What is "aduentures"

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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.

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.

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.

The knight approching nigh, of him inquerdTydings of warre, and of aduentures new.

Great pleasure mixt with pittifull regard,That godly King and Queene did passionate,Whiles they his pittifull aduentures heard,That oft they did lament his lucklesse state,And often blame the too importune fate,That heapd on him so many wrathfull wreakes:For neuer gentle knight, as he of late,So tossed was in fortunes cruell freakes.

Why then dost thou, ô man, that of them allArt Lord, and eke of nature Soueraine,Wilfully make thy selfe a wretched thrall,And wast thy ioyous houres in needlesse paine,Seeking for daunger and aduentures vaine?

Long they thus trauelled in friendly wise,Through countries waste, and eke well edifyde,Seeking aduentures hard, to exerciseTheir puissance, whylome full dernely tryde:At length they came into a forrest wyde,Whose hideous horror and sad trembling soundFull griesly seem'd: therein they long did ryde,Yet tract of liuing creatures none they found,Saue Beares, Lions, & Buls, which romed them around.

Fame blazed hath, that here in Faery londDo many famous Knightes and Ladies wonne,And many straunge aduentures to be fond,Of which great worth and worship may be wonne.

There he this knight of her begot, whom borneShe of his father Marinell did name,And in a rocky caue as wight forlorne,Long time she fostred vp, till he becameA mightie man at armes, and mickle fameDid get through great aduentures by him donne:For neuer man he suffred by that sameRich strond to trauell, whereas he did wonne,But that he must do battell with the Sea-nymphes sonne.