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Una is a fair maiden who loves and eventually marries the Redcross Knight. Her parents are king and queen of a kingdom located where the Biblical Garden of Eden was located, and their castle has been taken over by an evil dragon. Although Archimago tricks the Redcross Knight into believing Una was sleeping with someone else, one of Una’s defining qualities is that she is always faithful to the Redcross Knight and always trusts in him, even when she is kidnapped or in trouble. She embodies the role of a virtuous woman in the poem.
Una Quotes in The Faerie Queene
The The Faerie Queene quotes below are all either spoken by Una or refer to Una. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Book I: Canto IV Quotes
Young knight, what ever that does armes professe,
And through long labours huntest after fame,
Beware of fraud, beware of ficklenesse,
In choice, and change of thy deare loved Dame
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Book I: Canto IX Quotes
Come, come away, fraile, feeble, fleshly wight,
Ne let vaine words bewitch thy manly hart,
Ne divelish thoughts dismay thy constant spright.
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Book I: Canto XII Quotes
Now strike your sailes ye jolly Mariners,
For we come unto a quiet rode,
Where we must land some of our passengers,
And light this wearie vessel of her lode.
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Una Quotes in The Faerie Queene
The The Faerie Queene quotes below are all either spoken by Una or refer to Una. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Book I: Canto IV Quotes
Young knight, what ever that does armes professe,
And through long labours huntest after fame,
Beware of fraud, beware of ficklenesse,
In choice, and change of thy deare loved Dame
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Book I: Canto IX Quotes
Come, come away, fraile, feeble, fleshly wight,
Ne let vaine words bewitch thy manly hart,
Ne divelish thoughts dismay thy constant spright.
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Book I: Canto XII Quotes
Now strike your sailes ye jolly Mariners,
For we come unto a quiet rode,
Where we must land some of our passengers,
And light this wearie vessel of her lode.
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