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Britomart is a figure in Sir Edmund Spenser's courtly epic The Faerie Queene, representing chastity with her resistless spear. Edmund Spenser Edmund Spenser (c. ... Una and the Lion by Briton Rivière The Faerie Queene is a poem by Edmund Spenser, first published in 1590 (the first half) with the more or less complete version being published in 1596. ... Sexual abstinence or chastity is the practice of voluntarily refraining from sexual intercourse and (usually) other sexual activity. ... A spear is an ancient weapon, used for hunting and war. ...


See Britomartis. In Greek mythology, Britomartis (sweet maid, good maiden, sweet virgin) was a nymph (an Oread) also known as Aphaea and Diktynna. ...


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Book III, cantos I and ii (3318 words)
Britomart presents herself before the lady of the cast, Malecasta, who does not realize that the knight is a woman--for Britomart refuses to take off her armor.
Britomart, in fact, is a talented fighter; she is greater than all the female warriors that have been praised in history.
Britomart flies upon him and strikes him down, but she cannot kill him, for Amoret is held to the pillar through his magic.
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