The Faerie Queene

Canto IV

Satyrane makes a Turneyment

For loue of Florimell:

Britomart winnes the prize from all,

And Artegall doth quell.

I T often fals, (as here it earst befell)

That mortall foes doe turne to faithfull frends,

And friends profest are chaungd to foemen fell:

The cause of both, of both their minds depends;

And th'end of both likewise of both their ends.

For enmitie, that of no ill proceeds,

But of occasion, with th'occasion ends;

And friendship, which a faint affection breeds

Without regard of good, dyes like ill grounded seeds.

That well (me seemes) appeares, by that of late

Twixt Cambell and Sir Triamond befell,

As als by this, that now a new debate

Stird vp twixt Scudamour and Paridell,

The which by course befals me here to tell:

Who hauing those two other Knights espide,

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