1. Antonyms for Boastfulness include modesty, humility, self-forgetfulness, unselfishness, self-abandonment, selflessness, meekness, timidity, shyness and humbleness

2. living isn't a right. It's a duty. then self-abandonment is their only way to know true freedom.

3. By contrast, Acrasia, the seductive witch of the Bower, "offers not simply sexual plea-sure--'long wanton joys'--but self-abandonment, erotic aestheticism, the melting of the will, the end of all quests; and Spenser understands, at the deepest level of his being, the appeal of such an end." Greenblatt cannot conceive--or at least will not