That may reftore you to your wonted well?" "Time and fuffised fates to former kynd Shall us reftore; none else from hence may us unbynd." XLIV. The falfe Dueffa, now Fideffa hight, Heard how in vaine Fradubio did lament, XLIII. 7. to your wonted well?] To your former well being, that is, to your human shape. CHURCH. Well is wele or weal, welfare. See F. Q. v. vi. 23, v. xi. 16.It is here fpelt well in conformity to the rhyme. Chaucer, Kn. Tale, 897. edit. Urr. “In all his wele," that is, prosperity. UPTON. XLIII. 8. to former kynd] Our former human nature. Spenfer perpetually ufes kind for nature, and kindly for natural; as also unkindly for unnatural. See F. Q. i. i. 26. CHURCH. Kind and kindly are thus ufed in Chaucer. See Gloff. edit. Urr. And, in the Vision of Pierce Plowman, Nature personified is called Kinde. Shakspeare alfo ufes unkind for unnatural. Ven. and Adon. v. 104. "O, had thy mother borne so bad a mind, "She had not brought forth thee, but died unkind." TODD. XLIII. 9. Shall us reftore; &c.] Mr. Upton conjectures that this restoration to their former natures would have been completed in fome of the fubfequent books, if the poet had lived to finish his poem; like as Aftolfo, transformed into a myrtle by Alcina, is reftored by the fage Meliffa, and as St. Denis, in the Seven Champions, recovers a daughter of the king of Theffaly, who by enchantment had been changed into a mulberry tree. Wierus, in a chapter De phantafiica transformatione hominum in beftias, relates, from William of Malmesbury, a ludicrous metamorphofis of a young man, whose restoration to his proper shape could be effected only by bathing in water. See Wierus De Præftigiis Dæmonum, &c. Bafil. 1583. 4to. p. 269. TODD. Full of fad feare and ghaftly dreriment, When all this speech the living tree had spent, The bleeding bough did thruft into the ground, That from the blood he might be innocent, And with fresh clay did close the wooden wound : Then turning to his Lady, dead with feare her fownd. XLV. Her feeming dead he fownd with feigned feare, As all unweeting of that well fhe knew ; And paynd himselfe with bufie care to reare Her out of careleffe fwowne. Her eyelids blew, And dimmed fight with pale and deadly hew, At laft fhe up gan lift; with trembling cheare Her up he tooke, (too simple and too trew,) And oft her kift. At length, all passed feare, He fet her on her fteede, and forward forth did beare. XLIV. 6. The bleeding bough did thrust into the ground, That from the blood he might be innocent,] For the like reafon Æneas performs the juft obfequies to Polydorus, which in fome measure he had violated. UPTON. VOL. II. CANTO III. Forfaken Truth long feekes her Love, Marres blind Devotions mart, and fals I. NOUGHT is there under heav'ns wide hollowneffe, That moves more deare compaffion of mind, Then beautie brought t'unworthie wretchedneffe Through envies fnares, or fortunes freakes unkind. I, whether lately through her brightnes blynd, Or through alleageance, and fast fëalty, Which I do owe unto all womankynd, Feele my hart perft with fo great agony, When fuch I fee, that all for pitty I could dy. II. And now it is empaffioned fo deepe, For faireft Unaes fake, of whom I fing, I. 1. Nought is there under heav'ns wide hollownesse, That moves more deare compassion of mind,] Spenfer ufually begins his Canto with fome reflection, agreeable to his fubject: fo did the two Italian poets before him, Berni in the Orlando Innamorato, and Ariosto in the Orl. Furiofo. UPTON. That my frayle eies thefe lines with teares do steepe, To thinke how the through guyleful handeling, Though true as touch, though daughter of a king, Though faire as ever living wight was fayre, Though nor in word nor deede ill meriting, Is from her Knight divorced in despayre, And her dew loves deryv'd to that vile Witches fhayre. III. Yet fhe, moft faithfull Ladie, all this while Far from all peoples preace, as in exile, Had her abandond: She, of nought affrayd, Yet wifhed tydinges none of him unto her brought. III. 3. Far from all peoples preace,] Prefs or crowd. So Chaucer, Wif of Bathes Prol. 6104. ed. Tyrwhitt. "Great prees at market maketh dere ware." Some editions read praise and prefs; but preace, the reading of the first quarto, is rightly restored by Church and Upton, Tonfon's edition of 1758 reads, with the fecond quarto, prease. TODD. IV. One day, nigh wearie of the yrkefome way, grace. V. It fortuned, out of the thickest wood IV. 6. romance. Her angels face, As the great eye of heaven, fhyned &c.] A moft elegant painting, but not without fome refemblance to the heroines of Thus, in The most excellent and plefant metaphoricall Hiftorie of Pefiftratus and Catanca, by Edm. Eluiden, Gentleman. bl. 1. 12mo. Impr. by H. Bynneman, a lady is described by a fimilar comparifon, Sign. D. v. "Here beauty, blazing more in fight within hir angelike face, "Than in the skies the golden rayes of Tytans raumping race." TODD. IV. 7. As the great eye of heaven,]" Mundi Oculus," Ovid. Met. iv. 228. And Milton, Par. Loft, B. v. 171. "Thou Sun, of this great world both eye and foúl.” And Shakspeare, Rich. II. "All places that the eye of heaven vifits." UPTON. IV. 9. Did never mortall eye behold &c.] That is, mortall eye never did behold &c. This construction is common in old poetry. The celebrated ballad of Chrifts Kirk on the Green thus commences : "Was ne'er in Scotland heard or feen "Sik dancing nor deray." TODD. V. 2. A ramping lyon &c.] A lion here fawns upon Una. It is the doctrine of Romance, that a lion will offer no injury |