To the extent that Redcrosse, as earthy/Adamic George, represnts some basic
humanity I would tend to assume that he would have not just lustful memories
but an inherent tendency to lust that need not be created, only encouraged, by
sleep and turned into a sort of wet dream (his horse, obviously descended from
the horse Desiderium that fathered so many other horses of desire--a couple of
them named Will--is after all hard for him to control). Jim, you do humors.
What would your experts say such dreams come from? Shouldn't he be eating
lettuce and avoiding spicy foods? I have to think what Archimago had been
feeding him before bedtime. By the way, Jim--what is your best address? Anne
Prescott
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>Does Redcrosse's dream of "loues and lustfull play" (I.i.47.4) come from
>Morpheus supplied with those images or does Morpheus provide only a generic
>"fit false dreame" (i.43.9), i.e., not a true, prophetic dream? Does
>Archimago supply the images in toto or by schooling either the dream or the
>spright (46.5)--I can't tell which--how to change innocent images already in
>Redcrosse's memory into the lustful? Do those images, as lustful, come from
>Redcrosse's memory?
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>Jim Broaddus
anne prescott
english, barnard college
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