At the tournament’s end, we reflected on its organization. There is team Maidenhead and a team without a name, which raised questions about opposition. What is the opposite of maidenhead in this poem? We had asked a similar question about friendship. Thinking about teams brought into focus other kinds of social organization such as nations (no Irish knights) and civilizations (“salvagesse sans finesse” [39]). Artegall arrives cloaked in woodwork and not only introduces nature into this ritual of organization but also invokes the category of the stranger who comes to this tournament from a prior Book or is on the way to a future one. He meets his match in another stranger knight, Britomart, whose victory is described in an epic simile of a sudden shower on a hot day (47). Traditionally, the shower is coded as male. The simile provides narrative relief as the days of confusing combat end in clarity and refreshment. That left us wondering whether the heat refers to Artegall or the tournament as a whole. Next, “The Ladies for the girdle strive” (v.A). In canto v, we learn how the girdle was made (3, 4), a part elided in its initial description (iv.15). Venus’s loss of the girdle is apparently a moral failure, but then what are we to make of Florimell who lost the girdle in chase? We also learn of Florimell’s provenance—classical, “as they say” (5)—and remain aware that she has been reproduced more recently as false Florimell. How old is Florimell? Who is Florimell? [JY]