t conquest did devise,

devise > treat, tell

8 And old division into regiments,

regiments > kingdoms

9 Till it reduced was to one man's governments.

governments > government; control

209.60

Sir _Guyon_ chaunst eke on another booke,
2 That hight _Antiquitie_ of _Faerie_ +lond,+
In which when as he greedily did +looke,+
4 Th'off-spring of Elues and Faries there he fond,
As it deliuered was from hond to hond:
6 Whereat they burning both with feruent fire,
Their countries auncestry to vnderstond,
8 Crau'd leaue of _Alma_, and that aged sire,
To read those bookes; who gladly graunted their desire.

2 lond, > lond. _1596_
3 looke, > looke; _1596, 1609_

1 Sir Guyon chanced eke on another book,

eke > also

2 That hight _Antiquity of Faery Land_,

hight > was called, was entitled
Antiquity > Ancient Records

3 In which when he greedily did look,

greedily > eagerly

4 The offspring of Elves and Faeries there he found,

offspring > ancestry

5 As it delivered was from hand to hand:
6 Whereat they, burning both with fervent fire

Whereat > At which

7 Their countries' ancestry to understand,
8 Craved leave of Alma, and that aged sire,

sire > elderly man [Eumnestes]

9 To read those books; who gladly granted their desire.

CANTO X

_A chronicle of Briton kings,
2 from Brute to Vthers rayne.
And rolles of Elfin Emperours,
4 till time of Gloriane._

1 A chronicle of Briton kings

chronicle > (Spenser derives his chronicle from standard chronicles,
principally the twelfth-century _Historia Regum Britanniae_
(_HRB_) by Geoffrey of Monmouth, and Elizabethan sources such as
Holinshed's _Chronicles_. A full account is in Harper (1910),
abstracted in _Var._ 301-34, 449-53; Hamilton (1980) provides
further comment)

2 from Brutus to Uther's reign.

Brutus > (The mythical first king of Britain, great-grandson of
Aeneas)
Uther > (Uther Pendragon, father of Arthur; see 210.68:1-2)

3 And rolls of Elfin emperors

rolls > registers, lists

4 till time of Gloriana.

Gloriana > (The Faery Queen; Elizabeth)

210.1

WHo now shall giue vnto me words and sound,
2 Equall vnto this haughtie enterprise?
Or who shal lend me wings, with which from ground
4 My lowly verse may loftily arise,
And lift it selfe vnto the highest skies?
6 More ample spirit, then hitherto was wount,
H