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Book 1 Canto 8: Una and the Dwarf bring Arthur to the giant's castle to rescue the Red Cross Knight. Arthur sounds his horn, which brings out the giant and Duessa on her beast. Arthur and his squire battle them, ultimately winning, exposing the giant as empty pride. The Red Cross Knight is rescued and reunited with Una. Then Duessa is stripped naked and exiled.

Book One: Canto Seven - The Red Cross Knight drinks from a cursed well and is taken captive by a proud giant. Una runs across the servant dwarf, who tells her what has befallen her knight and why he abandoned her. Una is distressed and upset, then she meets Prince Arthur (King Arthur before he was king). She tells Arthur her story.

Book One: Canto Six - Una is saved from Sansloy (without law) and his attempts to rape her by a savage nation of fauns and satyrs, who grow to love and worship Una. Una is then taken by Nature's Knight to try and find her Red Cross Knight, but they are met by Archimago in disguise again, who leads Una and Nature's Knight back to Sansloy with false news of the Red Cross Knight's death.

Book 1: Canto V. Our knight fights Sanjoy, but is robbed of his final victory by enchantment, but is proclaimed victorious. Sanjoy is taken by Night and Duessa to Hell so he can be saved. Our knight discovers the fate of the people who live in the House of Pride, so he flees.

Read Book 1, Canto III in the original.

Read Book 1 Canto II, where our hero is tricked and runs off and meets a deceitful sorcerous and hears about the horrible tale of two trees.

There's a section in Book I, Canto II where a knight turned into a tree describes getting tricked into abandoning his lady love for a witch who later, of course, tree-ifies him. Two incredible lines from it:

"So doubly lou'd of Ladies vnlike faire,
...
[multiple stanzas that are excellent between]
...
So left her, where she now is turnd to treen mould."

As I read the prose edition, when I finish a Canto, I'll read the same Canto in the original. Finished Book 1 Canto 1, where in the Red Cross Knight battled error, then was tempted by Archimago.

For REAL reading this now

Finished Book VI

Finished Books III-V