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

Chapter 26: 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.

To whom the Infant thus, Faire Sir, what need lvi
Good turnes be counted, as a seruile bond,
To bind their doers, to receiue their meede?
Are not all knights by oath bound, to withstond
Oppressours powre by armes and puissant hond?
Suffise, that I haue done my dew in place.
So goodly purpose they together fond,
Of kindnesse and of curteous aggrace;
The whiles false Archimage and Atin fled apace.

FOOTNOTES:

[693] iii 2 Mamons 1590, 1596

[694] 8 Come hither, hither 1609

[695] xi 4 strife-full 1609

[696] xix 6 this] his 1609

[697] xxii 7 wrist 1609

[698] xxv 1 his cruell] same 1590, 1596: corr. F. E.: Which those same foes that doen awaite hereby 1609

[699] xxvi 6 asswage, 1590, 1596

[700] 9 patonage 1596

[701] xxvii 3 doe] doth 1609

[702] xxix 7 vpreare] vpheaue MS. corr. in Malone 615. But cf. II iii 28, l. 7 and note there.

[703] xxxii 1 speare, 1590, 1596

[704] 2 Pagons 1590: corr. F. E.

[705] xxxv 5 in] on 1609

[706] 8 doubly 1590: corr. F. E.

[707] xxxvii 3 rayle] traile 1609

[708] xl 3 fayre 1590: faire 1596

[709] 4 so wisely as] so well, as he 1590

[710] xliv 2 guiltie 1590: gulty 1596

[711] 8 no more] not thore 1590

[712] xlv 3 empiest 1590: corr. F. E.

[713] xlvi 1 feare, 1590, 1596

[714] 8 Horrow 1590, 1596; corr. F. E.

[715] weal-away! 1609

[716] xlvii 4 swerd 1590

[717] xlviii 8 Prince Arthur] Sir Guyon 1590, 1596: corr. 1609

[718] liii 6 Had] Hast 1596

[719] liv 4 fayre 1590: faire 1596

[720] lv 3 with bowing 1590 &c.: bowing F. E.