The Faerie Queene

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The Faerie Queene
Lo I the man, whose Muse whilome did maske,
As

time her taught in lowly Shepheards weeds,
Am now enforst a far unfitter taske,
For trumpets sterne to chaunge mine Oaten reeds,
And sing of Knights and Ladies gentle deeds;
Whose prayses having slept in silence long,
Me, all too meane, the sacred Muse areeds
To blazon broad emongst her learned throng:
Fierce warres and faithful loves shall moralize my song.

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The Faerie Queene
Lo I the man, whose Muse whilome did maske,
As

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REDCROSSE
Canto I

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The First Booke of the Faerie Queene
Contayining
The Legend of the Knight

of the
Red Cross
Or HOLINESSE.

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I
A Gentle Knight was pricking on the plaine,
Ycladd in mightie armes

and silver shielde,
Wherein old dints of deepe wounds did remaine,
The cruell markes of many a bloudy fielde;
Yet armes till that time did he never wield:
His angry steede did chide his foming bitt,
As much disdayning to the curbe to yield:
Full jolly knight he seemd, and faire did sitt,
As one for knightly giusts and fierce encounters fitt.

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ii
But on his brest a bloudie Crosse he bore,
The deare remembrance

of his dying Lord,
For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore,
And dead as living ever him ador'd:
Upon his shield the like was also scor'd,
For soveraine hope, which in his helpe he had:
Right faithfull true he was in deede and word,
But of his cheere did seeme too solemne sad;
Yet nothing did he dread, but ever was ydrad.

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iii
Upon a great adventure he was bond,
That greatest Gloriana to him

gave,
That greatest Glorious Queene of Faerie lond,
To winne him worship, and her grace to have,
Which of all earthly things he most did crave;
And ever as he rode, his hart did earne
To prove his puissance in battell brave
Upon his foe, and his new force to learne;
Upon his foe, a Dragon horrible and stearne.