Spenser's the Faerie Queene Author:Edmund Spenser General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1915 Original Publisher: The Macmillan company Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustratio... more »ns and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CANTO VI From lawlease lust by wondrous grace fayre Una is releast: Whom salvage nation does adore, and learnes her wise beheast. As when a ship, that flyes faire under saile, An hidden rocke escaped hath unwares, That lay in waite her wrack for to bewaile, The Marriner yet halfe amazed stares At perill past, and yet in doubt ne dares 5 To joy at his foole-happie oversight: So doubly is distrest twixt . joy and cares The dreadlesse courage of this Elfin knight, Having escapt so sad ensamples in his sight. Yet sad he was that his too hastie speede 10 The faire Duess' had forst him leave behind; And yet more sad, that Una his deare dreed Her truth had staind with treason so unkind; Yet crime in her could never creature find. But for his love, and for her owne selfe sake, 15 She wandred had from one to other Ynd, Him for to seeke, ne ever would forsake, Till her unwares the fiers Sansloy did overtake, III Who, after Archimagoes fowle defeat, Led her away into a forest wilde, 20 And turning wrathfull fyre to lustfull heat, With beastly sin thought her to have defilde, And made the vassal of his pleasures vilde. Yet first he cast by treatie, and by traynes, Her to persuade that stubborne fort to yilde: 25 For greater conquest of hard love he gaynes, That workes it to his will, then he that it constraines. With fawning words he courted her awhile, And looking lovely, and oft sighing sore,...« less