144 of things to come, makes a pleasing analysis of all. The 145 beginning, therefore, of my history, if it were to be told by a 146 historiographer, should be the twelfth book, which is the 147 last, where I devise that the Faery Queen kept her annual
devise > contrive; conjecture, conceive kept > observed, celebrated
148 feast +twelve+ days, upon which twelve several days, the
twelve > [over a period of twelve] several > different
149 occasions of the twelve several adventures happened: which
occasions > {Causes; circumstances giving rise to the origins}
150 (being undertaken by twelve several knights) are in these 151 twelve books severally handled and discoursed. The first was 152 this. In the beginning of the feast, there presented himself a 153 tall, clownish young man who, falling before the Queen of
clownish > rustic, unsophisticated
154 Faeries, desired a boon (as the manner then was), which
boon > favour, request