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...Excerpt: Right well I wote most mighty Soueraine, That all this famous antique history, Of some th?aboundance of an idle braine Will iudged be, and painted forgery, Rather then matter of iust memory, Sith none, that breatheth liuing aire, does know, Where is that happy land of Faery, Which I so much do vaunt, ye...

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...THE SECOND BOOKE OF THE FAERIE QVEENE. Contayning THE LEGEND OF SIR GVYON. by Edmund Spencer THE SECOND BOOKE OF THE FAERIE ... ...THE SECOND BOOKE OF THE FAERIE QVEENE. Contayning THE LEGEND OF SIR GVYON. by Edmund Spencer THE SECOND BOOKE OF THE FAERIE QVEENE. Con... ...VYON. by Edmund Spencer THE SECOND BOOKE OF THE FAERIE QVEENE. Contayning THE LEGENDE OF SIR GVYON, OR OF TEMPERAUNCE. by Edmund Spencer is a publi... ...und Spencer THE SECOND BOOKE OF THE FAERIE QVEENE. Contayning THE LEGENDE OF SIR GVYON, OR OF TEMPERAUNCE. by Edmund Spencer is a publication of th... ...e for troth, How shamefully that Maid he did torment. Her looser golden lockes he rudely rent, And drew her on the ground, and his shar... ... sorrow did augment, And offred hope of comfort did despise: Her golden lockes most cruelly she rent, And scratcht her face with ghastl... ..., and deckt with due habiliments. For all he did, was to deceiue good knights, And draw them from pursuit of praise and fame, To slug i... ... And that deare Crosse vpon your shield deuizd, Wherewith aboue all knights ye goodly seeme aguizd. The Faerie Queene: Book II. 12 Ioy ma... ...th, The gentlest knight, that euer on greene gras Gay steed with spurs did pricke, the good Sir Mortdant was. Was, (ay the while, that ...