie Queene:—ed. J. Upton, 1758; R. Church, 1758-9; Kate M. Warren, 1897-1900.
Commentaries:—Remarks on Spenser’s Poems, by J. Jortin, 1734.
Observations on the Faerie Queene, by T. Warton, 1754.
[For the matter of this note I am largely indebted to Mr. Ostler and Mr. Percy Simpson.]
[13] From a MS. note of Malone’s I learn that Ponsonbye had played the same trick in 1596; and even of the 1617 folio Church avers that some copies are made up with sheets of the old 1611.
CONTENTS.
THE FAERIE QVEENE.
| PAGE | ||
| Dedication to Qveen Elizabeth | 2 | |
| BOOK I. | The Legende of the Knight of the Red Crosse, or of Holinesse | 3 |
| BOOK II. | The Legend of Sir Gvyon, or of Temperavnce | 165 |
| BOOK III. | The Legend of Britomartis, or of Chastitie | 342 |
| APPENDIX. | Stanzas omitted in the Second Edition (1596) | 517 |
THE FAERIE
QVEENE.
Disposed into twelue bookes,
Fashioning
XII. Morall vertues.
LONDON
Printed for VVilliam Ponsonbie.
1596.
TO
THE MOST HIGH,
MIGHTIE
And
MAGNIFICENT
EMPRESSE RENOVVMED
FOR PIETIE, VERTVE,
AND ALL GRATIOVS
GOVERNMENT ELIZABETH BY
THE GRACE OF GOD QVEENE
OF ENGLAND FRAVNCE AND
IRELAND AND OF VIRGINIA,
DEFENDOVR OF THE
FAITH, &c. HER MOST
HVMBLE SERVAVNT
EDMVND SPENSER
DOTH IN ALL HVMILITIE
DEDICATE,
PRESENT
AND CONSECRATE THESE
HIS LABOVRS TO LIVE
VVITH THE ETERNITIE
OF HER
FAME.
THE FIRST
BOOKE OF THE
FAERIE QVEENE.
Contayning
THE LEGENDE OF THE
KNIGHT OF THE RED CROSSE,
OR
OF HOLINESSE.
[14] i 2 taught 1596
[15] 8 ’broad, amongst 1609
[16] ii 1 O] ô 1596, 1609 passim
[17] iv 5 my] mine 1590
Canto I.
[18] Arg. 3 entrape 1596: entrap 1609
[19] i 4 bloody 1590 passim
[20] ii 1 But] And 1590
[21] iv 7 sat] sate 1590
[22] v 1 and innocent 1590: an Innocent 1609
[23] 9 cõpeld 1590, 1596 passim
[24] viii 3 tempests 1609
[25] ix 6 sweet, 1609
[26] 9 sildom 1609 passim
[27] x 4 They] The 1596
[28] xii 5 your hardy stroke 1590 &c.: corr. F. E.
[29] xiii 2 late, 1596
[30] xv 6 poisnous 1590
[31] xvii 1 perceiu’ed 1596
[32] xix 2 ye] you 1609
[33] xx 4 vilely 1609
[34] xxi 5 spring] ebbe 1590 &c.: corr. F. E.
[35] t’auale 1590: corr. F. E.
[36] xxii 3 lenger 1590
[37] xxiii 2 Phebus 1590
[38] 5 cumbrous 1590
[39] xxiv 6 stroke 1590
[40] 8 reft 1609
[41] xxv 7 wound. 1596
[42] xxvi 8 longer 1609
[43] xxvii 2 haste 1609
[44] xxviii 8 passeth 1596, 1609
[45] xxx 9 fits 1609
[46] xxxi 1 danger 1609
[47] 2 euill bis 1596
[48] 3 strange 1609
[49] 6 you] thee 1590
[50] xxxii 6 for wearied 1596
[51] xxxv 8 euemore 1596
[52] xl 6 sleepe 1596: sleep 1609
[53] xli 3 euer] euery 1590: corr. F. E.
[54] xlii 2 waste 1590, 1609
[55] retournd 1590
[56] 4 thrust] trust 1596
[57] 8 sights] sighes 1590: corr. F. E.
[58] xliii 4 lompish 1590
[59] 6 Hether 1590
[60] xlvi 7 vsage] visage 1609
[61] xlvii 8 boy, 1590, 1596
[62] xlviii 3 weene, 1590, 1596
[63] 9 with om. 1596, 1609
[64] xlix 3 starteth 1590
[65] mistrust, 1590, 1596
[66] l 3 t’haue 1609
[67] 7 womens 1609
[68] lii 4 begonne 1590
[69] liii 6 sith n’vntruth 1609
[70] liv 8 chose 1590
Cant. II.
[71] Arg. 3 stead] steps 1590: corr. F. E.
[72] iii 4 lusty-hed. 1596
[73] iv 9 honor 1590
[74] v 5 enbracement 1590
[75] vi 7 and] & 1596 passim
[76] vii 9 and] & 1596 passim
[77] viii 9 louest 1596
[78] xi 3 anon: 1590, 1596
[79] 4 shield. 1590, 1596
[80] 6 heares 1590
[81] xiv 4 off] of 1590 passim
[82] xv 2 dispighteous 1609
[83] xvi 4 terror 1590
[84] 5 stands fencelesse 1590: corr. F. E.
[85] 8 idely, 1590, 1596: idlely 1609
[86] xvii 5 cruelties 1590 &c.: corr. F. E.
[87] 9 die 1609
[88] xviii 1 quoth] qd. 1590 passim
[89] rigor 1590
[90] xix 4 strooke, 1609
[91] 9 Whether 1590 passim
[92] xxii 2 wreched 1590
[93] 5 your] thy 1590
[94] 6 I was? 1590
[95] xxv 1 Sarazin, 1590, 1596
[96] xxvi 8 faire 1590, 1596
[97] xxvii 9 so, Dainty 1609
[98] xxix 2 shade him] shade 1596: shadow 1609
[99] 3 ymounted] that mounted 1590 &c.: corr. F. E.
[100] xxxi 6 this] his 1609
[101] xxxii 9 tuefull 1590: corr. F. E.
[102] plants 1590
[103] guitlesse 1596
[104] xxxvi 5 batteill 1590 passim
[105] xxxix 1 fye 1590, 1596
[106] xl 1 Then forth 1590, 1596: corr. F. E.: Thenceforth 1609
[107] xli 5 Then forth 1590, 1596: corr. F. E.: Thenceforth 1609
[108] xli 7 oportunitie 1596
Cant. III.
[109] i 5 brightne 1590: brightnes F. E.
[110] iii 6 wrought 1590
[111] vii 1 field 1590, 1596
[112] 6 Lord 1590, 1596
[113] xi 1 Whom 1596
[114] 9 dredd 1590
[115] xiv 1 penaunce 1590
[116] xvi 9 purchas 1590
[117] xvii 9 conning 1590
[118] xx 5 Dronke 1590
[119] 6 freends 1590
[120] xxv 7 inquire 1596
[121] xxix 2 straunge 1590
[122] xxxii 9 told, 1609
[123] all that her fell sugg. ed.
[124] xxxiv 5 feare,] fea, 1596
[125] 9 spurd 1590
[126] xxxv 1 ferce 1590
[127] 3 perce 1590
[128] 4 shronke 1590
[129] xxxvi 7 mourning 1590
[130] xxxviii 3 streight 1590
[131] 7 the] that F. E. referring probably to this line
[132] xli 9 forth 1590
[133] xliii 5 fied 1596
Cant. IIII.
[134] iii 5 case] care 1590: corr. F. E.
[135] vii 5 sumpteous 1590
[136] xi 3 wroth 1596
[137] xii 2 a om. 1596
[138] 7 Realme 1590
[139] xiii 1 Elfing 1596
[140] 7 obeysaunce 1590: obeisance 1609
[141] xvi 3 hurtlen] hurlen 1609
[142] 9 glitter and 1596, 1609
[143] xx 3 For 1596, 1609
[144] xxii 8 corse] course 1590: corr. F. E.
[145] xxiii 1 wordly 1590
[146] 2 vnable 1609
[147] 5 seeldome 1590: sildom 1609
[148] xxvi 4 tempt, 1590
[149] xxvii 3 coffets 1590
[150] 6 pelfe] pelpe 1590: corr. F. E.
[151] xxix 5 euermore 1609
[152] 9 fourth] forth 1590
[153] xxx 4 chaw] jaw 1609
[154] 6 neibors 1590
[155] xxxii 9 fifte] first 1590 &c.: corr. F. E.
[156] xxxvi 2 Satan 1609
[157] xxxvii 6 Lucifer’ 1590
[158] xxxix 8 lose 1609
[159] 9 re’ncountring 1609
[160] xl 1 hurlen 1609
[161] 3 swerds 1590
[162] xli 2 error 1590
[163] 4 recreaunt 1590
[164] 9 re’nverst 1609
[165] xliii 1 pledg 1590
[166] 3 edg 1590
[167] xlv 4 Sans ioy] Sans foy 1590
[168] 5 cause of new ioy, 1590, 1596: corr. F. E.
[169] xlvi 2 secrete 1590
[170] xlix 1 faire 1590 &c.
Cant. V.
[171] i 9 he om. 1596
[172] ii 1 gate, 1590, 1596
[173] 5 hurld] hurls 1590, 1596: hurles 1609: corr. F. E.
[174] iii 1 common 1609
[175] vi 3 wrists 1609
[176] vii 9 hewen helmets 1590
[177] ix 5 show 1590, 1596: showe 1609
[178] x 6 Doost 1609 passim
[179] xi 7 battaile 1590 passim
[180] xii 8 stoope 1609
[181] xiv 4 terrour 1590
[182] xv 2 thristy 1590
[183] 3 bathe 1590, 1609
[184] 6 trumpets, 1596, 1609
[185] xvii 5 can] gan 1590
[186] xviii 1 traueiler 1590
[187] xix 5 swoune 1609
[188] xxi 8 yet 1590 &c.
[189] xxiii 8 Nightes] Nights drad 1609
[190] xxiv 9 for] and 1596, 1609
[191] xxvi 6 ame 1590
[192] xxvii 7 fashood 1590
[193] xxxv 9 leake] lete 1590: leke F. E.
[194] xxxvi 7 apart 1590, 1609
[195] xxxviii 6 clifts 1590 &c.: corr. F. E.
[196] xxxix 6 reliques 1609
[197] xl 9 fire] sire 1590: corr. F. E.
[198] xli 2 nigh] high 1596, 1609
[199] xliii 6 renouned 1590: corr. F. E.
[200] xliv 2 woundez 1609
[201] xlv 4 woundez 1609
[202] xlv 8 dungeon 1590, 1609
[203] nombers 1590
[204] xlvii 9 altares 1590
[205] l 6 chord 1590
[206] li 5 that] the 1590 &c.: corr. F. E.
Cant. VI.
[207] i 5 in] it 1590 &c.: corr. F. E.
[208] 8 corage 1590
[209] iv 4 wordes 1596
[210] v 5 win] with 1596, 1609
[211] viii 7 mishappen 1590: mishapen 1596
[212] ix 2 doolfull 1590
[213] x 3 honger 1590
[214] xiv 2 double 1609
[215] 9 waste 1590, 1609
[216] xv 2 Or] Of 1596, 1609: If conj. Hughes
[217] xxiii 8 nousled 1590
[218] xxvi 5 fierce and fell] swifte and cruell 1590: corr. F. E.
[219] 9 a om. 1596: proud 1609
[220] xxxiii 9 woods] wods 1590
[221] xxxvii 2 ronne 1590
[222] xxxviii 8 dronke 1590
[223] thirsted 1609
[224] xxxix 7 quoth he] qd. she 1590
[225] xliii 9 hongred 1590
[226] xliv 1 fell] full 1590
[227] xlv 8 thrown: 1590, 1596
[228] xlvii 2 fete 1596
[229] 8 to] two 1596, 1609
Cant. VII.
[230] i 6 frame; 1590, 1596
[231] ii 4 pray; 1590 &c.
[232] v 5 her] he 1596
[233] 8 wexed 1590
[234] 9 did] do 1590
[235] vi 3 glas, 1596
[236] ix 7 women] wemen 1590
[237] xi 4 hopelesse; 1590, 1596
[238] xii 9 stoond 1590
[239] xiii 4 bollet 1590
[240] 8 smok 1590
[241] xiv 1 knight 1596
[242] xviii 4, braught 1590
[243] xviii 5 naught 1590
[244] xx 3 the] that 1590
[245] xxi 1 newes, 1590 &c.
[246] xxii 9 sight om. 1590
[247] xxv 9 feare 1596
[248] xxxii 2 bounch 1590
[249] 6 Selinis 1596
[250] 8 Whose] Her 1590
[251] xxxiii 3 steeld 1590: corr. F. E.
[252] xxxvi 1 seeme] seene 1590: corr. F. E.
[253] xxxvii 5 faire, 1590, 1596
[254] 7 trample] amble 1590
[255] 8 chauft] chanst 1590: corr. F. E.
[256] xxxviii 9 enmoud 1590
[257] xlii 5 faire 1590, 1596
[258] 6 inquere 1590
[259] xliii 4 whiles 1590
[260] 5 runne] come 1590: ronne F. E.
[261] 9 Gebons 1596, 1609
[262] xlvii 3 hand 1590: corr. F. E.
[263] xlviii 9 haue you] haue yee 1590
[264] xlix 2 languor 1590
Cant. VIII.
[265] Arg. 3 the Gyant] that Gyaunt 1590 &c.: corr. F. E.
[266] i 6 through] thorough 1590
[267] iii 1 the] his 1590
[268] v 8 stowre, 1590, 1596
[269] vii 6 wise] wist 1590: corr. F. E.
[270] viii 1 shonne 1590
[271] x 3 aduantage 1590
[272] xi 9 murmur ring] murmuring 1590 &c.: corr. F. E.
[273] xii 5 presumptuous 1609
[274] xiv 4 inner] inward 1609
[275] xv 3 nigh] night 1596
[276] xviii 8 low 1590, 1596: lowe, 1609
[277] xxi 1 amoou’d, 1590, 1596
[278] 5 their] his Grosart
[279] xxiv 5 store, 1596: store: 1609
[280] 6 his] her 1590
[281] xxvii 7 eye 1590
[282] xxviii 1 handling 1609
[283] 2 maister] master 1590
[284] xxix 4 forcibly. 1596
[285] xxx 2 An] And 1596
[286] xxxii 8 thrall, 1596
[287] xxxiii 3 courteous 1590
[288] 5 sits] fits 1596, 1609
[289] xli 7 and om. 1596
[290] xliii 3 fie] sie 1590: fye F. E.
[291] xliv 4 delight] dislike conj. J. Jortin
[292] xlvi 7 mishaped 1596
[293] xlviii 2 write 1596
[294] l 5 lurket 1596
Cant. IX.
[295] Arg. 1 tells 1596
[296] 2 bands] hands 1590: corr. F. E.
[297] i 7 deuize, 1590, 1596
[298] ii 1 powres 1590, 1596
[299] viii 9 the] that 1590: corr. F. E.
[300] ix 3 the] that 1590
[301] 5 Timons] Cleons 1590: corr. F. E.
[302] xi 4 vnwares 1596
[303] xii 9 on] at 1590, 1596: corr. F. E. & 1609
[304] xv 8 vowd 1590
[305] xviii 9 as] the 1596, 1609
[306] xix 7 his] this 1590: corr. F. E.
[307] 9 hable 1590
[308] xxiv 4 espide 1609
[309] xxvi 5 nye? 1590 &c.
[310] xxix 3 launced 1609
[311] 4 repriefe, 1590 &c.
[312] xxxi 5 mealt’h 1590 &c. But cf. Bk. II, Cant. II iv 5
[313] xxxiii 3 yplight 1590
[314] xxxiv 5 scattred 1590
[315] 6 clifts 1590 &c.: corr. F. E.
[316] xxxv 9 Were] Where 1596
[317] xxxvii 9 sight. 1590 &c.
[318] xxxix 1 trauailes 1590
[319] xli 2 is om. 1590: corr. F. E.
[320] xlvi 7 falsest 1590
[321] lii 1 saw] heard 1590
[322] 3 relieu’d 1609
[323] liii 1 feeble] seely 1596: silly 1609. But cf. Cant. VII vi 5, xi 8
[324] 8 deface, 1596: deface: 1609
Cant. X.
[325] ii 4 imprisonment 1609
[326] vii 8 simple, trew Morris
[327] x 4 chuse 1609
[328] xi 5 Dame, 1590 &c.
[329] xv 4 well] for 1590
[330] 9 gan] can 1609
[331] xvi 8 her] be 1590 &c.: corr. F. E.
[332] xx 5 om. omitted?] 1590, 1596: add. 1609
[333] xxi 8 desirde, 1590, 1596
[334] xxiv 3 spright, 1590 &c.
[335] 4 relief, 1590: reliefe, 1596
[336] xxv 9 streight] streict 1609
[337] xxvii 5 embay, 1590 &c.
[338] 6 His blamefull body in salt water sore, 1590
[339] xxxi 6 faire. 1596
[340] xxxiv 8 worlds 1609
[341] xxxvi 6 Their 1609: There 1590, 1596
[342] 9 in-commers by 1590, 1596
[343] xxxviii 1 as] an 1609
[344] xxxix 4 clothez 1609
[345] 8 clothes 1590, 1609
[346] l she] he 1596
[347] lii 1 since] sith 1609
[348] 6 Brings] Bring 1590, 1596
[349] lvii 5 pretious] piteous 1590 &c.: corr. F. E.
[350] lviii 3 dwell 1590 &c.
[351] lix 2 frame] fame 1590 &c.: corr. F. E.
[352] lx 2 accounted 1609
[353] lxi 3 to thy 1596
[354] lxii 4 As wretched men, and liued in like paine. 1590
[355] 8 and bitter battailes all are fought? 1590
[356] 9 they are vaine, 1590
[357] lxiii 1 then turne] returne 1609
[358] lxiv 7 doen then nominate? 1596
[359] lxv 3 place] face 1590
[360] 4 Britans 1590
Cant. XI.
[361] i 1 faire] fayre 1590: faire 1596
[362] ii 4 at] it 1590: corr. F. E.
[363] iii om. 1590
[364] 3 be 1596
[365] 4 far, appeare 1596
[366] iv 5 stretcht] stretch 1596
[367] side, 1590, 1596
[368] v 1 his] this 1590 &c.: corr. F. E.
[369] vi 5 asswage; 1609
[370] 6 sound, 1609
[371] 9 scared] feared 1590 &c.: corr. F. E.
[372] viii 7 vaste 1590: wast 1596
[373] ix 4 swerd 1590
[374] x 4 bynd 1596
[375] 5 lynd] kynd 1590
[376] xi 4 slack. 1590: slacke. 1596: slack; 1609
[377] 5 as] all 1590 &c.: corr. F. E.
[378] xii 6 tell, 1590, 1596
[379] xxiii 8 off] of 1590
[380] xxv 1 wroth 1590, 1609
[381] xxvi 6 swinged] singed 1609
[382] xxvii 2 vaunt] daunt 1596, 1609
[383] xxx 5 one] it 1590 &c.: corr. F. E.
[384] xxxiv 8 merueiles 1590
[385] xxxvii 2 yelded] yelled 1609
[386] xxxix 4 sting] string 1596, 1609
[387] 7 string] sting 1596, 1609
[388] 8 in sunder 1609
[389] xl 8 fall, 1590, 1596
[390] xli 4 Nor 1609: For 1590, 1596
[391] 6 strength, 1590, 1596
[392] xliii 1 shield 1590, 1596
[393] xlvi 9 The tree of life, 1590, 1596. But cf. xxix 9
[394] xlviii 7 heale 1596
[395] xlix 6 rowme 1590
[396] li 2 the] her 1596, 1609
[397] 7 spred; 1590 &c.
[398] 8 darke, 1590 &c.
[399] lii 2 woundez 1609
Cant. XII.
FINIS LIB. I.
[400] ii 5 seeme, 1590 &c.
[401] 9 fall, 1590, 1596
[402] iii 5 fond] found 1596, 1609
[403] vii 3 tymbrel 1590
[404] 7 day, 1590, 1596
[405] viii 3 gracious 1590 passim
[406] ix 1 after 1590
[407] xi 1 when as] whenas 1590
[408] 2 too] to 1590
[409] 4 gossibs 1590
[410] 5 talents 1590 &c.; corr. F. E.
[411] xiv 5 vntayne 1590: corr. F. E.
[412] xvi i pleasures 1596, 1609
[413] xvii 1 that] the 1596, 1609
[414] 7 since] sith 1609
[415] xviii 8 Pynim 1596
[416] xix 5 since] sith 1609
[417] xx 7 since] sith 1609
[418] xxi 7 that] the 1596, 1609
[419] drawing] dawning 1596, 1609
[420] xxii 4 heaunnly 1596
[421] xxvii 7 of] and 1596, 1609
[422] xxviii 1 since] sith 1609
[423] 7 her] his 1596, 1609
[424] xxxi 7 strayd] stayd 1590: corr. F. E.
[425] xxxii 5 t’] to 1590 &c.: corr. F. E.
[426] xxxiv 2 vaine] faine 1590: corr. F. E.
[427] 9 who] wo 1590, 1596: corr. F. E.
[428] xxxvii 6 the] a 1609
[429] xxxviii 3 frankencense 1596, 1609
[430] xl 9 His] Her 1596, 1609
[431] xli 3 ne] nor 1609
THE SECOND
BOOKE OF THE
FAERIE QVEENE.
Contayning,
THE LEGEND OF SIR GVYON,
OR
Of Temperaunce.
[432] Proem, ii 8 Amarons 1590: Amazon F. E.
[433] iv 6 thou] then 1590
[434] v 4 else] elles 1590
[435] beamez 1609
Cant. I.
[436] i 4 vnderstands, 1590 &c.
[437] 7 caytiue 1609
[438] ii 7 natiues 1596, 1609
[439] iii 2 food] feude 1609
[440] 5 bend 1590, 1596
[441] 9 be] he 1609
[442] iv 1 lay. 1590, 1596
[443] 5 avantage 1609
[444] 6, 7 transposed in 1596, 1606
[445] 6, 7 transposed in 1596, 1606
[446] viii 5 with a faire 1596
[447] 7 spoile. 1596
[448] ix 7 languorous 1590
[449] x 5 corps 1590
[450] xi 6 sword, 1590 &c.
[451] xiv 7 despight; 1596, 1609
[452] xvi 1 liefe] life 1590
[453] xvii 3 desyre, 1590: desire, 1596
[454] xviii 2 plight. 1590, 1596
[455] 6 did he] he did 1590
[456] xx 2 quite] quit 1590
[457] 7 blotting 1590
[458] xxvi 9 betidde] betide 1590
[459] xxix 1 attone] at one 1590
[460] xxxi 2 handling] handing 1596
[461] 4 on] one 1590
[462] 7 fayre 1590: faire 1596
[463] xxxii 7 Must] Most 1590
[464] xxxiii 8 thrise] these 1590 &c.: corr. F. E.
[465] xxxiv 6 steedy 1590: steadie 1609
[466] xxxvi 4 liues] lifes 1609
[467] xxxviii 7 launced 1609
[468] xxxix 4 dolour] labour 1596, 1609
[469] xl 4 gore] gold 1596, 1609
[470] 5 louely] little 1609
[471] xli 5 ded, 1590, 1596
[472] xlii 4 attone, 1596
[473] 8 constraine, 1590, 1596
[474] 9 stout courage] courage stout 1609
[475] xliv 6 reuenging] auenging 1590
[476] xlv 8 despight. 1590: despight, 1596, 1609
[477] xlvii 1 low, 1596
[478] 2 sigh’t 1609
[479] xlix 9 Mortdant 1590, 1596
[480] l 3 brow, 1590, 1596
[481] li 6 is, 1590, 1596
[482] lii 5 liefest 1590
[483] lv 6 lincke, 1590, 1596
[484] lvi 2 off] of, 1590: off, 1596
[485] 9 plonged 1590
[486] lvii 1 his] the 1609
[487] lviii 3 whot] hot 1609 passim
[488] 4 fry] fryze sugg. Church
[489] lix 1 equall] euill 1596, 1609
Cant. II.
[490] Arg. 1 clensd, 1590 &c.
[491] 3 Extremities: 1590 &c.
[492] iv 3 lieu] loue sugg. Church
[493] 5 hat’th] hat’h 1590
[494] v 3 hard] hart 1590
[495] vi 9 to om. 1590: corr. F. E.
[496] vii 7 chace] pray sugg. Collier. Cf. II ii 42, II iii 28 &c.
[497] viii 3 set] sate 1609
[498] ix 1 whose] those 1596, 1609
[499] 8 be] he 1596
[500] xii 7 seas, 1590, 1596
[501] 8 fame] frame 1590
[502] xiii 5 strifefull 1609
[503] xv 8 brayded 1609
[504] xx 6 seat, 1590 &c.
[505] xxi 1 cald] calth 1596, 1609
[506] 2 hand] hond 1609
[507] xxiii 2 boldly] bloudy 1596: boldy 1609
[508] xxviii 2 their] her 1590
[509] champion 1596, 1609
[510] xxix 2 Erinnys in your noble harts, 1590, 1596
[511] 6 thrust] thurst 1609
[512] xxx 1 there] their 1590, 1596
[513] 3 bloodguiltnesse 1590: bloud guiltnesse 1596
[514] xxxi 3 make 1590: corr. F. E.
[515] xxxiv 9 thought their] though ther 1590
[516] xxxvii 1 Fast] First 1590 &c.: corr. F. E.
[517] xl 5 peaceable 1596, 1609
[518] xli 1 grace, 1590, 1596
[519] 3 bace, 1590, 1596
[520] 4 eye. 1596
[521] xlii 5 found, 1590, 1596
[522] 6 make] hold conj. edd. Cf. II ii 7, iii 28, &c.
[523] xliv 4 introld] entrold 1590: enrold conj. edd.
[524] 7 told 1596
Cant. III.
[525] ii 6 raught] rought 1590: corr. F. E.
[526] iv 5 glory vaine] glory he 1590
[527] v 9 aduaunce 1590
[528] vii 5 common 1609
[529] ix 7 From] For 1596
[530] 8 slattery 1590
[531] x 1 Braggadochio 1590 &c.
[532] xi 4 courser] course 1590
[533] xviii 6 deuice] aduise 1596, 1609
[534] xx 5 does vnto them affeare 1590: vnto corr. to greatly in F. E.
[535] xxi 5 heed, 1590, 1596
[536] xxii 9 Able 1609 passim
[537] xxiii 4 pearceant 1609
[538] 8 drad 1609
[539] xxvi 6 throughout, 1590 &c.
[540] xxvii 8 end 1609
[541] their] the 1590
[542] xxviii 1 were] did 1590: corr. F. E.
[543] 7 play] sport conj. ed. Cf. II ii 7, 42, &c.
[544] xxx 4 disspred 1609
[545] xxxv 1 hand 1596: hand: 1609
[546] 3 name, 1590 &c.
[547] xxxvi 6 forth, 1590
[548] xxxviii 4 haue I] I haue 1590
[549] xliii 2 greiued 1596
[550] xlv 4 one] on 1590, 1596
[551] xlvi 9 yerne 1609
Cant. IIII.
[552] Arg. 3 Phedon] Phaon 1590
[553] 4 strife 1590, 1596
[554] i 2 (what) 1590
[555] iv 3 walke. 1590, 1596
[556] x 4 He is not] He is no 1590 &c.: corr. F. E.
[557] xii 8 tongue 1590: tonge F. E.
[558] 9 lock, 1590, 1596
[559] xvii 3 surpryse 1590, 1596
[560] 6 one] wretch 1590
[561] 8 occasion] her guilful trech 1590
[562] 9 light vpon] wandring ketch 1590
[563] xviii 8 Or] Our 1609
[564] xix 8 one,] one; 1596
[565] xx 1 partake, 1590, 1596
[566] xxi 7 Sunne, 1590, 1596
[567] xxii 1 ere] ear 1590
[568] 3 disposd 1590, 1596
[569] xxviii 2 Priene, 1596
[570] 4 discerned 1609
[571] 8 deathez 1609
[572] xxxii 6 I,] I 1590, 1596
[573] xxxiv 1 most 1590, 1596
[574] xxxv 7 outweed 1590, 1596
[575] xxxvi 2 into] vnto 1596
[576] 7 Phedon] Phaon 1590
[577] xli 2 Pyrrhochles 1590 &c., passim: corr. F. E.
[578] xliii 6 Occasion; 1590, 1596
[579] xlv 5 thus to] that did 1590
Cant. V.
[580] Arg. 2 vnbinds:] vnbinds 1596: vntyes, 1590
[581] 3, 4 as in 1596 (except Attin Gymochles 1596): Who him sore wounds, whiles Atin to Gymochles for ayd flyes. 1590
[582] iii 2 chaffer 1609
[583] iv 5 sell 1590, 1596
[584] v 9 doe me not much fayl 1590
[585] viii 7 hurtle] hurle, 1596: hurlen 1609
[586] warlike] warelike 1596
[587] x 7 enimye 1590: enimies 1596
[588] 8 relast 1596
[589] xii 8 by] but conj. ed.
[590] xv 3 atchieu’d 1590 &c.
[591] 9 who selfe] whose selfe 1609
[592] xvi 8 a read, 1596
[593] xvii 8 occasion 1590: Occasion 1596
[594] xviii 5 embayling 1590: corr. F. E.
[595] xix 4 shee] hee 1590, 1596
[596] 7 do] garre 1590
[597] xxi 7 occasion 1609
[598] xxii 5 spight] spright 1609
[599] 6 fyer 1590: fier 1609
[600] 7 bright 1590, 1596
[601] xxiii 1 that] the 1609
[602] xxiv 8 agayne. 1596
[603] xxvii 3 her] his 1596
[604] 6 trasforme 1590
[605] xxviii 2 he,] he 1590, 1596
[606] xxix 5 pricking] prickling 1590
[607] xxxi 5 Gaynd in Nemea] In Netmus gayned 1590: Nemus F. E.
[608] xxxiii 3 lights 1596
[609] xxxiv 6 conceit 1609
[610] 8 So, he them 1590, 1596
[611] xxxvi 2 Vp,] vp, 1590, 1596
Cant. VI.
[612] Arg. 1 Merth, 1590, 1596
[613] i 7 restraine] abstaine 1590
[614] 8 their] her 1590
[615] iii 4 that nigh her breth was gone,] as merry as Pope Ione, 1590
[616] 6 might to her] to her might 1590
[617] 7 none 1590 &c.
[618] vii 7 of] off 1590
[619] viii 7 delight. 1590
[620] xii 3 hand, 1590 &c.
[621] 9 her sweet smels throw] throwe her sweete smels 1590
[622] xiv 9 loud] loue 1590
[623] xv 1 take 1590, 1596
[624] 5 no man] noman 1590
[625] xvii 8 thirst] thrist 1590
[626] xviii 2 worldly] wordly 1590
[627] 7 waue] waues 1609
[628] griesly] griesy 1590
[629] xxi 8 bounds 1609
[630] xxiv 4 saw 1596, 1609
[631] xxvii 9 there] their 1590, 1596
[632] xxix 2 importune] importance 1596: important 1609
[633] xxx 1 before, 1590, 1596
[634] xxxv 2 shend] shent 1596
[635] xxxvi 1 bent, 1590, 1596
[636] xxxviii 5 salied] sailed 1609
[637] 8 Thereby 1590, 1596
[638] 9 flit] fleet 1609
[639] xxxix 5 beastez 1609
[640] xli 1 Whiles 1609
[641] xlii 3 beduked 1596
[642] 6 flasht, 1590 &c.
[643] xliii 7 lent but this his cursed light, 1590
[644] 8 damnifyde 1590, 1596
[645] xlv 1 is it] it is 1609
[646] 3 Burning] But 1596
[647] xlviii 6 man, saw 1590: corr. F. E.
[648] l 3 liuer 1609
[649] li 5 fire too] fier 1590
[650] 7 euemore 1596
Cant. VII.
[651] Arg. 1 Mamon 1590, 1596
[652] i 9 fly. 1590, 1596
[653] iii 9 spetting 1609
[654] iv 4 yet] it 1596, 1609
[655] 8 vpside downe 1590
[656] 9 And] A 1596
[657] v 4 Melcibers 1590
[658] vii 3 heapes] hils 1590
[659] x 1 besits] befits 1609
[660] xii 7 Strife; 1596
[661] 9 as] in 1590
[662] xviii 2 that om. 1596
[663] xix 5 bloodguiltnesse 1590: bloud guiltnesse 1596
[664] xxi 5 infernall] internall 1590
[665] xxiii 1 horror 1590: horrour 1596
[666] xxiv 7 ought] nought 1590
[667] xxv 9 betwixt 1609
[668] xxxi 1 spake 1609
[669] 3 his] it 1609
[670] xxxii 6 Hammon 1590: corr. F. E.
[671] xxxiii 9 slaue 1609
[672] xxxvi 4 yron] dying 1590
[673] xxxvii 1 as] an 1590
[674] 5 cam 1590
[675] xxxix 8 mesprise] mespise 1596, 1609
[676] xl 5 if om. 1596
[677] that] the 1590 &c.: corr. F. E.
[678] would 1596
[679] 7 But] And 1590
[680] golden] yron 1590
[681] xli 3 his] to 1596, 1609
[682] 5 terrestiall 1609
[683] xlviii 6 my deare my, 1596
[684] 7 alone, 1590 &c.
[685] l 1 Mammon 1590, 1596
[686] lii 6 Which with 1590, 1596: Which-with 1609
[687] liii 1 Gordin 1596
[688] liv 8 th’] the 1590, 1596: corr. F. E.
[689] lvi 1 Elfe, 1590, 1596
[690] lvii 8 creature, 1590, 1596
[691] lx 4 intemperate] more temperate 1590
[692] lxiv 9 the pray] his pray 1590
Cant. VIII.
[693] iii 2 Mamons 1590, 1596
[694] 8 Come hither, hither 1609
[695] xi 4 strife-full 1609
[696] xix 6 this] his 1609
[697] xxii 7 wrist 1609
[698] xxv 1 his cruell] same 1590, 1596: corr. F. E.: Which those same foes that doen awaite hereby 1609
[699] xxvi 6 asswage, 1590, 1596
[700] 9 patonage 1596
[701] xxvii 3 doe] doth 1609
[702] xxix 7 vpreare] vpheaue MS. corr. in Malone 615. But cf. II iii 28, l. 7 and note there.
[703] xxxii 1 speare, 1590, 1596
[704] 2 Pagons 1590: corr. F. E.
[705] xxxv 5 in] on 1609
[706] 8 doubly 1590: corr. F. E.
[707] xxxvii 3 rayle] traile 1609
[708] xl 3 fayre 1590: faire 1596
[709] 4 so wisely as] so well, as he 1590
[710] xliv 2 guiltie 1590: gulty 1596
[711] 8 no more] not thore 1590
[712] xlv 3 empiest 1590: corr. F. E.
[713] xlvi 1 feare, 1590, 1596
[714] 8 Horrow 1590, 1596; corr. F. E.
[715] weal-away! 1609
[716] xlvii 4 swerd 1590
[717] xlviii 8 Prince Arthur] Sir Guyon 1590, 1596: corr. 1609
[718] liii 6 Had] Hast 1596
[719] liv 4 fayre 1590: faire 1596
[720] lv 3 with bowing 1590 &c.: bowing F. E.
Cant. IX.
[721] Arg. 4 fight 1596, 1609
[722] i 5 incedent 1590: corr. F. E.
[723] v 3 thee] a 1609
[724] vi 9 Arthogall, 1590
[725] vii 5 Now hath] Seuen times 1590
[726] 6 Walkt round] Hath walkte 1590. Cf. I ix 15
[727] 7 Since 1609
[728] viii 5 you 1596
[729] ix 1 weete,] wote, 1590 &c. MS. corr. in Malone 615
[730] xiii 1 spake 1609
[731] xv 3 Captaine 1590, 1596
[732] xvi 8 with om. 1596
[733] xvii 4 perlous 1590
[734] 5 comflict 1596
[735] xix 9 crownd 1590: corr. F. E.
[736] xx 6 There] Then 1590
[737] xxi 1 them] him 1590
[738] 3 sensible 1596, 1609
[739] 7 lenger a time 1590: corr. F. E.
[740] xxii 9 Dyapase 1590 &c.: corr. F. E.
[741] xxix 3 thence, 1590 &c.
[742] xxxi 4 th’Achates] the cates 1609
[743] xxxvii 1 gold, 1590, 1596
[744] 8 you loue,] your loue, 1590, 1596: corr. 1609
[745] xxxviii 2 mood] word 1590 &c.: corr. Morris
[746] 9 twelue moneths] three years 1590
[747] xxxix 3 samblaunt 1596
[748] xli 1 communed 1609
[749] 6 Craftesman 1590, 1596
[750] 7 Castory] lastery 1590 &c.: corr. F. E.
[751] xlii 1 cheare] cleare 1590
[752] xliii 6 why 1590, 1596
[753] 9 shamefac’t 1609
[754] xlviii 3 these] this 1590
[755] xlix 4 reason] season Drayton (teste Collier)
[756] 9 would 1590
[757] lii 9 th’house 1609
[758] lv 9 welis 1590: corr. F. E.
[759] lvii i to] so 1590
Cant. X.
[760] lx 2 lond. 1596
[761] 3 looke; 1596, 1609
[762] iv 3 Whom 1590, 1596: corr. F. E.
[763] 6 and thy great 1590: corr. F. E.
[764] old] gold 1590: corr. F. E.
[765] v 7 Marchants 1609
[766] vi 6 safeties sake] safety 1590
[767] vii 7 liued then] liueden 1590
[768] ix 7 Assaraos 1596
[769] xii 2 that] the 1609
[770] xv 9 munificence 1590, 1609
[771] xix 5 in that impatient stoure] vpon the present floure 1590
[772] xx 2 of sway 1596, 1609
[773] xxii 5 apply, 1590, 1596
[774] xxiii 6 opened, 1590, 1596
[775] xxiv 8 Scuith guiridh om. 1590
[776] it] he 1590
[777] 9 rather y Scuith gogh, signe of sad crueltee om. 1590. But Seuith Scuith F. E.
[778] xxvi 6 their] her 1590 &c.: corr. F. E.
[779] xxviii 1 Gonerill 1590
[780] xxix 4 Cordelia, 1590, 1596
[781] xxx 2 weeke] wike 1609
[782] 5 waxe] wox 1609
[783] 6 Rigan 1596, 1609
[784] xxxiv 1 Riuall’ 1590: Rivall’ 1609
[785] 7 Then] Till 1596: When 1609
[786] xxxvi 3 felicitie? 1596
[787] xxxvii 3 with] vp 1596
[788] xxxviii 2 of] or 1596, 1609
[789] xli 1 Gurgiunt 1590
[790] 3 Denmarke 1590
[791] xliii 1 sonnes 1596, 1609
[792] Sifillus 1590 &c.
[793] xliv 1 sonne 1596
[794] xlix 8 did defray 1596, 1609
[795] l 8 wrrayd 1596
[796] li 7 his om. 1596: In armes, and eke in crowne 1609
[797] liii 2 in] with 1609
[798] lv 5 perseru’d 1596
[799] lxi 1 deare, 1590, 1596
[800] lxv 1 Capitayns 1590: Captains 1596
[801] 9 enforst] haue forst 1590
[802] lxvii 2 Ambrise 1596, 1609
[803] lxviii 7 seemed 1590
Cant. XI.
[804] ii 9 and delight 1596
[805] iv 4 he om. 1596
[806] viii 3 beakes 1609
[807] ix 9 they against that Bulwarke lent 1590
[808] x 2 assignment 1590
[809] xi 4 mismayd conj. Jortin
[810] xii 4 fac’t 1609
[811] 7 Surfait 1609
[812] xiii 2 was] is 1590
[813] 5 They cruelly 1609
[814] assayed 1590
[815] xvi 1 that place 1609
[816] xxiii 8 disport 1596, 1609
[817] xxvii 5 Who] But 1590
[818] xxx 7 Britom 1590: corr. F. E.: Briton 1596, 1609
[819] 9 reuiue 1590 &c.: corr. F. E.
[820] xxxii 5 vnrest] infest 1590
[821] xli 6 Mordure 1590, 1596
[822] xliv 3 this] his 1590: corr. F. E.
Cant. XII.
[823] Arg. 1 by] through 1590
[824] 2 through passing 1590
[825] i 4 Formerly] Formally
[826] 6 that] this 1590 &c.: corr. F. E.
[827] iii 9 do] did 1590: corr. F. E.
[828] viii 6 weiting 1590: corr. to wayting in F. E.
[829] ix 2 behold 1590, 1596
[830] xii 2 disspred 1609
[831] xiii 9 honor] temple 1590
[832] xv 1 can] gan 1609
[833] xix 4 misprize 1609
[834] xx 8 their] the 1596, 1609
[835] xxi 1 heedfull] earnest 1590
[836] xxiii 9 Monoceros 1590 &c.: corr. Child
[837] xxvii 3 pittifull 1596
[838] 4 sea resounding 1609
[839] xxx 6 peasaunt 1596
[840] 9 bathe 1609
[841] deceitfull 1609
[842] xxxii 4 That] Thou 1596
[843] xxxiv 1 the] that 1609
[844] xxxix 8 vpstarting] vpstaring 1590
[845] xl 1 approch’t. 1609
[846] threat 1609
[847] xlii 7 dayntest 1590
[848] xliii 5 their] they conj. ed.
[849] 7 migtest 1590
[850] li 1 Therewith 1590
[851] lii 9 Of Eden, if ought 1596: Or Eden, if that ought 1609
[852] lvii 9 nought] not 1596, 1609
[853] lx 5 curious] pure 1609
[854] lxi 8 tenderly] fearefully 1590
[855] lxxiii 1 that] the 1609
[856] lxxxi 4 the] that 1590
[857] lxxxiii 7 spoyle] spoyld 1590, 1596
[858] lxxxv 1 these 1590, 1596
THE THIRD
BOOKE OF THE
FAERIE QVEENE.
Contayning,
THE LEGEND OF BRITOMARTIS.
OR
Of Chastitie.
Cant. I.
[861] Arg. 3 Malecastaes] Materastaes 1590 &c.: corr. F. E.
[862] vii 2 sith] since 1609
[863] xiv 8 creature 1590
[864] xxx 6 mard] shard 1590 &c.: corr. F. E.
[865] xxxi 6 of om. 1596, 1609
[866] 8 sight. 1596
[867] xxxiii 4 be seeme 1596
[868] xxxvii 8 scathe 1609
[869] xli 8 lightly] highly 1590, 1596
[870] xlvi 7 briers 1609
[871] xlvii 1 wight. 1596
[872] 7 which] that 1590
[873] slender 1609
[874] xlviii 2 burst 1609
[875] 9 loathy 1596, 1609
[876] sight, 1596
[877] liv 6 beguiled 1596 be ’guiled 1609
[878] lvi 8 Bascimano 1590
[879] lx 8 weary 1590, 1596
[880] 9 fand 1609
[881] lxvii 7 shade, 1590 &c.
Cant. II.
[882] ii 2 wemen 1590
[883] 7 away: 1596
[884] iv 1 Guyon] Redcrosse MS. corr. in Malone 615
[885] vii 8 from 1609
[886] viii 5 Which to proue, I 1590
[887] xii 3 strife-full 1609
[888] xvi 9 part] point 1609
[889] xxiv 2 complet 1596, 1609
[890] xxviii 6 there of 1596
[891] xxx 5 her in her warme bed 1590
[892] xxxii 3 forbeares 1596
[893] xxxvi 1 other 1590
[894] xxxvii 9 launced 1609
[895] xli 2 Not 1590 &c.: corr. F. E.
[896] xlii 7 alablasted 1596
[897] xliii 3 nought] not 1609
[898] xliv i mind] mine 1609
[899] xlvi 6 master 1609
[900] xlix 6 Camphara 1596, 1609
[901] 7 a] an 1609
[902] l 2 Them] Then 1590: corr. F. E.
[903] braided 1609
Cant. III.
[904] Arg. 2 Arthegall 1590
[905] i 1 Most] Oh 1609
[906] iv 3 Thou 1590
[907] 7 auncestie 1596
[908] 8 pretence 1596, 1609
[909] xv 3 to om. 1609
[910] 6 let 1590, 1596
[911] xvi 8 remedee, 1590 &c.
[912] xix 1 longer 1609
[913] xxii 9 Greece 1596, 1609
[914] xxv 5 partake 1590
[915] xxix 1 With] Where 1596, 1609
[916] xxxiv 6 autrage 1596
[917] xxxv 1 thy] the 1596, 1609
[918] xxxvi 6 hire 1596
[919] xxxvii 7 their] the 1596, 1609
[920] xliii 9 from th’earth 1590 &c.: corr. F. E.
[921] xliv 5 yeares om. 1596, 1609: shall be full supplide 1609
[922] 6 to] vnto their 1590
[923] xlv 7 th’olde 1609
[924] xlvi 4 outronne] ouerronne 1596
[925] l 9 Shee 1590 &c.: corr. F. E.
[926] <as earst> om. 1590, 1596: add. 1609
[927] li 9 disguise] deuise 1596, 1609
[928] liii 3 (need makes good schollers) teach 1590
[929] liv 3 came: 1590 &c.
[930] lvii 5 vnmeeting 1596
[931] lviii 2 conuiently 1596
[932] 5 dryes 1596
[933] lxii 6 part 1596
Cant. IIII.
[934] ii 5 Panthesilee 1596, 1609
[935] v 8 she] he 1590
[936] vi 9 her] had 1609
[937] vii 8 deuoring 1596
[938] viii 4 Why] Who 1609
[939] 9 these] thy 1590
[940] xiii 9 did om. 1596
[941] powre, 1596
[942] xv 6 speares 1590, 1596
[943] xix 3 Cymocnt 1590
[944] xxiv 2 scathe 1609
[945] xxvii 6 fleshy 1590
[946] xxix 9 shade. 1590, 1596
[947] xxx 4 gameson 1590, 1596: gamesome 1609
[948] 6 swownd 1590
[949] xxxi 5 pensife 1590
[950] xxxiii 4 raynes] traines 1596, 1609
[951] xxxix 5 bid 1609
[952] 9 sith we no more shall meet] till we againe may meet 1590
[953] xlii 1 vp him] him vp 1609
[954] xliii 4 vaulted 1609
[955] xlvi 5 hunters 1609
[956] xlvii 7 repent 1609
[957] xlix 8 fore-hent 1609
[958] li 2 sildome 1609
[959] lix 5 Dayes dearest children] The children of day 1590
Cant. V.
[960] lx 4 bright? 1590, 1596
[961] Arg. 4 swound 1609
[962] ii 8 breathe 1609
[963] iii 2 till at the last 1609
[964] iv 6 account 1609
[965] v 5 A] And 1596, 1609
[966] vi 9 where. 1590, 1596
[967] viii 8 belou’d of a 1596
[968] xi 1 ye] you 1596, 1609
[969] xii 6 douht 1596
[970] 8 faithfall 1596
[971] xiii 8 strong. 1596
[972] xiv 2 beast; 1590, 1596
[973] xvii 3 wade] made 1590: corr. F. E.
[974] xix 3 habericon 1590
[975] 5 no] now 1590
[976] xxi 9 bloud] flood 1590
[977] xxx 7 better] bitter 1590
[978] xxxii 5 nursed 1609
[979] xxxvi 7 common 1609
[980] 8 common 1609
[981] xxxvii 2 undertaken after her arriu’d 1596: undertaken, after her arriu’d 1609
[982] xxxviii 9 forthwith 1596
[983] xxxix 9 his] their 1590
[984] xl 4 loues sweet] sweet loues 1590
[985] 9 liuing] liking 1590
[986] xli 6 guarish 1590
[987] xliv 7 renew 1596, 1609
[988] xlvi 5 restore: 1590 &c.
[989] l 8 To him and all 1609
[990] lii 6 admire 1590, 1596
[991] liii 3 Reames 1590
[992] 9 weare] were 1590
Cant. VI.
[993] i 6 schoolmaistresse 1590
[994] iii 9 was] were 1590
[995] v 3 bare] bore 1590
[996] vi 5 his hot beames 1609
[997] viii 8 creatures] creature 1596
[998] xii 4 beauties 1596, 1609
[999] xvii 6 off] of 1590
[1000] 8 Other 1609
[1001] xxv 5 Which as] From which 1590, 1596: corr. 1609. Of which conj. Church.
[1002] xxvi 4 both farre and nere om. 1590
[1003] xxviii 6 thence] hence 1596, 1609
[1004] xxix 5 Gnidas 1590
[1005] xxxiii 5 remaire; 1596
[1006] xxxiv 2 of prune 1596
[1007] xl 6 spyde] saw corr. edd. But cf. II viii 29 l. 7 &c.
[1008] xlii 5 heauy] heauenly 1590
[1009] xlv 4 And dearest loue, om. 1590, 1596: add. 1609
[1010] 5 Marcisse 1590
[1011] lii 9 launched] launch 1590: launced 1609
[1012] liii 4 fathful 1596
Cant. VII.
[1013] Arg. 4 Gynunt, 1590
[1014] i 8 she did] he did 1590
[1015] v 1 th’tops 1609
[1016] vii 8 amaze. 1596
[1017] ix 3 two] to conj. Hughes
[1018] xvii 4 maistresse 1590
[1019] xviii 5 be by] by 1590: be 1596, 1609
[1020] that] by 1590
[1021] xix 6 her] that 1609
[1022] xxii 4 Monstrous, 1590
[1023] xxiii 4 he] she 1590
[1024] xxix 2 bellish 1596
[1025] xxxiv 2 enclose] containe MS. corr. in Malone 615. But cf. III vi 40 l. 6 &c.
[1026] xxxvi 2 slender 1609
[1027] xlii 6 he was] she was 1590: corr. to hee F. E.
[1028] stuned 1590: corr. F. E.
[1029] xliii 7 saw 1590, 1596
[1030] remorse, 1590, 1596
[1031] 8 neare] were 1590: corr. to nere F. E.
[1032] xlv 1 the om. 1596, 1609
[1033] wake] awake 1609
[1034] 5 him from 1609
[1035] xlvi 8 that] the 1590
[1036] xlviii 4 And many hath to foule] Till him Chylde Thopas to 1590
[1037] xlix 5 staine] straine 1596, 1609
[1038] l 2 thurst 1596, 1609
[1039] lii 4 is] it 1590
[1040] lxi 4 emongst] among 1609
[1041] 5 backe] bace 1590
Cant. VIII.
[1042] ii 7 broken] golden 1590
[1043] iii 2 relieued 1609
[1044] iv 5 masters 1609
[1045] v 1 aduise] deuice 1590
[1046] vi 7 wax 1609
[1047] vii 4 a womans] to womens 1590
[1048] viii 3 lomewhyle 1590: lomewhile 1596
[1049] ix 9 whom] who 1590, 1596
[1050] x 6 countenaunce] countenant 1596
[1051] xi 6 he om. 1596
[1052] xiv 1 pursute 1609
[1053] xxii 5 saw, 1590, 1596
[1054] xxiii 8 the] this 1590
[1055] 9 ame. 1590
[1056] xxv 9 reprou’d 1590
[1057] xxx 3 frory] frowy 1590, 1596
[1058] xxxiii 9 thereby] her by 1590
[1059] xxxvii 9 hight] high 1590
[1060] xli 5 end.] eend. 1590
[1061] xliv 2 his] hir 1609
[1062] xlv 3 ghesse 1609
[1063] xlvi 9 vnworthy’ 1590
[1064] xlix 2 To haue 1590
[1065] 4 his bloudie] a bloudy 1609
Cant. IX.
[1066] lii 5 commune 1590
[1067] ii 4 attonce 1590
[1068] iv 5 her] his 1609
[1069] vi 4 Is] It 1596
[1070] vii 3 disdonne 1590
[1071] xiii 9 And defide them each 1596: And them defied each 1609
[1072] xiv 7 to] in 1590
[1073] xv 3 bin] ben 1590
[1074] xx 1 rest; 1590, 1596
[1075] 9 persent 1609
[1076] xxii 1 Minerua] Bellona 1590
[1077] 5 the] her 1590
[1078] xxiii 9 hongry 1590
[1079] xxiv 5 most om. 1596
[1080] xxvii 5 that] with _1590_
[1081] 7 demeanure 1609
[1082] xxxii 8 yglad 1590
[1083] xxxvii 9 seewing 1590, 1596
[1084] xxxix 4 Asia 1609
[1085] xlv 3 necks 1590
[1086] xlvi 2 Hygate gate 1596
[1087] xlvii 3 hard 1590
[1088] xlviii 6 to the sea 1596
[1089] xlix 4 Which] And 1609
Cant. X.
[1090] ii 2 griuously 1590
[1091] v 2 Melbeccoes 1596
[1092] viii 9 to] with 1590
[1093] x 5 Peace 1596
[1094] xiii 8 would] did 1590
[1095] xviii 4 Then] So 1590
[1096] xix 2 seach 1596
[1097] xxi 9 yearned 1609
[1098] xxiv 6 thou 1590 &c.
[1099] xxvii 2 Since 1609
[1100] xxix 2 threasure 1609
[1101] 6 thy 1590, 1596
[1102] xxx 4 grounded 1596
[1103] xxxi 3 with thy] that with 1590
[1104] 7 vertues] vertuous 1590
[1105] pray] pay 1609
[1106] xxxii 1 more] mote 1590
[1107] xxxix 7 ame 1590
[1108] xl 1 They] The 1596
[1109] 3 wastefull] faithfull 1590
[1110] 7 avise 1609
[1111] xli 4 you 1590, 1596
[1112] xlii 9 did, 1596
[1113] xlv 8 fed. 1596
[1114] xlvi 6 the Earthes 1609
[1115] xlvii 1 his] the 1609
[1116] 2 hand 1596
[1117] xlviii 9 oft] ought 1609
[1118] lii 1 day springs 1596
[1119] liii 5 emongst 1609
Cant. XI.
[1120] ii 3 golding 1590, 1596
[1121] iii 3 espide 1609
[1122] iv 4 that I did euer] all, that I euer 1590
[1123] 9 him did] did him 1590
[1124] vii 6 off,] of 1590
[1125] ix 6 hast, thou Lord, 1590, 1596
[1126] xi 1 cruell’ 1609
[1127] xii 1 singulfes 1590, 1596
[1128] xiv 1 cenceiued 1596
[1129] xv 6 At] And 1596
[1130] xix 9 death] life conj. Jortin
[1131] xx 6 for wandred 1596
[1132] xxii 8 th’Earthes] the Earthes 1590
[1133] the which] which 1590
[1134] xxiii 3 dempt. 1590
[1135] 5 is om. 1596
[1136] xxiv 2 languishing; 1596
[1137] xxv 7 Pearceth 1609
[1138] xxvi 7 with om. 1596: and his 1609
[1139] xxvii 7 entred] decked 1590
[1140] 8 formost 1609
[1141] xxviii 8 Like] Like to 1590
[1142] 9 Throgh 1609
[1143] xxxiii 9 her] his 1609
[1144] xxxiv 8 should 1590, 1596
[1145] xxxvii 4 beare] breare 1590
[1146] 5 breare] beare 1590
[1147] 8 garlond 1590
[1148] xxxix 6 each] his 1590
[1149] 8 Stag conj. Jortin: Hag 1590 &c.
[1150] xlii 6 Her 1609
[1151] 8 snaly 1596
[1152] xliii 4 proue.] 1596
[1153] xliv 9 inner] inward 1609
[1154] parts, 1596
[1155] xlv 2 so! 1596
[1156] xlvii 9 heauens hight conj. Church
[1157] xlviii 7 ensold 1596
[1158] xlix 8 euer more 1609
[1159] l 2 sted 1590, 1596
[1160] li 8 weare? 1596
[1161] lii 6 swords 1609
[1162] liii 3 wonder 1596
Cant. XII.
Stanzas xliii-xlv were first inserted in the 1596 quarto, displacing the following stanzas which concluded Book III in the first edition.
[1163] lv 1 she there] there she 1609
[1164] v 7 consent 1596
[1165] vii 3 ether 1590
[1166] 8 wood,] word, 1590
[1167] viii 1 nether 1590
[1168] ix 3 other] others 1590, 1596
[1169] xi 1 cloth’ 1596
[1170] xii 3 and] or 1590
[1171] 6 winged heeld 1590
[1172] xvii 6 a fierbrand she tost conj. Church
[1173] xviii 5 dread 1590
[1174] 8 hony-laden Morris
[1175] xxi 7 fading] failing conj. Church
[1176] 8 still] skill 1590
[1177] xxii 5 knigdome 1596
[1178] xxiii 5 right did 1590, 1596: corr. F. E.
[1179] xxvi 6 All] And 1596, 1609
[1180] 7 with that] by the 1590
[1181] xxvii 3 and bore all away] nothing did remayne 1590
[1182] 4 plast, 1590, 1596
[1183] xxviii 1 there] their 1590, 1596
[1184] xxix 9 showes 1590
[1185] xxxi 3 wrote 1609
[1186] xxxiii 3 her selfe] the next 1590
[1187] xxxiv 4 her] him 1590, 1596
[1188] xxxviii 5 bor’d] sor’d 1590
[1189] xlii 2 She] He 1590
[1190] 4 She] He 1590: corr. F. E.
[1191] 5 her] him 1590: corr. F. E.
[1192] xliv 2 pensiue 1609
[1193] xlv 7 Who with her 1596
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| Page 96 | “dar’d hisdreaded powre” | “dar’d his dreaded powre” |
| Page 105 | “A uefull spectacle” | “A ruefull spectacle” |
| Page 123 | “Dame Cælia men did her” | “Dame Cœlia men did her” |
| Page 129 | “by wise Patience” | “by wise Patience” |
| Page 163 | “Vnto his Farie Queene” | “Vnto his Faerie Queene” |
| Page 191 | “too litle,th’other” | “too litle, th’other” |
| Page 206 | “honorable deed, 1” | “honorable deed, i” |
| Page 214 | “Wrath, gelosie, griefe” | “Wrath, gealosie, griefe” |
| Footnote | “[612] Arg. 1 Merih,” | “[612] Arg. 1 Merth,” |
| Footnote | “[688] liv 8 th’| the” | “[688] liv 8 th’] the” |
| Page 284 | “dispainted all within,” | “dispainted all within, l” |
| Page 287 | “words and sound, 1” | “words and sound, i” |
| Page 369 | “and then thus fearefuily” | “and then thus fearefully” |
| Page 426 | “Faire Crysogone in” | “Faire Chrysogone in” |
| Page 445 | “she did raunge, 1” | “she did raunge, l” |
| Page 452 | “faire a wight, xli” | “faire a wight, xii” |
| Page 459 | “glory be thy mee’,” | “glory be thy meed” |
| Footnote | “[1081] 7 demeanure 160” | “[1081] 7 demeanure 1609” |
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