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

Chapter 14: 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:

[295] Arg. 1 tells 1596

[296] 2 bands] hands 1590: corr. F. E.

[297] i 7 deuize, 1590, 1596

[298] ii 1 powres 1590, 1596

[299] viii 9 the] that 1590: corr. F. E.

[300] ix 3 the] that 1590

[301] 5 Timons] Cleons 1590: corr. F. E.

[302] xi 4 vnwares 1596

[303] xii 9 on] at 1590, 1596: corr. F. E. & 1609

[304] xv 8 vowd 1590

[305] xviii 9 as] the 1596, 1609

[306] xix 7 his] this 1590: corr. F. E.

[307] 9 hable 1590

[308] xxiv 4 espide 1609

[309] xxvi 5 nye? 1590 &c.

[310] xxix 3 launced 1609

[311] 4 repriefe, 1590 &c.

[312] xxxi 5 mealt’h 1590 &c. But cf. Bk. II, Cant. II iv 5

[313] xxxiii 3 yplight 1590

[314] xxxiv 5 scattred 1590

[315] 6 clifts 1590 &c.: corr. F. E.

[316] xxxv 9 Were] Where 1596

[317] xxxvii 9 sight. 1590 &c.

[318] xxxix 1 trauailes 1590

[319] xli 2 is om. 1590: corr. F. E.

[320] xlvi 7 falsest 1590

[321] lii 1 saw] heard 1590

[322] 3 relieu’d 1609

[323] liii 1 feeble] seely 1596: silly 1609. But cf. Cant. VII vi 5, xi 8

[324] 8 deface, 1596: deface: 1609