And put away remembrance of late teene; Infted thereof, know that your loving Make Hath no leffe griefe endured for your gentle fake." XLI. She much was cheard to heare him mentiond, Whom of all living wightes fhe loved best. Then laid the noble Championeffe ftrong hond Upon th' Enchaunter which had her distrest So fore, and with foule outrages oppreft: With that great chaine, wherewith not long ygoe He bound that pitteous Lady prifoner now releft, XLI. 7. He bound that pitteous Lady prifoner now releft,] Dr. Jortin obferves, that Spenfer, to the best of his knowledge, never uses verfes of fix feet, except in the last line of the ftanza, and in this place. But he had forgot these inftances, F. Q. i. i. 12. "And peril without fhowe; therefore your hardy stroke." Again, F. Q. iv. xii. 13. "But whilst his ftony heart was toucht with tender ruth." Again, F. Q. iv. xii. 34. "Sad death revived with her sweet inspection." We meet with an Alexandrine in the Samfon Agonistes, which believe was not left so by the author, ver. 497. "But I God's counfel have not kept, his holy fecret The preceding line is, "The mark of fool fet on his front? Perhaps we should read, "The mark of fool fet on his front? but I "God's counfel have not kept, his holy fecret To return to the line of this remark: "He bound that pitteous Lady prifoner now releft." Himfelfe fhe bound, more worthy to be fo, And captive with her led to wretchednesse and WO. XLII. Returning back, thofe goodly rowmes, which erft She faw fo rich and royally arayd, Now vanisht utterly and cleane fubverst It is probable that prifoner was abfurdly thrown in by the printers; and as the measure is preferved, fo is the fenfe equally clear, if not more fo, without it. A poet who read Spenfer with true taste, Mr. James Thomfon, had ftruck it out, and I fuppofe for this reafon, in his Spenfer, as fuperfluous. T. WARTON. Mr. Church is of opinion that prisoner crept improperly into the text, and therefore has rejected it. Mr. Upton propofes to discard either prisoner or Lady, in order to reduce the verse to its proper measure. Tonfon's edition in 1758, has, for the fame purpose, rejected pitteous. The edition of 1751 retains all the words. It must be remarked, that, in two of the instances of the Alexandrine here cited by Mr. Warton from the Faerie Queene, two rectifications are neceffary: for, in regard to the first of them, the Errata of Spenfer's own edition direct hardy to be omitted; and, in regard to the fecond, the quotation is given from the folios, not from Spenfer's own edition, which correctly reads, "Thus whilst his stony heart with tender ruth "Was toucht, &c." There is, however, an inftance of the needlefs Alexandrine, F. Q. ii. iv. 41. "But Phlegeton is fonne of Herebus and Night." But see the note on the passage. TODD. XLII. 3. Not vanisht utterly &c.] Enchanted palaces, likė caftles in the air, are built and vanish in a moment. So vanished the enchanted palace and gardens of Armida, in Taffo. The palace and gardens of Dragontina, by the virtuous ring of Angelica, Orlando Innam. L. i. C. 14. The caftle of Atlante, Orl. Fur. C. iv. 38, xxii. 23. UPTON. That fight of fuch a chaunge her much dif mayd. Thence forth defcending to that perlous porch, Thofe dreadfull flames the alfo found delayd And quenched quite like a confumed torch, That erft all entrers wont fo cruelly to fcorch. XLIII. More eafie iffew now then entrance late She found; for now that fained-dreadfull flame, To have effort the love of that faire Laffe, Seeing his worke now wafted, deepe engrieved was. XLIV. But when the Victoreffe arrived there Where late she left the penfife Scudamore With her own trufty Squire, both full of feare, Neither of them fhe found where the them lore: Thereat her noble hart was stonisht fore; XLIV. 4. Removed. CHURCH. lore:] Left or loft. Anglo-Sax, Chaucer, Plowman's Tale, ver. 2671. "Wonne or lore." Spenfer thus lorn, F. Q. i. iv. 2, iii. xii. 44, &c. lopen, Foplopen, perditus. UPTON. But most faire Amoret, whofe gentle fpright Now gan to feede on hope, which the before Conceived had, to fee her own deare Knight, Being thereof beguyld, was fild with new affright. XLV. But he, fad man, when he had long in drede And therefore gan advize with her old Squire, mourne, Thence to depart for further aide t'enquire: Where let them wend at will, whileft here I doe respire *. * When Spenser printed his first three Books of the Faerie Queene, the two lovers, Sir Scudamore and Amoret, have a happy meeting: but afterwards, when he printed the fourth, fifth, and fixth Books, he reprinted likewife the three first Books; and, among other alterations of the lesser kind, he left out the five laft ftanzas, and made three new stanzas, viz. XLIII. XLIV. XLV. More cafe iffew now, &c. By these alterations this third Book not only connects better with the fourth, but the reader is kept in that fufpenfe which is neceffary in a well-told story. The stanzas which are mentioned above, as omitted in the fecond edition, and printed in the firft, are the following: XLIII. "At last she came unto the place, where late "And of the hardie Britomarts fucceffe: "There on the cold earth him now thrown she found, "In wilfull anguish, and dead heavineffe, "And to him cald; whose voices knowen found "Soone as he heard, himself he reared light from ground. XLIV. "There did he fee, that most on earth him ioyd, "Which he in chace endured hath, now nigh breathleffe. XLV. 66 Lightly he clipt her twixt his armës twaine, "And ftreightly did embrace her body bright, "Her body, late the prifon of fad paine, "Now the fweet lodge of loue and dear delight: "But the faire lady, overcommon quight "Of huge affection, did in pleasure melt, "And in fweet ravishment pourd out her fpright. "No word they fpake, nor earthly thing they felt, "But like two fenceless stocks in long embracements dwelt. XLVI. Had ye them feene, ye would have furely thought "So feemd thofe two, as growne together quite; "In vaine fhe wifht, that fate n'ould let her yet poffeffe. XLVII. "Thus doe thofe louers with sweet counteruayle, |