How we cite our quotes: Book, canto, stanza
Quote #4
I Pilate am the falsest Iudge, alas,/ And most vniust, that by vnrighteous/ And wicked doome… Delivered vp the Lord of life to die. (II.vii.62)
Guyon meets the ghost of Pontius Pilate in the underworld with Mammon, and comes face to face with a central symbol of an absence of justice in the Christian tradition.
Quote #5
But ah, who can deceiue his destiny,/ Or weene by warning to auoyd his fate? (III.iv.27)
Even though Marinell's mother goes out her way to learn the fate of her child, she still has to make a judgment call and interpret that prophesy. Hint: she doesn't do a great job.
Quote #6
And said, Sir Knight, sith ye this Lady [False Florimell] clame,/ Whom he that hath, were loth to lose so light… Yee shall her winne, as I haue done in fight:… That who so winnes her, may her haue by right. (IV.iv.9)
Arguing over possession of the False Florimell, Blandamour proposes a fight as the best form of conflict resolution—not the last time we'll see knights turn to this practice as form of judgment.