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THE FAERY QUEEN E

BOOK II. CANTO IIL

Vaine Braggadochio getting Guyon's
Horse, is made the scorne
Of knighthood trew, and is of fayre
Belphoebe fowle forlorne.

SooNE as the morrow fayre, with purple beames,
Difperft the shadowes of the mifty night,
And Titan, playing on the eastern streames,
Gan cleare the deawy ayre with springing light,
Sir Guyon, mindfull of his vow yrlight,
Uprofe from drowfie couch, and him addrest
Unto the journey which he had behight;
His puiffant armes about his noble breft,
And many-folded fhield he bound about

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IV.

The whylcs a loffell wandring by the way,
One that to bountie never caft his mynd,
Ne thought of honour ever did allay
His bafer brest, but in his kestrell kynd
A pleating vaine of glory he did fynd,
To which his flowing toung and troublous fpright
Gave him great ayd, and made him more inclynd,
He that brave fteed there finding ready dight,
his Purloynd both steed and speare, and ran away full
light.

Now gan his bart all fwell in iollity,

Ard of himselfe great hope and help conceiv'd,
That puffed up with imoke of vanity,
And with felfe-loved perfonage deceiv'd,

He gan to hope of men to be receiv'd

For fuch as he him thought, or faine would bee;
But for in court gay praunce he perceiv'd,
And gallaunt how to be in greatest gree,

T'avenge his parents death on them that had it Eftfoones to court he call t'advaunce his firå

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XV.

"Certes, my lord," said he, " that shall I foone,.. "And give you eke good helpe to their decay; "But mote I wifely you advise to doon, "Give no ods to your foes, but doe purvay "Yourfelfe of fword before that bloody day; "For they be two the proweft knights on grownd, "And oft approv'd in many hard afsay; "And eke of fureft fteele, that may be fownd, "Doe arme yourselfe against that day, them to "confownd."

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