And the robuckes in flight to overtake : That everie beast for feare of him did fly and

quake.

XXV.

Thereby fo feareleffe and fo fell he grew,

That his owne fyre and maister of his guife
Did often tremble at his horrid vew ;
And oft, for dread of hurt, would him advise
The angry beaftes not rafhly to defpife,
Nor too much to provoke; for he would learne
The lyon ftoup to him in lowly wife,

(A leffon hard,) and make the libbard sterne Leave roaring, when in rage he for revenge did

earne.

XXVI.

And, for to make his powre approved more,
Wyld beaftes in yron yokes he would compell;
The fpotted panther, and the tusked bore,
The pardale fwift, and the tigré cruéll,
The antelope and wolfe, both fiers and fell;
And them conftraine in equall teme to draw.

XXV. 2.

formed him to fuch manners.

XXV. 8.

maifter of his guife] That is, who CHURCH.

the libbard] Leopard, which Chaucer fpells libart, p. 17. edit. Urr. But Milton retains our poet's fpelling, Par. Loft, B. vii. 467. CHURCH.

XXVI. 4. The pardale &c.] The panther and pardale are generally thought to be the fame: but Xenophon (no bad authority) diftinguifhes them. Λέοντες δὲ, ΠΑΡΔΑΛΕΣ, λύγκες, ΠΑΝΘΗΡΕΣ, κ. τ. λ. ΚΥΝ, κεφ. ια. UPTON.

XXVI. 5.

-fiers and fell;] Corrected from the Errata of the first edition. CHURCH.

Such ioy he had their ftubborne harts to

quell,

And sturdie courage tame with dreadfull aw; That his beheaft they feared, as a tyrans law.

XXVII.

His loving mother came upon a day

way,

Unto the woodes, to fee her little fonne;
And chaunft unwares to meet him in the
After his fportes and cruell paftime donne;
When after him a lyoneffe did runne,
That roaring all with rage did lowd requere
Her children deare, whóm he away had

wonne :

The lyon whelpes fhe faw how he did beare, And lull in rugged armes withouten childish feare.

XXVIII.

The fearefull dame all quaked at the fight,
And turning backe gan fast to fly away;
Untill, with love revokt from vaine affright,
She hardly yet perfwaded was to stay,
And then to him thefe womanish words

fay;

gan

"Ah Satyrane, my dearling and my ioy, For love of me leave off this dreadfull play;

XXVII. 8.

The lyon whelpes] This is the true reading. S at the end of a word, when used for his, is often omitted in the North of England. Again, F. Q. ii. v. 4.

"but glancing fell

"On his horfe neck." CHURCH.

To dally thus with death is no fit toy: Go, find fome other play-fellowes, mine own fweet boy."

XXIX.

In these and like delightes of bloody game
He trayned was, till ryper years he raught;
And there abode, whylft any beast of name
Walkt in that forreft, whom he had not
taught

To feare his force: and then his courage
haught

Defyrd of forreine foemen to be knowne, And far abroad for ftraunge adventures fought;

In which his might was never overthrowne; But through al Faery lond his famous worth

was blown.

XXX.

Yet evermore it was his maner faire,

After long labours and adventures spent,
Unto thofe native woods for to repaire,

XXIX. 5.

his courage haught] High. Fr. haut. The entire expreffion occurs in Hawes's Hift. of Graunde Amoure, 1554. Sign. Q. i. b.

"Accompanied then with fir fidelitie,

"With haute courage, betrapped fayre and gay, &c." Hautie was once used to denote alfo height of Space. See the Sonnet at the end of K. James's Lepanto, Edinburg. 1591.

"The wholefome hearbes, the hautie pleasant trees." Haut was the predeceffor of the prefent word haughty, that is, proud, ambitious; and occurs both in Shakspeare and Milton. See my note on Milton's Pfal. lxxx. ver. 35. TODD.

To fee his fyre and ofspring auncient. And now he thether came for like intent; Where he unwares the faireft Una found, Straunge Lady, in fo ftraunge habiliment, Teaching the Satyres, which her fat around, Trew facred lore, which from her fweet lips did redound.

XXXI.

He wondred at her wifedome hevenly rare, Whofe like in womens witt he never knew; And, when her curteous deeds he did compare, Gan her admire, and her fad forrowes rew, Blaming of Fortune, which fuch troubles

threw,

And ioyd to make proofe of her cruelty On gentle Dame, fo hurtleffe and fo trew: Thenceforth he kept her goodly company, And learnd her difcipline of faith and verity.

XXXII.

But she, all vowd unto the Redcroffe Knight,
His wandring perill clofely did lament,
Ne in this new acquaintaunce could delight;

XXX. 4. To fee his fyre and ofspring auncient.] The conftruction is, To fee his ancient fire and his fire's offspring.

UPTON.

XXX. 8. Teaching &c.] Una teaching the Satyres refembles Bacchus (in whom they fay was imaged Mofes,) among the deferts, Hor. L. 2. Od. 19.

"Bacchum in remotis carmina rupibus
"Vidi docentem (credite pofteri)

"Nympháfque difcentes, et aures

"Capripedum Satyrorum acutas." UPTON.

But her deare heart with anguifh did torment,
And all her witt in fecret counfels spent,
How to escape. At laft in privy wife
To Satyrane fhe fhewed her intent;

Who, glad to gain fuch favour, gan devise,

How with that penfive Maid he best might thence arife.

XXXIII.

So on a day, when Satyres all were gone
To do their fervice to Sylvanus old,
The gentle Virgin, left behinde alone,
He led away with corage ftout and bold.
Too late it was to Satyres to be told,
Or ever hope recover her againe :

In vaine he feekes that, having, cannot hold. So faft he carried her with carefull paine, That they the woods are past, and come now to the plaine.

XXXIV.

The better part now of the lingring day
They traveild had, whenas they far efpide
A weary wight forwandring by the way;
And towards him they gan in haft to ride,
To weete of newes that did abroad betyde,
Or tidings of her Knight of the Redcroffe ;
But he, them spying, gan to turne afide
For feare, as feemd, or for fome feigned loffe:
More greedy they of newes faft towards him do

croffe