[25] xiii 2 day by day, _1596_ [26] xvii 1 amaze; _1596 &c._ [27] 2 dreme, _1596 &c._ [28] xviii 7 breathe _1609_ [29] xxi 7 known _1609_ [30] xxii 2 _Florimell_, _1596_ [31] 4 tell, _1596_ [32] 7 avising _1609_ [33] xxiii 6 late, _1596_ [34] 8 state, _1596_ [35] xxv 1 count’nance _1609_ [36] xxvii 5 Sith _1609_ [37] xxx 1 disguise, _1596_ [38] xxxii 3 draddest _1609_ [39] xxxviii 7 chuse _1609_ [40] xliv 4 creature: _1596_ [41] xlv 3 sight; _1596_ [42] xlvi 9 throgh _1609_ [43] xlix 8 woorthy _1609_ [44] li 5 fond _1596_ [45] lii 1 since] sith _1609_ _Cant. III._ [Illustration: _The battell twixt three brethren with Cambell for Canacee:[46] Cambina with true friendships bond doth their long strife agree._ ] O Why doe wretched men so much desire, i To draw their dayes vnto the vtmost date, And doe not rather wish them soone expire, Knowing the miserie of their estate, And thousand perills which them still awate, Tossing them like a boate amid the mayne, That euery houre they knocke at deathes gate? And he that happie seemes and least in payne, Yet is as nigh his end, as he that most doth playne. Therefore this Fay I hold but fond and vaine, ii The which in seeking for her children three Long life, thereby did more prolong their paine. Yet whilest they liued none did euer see More happie creatures, then they seem’d to bee, Nor more ennobled for their courtesie, That made them dearely lou’d of each degree; Ne more renowmed for their cheualrie, That made them dreaded much of all men farre and nie. These three that hardie chalenge tooke in hand, iii For _Canacee_ with _Cambell_ for to fight: The day was set, that all might vnderstand, And pledges pawnd the same to keepe a right, That day, the dreddest day that liuing wight Did euer see vpon this world to shine, So soone as heauens window shewed light, These warlike Champions all in armour shine, Assembled were in field, the chalenge to define. The field with listes was all about enclos’d, iv To barre the prease of people farre away; And at th’one side sixe iudges were dispos’d, To view and deeme the deedes of armes that day; And on the other side in fresh aray, Fayre _Canacee_ vpon a stately stage Was set, to see the fortune of that fray, And to be seene, as his most worthie wage, That could her purchase with his liues aduentur’d gage.