Soone as the port from far he has espide, His chearfull whistle merily doth found, And Nereus crownes with cups; his mates him pledg around. XXXII. Such ioy made Una, when her Knight she found; And eke th' Enchaunter ioyous feemde no leffe Then the glad marchant, that does vew from ground His fhip far come from watrie wilderneffe; He hurles out vowes, and Neptune oft doth bleffe. So forth they paft; and all the way they spent Difcourfing of her dreadful late diftreffe, In which he askt her, what the lyon ment; Who told, her all that fell in iourney, as fhe went. Spenfer, in Mother Hubberds Tule, ver. 5, calls him "the hot Syrian dog." CHURCH. XXXI. 9. And Nereus crownes with cups ;] The expreffion is fomewhat hard: perhaps he means, And does honour to Nereus by pouring out libations to him. He feems to have had that paffage of Virgil in view, where Anchifes, upon feeing Italy, takes a bowl, and, crowning it with flourets, fills it with wine, and makes his libation by pouring it into the sea, Æn. iii. 525. "Tum pater Anchifes magnum cratera coronâ Perhaps we should read: "And Nereus crownes his cups." Who told, her all that fell in iourney, as fhe went.] Mr. Upton thinks that her in the firft of thefe lines caught the printer's eye, and occafioned her in the fecond, whereas it XXXIII. They had not ridden far, when they might fee One pricking towards them with hastie heat, Full ftrongly armd, and on a courfer free That through his fierfneffe fomed all with fweat, And the fharpe yron did for anger eat, When his hot ryder fpurd his chauffed fide; His looke was fterne, and feemed ftill to threat Cruell revenge, which he in hart did hyde: And on his shield Sans loy in bloody lines was dyde. XXXIV. When nigh he drew unto this gentle payre, And faw the red croffe, which the Knight did beare, He burnt in fire; and gan eftfoones prepare should have been him; which reading indeed is to be found in the folios of 1611, 1617 and 1679, and is adopted by Church. But Spenfer's own editions read her; which, according to Mr. Upton's new pointing the paffage, may be certainly retained, the fenfe being Who told, as he went, all that befell her in her journey. The quarto edition of 1751 retains her, and places a comma after told. Tonfon's edition of 1758 preferves the fame reading. TODD. XXXIV. 3. He burnt in fire;] Mr. Upton thinks that the poet might have written, more accurately, "He burnt in ire;” as in Virgil, Æn. xii. 946. "Terribilis -" "Furiis accenfus et ira And in Ariofto, Orl. Fur. xxvi. 132. "E tutta ardendo di difdegno e d'ira :” But I must observe, that the language of romance is not always regulated by philofophical precifion. Accordingly, in the metrical romance of Pefiftratus and Catanea, bl. 1. 12mo. Himfelfe to batteill with his couched fpeare. Loth was that other, and did faint through feare, To tafte th' untryed dint of deadly fteele: But yet his Lady did fo well him cheare, That hope of new good hap he gan to feele; So bent his fpeare, and fpurd his horfe with heele. XXXV. yron But that proud Paynim forward came so ferce And full of wrath, that, with his fharp-head fpeare, without date, Impr. by H. Bynneman, Sign. B. iij, two cham pions are thus defcribed. "And not vnlike to lions fierce, who rage for want of pray, "They burnd and boylde in furies fire, XXXIV. 5. and did faint through feare,] Thefe words are to be read as in a parenthesis. The folios, and all the later editions, omit the comma after fear, which alters the fenfe. CHURCH. XXXIV. 9. So bent his fpeare,] Levelled, or, in the language of chivalry, couched his fpear. So in F. Q. iii. i. 5. "And bent his dreadfull Speare against the others head." Milton has given a fimilar posture of attack to Death, in the expected combat between the goblin and Satan; and accordingly Sin cries out, "What fury, O Son, "Poffeffes thee to bend that mortal dart 66 Against thy Father's head ?" We are to remember that, juft before, "Each at the head lexell'd his deadly aim," Par. Loft, B. ii. 711. TODD. Ibid. and fpurd his horfe with yron heele.] Literally from Virgil, En. xi. 714. "Quadrupedemque citum ferrata calce fatigat." UPTON. Through vainly croffed fhield he quite did perce; And, had his ftaggering fteed not fhronke for feare, Through shield and body eke he should him beare: Yet, fo great was the puiffance of his pufh, That from his fadle quite he did him beare : He tombling rudely downe to ground did rush, And from his gored wound a well of bloud did gufh. XXXVI. Difmounting lightly from his loftie fteed, Of him, that flew Sansfoy with bloody knife: In ftrife, peace may paffen over Lethe lake; When mourning altars, purgd with enimies life, XXXVI. 5. Henceforth his ghoft, freed from repining ftrife, In peace &c.] This is from ancient fuperftition. Hence Æneas killed Turnus, though he begged his life; and still more cruel, that the ghost of Pallas might be freed from repining ftrife, takes feveral prifoners alive, to purge with the life of enemies the mourning altars of his friend: En. x. 519. "Inferias quos immolet umbris." And thus Achilles acted in Homer. Such cruelties has falfe religion given her sanction to. UPTON. The black infernall Furies doen aflake: Life from Sansfoy thou tookft, Sansloy shall from thee take." XXXVII. Therewith in hafte his helmet gan unlace, In bloudy field; therefore of life him not de prive," XXXVIII. Her piteous wordes might not abate his rage; But, rudely rending up his helmet, would XXXVII. 1. Therewith in hafte his helmet gan unlace,] 'Tis frequently mentioned in romance writers that, when the conquered falls, the conqueror unlaces the helmet of his adversary, and then cuts his throat.—See F. Q. ii. viii. 17, ii. viii. 52, And Berni, Orl. Innam. L. i. C. 3. ft. 72, "Ferraù l'elmo tofto gli diflaccia." UPTON. See alfo Hawes's Hift. of Graunde Amoure, 1554. Sign. Y. iii. "Adowne I came, and did then vnlace "His feuenth helmet." Tord. XXXVII. 4. Enough is, that thy foe doth vanquisht stand] See how Spenfer ufes the word ftand here, though the foe lies lowly on ground: to fiand (as rñvaι and stare) fignifies to continue, to remain, to be, &c. without any reference to the posture. Thus Milton, Par. Loft, B. xi. 1. "Thus they, in lowlieft plight, repentant flood |