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The Faerie Queene, Book Iii, Canto Vi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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THE THIRD BOOKE OF THE FAERIE QUEENE	A
Contayning	B
THE LEGENDE OF BRITOMARTIS	C
OR OF CHASTITIECANTO VI	D
The birth of faire Belphoebe and	E
Of Amoret is told	F
The Gardins of Adonis fraught	G
With pleasures manifold	F
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i	D
Well may I weene faire Ladies all this while	H
Ye wonder how this noble Damozell	H
So great perfections did in her compile	H
Sith that in salvage forests she did dwell	H
So farre from court and royall Citadell	H
The great schoolmistresse of all curtesy	C
Seemeth that such wild woods should far expell	H
All civill usage and gentility	I
And gentle sprite deforme with rude rusticity	I
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ii	D
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But to this faire Belphoebe in her berth	J
The heavens so favourable were and free	I
Looking with myld aspect upon the earth	J
In th'Horoscope of her nativitee	I
That all the gifts of grace and chastitee	I
On her they poured forth of plenteous horne	A
Jove laught on Venus from his soveraigne see	I
And Phoebus with faire beames did her adorne	A
And all the Graces rockt her cradle being borne	A
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iii	D
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Her berth was of the wombe of Morning dew	I
And her conception of the joyous Prime	K
And all her whole creation did her shew	I
Pure and unspotted from all loathly crime	K
That is ingenerate in fleshly slime	K
So was this virgin borne so was she bred	I
So was she trayned up from time to time	K
In all chast vertue and true bounti hed	I
Till to her dew perfection she was ripened	I
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iv	D
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Her mother was the faire Chrysogonee	A
The daughter of Amphisa who by race	C
A Faerie was yborne of high degree	I
She bore Belphoebe she bore in like cace	C
Faire Amoretta in the second place	C
These two were twinnes and twixt them two did share	L
The heritage of all celestiall grace	C
That all the rest it seem'd they robbed bare	L
Of bountie and of beautie and all vertues rare	L
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v	I
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It were a goodly storie to declare	L
By what straunge accident faire Chrysogone	A
Conceiv'd these infants and how them she bare	L
In this wild forrest wandring all alone	A
After she had nine moneths fulfild and gone	A
For not as other wemens commune brood	I
They were enwombed in the sacred throne	A
Of her chaste bodie nor with commune food	I
As other wemens babes they sucked vitall blood	I
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vi	D
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But wondrously they were begot and bred	I
Through influence of th'heavens fruitfull ray	M
As it in antique bookes is mentioned	I
It was upon a Sommers shynie day	M
When Titan faire his beames did display	M
In a fresh fountaine farre from all mens vew	D
She bath'd her brest the boyling heat t'allay	M
She bath'd with roses red and violets blew	I
And all the sweetest flowres that in the forrest grew	I
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vii	D
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Till faint through irkesome wearinesse adowne	A
Upon the grassie ground her selfe she layd	M
To sleepe the whiles a gentle slombring swowne	A
Upon her fell all naked bare displayd	M
The sunne beames bright upon her body playd	M
Being through former bathing mollifide	M
And pierst into her wombe where they embayd	M
With so sweet sence and secret power unspide	M
That in her pregnant flesh they shortly fructifide	M
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viii	D
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Miraculous may seeme to him that reades	C
So straunge ensample of conception	A
But reason teacheth that the fruitfull seades	C
Of all things living through impression	A
Of the sunbeames in moyst complexion	A
Doe life conceive and quickned are by kynd	M
So after Nilus inundation	A
Infinite shapes of creatures men do fynd	M
Informed in the mud on which the Sunne hath shynd	M
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ix	C
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Great father he of generation	A
Is rightly cald th'author of life and light	M
And his faire sister for creation	A
Ministreth matter fit which tempred right	M
With heate and humour breedes the living wight	M
So sprong these twinnes in wombe of Chrysogone	A
Yet wist she nought thereof but sore affright	M
Wondred to see her belly so upblone	A
Which still increast till she her terme had full outgone	A
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x	C
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Whereof conceiving shame and foule disgrace	C
Albe her guiltlesse conscience her cleard	M
She fled into the wildernesse a space	C
Till that unweeldy burden she had reard	M
And shund dishonor which as death she feard	M
Where wearie of long travell downe to rest	M
Her selfe she set and comfortably cheard	M
There a sad cloud of sleepe her overkest	M
And seized every sense with sorrow sore opprest	M
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xi	C
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It fortuned faire Venus having lost	M
Her little sonne the winged god of love	D
Who for some light displeasure which him crost	M
Was from her fled as flit as ayerie Dove	D
And left her blisfull bowre of joy above	D
So from her often he had fled away	M
When she for ought him sharpely did reprove	D
And wandred in the world in strange aray	I
Disguiz'd in thousand shapes that none might him bewray	I
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xii	C
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Him for to seeke she left her heavenly hous	C
The house of goodly formes and faire aspects	C
Whence all the world derives the glorious	C
Features of beautie and all shapes select	M
With which high God his workmanship hath deckt	M
And searched every way through which his wings	C
Had borne him or his tract she mote detect	M
She promist kisses sweet and sweeter things	C
Unto the man that of him tydings to her brings	C
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xiii	C
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First she him sought in Court where most he used	M
Whylome to haunt but there she found him not	M
But many there she found which sore accused	M
His falsehood and with foule infamous blot	M
His cruell deedes and wicked wyles did spot	M
Ladies and Lords she every where mote heare	I
Complayning how with his empoysned shot	M
Their wofull harts he wounded had whyleare	I
And so had left them languishing twixt hopt and feare	I
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xiv	D
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She then the Citties sought from gate to gate	M
And every one did aske did he him see	C
And every one her answerd that too late	M
He had him seene and felt the crueltie	M
Of his sharpe darts and whot artillerie	I
And every one threw forth reproches rife	D
Of his mischievous deedes and said That hee	C
Was the disturber of all civill life	D
The enimy of peace and author of all strife	D
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xv	D
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Then in the countrey she abroad him sought	M
And in the rurall cottages inquired	M
Where also many plaints to her were brought	M
How he their heedlesse harts with love had fyred	M
And his false venim through their veines inspyred	M
And eke the gentle shepheard swaynes which sat	M
Keeping their fleecie flockes as they were hyred	M
She sweetly heard complaine both how and what	M
Her sonne had to them doen yet she did smile thereat	M
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xvi	D
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But when in none of all these she him got	M
She gan avize where else he mote him hyde	M
At last she her bethought that she had not	M
Yet sought the salvage woods and forrests wyde	M
In which full many lovely Nymphes abyde	M
Mongst whom might be that he did closely lye	D
Or that the love of some of them him tyde	M
For thy she thither cast her course t'apply	D
To search the secret haunts of Dianes company	C
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xvii	D
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Shortly unto the wastefull woods she came	N
Whereas she found the Goddesse with her crew	I
After late chace of their embrewed game	N
Sitting beside a fountaine in a rew	I
Some of them washing with the liquid dew	I
From offtheir dainty limbes the dustie sweat	M
And soyle which did deforme their lively hew	I
Others lay shaded from the scorching heat	M
The rest upon her person gave attendance great	M
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xviii	D
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She having hong upon a bough on high	D
Her bow and painted quiver had unlaste	M
Her silver buskins from her nimble thigh	D
And her lancke loynes ungirt and brests unbraste	M
After her heat the breathing cold to taste	M
Her golden lockes that late in tresses bright	M
Embreaded were for hindring of her haste	M
Now loose about her shoulders hong undight	M
And were with sweet Ambrosia all besprinckled light	M
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xix	C
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Soone as she Venus saw behind her backe	B
She was asham'd to be so loose surprized	M
And woxe halfe wroth against her damzels slacke	B
That had not	M