Chapter 12 GIANT DESPAIR'S CASTLE.

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'Who haplesse and eke hopelesse all in vaine,

Did to him pace sad battle to darrayne;

Disarmd, disgraste, and inwardly dismayde,

And eke so faint in every ioynt and vayne,

Through that fraile fountaine which him feeble made.'

Spenser.

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Felix's majority made no immediate difference. His thirteenth part of his fathe