...sih., vm, i. But none to issue forth when one is in: ' For discord harder is to end then to begin. And all within the riven walls were hung With ragged monuments of times f orepast, All which the sad effects of discord sung. Among these "monuments" are "broken scepters,"...

...illustration of Spenser's penchant for adapting court of love conceptions to other than court of love scenes: And all within, the riven walls were hung With ragged...were rent robes and broken scepters plast, Altars defy1'd, and holy things defast, Disshivered speares, and shields ytorne in twaine, Great cities ransackt,...

...be found, But none to issue forth when one is in ; For discord harder is to end then to begin. xxi. And all within, the riven walls were hung With ragged...Nations captived, and huge armies slaine : Of all which mines there some relicks did remaine. xxn. There was the signe of antique Babylon; Of fatall Thebes;...

...the history received through texts; this is the burden of Ate's dwelling: And all within the riuen walls were hung With ragged monuments of times forepast, All which the sad effects of discord sung: There was the signe of antique Babylon, Of fatali Thebes, of Rome that raigned long, Of sacred Salem, and...