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Spenser's Faerie Queene, Vol. 1 (of 2)

Chapter 10: FOOTNOTES:
By Edmund Spenser
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A lengthy allegorical epic in Spenserian stanza unfolds through a sequence of chivalric episodes in which knights and maidens travel across enchanted realms, facing monsters, temptations, and deceptive enchantments that personify moral qualities. Each quest dramatizes a particular virtue and the trials that test it, combining courtly romance, classical allusion, and pastoral description. The diction favors archaisms and rich imagery, and the poem alternates narrative adventure with reflective digression and moral meditation.

FOOTNOTES:

[171] i 9 he om. 1596

[172] ii 1 gate, 1590, 1596

[173] 5 hurld] hurls 1590, 1596: hurles 1609: corr. F. E.

[174] iii 1 common 1609

[175] vi 3 wrists 1609

[176] vii 9 hewen helmets 1590

[177] ix 5 show 1590, 1596: showe 1609

[178] x 6 Doost 1609 passim

[179] xi 7 battaile 1590 passim

[180] xii 8 stoope 1609

[181] xiv 4 terrour 1590

[182] xv 2 thristy 1590

[183] 3 bathe 1590, 1609

[184] 6 trumpets, 1596, 1609

[185] xvii 5 can] gan 1590

[186] xviii 1 traueiler 1590

[187] xix 5 swoune 1609

[188] xxi 8 yet 1590 &c.

[189] xxiii 8 Nightes] Nights drad 1609

[190] xxiv 9 for] and 1596, 1609

[191] xxvi 6 ame 1590

[192] xxvii 7 fashood 1590

[193] xxxv 9 leake] lete 1590: leke F. E.

[194] xxxvi 7 apart 1590, 1609

[195] xxxviii 6 clifts 1590 &c.: corr. F. E.

[196] xxxix 6 reliques 1609

[197] xl 9 fire] sire 1590: corr. F. E.

[198] xli 2 nigh] high 1596, 1609

[199] xliii 6 renouned 1590: corr. F. E.

[200] xliv 2 woundez 1609

[201] xlv 4 woundez 1609

[202] xlv 8 dungeon 1590, 1609

[203] nombers 1590

[204] xlvii 9 altares 1590

[205] l 6 chord 1590

[206] li 5 that] the 1590 &c.: corr. F. E.