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A sage named Typographus refits a giant, trains him in learned books and goodly themes, causing him to forsake his brutishness, and then blinds Artegall and dims Talus's eyes.
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A sage named Typographus refits a giant, trains him in learned books and goodly themes, causing him to forsake his brutishness, and then blinds Artegall and dims Talus's eyes.
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- Setup
- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
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“In after-time, a sage of mickle lore Yclep’d Typographus, the Giant took, And did refit his limbs as heretofore, And made him read in many a learned book, And into many a lively legend look;”
Later, a wise scholar named Typographus took the giant, restored his limbs, and taught him by reading many books and lively stories.
Describes the transformation of the giant through education.
“Thereby in goodly themes so training him, That all his brutishness he quite forsook, When, meeting Artegall and Talus grim, The one he struck stone-blind, the other’s eyes wox dim.”
Through this training in noble subjects, the giant abandoned his savage nature, and when he encountered Artegall and grim Talus, he blinded one and dimmed the other's vision.
Depicts the giant's new learned nature and his violent encounter with the two figures.
