Which she perceiuing, did with plenteous teares xii His care more then her owne compassionate, Forgetfull of her owne, to minde his feares: So both conspiring, gan to intimate Each others griefe with zeale affectionate, And twixt them twaine with equall care to cast, How to saue whole her hazarded estate; For which the onely helpe now left them last Seem’d to be _Calidore_: all other helpes were past. Him they did deeme, as sure to them he seemed, xiii A courteous Knight, and full of faithfull trust: Therefore to him their cause they best esteemed Whole to commit, and to his dealing iust. Earely, so soone as _Titans_ beames forth brust Through the thicke clouds, in which they steeped lay All night in darkenesse, duld with yron rust,[439] _Calidore_ rising vp as fresh as day, Gan freshly him addresse vnto his former way. But first him seemed fit, that wounded Knight xiv To visite, after this nights perillous passe, And to salute him, if he were in plight, And eke that Lady his faire louely lasse. There he him found much better then he was, And moued speach to him of things of course, The anguish of his paine to ouerpasse: Mongst which he namely did to him discourse, Of former daies mishap, his sorrowes wicked sourse. Of which occasion _Aldine_ taking hold, xv Gan breake to him the fortunes of his loue, And all his disaduentures to vnfold; That _Calidore_ it dearly deepe did moue. In th’end his kyndly courtesie to proue, He him by all the bands of loue besought, And as it mote a faithfull friend behoue, To safeconduct his loue, and not for ought To leaue, till to her fathers house he had her brought. Sir _Calidore_ his faith thereto did plight, xvi It to performe: so after little stay, That she her selfe had to the iourney dight, He passed forth with her in faire array, Fearelesse, who ought did thinke, or ought did say, Sith his own thought he knew most cleare from wite. So as they past together on their way, He can deuize this counter-cast of slight, To giue faire colour to that Ladies cause in sight. Streight to the carkasse of that Knight he went, xvii The cause of all this euill, who was slaine The day before by iust auengement Of noble _Tristram_, where it did remaine: There he the necke thereof did cut in twaine, And tooke with him the head, the signe of shame. So forth he passed thorough that daies paine, Till to that Ladies fathers house he came, Most pensiue man, through feare, what of his childe became.