Reading B: Fairie Queen

What Britomart Saw in the Enchanted Chamber/Britomart: A Wicked Enchanter

The scenes where Britomart is in the Enchanted Chamber and fights the Wicked Enchanter were the most entertaining to me! I liked the descriptions of the people who were beside the Enchanter specifically, because they were really vivid.

- Britomart hides in the castle and suddenly a whirlwind sweeps through the house

- a person walks through the middle of the house, he's wearing comfy robes and on his robe in golden letters is written: Ease

- a band followed and then a procession of several couples:

        -  Fancy: outfit bright and painted with a big fan & Desire: extravagantly dressed, hands on fire

        -  Doubt: faded clock, leaning on a broken reed & Danger: wearing bears skin, holding a net in one  hand and a blade in another (named Mischief and Mischance)

        -  Fear: armed but very pale and afraid & Hope: beautiful girl holding a vial of dew

        -  Dissembling: gentle but fake, holding two clues of silk & Suspicion: ugly, scowling, screen in front             of his face

        -  Grief: hanging his head holding a pair of pincers & Fury: wearing rags holding a firebrand

        -  Displeasure: heavy, sullen, wasp in a bottle & Pleasure: cheerful and fresh, has a honey laden bee in a bottle

- after them comes the beautiful lady held captive and then the Tyrant of the Castle (Love), riding on a lion

- lots of other random people follow after

- Britomart waits til the next day to try to help the beautiful lady

- in the morning, she finds the lady tied up in the same room as the Wicked Enchanter

- she fights the Enchanter and overpowers him, and forces him to free the lady, who is named Amoret

- Once the Enchanter frees Amoret from the spells, the house is totally changed

- the two women leave but find that Sir Scudamour and the squire have already left

A scary castle

Bibliography: Stories from the Faerie Queene by Mary Macleod, with drawings by A. G. Walker (1916).