Spenser's the Faerie Queene, book I

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THE GREAT EYE OF HEAVEN, the sun. Cf. _Paradise Lost_, v. 171.
38. A RAMPING LYON. Reason or Natural Honor; also Henry VIII. According tothe ancient belief, no lion would attack a true virgin or one of royalblood. Similar scenes are found in _Sir Bevis of Hampton_, _The SevenChampions of Christendom_, etc. Cf. I _Henry_ IV, ii, 4. The allegorysignifies that man guided merely by reason will recognize Truth and pay ithomage.
51. WHOSE YEELDED PRIDE, etc. , object of _had marked_, l. 52.
77. HE KE
...PT BOTH WATCH AND WARD, he kept awake and guarded her.
89. A DAMZELL SPYDE, Abessa, who symbolizes Flagrant or Secret Sin.
99. HER CAST IN DEADLY HEW, threw her into a deathly paleness.
101. UPON THE WAGER LAY, was at stake.
102. WHEREAS HER MOTHER BLYND, where her blind mother, Corceca, or BlindDevotion.
109. UNRULY PAGE. This refers to the violence with which Henry VIII forcedProtestantism upon the people. In his _Present State of Ireland_ (p. 645), Spenser speaks of the ignorance and blind devotion of the Irish Papists inthe benighted country places.


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