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

www.TaleBooks.comI. WHAT equall torment to the griefe of mindAnd pyning anguish hid in gentle hart,That inly feeds it selfe with thoughts unkind,And nourisheth her owne consuming smart?What medicine can any Leaches artYeeld such a sore, that doth her grievance hide,And will to none her maladie impart?Such was the wound that Scudamour did gride,For which Dan Phebus selfe cannot a salve provide.II. Who having left that restlesse house of Care,The next day, as he on his way did ride,Full of melancholie and sad misfareThrough misconceipt, all unawares espideAn armed Knight under a forrest sideSitting in shade beside his grazing steede;Who, soone as them approaching he descride,Gan towards them to pricke with eger speede,That seem'd he was full bent to some mischievous deede.III. Which Scudamour perceiving forth issewedTo have rencountred him in equall race;But soone as th' other nigh approaching vewedThe armes he bore, his speare he gan abaseAnd voide his course: at which so suddain caseHe wondred much. But th' other thus can say:"Ah, gentle Scudamour! unto your graceI me submit, and you of pardon pray,That almost had against you trespassed this day."IV. Whereto thus Scudamour: "Small harme it wereFor any knight upon a ventrous knightWithout displeasance for to prove his spere.But reade you, Sir, sith ye my name have hight,What is your owne, that I mote you requite?""Certes," (sayd he) "ye mote as now excuseMe from discovering you my name aright,For time yet serves that I the same refuse;But call ye me the Salvage Knight, as others use."V. "Then this, Sir Salvage Knight," (quoth he) "areede:Or doe you here within this forrest wonne,That seemeth well to answere to your weede,Or have ye it for some occasion donne?That rather seemes, sith knowen armes ye shonne.""This other day" (sayd he) "a stranger knightShame and dishonour hath unto me donne,On whom I waite to wreake that foule despight,When ever he this way shall passe by day or night."VI. "Shame be his meede," (quoth he) "that meaneth shame!But what is he by whom ye shamed were?""A stranger knight," sayd he, "unknowne by name,But knowne by fame, and by an Hebene speare,Page 435 , Faerie Queene, The - Edmund Spenser