VII.

There the alighted from her light-foot beast,
And fitting downe upon the rocky fhore,
Badd her old fquyre unlace her lofty creaft;
Tho having vewd awhile the furges hore,
That gainst the craggy clifts did loudly rore,
And in their raging furquedry difdaynd
That the faft earth affronted them so fore,
And their devouring covetize reftraynd,
Thereat the fighed deepe, and after thus com-
playnd.

VIII.

"Huge fea of forrow, and tempestuous griefe, "Wherein my feeble barke is toffed long, "Far from the hoped haven of reliefe, "Why doe thy cruel billowes beat so strong, "And thy moyft mountaines each on others " throng,

"Threatning to swallow up my fearefull lyfe? "O doe thy cruell wrath and fpightfull wrong "At length allay, and ftint thy ftormy ftryfe, "Which in thy troubled bowels raignes and rageth ryfe;

IX.

"For els my feeble veffel, craz'd and crackt "Through thy ftrong buffets and outrageous "blowes,

"Cannot endure, but needes it must be wrackt "On the rough rocks, or on the fandy fhallowes, "The whiles that Love it fteres, and Fortune 46 rowes;

"Love (my lewd pilott) hath a reftlesse mind, " And Fortune (boteswaine) no assuraunce knowes, "But faile. withouten ftarres gainft tyde and "winde :

"How can they other doe, sith both are bold and "blinde?

Her former forrow into fudden wrath
(Both ceofen paffions of diftroubled spright)
Converting, forth fhe beates the dusty path;
Love and defpight attonce her corage kindled hath,

XIII.

As when a foggy mist hath overcast

The face of heven, and the cleare ayre engroste,
The world in darknes dwels, till that at last
The watry fouth-winde from the fea-bord cofte
Upblowing doth disperse the vapour loste,
And poures itselfe forth in a stormy showre;
So the fayre Britomart, having discloste
Her clowdy care into a wrathfull ftowre,
The mist of griefe diffolv'd did into vengeance

powre.

XIV.

Eftfoones her goodly fhield addreffing fayre, That mortall fpeare fhe in her hand did take, And unto battaill did herfelfe prepayre. The knight approaching fternely her befpake; "Sir Knight, that doest that voyage rafhly make "By this forbidden way in my defpight, "Ne doeft by others death enfample take, "I read thee foone retyre, whiles thou haft might, "Leaft afterwards it be too late to take thy "flight."

XV.

Ythrild with deepe difdaine of his proud threat, She fhortly thus; "Fly they that need to fly; "Wordes fearen babes; I meane not thee entreat "To passe; but maugre thee will pafs or dy." Ne lenger ftay'd for th' other to reply, But with fharpe fpeare the rest made dearly knowne :

Strongly the ftraunge knight ran, and sturdily Strooke her full on the breft, that made her downe Decline her head, and touch her crouper with her

crown.

XVI.

But the againe him in the fhield did fmite
With fo fierce furie and great puissaunce,
That through his three-fquare fcuchin percing
quite,

And through his mayled hauberque, by mischaunce
The wicked steele through his left fide did glaunce;
Him fo transfixed fhe before her bore
Beyond his croupe, the length of all her launce,
Till fadly foucing on the fandy shore
He tombled on an heape, and wallowd in his
gore.

XVII.

Like as the facred oxe, that careleffe ftands
With gilden hornes and flowry girlonds crownd,
Proud of his dying honor and deare bandes,
Whiles th' altars fume with frankincense arownd,
All fuddeinly with mortall stroke aftownd,
Doth groveling fall, and with his streaming gore
Diftaines the pillours and the holy grownd,
And the faire flowres that decked him afore:
So fell proud Marinell upon the pretious shore.

XVIII.

The martiall mayd ftayd not him to lament, But forward rode, and kept her ready way Along the ftrond; which, as the over-went