THE FIFTH BOOKE OF THE FAERIE QUEENE CONTAYNING THE LEGEND OF ARTEGALL OR OF JUSTICE. I. SO oft as I with ftate of present time As that, through long continuance of his course, Me feemes the world is runne quite out of fquare From the first point of his appointed fourse; And being once amiffe growes daily wourfe and wourfe : II. For from the golden age, that first was named, It's now at earst become a ftonie one; II. 2. at earft] That is, at length. So the quarto and first folio read. So Chaucer, edit. Urr. p. 104. "And then at erft amongis 'hem thei faye." |