The Goodly Frame of Temperance: The Metaphor of Cosmos in The Faerie Queene, Book II

Abstract

For Spenser temperance has various images: it is a golden rule or square, it is a bridle, it is water tempering wine. It is also a structure or frame—the frame at once of the individual man, the commonwealth, and the universe itself; and this is as we should expect from an age in which La Primaudaye can introduce temperance by praising God's cosmic workmanship:

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