That all the house did sweat with great aray:
And all the while sweete musicke did apply
Her curious skill, the warbling notes to play,
To drive away the dull melancholy;

The whiles one sung a song of love and jollity.

39 During the which there was an heavenly noise
Heard sound through all the pallace pleasantly,
Like as it had bene many an angels voice
Singing before th' eternall Majesty,
In their trinall triplicities on hye;

Yet wist no creature whence that heavenly sweet
Proceeded, yet eachone felt secretly

Himselfe thereby reft of his sences meet,
And ravished with rare impression in his sprite.

40 Great joy was made that day of young and old,
And solemne feast proclaimd throughout the land,
That their exceeding merth may not be told:
Suffice it heare by signes to understand

The usuall joyes at knitting of loves band.
Thrise happy man the knight himselfe did hold,
Possessed of his ladies hart and hand;

And ever, when his eye did her behold,

His heart did seeme to melt in pleasures manifold.

41 Her joyous presence, and sweet company,

In full content he there did long enjoy ;

Ne wicked envy, ne vile gealosy,

His deare delights were able to annoy : Yet swimming in that sea of blissfull joy, He nought forgot how he whilome had sworne, In case he could that monstrous beast destroy, Unto his Faerie Queene backe to returne; The which he shortly did, and Una left to mourne.

42 Now strike your sailes ye jolly Mariners,

For we be come unto a quiet rode,

Where we must land some of our passengers,
And light this weary vessell of her lode.
Here she awhile may make her safe abode,
Till she repaired have her tackles spent,
And wants supplide. And then againe abroad
On the long voyage whereto she is bent:
Well may she speede, and fairely finish her intent.

1. (2) The Shepheards Calender, published by Spenser in 1579. 2. (1) Clio, the Muse of history. (5) Tanaquill, a British princess, is Queen Elizabeth. (6) Prince Arthur allegorically represents the Earl of Leicester.

3. Note that Spenser invokes the aid of Cupid, Venus, and Mars.

4. Observe the fulsome adulation which marks Spenser's attitude toward Elizabeth.

CANTO I

I. The Red Cross Knight is reformed England. He wears the armour of the Christian Church, which had been in many encounters. In detail explain the metrical construction of a Spenserian stanza.

3. (9) The dragon represents the Devil, Rome, and Spain, fostering falsehood on the earth.

4. (1) Una, who represents the Church in purity.

5. Una's lineage is derived from the Church Universal.

6. (1) The dwarf is common sense, a good rear-guard.

3. (3) preace, a throng.

CANTO III

5. (2) The lion is national honour.

of the beauty of purity.

The lion is subdued by the power

CANTO XII

22. Note that Una throws aside her mourning weeds and dons her bridal costume.

37. (4) housling fire, the sacramental fire. In Rome the bridegroom received his bride in the home with fire and water. (6) teade, the nuptial torch. Cf. Milton's "taper clear" of Hymen's in "L'Allegro," 126.

39. (5) trinall triplicities. According to a medieval belief the heavenly beings were divided into three Hierarchies, each hierarchy being subdivided into three orders.

41. (8) The Red Cross Knight according to his vow has yet six years to serve the Faërie Queene. (9) The Church in its purity cannot always have a protector present ready to fight for it.

JOHN LYLY

1553-1606

Optional Poem

Spring's Welcome

APELLES' SONG

Cupid and my Campaspe play'd
At cards for kisses; - Cupid paid:
He stakes his quiver, bow, and arrows,
His mother's doves, and team of sparrows;
5 Loses them too; then down he throws
The coral of his lip, the rose

Growing on 's cheek (but none knows how);
With these, the crystal of his brow,
And then the dimple of his chin;
10 All these did my Campaspe win;
At last he set her both his eyes
She won, and Cupid blind did rise.

O Love! has she done this to thee?
What shall, alas! become of me?

(11-12) Cf. Shakespere's M. S. N. Dr., I. 1.:

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;

And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

Define a lyric.

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ROBERT GREENE

1560-1592

Optional Poem

Samela

SEPHESTIA'S LULLABY

Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there's grief enough for thee.
Mother's wag, pretty boy,

Father's sorrow, father's joy;

When thy father first did see
Such a boy by him and me,
He was glad, I was woe;
Fortune changed made him so,
When he left his pretty boy,

Last his sorrow, first his joy.

Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there's grief enough for thee.
Streaming tears that never stint,

Like pearl-drops from a flint,
Fell by course from his eyes,

That one another's place supplies;

Thus he grieved in every part,

Tears of blood fell from his heart,
When he left his pretty boy,

Father's sorrow, father's joy.

Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there's grief enough for thee.