Abstract
According to Spenser's letter to Sir walter Raleigh, Arthur's vision of Gloriana's "excellent beauty rausihed" the young prince; it is what first inspires him "to seeke her forth in Faerye land. [...]this scene is important on account of the connection it makes between the activity of the unarmed Cupid and the narrative trajectory of Spenser's poem. when venus transports Amoret to the goddess's bower in the middle of the Garden, she entrusts Amoret to Psyche, who is instructed to "foster" and "train" Amoret in "trew feminitee": Who no lesse carefully her tendered, Than her owne daughter Pleasure, to whom shee Made her companion, and her lessoned In all the lore of loue, and goodly womanhead.