Chapter XLVII: Book V: Notes

[b5-01] _Knights of the Order_] Of the Garter.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

The title-page to the 1593 edition--taken from _The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney_, Volume II (Cambridge, 1922)--is used as a cover.

Amongst the different editions _Bithynia_ and _Pontus_ are sometimes used interchangeably.

Some instances of “lower(ing)” should be pronounced “lour(ing).”

Endnote markers are given in [square] brackets, and page-numbers in {curly} brackets.

The following editions were consulted for most of the changes listed below: 10th edition, printed by William Du-Gard (London, 1655); 14th edition, printed for E. Taylor, et al. (3 vol., London, 1724-1725); Samson Low, Son, & Marston (London, 1868); and Penguin Classics (London, 1987).

Some minor spelling inconsistencies (_e.g._ gray/grey, sheep-hook/sheep hook/sheephook, etc.) have been preserved.

Alterations to the text:

Abandon the use of drop-caps.

Convert footnotes to endnotes.

Correct/regularize the spelling of character names.

Decouple ligatured Latin characters.

Modernize/regularize the spelling of: befel (befell), Bithinia (Bithynia), Bizantium (Byzantium), Cameleon (Chameleon), chastly (chastely), chrystal (crystal), dolor (dolour), dulness (dullness), e’er (ere), e’re (ere), enterprize (enterprise), fancie (fancy), fulness (fullness), gastful (ghastful), Hircania (Hyrcania), impressa (impresa), jerfaulcon (gyrfalcon), letchery (lechery), lilly (lily), loathesome (loathsome), Mantinæa (Mantinea), me seems (meseems), Missenia (Messenia), o’re (o’er), Panonia (Pannonia), porphyrie (porphyry), pye (pie), recompence (recompense), Seistine (Sestine), spie (spy), subtilty (subtlety), Trebisond (Trebizond), unchastly (unchastely), vail (veil), wherof (whereof), woful (woeful). Note: old word forms (_e.g._ dost, gat, sith, spake, etc.) have been preserved.

Punctuation is largely preserved save for the following changes: quotation mark pairings/nestings, possessives lacking apostrophes, missing periods, direct addresses lacking commas, etc. Also adjust some hyphenation: far fetched (far-fetched), illwill (ill-will), straw coloured (straw-coloured), etc.

Miscellaneous: farther/further, passed/past, than/then, and their/there.

Minor formatting changes to some songs and eclogues.

[Introductory matter]

“Jorge de Montemayor, the author of _Diana Enamorada_” change _Diana Enamorada_ to _Diana_. (Jorge de Montemayor wrote _Diana_; Gaspar Gil Polo wrote _Diana Enamorada_, a continuation of Montemayor’s work.)

Change “they put wild _improbabilites_ in the place” to _improbabilities_.

“made therein an absolute _heroicall_ poem” to _heroical_.

“love in its various aspects; Helen, Queen of Corinth...” change semicolon to comma.

“of Elizabethan prose, the false _antithees_” to _antitheses_.

“of the older romances In imitation of Montemayor” add period after _romances_.

“London, Printed in the _Yer_ MDCCXXV” to _Year_.

Change a few instances of “Fulke _Grevil_” to “Fulke _Greville_”, “Robert _Walde-graue_” to “Robert _Waldegrave_”, and _Johnstoun_ to _Johnstone_.

“which _brake_ the bone of his thigh” to _broke_.

“his will, and settling his _wordly_ affairs” to _worldly_.

[Book I]

“that as our remembrance came _everclothed_ unto us in the” to _ever clothed_.

“it is _nor_ for me to attend so high a blissfulness” to _not_.

“to set on all the _canvass_ he could and fly” to _canvas_.

“nor yet _flubbered_ up with good fellowship” to _slubbered_.

“he thought _migh_ either profit or gratify” to _might_.

“his countenance could not but with _dum_ eloquence” to _dumb_.

“courage, and _largness_ of magnificence” to _largeness_.

“small a boat) doth so _overway_ poor Dametas” to _oversway_.

“_This_ much now that I have told you is nothing” to _Thus_.

“Oh no, _He_ cannot be good that knows” to _he_.

“by the skilfullest trencher-men of _Medea_” to _Media_.

“one of the Kalander’s servants rounded in his ear” delete _the_.

“not able longer to to control herself” delete one _to_.

“so famous over the the world as Argalus” delete one _the_.

“and _whetttng_ their courage with revenge” to _whetting_.

“was acquainted with _strategems_) invented” to _stratagems_.

“to set fire in _the all_ parts of Greece” to _all the_.

“was surpassing it in bravery of _fighing_” to _fighting_.

“wavering between looking for _same_ stratagem” to _some_.

“upon _oach_ never to bear arms against the Helots” to _oath_.

“this office be not. perchance, suitable to my” change period to comma.

“so ugly to behold, For my part” change comma to period.

“having set out some _gallies_ under the charge” to _galleys_.

“of so many things united in _perfecion_” to _perfection_.

“so perfect a _plat_ of the celestial dwellings” to _plot_.

“_shortenened_ the way’s length, till they came” to _shortened_.

“which Pyrocles had written before he went _a hunting_” to _a-hunting_.

“take a _bye-way_ which might lead to Kalander’s” to _byway_.

“the less curiously _inquisive_ after them” to _inquisitive_.

“Where are all _hereoic_ parts but in Amphialus” to _heroical_.

“and thus much _villiany_ am I content” to _villainy_.

“at the _olympian_ games there celebrated” to _Olympian_.

“because I wear a woman’s _apparal_” to _apparel_.

“since it hath an end _alloted_ unto it” to _allotted_.

“be in as great _exellency_ in yourself” to _excellency_.

“a wonted kind of desire to see rare _fights_” to _sights_.

“the Amazons: myself _neice_ to Senicia, queen” to _niece_.

“_Jupitor_ when he was in the form of an eagle” to _Jupiter_.

“under and carried it _ahout_ as a mill” to _about_.

“the next day early to come _a foot_ thither” to _afoot_.

“known him further than by report of his good _justing_” to _jousting_.

“by a certain _Sycionian_ knight, was lost” to _Sicyonian_.

“breath a mortal mislike against Basilius,” change comma to period.

“to make him miserable by the _fight_ of Philoclea” to _sight_.

“even when the sun, like a noble _hart_” to _heart_.

“The injury seemed _grievious_, but when it came” to _grievous_.

“heavenly or hellish title thou _lift_ to have” to _list_.

“she leaped up, and ran to the _lodge ward_” to _lodge-ward_.

“so that it was a new _fight fortune_ had prepared” to _sight Fortune_.

“guided with such _traiterous_ eyes” to _traitorous_.

“Till I get her, shall I to keep _innure_ myself?” to _inure_.

“And love _with lovers hurt_ is inhumanity” to _which lover hurts_.

“No _thral_ like them that inward bondage have” to _thrall_.

“And lives in _fancy_ seeing,” to _fancy’s_.

“Gynecia’s but that she _fouud_ too well” to _found_.

“hillock show, by the lofty _olympus_” to _Olympus_.

“love is better _tban_ a pair of spectacles” to _than_.

“Busy with _oker_ did their shoulders mark” to _ochre_.

“As bragging that free of all _passions none_” to _passions’ moan_.

“And that the _byass_ of her blood was wrought” to _bias_.

“But _lickrous_, poison’d, fain to her would go” to _lick’rous_.

“but game, the _self hurt wonton_ meant” to _self-hurt wanton_.

“_A field_ they go, where many lookers be” to _Afield_.

“Like some which seek to salve their _blooted_ name” to _blotted_.

“A hasten’d hare from greedy _grayhound_ go” to _greyhound_.

“And then the _Phænix_ feared to be caught” to _Phoenix_.

[Book II]

“had at _least wise_ produced thus much happiness” to _leastwise_.

“no faint pleasure could _with-hold_ him” to _withhold_.

“Thus having delivered _his_ tale in this perplexed manner” to _my_.

“banished all vain fancy of _superstitution_” to _superstition_.

“heavenly bodies there are great hidden _dieties_” to _deities_.

“lone to take the ring Wherein truly at least” add period after _ring_.

“One time he danced the _matachine_ dance” to _matachin_.

“have made a _handerchief_ by that time a-day” to _handkerchief_.

“_Let_ the sweetness of virtue’s disposition, jealous” to _Yet_.

“whom _see_ was half ashamed she did love so well” to _she_.

“from them and, as it were two _counter-ballances_” to _counter-balances_.

“made partaker of this _oft-binding_ light” to _oft-blinding_.

“whether the heavens at that time _lifted_ to play” to _listed_.

“that they might fill the sails as they _lifted_” to _listed_.

“the more _way-ward_ it showed itself towards them” to _wayward_.

“already he had been apt to _determinine_” to _determine_.

“and thinking to make all men _a dread_” to _adread_.

“both make ostentation of his his own felicity” delete one _his_.

“spots he _artifically_ put upon his face” to _artificially_.

“I needed envy no _farther_ for the chief comfort” to _father_.

“having only with them the two _valiaut_ brothers” to _valiant_.

(that occasion, _I_ kneeled down, and with humble heartedness, and hearty earnestness printed in _my_ graces; “Alas!” said _I_,) to _he_, _his_, and _he_, respectively.

“the river not running _forth right_” to _forthright_.

“they began by _piece-meal_ to take away the eclipsing” to _piecemeal_.

“The second-sweetly _senced word_” to _fenced ward_.

“Like _pomels_ round of marble clear;” to _pommels_.

“Perching within square royal _roves_” to _rooves_.

“Which _conduite_-like with curious crooks,” to _conduit_.

“he was driven with the _pummel_ of his sword” to _pommel_.

“a mile hence, and crossing a _high-way_” to _highway_.

“To _cause full-wrath_, which thou can’st not resist” to _causeful wrath_.

“Can thoughts still thinking, so rest _unapalled_?” to _unappalled_.

“And in thy case do _glaze_ mine own debility:” to _glass_.

“The wretch compell’d a _runnagate_ became,” to _runagate_.

“but humbly besought Pamela _we_ should perform” to _she_.

“could not but _fertily_ requite his father’s fatherly” to _fertilely_.

“thou now receive this disastered _changling_” to _changeling_.

“keeping a countenance _ascances_ she understood” to _askance_.

“with all the _conjuriug_ words which desire could indite” to _conjuring_.

“unto me to meet him at a place _appionted_” to _appointed_.

“have left such an _off-spring_, in shape” to _offspring_.

“those servants of _our’s_ in readiness” to _ours_.

“thereto had she that _scutchion_ of her desires” to _scutcheon_.

“who had been one of the _cheifest make-bates_” to _chiefest makebates_.

“laying indifferently among _tbem_, made such havoc” to _them_.

“meaning to observe a _wassailling_ watch all” to _wassailing_.

“seemed to sing _mauger_ the _mauses_” to _maugre_ and _Muses_.

“which being _confrmed_ with presagious chances” to _confirmed_.

“dull to any _behooful_ resolution” to _behoveful_.

“marking eyes, he conferred _wtth_ Antiphilus” to _with_.

“some hazard he might be in _apparant_ likelihood” to _apparent_.

“she had even newly _recelved_ news from” to _received_.

“which _multipled_ the force of his anguish” to _multiplied_.

“by so _henious_ a treason murdered” to _heinous_.

“Thy _faint_ is dead, or dead is thy devotion” to _saint_.

“although my _mettall_ were most mutable” to _metal_.

“I curse the _fidling_ finders out of music” to _fiddling_.

“On _rock’d_ despair, the burial of my bliss” to _rock_.

“The seed _saft meaning_ is, no truth to miss” to _fast-meaning_.

“Hailstones of tears, of _sight_ a monstrous blast,” to _sighs_.

“Be those despairs which have my hopes quite _waft_” to _rased_.

“For even the herbs our hateful music _destroyes_” to _stroys_.

“Who minds to please the mind drown’d in _annoyes_” to _annoys_.

“For proof of man, _woo_ sprung of heav’nly fire” to _who_.

“One _faith_, he mocks; another _faith_ he plays,” change both to _saith_.

“Yet thou art mickle _warse_, then e’er was I” to _worse_.

“When that we see our _off-spring_ gaily bent” to _offspring_.

“And what manner a mind which had to that humour a _vain_?” to _vein_.

“Can then a cause be so light that forceth a man to go die? _I_.” to _Aye_.

“since unto her will I do _winde_? _Winde_.” to _wind_ and _Wind_.

“_Wo_, but seems to me joy, that agrees” to _Woe_.

“_Ods_? what an _ods_ is there since” to _Odds_ and _odds_.

“My muse what _ailes_ this ardor” to _ails_.

“So great passion all feel,” add _a_ after _great_.

“Alas she _faith_ I am thine” to _saith_.

“Thus sweet pain, I do yield _what ere_ I can yield,” to _whate’er_.

[Book III]

“Dread not _awhit_ (O goodly cruel) that pity may” to _a whit_.

“but they set so among certain _tuffs_ of cypress” to _tufts_.

“Therefore would he not _emply_ the still man” to _employ_.

“and will confirm his _gilt_, and your receipt of both” to _gift_.

“Then can one string make as good music as a _concert_” to _consort_.

“I have now such a liberty as the _sealed_ dove hath” to _seeled_.

“the more it did _exprobate_, as she thought” to _exprobrate_.

“marriage; the worthiness of the _suiter_” to _suitor_.

“a certain _prophesy_ had been told him that” to _prophecy_.

“For near _acquaintaince_ doth diminish reverent fear” to _acquaintance_.

“was rather increased than _any wise_ satisfied” to _anywise_.

“any entertainment of so unwelcome a guest the made Cecropia” delete _the_ and add comma after _guest_.

“Dear niece, or rather dear _daugher_, if my affection” to _daughter_.

“great clerks into the world to serve as _shields_ to keep them from those faults” to _shewels_ (“scarecrows”).

“by the staff of _vulger_ opinions, I would not” to _vulgar_.

“tail covered the crupper of of the horse” delete one _of_.

“so that he battered the _lams_ thereof” to _lames_.

“His _petrel_ and reins were embroidered with” to _poitrel_.

“Amphialus had _over sticken_ himself so” to _over-stricken_.

“letting him have reins, _petrel_, with the rest” to _poitrel_.

“was indeed like the painter, that _faith_ in his picture” to _saith_.

“thy wretched heart think it was _timerousness_ that made” to _timorousness_.

“Place, see my grave _up torn_” to _uptorn_.

“repine with never so much grieving-Mother,” replace hyphen with period and space.

“This _sight_ being the more cruel, since both love” to _fight_.

“took a body to show his (_self unconceivable_) beauty” to _else-unconceivable_.

“and looking a sideward upon the ground” delete _a_.

“that were _accessary_ to this cruelty” to _accessory_.

“for no eye could have _abiden_ to see such beauty” to _abidden_.

“_prefering_ dutiful affection before fearful duty” to _preferring_.

“that thou art _he_ beggarliest dastardly villain” to _the_.

“means to temper the minds of their proud _woers_” to _wooers_.

“self-love then first in him divided itself from _vain glory_” to _vainglory_.

“No _villian_, die: it is Philoclea that” to _villain_.

“a strong _cask_ bravely covered, wherewith he covered his head” to _casque_.

“encroached to usurp a room in her right _ride_” to _side_.

“the rest were quickly _discomfitted_, and, despairing” _discomfited_.

(“can Musidorus have anything wherein I have no interest?” “_I_,” said he, “and for the present a greater wonder...) to _Aye_.

“and we only can restore them to _themselvee_” to _themselves_.

(“_I_,” quoth he, “and when my man Dorus durst...) to _Aye_.

“my sun, whose beams are _shinlng_ bright” to _shining_.

“which dost lightsomely, _methink_, make me see the...” to _methinks_.

“Betwixt which two in me I have this _sight_” to _fight_.

“_scattering_ lying a great number of rich medals” to _scatteringly_.

“and with a look full of _sworn_ spite” to _forworn_.

“never after to feed on worse than _furmetry_” to _frumenty_.

“Giv’n to my heart, by my forewounded _eye_:” to _eyne_.

“_Ho’d_ me most yours, then my long suit is sign’d.” to _Hold_.

“Nay higher thoughts (though thralled thoughts)” add _I call_ to the end of the line.

“You none can claim but you yourself _a right_,” to _aright_.

“with the _shame faced_ look of that suitor” to _shamefaced_.

“rising up with a kindly _bashfulnes_” to _bashfulness_.

“I can never _acccount_ a wrong” to _account_.

“(Better despis’d) _be wonder_ gazing eye.” to _bewonder_.

“As _princes lose_ or change:” to _prince’s loss_.

“Two _gleaning_ suns of splendour like I see,” to _gleaming_.

“For _mishiefs_ great, day after day doth show,” to _mischiefs_.

“commanded them to carry _forwith_ Zelmane’s bed” to _forthwith_.

“Where simple love, which _chastness_ doth impart,” to _chasteness_.

“So that you may on higher _flippers_ stay,” to _slippers_.

“Burnt Caban, lost my _cloke_,” to _cloak_.

“Lanquet, the _shepherds_ best swift Ister knew,” to _shepherd_.

“His good strong staff my _flipp’ry_ years upbore:” to _slipp’ry_.

“Ant, industry; and _conney_, skill to build;” to _coney_.

“And aye more awe towards him for to _plaint_,” to _plant_.

“As tigers, leopards, bears, and _lion’s feed_” to _lions’ seed_.

“When falcon they, and _gross hawk_ saw in mew” to _goss-hawk_.

“Austere she is, when he would honest _p’ays_;” to _plays_.

“Lord, what _bye-words_ they speak, what spite” to _bywords_.

“That never _past soul_ word, I dare well say:” to _passed foul_.

[Book IV]

“_left_ all consideration how to recover her” to _leave_.

“daughter’s little wits had quite left her great _noul_” to _noll_.

“mumping out her hoarse _chase_” to _chafe_.

“creatures, as _Phyche_ did upon her unknown lover” to _Psyche_.

“included all the world within his _sheep coat_” to _sheep-cote_.

“to _taste_ into herself new devised counsel” to _take_.

“Of _humane_ life to be the quiet measure” to _human_.

“that which may _by_ safest for yourself” to _be_.

“O mother of mine what a dreadful _fuck_ have you given” to _suck_.

“perfectest workmanship, their _chieftest_ honour” to _chiefest_.

“For if it were not a respecting the harm,” delete _a_.

“and to _became_ all as well hangmen as judges” to _become_.

“which as soon as she _apppeared_ to play her part” to _appeared_.

“hold but of Pamela, _thinkihg_ it want of a” to _thinking_.

“her grace knew the ancient laws of Arcadia _were_” to _bare_.

“which likewise _acording_ to the statutes of Arcadia” to _according_.

“as windows, stones, and _pinacles_ were well” to _pinnacles_.

“was an extreme _medly_ of diversified thoughts” to _medley_.

“the soldiers _desirious_ of trouble, as the nurse of” to _desirous_.

“and laying order for the _goverment_ by” to _government_.

“especially in a _pince_ under whom they had found a refuge” to _prince_.

“And inward grief _fail_ up with outward wailing” to _seal_.

“Within itself, and never _tasted_ end:” to _tasteth_.

[Book V]

“kept close, _withou_ conference with any man” to _without_.

“be shadowed out by the _skillfullest_ pencil than by” to _skilfullest_.

“that it doth _appal_ their minds” to _appall_.

“or the _licourishness_ of dominion make you beyond justice” to _lickerishness_.

“the modern minds, who made _suiters_ magistrates” to _suitors_.

“Philanax and the other _moblemen_ should deal” to _noblemen_.

“Had she I say no practice to lead her unto it?” add commas after _she_ and _say_.

“the name of this mankind _courtisan_ shall ever be remembered” to _courtesan_.

“in this matter, _e’er_ the eyes of the world upon you” to _are_.

“excellent Philoclea her _hononr_, by taking” to _honour_.

“hard-heartedly bent to _apppoint_ otherwise” to _appoint_.

“these two are both abominable and _inexcuseable_” to _inexcusable_.

“which had _Lynce’s_ eyes in another’s” to _lynx’s_.

[Book VI]

“much pitying the before-unheard of death of so excellent a queen” delete first _of_.

“what estate the castle was against the _beseigers_” to _besiegers_.

“the _fates_ reserved so great a blessing in store” to _Fates_.

“begging what goodness _solicites_ you to grant” to _solicits_.

“and the ill-bought quiet of an _ignominous_ peace” to _ignominious_.

“This kingdom of _Argus_, wherein you are,” to _Argos_.

“the _fates_ must be indulgent to your youth and beauty” to _Fates_.

“with a _down-cast_ look, which sorrow excused” to _downcast_.

“Sweet link of hearts, joy’s surest _anchor hold_,” to _anchor-hold_.

“Man still complains upon his state to _lowre_,” to _lower_.

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