The British Poets - 1822 Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: TWO CANTOS 01 MUTABILITIE: WHICH, BOTH FOR FOKME AND HATTER, AI'PEARE TO BE I'ARCELL OF SOME FOLLOWING BOOKE OF THE FAERIE QUEENE, UNDER THE oŁ C... more »Tanstancit. CANTO VI. Frond Change (not pleasd in mortall t Beneath the inoone to raigne) Pretends, as well of gods as men, To be the soveraine. What man that sees the ever-whirling wheele Of Change, the which all mortall things doth sway, But that thereby doth find, and plainly feele, How Mutability in them doth play Her cruell sports to many mens decay ? Which that to all may better yet appeare, I will rehearse, that whylome I heard say, How she at first herselfe began to reare Gainst all the gods, and th' empire sought from them to beare. But first, here falleth fittest to unfold Her antique race and linage ancient, As I have found it registred of old In Faery Land mongst records permanent. She was, to weet, a daughter by descent Of those old Titans that did whylome strive With Saturnes sonne for heavens regiment; Whom though high Iove of kingdome did deprive, Yet many of their stemme long after did survive : And many of them afterwards obtain'd Great power of Iove, and high authority : As Hecate, in whose almighty hand He plac't all rule and principality, To be by her disposed diversly To gods and men, as she them list divide; And drad Bellona, that doth sound on hie Warres and allarums unto nations wide, That makes both heaven and earth to tremble at her pride. So likewise did this Titanesse aspire Rule and dominion to herselfe to gaine ; That as a goddesse men might her admire, And heavenly honours yield, as to them twaine: And first, on earth she sought it to obtaine; Where she such proofe and sad examples shewed Of her great power, to many ones great paine, That not ...« less