54. But gentle Sleepe envyde him any rest: With their light wings, the fights of femblants vaine. His Faery Queene, for whom he did complaine, Or that his Faery Queene were fuch as shee; And ever hafty Night he blamed bitterlie. 55. Night! thou foule Mother of annoyaunce fad, Which waft begot in heaven, but for thy bad "What had th' eternall Maker need of thee kind. 57. "But well I wote, that to an heavy hart Thou art the roote and nourfe of bitter cares, Breeder of new, renewer of old smarts: m In stead of reft thou lendest rayling teares ;' "Under thy mantle black there hidden lye "For day discovers all dishoneft wayes, And fheweth each thing as it is in deed: "O! when will day then turne to me againe, m thou lendeft rayling teares.] Tears trickling down. See the note on raile, F. Q. i. vi. 43. [vol. i. p. 279.] TODD. n Dayes dearest children be the bleffed feed.] This is the emendation of the fecond edition, to which every subsequent one has adhered. The first reads, We adopt the change (which may have been Spenfer's), as an improvement both of the meaning and metre: the line as it flood originally was harsh and uncouth. C. And bring with him his long expected light? And yield her rowme to day that can it governe well." 61. Thus did the Prince that wearie night outweare And earely, ere the morrow did upreare And clombe unto his fteed. So forth he went great grudge and maltalent.] Ill-will, or spleen. So Sorrow is defcribed tearing her hair, in Chaucer's "Rom. R.” 330:— "As fhe that had it all to rent "For angre and for male talent." So malenthalenté, in old French, fignifies an ill-minded perfon. See Cotgrave's Dict. in V. TODD. The word alfo occurs, as Richardfon fhows, in "The Merchants Second Tale," imputed to Chaucer; but Chaucer and Spenser seem the only writers in whose works it has been yet found. C. way I. ONDER it is to fee in diverfe mindes How diverfly love doth his play, pageaunts And fhewes his powre in variable kindes : Are wont to cleave unto the lowly clay, And in lewd flouth to waft his careleffe day; 2. Ne fuffereth it uncomely idleneffe In his free thought to build her fluggish neft, But to the highest and the worthieft and reareth out of found.] "Sownd" is one of the various old and arbitrary forms of woon: here the rhyme required it. C. Lifteth it up that els would lowly fall: It lettes not fall, it lettes it not to rest; It lettes not scarfe this Prince to breath at all, But to his first poursuit him forward still doth call. 3. Who long time wandred through the forest wyde For fore he swat, and, ronning through that same Thicke forest, was befcracht and both his feet nigh lame. 4. Panting for breath, and almost out of hart, The Dwarfe him anfwerd; "Sir, ill mote I stay From Faery court, where I have many a day And high accompt through out all Elfin land, Which way the fared hath, good Sir, tell out of hand." 5. "What mister wight," (faide he)" and how arayd?” Royally clad" (quoth he) " in cloth of gold, As meetest may befeeme a noble mayd : Her faire lockes in rich circlet be enrold, A fayrer wight did never Sunne behold; And on a Palfrey rydes more white then snow, b till that at last.] So the 4tos. 1590 and 1596. The folios read, "till at the laft." CHURCH. What mister wight.] What manner of perfon: fee this vol. p. 9. C. |