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THE FIFTH BOOKE OF

THE FAERIE QUEENE

CONTAYNING

THE LEGEND OF ARTEGALL OR OF JUSTICE.

I.

SO oft as I with ftate of present time
The image of the antique world compare,
Whenas mans age was in his freshest prime,
And the first bloffome of faire vertue bare;
Such oddes I finde twixt thofe, and these
which are,

As that, through long continuance of his course,

Me feemes the world is runne quite out of fquare

From the first point of his appointed fourse; And being once amiffe growes daily wourfe and wourfe :

II.

For from the golden age, that first was named, It's now at earst become a ftonie one;

II. 2.

at earft] That is, at length.

So the

quarto and first folio read. So Chaucer, edit. Urr. p. 104. "And then at erft amongis 'hem thei faye."