Edmund Spenser Flashcards
“So much more profitable…
and gratious is doctrine by ensample, then by rule” (Letter to Raleigh)
“clowdily enwrapped…
in Allegoricall deuises” (Letter to Raleigh)
“this book of mine…
which I have entitled the Faery Queene, being a continued allegory or darke conceit” (Letter to Raleigh)
“fashion a gentleman…
or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline” (Letter to Raleigh)
“the most excellent…
and glorious person of our soueraine the Queene” (Letter to Raleigh)
“for that which all men…
then did vertue call/ is now cald vice” (V.Proem.4)
“many graue persons…
that against her pled” (V.IX.43)
Which virtue’s argue for Duessa’s prosecution?
Kingdome’s care, Authority, Law of Nations, Religion, Iustice
Which vices argue in Duessa’s defence?
Pittie, Regard of Womanhead, Danger, Nobilitie of birth, Griefe
“But then for her, on the contrarie part…
/Rose many advocates for her to plead” (V.IX.45)
“be bold…
be bold, and euery where be bold… be not too bold” (III.XI.54)
“But by record…
of antique times I find… they have excelled in artes and pollicy” (III.II.2)
“disarmed quight…
of all the ornaments of knightly name” (V.V.20)
"”such is the crueltie…
of womenkynd / when they have shaken off the shamefest band” (V.V.25)
“Vnless the heauens…
them lift to lawfull soueraintie” (V.V.25)
“caused him those vncomely…
weedes vndight / … she him anew had clad” (V.VII.41)
“the liberty of women…
did repeale / which they had long vsurpt; and them restoring / to men’s subiection” (V.VII.42)
“one foote was set…
vppon the Crocodile… / so meaning to suppresse both forged guile / and open force” (V.VII.7)
“she whose Princely breast…
was touched nere / With piteous ruth of her so wretched plight” (V.IX.50)
“though plaine she saw…
by all, that she did heare / that she of death was guiltie found by right” (V.IX.50)
“to reforme…
that ragged common-weale” (V.XII.26)
“he through occasion called…
was away… his course of Iustice he was forst to stay” (V.XII.27)
“And in his hand…
an huge Polaxe did beare” (V.XII.14)
“There she taught him…
to weigh both right and wrong / in equall ballance with due recompence” (V.I.7)
“His name was Talus…
made of yron mould / immoueable, resistlesse, without end” (V.I.12)
“no laws, no penalities…
can restrain, but that they do in the violence of fury tread down and trample underfoot all” (A View of the Present State of Ireland)
“Me seemes the world…
is runne quite out of square… and being once amisse growes daily wourse and wourse” (V.Proem.1)
“Who in his hand…
an yron flale did hould / with which he thresht out falshood and did truth vnfold” (V.I.12)
“Ouer his Bridge…
albee he rich or poore / But him makes his passage-penny pay” (V.II.6)
“She is full faire…
and rich attired / with golden hands and siluer feete beside” (V.II.10)
“Nor powr of charms…
which she against him wrought / might otherwise preuaile or make him cease for ought” (V.II.22)
“Thou that presum’st to weigh…
the world anew / and all things to an equall to restore / In stead of right me seemes great wrong dost shew” (V.II.34)
“I will throw downe…
these mountaines hie / and make them leuell with the lowly plaine” (V.II.38)
“So Amidas, the land…
was yours first hight / and so the threasure yours is Bracidas by right” (V.IV.19)
“At sight thereof…
his cruell minded hart / Empierced was with pittifull regard” (V.V.13)
“So was he ouercome…
not ouercome / but to her yeelded of his owne accord” (V.V.17)
