THE FAERIE QUEENE by Edmund Spenser TO The ... - Planet.ee

www.TaleBooks.comWhere-so he be, and soone upon him light.""Certes," (saide she) "I wote not how he hight,But under him a gray steede he did wield,Whose sides with dapled circles weren dight;Upright he rode, and in his silver shieldHe bore a bloodie Crosse that quartred all the field."XIX. "Now by my head," (saide Guyon) "much I muse,How that same knight should doe so fowle amis,Or ever gentle Damzell so abuse:For, may I boldly say, he surely isA right good knight, and trew of word ywis:I present was, and can it witnesse well,When armes he swore, and streight did enterprisTh' adventure of the Errant damozell;In which he hath great glory wonne, as I heare tell.XX. "Nathlesse he shortly shall againe be tryde,And fairely quit him of th' imputed blame;Els, be ye sure, he dearely shall abyde,Or make you good amendment for the same:All wrongs have mendes, but no amendes of shame.Now therefore, Lady, rise out of your paine,And see the salving of your blotted name."Full loth she seemd thereto, but yet did faine,For she was inly glad her purpose so to gaine.XXI. Her purpose was not such as she did faine,Ne yet her person such as it was seene;But under simple shew, and semblant plaine,Lurkt false Duessa secretly unseene,As a chaste Virgin that had wronged beene:So had false Archimago her disguysd,To cloke her guile with sorrow and sad teene;And eke himselfe had craftily devisdTo be her Squire, and do her service well aguisd.XXII. Her, late forlorne and naked, he had foundWhere she did wander in waste wildernesse,Lurking in rockes and caves far under ground,And with greene mosse cov'ring her nakednesseTo hide her shame and loathly filthinesse,Sith her Prince Arthur of proud ornamentsAnd borrowed beauty spoyld. Her nathelesseTh' enchaunter finding fit for his intentsDid thus revest, and deckt with dew habiliments.XXIII. For all he did was to deceive good knights,And draw them from pursuit of praise and fameTo slug in slouth and sensuall delights,And end their daies with irrenowmed shame.And now exceeding griefe him overcame,To see the Redcrosse thus advaunced hye;Therefore this craftie engine he did frame,Page 134 , Faerie Queene, The - Edmund Spenser