...next note.) It is worthy of remark that whereas Spenser set out with declaring that he would display 'the twelve private morall vertues, as Aristotle hath...which is the purpose of these first twelve bookes,' we soon find that he wanders very far from the Aristotelian series. The first Book pourtrays Holiness,...

...present time. In which I have followed all the antique poets historicall ; ... by ensample of [whom] I labour to pourtraict in Arthure, before he was king,...which is the purpose of these first twelve bookes." After saying that he conceives Arthur to have " seen in a dreame or vision the Faerie Queen, with whose...

...in his Rinaldo; the other named Politico in his Godfredo. By ensample of which excellente Poets, 1 labour to pourtraict in Arthure, before he was king,...brave knight, perfected in the twelve private morall vertucs, as Aristotle hath devised ; the which is the purpose of these first twelve bookes : which...

...71 (40), 3, 8. Polipus, 39/7, a fish. port, 90/68, bearing, behaviour. portrait, va 93/14, portray. "I labour to pourtraict in Arthure, before he was king, the image of a brave knight." — Preface to the Fairie Queene. presse, sb. 91/89, crowd, preste, adj. 84/34, ready. Pretus, 25 (28),...

...named Politice in his Godfredo. By ensample of which excellent poets, I labour to pourtraict in Arthur, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private Moral Virtues, as Aristotle hath devised ; the which is the purpose of these first twelve books : which...

...coloured in bis Rinaldo ; the otlier named Politict in his Godfredo. By enaample of which excellcnte poets, I labour to pourtraict in Arthure, before he was king, the image of a braue Knight, perfected in the twelue priuate Morall Vertues, as Aristotle hath deuiaed ; the which...

...Queen," " expounding his whole intention in the course of this work," he said only that he labored "to pourtraict in Arthure, before he was king, the...of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private moral vertues, as Aristotle hath devised, the which is the purpose of these first twelve books; which...

...Ealeigh, " expounding his whole intention in the course of ;his worke," his "whole intention" being "to pourtraict in Arthure before he was king the image...brave knight perfected in the twelve private morall vertuesas Aristotle hath devised ; the which is the purpose of these first twelve bookes : which if...

...Poets. I labour to pourtraict in Arfhure, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected m the twelve private morall vertues, as Aristotle hath...devised ; the which is the purpose of these first twelve bookcs : which if I finde to be well accepted, I may be perhaps encouraged to frame the other part...

...as avowed in the early as in the later writers. 'I labour,' wrote Spenser, ' to pourtray in Arthur, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private moral virtues, as Aristotle hath devised .... In that Fairy Queen, I mean glory in my general intention,...