Of beauty gan to bud, and bloofme delight;
And Nature me endu'd with plenteous dowre
Of all her gifts, that pleasde each living fight;
I was belov'd of many a gentle Knight,
And fude and fought with all the fervice
dew:

Full many a one for me deepe groand and figh't,

And to the dore of death for forrow drew, Complayning out on me that would not on

them rew.

XXI.

"But let them love that lift, or live or die;
Me lift not die for any lovers doole:
Ne lift me leave my loved libertie
To pitty him that lift to play the foole:
To love myself I learned had in fchoole.
Thus I triumphed long in lovers paine,

XX. 2.

bloofme delight,] That is, caufe delight to fpring in the hearts of those who beheld it.

XX. 7.

CHURCH. high't,] For fighed. From the Saxon verb fike, to figh. See Tyrwhitt's Gloff. Chaucer, in V. Sighte. And thus, in the Man of Lawes Tale,

ver. 5455.

"prively he fighte,

“And sped him fro the table that he mighte." TODD. XX. 9. Complayning out on me] Out on me: words of indignation, as out on thee; fy on thee. OUT is an interjection that both Spenfer and Chaucer frequently use, and often joined with Harrow: fee Somner, in uton. UPTON.

XXI. 1. But &c.] The conftruction is, But let them that lift love, i. e. But let them that were difpofed to love me, &c. CHURCH.

And, fitting careleffe on the fcorners ft
Did laugh at thofe that did lamen

plaine :

But all is now repayd with intereft again

XXII..

"For loe! the winged god, that woundeth Caufde me be called to accompt there And for revengement of thofe wro fmarts,

Which I to others did inflict afore,.
Addeem'd me to endure this penaunce
That in this wize, and this unmeete ar
With these two lewd companions, a

more,

Difdaine and Scorne, I through the fhould ftray,

Till I have fav'd fo many as I earft did f

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XXIII.

Certes," fayd then the Prince," the
iuft,

That taketh vengeaunce of his peoples
For were no law in love, but all that l
Might them oppreffe, and painefully tur
His kingdome would continue but a w
But tell me, Lady, wherefore doe you
This bottle thus before you with fuch

XXI. 7. And, fitting &c.] We meet with fometh this, in our old metrical verfion of the firft Pfalm:

"Nor fate in fcorner's chair." T. WARTON.

And eeke this wallet at your backe arreare, That for thefe Carles to carry much more comely were?"

XXIV.

"Here in this bottle," fayd the fory Mayd,
I put the tears of my contrition,
Till to the brim I have it full defrayd::
And in this bag, which I behinde me don,
I put repentaunce for things paft and gon.
Yet is the bottle leake, and bag fo torne,
That all which I put in fals out anon,

And is behinde me trodden downe of Scorne, Who mocketh all my paine, and laughs the more I mourn."

XXV.

The Infant hearkned wifely to her tale,

XXIV. 1. Here in this bottle, fayd the fory Mayd,

I put the tears of my contrition,] Pfal. lvi. 8: "Thou telleft my flittings: Put my tears into thy bottle." Spenfer feems to allude to the lachrymatory bottles; the Italians call them, lacrimarii. UPTON.

XXIV. 6.

35. CHURCH.

leake,] Leaky. See F. Q. i. v.

XXV. 1. The Infant] In the old times of Chivalry, the noble youth, who were candidates for knighthood, during the time of their probation were called Infans, Varlets, Damoyfels, Bacheliers. The most noble of the youth were particularly called Infans. WARBURTON.

Spenfer has here employed the word in the fenfe of Prince, which is the Spanish fignification of it. And thus Fairfax, B. xvi. 34. of Rinaldo:

Ibid.

"This faid, the noble Infant stood a space -
"Confufed, fpeechleffe, &c." TODD.

wifely] Confiderately. Lat. confultò. See F. Q. ii. iii. 15. CHURCH.

And wondred much at Cupids iudg'ment wife, That could fo meekly make proud hearts avale,

And wreake himselfe on them that him defpife.
Then fuffred he Difdaine up to arife,
Who was not able up himfelfe to reare,
By meanes his leg, through his late luckleffe
prife,

Was crackt in twaine, but by his foolish feare Was holpen up, who him fupported standing

neare.

XXVI.

But being up he lookt againe aloft,
As if he never had received fall;

And with fterne eye-brows ftared at him oft,
As if he would have daunted him withall:
And standing on his tiptoes, to feeme tall,
Downe on his golden feete he often gazed,
As if fuch pride the other could apall;
Who was fo far from being ought amazed,
That he his lookes despised, and his boast dif-
praized.

XXVII.

Then turning backe unto that captive thrall, Who all this while ftood there befide them

bound,

Unwilling to be knowne or feene at all,

XXV. 8.

the notes on F. Q. iv. x. 27. TODD.

feare] Companion. See

He from thofe bands weend him to have un

wound;

But when approaching neare he plainely found It was his owne true Groome, the gentle Squire,

He thereat wext exceedingly aftound,

And him did oft embrace, and oft admire, Ne could with feeing satisfie his great defire.

XXVIII.

Meane while the Salvage Man, when he beheld That huge great Foole oppreffing th' other Knight,

Whom with his weight unweldy downe he

held,

He flew

upon

him like a greedy kight Unto fome carrion offered to his fight; And, downe him plucking, with his nayles. and teeth

Gan him to hale, and teare, and fcratch, and bite;

And, from him taking his owne whip, therewith So fore him fcourgeth that the bloud downe

followeth.

XXIX.

And fure I weene, had not the Ladies cry Procur'd the Prince his cruell hand to stay, He would with whipping him have done to dye:

But, being checkt, he did abstaine ftreightway