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

Chapter 13: FOOTNOTES:
By Edmund Spenser
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This second part continues an allegorical epic through linked legends that examine particular virtues—friendship, justice, courtesy—and the instability of fortune. Episodic chivalric quests, enchantments, and courtly encounters put characters through moral tests and political dilemmas, alternating martial exploits with romantic trials. Rich archaic imagery and formal stanzaic patterns present allegorical figures and moral exempla, while recurring motifs of honor, temptation, and transformation structure the narratives. The sequence closes with two brief cantos that dwell on mutability and the fleeting nature of worldly states, leaving moral questions unresolved rather than offering simple resolutions.

FOOTNOTES:

[169] Arg. 1 conqust 1596

[170] ii 8 Since] Sith 1609

[171] vii 8 nanner 1596

[172] 9 maintaine, 1596

[173] ancients 1596

[174] ix 1 yearne 1609 passim

[175] xvii 5 award 1609

[176] xix 1 meanest] nearest 1596

[177] 2 disdeigning 1609

[178] xxiii 2 ghesse] bee 1596 (Malone 616), 1609

[179] 8 bee] ghesse 1596 (Malone 616), 1609

[180] xxv 1 all eyes 1596

[181] dight, 1596, 1609

[182] xxvi 9 aspire] inspire 1611

[183] xxvii 1 Hyllus 1596: Hylus 1609. Cf. III xii 7, l. 9

[184] 7 tyde, 1596, 1609

[185] 8 friendship 1596

[186] xxxi 9 adowne 1609

[187] xxxv 6 hell] hele or mell conj. edd.

[188] xxxvi 3 loue 1596: Loue 1609

[189] xxxvii 9 may 1596

[190] xxxviii 7 bathe 1609

[191] xl 5 forlore 1596

[192] xlii 6 elder 1609

[193] li 9 girlonds] gardians conj. Church: guerdons conj. Collier

[194] lv 2 conceald 1609

[195] 8 warie] wearie conj. Upton

[196] lvi 4 at] on 1609

[197] lviii 1 daunger 1596: danger 1609