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CONTENTS

OF

VOL. IV.

The fecond Book of the Faerie Queene, Canto VIII

The thirde Booke of the Faerie Queene, Canto I

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THE SECOND BOOK OF

THE FAERIE QUEENE

CANTO VIII.

Sir Guyon, layd in fwowne, is by
Acrates fonnes defpoyld;

Whom Arthure foone hath refkewed,
And Paynim brethren foyld.

1.

AND is there care in heaven? And is there love

In heavenly spirits to these creatures bace, That may compaffion of their evils move? There is:-elfe much more wretched were the cace

Of men then beafts: But O! th' exceeding

grace

I. 1. And is there care in heaven? And is there love &c.] These fine-turned verses must be felt by every one, that knows the least thing belonging to the power of words and dignity of fentiment.-And, in the beginning of a sentence, is expreffive of paffion; fometimes of admiration, fometimes too of indignation. UPTON.