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

by Edmund Spenser

[83] xlv 2 t’euenge 1596

Cant. V.

The Ladies for the girdle striue

of famous Florimell:

Scudamour comming to Cares house,

doth sleepe from him expell.

It hath bene through all ages euer seene, i

That with the praise of armes and cheualrie,

The prize of beautie still hath ioyned beene;