THE FOURTH BOOKE OF THE FAERIE QUEENE, Containing The Legend of Cambel and Telamond [1], or, of Friendship.

[1] Nobody named Telamond appears in the poem.

—TFQ title and textual note. No, I am not reading the whole thing, just the excerpts in my Norton edition. Am almost done. Book I still ranks as the best, in my opinion, though the sequence where Malbecco is transformed into Gealousie (starting with the stanza where he suddenly, out of nowhere, has real rather than metaphorical horns) is grim and moving. I would have quoted the beginning of that sequence but I don’t think it makes any sense out of context.