What is "aduenture"

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From whom returning sad and comfortlesse,As on the way together we did fare,We met that villen (God from him me blesse)That cursed wight, from whom I scapt whyleare,A man of hell, that cals himselfe Despaire:Who first vs greets, and after faire areedesOf tydings strange, and of aduentures rare:So creeping close, as Snake in hidden weedes,Inquireth of our states, and of our knightly deedes.

Yet euermore it was his manner faire,After long labours and aduentures spent,Vnto those natiue woods for to repaire,To see his sire and offspring auncient.

Then when with meates and drinkes of euery kindeTheir feruent appetites they quenched had,That auncient Lord gan fit occasion finde,Of straunge aduentures, and of perils sad,Which in his trauell him befallen had,For to demaund of his renowmed guest:Who then with vtt'rance graue, and count'nance sadFrom point to point, as is before exprest,Discourst his voyage long, according his request.

But first, ere I doe his aduentures tell,In this exploite, me needeth to declare,What did betide to the faire Pastorell,During his absence left in heauy care,Through daily mourning, and nightly misfare:Yet did that auncient matrone all she might,To cherish her with all things choice and rare.

But faire Cambina with perswasions myld,Did mitigate the fiercenesse of their mode,That for the present they were reconcyld,And gan to treate of deeds of armes abrode,And strange aduentures, all the way they rode:Amongst the which they told, as then befell,Of that great turney, which was blazed brode,For that rich girdle of faire Florimell,The prize of her, which did in beautie most excell.

For thy, he thus to Paridel bespake,Faire Sir, of friendship let me now you pray,That as I late aduentured for your sake,The hurts whereof me now from battell stay,Ye will me now with like good turne repay,And iustifie my cause on yonder knight.

And now he was in trauell on his way,Vppon an hard aduenture sore bestad,Whenas by chaunce he met vppon a dayWith Artegall, returning yet halfe sadFrom his late conquest, which he gotten had.

The Prince according to the former token,Which faire Serene to him deliuered had,Pursu'd him streight, in mynd to bene ywrokenOf all the vile demeane, and vsage bad,With which he had those two so ill bestad:Ne wight with him on that aduenture went,But that wylde man, whom though he oft forbad,Yet for no bidding, nor for being shent,Would he restrayned be from his attendement.

A Satyres sonne yborne in forrest wyld,By straunge aduenture as it did betyde,And there begotten of a Lady myld,Faire Thyamis the daughter of Labryde,That was in sacred bands of wedlocke tydeTo Therion, a loose vnruly swayne.

Early before the Morne with cremosin ray,The windowes of bright heauen opened had,Through which into the world the dawning dayMight looke, that maketh euery creature glad,Vprose Sir Guyon, in bright armour clad,And to his purposd iourney him prepar'd:With him the Palmer eke in habit sad,Him selfe addrest to that aduenture hard:So to the riuers side they both together far'd.

All my delight on deedes of armes is set,To hunt out perils and aduentures hard,By sea, by land, where so they may be met,Onely for honour and for high regard,Without respect of richesse or reward.

Who hauing ended with that Squire of DamesA long discourse of his aduentures vaine,The which himselfe, then Ladies more defames,And finding not th'Hyena to be slaine,With that same Squyre, returned backe againeTo his first way.

There leaue we them in pleasure and repast,Spending their ioyous dayes and gladfull nights,And taking vsurie of time forepast,With all deare delices and rare delights,Fit for such Ladies and such louely knights:And turne we here to this faire furrowes endOur wearie yokes, to gather fresher sprights,That when as time to Artegall shall tend,We on his first aduenture may him forward send.

He faire the knight saluted, louting low,Who faire him quited, as that courteous was:And after asked him, if he did knowOf straunge aduentures, which abroad did pas.

In these and like delights of bloudy gameHe trayned was, till ryper yeares he raught,And there abode, whilst any beast of nameWalkt in that forest, whom he had not taughtTo feare his force: and then his courage haughtDesird of forreine foemen to be knowne,And far abroad for straunge aduentures sought:In which his might was neuer ouerthrowne,But through all Faery lond his famous worth was blown.