[236] xxix 8 presumptuously 1609

[237] xxx 4 t’award 1609

THE FIFTH
BOOKE OF THE
FAERIE QVEENE.
Contayning,
THE LEGEND OF ARTEGALL
OR
OF IVSTICE.

So oft as I with state of present time, i

The image of the antique world compare,

When as mans age was in his freshest prime,[238]

And the first blossome of faire vertue bare,