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The Faerie Queene Appearances Quotes

How we cite our quotes: Book, canto, stanza

Quote #10

So stood [Calidore] still long gazing thereupon,/ Ne any will had thence to moue away,/ Although his quest were farre afore him gon;/ But after he had fed, yet did he stay,/ And sate there still, vntill the flying day/ Was farre forth spent… (VI.ix.12)

Forgetting his quest, and transfixed by the beauty of Pastorella, Calidore's obsessive looking reminds us of Britomart's thousand-yard stare in the house of Busirane.