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

Chapter 12: 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:

[230] i 6 frame; 1590, 1596

[231] ii 4 pray; 1590 &c.

[232] v 5 her] he 1596

[233] 8 wexed 1590

[234] 9 did] do 1590

[235] vi 3 glas, 1596

[236] ix 7 women] wemen 1590

[237] xi 4 hopelesse; 1590, 1596

[238] xii 9 stoond 1590

[239] xiii 4 bollet 1590

[240] 8 smok 1590

[241] xiv 1 knight 1596

[242] xviii 4, braught 1590

[243] xviii 5 naught 1590

[244] xx 3 the] that 1590

[245] xxi 1 newes, 1590 &c.

[246] xxii 9 sight om. 1590

[247] xxv 9 feare 1596

[248] xxxii 2 bounch 1590

[249] 6 Selinis 1596

[250] 8 Whose] Her 1590

[251] xxxiii 3 steeld 1590: corr. F. E.

[252] xxxvi 1 seeme] seene 1590: corr. F. E.

[253] xxxvii 5 faire, 1590, 1596

[254] 7 trample] amble 1590

[255] 8 chauft] chanst 1590: corr. F. E.

[256] xxxviii 9 enmoud 1590

[257] xlii 5 faire 1590, 1596

[258] 6 inquere 1590

[259] xliii 4 whiles 1590

[260] 5 runne] come 1590: ronne F. E.

[261] 9 Gebons 1596, 1609

[262] xlvii 3 hand 1590: corr. F. E.

[263] xlviii 9 haue you] haue yee 1590

[264] xlix 2 languor 1590