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In large paper copies (post 4to) a steel portrait of Spenser by Alais, from
a contemporary miniature in the possession of Lord Fitzhardinge,
inherited through the marriage of a Berkeley with Lady E. Carey,
heiress of the Hunsdons, to whom it was left by Queen Elizabeth,
-never before engraved. See further account of this and of all our
engraved portraits and all others, in the Memoir in Vol. I.

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Book III.-Cant. XI.

Britomart chaceth Ollyphant,
findes Scudamour diftreft:

Affayes the house of Bufyrane,

where Loues fpoyles are expreft.

O

Hatefull hellish Snake, what furie furst

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Brought thee from balefull house of Proferpine, Where in her bofome fhe thee long had nurst, And foftred vp with bitter milke of tine, Fowle Gealofie, that turneft loue diuine To ioyleffe dread, and mak'ft the louing hart With hatefull thoughts to languifh and to pine, And feed it selfe with felfe-consuming smart? Of all the paffions in the mind thou vilest art.

O let him far be banished away,

And in his ftead let Loue for euer dwell,

Sweet Loue, that doth his golding wings embay

In blessed Nectar, and pure Pleasures well,

1. 5, 'loues': 1. 10, 'Gealofy': 1. 17, ‘fweete': ib., 'golding' is changed to 'golden' in 1609.

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Vntroubled of vile feare, or bitter fell.

And ye faire Ladies, that your kingdomes make 20
In th'harts of men, them gouerne wifely well,
And of faire Britomart enfample take,

That was as trew in loue, as Turtle to her make.

Who with Sir Satyrane, as earft ye red,

Forth ryding from Malbeccoes hoftleffe hous,
Far off afpyde a young man, the which fled
From an huge Geaunt, that with hideous
And

hatefull outrage long him chaced thus;
It was that Ollyphant, the brother deare
Of that Argante vile and vitious,

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From whom the Squire of Dames was reft whylere; This all as bad as fhe, and worfe, if worfe ought were.

For as the fifter did in feminine

And filthy luft exceede all woman kind,

So he furpaffed his fex mafculine,

In beastly vse that I did euer find ;

Whom when as Britomart beheld behind
The fearefull boy fo greedily purfew,
She was emmoued in her noble mind,
T'employ her puiffaunce to his reskew,

And pricked fiercely forward, where the him did vew.

Ne was Sir Satyrane her far behinde,

But with like fierceneffe did enfew the chace :
Whom when the Gyaunt faw, he foone refinde
His former fuit, and from them fled apace;

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1. 31, 'Squyre': l. 34, 'womankinde,' and so 'e' in rhyme-words of the stanza: 1. 36, vfe, all that I cuer': 1. 38, ‘pourfew,