The false _Duessa_, now _Fidessa_ hight, xliv Heard how in vaine _Fradubio_ did lament, And knew well all was true. But the good knight Full of sad feare and ghastly dreriment, When all this speech the liuing tree had spent, The bleeding bough did thrust into the ground, That from the bloud he might be innocent, And with fresh clay did close the wooden wound: Then turning to his Lady, dead with feare her found. Her seeming dead he found with feigned feare, xlv As all vnweeting of that well she knew, And paynd himselfe with busie care to reare Her out of carelesse swowne. Her eylids blew And dimmed sight with pale and deadly hew At last she vp gan lift: with trembling cheare Her vp he tooke, too simple and too trew, And oft her kist. At length all passed feare, He set her on her steede, and forward forth did beare. FOOTNOTES: [71] Arg. 3 _stead_] _steps_ _1590_: _corr. F. E._ [72] iii 4 lusty-hed. _1596_ [73] iv 9 honor _1590_ [74] v 5 enbracement _1590_ [75] vi 7 and] & _1596 passim_ [76] vii 9 and] & _1596 passim_ [77] viii 9 louest _1596_ [78] xi 3 anon: _1590_, _1596_ [79] 4 shield. _1590_, _1596_ [80] 6 heares _1590_ [81] xiv 4 off] of _1590 passim_ [82] xv 2 dispighteous _1609_ [83] xvi 4 terror _1590_ [84] 5 stands fencelesse _1590_: _corr. F. E._ [85] 8 idely, _1590_, _1596_: idlely _1609_ [86] xvii 5 cruelties _1590 &c._: _corr. F. E._ [87] 9 die _1609_ [88] xviii 1 quoth] qd. _1590 passim_ [89] rigor _1590_ [90] xix 4 strooke, _1609_ [91] 9 Whether _1590 passim_ [92] xxii 2 wreched _1590_ [93] 5 your] thy _1590_ [94] 6 I was? _1590_ [95] xxv 1 _Sarazin_, _1590_, _1596_ [96] xxvi 8 faire _1590_, _1596_ [97] xxvii 9 so, Dainty _1609_ [98] xxix 2 shade him] shade _1596_: shadow _1609_ [99] 3 ymounted] that mounted _1590 &c._: _corr. F. E._ [100] xxxi 6 this] his _1609_ [101] xxxii 9 tuefull _1590_: _corr. F. E._ [102] plants _1590_ [103] guitlesse _1596_ [104] xxxvi 5 batteill _1590 passim_ [105] xxxix 1 fye _1590_, _1596_ [106] xl 1 Then forth _1590_, _1596_: _corr. F. E._: Thenceforth _1609_ [107] xli 5 Then forth _1590_, _1596_: _corr. F. E._: Thenceforth _1609_ [108] xli 7 oportunitie _1596_ _Cant. III._ [Illustration: _Forsaken Truth long seekes her loue, And makes the Lyon mylde, Marres blind Deuotions mart, and fals In hand of leachour vylde._ ] Nought is there vnder heau’ns wide hollownesse, i That moues more deare compassion of mind, Then beautie brought t’vnworthy wretchednesse Through enuies snares or fortunes freakes vnkind: I, whether lately through her brightnesse[109] blind, Or through alleageance and fast fealtie, Which I do owe vnto all woman kind, Feele my heart perst with so great agonie, When such I see, that all for pittie I could die.