The Faerie Queene, Book Vi, Canto X Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDEFE GGGGGGGGG DAHAAGAGG EDEIDDDDD H DHDJJCJCC H GCGCCKCKK H AGAGGCGCC H GAGAAGAGG H AGAGGLGLL D DGDGGGGGG D GGGGGHGHH H AGAGGGGGG H BMBMMGMGG H CGCGGGGGG H GLGLLCLCG H GGGGGAGAA H HGHGGHGHH H GAGAADADD H HGAGGAGAA H BDTHE SIXTE BOOKE OF THE FAERIE QUEENE | A |
Contayning | B |
THE LEGEND OF S CALIDORE | C |
OR OF COURTESIECANTO X | D |
Calidore sees the Graces daunce | D |
To Colins melody | E |
The whiles his Pastorell is led | F |
Into captivity | E |
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Who now does follow the foule Blatant Beast | G |
Whilest Calidore does follow that faire Mayd | G |
Unmyndfull of his vow and high beheast | G |
Which by the Faery Queene was on him layd | G |
That he should never leave nor be delayd | G |
From chacing him till he had it attchieved | G |
But now entrapt of love which him betrayd | G |
He mindeth more how he may be relieved | G |
With grace from her whose love his heart hath sore engrieved | G |
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That from henceforth he meanes no more to sew | D |
His former quest so full of toile and paine | A |
Another quest another game in vew | H |
He hath the guerdon of his love to gaine | A |
With whom he myndes for ever to remaine | A |
And set his rest amongst the rusticke sort | G |
Rather then hunt still after shadowes vaine | A |
Of courtly favour fed with light report | G |
Of every blaste and sayling alwaies on the port | G |
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Ne certes mote he greatly blamed be | E |
From so high step to stoupe unto so low | D |
For who had tasted once as oft did he | E |
The happy peace which there doth overthow | I |
And prov'd the perfect pleasures which doe grow | D |
Amongst poore hyndes in hils in woods in dales | D |
Would never more delight in painted show | D |
Of such false blisse as there is set for stales | D |
T'entrap unwary fooles in their eternall bales | D |
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iv | H |
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For what hath all that goodly glorious gaze | D |
Like to one sight which Calidore did vew | H |
The glaunce whereof their dimmed eies would daze | D |
That never more they should endure the shew | J |
Of that sunne shine that makes them looke askew | J |
Ne ought in all that world of beauties rare | C |
Save onely Glorianaes heavenly hew | J |
To which what can compare can it compare | C |
The which as commeth now by course I will declare | C |
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v | H |
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One day as he did raunge the fields abroad | G |
Whilest his faire Pastorella was elsewhere | C |
He chaunst to come far from all peoples troad | G |
Unto a place whose pleasaunce did appere | C |
To passe all others on the earth which were | C |
For all that ever was by natures skill | K |
Devized to worke delight was gathered there | C |
And there by her were poured forth at fill | K |
As if this to adorne she all the rest did pill | K |
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vi | H |
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It was an hill plaste in an open plaine | A |
That round about was bordered with a wood | G |
Of matchlesse hight that seem'd th'earth to disdaine | A |
In which all trees of honour stately stood | G |
And did all winter as in sommer bud | G |
Spredding pavilions for the birds to bowre | C |
Which in their lower braunches sung aloud | G |
And in their tops the soring hauke did towre | C |
Sitting like King of fowles in majesty and powre | C |
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vii | H |
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And at the foote thereof a gentle flud | G |
His silver waves did softly tumble downe | A |
Unmard with ragged mosse or filthy mud | G |
Ne mote wylde beastes ne mote the ruder clowne | A |
Thereto approch ne filth mote therein drowne | A |
But Nymphes and Faeries bythe bancks did sit | G |
In the woods shade which did the waters crowne | A |
Keeping all noysome things away from it | G |
And to the waters fall tuning their accents fit | G |
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viii | H |
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And on the top thereof a spacious plaine | A |
Did spred it selfe to serve to all delight | G |
Either to daunce when they to daunce would faine | A |
Or else to course about their bases light | G |
Ne ought there wanted which for pleasure might | G |
Desired be or thence to banish bale | L |
So pleasauntly the hill with equall hight | G |
Did seeme to overlooke the lowly vale | L |
Therefore it rightly cleeped was mount Acidale | L |
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ix | D |
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They say that Venus when she did dispose | D |
Her selfe to pleasaunce used to resort | G |
Unto this place and therein to repose | D |
And rest her selfe as in a gladsome port | G |
Or with the Graces there to play and sport | G |
That even her owne Cytheron though in it | G |
She used most to keepe her royall court | G |
And in her soveraine Majesty to sit | G |
She in regard thereof refusde and thought unfit | G |
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x | D |
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Unto this place when as the Elfin Knight | G |
Approcht him seemed that the merry sound | G |
Of a shrill pipe he playing heard on hight | G |
And many feete fast thumping th'hollow ground | G |
That through the woods their Eccho did rebound | G |
He nigher drew to weete what mote it be | H |
There he a troupe of Ladies dauncing found | G |
Full merrily and making gladfull glee | H |
And in the midst a Shepheard piping he did see | H |
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xi | H |
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He durst not enter into th'open greene | A |
For dread of them unwares to be descryde | G |
For breaking of their daunce if he were seene | A |
But in the covert of the wood did byde | G |
Beholding all yet of them unespyde | G |
There he did see that pleased much his sight | G |
That even he him selfe his eyes envyde | G |
An hundred naked maidens lilly white | G |
All raunged in a ring and dauncing in delight | G |
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xii | H |
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All they without were raunged in a ring | B |
And daunced round but in the midst of them | M |
Three other Ladies did both daunce and sing | B |
The whilest the rest them round about did hemme | M |
And like a girlond did in compasse stemme | M |
And in the middest of those same three was placed | G |
Another Damzell as a precious gemme | M |
Amidst a ring most richly well enchaced | G |
That with her goodly presence all the rest much graced | G |
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xiii | H |
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Looke how the Crowne which Ariadne wore | C |
Upon her yvory forehead that same day | G |
That Theseus her unto his bridale bore | C |
When the bold Centaures made that bloudy fray | G |
With the fierce Lapithes which did them dismay | G |
Being now placed in the firmament | G |
Through the bright heaven doth her beams display | G |
And is unto the starres an ornament | G |
Which round about her move in order excellent | G |
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xiv | H |
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Such was the beauty of this goodly band | G |
Whose sundry parts were here too long to tell | L |
But she that in the midst of them did stand | G |
Seem'd all the rest in beauty to excell | L |
Crownd with a rosie girlond that right well | L |
Did her beseeme And ever as the crew | C |
About her daunst sweet flowres that far did smell | L |
And fragrant odours they uppon her threw | C |
But most of all those three did her with gifts endew | G |
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xv | H |
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Those were the Graces daughters of delight | G |
Handmaides of Venus which are wont to haunt | G |
Uppon this hill and daunce there day and night | G |
Those three to men all gifts of grace do graunt | G |
And all that Venus in her selfe doth vaunt | G |
Is borrowed of them But that faire one | A |
That in the midst was placed paravaunt | G |
Was she to whom that shepheard pypt alone | A |
That made him pipe so merrily as never none | A |
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xvi | H |
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She was to weete that jolly Shepheards lasse | H |
Which piped there unto that merry rout | G |
That jolly shepheard which there piped was | H |
Poore Colin Clout who knowes not Colin Clout | G |
He pypt apace whilest they him daunst about | G |
Pype jolly shepheard pype thou now apace | H |
Unto thy love that made thee low to lout | G |
Thy love is present there with thee in place | H |
Thy love is there advaunst to be another Grace | H |
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xvii | H |
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Much wondred Calidore at this straunge sight | G |
Whose like before his eye had never seene | A |
And standing long astonished in spright | G |
And rapt with pleasaunce wist not what to weene | A |
Whether it were the traine of beauties Queene | A |
Or Nymphes or Faeries or enchaunted show | D |
With which his eyes mote have deluded beene | A |
Therefore resolving what it was to know | D |
Out of the wood he rose and toward them did go | D |
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xviii | H |
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But soone as he appeared to their vew | H |
They vanisht all away out of his sight | G |
And cleane were gone which way he never knew | A |
All save the shepheard who for fell despight | G |
Of that displeasure broke his bagpipe quight | G |
And made great mone for that unhappy turne | A |
But Calidore though no lesse sory wight | G |
For that mishap yet seeing him to mourne | A |
Drew neare that he the truth of all by him mote learne | A |
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xix | H |
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And first him greeting thus unto him spake | B |
Haile jo | D |
Edmund Spenser
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