Paper 3 Quotes - Spenser and Ireland

Faerie Queene I, Error’s children drink her blood once beheaded

‘They flocked all about her bleeding wound, / And sucked up their dying mothers blood’

View, Irishwoman drinks her foster son’s blood

‘sucked up all the blood that runne thereout, saying, that the earth was not worthy to drinke it.’

View, Irenius criticises Irish cannibalism

they drink ‘not their enemyes but friends blood’

Fairie Queene II, simile of Ireland, ‘thousand villeins’ swarm Alma’s castle

‘As when a swarme of Gnats at eventide / Out of the fennes of Allan do arise’

Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, no sorrow in homeland

‘No griesly famine nor no raging sweard, / No nightly bodrags, nor no hue and cries’

The Faerie Queene, Mutability Cantos, description of IRELAND as the ancient superior nation

‘wealths and goodnesse, far aboue the rest / Of all that beare the British Islands name’