"For nothing is more blamefull to a knight, "That court'fie doth as well as armes profeffe, "However ftrong and fortunate in fight, "Then the reproch of pride and cruelnesse : "In vaine he feeketh others to fuppreffe, XLIV. All which accepting, and with faithfull oth All this accord to which he Crudor had compeld, XLV. Whereof the now more glad then fory earst, Who hath not learnd himfelfe first to fub- All overcome with infinite affe& "dew: All flesh is frayle, and full of fickleneffe, "Subiect to Fortune's chance, ftill chaunging For his exceeding courtefie, that pearst XLVI. So all returning to the caftic glad, She freely gave that castle for his paine, XLVII. But Calidore himfelfe would not retaine, 2 iij XII. "Which I no lesse disdayning, backe returned "His fcornfull taunts unto his teeth againe, "That he ftreightway with haughtie cholar "burned, "And with his fpeare ftrooke me one ftroke or << twaine; "Which I, enforft to beare though to my paine, "Caft to requite; and with a flender dart, "Fellow of this I beare, throwne not in vaine, "Strooke him, as feemeth, underneath the hart, "That through the wound his fpirit fhortly did "depart." "Whom when my knight did fee fo lovely faire, "He inly gan her lover to envy, "And wish that he part of his fpoyle might "share; "So paffed we, till this young man us met; "And being moov'd with pittie of my plight, "Spake, as was meet, for cafe of my regret : "Whereof befell what now is in your fight." "Now fure," then faid Sir Calidore," and right Me feemes, that him befell by his owne fault: "Whoever thinkes through confidence of might, "Or through fupport of count'nance proud and "hault, "To wrong the weaker, oft falles in his owne "affault." XXIV. “In which he had good right gaynst all that it | Then turning backe unto that gentle boy, Which had himfelfe fo ftoutly well acquit, |