sse Knight -- is a repeating
             theme of the old pagan religions. Put simply, Una is a goddess-figure who
             weaves through the text alongside other Christian themes (as well as other,
             more ambiguous, themes such as the "three sisters" who heal the Redcrosse
             Knight through resentence so he can continue on his quest to kill the
             By Stanza 46, the Knight has been badly wounded twice by the dragon
             and lay in the mire, scorched by the heat of the dragon's breath. "And
             downe he fell, with dread of shame sore terrifide" (l. 405). Next, however,
             he looks up to see this vision (which is described in the whole of Stanza
             There grew a goodly tree him faire beside,
             Loaden with fruit and apples rosie red,
             As they in pure vermilion had beene dide,
             Whereof great vertues ouer all were red:
             For happie life to all, which thereon fed,
             And life eke euerlasting did befall:
             Great God it planted in that blessed sted
             With his almightie hand, and did it call
             The tree of life, the crime of our first fathers fall.
             The first two lines of this stanza incorporate a combination of pagan
             and Christian references. The word "goodly" was closely related to the word
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