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The second Booke
of the Faerie Queene.
Contayning
The Legend of Sir Guyon.
OR
Of Temperaunce.
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ight well I wote most mighty Soueraine,That all this famous antique history,Of some th'aboundance of an ydle braineWill iudged be, and painted forgery,Rather then matter of iust memory,Sith none, that breatheth liuing aire, does know,Where is that happy land of Faery,Which I so much doe vaunt, yet no where show,But vouch antiquities, which no body can know.But let that man with better sence aduize,That of the world least part to vs is red:And daily how through hardy enterprize,Many great Regions are discouered,
Which
