THE LEGEND OF ARTEGALL, OR OF IVSTICE. 1 159

BOOK VI. Contres 1.12

THE LEGEND OF S. CALIDORE, OR OF COVRTESIE .

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A LETTER OF THE AVTHORS TO SIR WALTER RALEIGH. 485

COMMENDATORY VERSES :

A Vision vpon this conceipt of the Faery Queene

Another of the same.

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To the learned Shepheard

When stout Achilles heard of Helens rape

Graue Muses march in triumph and with prayses

Fayre Thamis streame, that from Ludds stately towne

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To looke vpon a worke of rare deuise

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To the right honourable the Earle of Northumberland

To the right honourable the Earle of Cumberland

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To the most honourable and excellent Lo. the Earle of Essex.

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To the right Honourable the Earle of Ormond and Ossory

To the right honourable the Lo. Ch. Howard

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To the right honourable the Lord of Hunsdon

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To the most renowmed and valiant Lord, the Lord Grey of

Wilton

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To the right honourable the Lord of Buckhurst

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To the right honourable Sir Fr. Walsingham knight

To the right noble Lord and most valiaunt Captaine, Sir Iohn

Norris knight

To the right noble and valorous knight, Sir Walter Raleigh

To the right honourable and most vertuous Lady, the Countesse

of Penbroke

To the most vertuous, and beautifull Lady, the Lady Carew

To all the gratious and beautifull Ladies in the Court

CRITICAL APPENDIX

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He rugged forhead that with graue foresight
Welds kingdomes causes, and affaires of state,
My looser rimes (I wote) doth sharply wite,
For praising loue, as I haue done of late,

And magnifying louers deare debate;
By which fraile youth is oft to follie led,
Through false allurement of that pleasing baite,
That better were in vertues discipled,

Then with vaine poemes weeds to haue their fancies fed.

Such ones ill iudge of loue, that cannot loue,

Ne in their frosen hearts feele kindly flame:
For thy they ought not thing vnknowne reproue,
Ne naturall affection faultlesse blame,

For fault of few that haue abusd the same.

For it of honor and all vertue is

The roote, and brings forth glorious flowres of fame,
That crowne true louers with immortall blis,

The meed of them that loue, and do not liue amisse.
Title 5 TELAMOND] Triamond II xxxi l. 8 &c.

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