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

www.TaleBooks.comWith percing wordes and pittifull implore,Him hasty to arise. As one affrightWith hellish feends, or Furies made uprore,He then uprose, inflamd with fell despight,And called for his armes, for he would algates fight:XXXVIII. They bene ybrought; he quickly does him dight,And lightly mounted passeth on his way;Ne Ladies loves, ne sweete entreaties, mightAppease his heat, or hastie passage stay;For he has vowd to beene avengd that day(That day it selfe him seemed all too long)On him, that did Pyrochles deare dismay:So proudly pricketh on his courser strong,And Atin ay him pricks with spurs of shame and wrong.SECOND_BOOKE|CANTO_VICANTO VIGuyon is of immodest MerthLed into loose desyre;Fights with Cymochles, whiles his brotherburns in furious fyre.I. A HARDER lesson to learne ContinenceIn joyous pleasure then in grievous paine;For sweetnesse doth allure the weaker senceSo strongly, that uneathes it can refraineFrom that which feeble nature covets faine:But griefe and wrath, that be her enemiesAnd foes of life, she better can abstaine:Yet vertue vauntes in both her victories,And Guyon in them all shewes goodly maysteries.II. Whom bold Cymochles traveiling to finde,With cruell purpose bent to wreake on himThe wrath which Atin kindled in his mind,Came to a river, by whose utmost brimWayting to passe, he saw whereas did swimAlong the shore, as swift as glaunce of eye,A litle Gondelay, bedecked trimWith boughes and arbours woven cunningly,That like a litle forrest seemed outwardly.III. And therein sate a Lady fresh and fayre,Making sweet solace to herselfe alone:Sometimes she song as lowd as larke in ayre,Sometimes she laught, as merry as Pope Jone;Yet was there not with her else any one,That to her might move cause of meriment:Matter of merth enough, though there were none,She could devise; and thousand waies inventTo feede her foolish humour and vaine jolliment.IV. Which when far off Cymochles heard and saw,Page 175 , Faerie Queene, The - Edmund Spenser