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Onto book five
Book four Canto XI WTF was that? Naming the seas, the rivers & streams that eventually feed the Thames, then throwing in Irish one just because Spenser can - it’s that bizarre it’s almost worth a blog post of its own!!! (Or five!!)

Where I with sound of trompe will also rest a whyle.

Spenser may have a rest for a while, I’ll soldier on - take about endless knight’s battles in tournaments, some of these guys get up three times after they’ve been killed. (Do you think it might be allegorical?)

Book three complete!!!

Next after him went Doubt, who was yclad
In a discolour’d cote, of straunge disguyse
That at his backe a brode Capuccio had,
And sleeues dependant Albanese-wyse:

For life is wretchednesse

Said he, thou man of nought, what doest thou here,
Vnfitly furnisht with thy bag and booke,
Where I expected one with shield and spere,
To proue some deedes of arms vpon an equall pere.

Night reading as The Faerie Queene is strictly at a desk/table and daytime reading.

But ouer all the countrey she did raunge,
To seeke young men, to quench her flaming thurst,
And feed her fancy with delightfull chaunge:
Whom so she fittest finds to serue her lust,
Through her maine strength, in which she most doth trust,
She brings into a secret Ile,
Where in eternall bondage dye he must,
Or he the vassall of her pleasures vile,
And in all shamefull sort him selfe with her defile.

Good on her

For in the wide wombe of the world there lyes,
In hatefull darkenesse and in deep horrore,
An huge eternall Chaos, which supplyes
The substances of natures fruitfull progenyes.

So tickle be the termes of mortall state,
And sill of subtile sophismes, which do play
With double senses, and with false debate,
T’approue the vnknowen purpose of eternall fate.

Merlin’s magic mirror has appeared

It falles me here to write of Chastity,
That fairest vertue, farre aboue the rest;

Booke 3 & we’ve moved from Temperance to Chastity.

Book two is done.
Eftsoones i moveth to book 3 whilest wether serues and wind.

“…for so deformd is luxury,
Surfeat, misdiet, and vnthrifitie wast,
Vaine feasts, and idle superfluidity:”