102.15-19. The first of many titanic battles between armed knights.
103.0-9. Una finds her champion in the gentle lion.
104.17-36. Spenser's rendition of the Seven Deadly Sins is grotesquely medieval in tone.
105.19-28. The goddess Night prepares to descend into hell. The quality of Spenser's imagination defeats what may have been his original intention to produce a pastiche here. For example, the choice of the word "tarre" at 105.28:8 evinces artistry of the highest order.
107.1-7. The Redcross Knight brought low. You are challenged not to want to continue reading this canto!
107.38-41. Prince Arthur's "goodly reason, and well guided speach".
108.45-50. The spoiling of Duessa.
109.35-54. The counsel of Despair. The central stanzas are often quoted out of context; 109.40 was raided by Joseph Conrad for his epitaph.
111.8-55. The Redcross Knight slays the dragon.
112.9-11. Spenser's sense of humour, at its most savage in Book III, here shows a gentler face.