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All readers of Spenser must know that the true Florimel lost her girdle; which, they will remember, was found by Sir Satyrane and was adjudged by a whole assemblage of knights to the false Florimel, although it did not quite fit her. She, viz. the snowy Florimel, exceedingly did fret; And, snatching from her hand half angrily The belt again, about her body gan it tie.
So she stayed with them long, and taught them many things, while they in their turn showed her how to play on their pipes and to dance the prettiest and most graceful of their dances. Time passed in this wise, when one day it chanced that a noble knight, Satyrane by name, came to seek his kindred among the woodfolk.
Therefore one morning, when the wood folk had gone to hold a feast in the forest, she rode away in company with Satyrane, and issuing from the forest soon reached the open plain. Towards evening they met a weary pilgrim, whose clothes were worn and soiled, and so true a pilgrim did he look, that Una did not know him to be the wizard Archimago.
Let this German Sir Satyrane, then, indulgently be supposed to have found it: and, whilst the title to it is in abeyance, let it be adjudged to the false Florimel: and let her have a licence to wear it for a few months until the true Florimel comes forward in her original beauty, dissolves her snowy counterfeit, and reclaims her own 'golden cestus."
The knight instantly drew rein, and asked what tidings he could impart, and Una begged with faltering voice that he would tell her aught concerning a knight whose armour bore a red cross. 'Alas! dear dame, answered he slowly, 'these eyes did see that knight, both living and eke dead; and with that he told her all his story. When he had finished, it was Satyrane who spoke.
In this manner Una and the knight Satyrane soon became friends, and at length one day she poured out all her sad tale, and besought his help in her search for the Red Cross Knight.
He, too, receives her kindly, and in the wood she lives with these wild creatures until there she finds a new knight named Satyrane, with whom she once more sets forth to seek the Red Cross Knight. Meanwhile Duessa had led the Red Cross Knight to the house of Pride.
'Where is that Paynim's son, that him of life, and us of joy hath reft? And the pilgrim made answer that he was hard by, washing his wounds at a fountain. Satyrane wasted no more words, but went right straight to the fountain, where he found Sansloy, whom he challenged instantly to fight.
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