2 Perceived my thought; and, drowned in sleepy night, 3 With wicked herbs and ointments did besmear 4 My body all, through charms and magic might, 5 That all my senses were bereaved quite: That > [So that] bereaved > taken away 6 Then brought she me into this desert waste, desert > lonely 7 And by my wretched lover's side me pight, pight > pitched, placed; planted 8 Where now, enclosed in wooden walls full fast, full fast > entirely secure 9 Banished from living wights, our weary days we waste." wights > people 102.43 But how long time, said then the Elfin knight, 2 Are you in this misformed house to dwell? We may not chaunge (quoth he) this euil plight, 4 Till we be bathed in a liuing well; That is the terme prescribed by the spell. 6 O how, said he, mote I that well out find, That may restore you to your wonted well? 8 Time and suffised fates to former kynd Shall vs restore, none else from hence may vs vnbynd. 1 "But how long time," said then the Elfin knight, time > [a time] 2 "Are you in this misformed house to dwell?" misformed > evilly made 3 "We may not change," quoth he, "this evil plight, may not > cannot 4 Till we be bathed in a living well; living well > (The well of everlasting life (_John_ 4.14, _Rev._ 21.6); the grace of God) 5 That is the term prescribed by the spell." 6 "O how," said he, "might I that well out find, out find > discover 7 That may restore you to your wonted well?" wonted > accustomed well > well-being 8 "Time and sufficed fates to former kind sufficed > satisfied former kind > [our former state; kind = nature, race, station in life] 9 Shall us restore; none else from hence may us unbind." none > no one; nothing 102.44 The false _Duessa_, now _Fidessa_ hight, 2 Heard how in vaine _Fradubio_ did lament, And knew well all was true. But the good knight 4 Full of sad feare and ghastly dreriment, When all this speech the liuing tree had spent, 6 The bleeding bough did thrust into the ground, That from the bloud he might be innocent, 8 And with fresh clay did close the wooden wound: Then turning to his Lady, dead with feare her found. 1 The false Duessa, now Fidessa hight, hight > called, named 2 Heard how in vain Fradubio did lament, 3 And knew well all was true. But the good knight, 4 Full of sad fear and ghastly dreariment, ghastly > frightful (from the same root as "ghost") dreariment > horror 5 When all this speech the living tree had spent, 6 The bleeding bough did thrust into the ground, 7 That from the blood he might be innocent, That > [So that] 8 And with fresh clay did close the wooden wound: 9 Then, turning to his lady, dead with fear her found. 102.45