Status Updates From The Faerie Queene

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