THE

WORKS

OF

EDMUND SPENSER.

IN EIGHT VOLUMES.

WITH THE

PRINCIPAL ILLUSTRATIONS

OF

VARIOUS COMMENTATORS.

VOLUME THE SEVENTH.

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CONTENTS

OF

VOL. VII.

The fixth Booke of the Faerie Queene, Canto I

"Two Cantos of Mutabilitie

Muiopotmos, or the Fate of the Butterflie

The Ruines of Time

The Teares of the Mufes

Virgils Gnat

Profopopoia, or Mother Hubberds Tale

The Ruines of Rome: By Bellay

Vifions of the Worlds Vanitie

The Vifions of Bellay

The Vifions of Petrarch

Daphraïda

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THE SIXTH BOOKE OF

THE FAERIE QUEENE.

CANTO VII.

Turpine is baffuld; his two Knights
Doe gaine their treasons meed.
Fayre Mirabellaes punishment
For Loves difdaine decreed.

I.

LIKE as the gentle hart itselfe bewrayes
In doing gentle deedes with franke delight,
Even fo the bafer mind itfelfe difplayes
In cancred malice and revengefull fpight:
For to maligne, t' envie, t' ufe fhifting flight,
Be
arguments of a vile donghill mind;

ARG. 1.

baffuld;] See the note on this word, F. Q. v. iii. 37. See also, ft. 27 of this Canto. TODD.

I. 1. Like as the gentle hart] Un cór gentil, Ariofto, C. xxxvi. 1. See the note on C. iii. ft. 1. Gentle hart, is alfo Chaucer's expreffion. See note below, on ft. 18. UPTON.

Ibid. Like as the gentle &c.] The folios, Hughes, and Tonfon's edition in 1758, read, without authority or neceffity, "Like as a gentle hart &c." TODD..

I. 6. a vile donghill mind;] He uses the fame phrase, F. Q. iii. x. 15. So likewife, in An Hymne of Love:

"His dunghill thoughts which do themselves enure

"To durtie droffe-"

And in Tears of the Mufes:

"Ne ever dare their dunghill thoughts afpire."

And fo Chaucer, Affembl. of Fowles:

"Now fie churle (quoth the gentle Tercelet)
"Out of the dunghill came that word aright."
T. WARTON.