By this the other came in place likewise, xlviii And couching close his speare and all his powre, As bent to some malicious enterprise, He bad him stand, t’abide the bitter stoure Of his sore vengeaunce, or to make auoure Of the lewd words and deedes, which he had done: With that ran at him, as he would deuoure His life attonce; who nought could do, but shun The perill of his pride, or else be ouerrun. Yet he him still pursew’d from place to place, xlix With full intent him cruelly to kill, And like a wilde goate round about did chace, Flying the fury of his bloudy will. But his best succour and refuge was still Behinde his Ladies backe, who to him cryde, And called oft with prayers loud and shrill, As euer he to Lady was affyde, To spare her Knight, and rest with reason pacifyde. But he the more thereby enraged was, l And with more eager felnesse him pursew’d, So that at length, after long weary chace, Hauing by chaunce a close aduantage vew’d, He ouer raught him, hauing long eschew’d His violence in vaine, and with his spere Strooke through his shoulder, that the blood ensew’d In great aboundance, as a well it were, That forth out of an hill fresh gushing did appere. Yet ceast he not for all that cruell wound, li But chaste him still, for all his Ladies cry, Not satisfyde till on the fatall ground He saw his life powrd forth dispiteously: The which was certes in great ieopardy, Had not a wondrous chaunce his reskue wrought, And saued from his cruell villany. Such chaunces oft exceed all humaine thought: That in another Canto shall to end be brought. FOOTNOTES: [436] iv 5 doolefull _1609_ [437] x 2 Would not to _1609_ [438] xi 5 sigh’t _1609_ [439] xiii 7 rust. _1596_ [440] xxi 8 default] assault _conj. Collier_ [441] xxiii 2 _Serena_] _Crispina_ _1596 Bodl._ [442] 5 delight; _1596_, _1609_ [443] xxiv 4 bare. _1596_, _1609_ [444] 5 in vaine _om. 1612-13_ [445] 8 starting, vp _1596_ [446] xxviii 6 softing foot _1596_, _1609_: _corr. 1679_ [447] xxx 9 through _1596_ [448] ride _1596_ [449] xxxii 6 displeased. _1596_ [450] xxxiii 6 Knight _1596_ [451] xxxv 3 Which] That _1596 Bodl._ [452] xxxvi 3 pryde, _1596_ [453] xxxvii 9 for her did _1596 Bodl._ [454] xli 7 with all _1596_ [455] xlii 4 approue] reproue _1596_ [456] 7 reproue] approue _1596_ _Cant. IIII._ [Illustration: _Calepine by a saluage man from Turpine reskewed is, And whylest an Infant from a Beare he saues, his love doth misse._ ]