’To do honour to his Country, Prince Arthur is an Universal Hero; in Holiness, Temperance, Chastity, and Justice super-excellent.  For the same Reason, and to compliment Queen Elizabeth, Gloriana, Queen of Fairies, whose Court was the Asylum of the Oppressed, represents that Glorious Queen.  At her Commands all these Knights set forth, and only at her’s the Red-cross Knight destroys the Dragon. Guyon overturns the Bower of Bliss, Arthegal (i. e. Justice) beats down Geryoneo (i. e. Phil. II.  King of Spain) to rescue Belge (i. e. Holland) and he beats the Grantorto (the same Philip in another Light) to restore Irena (i. e. Peace to Europe.)

’Chastity being the first Female Virtue, Britomartis is a Britain; her Part is fine, though it requires Explication.  His stile is very Poetical; no Puns, Affectations of Wit, forced Antitheses, or any of that low Tribe.

’His old Words are all true English, and numbers exquisite; and since of Words there is the Multa Renascentur, since they are all proper, such a Poem should not (any more than Milton’s) subsist all of it of common ordinary Words.  See Instances of Descriptions.

  ’Causeless Jealousy in Britomartis, V. 6, 14, in its Restlessness.

    ’Like as a wayward Child whose sounder Sleep
      Is broken with some fearful Dream’s Affright,
    With froward Will doth set himself to weep,
      Ne can be stil’d for all his Nurse’s Might,
      But kicks, and squalls, and shrieks for fell Despight;
    Now scratching her, and her loose Locks misusing,
      Now seeking Darkness, and now seeking Light;
    Then craving Suck, and then the Suck refusing: 
    Such was this Lady’s Loves in her Love’s fond accusing.’

  Curiosity occasioned by Jealousy, upon occasion of her Lover’s
  Absence. Ibid, Stan. 8, 9.

    ’Then as she looked long, at last she spy’d
      One coming towards her with hasty Speed,
    Well ween’d she then, e’er him she plain descry’d,
      That it was one sent from her Love indeed;
    Whereat her Heart was fill’d with Hope and Dread,
      Ne would she stay till he in Place could come,
    But ran to weet him forth to know his Tidings somme;
      Even in the Door him meeting, she begun,
    And where is he, thy Lord, and how far hence? 
      Declare at once; and hath he lost or won?’

  Care and his House are described thus, IV. 6, 33, 34, 35.

  ’Not far away, not meet for any Guest,
  They spy’d a little Cottage, like some poor Man’s Nest.’

34.