TWO CANTOS

OF MUTABILITIE;

WHICH, BOTH FOR FORME AND MATTER,
Appear to be parcell of fome following Book of

THE FAERY QUEEN E,

UNDER THE LEGEND OF CONSTANCIE.

CANTO VI.

Proud Change (not pleasd in mortall things

Beneath the moone to raigne)

Pretends as well of gods as men

To be the foveraine.

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HAT man that fees the ever-whirling wheele Of Change, the which all mortall things doth fway,

But that thereby doth find and plainly feele
How mutability in them doth play

Her cruell fports to many mens decay?

Which that to all may better yet appeare,

I will rehearse that whilome I heard fay,

How fhe at first herfelfe began to reare

And many of them afterwards obtain'd

Great power of love, and high authority;
As Hecate, in whose almighty hand

Gainft all the gods, and th empire fought from He plac't all rule and principality,

them to beare.

To be by her difpofed diverfly

To gods and men as fhe them lift divide;

And drad Bellona, that doth found on hie
Warres and allarums unto nations wide,

That makes both heaven and earth to tremble at

her pride.

Drawne of two fteeds, th' one black, the other. Ran forth in hafte unto the king of gods to pla