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The Blatant Beast shows up briefly at the end of Book V, then becomes the main villain of Book VI, with Calidore chasing after it. The beast is doglike and known for having lots of teeth and all kinds of tongues—some human and some animal. The beast’s fearsome mouth reflects how it is an embodiment of slander and gossip, since its poison bite can destroy otherwise reputable knights and ladies. Though Calidore defeats and muzzles the Blatant Beast for a while, it eventually escapes through unknown means, suggesting how powerful and enduring slander can be.
The Blatant Beast Quotes in The Faerie Queene
The The Faerie Queene quotes below are all either spoken by The Blatant Beast or refer to The Blatant Beast. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Book VI: Canto VI
Quotes
No wound, which warlike hand of enemy
Inflicts with dint of sword, so sore doth light,
As doth the poysnous sting, which infamy
Infixeth in the name of noble wight:
For by no art, nor any leaches might
It ever can recured be againe;
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Book VI: Canto VII
Quotes
And after all, for greater infamie,
He by the heeles him hung upon a tree,
And baffuld so, that all which passed by,
The picture of his punishment might see,
And by the like ensample warned bee
Book VI: Canto XII
Quotes
Ne may this homely verse, of many meanest,
Hope to escape his venomous despite,
More than my former writes, all were they clearest
From blamefull blot, and free from all that wite,
With which some wicked tongues did it backebite,
and bring into a mighty Peres displeasure,
That never so deserved to endite.
Therefore do you my rimes keep better measure,
And seeke to please, that now is counted wisemens threasure.
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The Blatant Beast Quotes in The Faerie Queene
The The Faerie Queene quotes below are all either spoken by The Blatant Beast or refer to The Blatant Beast. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Book VI: Canto VI
Quotes
No wound, which warlike hand of enemy
Inflicts with dint of sword, so sore doth light,
As doth the poysnous sting, which infamy
Infixeth in the name of noble wight:
For by no art, nor any leaches might
It ever can recured be againe;
Related Characters:
Page Number and Citation:
Explanation and Analysis:
Book VI: Canto VII
Quotes
And after all, for greater infamie,
He by the heeles him hung upon a tree,
And baffuld so, that all which passed by,
The picture of his punishment might see,
And by the like ensample warned bee
Book VI: Canto XII
Quotes
Ne may this homely verse, of many meanest,
Hope to escape his venomous despite,
More than my former writes, all were they clearest
From blamefull blot, and free from all that wite,
With which some wicked tongues did it backebite,
and bring into a mighty Peres displeasure,
That never so deserved to endite.
Therefore do you my rimes keep better measure,
And seeke to please, that now is counted wisemens threasure.
