THE SIXTH BOOKE OF THE FAERIE QUEENE. CANTO VII. Turpine is baffuld; his two Knights I. LIKE as the gentle hart itselfe bewrayes ARG, 1. baffuld;] See the note on this word, F. Q. v. iii. 37. See alfo, ft. 27 of this Canto. TODD. I. 1. Like as the gentle hart] Un cor gentil, Ariofto, C. xxxvi. 1. See the note on C. iii. ft. 1. Gentle hart, is also 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 phrafe, 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) Which, what it dare not doe by open might, To worke by wicked treason wayes doth find, By such discourteous deeds discovering his base kind. II. That well appears in this discourteous Knight, For all that shame, which kindled inward hate: Therefore, fo foone as he was out of vew, Himfelfe in hast he arm'd, and did him fast purfew. III. Well did he tract his fteps as he did ryde, Betwixt them to divide and each to make his owne. III. 7. agreeably,] Alike, like each other. See C. xi, ft. 36. CHURCH. |