Spenser's Faerie Queene, Vol. 1 (of 2)

by Edmund Spenser

Guyon, by[823] Palmers gouernance,

passing through[824] perils great,

Doth ouerthrow the Bowre of blisse,

and Acrasie defeat.

Now gins this goodly frame of Temperance i

Fairely to rise, and her adorned hed

To pricke of highest praise forth to aduance,

Formerly[825] grounded, and fast setteled

On firme foundation of true bountihed;