...According to a letter about the poem that Spenser sent to Sir Walter Raleigh, "I labor to portrait in Arthur, before he was king, the image of a brave...knight, perfected in the twelve private moral virtues." Redcross portrays the first of these, holiness. What are the others? Temperence is the subject of Book...

...difcover, and win, GLORIANA, or Glory. In a word, in this character the poet profefies to pourtray, " THE IMAGE OF A BRAVE KNIGHT PERFECTED IN THE TWELVE PRIVATE MORAL VIRTUES." It is evident that our author in eftablifhing one hero, who feeking and attaining one grand end, which...

...gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline. . . I labour to pourtraict in Arthure, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private morall vertues, as Aristotle hath devised, the which is the purpose of these first twelve bookes :...

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