The second part of this book asks "Who in ventrous vessel measured the Amazon?" after worrying that readers will consider the first part "abundance of an idle brain." It uses the fact that the shifting of the stars ruins the zodiac to prove that the world is getting worse. A character in this book is accompanied by a metal man who never sleeps but refuses to rescue him from the slave-mistress Radigund. The six parts of this book are concerned with the (*) virtues of Holiness, Temperance, Chastity, Friendship, Justice, and Courtesy. One man in this poem goes to the Bower of Bliss to battle Acra
The second part of this book asks "Who in ventrous vessel measured the Amazon?" after worrying that readers will consider the first part "abundance of an idle brain." It uses the fact that the shifting of the stars ruins the zodiac to prove that the world is getting worse. A character in this book is accompanied by a metal man who never sleeps but refuses to rescue him from the slave-mistress Radigund. The six parts of this book are concerned with the (*) virtues of Holiness, Temperance, Chastity, Friendship, Justice, and Courtesy. One man in this poem goes to the Bower of Bliss to battle Acrasia; that man, Guyon, is later defeated by a woman who marries Artegal. Duessa and Archimago are foiled by the lion-taming Una in this work, which also features the female knight Britomart, the Redcrosse Knight, and Gloriana, who represents Elizabeth I. For 10 points, name this epic poem by Edmund Spenser.
The second part of this book asks "Who in ventrous vessel measured the Amazon?" after worrying that readers will consider the first part "abundance of an idle brain.
The Faerie Queene