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

www.TaleBooks.comSave to the noble knight Sir Scudamore,To whom her loving hart she linked fastIn faithfull love, t' abide for evermore;And for his dearest sake endured soreSore trouble of an hainous enimy,Who her would forced have to have forloreHer former love and stedfast loialty,As ye may elswhere reade that ruefull history.LIV. But well I weene, ye first desire to learneWhat end unto that fearefull Damozell,Which fledd so fast from that same foster stearneWhom with his brethren Timias slew, befell:That was, to weet, the goodly Florimell;Who wandring for to seeke her lover deare,Her lover deare, her dearest Marinell,Into misfortune fell, as ye did heare,And from Prince Arthure fled with wings of idle feare.THIRD_BOOKE|CANTO_VIICANTO VIIThe witches sonne loves Florimell:She flyes; he faines to dy.Satyrane saves the Squyre of DamesFrom Gyaunts tyranny.I. LIKE as an Hynd forth singled from the heard,That hath escaped from a ravenous beast,Yet flyes away of her owne feete afeard,And every leafe, that shaketh with the leastMurmure of winde, her terror hath encreast;So fledd fayre Florimell from her vaine feare,Long after she from perill was releast:Each shade she saw, and each noyse she did heare,Did seeme to be the same which she escapt whileare.II. All that same evening she in flying spent,And all that night her course continewed;Ne did she let dull sleepe once to relent,Nor wearinesse to slack her hast, but fledEver alike, as if her former dredWere hard behind, her ready to arrest;And her white Palfrey, having conqueredThe maistring raines out of her weary wrest,Perforce her carried where ever he thought best.III. So long as breath and hable puissaunceDid native corage unto him supply,His pace he freshly forward did advaunce,And carried her beyond all jeopardy;But nought that wanteth rest can long aby:He, having through incessant traveill spentHis force, at last perforce adowne did ly,Page 325 , Faerie Queene, The - Edmund Spenser