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❖ was born in London in the year 1552, or possibly 1551. ❖ Charles Lamb calls Edmund Spenser ‘the Poets’ Poet’. www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net❖ Edmund Spenserwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net was admired bywww.Padasalai.Net Johnwww.Padasalai.Net Milton, William www.Padasalai.NetBlakewww.Padasalai.Net, William www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net Wordsworth, John Keats, Lord Byron, and Alfred Lord Tennyson, and others. ❖ Among his contemporaries Walter Raleigh wrote a commendatory poem to The www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.NetFaerie Queenewww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net in 1590, in whichwww.Padasalai.Net hewww.Padasalai.Net claims to admire andwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net value Spenser's workwww.Padasalai.Net www.Padasalai.Net more so than any other in the English language. ❖ John Milton in his Areopagitica mentions "our sage and serious poet Spenser, whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas". www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net ❖ In the eighteenth century, Alexander Pope compared Spenser to "a mistress, whose faults we see, but love her with them all." ❖ At the same time, all the Elizabethans recognized him as ‘the Prince of Poets. www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net❖ J.R. Lowell,www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net estimating his influencewww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net on poets, says, “Spenser’swww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net mere manner hadwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net not so many imitations as Milton’s but no other of our poets has given an impulse and in the right direction also to so many and so diverse minds; above all no other has given so many young souls a consciousness of their wings and a delight in the www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net use of them” ❖ In July 1580, Spenser went to Ireland in service of the newly appointed Lord Deputy, Arthur Grey, 14th Baron Grey de Wilton. www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net❖ Spenser servedwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net under Lord Gray www.Padasalai.Netwithwww.Padasalai.Net Walter Raleighat www.Padasalai.Netthewww.Padasalai.Net Siege of www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net Smerwick massacre. ❖ When Lord Grey was recalled to England, Spenser stayed on in Ireland, having www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netacquired otherwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net official posts and landswww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net in the Munster Plantationwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net. www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net ❖ Raleigh acquired other nearby Munster estates confiscated in the Second Desmond Rebellion. ❖ Some time between 1587 and 1589, Spenser acquired his main estate at Kilcolman, www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net near Doneraile in North Cork. ❖ He later bought a second holding to the south, at Rennie, on a rock overlooking the river Blackwater in North Cork. Its ruins are still visible today. www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net❖ A short distancewww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net away grew a tree,www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net locally known as "Spenser'swww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net Oak" until it waswww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net destroyed in a lightning strike in the 1960s. ❖ Local legend has it that he penned some of under this tree. www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net FOR CONTACT: 9843287913/ 9629287913/9944118398 www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net Padasalai www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net SACRED HEART ENGLISH ACADEMY, (PGTRB, NET, SET) SALEM-7 www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net❖ Edmund Spenser,www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net who has the greatestwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net lyric gift of any Englishwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net poet in the twowww.Padasalai.Net www.Padasalai.Net centuries since Chaucer, is a graduate of Cambridge and by inclination a humanist pedant. ❖ His inspiration comes largely from a desire to rival his classical and Renaissance www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netpredecessors.www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net

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❖ Books I to III were first published in 1590 www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net❖ It was republishedwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net in 1596 togetherwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net with books IV to VI.www.Padasalai.Net www.Padasalai.Net www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net ❖ The Faerie Queene was written for Elizabeth to read and was dedicated to her. ❖ The poem is dedicated to Elizabeth I who is represented in the poem as the Faerie Queene Gloriana, as well as the character Belphoebe. www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net❖ The Faeriewww.Padasalai.Net www.Padasalai.NetQueene owes, in part,www.Padasalai.Net itswww.Padasalai.Net central figure, Arthurwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net, to a medieval www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net writer, Geoffrey of Monmouth. ❖ In his Prophetiae Merlini ("Prophecies of Merlin"), Geoffrey's Merlin proclaims www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netthat the Saxonswww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net will rule over thewww.Padasalai.Net Britonswww.Padasalai.Net until the "Boarwww.Padasalai.Net ofwww.Padasalai.Net Cornwall" (Arthur)www.Padasalai.Net www.Padasalai.Net again restores them to their rightful place as rulers. ❖ It is one of the longest poems in the English language and the origin of a verse form that came to be known as Spenserian stanza. www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net

❖ Spenserian stanza: www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net ❖ Each stanza contains nine lines in total: eight lines in iambic pentameter followed by a single 'alexandrine' line in iambic hexameter. The rhyme scheme of these lines www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netis "ababbcbcc."www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net

❖ Alexandrine ❖ In English, a 12-syllable iambic line adapted from French heroic verse. www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net❖ An Alexandrinewww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net is a verse of iambicwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net hexameter — i.e., awww.Padasalai.Net www.Padasalai.Netverse of six feet, eachwww.Padasalai.Net ofwww.Padasalai.Net which has the stress on the second beat. ❖ A hexameter is a verse of six feet (Greek hex, "six"). www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net FOR CONTACT: 9843287913/ 9629287913/9944118398 www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net Padasalai www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net SACRED HEART ENGLISH ACADEMY, (PGTRB, NET, SET) SALEM-7 www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net❖ Iamb www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net ❖ A kind of metrical foot. An iamb (the adjective is "iambic") is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one. www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net❖ (Ex) To Strive,www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net To seek, To find andwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net not To yield. www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net

www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net❖ It is evidentwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net from these details thatwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net the poem is deeply rootedwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net in national politicswww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net of the late 16th century, and many of its allusions must have been of far greater interest to contemporary readers than to any generation since. Spenser himself is a close witness of the struggles of the time. www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net❖ From 1580www.Padasalai.Net www.Padasalai.Nethe is employed in thewww.Padasalai.Net Englishwww.Padasalai.Net government ofwww.Padasalai.Net Ireland.www.Padasalai.Net www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net ❖ In 1588 he becomes an 'undertaker' in the first Elizabethan plantation, receiving the forfeited Irish estate of Kilcolman Castle. www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.NetHere he iswww.Padasalai.Net visitedwww.Padasalai.Net in 1589 by Walterwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net Raleigh, who is sowww.Padasalai.Net impressedwww.Padasalai.Net by Spenser'swww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net readings from The Faerie Queene that he persuades the poet to accompany him to London in the hope of interesting the real queen in it. Publication of the first three books in 1590 is followed by Elizabeth's awarding www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net the poet, in 1591, a pension of £50 a year. ❖ Spenser's original scheme is for twelve books, each consisting of an adventure on behalf of Gloriana by one of her knights. www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net❖ In the eventwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net he completes only sixwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net, the second group ofwww.Padasalai.Net www.Padasalai.Netthree being publishedwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net in 1596. ❖ On a literal level, the poem follows several knights in an examination of several www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netvirtues, thoughwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net it is primarily an allegoricalwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net work, and canwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net be read on several levelswww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net of allegory, including as praise (or, later, criticism) of Queen Elizabeth I. ❖ In Spenser's "Letter of the Authors" he states that the entire epic poem is "cloudily enwrapped in Allegorical devises," www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net❖ The aim ofwww.Padasalai.Net publishingwww.Padasalai.Net The Faeriewww.Padasalai.Net Queenewww.Padasalai.Net was to "fashionwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net a gentleman or noblewww.Padasalai.Net www.Padasalai.Net person in vertuous and gentle discipline". ❖ A letter written by Spenser to Sir Walter Raleigh in 1590contains a preface for The www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.NetFaerie Queenewww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net, in which Spenserwww.Padasalai.Net describeswww.Padasalai.Net the allegoricalwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net presentation of virtueswww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net through Arthurian knights in the mythical "Faerieland". www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net FOR CONTACT: 9843287913/ 9629287913/9944118398 www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net Padasalai www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net SACRED HEART ENGLISH ACADEMY, (PGTRB, NET, SET) SALEM-7 www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net❖ Presented www.Padasalai.Netaswww.Padasalai.Net a preface to the epicwww.Padasalai.Net inwww.Padasalai.Net most published editions,www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net this letter outlineswww.Padasalai.Net www.Padasalai.Net plans for twenty-four books: twelve based each on a different knight who exemplified one of twelve "private virtues", and a possible twelve more centred on King Arthur displaying twelve "public virtues". www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net❖ Spenser nameswww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net Aristotle as his sourcewww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net for these virtues, thoughwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net the influences www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net of Thomas Aquinas and the traditions of medieval allegory can be observed as well. www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net❖ In additionwww.Padasalai.Net towww.Padasalai.Net the six www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net virtues Holiness, Temperance, Chastity, Friendship, Justice, and Courtesy, the Letter to Raleigh suggests that Arthur represents the virtue of Magnificence, which ("according to Aristotle and the rest") is "the perfection of all the rest, and www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net containeth in it them all"; and that the Faerie Queene herself represents Glory (hence her name, Gloriana). ❖ The unfinished seventh book (the Cantos of Mutability) appears to have www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netrepresentedwww.Padasalai.Net www.Padasalai.Netthe virtue of "constancywww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net." www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net

The framework of The Faerie Queene www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net ❖ The framework of the poem is an allegory in praise of the Faerie Queene or Gloriana (Elizabeth I) ❖ The Red Cross knight (the Anglican Church) fights to protect the virgin Una (the www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Nettrue religion)www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net against the wiles ofwww.Padasalai.Net manywww.Padasalai.Net hostile characterswww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net including the deceitfulwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net Duessa (variously the Roman Catholic church or Mary Queen of Scots). www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.NetKey Factswww.Padasalai.Net www.Padasalai.Netfrom The Faerie Queenewww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net ❖ Book I o Centered on the virtue of Holiness as embodied in the Redcross Knight. o Redcross Knight and his lady Una travel together as he fights the dragon Errour, www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net then separate as the wizard tricks the Redcross Knight in a dream to think that Una is unchaste. o After he leaves, the Redcross Knight meets Duessa, who feigns distress in order to www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netentrap him.www.Padasalai.Net www.Padasalai.NetDuessa leads the Redcrosswww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net Knight to captivitywww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net by the giant Orgogliowww.Padasalai.Net.www.Padasalai.Net o Meanwhile, Una overcomes peril, meets Arthur, and finally finds the Redcross Knight and rescues him from his capture, from Duessa, and from Despair. www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net FOR CONTACT: 9843287913/ 9629287913/9944118398 www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net Padasalai www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net SACRED HEART ENGLISH ACADEMY, (PGTRB, NET, SET) SALEM-7

o www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net Una and Arthurwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net help the Redcrosswww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net Knight recover inwww.Padasalai.Net thewww.Padasalai.Net House of Holinesswww.Padasalai.Net,www.Padasalai.Net with the House's ruler and her three daughters joining them; there the Redcross Knight sees a vision of his future. o He then returns Una to her parents' castle and rescues them from a dragon, and the www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Nettwo are betrothedwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net after resisting Archimagowww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net one last time.www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net ❖ Book II o Centered on the virtue of Temperance as embodied in Sir Guyon, who is www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Nettempted bywww.Padasalai.Net www.Padasalai.Netthe fleeing Archimagowww.Padasalai.Net www.Padasalai.Netinto nearly attacking www.Padasalai.Netthewww.Padasalai.Net Redcross Knight. www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net o Guyon discovers a woman killing herself out of grief for having her lover tempted and bewitched by the witch Acrasia and killed. o Guyon swears a vow to avenge them and protect their child. www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net o Guyon on his quest starts and stops fighting several evil, rash, or tricked knights and meets Arthur. o Finally, they come to Acrasia's Island and the Bower of Bliss, where Guyon resists www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Nettemptationswww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net to violence, idleness,www.Padasalai.Net andwww.Padasalai.Net lust. Guyon captureswww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net Acrasia in a net, www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net destroys the Bower, and rescues those imprisoned there. ❖ Book III o Centered on the virtue of Chastity as embodied in Britomart, a lady knight. www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net o Resting after the events of Book II, Guyon and Arthur meet Britomart, who wins a joust with Guyon. o They separate as Arthur and Guyon leave to rescue Florimell, while Britomart www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netrescues thewww.Padasalai.Net www.Padasalai.NetRedcross Knight. www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net o Britomart reveals to the Redcrosse Knight that she is pursuing Sir Artegal because she is destined to marry him. www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Neto The Redcrosswww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net Knight defends Artegalwww.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net and they meet Merlin,www.Padasalai.Netwww.Padasalai.Net who explains morewww.Padasalai.Net www.Padasalai.Net carefully Britomart's destiny to found the English monarchy. o Britomart leaves and fights Sir Marinell. 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