THE WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER. IN EIGHT VOLUMES. WITH THE PRINCIPAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF VARIOUS COMMENTATORS VOLUME THE FOURTH. LONDON: PRINTED FOR F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON, T. PAYNE, CADELL AND DAVIES, AND R. H. EVANS. 1805. THE SECOND BOOK OF THE FAERIE QUEENE CANTO VIII. Sir Guyon, layd in fwowne, is by Whom Arthure foone hath refkewed, 1. AND is there care in heaven? And is there love In heavenly spirits to these creatures bace, That may compaffion of their evils move? There is:-elfe much more wretched were the cace Of men then beafts: But O! th' exceeding grace I. 1. And is there care in heaven? And is there love &c.] These fine-turned verses must be felt by every one, that knows the least thing belonging to the power of words and dignity of fentiment.-And, in the beginning of a sentence, is expreffive of paffion; fometimes of admiration, fometimes too of indignation. UPTON. |