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

www.TaleBooks.comHaving by chaunce a close advantage vew'd,He over raught him, having long eschew'dHis violence in vaine; and with his spereStrooke through his shoulder, that the blood ensew'dIn great aboundance, as a well it wereThat forth out of an hill fresh gushing did appere.LI. Yet ceast he not for all that cruell wound,But chaste him still for all his Ladies cry;Not satisfyde till on the fatall groundHe saw his life powrd forth despiteously;The which was certes in great jeopardy,Had not a wondrous chaunce his reskue wrought.And saved from his cruell villany.Such chaunces oft exceed all humaine thought!That in another Canto shall to end be brought.SIXTH_BOOKE|CANTO_IVCANTO IVCalepine by a salvage manFrom Turpine reskewed is;And, whylest an Infant from a BeareHe saves, his love doth misse.I. LIKE as a ship with dreadfull storme long tost,Having spent all her mastes and her groundhold,Now farre from harbour likely to be lost,At last some fisher-barke doth neare behold,That giveth comfort to her courage cold:Such was the state of this most courteous knightBeing oppressed by that faytour bold,That he remayned in most perilous plight,And his sad Ladie left in pitifull affright:II. Till that, by fortune passing all foresight,A salvage man, which in those woods did wonne,Drawne with that Ladies loud and piteous shright,Toward the same incessantly did ronneTo understand what there was to be donne:There he this most discourteous craven found,As fiercely yet as when he first begonne,Chasing the gentle Calepine around,Ne sparing him the more for all his grievous wound.III. The salvage man, that never till this houreDid taste of pittie, neither gentlesse knew,Seeing his sharpe assault and cruell stoure,Was much enmoved at his perils vew,That even his ruder hart began to rew,And feele compassion of his evill plight,Against his foe that did him so pursew;From whom he meant to free him, if he might,And him avenge of that so villenous despight.Page 636 , Faerie Queene, The - Edmund Spenser