THE WORKS EDMUND SPENSER. IN EIGHT VOLUMES. WITH THE PRINCIPAL ILLUSTRATIONS or VARIOUS COMMENTATORS. VOLUME THE THIRD. LONDON: PRINTED FOR F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON, T. PAYNE, CADELL AND DAVIES, AND R. H. EVANS. THE FIRST BOOK OF THE FAERIE QUEENE. CANTO VII. The Redcroffe Knight is captive made, WHAT man fo wife, what earthly witt fo ware, As to difcry the crafty cunning traine, By which Deceipt doth maske in vifour faire, And caft her coulours died deepe in graine, I. 1. fo ware,] Cautious. So, in II Tim. iv. 15. "Of whom be thou ware alfo." Chaucer thus describes his Sergeant of the Lawe, Prol. C. T. 311. I. 4. "A Sergeant of the Lawe ware and wife." TODD. And cast her coulours died deepe in graine,] The fame kind of imagery occurs in Stafford's Niobe, 2d. edit. 1611, P. 2. p. 255. The author is fpeaking of this monstrous age. " I yeeld to Heraclitus, and ioine teares with him; to see, if both wee can wash it cleane with weeping. But alas! we cannot: for Sin hath died it in grain; and it will neuer change colour, til it come to be try'd by the touch of fire." And thus Hamlet's mother, acknowledging her guilt to her fon, Hamlet, A. iii. S. iv. "Thou turn'ft mine eyes into my very foul; |