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

Chapter 44: Transcriber’s note
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.

Transcriber’s note

Minor punctuation and formatting errors have been changed without notice. The following Printer errors have been changed.

CHANGED FROM TO
Page 96 “dar’d hisdreaded powre” “dar’d his dreaded powre”
Page 105 “A uefull spectacle” “A ruefull spectacle”
Page 123 “Dame Cælia men did her” “Dame Cœlia men did her”
Page 129 “by wise Patience” “by wise Patience”
Page 163 “Vnto his Farie Queene” “Vnto his Faerie Queene”
Page 191 “too litle,th’other” “too litle, th’other”
Page 206 “honorable deed, 1” “honorable deed, i”
Page 214 “Wrath, gelosie, griefe” “Wrath, gealosie, griefe”
Footnote “[612] Arg. 1 Merih,” “[612] Arg. 1 Merth,”
Footnote “[688] liv 8 th’| the” “[688] liv 8 th’] the”
Page 284 “dispainted all within,” “dispainted all within, l”
Page 287 “words and sound, 1” “words and sound, i”
Page 369 “and then thus fearefuily” “and then thus fearefully”
Page 426 “Faire Crysogone in” “Faire Chrysogone in”
Page 445 “she did raunge, 1” “she did raunge, l”
Page 452 “faire a wight, xli” “faire a wight, xii”
Page 459 “glory be thy mee’,” “glory be thy meed”
Footnote “[1081] 7 demeanure 160” “[1081] 7 demeanure 1609”

All other inconsistencies are as in the original.