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

www.TaleBooks.comThen he would make him selfe a mortall wight;But then she said she lov'd none, but a Faery knight.XL. Then like a Faerie knight him selfe he drest,For every shape on him he could endew;Then like a king he was to her exprest,And offred kingdoms unto her in vew,To be his Leman and his Lady trew:But when all this he nothing saw prevaile,With harder meanes he cast her to subdew,And with sharpe threates her often did assayle;So thinking for to make her stubborne corage quayle.XLI. To dreadfull shapes he did him selfe transforme;Now like a Gyaunt; now like to a feend;Then like a Centaure; then like to a stormeRaging within the waves: thereby he weendHer will to win unto his wished eend;But when with feare, nor favour, nor with allHe els could doe, he saw him selfe esteemd,Downe in a Dongeon deepe he let her fall,And threatned there to make her his eternall thrall.XLII. Eternall thraldome was to her more liefeThan losse of chastitie, or chaunge of love:Dye had she rather in tormenting griefeThen any should of falsenesse her reprove,Or loosenes, that she lightly did remove.Most vertuous virgin! glory be thy meed,And crowne of heavenly prayse with Saintes above,Where most sweet hymmes of this thy famous deedAre still emongst them song, that far my rymes exceed.XLIII. Fit song of Angels caroled to bee!But yet whatso my feeble Muse can frameShal be t' advance thy goodly chastiteeAnd to enroll thy memorable nameIn th' heart of every honourable Dame,That they thy vertuous deedes may imitate,And be partakers of thy endlesse fame.Yt yrkes me leave thee in this wofull state,To tell of Satyrane where I him left of late.XLIV. Who having ended with that Squyre of DamesA long discourse of his adventures vayne,The which himselfe then Ladies more defames,And finding not th' Hyena to be slayne,With that same Squyre retourned back againeTo his first way. And, as they forward went,They spyde a knight fayre pricking on the playne,As if he were on some adventure bent,And in his port appeared manly hardiment.XLV. Sir Satyrane him towardes did addresse,To weet what wight he was, and what his quest;Page 344 , Faerie Queene, The - Edmund Spenser