When thou hast all this doen, then bring me newes li Of his demeane: thenceforth not like a louer, But like a rebell stout I will him vse. For I resolue this siege not to giue ouer, Till I the conquest of my will recouer. So she departed, full of griefe and sdaine, Which inly did to great impatience moue her. But the false mayden shortly turn’d againe Vnto the prison, where her hart did thrall remaine. There all her subtill nets she did vnfold, lii And all the engins of her wit display; In which she meant him warelesse to enfold, And of his innocence to make her pray. So cunningly she wrought her crafts assay, That both her Ladie, and her selfe withall, And eke the knight attonce she did betray: But most the knight, whom she with guilefull call Did cast for to allure, into her trap to fall. As a bad Nurse, which fayning to receiue liii In her owne mouth the food, ment for her chyld, Withholdes it to her selfe, and doeth deceiue The infant, so for want of nourture spoyld: Euen so _Clarinda_ her owne Dame beguyld, And turn’d the trust, which was in her affyde, To feeding of her priuate fire, which boyld Her inward brest, and in her entrayles fryde, The more that she it sought to couer and to hyde. For comming to this knight, she purpose fayned, liv How earnest suit she earst for him had made Vnto her Queene, his freedome to haue gayned; But by no meanes could her thereto perswade: But that in stead thereof, she sternely bade His miserie to be augmented more, And many yron bands on him to lade. All which nathlesse she for his loue forbore: So praying him t’accept her seruice euermore. And more then that, she promist that she would, lv In case she might finde fauour in his eye, Deuize how to enlarge him out of hould. The Fayrie glad to gaine his libertie, Can yeeld great thankes for such her curtesie, And with faire words, fit for the time and place, To feede the humour of her maladie,[297] Promist, if she would free him from that case, He wold by all good means he might, deserue such grace. So daily he faire semblant did her shew, lvi Yet neuer meant he in his noble mind, To his owne absent loue to be vntrew: Ne euer did deceiptfull _Clarin_ find In her false hart, his bondage to vnbind; But rather how she mote him faster tye. Therefore vnto her mistresse most vnkind She daily told, her loue he did defye, And him she told, her Dame his freedome did denye.