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

570 POEMS OF EDMUND SPENSER. [JULY.
I saw Calliope, with Muses mo', And faultless faith is turn'd to faithless fear,
Soon as thy oaten pipe began to sound, That she the truest shepherd's heart made bleed
Their ivory lutes and tambourines forego, That lives on earth, and loved her most dear.
And from the fountain, where they sat around,. careful9 Co I lament thy case;
Run after hastily thy silver sound;. carefu Col I lament thy case;
But, when they came where thou thy skill didst Thy tears would make the hardest flint to flow!
show, t Ah! faithless Rosalind, and void of grace,
That art the root of all this ruthful I0 woe!
They drew aback, as half with shame confoundBut now is time I guess, homeward to go
Shepherd to see them in their art outgo.s tme, guess, homeward to go
Then rise, ye blessed flocks! and home apace,
C. Of Muses, Hobbinol, I con no skill, Lest night with stealing steps do you forslow, 1
For they be daughters of the highest Jove, And wet your tender lambs that by you trace.12
And holden scorn of homely shepherd's quill;
For since I heard that Pan with Phcebus strove, COLIN'S EMBLEM:
Which him to much rebuke and danger drove, Gia speme spenta. (Now hope is extinct.)
I never list presume to Parnass' hill;
But, piping low in shade of lowly grove,
I play to please myself, albeit ill.
Naught weigh 1 I who my song doth praise or
blame, JU LY.
Nor strive to win renown or pass the rest:
With shepherd sits not 2 follow flying Fame, EGLOGASEPTIMA.-AnGlMENT.
But feed his flock in fields where falls them best. This.Eglogue is made in the honour and commendaI wot my rhymes be rough, and rudely drest; tion of good shepherds, and to the shame and disThe fitter they my careful case 3 to frame: praise of proud and ambitious pastors: such as
Enough is me to paint out my unrest, Morrel is here imagined to be.
And pour my piteous plaints out in the same.
Thomalin. Morrelt.l3
The god of shepherds, Tityrus, is dead,
Who taught me homely, as I can, to make: 4 T. Is not this same a goatherd proud,
He, whilst he lived, was the sov'reign head That sits on yonder bank,
Of shepherds all that be with love y-take; 5 Whose straying herd themselves do shroud
Well could he wail his woes, and lightly slake Among the bushes rank?
The flames which love within his heart had bred, M. What, ho! thou jolly shepherd's swain,
And tell us merry tales to keep us wake, Come up the hill to me;
The while our sheep about us safely fed. Better is than the lowly plain,
Als' 14 for thy flock and thee.
Now dead he is, and lieth wrapt in lead for thy flock and thee.
(! why should Death oh sh o a T. Ah! God shield,15 man, that I should climb,
(O! why should Death on him such outrage
And learn to look aloft;
This read 16 is rife,17 tha;t oftentime
And all his passing skill with him is fled, G c f
The fame whereof doth daily greater grow. mble ale is f all unsoft.
But, if on me some little drops would flow
Of that the spring was in his learned head, The trode 1 not so kle,
IAnd though one fall through heedless haste,
I soon would learn these woods to wail my woe,
Yet is his miss not mickle.
And teach the trees their trickling tears to shed. Yetishi missnotmickle
And now the Sun hath rearid up
Then should my plaints, caus'd of discourtesy, His fiery-footed team,
As messengers of this my plainful 6 plight, Making his way between the Cup
Fly to my love, wherever that she be, And golden Diademe;
And pierce her heart with point of worthy wife,7 The rampant Lion 20 hunts he fast
As she deserves that wrought so deadly spite. With Dogs of noisome breath,
And thou, Menalcas! that by treachery Whose baleful barking brings in haste
Didst underfong 8 my lass to.wax so light, Pain, plagues, and dreary death.
Shouldst well be known for such thy villainy. Against his cruel scorching heat
But since I am not as I wish I were, Where hast thou coverture?
Ye gentle shepherds! which your flocks do feed, The wasteful hills unto his threat
Whether on hills, or dales, or otherwhere, Is a plain overture: 21
Bear witness all of this so wicked deed; But, if thee list to holden chat
And tell the lass, whose flower is wox a weed, With seely 2 shepherd swain,
I Care. 2 It befits not (to). supposition-is understood to be the Bishop of London,
3 Unhappy condition. Elmer or Aylmer, a prominent upholder of the High
4 To make poetry. 5 Overtaken. Church party, as Grindal was of the Low.
6 Lamentable. 7 Merited blame. 14 Both. 15 God forbid.
8 Seduce; "undermine and deceive by false sugges- 16 Saying, proverb. 17 Frequent, familiar.
tions."-E. K. 18 Footing, path. 19 Uncertain.
9 Sorrowful. 10 Pitiable. 20 The sun enters Leo in'July; at which time the
11 Retard. 12 Go. sultry influences of the Dogstar are at their height.
13 Morrell-though E. K. gives no authority for the 21 Lie fully open. 22 Simple.