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The fixth Booke of the Faerie Queene, Cantó K

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Two Cantos of Mutabilitie

Muiopotmos, or the Fate of the Butterflie

The Ruines of Time

The Teares of the Mufes

Virgils Gnat

Profopopoia, or Mother Hubberds Tale

The Ruines of Rome: By Bellay

Vifions of the Worlds Vanitie

The Vifions of Bellay

The Vifions of Petrarch

Daphnaïda

THE SIXTH BOOKE OF

THE FAERIE QUEENE.

CANTO VII.

Turpine is baffuld; his two Knights
Doe gaine their treasons meed.
Fayre Mirabellaes punishment
For Loves difdaine decreed.

I.

LIKE as the gentle hart itselfe bewrayes
In doing gentle deedes with franke delight,
Even fo the bafer mind itfelfe difplayes
In cancred malice and revengefull spight:
For to maligne, t' envie, t' use shifting flight,
Be arguments of a vile donghill mind;

ARG, 1.

baffuld;] See the note on this word, F. Q. v. iii. 37. See alfo, ft. 27 of this Canto. TODD.

I. 1. Like as the gentle hart] Un cor gentil, Ariofto, C. xxxvi. 1. See the note on C. iii. ft. 1. Gentle hart, is also Chaucer's expreffion. See note below, on ft. 18. UPTON.

Ibid. Like as the gentle &c.] The folios, Hughes, and Tonfon's edition in 1758, read, without authority or neceffity, "Like as a gentle hart &c." TODD.

I. 6. a vile donghill mind;] He uses the fame phrafe, F. Q. iii. x. 15. So likewife, in An Hymne of Love:

"His dunghill thoughts which do themselves enure

"To durtie droffe-"

And in Tears of the Mufes:

"Ne ever dare their dunghill thoughts afpire."

And fo Chaucer, Affembl. of Fowles:

"Now fie churle (quoth the gentle Tercelet)
"Out of the dunghill came that word aright.”
T. WARTON,

Which, what it dare not doe by open might, To worke by wicked treason wayes doth find, By such discourteous deeds discovering his base kind.

II.

That well appears in this discourteous Knight,
The coward Turpine, whereof now I treat;
Who notwithstanding that in former fight
He of the Prince his life received late,
Yet in his mind malitious and ingrate
He gan devize to be aveng'd anew

For all that shame, which kindled inward hate: Therefore, fo foone as he was out of vew, Himfelfe in hast he arm'd, and did him fast

purfew.

III.

Well did he tract his fteps as he did ryde,
Yet would not neare approch in daungers eye,
But kept aloofe for dread to be defcryde,
Untill fit time and place he mote efpy,
Where he mote worke him fcath and villeny.
At laft he met two Knights to him unknowne,
The which were armed both agreeably,
And both combynd, whatever chaunce were
blowne,

Betwixt them to divide and each to make his

owne.

III. 7.

agreeably,] Alike,

like each other. See C. xi, ft. 36. CHURCH.