With his doom-laden talk, Despair had driven the two knights to suicide, Terwin to kill himself with a knife given by Despair. His name is Trevisan, and he tells them that he had been riding with a colleague Terwin when they met a man called Despair. He has no helmet, and around his neck is rope noose. The Redcrosse Knight and Una resume their journey slowly, and haven’t travelled far when a knight rides furiously towards them. Redcrosse receives a diamond box containing a few drops of a potion to heal all wounds. The two knights seal lifelong loyalty to one another with gifts before Arthur departs. He is therefore in quest of her now.Īlthough Redcrosse is still weak, the time comes for Arthur to leave them. His current mission is the result of a vision of the fairest maiden, with whom he has fallen in love, the Queen of Faries. Prince Arthur reveals precious little of his past to Una, talking of being raised by an old but highly skilled knight, and tutored by the wizard Merlin. The Redcrosse Knight convalesces until he is strong enough to travel again. When Duessa is stripped, all there is left is an ugly old hag, with the filthy tail of a fox and misshapen feet, so Duessa flees to hide. Una says that her deceipts should be removed, then she should be released. The prince carries the knight back out to Una, and asks whether the evil Duessa should die. There are rooms full of treasure, others running with gore, until finally he reaches the dungeon and the Redcrosse Knight, who has been starved almost to the point of death. Arthur takes his rusty keys and starts searching. Its keeper is a blind old man whose head is twisted round on his neck, who denies any knowledge of the knight. Arthur’s squire holds Duessa captive, and Una rushes in to thank the prince.Īrthur then enters the castle in quest of the Redcrosse Knight. With that, Orgoglio’s body shrivels up like an empty bladder. This allows the prince to chop off one of the monster’s legs, then behead him. Orgoglio, now recovered from the loss of his arm, swings his club at Arthur, who takes the mighty blow on his magic shield, tearing its cover away.Īs Arthur reels from that blow, the shield does its work, blinding Orgoglio and stunning Duessa’s beast. Arthur cleaves one of its heads in two, forcing the beast to withdraw. Wikimedia Commons.Īrthur’s squire tries to block Duessa from bringing her beast into the fray, but is stopped by one of her poisonous potions, and falls under the beast’s claws. Walter Crane (1845–1915), Faire virgin, to redeem her deare (1895-97), print, ‘Spenser’s Faerie Queene’, ed TJ Wise, George Allen, London, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC. Orgoglio swings his oak-tree club and buries it three yards deep in the ground with the force of its impact, but Arthur springs aside, then cuts off the monster’s left arm with his sword. His squire blows his magic horn to open the gates, to be greeted by the monster, with Duessa and her menacing seven-headed beast. When they reach Orgoglio’s castle, Arthur leaves Una outside in safety as he enters its grounds. Arthur bears a shield whose light blinds people and can turn them to stone. As they are tracing the way to the castle, they come across the young Prince Arthur, who promises to free the Redcrosse Knight for Una. The knight’s attendant dwarf told Una of this, so they headed off to try to rescue him. In the third episode, at Duessa’s suggestion, the monster Orgoglio took the Redcrosse Knight alive and threw him into the dungeon of his castle.
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