English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700; Knights and knighthood -- Poetry; Virtues -- Poetry
At last whenas himselfe he gan to find, lxviii
To _Vna_ back he cast him to retire;
Who him awaited still with pensiue mind.
Great thankes and goodly meed to that good syre,
He thence departing gaue for his paines hyre.
So came to _Vna_, who him ioyd to see,
And after litle rest, gan him desire,
Of her aduenture mindfull for to bee.
So leaue they take of _Cœlia_, and her daughters three.
FOOTNOTES:
[325] ii 4 imprisonment _1609_
[326] vii 8 simple, trew _Morris_
[327] x 4 chuse _1609_
[328] xi 5 Dame, _1590 &c._
[329] xv 4 well] for _1590_
[330] 9 gan] can _1609_
[331] xvi 8 her] be _1590 &c._: _corr. F. E._
[332] xx 5 _om. omitted?] 1590, 1596_: _add. 1609_
[333] xxi 8 desirde, _1590_, _1596_
[334] xxiv 3 spright, _1590 &c._
[335] 4 relief, _1590_: reliefe, _1596_
[336] xxv 9 streight] streict _1609_
[337] xxvii 5 embay, _1590 &c._
[338] 6 His blamefull body in salt water sore, _1590_
[339] xxxi 6 faire. _1596_
[340] xxxiv 8 worlds _1609_
[341] xxxvi 6 Their _1609_: There _1590_, _1596_
[342] 9 in-commers by _1590_, _1596_
[343] xxxviii 1 as] an _1609_
[344] xxxix 4 clothez _1609_
[345] 8 clothes _1590_, _1609_
[346] l she] he _1596_
[347] lii 1 since] sith _1609_
[348] 6 Brings] Bring _1590_, _1596_
[349] lvii 5 pretious] piteous _1590 &c._: _corr. F. E._
[350] lviii 3 dwell _1590 &c._
[351] lix 2 frame] fame _1590 &c._: _corr. F. E._
[352] lx 2 accounted _1609_
[353] lxi 3 to thy _1596_
[354] lxii 4 As wretched men, and liued in like paine. _1590_
[355] 8 and bitter battailes all are fought? _1590_
[356] 9 they are vaine, _1590_
[357] lxiii 1 then turne] returne _1609_
[358] lxiv 7 doen then nominate? _1596_
[359] lxv 3 place] face _1590_
[360] 4 _Britans_ _1590_
_Cant. XI._
[Illustration:
_The knight with that old Dragon fights
two dayes incessantly:
The third him ouerthrowes, and gayns
most glorious victory._
]
High time now gan it wex for _Vna_ faire[361], i
To thinke of those her captiue Parents deare,
And their forwasted kingdome to repaire:
Whereto whenas they now approched neare,
With hartie words her knight she gan to cheare,
And in her modest manner thus bespake;
Deare knight, as deare, as euer knight was deare,
That all these sorrowes suffer for my sake,
High heauen behold the tedious toyle, ye for me take.
Now are we come vnto my natiue soyle, ii
And to the place, where all our perils dwell;
Here haunts that feend, and does his dayly spoyle,
Therefore henceforth be at[362] your keeping well,
And euer ready for your foeman fell.
The sparke of noble courage now awake,
And striue your excellent selfe to excell;
That shall ye euermore renowmed make,
Aboue all knights on earth, that batteill vndertake.
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