SPENSER, AND HIS POETRY. BY GEO. L. CRAIK, M. A. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. III. LONDON: CHARLES KNIGHT & Co., LUDGATE STREET. 1845. ERRATA. Vol. I. p. 5, 1. 11, for "antiquarians," read " antiquaries." p. 48, 1. 21, read "the seventh and eighth Cantos of the Sixth Book." p. 189, l. 1, for "mind," read "maid." Vol. II. p. 260, 1. 17, for "turn," read "hour." SPENSER AND HIS POETRY. THE FAIRY QUEEN. BOOK SIXTH. WE now enter upon the last completed Book of the Fairy Queen, containing the legend of Sir Calidore, or of Courtesy. It is preceded by an introductory address of seven stanzas, of which the first five are as follow: The ways through which my weary steps I guide Are so exceeding spacious and wide, That I, nigh ravished with rare thought's delight, And, when I gin to feel decay of might, It strength to mé supplies and cheers my dulled sprite. Such secret comfort and such heavenly pleasures, And there the keeping have of learning's treasures Into the minds of mortal men do well,a And goodly fury into them infuse; Guide ye my footing, and conduct me well, In these strange ways, where never foot did use, muse: Cause to flow. VOL. III. B |