The morrow next, so soone as dawning houre xxxv Discouered had the light to liuing eye, She forth yssew’d out of her loathed bowre, With full intent t’auenge that villany, On that vilde[308] man, and all his family. And comming down to seeke them, where they wond, Nor sire, nor sonnes, nor any could she spie: Each rowme she sought, but them all empty fond: They all were fled for feare, but whether, nether[309] kond. She saw it vaine to make there lenger stay, xxxvi But tooke her steede, and thereon mounting light, Gan her addresse vnto her former way. She had not rid the mountenance of a flight, But that she saw there present in her sight, Those two false brethren, on that perillous Bridge, On which _Pollente_ with _Artegall_ did fight. Streight was the passage like a ploughed ridge, That if two met, the one mote needes fall ouer the lidge. There they did thinke them selues on her to wreake: xxxvii Who as she nigh vnto them drew, the one These vile reproches gan vnto her speake; Thou recreant false traytor, that with lone Of armes hast knighthood stolne, yet Knight art none, No more shall now the darkenesse of the night Defend thee from the vengeance of thy fone, But with thy bloud thou shalt appease the spright Of _Guizor_, by thee slaine, and murdred by thy slight. Strange were the words in _Britomartis_ eare; xxxviii Yet stayd she not for them, but forward fared, Till to the perillous Bridge she came, and there _Talus_ desir’d, that he might haue prepared The way to her, and those two losels scared. But she thereat was wroth, that for despight The glauncing sparkles through her beuer glared, And from her eies did flash out fiery light, Like coles, that through a siluer Censer sparkle bright. She stayd not to aduise which way to take; xxxix But putting spurres vnto her fiery beast, Thorough the midst of them she way did make. The one of them, which most her wrath increast, Vppon her speare she bore before her breast, Till to the Bridges further end she past, Where falling downe, his challenge he releast: The other ouer side the Bridge she cast Into the riuer, where he drunke his deadly last. As when the flashing Leuin haps to light xl Vppon two stubborne oakes, which stand so neare, That way betwixt them none appeares in sight; The Engin fiercely flying forth, doth teare Th’one from the earth, and through the aire doth beare; The other it with force doth ouerthrow, Vppon one side, and from his rootes doth reare. So did the Championesse those two there strow, And to their sire their carcasses left to bestow. FOOTNOTES: