Cant. II.
the Faerie Queene.
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Cant. II.
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The guilefull great Enchaunter parts.The Redcrosse Knight from Truth:Into whose steps faire falshood steps,And workes him woefull ruth.
By this the Northerne wagoner had setHis seuenfold teme behind the stedfast starre,That was in Ocean waues yet neuer wet,Bur firme is fixt, and sendeth light from farreTo al, that in the wide deepe wandring arre:And chearefull Chaunticlere with his note shrillHad warned once, that Phoebus fiery carre,In hast was climbing vp the Easterne hill,Full enuious that night so long his roome did fill.
When those accursed messengers of hell,That feigning dreame, and that faire-forged SprightCame to their wicked maister, and gan telTheir bootelesse paines, and ill succeeding night:Who all in rage to see his skilfull mightDeluded so, gan threaten hellish paineAnd sad Proserpines wrath, them to affright.But when he saw his threatning was but vaine,He cast about, and searcht his baleful bokes againe.
Eftsoones he tooke that miscreated faire,And that false other Spright, on whom he spredA seeming body of the subtile aire,Like a young Squire, in loues and lusty hed
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