[260] Edition 1575 has only seven lines in this stanza: it concludes thus For though ye colour all, with coate of right: Yet can no fained farde deceiue his sight. THE AUTHOUR. With that this king was vanisht quite and gone, And as a miste dissolued into ayre: And I was left with Morpheus all alone, Who represented straight a Lady faire, Of frendes depriude and left in deepe dispaire: As eke she spake, all wet in cordes fast bounde, Thus tolde she how she was in waters drounde. [261] Woman. ed. 1575. [262] The first saue three amongst vs all. ib. [263] “Eastrildis so farre excelled in bewtie, that none was then lightly found vnto her comparable, for her skin was so whyte that scarcely the fynest kind of Iuorie that might be found, nor the snowe lately fallen downe from the Elament, or the Lylles did passe the same.” _Grafton._ [264] Was. 1575. [265] Or. ed. 1575. [266] For. ib. [267] Night. N. [268] T’whom. N. [269] Manhode. ed. 1575. [270] Or let me on thy Queene be wayting mayde. ib. [271] Thou. ed. 1575. You. N. [272] Omitted stanza from ed. 1575. As for my Queene as yet I none possesse, Therefore thou rather maiste voutchsafe to take That place thy selfe, then waite on her I gesse, Whose beautie with thy face no match can make: The Gods denye that I thy heste forsake; I saue thy life, eke God forbid that I Should euer cause so fayre a Ladie die. [273] In. ed. 1575. [274] Mine armes and giue me libertie at will. N. [275] With whom such fauour I did after find. N. [276] Have. ib. [277] Sayd. ib. [278] Constraineth one mine Elstride to imbrace. N. [279] So, in both. [280] Yet faithlesse in his promise he did proue. N. [281] _i. e._ sorrow. [282] Attainde. ed. 1575. [283] Not be Locrinus wife. ed. 1575. [284] Radge. ib. [285] Parents. ib. [286] Woman. ib. [287] Ladye fayre. ib. [288] This. ed. 1575. [289] Tygres. ib. [290] Day. N. [291] What strumpet, think’st, for that thou seemest braue. N. [292] Seeme. N. [293] Ne stoode she still but with hir handes on syde Walkte vp and down, and oft hir palmes she stroke; “My husband now (quoth she) had not thus dyde, “If such an harlot whore he had not tooke:” And there withall she gaue me such a looke As made me quake. ed. 1575. [294] Thee. ib. [295] Take. ib. [296] Wyse. ed. 1575. [297] Then Elstride now prepare thy selfe therfore. ed. 1575. [298] And friends. N. [299] The. 1575. [300] Striving, ed. 1575. [301] A Prince’s wife. N. [302] Myne. ed. 1675. [303] Then warne all Ladies that howe much more hie Then their degrees they clime, mo daungers nye. ed. 1575. [304] Flattery refuse. N. [305] Turning, ed. 1575. [306] Then bid beware. ib. [307] THE AUTHOURE.