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

Chapter 24: FOOTNOTES:
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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:

[612] Arg. 1 Merth, 1590, 1596

[613] i 7 restraine] abstaine 1590

[614] 8 their] her 1590

[615] iii 4 that nigh her breth was gone,] as merry as Pope Ione, 1590

[616] 6 might to her] to her might 1590

[617] 7 none 1590 &c.

[618] vii 7 of] off 1590

[619] viii 7 delight. 1590

[620] xii 3 hand, 1590 &c.

[621] 9 her sweet smels throw] throwe her sweete smels 1590

[622] xiv 9 loud] loue 1590

[623] xv 1 take 1590, 1596

[624] 5 no man] noman 1590

[625] xvii 8 thirst] thrist 1590

[626] xviii 2 worldly] wordly 1590

[627] 7 waue] waues 1609

[628] griesly] griesy 1590

[629] xxi 8 bounds 1609

[630] xxiv 4 saw 1596, 1609

[631] xxvii 9 there] their 1590, 1596

[632] xxix 2 importune] importance 1596: important 1609

[633] xxx 1 before, 1590, 1596

[634] xxxv 2 shend] shent 1596

[635] xxxvi 1 bent, 1590, 1596

[636] xxxviii 5 salied] sailed 1609

[637] 8 Thereby 1590, 1596

[638] 9 flit] fleet 1609

[639] xxxix 5 beastez 1609

[640] xli 1 Whiles 1609

[641] xlii 3 beduked 1596

[642] 6 flasht, 1590 &c.

[643] xliii 7 lent but this his cursed light, 1590

[644] 8 damnifyde 1590, 1596

[645] xlv 1 is it] it is 1609

[646] 3 Burning] But 1596

[647] xlviii 6 man, saw 1590: corr. F. E.

[648] l 3 liuer 1609

[649] li 5 fire too] fier 1590

[650] 7 euemore 1596