...'Historical Allegory' appendices. Alma, castle of Alma represents the immortal, God-given, rational soul that 'doth rule the earthly masse, / And all the service of the bodie frame' (rv ix 2). Spenser refers to her as 'the soule' and to her castle, the temperate body, as 'the fort...

...among kindred) on the grounds that such love, like justice, confronts the moral indecorum of Fortune: For naturall affection soone doth cesse, And quenched...discipline doth tame, Through thoughts aspyring to eternali fame. For as the soule doth rule the earthly masse, And all the seruice of the bodie frame,...

...assured bind. For naturall affection soone doth cesse, And quenched is Cupids greater flame: But faithful friendship doth them both suppresse, And them with...Through thoughts aspyring to eternall fame: For as the sonic doth rule the earthly masse, No lesse then perfect gold surmounts the meanest brasse. All which...

...from the constraints of childish affection or stirred up by 'raging fire of loue to woman kind' (1.6): faithfull friendship doth them both suppresse, And...the soule doth rule the earthly masse, And all the seruice of the bodie frame, So loue of soule doth loue of bodie passe, No lesse then perfect gold surmounts...

...limited to the intellectualized worship of the Beautiful. Spenser reminds his reader: For natural! affection soone, doth cesse, And quenched is with...tame, Through thoughts aspyring to eternall fame. And all the seruice of the bodie frame, So loue of soule doth loue of bodie passe, No lesse then perfect...

...case at any rate, it is evident that Spenser means by friendship the enthusiastic rapture of Plato. "But faithfull friendship doth them both suppresse,...Through thoughts aspyring to eternall fame : For as the soul doth rule the earthly masse, And all the service of the body frame, So love of soule doth love...