Belphoebe is also another representation of the Church; in describing her he rises to great splendor of language: ...

her birth was of the morning dew, And her conception of the glorious prime.
We recur, as we read, to the grandeur of the Psalmist's words, as he speaks of the coming of her Lord: "In the day of thy power shall the people offer thee free-will offerings with a holy worship; the dew of thy birth is of the womb of the morning." ELIZABETH .-- In the fifth book a great number of the statistics of contemporary history are found.

A cruel sultan, urged on by an abandoned sultana, is Philip with the Spanish Church.

Mercilla, a queen pursued by the sultan and his wife, is another name for Elizabeth, for he tells us she was ...

a maiden queen of high renown; For her great bounty knowen over all.
Artegal, assuming the armor of a pagan knight, represents justice in the person of Solyman the Magnificent, making war against Philip of Spain.