THE WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER. IN EIGHT VOLUMES. WITH THE PRINCIPAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF VARIOUS COMMENTATORS. VOLUME THE SEVENTH. LONDON: PRINTED FOR F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON, T. PAYNE, 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 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) |