that is necessary for the full Manifestation of the respective Virtues
which they are to exert.

'These one might undertake to shew under the several Heads, are
admirably drawn; no Images improper, and most surprizingly beautiful.
The Red-cross Knight runs through the whole Steps of the Christian
Life; _Guyon_ does all that Temperance can possibly require;
_Britomartis_ (a Woman) observes the true Rules of unaffected
Chastity; _Arthegal_ is in every Respect of Life strictly and wisely
just; _Calidore_ is rightly courteous.

'In short, in _Fairy-Land_, where Knights Errant have a full Scope to
range, and to do even what _Ariosto's_ or _Orlando's_ could not do in
the World without breaking into Credibility, _Spencer's_ Knights have,
under those six Heads, given a full and a truly Poetical System of
Christian, Public, and Low Life.

'His Legend of Friendship is more diffuse, and yet even there the
Allegory is finely drawn, only the Heads various, one Knight could not
there support all the Parts.

'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 hi