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THE 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