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One canto to go, do I do two today???

Main text complete !!!!
There’s still the “Two Cantos of Mvtabilitie” in my edition (Canto VI & VII plus 18 extra lines headed ‘Canto VIII’)

And spitting forth the poyson of his spight

Spitting…spight… I like that

Her sicknesse was not of the body but the mynde.

The courteous knight Sir Calidore goes all peeping Tom:

There he did see, that pleased much his sight,
Tgat euen he him selfe his eyes enuyde,
An hundred naked maidens lilly white,
All raunged in a ring, and dauncing in delight.

For courtesie amongst the rudest breeds
Good will and fauour.

Serena attacked by Cannibals

Her yuorie necke, her alablaster brest,
Her laps, which like silken pillowes were,
For loue in soft delight thereon to rest;
Her tender sides, her bellie white and clere,
Which like an Altar did it selfe vprere,
To offer sacrifice diuine thereon:
Her goodly thighes, whose glorie did appeare
Like a triumphall Arch, and thereupon
The spolies of Princes hang’s, which were in battel won.

Abstaine from pleasure, and restraine your will,
Subdue desire, and bridle loose delight,
Vse scanted diet, and forbeare your fill,
Shun secresie, and talke in open sight:
So shall you soone repaired your present euill plight.

That plainely may in this wyld man be red,
Who though he were still in his desert wood,
Mongst saluage beasts, both rudely borne and bred,
Ne euer saw faire guize, ne learned good,
Yet shewd some token of his gentle blood,
By gentle vsage of that wretched Dame.