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by Edmund Spenser
About 187 pages (55,950 words)
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Book 2, Canto 8 Summary

While he is lying there unconscious, Guyon is guarded by an angel and discovered by the Palmer. Pyrochles and Cymochles, now traveling with Archimago, approach, and seeing their enemy helpless, prepare to strip him of his armor (despite the Palmer's pleas). Right on cue, Arthur arrives on the scene just in time to challenge the two brothers. They fight, but Cymochles is killed, and Pyrochles is subdued. Arthur offers Pyrochles the chance to redeem himself, but the fiery knight refuses, and Arthur kill him too. Guyon revives just after this, in time to meet Arthur and forge.....

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