Кино 40 Then forth I tooke Duessa for my Dame, And in the witch unweeting joyd long time, unaware, I chaunst to see her in her proper hew, shape a might A filthy foule old woman I did vew, That ever to have toucht her I did deadly rew. 42 The hatefull hag by chaunges of my cheare Counterame Then brought she me into this desert waste, And by my wretched lovers side me pight; fixed, pierces Where now enclosd in wooden wals full faste, Banisht from living wights, our wearie dayes we waste. 43 But how long time, said then the Elfin knight, We may not chaunge (quoth he) this evil plight, That is the terme prescribed by the spell. O how, said he, mote I that well out find, That may restore you to your wonted well? well-being weal Shall us restore, none else from hence may us unbynd. 44 The false Duessa, now Fidessa hight, called Heard how in vaine Fradubio did lament, And knew well all was true. But the good knight, Zater, satifier, shall rectore un to our 45 Her seeming dead he found with feigned feare, not towing and paynd himselfe with busie care to reare Her eylids blew And dimmed sight with pale and deadly hew began to uplift At last she gan up lift: with trembling cheare Her up he tooke, too simple and too trew, And oft her kist. At length all passed feare, He set her on her steede, and forward forth did beare. I NOUGHT is there under heav'ns wide hollownesse, filles with And now it is empassioned so deepe, wile Mogether That my fraile eyes these lines with teares do steepe, Is from her knight divorced in despaire, And her dew loves deriv'd to that vile witches share. drawn 3 Yet she most faithfull ladie all this while Far from all peoples preace, as in exile, pet, drawn any crowd In wildernesse and wastfull deserts strayd, Wilderness Had her abandond. " The hire in the emblem of natural honour., paying the tribale quatintion reverence to Wuth. This one of the bebiche of ermanen Kion will offer injury slow It to a true Virgin ކ n to a royal passages, What no From her faire head her fillet she undight, facts, took long the And laid her stole aside. Her angels face, As the great eye of heaven shyned bright, The And made a sunshine in the shadie place; 5 It fortuned out of the thickest wood A ramping lyon rushed suddainly, Hunting full greedy after salvage blood; d, woodland With gaping mouth at her ran greedily, To have attonce devourd her tender corse: And with the sight amazd, forgat his furious forse. 6 In stead thereof he kist her wearie feet, as though, as if O how can beautie maister the most strong, 7 The lyon lord of everie beast in field, Quoth she, his princely puissance doth abate, As the God of my life? why hath he me abhord? verflowing 8 Redounding teares did choke th' end of her plaint, To seeke her strayed champion, if she might attaine. fall in with, 9 The lyon would not leave her desolate, attaine.l Still when she slept, he kept both watch and ward, 1.2. both Waking guarding. and 10 Long she thus traveiled through deserts wyde, pig, trak Yet never shew of living wight espyde; Till that at length she found the troden gras, firmly That on her shoulders sad a pot of water bore. II To whom approaching she to her gan call, But the rude wench her answerd nought at all; With suddaine feare her pitcher downe she threw, Face of faire lady she before did vew, And that dread lyons looke her cast in deadly hew.ope made her scene like one dead |