Led with their noife which through the aire

was thrown,

Arriv'd, wher they in erth their fruitles blood had fown.

XLVI.

Whom all fo foone as that proud Sarazin
Efpide, he revive the memory

gan

Of his leud lufts, and late attempted fin; And lefte the doubtfull battel haftily, To catch her, newly offred to his eie: But Satyrane, with ftrokes him turning, flaid, And sternely bad him other business plie Then hunt the fteps of pure unfpotted Maid: Wherewith he al enrag'd these bitter fpeaches

faid;

XLVII.

"O foolish Faeries fonne, what fury mad
Hath thee incenft to haft thy dolefull fate?
Were it not better I that Lady had
Then that thou hadft repented it too late?
Moft fenceleffe man he, that himfelfe doth
hate

To love another: Lo then, for thine ayd,
Here take thy lovers token on thy pate."

XLVII. 7. Here take thy lovers token on thy pate.] It was ufual for knights of romance to wear, on their helmets or fleeves, prefents or tokens of their miftreffes' favours. The Sarazin fays farcaftically he would give Sir Satyrane his lovers token to wear till his dying day. UPTON.

Compare Abdiel's reply to Satan, Par. Loft, B. vi. 186. "This greeting on thy impious creft receive." TODD.

So they to fight; the whiles the royall Mayd Fledd farre away, of that proud Paynim fore afrayd.

XLVIII.

But that falfe Pilgrim, which that leafing told,
Being in deed old Archimage, did ftay
In fecret fhadow all this to behold;
And much reioyced in their bloody fray:
But, when he faw the Damfell paffe away,
He left his ftond, and her purfewd apace,
In hope to bring her to her last decay.

XLVII. 8. So they to fight ;] Mr. Church, here deviating from his ufual accuracy, reads "So they two fight;" and makes no mention of any variation in other editions. But the first edition reads, "So they to fight;" which, as Mr. Upton obferves, is brought down to the lowest profe in the subsequent editions," So they two fight." I muft exempt Tonfon's edition of 1758, however, from mistake; as it rightly follows the first edition, with Mr. Upton. The remark of Mr. Upton also is just that to, in compofition with verbs, is augmentative. He cites indeed the fame expreffion as in Spenfer from Lydgate's Wars of Troy, B. i. C. ii.

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Fyrfte he must of very force and myght
"Unto oultrance with thefe bulles to-fight."

Mr. Tyrwhitt, in his Gloffary to Chaucer, has illustrated the
force of words, thus augmented, in a variety of inftances.
Thus, "The helmes they to-hewen and to-fhrede,” i. e. hewe
and cut to pieces. "To-dafhed," i. e. much bruised.
fwinke," labour greatly, &c. TODD.

XLVIII. 1.

"To

that leafing] Lying. Ufed, as Mr. Upton obferves, in the translation of Pfal. iv. 2. "How long will ye blafpheme mine honour, and have fuch pleasure in vanity, and feek after leafing?" And thus, in Pierce the Ploughmans Crede, edit. 1553. fign. B. iii. b.

"he cafteth the lawes

"Nought lowly but lordly, and lefynges lyeth."

TODD.

But for to tell her lamentable cace,

And eke this battels end, will need another

place.

XLVIII. 8. But for to tell her lamentable cace,

And eke this battels end, will need another place.] The poet foon returns to Una, and her lamentable cafe; but no mention is made of Satyrane till F. Q. iii. vii. 28, where he attacks the monster that pursued Florimel. This is plainly an omiffion, if not a forgetfulness. Our poet in imitation of Boyardo, and Ariofto, often leaves his fubject very abruptly; and complicates it in fuch a manner, as feeming rather too perplexing to the reader, if he does not diligently attend to the breaking off of the ftory, and to the connexion of it again. But I cannot vindicate his thus entirely leaving the reader at a lofs to guefs this battles end, when he tells us too that it will need another place. UPTON.

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