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Article: Spenser's The Faerie Queene.(Edmund Spenser)(Character overview)
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- The Explicator
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- March 22, 2006
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In book 3 of The Faerie Queene there is a passage in which the warlike Britomart virtually kills Marinell. Marinell's mother is a sea nymph who: "Her Sea-god syre she dearely did perswade, / T' endow her sonne with threasure and rich store, / Bove all the sonnes that were of earthly wombes ybore" (3.4.21). (1) Her wish is granted and:
Shortly upon that shore there heaped was,
Exceeding riches and all pretious things,
The spoyle of all the world, that it did pas
The wealth of th' East, and pomp of Persian kings;
Gold, amber, yuorie, perles, owches, rings,
And all that else was pretious and deare, (3.4.23)
Marinell's treasures are ...