English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700; Knights and knighthood -- Poetry; Virtues -- Poetry
[439] iii 2 food] feude _1609_
[440] 5 bend _1590_, _1596_
[441] 9 be] he _1609_
[442] iv 1 lay. _1590_, _1596_
[443] 5 avantage _1609_
[444] 6, 7 _transposed in 1596, 1606_
[445] 6, 7 _transposed in 1596, 1606_
[446] viii 5 with a faire _1596_
[447] 7 spoile. _1596_
[448] ix 7 languorous _1590_
[449] x 5 corps _1590_
[450] xi 6 sword, _1590 &c._
[451] xiv 7 despight; _1596_, _1609_
[452] xvi 1 liefe] life _1590_
[453] xvii 3 desyre, _1590_: desire, _1596_
[454] xviii 2 plight. _1590_, _1596_
[455] 6 did he] he did _1590_
[456] xx 2 quite] quit _1590_
[457] 7 blotting _1590_
[458] xxvi 9 betidde] betide _1590_
[459] xxix 1 attone] at one _1590_
[460] xxxi 2 handling] handing _1596_
[461] 4 on] one _1590_
[462] 7 fayre _1590_: faire _1596_
[463] xxxii 7 Must] Most _1590_
[464] xxxiii 8 thrise] these _1590 &c._: _corr. F. E._
[465] xxxiv 6 steedy _1590_: steadie _1609_
[466] xxxvi 4 liues] lifes _1609_
[467] xxxviii 7 launced _1609_
[468] xxxix 4 dolour] labour _1596_, _1609_
[469] xl 4 gore] gold _1596_, _1609_
[470] 5 louely] little _1609_
[471] xli 5 ded, _1590_, _1596_
[472] xlii 4 attone, _1596_
[473] 8 constraine, _1590_, _1596_
[474] 9 stout courage] courage stout _1609_
[475] xliv 6 reuenging] auenging _1590_
[476] xlv 8 despight. _1590_: despight, _1596_, _1609_
[477] xlvii 1 low, _1596_
[478] 2 sigh’t _1609_
[479] xlix 9 Mortdant _1590_, _1596_
[480] l 3 brow, _1590_, _1596_
[481] li 6 is, _1590_, _1596_
[482] lii 5 liefest _1590_
[483] lv 6 _lincke_, _1590_, _1596_
[484] lvi 2 off] of, _1590_: off, _1596_
[485] 9 plonged _1590_
[486] lvii 1 his] the _1609_
[487] lviii 3 whot] hot _1609 passim_
[488] 4 fry] fryze _sugg. Church_
[489] lix 1 equall] euill _1596_, _1609_
_Cant. II._
[Illustration:
_Babes bloudie hands may not be clensd:[490]
the face of golden Meane.
Her sisters two Extremities[491]
striue her to banish cleane._
]
Thus when Sir _Guyon_ with his faithfull guide i
Had with due rites and dolorous lament
The end of their sad Tragedie vptyde,
The litle babe vp in his armes he hent;
Who with sweet pleasance and bold blandishment
Gan smyle on them, that rather ought to weepe,
As carelesse of his woe, or innocent
Of that was doen, that ruth emperced deepe
In that knights heart, and wordes with bitter teares did steepe.
Ah lucklesse babe, borne vnder cruell starre, ii
And in dead parents balefull ashes bred,
Full litle weenest thou, what sorrowes are
Left thee for portion of thy liuelihed,
Poore Orphane in the wide world scattered,
As budding braunch rent from the natiue tree,
And throwen forth, till it be withered:
Such is the state of men: thus enter wee
Into this life with woe, and end with miseree.
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