Stemming from mutability is the Faerie Queene herself, Queen Elizabeth. This epic was written for the Queen and it portrays King Arthur, before he was a King, as the image of a brave knight. In the first book, the knight, Red Crosse, slays a dragon that has imprisoned a Lady's mother and father in a tower.

Throughout the epic in Canto I and Canto II, nature becomes very significant. In Canto II, stanzas 28-30, the trees represent a cursed ground in which Shepherds never go near. Then the ancient knight, Red Crosse, enchanted by the Lady, beholds her naked in a stream bathing herself. He sees that she is not so beautiful and as a result she turned he into a tree. This is a profound example of how nature is defeating mankind. The trees represent many things in the epic. There are many phallic symbols that are a part of nature throughout the epic; for example, the trees and the stream.

A religious aspect to mutability is how nature represents a cycle of life which leads to understanding. The water, or the stream in which the Lady is bathing, represents life which also leads to , the beginning to the end story. The trees could represent the tree of knowledge itself from the bible. God is experienced through nature. But when we are born into mortality, we forget God. God is our home and Earth is our waiting place. We come from God and we will return to Him.