Bulfinch's Mythology (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Thomas Bulfinch

Author:Thomas Bulfinch
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Published: 2010-08-17T16:00:00+00:00

Spenser introduces Sir Tristram in his Faery Queene. In Book VI., Canto ii., Sir Calidore encounters in the forest a young hunter, whom he thus describes:—“Him steadfastly he marked, and saw to be

A goodly youth of amiable grace,

Yet but a slender slip, that scarce did see

Yet seventeen yeares; but tall and faire of face,

That sure he deemed him borne of noble race.

All in a woodman’s jacket he was clad

Of Lincoln greene, belayed with silver lace;

And on his head an hood with agletsci sprad,

And by his side his hunter’s home he hanging had.

“Buskins he wore of costliest cordawayne,

Pinckt upon gold, and paled part per part,t

As then the guize was for each gentle swayne,

In his right hand he held a trembling dart,

Whose fellow he before had sent apart;

And in his left he held a sharp bore-speare,

With which he wont to launch the salvage heart

Of many a lyon, and of many a beare,

That first unto his hand in chase did happen neare.”

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