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

548 THE FAERIE QUEEI. [BOOK VII.
That breaks into her dair-house, there doth Nathless Diana, full of indignation,
drain Thenceforth abandon'd her delicious brook;
Her creaming pans, and frustrate all her pain, In whose sweet stream, before that bad occasion,
Hath, in some snare or gin set close behind, So much delight to bathe her limbs she took:
Entrapped him, and caught into her train,1 Nor only her, but also quite forsook
Thenthinkswhat punishment were best assign'd, All those fair forests about Arlo hid;
And thousand deaths deviseth in her vengeful And all that mountain, which doth overlook
mind: The richest champaign that may else be rid; 8
So did Diana and her maidens all And the fair Shure, in which are thousand
Use silly Faunus, now within their bail:2 salmons bred.
They mock and scorn him, and himfoulmiscall; Them all, and all that she so dear did weigh,9
Some by the nose him pluck'd, some by the tail, Thenceforth she left; and, parting from the
And by his goatish beard some did him hale: place,
Yet he (poor soul!) with patience all did bear; Thereon a heavy hapless curse did lay;
For naught against their wills might counter- To wit, that wolves, where she was wont to
vail: space,10
Nor aught he said, whatever he did hear; Should harbour'd be and all those woods deface,
But, hanging down his head, did like a mome 3 And thieves should rob and spoil that coast
appear. around.
At length, when they had flouted him their fill, Since which, those woods, and all that goodly
They gan to cast what penance him to give. chase,
Some would have gelt him; but that same Doth to this day with wolves and thieves
would spill4 a-bound:
The wood-gods' breed, which must for ever live: Which too too true that land's indwellers since
Others would through the river him have drive have found!
And ducked deep; but that seem'd penance light:
But most agreed, and did this sentence give,
Him in deer's skin to clad, and in that plight
To hunt him with their hounds, himself save
how he might. CANTO VII.
But Cynthia's self, more angry than the rest, ing from toatur'Pealing 11 from Jove to fature's bar,
Thought not enough to punish him in sport, Bold Alteration pleads
And of her shame to make a gamesome jest; Large evidence: but Nature soon
But gan examine him in straiter sort, Her righteous doom areads.12
Which of her nymphs, or other close cons6rt,5
Him thither brought, and her to him betray'd? A! whither dost thou now, thou greater
He, much afear'd, to her confessed short Muse,3i
That'twas Molanna which her so bewray'd. Me from these woods and pleasing forests bring,
Then all at once their hands upon Molanna laid. And my frail spirit, that doth oft refuse
But him (according as they had decreed) This too high flight, unfit for her weak wing,
With a deer's skin they cover'd, and then chas'd Lif up aloft, to tell of heaven's king
With all their hounds, that after him did speed (Thy sov'reign sire) his fortunate success;
But he, more speedy, from them fled more fast And victory in bigger notes to sing
Than any deer; so sore him dread aghast.6 Which he obtain'd against that Titaness,
They after follow'd all with shrill outcr, him of heaven's empire sought to disShouting as they the heavens would have possess
brast; 7 Yet, since I needs must follow thy behest,
That all the woods and dales, where he did fly, Do thou my weaker wit with skill inspire,
Did ring again, and loud re-echo to the sky. Fit for this turn; and in my feeble breast
So they him follow'd till they weary were; Kindle fresh sparks of that immortal fire
When, back returnig to Molann' aain Which learned minds inflameth with desire
They, by commandment of Diana, there'TPhey, by commandment of Diana, there Of heav'nly things: for who but thou alone,
Her whelm'd with stones: yet Faunus, for her That art y-born of heav'n and heav'nly sire,
pain, Can tell things done in heav'n so long y-gone,
Of her beloved Fanchin did obtain So far past memory of man that may be known?
That her he would receive unto his bed. Now, at the time that was before agreed,
So now her waves pass through a pleasant plain, The gods assembled all on Arlo Hill;
Till with the Fanchin she herself do wed, As well those that are sprung of heav'nly seed,
And, both combin'd, themselves in one fair As those that all the other world do fill,
river spread. And rule both sea and land unto their will:
1 Snare. 2 Custody. 9 Value. 10 Roam.
3 A speechless and senseless blockhead. 1 Appealing. 12 Pronounces.
4 Destroy. 5 Companion. 13 Clio now retakes from Calliope-the historic from
6 Confounded, terrified. the epic Muse-the quill which was lent her to describe
7 Burst, rent. 8 For "read;" discovered, the fate of sad Molanna.