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www.TaleBooks.comFrom heven high to chace the chearelesse darke;With mery note her lowd salutes the mounting larke.LII. Then freshly up arose the doughty knight,All healed of his hurts and woundes wide,And did himselfe to battaile ready dight;Whose early foe awaiting him besideTo have devourd, so soone as day he spyde,When now he saw himselfe so freshly reare,As if late fight had nought him damnifyde,He woxe dismaid, and gan his fate to feare:Nathlesse with wonted rage he him advaunced neare.LIII. And in his first encounter, gaping wyde,He thought attonce him to have swallowd quight,And rusht upon him with outragious pryde;Who him rencountring fierce, as hauke in flight,Perforce rebutted backe. The weapon bright,Taking advantage of his open jaw,Ran through his mouth with so importune might,That deepe emperst his darksom hollow maw,And, back retyrd, his life blood forth with all did draw.LIV. So downe he fell, and forth his life did breath,That vanisht into smoke and cloudes swift;So downe he fell, that th' earth him underneathDid grone, as feeble so great load to lift;So downe he fell, as an huge rocky clift,Whose false foundacion waves have washt away,With dreadfull poyse is from the mayneland rift,And rolling downe great Neptune doth dismay:So downe he fell, and like an heaped mountaine lay.LV. The knight him selfe even trembled at his fall,So huge and horrible a masse it seemd;And his deare Lady, that beheld it all,Durst not approch for dread which she misdeemd;But yet at last, whenas the direfull feendShe saw not stirre, off-shaking vaine affrightShe nigher drew, and saw that joyous end:Then God she praysd, and thankt her faithfull knight,That had atchievde so great a conquest by his might.FIRST_BOOKE|CANTO_XIICANTO XIIFayre Una to the Redcrosse KnightBetrouthed is with joy:Though false Duessa, it to barre,Her false sleightes doe imploy.I. BEHOLD! I see the haven nigh at handTo which I meane my wearie course to bend;Vere the maine shete, and beare up with the land,To which afore is fayrly to be kend,Page 121 , Faerie Queene, The - Edmund Spenser