XV.

at when she had with such unquiet fits rself there close afflicted long in vaine, at found no easement in her troubled wits, e unto Talus forth return'd againe,

change of place seeking to ease her paine; Lid gan enquire of him with mylder mood e certaine cause of Artegals detaine,

ad what he did, and in what state he stood,

ad whether he did woo, or whether he were woo'd.

XVI.

Ah wellaway!" said then the yron man, That he is not the while in state to woo ; ut lies in wretched thraldome, weake and wan, ot by strong hand compelled thereunto, ut his owne doome, that none can now undoo." Sayd I not then," quoth she, "ere-while aright, hat this is thinge compacte betwixt you two Te to deceive of faith unto me plight,

ince that he was not forst, nor overcome in fight?"

XVII.

With that he gan at large to her dilate
'he whole discourse of his captivance sad,
n sort as ye have heard the same of late :
All which when she with hard enduraunce had
Heard to the end, she was right sore bestad,
With sodaine stounds of wrath and grief attone;
We would abide, till she had auns were made;
But streight herselfe did dight, and armor don,
And mounting to her steede bad Talus guide her on.

XVIII.

So forth she rode uppon her ready way,
To seeke her knight, as Talus her did guide:
Sadly she rode and never word did say
Nor good nor bad, ne ever lookt aside,

But still right downe; and in her thought did hide
The felnesse of her heart, right fully bent
To fierce avengement of that womans pride,
Which had her lord in her base prison pent,
And so great honour with so fowle reproch had blent.

XIX.

So as she thus melancholicke did ride,
Chawing the cud of griefe and inward paine,
She chaunst to meete toward the eventide
A knight, that softly paced on the plaine,
As if himselfe to solace he were faine :
Well shot in yeares he seem'd, and rather bent
To peace then needlesse trouble to constraine;
As well by view of that his vestiment,

As by his modest semblant, that no evill mert.

XX.

He comming neare gan gently her salute
With curteous words, in the most comely wize;
Who though desirous rather to rest mute,
Then termes to entertaine of common guize,
Yet rather then she kindnesse would despize,
She would herselfe displease, so him requite.
Then gan the other further to devize

Of things abrode, as next to hand did light,
And many things demaund, to which she answer'd

"Ye guilty eyes," sayd she, "the which with guyle
My heart at first betrayd, will ye betray
My life now too, for which a little whyle
Ye will not watch? false watches, wellaway!
I wote when ye did watch both night and day
Unto your losse; and now needes will ye sleepe?
Now ye have made my heart to wake alway,
Now will ye sleepe? ah! wake, and rather weepe
To thinke of your nights want, that should yee wa-
king keepe."

XXVI.

Thus did she watch, and weare the weary night
In waylfull plaints, that none was to appease ;
Now walking soft, now sitting still upright,
As sundry chaunge her seemed best to ease.
Ne lesse did Talus suffer sleepe to seaze
His eye-lids sad, but watcht continually,
Lying without her dore in great disease;
Like to a spaniel wayting carefully

Least any should betray his lady treacherously.