Quite topfide turvey, and the Pagan hound
Amongst the yron hookes and graples keene
Torne all to rags, and rent with many a wound;
That no whole peece of him was to be seene,
But scattred all about, and ftrow'd upon the greene.

43.

Like as the cursed son of Thefeus,*

That following his chace in dewy morne,
To fly his stepdames loves outrageous,
Of his owne steedes' was all to peeces torne,
And his faire limbs left in the woods forlorne;
That for his fake Diana did lament,

And all the wooddy Nymphes did wayle and mourne. So was this Souldan rapt and all to rent, That of his shape appear'd no litle moniment.

44.

Onely his fhield and armour, which there lay,

Though nothing whole, but all to brusd and broken,' He up did take, and with him brought away,

That mote remaine for an eternall token

To all mongst whom this storie should be spoken,
How worthily, by heavens high decree,

Juftice that day of wrong her felfe had wroken;

-Εκπεσε δίφρου

Κύμβαχος ἐν κονίησιν ἐπὶ βρεχμόν τε καὶ ὤμους.

And the following, viz.

"That no whole piece of him was to be feene," from Ovid, Met. x. 528, speaking of Hippolytus:—

nullafque in corpore partes

"Nofcere quas poffes; unumque erat omnia vulnus." UPTON. Like as the curfed fonne of Thefeus.] Hippolytus, whom his father Thefeus cursed. See Ovid, Met. xv. 504. UPTON.

Of his owne freedes, &c.] This is contrary to ancient story, and indeed to the poet's own relation, F. Q. i. v. 37. TODD. Todd's reference fhould have been to St. 38: fee vol. i. p. 258. C.

all to brufd and broken.] So all the editions rightly read: "all to" is entirely, as in the preceding stanza and in many other places. TODD. See likewise this vol. pp. 245 and 424. C.

That all men, which that fpectacle did fee, By like ensample mote for ever warned bee. 45.

So on a tree before the Tyrants dore

He caused them be hung in all mens fight,
To be a moniment for evermore.h

Which when his Ladie from the castles hight
Beheld, it much appald her troubled spright:
Yet not, as women wont, in dolefull fit
She was difmayd, or faynted through affright,
But gathered unto her her troubled wit,
And gan eftfoones devize to be aveng'd for it.
46.

Streight downe fhe ranne, like an enraged cow
That is berobbed of her youngling dere,
With knife in hand, and fatally did vow
To wreake her on that mayden messengere,
Whom she had caufd be kept as prisonere
By Artegall, misween'd for her owne Knight,
That brought her backe. And comming present there,
She at her ran with all her force and might,
All flaming with revenge and furious despight.

47.

Like raging Ino,' when with knife in hand

h To be a moniment for evermore.] It will be fufficient to mention here that Upton has a long note, in which he very laboriously goes over the circumstances attending the preparation and defeat of the Spanish Armada, and applies them to Spenfer's narration of the destruction of the Souldan, whom Upton (fee alfo p. 430) confiders to be intended for the King of Spain. His argument is ingenious, but, like moft ingenious arguments, anything but convincing. C.

i Like raging Ino, &c.] Spenfer compares the frantic wife of the furious Souldan, firft, to Ino, who, flying from her husband, that had murdered one of her children, with knife in hand threw out into the fea her other fon named Melicerta, whom he first murdered. The story here alluded to is well known, but varied a little in fome circumstances from the poets and mythologifts. Secondly, to cruel Medea, who, flying

She threw her husbands murdred infant out;
Or fell Medea, when on Colchicke ftrand
Her brothers bones fhe scattered all about;

Or as that madding mother, mongst the rout

Of Bacchus Priefts, her owne deare flesh did teare:* Yet neither Ino, nor Medea ftout,

Nor all the Monades fo furious were,

As this bold woman when she saw that Damzell there.

48.

But Artegall, being thereof aware,

Did stay her cruell hand ere fhe her raught;
And as she did her felfe to ftrike prepare,
Out of her fift the wicked weapon caught:
With that, like one enfelon'd' or distraught,
She forth did rome whether her rage her bore,
With franticke paffion and with furie fraught;
And, breaking forth out at a posterne dore,
Unto the wyld wood ranne, her dolours to deplore.

49.

As a mad bytch, when as the franticke fit

Her burning tongue with rage inflamed hath,
Doth runne at randon, and with furious bit
Snatching at every thing doth wreake her wrath

from her father's wrath, cut in pieces her brother Abfyrtus, that her father might be stopped in his purfuit by gathering up the mangled limbs. Thirdly, to Agave, the madding mother of Pentheus, who, with the reft of the Bacchanalian crew, tore her fon to pieces for flighting the orgies of Bacchus. UPTON.

kher owne deare flesh did teare.] It was not " her owne deare flesh,” but her fon's flesh, which fhe tore. To avoid all ambiguity, I could wifh fome book authorised my correction,

"her fon's deare flesh did teare,"

i. e. her own fon's flesh; for own and dear mean the fame thing, and Spenfer ufes dear as Homer ufes pilos, fuus. UPTON. Surely the poet, and with no great impropriety of expreffion, might mean her fon's flesh by her "owne flesh." T. WARTON.

I like one enfelon'd.] Become fierce. Old Fr. enfelonni. CHURCH

On man and beast that commeth in her path.
There they doe fay that she transformed was
Into a Tygre, and that Tygres scath

In crueltie and outrage she did pas,

To prove her furname true, that she imposed has.TM
50.

Then Artegall, himselfe discovering plaine,
Did iffue forth gainst all that warlike rout
Of knights and armed men, which did maintaine
That Ladies part, and to the Souldan lout :"
All which he did affault with courage ftout,
All were they nigh an hundred knights of name,
And like wyld Goates them chaced all about,
Flying from place to place with cowheard shame;
So that with finall force them all he overcame.

51.

Then caused he the gates be opened wyde;
And there the Prince, as victour of that day,
With trumph entertayn'd and glorifyde,
Presenting him with all the rich array

And roiall pompe, which there long hidden lay, Purchaft through lawleffe powre and tortious wrong Of that proud Souldan whom he earft did flay. So both for reft there having stayd not long, Marcht with that mayd; fit matter for another fong.

m To prove her furname true, that she impofed bas.] That is, 'Adixia [Injustice]. In this transformation he feems to have in view that of Hecuba. See Ovid, " Met.” xiii. Fab. 2; Euripides," Hecub.” 1265. Edit. Barnes. And Plautus," Menæch."

"Ob rabiem nempe, quâ in Græcos invehebatur, canis dicta est.” UPTON. The fame figure is carried on to the next Canto, St. 1. C.

and to the Souldan lout.] And did bow down to the Souldan. UPTON. A lout may be fo called from his awkward bowing. C.

• Purchaft, &c.] That is, gotten through the oppreffive power of that proud Souldan, &c. CHURCH. "Purchaft" is here ufed in the fame fenfe as the fubftantive purchafe, F. Q. i. iii. 16 [vol. i. p. 216], that is, plundered. TODD.

CANTO IX.

Arthur and Artegall catch Guyle,
whom Talus doth difmay:
They to Mercillaes pallace come,
and fee her rich array.

I.

HAT Tygre, or what other falvage wight,
Is fo exceeding furious and fell

As wrong, when it hath arm'd it felfe
with might?

Not fit mongst men that doe with reason

But mongst wyld beafts, and falvage woods, to dwell;
Where still the stronger doth the weake devoure,
And they that moft in boldneffe doe excell

Are dreadded moft, and feared for their powre;
Fit for Adicia there to build her wicked bowre.

2.

There let her wonne, farre from refort of men,
Where righteous Artegall her late exyled;
There let her ever keepe her damned den,

a that doe with reafon mell.] "Mell" is meddle, of which it is an abbreviation. We meet with the participle " melling" in C. xii. St. 35 of this book. "Mell" occurs in Shakespeare and in many other poets: Chaucer and Gower ufe "mell" as well as meddle. C.