IGHT well I wote, moft mighty Soveraine, Sith none that breatheth living aire does know Which I fo much doe vaunt, yet no where fhow, 2. But let that man with better fence advize, The Amazon huge river, now found trew? a The Amazon buge river.] So the errata at the end of the 4to. 1590; but it may be doubted whether Spenfer did not write "The Or fruitfullest Virginia who did ever vew? 3. Yet all these were, when no man did them know, And later times thinges more unknowne shall show. Why then should witleffe man so much misweene, That nothing is but that which he hath feene? What if within the Moones fayre fhining fpheare, What if in every other ftarre unfeene Of other worldes he happily fhould heare, He wonder would much more; yet fuch to fome appeare. 4. Of faery lond yet if he more inquyre, By certein fignes, here fett in fondrie place, 5. The which O! pardon me thus to enfold In covert vele, and wrap in fhadowes light, Amazons huge river," as indeed it ftands in the folio 1611. In the first edit. the text is "The Amarons huge river." C. And thou, O fayreft Princeffe.] Nobody feems to have remarked that in the edit. 1590" thou" is mifprinted then. We note it particularly, because precifely the fame error occurs in Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," A. v. Sc. 1, where Olivia fays, " Then cam'it in fmiling," inftead of "Thou cam'ft in smiling ;" an error corrected in the MS. notes of the folio 1632. See Collier's "Shakefp." edit. 1858, vol. ii. p. 722. The blunder in the original impreffion of Spenfer's "Faerie Queene" was corrected afterwards. C. and wrap in fhadowes light.] So the old copies; the prepofition to being understood before "wrap.' ." Nevertheless, Todd, without notice, printed the participle wrapt; an error in which he has been followed by other modern editors. Profeffor Child, however, in his impreffion, Boston, 1855, has rejected the fuppofed improvement. C. 2009 That feeble eyes your glory may behold, Which ells could not endure those beames bright, But would bee dazled with exceeding light. O! pardon, and vouchsafe with patient eare The brave adventures of this faery knight, The good Sir Guyon, gratiously to heare; In whom great rule of Temp'raunce goodly doth appeare. HAT conning Architect of cancred guyle," derstands bands, For falfed letters, and fuborned wyle, To beene departed out of Eden landes, 2. And forth he fares, full of malicious mynd, To worken mifchiefe, and avenging woe, aThat conning Architect of cancred guyle.] Gregory Nazianzen, it may be obferved, denominates, in his tragedy of " Chriftus Patiens," the old Dragon ayxuλourns, fraudis artifex; whence perhaps Spenfer's architect of guyle, applied to the fame deceiver, as Milton's artificer of fraud alfo is, " Par. L." B. iv. 121. TODD. Sith Una now he algates must forgoe,b Whom his victorious handes did earst restore To native crowne and kingdom late ygoe; Where she enjoyes fure peace for evermore, As wetherbeaten ship arryv'd on happie shore. 3. Him therefore now the object of his spight He feekes, of all his drifte the aymed end: 4. Still as he went he craftie ftales did lay,d With cunning traynes him to entrap unwares, To weete what course he takes, and how he fares, To ketch him at a vauntage in his fnares. But now fo wife and wary was the knight By tryall of his former harmes and cares, That he defcryde and shonned ftill his flight: The fish that once was caught new bayt wil hardly byte. 5. Nath'leffe th' Enchaunter would not spare his payne, bhe algates must forgoe.] i. e. he must entirely, altogether, all manner of ways forego: from the A. S. algeats. C. And deadly food he makes.] We have before feen feud fpelt "food" in this poem, B. i. C. 8: it is feude here in the folio editions, as well as in fome modern reprints. C. a he craftie ftales did lay.] "Crafty ftales" are crafty decoys; Fr. eftalon, not devices or tricks, as Todd alleges: Archimago, as it were, laid baits in order to entrap the knight. C. |