in filth and foul incontinence:
8 Let Grill be Grill, and have his hoggish mind,
9 But let us hence depart, whilst weather serves and wind."
=>
THE THIRD
2 BOOKE OF THE
FAERIE QVEENE.
4 Contayning,
THE LEGEND OF BRITOMARTIS.
6 OR
_Of Chastitie_.
1 THE THIRD
2 BOOK OF THE
3 FAERY QUEEN
4 Containing
5 THE LEGEND OF BRITOMART
6 OR
7 of Chastity
300.1
IT falles me here to write of Chastity,
2 +That+ fairest vertue, farre aboue the rest;
For which what needs me fetch from _Faery_
4 Forreine ensamples, it to haue exprest?
Sith it is shrined in my Soueraines brest,
6 And form'd so liuely in each perfect part,
That to all Ladies, which haue it profest,
8 Need but behold the pourtraict of her hart,
If pourtrayd it might be by any liuing art.
1 That > The _1590_
1 It falls me here to write of chastity,
falls > befalls
2 That fairest virtue, far above the rest;
3 For which what needs me fetch from Faery
needs me > do I need to; need do I have to
4 Foreign examples, it to have expressed?
expressed > portrayed, represented; represented symbolically
5 Sith it is shrined in my sovereign's breast,
Sith > Since
shrined > enclosed, enshrined
6 And formed so lively in each perfect part,
lively > {Livelily, in a lifelike manner}
7 That to all ladies, which have it professed,
to > (?? One possible reading moves this word to the next line:
"Need but to behold ..." Alternatively the "Ladies" may share
with "pourtraict" the verb "pourtrayd")
professed > pretended, laid claim to
8 Need but behold the portrait of her heart,
portrait > image
9 If portrayed it might be by any living art.
300.2
But liuing art may not least part expresse,
2 Nor life-resembling pencill it can paint,
All were it _Zeuxis_ or _Praxiteles_:
4 His d{ae}dale hand would faile, and greatly faint,
And her perfections with his error taint:
6 Ne Poets wit, that passeth Painter farre
In picturing the parts of beautie daint,
8 So hard a workman
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