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

www.TaleBooks.comHe the six Islands, comprovinciallIn auncient times unto great Britainee,Shall to the same reduce, and to him callTheir sondry kings to do their homage severall.XXXIII. "All which his sonne Careticus awhileShall well defend, and Saxons powre suppresse;Untill a straunger king, from unknowne soyleArriving, him with multitude oppresse;Great Gormond, having with huge mightinesseIreland subdewd, and therein fixt his throne,Like a swift Otter, fell through emptinesse,Shall overswim the sea, with many oneOf his Norveyses, to assist the Britons fone.XXXIV. "He in his furie shall overronne,And holy Church with faithlesse handes deface,That thy sad people, utterly fordonne,Shall to the utmost mountaines fly apace.Was never so great waste in any place,Nor so fowle outrage doen by living men;For all thy Citties they shall sacke and race,And the greene grasse that groweth they shall bren,That even the wilde beast shall dy in starved den.XXXV. "Whiles thus thy Britons doe in languour pine,Proud Etheldred shall from the North arise,Serving th' ambitious will of Augustine,And, passing Dee, with hardy enterpriseShall backe repulse the valiaunt Brockwell twise,And Bangor with massacred Martyrs fill,But the third time shall rew his foolhardise:For Cadwan, pittying his peoples ill,Shall stoutly him defeat, and thousand Saxons kill.XXXVI. "But after him, Cadwallin mightilyOn his sonne Edwin all those wrongs shall wreake;Ne shall availe the wicked sorceryOf false Pellite his purposes to breake,But him shall slay, and on a gallowes bleakShall give th' enchaunter his unhappy hire.Then shall the Britons, late dismayd and weake,From their long vassalage gin to respire,And on their Paynim foes avenge their ranckled ire.XXXVII. "Ne shall he yet his wrath so mitigate,Till both the sonnes of Edwin he have slayne,Offricke and Osricke, twinnes unfortunate,Both slaine in battaile upon Layburne playne,Together with the king of Louthiane,Hight Adin, and the king of Orkeny,Both joynt partakers of their fatall payne:But Penda, fearefull of like desteny,Shall yield him selfe his liegeman, and sweare fealty.Page 288 , Faerie Queene, The - Edmund Spenser