And yet (quoth she) a greater wrong remaines: xxxviii For I thereby my former loue haue lost, Whom seeking euer since with endlesse paines, Hath me much sorrow and much trauell cost; Aye me to see that gentle maide so tost. But _Scudamour_ then sighing deepe, thus saide, Certes her losse ought me to sorrow most, Whose right she is, where euer she be straide, Through many perils wonne, and many fortunes waide. For from the first that I her loue profest, xxxix Vnto this houre, this present lucklesse howre, I neuer ioyed happinesse nor rest, But thus turmoild from one to other stowre, I wast my life, and doe my daies deuowre In wretched anguishe and incessant woe, Passing the measure of my feeble powre, That living thus, a wretch and[167] louing so, I neither can my loue, ne yet my life forgo. Then good sir _Claribell_ him thus bespake, xl Now were it not sir _Scudamour_ to you[168] Dislikefull paine, so sad a taske to take, Mote we entreat you, sith this gentle crew Is now so well accorded all anew; That as we ride together on our way, Ye will recount to vs in order dew All that aduenture, which ye did assay For that faire Ladies loue: past perils well apay. So gan the rest him likewise to require, xli But _Britomart_ did him importune hard, To take on him that paine: whose great desire He glad to satisfie, him selfe prepar’d To tell through what misfortune he had far’d, In that atchieuement, as to him befell. And all those daungers vnto them declar’d, Which sith they cannot in this Canto well Comprised be, I will them in another tell. FOOTNOTES: [150] lxiii 5 and _1596_ [151] Arg. 2 _Pœana_] _Æmylia conj. Church rightly_ [152] 3 _Knights_ _1596_ [153] i 8 vertuous] vertues _1596_ [154] 9 hart, _1596_, _1609_ [155] iii 3 these] this _1609_ [156] 7 Trustie squire _1596_ [157] xi 9 him] them _conj. Church_ [158] xiii 2 _Pæana_ _1596 &c._ [159] xvii 5 guest _1596_, _1609_ [160] xviii 8 represse. _1596_ [161] xxiv 4 straid _1596_, _1609_ [162] xxvi 1 There] Their _1596_: Then _conj. Church_ [163] xxx 7 th’other _1609_ [164] 8 repayred _1596_ [165] xxxvi 4 publique _1609_ [166] xxxvii 2 Knights _conj. Upton_ [167] xxxix 8 wretch I and _1596_ [168] xl 2 you, _1596_ _Cant. X._ [Illustration: _Scudamour doth his conquest[169] tell, Of vertuous Amoret: Great Venus Temple is describ’d, And louers life forth set._ ]