Adam and Eve were
expelled
from the garden lest
they should eat and live forever.
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1
386.
MISSED NOT HIS MINISHT MIGHT, felt not the loss of its diminished
strength; i.
e.
though cut off, the paw still held to the shield.
xliv.
In comparing the fire-spewing dragon to a volcano, Spenser follows
Vergil's _AEneid_, iii, 571, and Tasso's _Jerusalem Delivered_, iv, 8.
406.
A GOODLY TREE.
Cf.
_Genesis_, ii, 9, and _Revelation_, xxii, 2.
409.
OVER ALL WERE RED, everywhere were spoken of.
414.
Cf.
_Genesis_, iii, 2.
Adam and Eve were
expelled
from the garden lest
they should eat and live forever.
434.
DEADLY MADE, a creature of death, i.
e.
hell-born.
469.
An imitation of an incident in the _Seven Champions_ in which a winged
serpent attempts to swallow St.
George; i, 1.
477.
AND BACK RETYRD, and as it was withdrawn.
A Gallicism.
490.
WHICH SHE MISDEEM'D, in which she was mistaken.
Una feared that the
dragon was not dead.
QUESTIONS AND TOPICS
(Canto XI)
1.
Describe the three days' fight between the Knight and the Dragon.
