The Canterbury tales and Faerie queene &c., &c., &c., ed. for popular perusal with current illustrations and explanatory notes, by D. Laing Purves.

CANTO XI.] THE FAERIE QUEEN. 479
All those were there, and many other more, In his grieved mind he began to devise how
Whose names and nations were too long to tell, he might free the lady from that dungeon;
That Proteus' house they fill'd ev'n to the door; whether by making fair and humble petition
Yet were they all in order, as befell, to Proteus, or taking her by force with sword
According their degrees disposed well. and targe, or stealing her away. Each plan has
Amongst the rest was fair Cymodoce, too many difficulties; so he finds no resource
The mother of unlucky Marinell, but to reproach himself for despising so chaste
Who thither with her came, to learn and see and fair a dame, and bringing to such misery
The mannerof the gods whenthey at banquet be. her who for his sake "refus'd a god that had
her sought to wife."
But, for he was half mortal, being bred her sought to wife.
Of mortal sire, though of immortal womb, In this sad plight he walked here and there,
He might not with immortal food be fed, And roamed round about the rock in vain,
Nor with th' eternal gods to banquet come; As he had lost himself he wist not where;
But walk'd abroad, and round about did roam Oft list'ning if he might her hear again;
To view the building of that -dncouth place, And still bemoaning her unworthy pain;
That seem'd unlike unto his earthly home: Like as a hind whose calf is fall'n unwares
Where, as he to and fro by chance did trace, Into some pit, where she him hears complain,
There unto him betid a disadventurous 2 case. A hundred times about the pit-side fares,
RUight sorrowfully mourningher bereaved cares.6
Under the hanging of a hideous cliff
He heard the lamentable voice of one And now by this the feast was throughly ended,
That piteously complain'd her careful 3 grief, And ev'ry one gan homeward to resort:
Which never she before disclos'd to none, Which seeing, Marinell was sore offended
But to herself her sorrow did bemoan: That his departure thence should be so short,
So feelingly her case she did complain, And leave his love in that sea-walled fort:
That ruth 4 it moved in the rocky stone, Yet durst he not his mother disobey;
And made it seem to feel her grievous pain, But, her attending in full seemly sort,
And oft to groan with billows' beating from the Did march amongst the many all the way;
main: And all the way did inly mourn, like one astray.
It is Florimell, who bewails her hard hap, the Being returned to his mother's bow'r,
hard heart of her captor, and the indifference In solitary silence, far from wight,8
of her lover, that lets her die when he might He gan record the lamentable stowre
have delivered her by arms. Having wept a In which his wretched love lay day and night,
space, she begins anew, calling on the gods of sea, For his dear sake, that ill deserv'd that plight:
"if any gods at all have care of right orruth of The. thought whereof empierc'd his heart so
wretches' wrong," to set her free, or grant her dePp,
death, or make her lover the companion of her That of no worldly thing he took delight;
captivity. But then she falls to rebuking her Nor daily food did take, nor nightly sleep,
own vain judgment; for Marinell, she says, But pin'd, and mourn'd, and languish'd, and
"where he list goes loose, and laughs at me." alone did weep;
"So ever loose, so ever happy be!" she cries, That in short space his wonted cheerful hue
and calls on her lover to know that her sorrow Gan fade, and lively spirits deaded quite:
is all for him. His cheek-bones raw, and eye-pits hollow grew,
All which complaint when Marinell had heard, And rawnyarmshadlosttheirknowenmight;
And understood the cause of all her care That nothing like himself he seem'd in sight.
To come of him, for using her so hard; Ere long so weak of limb, and sick of love,
To come of him, for using her so hard;
His stubborn heart, that never felt misfare,5 He wo, that longer he not' stand upright,
Was touch'd with soft'remorse and pity rare; *But to his bed was brought, and laid above,
That ev'n for grief of mind he oft did groan, Like rueful ghost, unable once to stir or move.
That ev'n for grief of mind he oft did groan,
And inly wish that in his power it were His mother, sore grieved at his inexplicable
Herto redress: bilt, since he means found none, sickness; wept over and tended him night and
He could no more but her great misery bemoan. day; Tryphon, again summoned, assured her
Thus whilst his stony heart with tender ruth i w
Was touch'd, and mighty courage mollified, him, but some other malady or grief unknown,
Dame enus' son, that tameth stubborn youth which he could not discern; and the attempts
Dame Venus' son, that tameth stubborn youth
DWith iron sbit, and maketh him abide of the nymph to extract the truth from Marinell
With iron bit, and maketh -him abide
Till like a victor on his back he ride, himself were unavailing-he "still her answerd,
Into his mouth his mast'ring bridle threw, there was naught.
That made him stoop, till he did him bestride: Nathless she rested not so satisfied';
Then gan he make him tread his steps anew, But, leaving watery gods, as booting naught,
And learn to love by learning lover's pains to Unto the shiny heav'n in haste she hied,
rue. And thence Apollo king of leaches brought.
1 Pass, roam. 6 The object of her cares, of which she has been
2 Lamentable, unhappy. 3' Sorrowful. deprived. 7 Soon.
4 Pity. 5 Misfortune. 8 From any mortal. 9 Affliction. 1o Could not.