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

www.TaleBooks.comHolding in hand a goodly arming sword,By fortune came, ledd with the troublous sowne:Where drenched deepe he fownd in that dull fordThe carefull servaunt stryving with his raging Lord.XLVIII. Him Atin spying knew right well of yore,And lowdly cald; "Helpe, helpe! O Archimage!To save my Lord in wretched plight forlore;Helpe with thy hand, or with thy counsell sage:Weake handes, but counsell is most strong in age."Him when the old man saw, he wondred soreTo see Pyrochles there so rudely rage;Yet sithens helpe, he saw, he needed moreThen pitty, he in hast approched to the shore,XLIX. And cald; "Pyrochles! what is this I see?What hellish fury hath at earst thee hent?Furious ever I thee knew to bee,Yet never in this straunge astonishment.""These flames, these flames" (he cryde) "doe me torment.""Wha flames," (quoth he), when I thee present seeIn daunger rather to be drent then brent?""Harrow! the flames which me consume," (said hee)"Ne can be quencht, within my secret bowelles bee.L. "That cursed man, that cruel feend of hell,Furor, oh! Furor hath me thus bedight:His deadly woundes within my liver swell,And his whott fyre burnes in mine entralles bright,Kindled through his infernall brond of spight,Sith late with him I batteill vaine would boste;That now, I weene, Joves dreaded thunder lightDoes scorch not halfe so sore, nor damned ghosteIn flaming Phlegeton does not so felly roste."LI. Which when as Archimago heard, his griefeHe knew right well, and him attonce disarm'd;Then searcht his secret woundes, and made a priefeOf every place that was with bruzing harmd,Or with the hidden fire too inly warmd.Which doen, he balmes and herbes thereto applyde,And evermore with mightie spels them charmd;That in short space he has them qualifyde,And him restor'd to helth that would have algates dyde.SECOND_BOOKE|CANTO_VIICANTO VIIGuyon findes Mamon in a delveSunning his threasure hore;Is by him tempted, and led downeTo see his secrete store.I. AS Pilot well expert in perilous wave,That to a stedfast starre his course hath bent,Page 184 , Faerie Queene, The - Edmund Spenser