The Faerie Queene

Canto II

Blandamour winnes false Florimell,

Paridell for her striues,

They are accorded: Agape

doth lengthen her sonnes liues.

F Irebrand of hell first tynd in Phlegeton,

By thousand furies, and from thence out throwen

Into this world, to worke confusion,

And set it all on fire by force vnknowen,

Is wicked discord, whose small sparkes once blowen

None but a God or godlike man can slake;

Such as was Orpheus, that when strife was growen

Amongst those famous ympes of Greece, did take

His siluer Harpe in hand, and shortly friends them make.

Or such as that celestiall Psalmist was,

That when the wicked feend his Lord tormented,

With heauenly notes, that did all other pas,

The outrage of his furious fit relented.

Such Musicke is wise words with time concented,

To moderate stiffe minds,