The
Pleasant
Historie
of
TOM
A
LINCOLNE
,
the
RED-ROSE
Knight
:
for
his
valour
and
Chiualrie
,
surnamed
the
Boast
of
England
.
CHAPTER
.
1.
How
King
Arthur
loued
faire
Angellica
the
Earle
of
Londons
Daughter
:
and
likewise
of
the
birth
of
Tom
a
Lincolne
.
WHEN
as
King
ARTHVR
wore
the
Emperiall
Diadem
of
England
,
and
by
his
chiualrie
had
purchased
many
famous
Uictories
,
to
the
great
renowne
of
this
mayden
Land
,
hee
ordeined
the
order
of
the
round
Table
,
and
selected
many
worthy
Knights
to
attend
his
Maiestie
:
of
whose
glistering
renowne
many
ancient
Histories
doe
record
,
and
witnesse
to
all
insuing
ages
.
This
worthy
Prince
,
vpon
a
time
intending
to
visit
the
city
of
London
,
with
some
few
number
of
his
Knights
,
came
and
feasted
with
Androgius
,
being
at
that
time
Earle
of
London
;
whose
house
(
as
then
)
was
not
only
replenished
with
most
delicate
fare
,
but
grat●st
with
a
number
of
beautifull
Ladyes
:
who
gaue
such
a
pleasing
entertainement
to
King
Arthur
and
his
Knights
,
that
they
were
rauished
with
pleasure
,
and
quite
forgot
the
sound
of
martiall
Drummes
,
that
had
wont
to
summon
them
foorth
to
the
fields
of
Honour
:
Amongst
these
glorious
troupes
of
London
Ladyes
,
Angellica
the
Earles
daughter
had
the
chiefest
prayse
for
beauty
and
courtly
behauiour
:
for
euen
as
the
siluer-shining
Moone
in
a
Winters
fr●sty
night
,
surpasseth
the
brightest
of
the
twinckling
Stars
:
●o
farre
Angellicaes
sweete
feature
excéeded
the
rest
of
the
Ladyes
:
whereby
King
Arthur
was
so
intangled
in
the
snares
of
loue
,
that
by
no
meanes
he
could
withdraw
his
affections
from
her
diuine
excellence
.
He
that
before
delighted
to
tread
a
weary
m●rch
after
Bellonas
Drummes
,
was
now
constrayned
to
trace
Cupids
Measures
in
Ladyes
Chambers
:
and
could
as
well
straine
the
strings
of
a
Louers
Lute
,
as
sound
a
Souldiers
alarme
in
the
field
:
her
beauty
like
the
Adamant
,
drew
his
stéeled
heart
to
lodge
in
the
closure
of
her
breast
:
and
no
company
delighted
so
much
the
loue-sicke
King
,
as
the
presence
of
faire
Angellica
.
So
vpon
a
time
as
hee
stood
looking
out
of
his
Chamber
window
,
hee
espied
the
Mistris
of
his
soule
sitting
in
a
Garden
vnder
a
Bower
of
Uines
,
prettily
picking
the
ripest
Grapes
with
her
delicate
hands
,
and
tooke
such
pleasant
pains
in
that
maydenlike
exercise
,
that
the
well
coloured
blood
in
her
face
began
to
ware
warme
,
and
her
chéekes
to
obtaine
such
an
excellent
beauty
,
that
they
séemed
like
two
purple
Roses
intermixt
with
Hawthorne-buds
:
whereby
King
Arthur
grew
inamored
vpon
her
,
and
stood
for
a
time
sencelesse
through
the
extreame
passion
he
tooke
in
beholding
her
be●uty
:
But
at
last
,
recouering
his
senses
,
he
spake
to
himselfe
in
this
manner
.
Oh
most
diuine
Angellica
,
Natures
sole
wonder
,
thou
excellent
ornament
of
Beauty
,
thy
louely
Face
painted
with
a
crimson
die
,
thy
rosicall
Chéekes
surpassing
Snow
in
whitenesse
,
thy
decent
Necke
like
purest
Iuory
,
hath
like
a
Fowlers
net
intangled
my
yéelding
heart
:
whereby
it
is
for
euermore
imprisoned
in
thy
breast
.
Oh
that
the
golden
Dresses
of
thy
dainty
Haire
which
shine
like
the
Rubyes
,
glittering
in
the
Sunne
,
had
neuer
twinckled
before
my
rauisht
eyes
,
then
had
my
heart
inioyed
his
wonted
liberty
,
and
my
Fancie
béen
frée
from
Louers
vaine
imaginations
.
Thus
,
and
in
like
manner
,
complayned
the
King
vnto
himselfe
,
séeking
by
all
meanes
possible
to
exclude
Loues
fire
from
his
breast
.
But
the
more
hee
stroue
to
abando●
it
,
the
more
it
increased
:
and
féeling
no
pollicie
might
preuaile
;
but
that
this
burning
torment
must
of
force
bee
quenched
with
her
celestiall
loue
hee
descended
from
his
Chamber
,
and
went
bouldly
into
the
Garden
;
where
taking
Angellica
by
the
hand
as
shée
sate
vpon
a
bed
of
Uiolets
,
which
as
then
grew
vnder
the
Arbour
,
in
this
manner
began
to
court
her
.
Faire
of
all
faires
,
(
sayd
the
King
)
deuine
and
beautious
Paragon
faire
Flower
of
London
,
know
that
since
my
aboad
in
thy
Fathers
house
,
thy
beauty
hath
so
conquered
my
affections
,
and
so
bereaued
me
of
my
liberty
,
that
vnlesse
thou
vouchsafe
to
coole
my
ardent
desires
with
a
willing
graunt
of
thy
loue
,
I
am
like
to
dye
a
lan●uishing
death
,
and
this
Countrey
England
of
force
must
l●ose
him
,
that
hath
filde
her
boundes
with
many
triumphant
Uictories
:
therefore
swéet
Angellica
,
if
thy
hard
heart
be
so
obdurate
,
that
the
teares
of
my
true
loue
may
nothing
molliffe
,
yet
take
pitty
on
thy
Countrey
,
that
through
thy
cruelty
,
she
loose
not
her
wanton
glory
,
and
be
made
vnhappy
,
by
the
losse
of
her
Soueraigne
:
thou
séest
(
my
diuine
Angellica
)
how
I
,
that
haue
made
Princes
stoope
,
and
Kings
to
humble
when
I
haue
frownde
,
doe
now
submissiuely
yéeld
my
high
honour
to
thy
feete
,
either
to
be
made
happy
by
thy
loue
,
or
vnhappy
in
thy
hate
,
that
in
time
to
come
,
Children
may
either
blesse
,
or
cu●se
thee
:
Of
these
two
,
consider
which
thou
wilt
performe
either
with
cruelty
to
kill
mee
or
with
clemencie
to
pre●eiue
mee
.
This
vnexpected
request
of
the
King
,
so
amazed
Angellica
,
that
her
Cheeks
were
●tayned
with
blushing
shame
,
and
like
a
bashfull
Maiden
(
for
a
time
)
stood
silent
not
knowing
in
what
manner
to
answere
him
,
considering
hee
was
King
of
England
,
and
she
but
Daughter
to
an
Earle
:
But
at
last
,
when
feare
and
shame
had
a
while
stroue
together
in
her
heart
,
shee
replyed
in
this
sort
.
Most
mighty
King
(
said
shee
)
if
your
entertainement
in
my
Fathers
house
hath
beene
honourable
,
séeke
not
the
foule
dishonour
of
his
Daughter
,
nor
proffer
to
blemish
the
bud
of
her
virginitie
with
the
least
thought
of
your
vnchast
desires
:
the
losse
of
which
swéet
Iemme
,
is
a
torment
to
my
soule
more
worse
then
death
.
Consider
with
your selfe
(
most
worthy
Prince
)
the
blacke
scandall
that
it
may
bring
vnto
your
name
and
honour
,
hauing
a
Quéene
a
most
vertuous
and
loyall
Princesse
.
Thinke
vpon
the
staine
of
your
mariage
bed
,
the
wrongs
of
your
wedded
phéere
,
and
lasting
infamie
of
your
owne
glo●ie
,
for
this
I
vow
(
by
Dianaes
bright
maiesty
)
before
I
will
y●●ld
the
conquest
of
my
virginitie
to
the
spoyle
of
such
vnchast
desires
,
I
will
suffer
more
torments
,
then
mans
heart
can
imagine
:
therefore
(
most
mighty
Soueraigne
)
cease
your
vnreuerend
suite
,
for
I
will
not
loose
that
matchlesse
Iewell
,
for
all
the
treasure
the
large
Ocean
containes
:
And
in
speaking
these
words
shée
departed
thence
,
and
left
the
loue-sicke
King
in
the
Arthur
,
complaining
to
the
emptie
ayre
:
where
after
hée
had
numbred
many
determinations
together
,
this
hee
purposed
;
Neuer
to
cease
his
suite
,
till
he
had
gained
what
his
soule
so
much
desired
:
for
continually
at
the
break
of
day
,
when
●irans
beautie
began
to
shine
,
and
Auroraes
blush
to
appears
.
would
hee
alwayes
send
to
her
Chamber
window
the
sweetest
Musicke
that
could
bée
deuised
:
thinking
thereby
so
obtaine
her
Loue
.
Many
times
would
hee
solicite
her
with
rich
gifts
,
and
large
promises
,
befitting
rather
an
Empresse
then
the
Daughter
of
an
Earle
,
profering
such
kindnes
,
that
if
she
had
a
heart
of
Iron
,
yet
could
shee
not
choose
but
relent
and
requite
his
curtesies
:
for
what
is
it
that
time
will
not
accomplish
,
hauing
the
hand
of
a
King
set
thereunto
.
Twelue
wearydayes
King
Arthur
spent
in
woing
of
Angellica
,
before
hee
could
obtaine
his
hearts
happinesse
,
and
his
soules
content
:
at
the
end
of
which
time
,
she
was
as
plyant
to
his
will
,
as
is
the
tender
twig
to
the
hand
of
the
Husbandman
.
But
how
their
secret
meaning
required
a
pollicie
to
keepe
their
priuie
leues
both
from
King
Arthurs
Quéene
,
and
from
old
Androgius
,
Angellicas
Father
:
and
that
their
secret
ioyes
might
long
time
continue
without
mistrust
of
any
partie
whatsoeuer
,
this
deuice
they
contriued
:
that
Angellica
should
desire
liberty
of
her
Father
,
to
spend
the
remaine
of
her
life
in
the
seruice
of
Diana
,
like
one
that
a
bandoned
all
earthly
vanitie
,
honouring
true
chastity
and
religious
life
:
So
,
with
a
den●ure
countenance
,
and
a
sober
grace
,
shee
went
vnto
her
Father
,
and
obtained
such
leaue
at
his
hands
,
that
he
willingly
condiscended
that
shee
should
liue
as
a
professed
Nunne
,
in
a
Monasterie
that
the
King
before
time
had
builded
in
the
Citie
of
Lincolne
;
and
so
furnishing
her
foorth
with
such
necessaries
as
her
state
required
,
he
gaue
her
his
blessing
,
and
so
committed
her
to
Dianaes
seruice
.
But
now
Angellica
being
no
sooner
placed
in
the
Monastery
and
chosen
a
Sister
of
that
fellowship
,
but
King
Arthur
many
times
visited
her
in
so
secret
a
manner
,
and
so
disguisedly
,
that
no
man
suspected
their
pleasant
méetings
:
but
so
long
tasted
they
the
ioyes
of
loue
,
that
in
the
end
the
Nunne
grew
great
bellied
,
and
bore
King
Arthurs
quittance
sealed
in
her
wombe
,
and
at
the
end
of
forty
wéekes
,
shée
was
deliuered
;
where
in
presence
of
the
Midwife
,
&
one
more
whom
the
King
largly
recompenced
for
their
secrecy
,
shee
was
made
a
happy
Mother
of
a
goodly
sonne
,
whom
King
Arthur
caused
to
be
wrapped
in
a
Mantle
of
gréene
Silke
,
tying
a
Purse
of
Gold
about
his
necke
,
and
so
causing
the
Midwife
to
beare
it
into
the
Fields
,
and
to
lay
it
at
a
Shepheards
gate
néere
adioyning
to
the
Citie
,
in
hope
the
old
man
should
foster
it
as
his
own
:
by
which
means
his
Angellicaes
dishonour
might
be
kept
secret
from
the
world
,
and
his
owne
disgrace
from
the
murmuring
reports
of
the
vulgar
people
.
This
his
commandement
was
so
spéedily
performed
by
the
Midwife
,
that
the
very
next
morning
she
stole
the
young
Infant
from
his
Mothers
kéeping
,
and
bore
it
secretly
to
the
place
appointed
,
there
laying
it
downe
vpon
a
turffe
of
gréene
grasse
:
if
séemed
prettily
to
smile
,
turning
his
christall
eyes
vp
towards
the
Elements
,
as
though
it
foreknew
his
owne
good
Fortune
.
This
being
done
,
the
Midwife
withdrew
her selfe
some
little
distance
from
that
place
,
and
hid
her selfe
closely
behind
a
well
growne
Oake
,
diligently
marking
what
should
betide
the
comfortlesse
Infant
:
But
long
shee
had
not
there
remained
,
but
there
flocked
such
a
number
of
little
Birdes
about
the
young
harmelesse
Babe
,
and
ma●e
such
a
chirping
melody
,
that
it
fell
into
a
silent
slumber
,
and
slept
as
swéetly
as
though
it
had
béen
layde
in
a
Bed
of
softest
Silke
.
By
this
time
,
the
golden
Sunne
began
to
glister
on
the
Mountaine
top
,
and
his
sister
Luna
to
withdraw
her
waterish
countenance
:
at
which
time
,
the
pleasant
Shepheards
began
to
tune
their
Morning
notes
,
and
to
repayre
vnto
their
foulded
Shéepe
,
according
to
their
woonted
manner
:
Amongst
which
crue
of
lusty
Swaines
,
old
Antonio
approached
foorth
of
his
Gate
with
a
chearefull
countenance
,
whose
Beard
was
as
white
as
polished
Siluer
,
or
like
to
Snow
lying
vpon
the
Northerne
Mountaines
:
this
bonny
Shepheard
no
sooner
espied
Angelic●es
swéet
Babe
lying
vpon
the
gréene
Hillocke
,
but
immediatly
hee
tooke
it
vp
;
and
viewing
circumspectly
euery
parcell
of
the
rich
Uestments
wherein
it
was
wrapped
,
at
last
found
out
the
Purse
of
Gold
which
the
King
had
tyed
vnto
the
Childs
necke
,
whereat
the
Shepheard
so
exceedingly
reioyced
,
that
for
the
time
,
he
stoode
as
a
man
rauished
with
pleasure
,
and
was
not
able
to
remoue
from
the
place
where
he
stood
:
but
yet
at
the
last
,
thinking
with
himselfe
that
Heauen
had
sen●
him
that
good
fortune
,
not
onely
giuing
him
Riches
,
but
withall
a
Sonne
,
to
be
a
comfort
to
him
in
his
latter
yeares
;
so
bearing
it
in
to
his
old
Wife
,
and
withall
the
Purse
of
Gold
,
and
the
rich
Mantle
,
with
the
other
things
:
who
at
the
sight
thereof
,
was
as
highly
pleased
as
her
Husband
,
when
he
found
it
first
:
so
being
both
agréed
to
foster
and
bring
it
vp
as
their
own
,
considering
that
Nature
neuer
gaue
them
in
all
their
life
any
child
,
incontinently
they
caused
it
to
be
thristened
,
and
called
by
the
name
of
TOM
A
LINCOLNE
;
(
after
the
Towne
where
it
was
found
)
a
name
most
fitting
for
it
,
in
that
they
knew
not
whom
were
his
true
Parents
.
But
now
speake
wee
againe
of
the
Midwife
,
that
after
shée
had
beheld
how
kindly
old
Antonio
receiued
the
young
Infant
,
shée
returned
backe
unto
Angelicaes
Chamber
,
whom
shee
found
bitterly
lamenting
the
losse
of
her
tender
Babe
,
thinking
that
some
Fayry
Nimph
had
s●olne
it
away
:
but
such
was
the
kind
comfort
which
the
smooth
tonged
Midwife
gaue
her
in
that
extremity
,
whereby
her
sorrow
seemed
the
lesse
,
and
her
mistrustfull
feare
exchanged
into
smiling
hope
:
yet
neither
would
the
King
nor
the
Midwife
at
any
time
whatsoeuer
,
make
knowne
vnto
her
what
was
become
of
her
little
Sonne
,
but
driuing
her
off
with
delayes
and
fond
excuses
,
lest
hauing
intelligence
of
his
abo●d
,
she
should
(
through
kinde
loue
,
and
naturall
affection
)
goe
visite
him
,
and
so
discouer
their
Loues
practises
.
Thus
liued
the
most
fayre
Angelica
many
dayes
in
great
griefe
,
wishing
his
returne
,
and
desiring
Heauen
that
the
Destinies
might
be
so
fauourable
,
that
once
againe
before
the
fatall
Sisters
had
finished
her
life
,
she
might
behold
her
Infants
face
:
for
whose
presence
her
very
soule
thirsted
for
.
Here
will
we
leaue
the
solitary
Lady
comfortlesse
and
without
company
(
except
it
were
the
King
,
that
sometimes
visited
herby
stealth
)
and
report
what
happened
to
Tom
a
Lincolne
in
the
Shepheards
house
.
CHAP.
II.
Of
the
manner
of
Tom
a
Lincolnes
bringing
vp
,
and
how
he
first
came
to
be
called
the
Red-rose
Knight
:
with
other
things
that
hapned
to
him
.
GReat
was
the
wealth
that
old
Antonio
gathered
together
,
by
meanes
of
the
Treasure
hee
found
about
the
Infants
attire
,
whereby
hee
became
the
richest
in
all
that
Country
,
and
purchast
such
Lands
and
Liuings
,
that
his
supposed
Sonne
(
for
wealth
)
was
déemed
a
fit
match
for
a
Knights
Daughter
:
Yet
for
all
this
his
bringing
vp
was
but
meane
,
and
in
a
homely
sort
;
(
for
after
he
had
passed
ten
yeares
of
his
age
hee
was
set
to
kéepe
Antonioes
Shéepe
,
and
to
follow
Husbandry
,
whereby
he
grew
strong
and
hardy
,
and
continually
gaue
himselfe
to
painefull
endeauours
,
imagining
and
deuising
haughty
and
great
enterprises
:
yet
notwithstanding
was
of
honest
and
vertueus
conditions
,
well
featured
,
valiant
,
actiue
,
quick
and
nimble
,
sharpe
witted
,
and
of
a
ripe
iudgement
:
hée
was
of
a
valiant
and
inuincible
courage
,
so
that
from
his
Cradle
and
infancie
,
it
séemed
he
was
vowed
to
Mars
,
and
martiall
exploits
.
And
in
his
life
and
manners
is
dec●phered
the
Image
of
true
Nobilitie
:
for
though
hee
ob●curely
liued
in
a
Countrey
Cottage
,
yet
had
he
a
superious
mind
,
aiming
at
state
and
maiestie
,
bearing
in
his
breast
the
princely
thoughts
of
his
Father
.
For
on
a
time
keeping
Cattell
in
the
Field
amongst
other
yong
men
of
his
age
and
condition
,
he
was
chosen
(
in
sport
by
them
)
for
their
Lord
or
Knight
,
and
they
to
attend
on
him
like
dutifull
Seruants
:
and
although
this
their
election
was
but
in
play
,
yet
he
whose
spirits
were
rauished
with
great
and
high
matters
,
first
,
procuted
them
to
sweare
to
him
loyalty
in
all
things
;
and
to
obey
him
as
a
King
,
where
,
or
when
it
should
please
him
in
any
matter
to
command
them
:
to
which
they
all
most
willingly
condescended
.
Thus
after
they
had
solemnly
taken
their
oathes
,
he
perswaded
them
to
leaue
that
base
and
seruile
kinde
of
life
,
séeking
to
serue
in
Warre
,
and
to
follow
him
,
being
the
Generall
:
the
which
through
perswasion
they
did
,
and
so
leauing
their
Cattell
to
their
Fathers
and
Masters
,
they
assembled
all
together
,
to
the
full
number
of
a
hundred
at
the
least
:
vnto
whom
he
seuerally
gaue
certaine
Red
Roses
,
to
be
worne
for
colours
in
their
Hattes
,
and
commanded
them
,
that
euer
after
hee
should
be
called
the
Red-rose
Knight
.
So
in
this
manner
departed
he
with
his
followers
vnto
Barnsedale
Heath
,
where
they
pitched
vp
Tents
,
and
liued
long
time
vpon
the
robberies
and
spoyles
of
passengers
,
in
so
much
that
the
whole
Country
were
greatly
molested
by
them
.
This
disordered
life
so
highly
displeased
the
Parents
of
these
vnruly
Outlawes
,
that
many
of
them
died
with
griefe
:
but
especially
of
all
other
,
old
Antonio
tooke
it
in
ill
part
,
considering
how
dearely
hee
lou●d
him
,
and
how
tenderly
hee
had
brought
him
vp
from
his
infancy
:
therefore
he
purposed
to
practise
a
meane
to
call
him
from
that
vnciuill
kinde
of
life
,
if
it
might
possible
be
brought
to
passe
:
so
in
his
old
dayes
vndertaking
this
tasking
,
hee
trauelled
towards
Barnsedale
Heath
:
into
which
being
no
sooner
entred
,
but
some
of
the
ruder
sort
of
these
Outlawes
ceased
vpon
the
old
man
,
and
without
any
further
violence
,
brought
him
before
their
Lord
and
Captain
:
who
at
the
first
sight
knew
him
to
be
his
Father
(
as
he
thought
)
and
therefore
vsed
him
most
kindly
,
giuing
him
the
best
entertainement
that
hee
could
deuise
:
where
,
after
they
had
some
small
time
conferred
together
,
the
good
old
man
brake
out
into
these
spéeches
.
Oh
thou
degenerate
(
quoth
he
)
from
natures
kind
:
Is
this
thy
duty
to
thy
fathers
age
,
thus
disobediently
to
liue
,
●●cunding
thy
naturall
Countrey
with
vnlawfull
spoyles
?
Is
this
the
comfort
of
mine
age
:
is
this
thy
loue
vnto
thy
Parents
,
who●e
tender
care
hath
béen
euer
to
aduance
thy
estate
:
Canst
thou
behold
these
milke-white
Hayres
of
mine
all
to
rent
and
torne
,
which
I
haue
violently
martyred
in
thy
absence
?
Canst
thou
indure
to
see
my
dim
Eyes
almost
sightlesse
through
age
,
to
droy
downe
Teares
at
thy
disobedient
féete
?
Oh
wherefore
hast
thou
infringed
the
Lawes
of
Nature
,
thus
cruelly
to
kill
thy
fathers
heart
with
griefe
,
and
to
end
his
dayes
by
thy
viti●u●
life
?
Returne
,
returne
deare
Child
,
banish
from
thy
breast
these
base
actions
,
that
I
may
lay
,
I
haue
a
vertuous
Sonne
:
and
be
not
like
the
viperous
brood
,
that
workes
the
vntimely
death
of
their
Parents
.
And
speaking
these
words
,
griefe
so
excéeded
the
bounds
of
Reason
,
that
hee
stood
silent
,
and
beginning
againe
to
speake
,
teares
trickled
from
his
eyes
in
such
abundance
,
that
they
stayed
the
passage
of
his
spéech
:
the
which
being
perceiued
by
the
Red-rose
Knight
,
he
humbly
sell
vpon
his
knées
,
and
in
this
sort
spake
vnto
good
Antonio
.
Most
deare
and
reuerent
Lather
,
if
my
offence
doe
séeme
odious
in
your
eyes
,
that
I
deserue
no
forgiuenesse
,
then
here
behold
now
your
poore
inglorious
Sonne
,
laying
his
breast
open
,
ready
prepared
to
receiue
Deaths
remorselesse
stroke
from
your
aged
hands
,
as
a
due
punishment
for
this
my
disobedient
crime
:
but
to
be
reclaimed
from
this
honorable
kind
of
life
(
I
count
it
honourable
,
because
it
taketh
of
manhood
)
,
first
shall
the
Sun
bring
day
from
out
the
Westerne
Heauens
,
&
the
siluer
Moone
lodge
her
brightnesse
in
the
Easterne
waues
,
and
all
things
else
against
both
kind
and
nature
turne
their
wonted
●●urse
.
Well
then
(
quoth
Antonio
)
if
thy
resolution
bee
such
,
that
neither
my
bitter
teares
,
nor
my
faire
int●●aties
may
preuaile
to
withdraw
thy
vaine
folly
,
then
know
(
then
most
vngratious
impe
)
that
thou
art
no
Sonne
of
mine
,
but
sprung
from
the
bowels
of
some
vntanted
Tyger
,
or
wild
Li●nesse
,
el●e
wouldst
thou
humbly
submit
thy selfe
to
my
reuerent
perswasions
;
from
whence
thou
camest
I
know
not
,
but
sure
thy
breast
harbours
the
tyranny
of
some
monstrous
Tyrant
,
from
whose
●oynes
thou
art
naturally
descended
.
Thou
art
no
fruite
of
my
body
for
I
found
thee
(
in
thy
infancy
)
lying
in
the
Fields
,
cast
out
as
a
prey
for
rauening
Fowles
,
ready
to
bee
deuowred
by
hunger-starued
Dogges
:
but
such
was
my
pitty
towards
thée
,
that
I
tooke
thee
vp
and
euer
since
haue
fostered
thee
as
mine
owne
Child
:
but
now
,
such
is
thy
vnbridled
folly
,
that
my
kind
curtesie
is
requited
with
extreame
ingratitude
;
which
sinne
aboue
all
others
,
the
immortall
powers
of
Heauen
doe
condemne
,
and
the
very
Diuels
themselues
doe
hate
:
therefore
like
a
Serpent
,
henceforth
will
I
spit
at
thee
,
and
neuer
cease
to
make
incessant
prayers
to
the
iustfull
Heauens
,
to
reuenge
this
thy
monstrous
disobedience
.
These
words
being
ended
,
hee
gaue
such
an
extreame
sigh
,
that
his
very
heart
brake
with
griefe
,
and
hee
immediatly
dyed
in
the
presence
of
the
Red-rose
Knight
,
For
whose
death
,
hee
made
more
sorrowfull
lamentation
,
then
Niobe
did
for
her
seuen
Sonnes
.
But
in
recompence
of
old
Antonioes
kind
loue
,
that
preserued
his
infancie
from
the
fury
of
rauenous
Fowles
,
he
intombed
him
most
stately
in
the
Citie
of
Lincolne
,
whose
body
he
sent
thither
by
certaine
Passengers
whom
hee
had
taken
,
and
withall
a
thousand
pound
in
treasures
,
to
be
bestowed
vpon
a
great
Bell
to
bee
rung
at
his
Funerall
:
which
Bell
hee
caused
to
bee
called
Tom
a
Lincolne
after
his
owne
name
,
where
to
this
day
it
remaineth
in
the
same
Citie
:
These
Passengers
being
as
then
rich
Merchants
of
London
hauing
receiued
the
dead
body
of
old
Antonio
,
and
withall
the
treasure
,
went
with
all
speed
vnto
Lincolne
,
and
performed
euery
thing
as
the
Red-rose
Knight
had
appointed
.
The
death
of
this
good
old
man
not
onely
caused
a
generall
sorrow
through
the
whole
Citie
,
but
stroke
such
an
extreame
griefe
to
old
Antonioes
wife
,
that
shee
within
few
dayes
yeelded
her
life
to
the
remorcelesse
stroke
of
the
frowning
destinies
,
and
was
buried
in
the
same
graue
where
her
Husband
was
intombed
:
Whose
deaths
we
will
now
leaue
to
be
mourned
by
their
dearest
friends
,
and
likewise
for
breuities
sake
,
passe
ouer
many
stratagems
which
were
accomplished
by
the
Red-rose
Knight
&
his
followers
vpon
Barnsedale
Heath
,
and
returne
to
King
Arthur
&
his
Knights
,
flourishing
in
the
English
Court.
CHAP.
III.
Of
the
first
Conquest
of
Portingale
by
the
Red-rose
Knight
,
and
how
hee
was
the
first
that
euer
triumphed
in
the
Citie
of
London
.
THe
report
of
Tom
a
Lincolnes
practises
grew
so
generall
amongst
the
vulgar
sort
of
people
,
that
at
last
it
came
to
King
Arthurs
eares
,
who
imagined
in
his
Princely
minde
,
that
he
was
sprung
of
his
bloud
,
and
that
hee
carried
lofty
thoughts
of
honour
planted
in
his
brest
,
though
shrowded
vnder
a
Countrey
life
:
therefore
,
through
kinde
nature
,
hee
purposed
to
haue
him
resident
in
Court
with
him
,
that
hee
might
daily
sée
his
liuely
sparkes
of
honour
shew
their
resplendant
brightnesse
,
yet
in
such
obscurity
,
that
hee
should
not
know
the
smallest
motion
of
his
Parentage
;
therefore
hee
called
together
thrée
of
his
appr●ued
Knights
,
namely
Lancelot
du
Lake
,
Sir
Tristram
and
Sir
●●●amore
,
and
gaue
them
in
charge
,
if
it
were
possible
,
to
fetch
the
Red-rose
Knight
vnto
his
Court
,
of
whose
aduenturous
exployts
hée
hath
heard
so
many
times
reported
:
and
withall
he
gaue
them
generall
Pardon
,
sealed
with
his
priuie
Seale
,
for
him
and
all
his
lawlesse
followers
.
This
Commission
beeing
receiued
by
the
three
worthie
Knights
,
they
with
all
spéede
armed
themselues
in
rich
Corselets
,
and
strong
habiliments
of
Warre
,
and
so
rode
towards
Bransedale
H●a●h
where
being
no
sooner
come
,
and
deliuered
their
message
from
the
King
,
but
the
Red-rose
Knight
gaue
them
an
honourable
welcome
,
and
for
thrée
dayes
most
royally
feasted
them
vnder
large
Canuasse
Tents
▪
wherein
they
slept
as
securely
,
as
they
had
béene
in
King
Arthurs
Court
,
or
in
a
strong
Castle
of
warre
.
After
this
,
Tom
a
Lincolne
selected
out
a
hundred
of
his
resolute
Followers
,
such
as
he
best
liked
of
,
and
came
with
Sir
Lancelot
,
and
the
rest
to
the
English
Court
;
where
King
Arthur
not
onely
gaue
him
a
friendly
entertainment
,
but
also
installed
him
one
of
his
Knights
of
the
Round-table
:
and
withall
preclaimed
a
solemne
Turniament
,
that
should
be
h●lden
in
the
honour
of
this
new
made
Knight
:
to
which
Turniament
,
assemble
▪
from
other
Countries
,
many
Princes
,
Barons
,
&
Knights
of
high
honour
,
which
behaued
themselues
most
nobly
,
and
woon
great
commendations
of
euery
beholder
:
but
especially
the
Red-rose
Knight
,
who
for
that
day
,
stood
as
chiefe
Champion
against
all
commers
.
In
that
Turniament
,
or
first
dayes
deede
of
his
Knighthood
,
where
onely
by
his
valour
and
prowesse
hee
ouerthrew
thrée
Kings
,
and
thirty
other
Knights
,
all
famouzed
for
Chiualry
:
whereby
he
obtained
such
grace
in
the
English
Court
,
that
he
had
by
the
King
a
paire
of
golden
Spurres
put
vpon
his
féet
▪
and
generally
of
the
whole
assembly
,
he
was
accounted
one
of
the
brauest
Knights
that
then
liued
in
the
world
.
But
now
marke
,
how
frowning
Fortune
ended
their
Triumphes
with
vnlucky
Newes
:
for
the
same
day
before
the
Knights
had
vnbuckled
their
Armours
,
there
arriued
a
Messenger
,
who
certified
King
Arthur
,
how
his
Ambassadour
was
vniustly
done
to
death
in
the
Portingale
Court
,
(
which
was
an
Act
contrary
both
to
the
Faith
of
Princes
,
and
the
Law
of
Armes
:
)
For
whose
death
King
Arthur
grew
so
enraged
,
that
he
sware
by
the
Honour
of
his
bright
Renowne
,
and
by
the
golden
Spurre
of
true
Knighthood
,
the
Portingales
should
repent
that
inhumane
violence
,
with
the
death
of
many
thousand
guiltlesse
soules
;
and
that
Babes
vnborne
,
should
haue
iust
cause
to
curse
the
first
contriuer
of
that
vniust
murther
:
therefore
with
all
spéede
hée
mustered
vp
a
mighty
Armie
of
Souldiers
,
and
(
because
hee
was
continually
molested
with
home-bred
Mutinies
,
and
treacherous
rebellions
,
the
which
himselfe
in
person
of
force
must
pacifie
)
appointed
the
Red-rose
Knight
as
chiefe
Generall
ouer
the
Armie
mustered
for
Portingale
.
In
which
Seruice
,
hée
accomplished
so
many
famous
Exployts
,
that
hee
was
for
euer
after
surnamed
,
The
Boast
of
England
.
For
no
sooner
had
hée
the
whole
Campe
in
charge
,
and
aboard
their
Shippes
,
but
hee
prooued
the
perfect
Patterne
of
an
exquisi●e
Souldier
:
such
a
one
,
as
all
martiall
Captaines
may
learne
to
imitate
:
for
hée
so
circumspectly
ordered
his
Captaines
,
that
in
his
Campe
was
neuer
knowne
any
brawle
or
mu●●nie
.
●e
was
very
courteous
and
liberall
,
doing
honour
to
all
men
according
to
their
deserts
.
He
so
painfully
and
with
such
care
instructed
his
Souldiers
,
that
at
an
instant
alwayes
(
if
it
were
needfull
)
euery
man
by
the
sound
of
a
Drumme
or
a
Trumpet
,
was
found
in
his
Charge
and
Quarter
.
And
(
to
be
briefe
)
his
Campe
resembled
one
of
the
greatest
Cities
in
the
world
,
for
all
kind
of
officers
were
there
found
in
order
:
and
also
a
great
number
of
Merchants
to
furnish
it
with
all
manner
of
necessaryes
.
Hee
〈◊〉
case
permitted
any
robberies
,
priuy
fighting
,
force
,
or
violence
:
but
with
seuerity
punished
those
that
were
therein
found
guiltie
.
His
desire
was
,
that
his
Souldiers
should
glory
in
nothing
so
much
,
as
in
Martiall
prowesse
,
Uertue
,
and
Wisedome
.
He
euermore
gaue
them
their
pay
without
fraud
or
deceit
.
He
honoured
,
he
praysed
,
he
imbrac'd
and
kist
them
,
and
withall
kept
them
in
awe
and
subiection
:
by
which
meanes
his
fame
and
honour
grew
so
renowned
,
that
his
Army
dayly
encreased
more
and
more
.
For
when
he
first
arriued
vpon
the
Confines
of
Portingale
,
his
Campe
grew
to
bee
as
great
as
euer
was
Caesars
,
when
he
conquered
the
Western
World
,
and
in
matchlesse
pro●●esse
nothing
inferiour
vnto
his
.
So
fortunate
were
his
proceedings
,
that
he
made
a
great
part
of
the
Prouinces
of
Portingale
desolate
not
being
intercepted
by
any
,
but
poyling
euery
Towne
and
Citie
as
hee
went
,
vntill
such
time
a●
the
Portingale
King
had
gathered
together
a
marueilous
number
os
Souldiers
,
both
olde
,
and
of
much
experience
,
by
reason
of
the
continuall
Warres
that
they
had
with
the
〈◊〉
Nation
adioyning
néere
vnto
them
:
But
when
this
Portingale
King
(
like
an
expert
Souldier
)
séeing
that
no
way
he
might
resist
the
English
Army
,
nor
expell
them
his
Countrey
,
vnlesse
he
gaue
them
present
Battaile
,
therefore
trusting
in
his
approued
Manhood
,
and
the
prowesse
of
his
Souldiers
,
he
set
his
Army
in
a
readinesse
and
so
marched
forward
to
méet
the
Red-rose
Knight
,
and
his
warlike
followers
,
which
at
that
time
had
pitched
his
Campe
in
a
large
Champion
Plaine
,
adioyning
néere
vnto
the
Citie
of
●●shborne
,
whereas
both
these
Armies
met
:
and
setting
them
in
order
(
as
it
became
good
Captaines
)
there
they
began
(
in
the
breake
of
the
day
)
she
most
cruell
and
terriblest
Battle
that
euer
was
heard
of
,
or
fought
in
that
age
,
considering
the
number
of
both
parties
,
their
experience
and
pollicy
,
with
the
valiant
courage
and
prowesse
of
their
Captaines
.
In
great
danger
continued
this
fight
,
till
the
Sun
beganne
to
set
,
with
marueilous
●laughter
on
both
sides
;
yet
remayned
the
victory
doubtfull
,
declining
neither
to
the
Portingales
,
nor
yet
to
the
English
:
but
at
last
(
though
long
)
the
Portingales
began
to
saint
and
flie
;
more
indeed
opprest
with
she
multitude
then
for
any
feare
they
receiued
in
the
Eatte●●
for
the
most
part
of
them
with
honour
dyed
manfully
in
the
Field
,
some
taken
prisoners
,
and
the
rest
fled
for
their
better
safety
:
but
now
the
Portingale
King
perceiuing
his
Souldiers
begin
to
flye
,
with
courage
hee
sought
to
withdraw
them
from
flight
,
resisted
in
person
valiantly
the
furious
rage
of
the
enemy
:
but
in
that
enterprise
he
gained
such
and
so
many
knockes
,
that
at
last
he●
was
vnhorst
,
and
for
want
of
reskew
,
was
forst
to
yéeld
himselfe
as
prisoner
:
whereat
the
whole
armie
of
the
Portingales
were
discomforted
,
and
the
victory
fell
to
the
Englishmen
:
the
which
being
obtayned
,
the
Red-rose
Knight
with
his
Armie
entred
into
the
Citie
of
Lishborne
;
where
the
common
Souldiers
were
inriched
with
wealthy
spoyles
,
and
the
Kings
Pallace
ran●acked
by
the
Red-rose
Knight
:
where
hée
tooke
such
prisoners
as
him
best
liked
,
and
the
rest
(
like
an
honorable
souldier
)
he
set
at
liberty
,
commaunding
that
no
violence
should
be
proffered
any
way
:
After
this
,
setting
his
Army
in
a
readinesse
,
he
marched
towards
England
,
where
after
some
few
dayes
〈◊〉
,
hee
arriued
with
all
his
Ho●st
,
in
the
Westerne
parts
of
Deuonshire
,
and
marching
towards
London
,
where
against
his
comming
,
the
Citizens
with
the
Inhabitants
of
other
villages
néere
adioyning
,
were
that
day
séene
in
their
most
sumptucus
and
rich
attire
,
euery
one
of
them
endeauoring
to
place
himselfe
in
some
Gallery
or
Window
,
that
the
better
and
with
more
ease
they
might
behold
the
triumphant
returne
of
the
Red-rose
Knight
.
All
the
Churches
in
London
were
on
euery
side
set
open
,
hanged
round
about
with
most
costly
forniture
:
the
stréetes
were
also
most
gloriously
beset
with
gréene
Boughes
,
and
strowed
with
Perfumes
of
no
small
value
:
and
for
the
infinite
multitude
of
people
that
were
séene
in
the
Citie
,
there
were
appointed
a
hundred
Whiflers
most
richly
attyred
to
kéepe
the
stréets
plaine
and
open
,
whereby
the
triumphs
might
haue
the
easier
passage
:
and
for
that
the
diuersity
of
the
shewes
were
so
many
,
that
they
of
necessitie
were
constrained
to
part
them
into
three
seuerall
dayes
.
The
first
day
hardly
sufficed
in
good
order
to
bring
in
the
Banners
,
Standards
,
and
Ensignes
of
the
Conqueror
,
the
golden
Images
,
and
Tables
of
price
,
which
were
all
brought
in
on
C●rts
very
curiously
painted
and
trimmed
.
On
the
second
day
,
came
in
the
Armour
of
the
Conquered
King
,
as
also
of
all
the
other
Portingale
Lords
:
and
as
they
were
rich
,
bright
,
and
glittering
,
so
were
they
with
most
cunning
ordered
and
couched
in
waggons
.
After
these
entred
thrée
thousand
men
,
in
order
,
bearing
nothing
but
Money
openly
to
b●e
seene
,
and
that
in
huge
Platters
and
Uessels
of
Siluer
;
of
which
were
thrée
hundred
and
fiftie
in
number
,
and
foure
of
our
men
allotted
to
euery
vessell
:
the
other
brought
in
most
artificiall
Tapestry
works
,
beautified
with
gold
and
siluer
.
And
thus
was
the
second
dayes
Triumph
ended
,
in
most
pompous
s●lemnitie
.
Upon
the
third
day
,
euen
at
the
rising
of
the
Sunne
,
with
the
first
Band
,
entred
(
as
a
ioyfull
sound
of
Conquest
)
an
infinite
number
of
Flutes
,
Drummes
,
and
Trumpets
,
with
other
like
Martiall
and
Warlike
Instruments
,
sounding
not
after
a
most
pleasant
and
swéet
manner
,
but
in
most
terrible
sort
,
as
it
was
possible
to
be
done
,
euen
in
such
order
as
they
doe
,
when
they
presently
ioyne
Battaile
.
And
after
them
,
came
a
hundred
and
twentie
Kine
all
white
,
hauing
their
Hornes
curiously
gilded
with
Gold
,
their
bodies
couered
with
Uayles
,
(
which
they
accompted
most
sacred
and
holy
)
bearing
also
Garlands
of
Flowers
vpon
their
Heads
,
driuen
by
certaine
young
Gentlemen
,
no
lesse
well
fauoured
then
gorgeously
att●red
.
After
these
,
followed
the
Coach
of
the
conquered
King
of
Portingale
,
with
his
owne
Armour
layd
thereon
openly
to
bée
séene
of
all
men
:
his
Crowne
and
royall
Scepter
was
layd
in
seemely
order
vpon
his
Armour
.
After
his
Coach
,
came
Prisoners
on
foot
,
with
his
owne
naturall
Children
,
being
little
Infants
:
and
after
them
followed
a
great
Troup
of
his
Seruants
and
Officers
,
as
Masters
of
his
Housheuld
,
Secretaries
,
Ushers
,
Controlers
,
Chamberlaines
,
with
other
Gentlemen
of
his
Court
,
all
in
a
most
sorowfull
manner
,
seeing
themselues
brought
into
such
extremitie
and
seruitude
,
that
they
mooued
to
companion
all
such
as
beheld
them
.
Of
the
Kings
children
,
there
were
two
Boyes
,
and
one
Girle
,
of
age
so
young
and
tender
,
that
they
had
small
vnderstanding
of
their
misfortune
and
misery
.
In
this
triumph
followed
the
Father
his
owne
Children
,
(
after
the
vsage
of
his
Countrey
)
clad
in
black
mourning
garments
,
sorrowing
likewise
for
his
hard
misfortune
.
Then
followed
sundry
of
his
approoued
Friends
:
which
,
beholding
in
that
plight
their
vnhappy
Prince
,
brake
cut
into
teares
and
sighes
so
bitterly
,
that
their
enemies
themselues
grieued
at
their
mishaps
.
After
these
,
followed
one
which
carryed
certaine
precious
Stones
,
that
had
béen
presented
to
the
Red-rose
Knight
,
from
some
ancient
Cities
in
Portingale
,
who
immediatly
followed
in
person
triumphantly
in
his
Iuory
Chariot
,
apparelled
in
vestures
of
purple
Tissue
,
hauing
a
Lawrell
bough
in
his
hand
,
and
a
Crowne
of
the
same
vpon
his
Head
.
After
him
,
followed
his
owne
Souldiers
,
both
foot-men
,
and
Horse-men
,
all
marching
in
most
decent
order
,
armed
with
rich
Furniture
,
holding
also
each
of
them
a
Lawrell
bough
in
his
hand
,
their
Ensignes
and
Banners
Souldier-like
displayed
,
sounding
Martiall
Melody
in
honour
of
their
triumphant
Captain
:
with
many
other
like
presidents
,
most
royall
and
magnificent
.
Thus
in
this
gallant
order
marched
they
to
the
Kings
Chappell
,
where
in
the
presence
of
the
King
and
his
Lords
,
(
which
came
to
honour
and
grace
their
Triumphs
)
they
gaue
thanks
to
God
for
their
succesfull
victory
:
were
after
solemne
Seruice
was
ended
,
they
departed
to
King
Arthurs
Court
,
where
euery
one
,
as
well
Strangers
as
others
,
were
most
royally
feasted
.
The
Portingale
King
séeing
his
kind
entertainement
in
the
English
Court
,
where
he
was
vsed
more
like
a
Friend
,
then
an
Enemie
,
had
small
care
to
returne
home
,
but
●rolik'd
many
a
day
amongst
the
English
Lords
:
whose
loues
vnto
strangers
be
euermore
most
honourable
.
But
so
great
were
the
courtesies
that
the
Noble
King
Arthur
bestowed
vpon
the
Portingales
,
who
for
their
proffered
disgraces
,
requited
them
liberally
with
honour
:
and
not
onely
sent
them
home
ransomlesse
,
but
promised
to
lend
them
ayde
and
succour
from
England
,
if
occasion
required
:
So
bearing
them
company
to
the
Sea
side
,
hee
most
friendly
committed
them
to
the
mercy
of
the
winds
and
waues
,
which
were
so
fauourable
,
that
in
short
time
they
arriued
safe
in
their
owne
Country
;
where
many
a
day
after
they
remembred
the
honourable
kindnesse
of
the
English-men
,
and
caused
the
Chronicles
of
Portingale
to
record
the
renowne
of
King
Arthur
,
and
hi●●●●●●ts
of
the
Round
Table
.
CHAP.
IIII.
How
the
Red-rose
Knight
trauelled
from
the
King
of
Englands
Court
,
and
how
he
arriued
in
the
Fayerie-land
,
where
he
was
entertained
by
a
Mayden
Queene
,
and
what
happened
to
him
in
the
same
Country
.
NOw
,
after
the
Portingales
were
thus
conquered
,
and
sent
home
with
great
honour
,
the
English
King
and
his
Lordes
,
rested
themselues
many
a
day
in
the
Bowers
of
Peace
,
leau●ng
their
Armours
rusting
,
and
their
pampered
Steedes
standing
in
their
Sca●les
,
forgetting
their
vsuall
manner
of
wrathfull
warre
:
which
idle
ease
greatly
discontented
the
magnanimious
Red-rose
Knight
,
who
thought
it
a
staine
to
his
passed
glory
,
and
a
scandall
to
his
Princely
mind
to
entertaine
such
base
thoughts
:
and
considering
with
himselfe
how
ignorant
hee
was
of
his
true
Parents
,
and
from
whence
hee
was
descended
,
hee
could
not
imagine
:
therefore
hee
purposed
to
begin
a
new
enterprise
,
and
to
trauaile
vp
and
downe
the
World
,
till
hee
had
either
found
his
Father
and
Mother
,
or
else
yéelded
his
life
to
Natures
courle
in
that
pretended
Journey
:
so
going
to
the
King
,
(
full
little
thinking
that
he
was
sprung
from
so
Noble
a
stock
)
crauing
at
his
Graces
hand
,
to
graunt
him
such
liberty
,
for
to
try
his
Knight-hood
in
forraine
Countries
,
whereas
yet
did
neuer
Englishman
make
his
aduenture
;
and
so
eternize
his
name
to
all
posterity
,
rather
then
to
spend
his
life
in
such
home-bred
practises
.
To
this
his
honourable
request
,
the
King
(
though
loath
to
forgoe
his
company
,
yet
because
it
belonged
to
Knightly
Attempts
)
hee
gaue
him
leaue
,
and
withall
,
furnished
him
a
Shippe
at
his
owne
proper
cost
and
charges
,
giuing
free
Licence
to
all
Knights
whatsoeuer
,
to
beare
him
company
:
amongst
which
number
,
Sir
Launcelor
du
Lake
was
the
chiefest
that
proferred
himselfe
to
that
Uoyage
,
who
protested
such
loue
to
the
Red-rose
Knight
,
that
they
plighted
their
Faiths
like
sworne
Brothers
,
and
to
liue
and
die
together
in
all
extreamities
.
So
these
two
English
Knights
,
with
the
number
of
a
hundred
more
,
all
resolute
Gentlemen
,
tooke
leaue
of
the
King
,
and
with
all
spéede
went
a
Ship-boord
:
wherein
being
no
s●●ner
entred
,
but
the
Pylot
hoysed
Sayle
and
di●an●hored
,
and
so
committed
their
liues
and
Fortunes
to
the
pleasure
of
Neptunes
mercie
:
vpon
whose
〈◊〉
Kingdome
the
〈◊〉
many
dayes
sayled
,
but
Ae●●us
brazen
gates
●u●st
open
,
and
the
Windes
so
violently
troubled
the
swelling
waues
,
that
euery
minute
they
were
in
danger
,
to
end
their
liues
in
the
bottome
of
the
Seas
.
Thrée
moneths
the
winde
and
the
waters
stroue
together
for
supremacie
:
during
which
time
,
they
sawe
no
land
,
but
were
driuen
vp
and
downe
,
to
what
place
the
euer-changing
Destenies
listed
:
so
at
last
they
sayled
beyond
the
Sunne
,
directed
only
by
the
light
of
the
Starres
,
not
knowing
which
way
to
trauell
towards
land
,
but
in
such
extrenity
for
want
of
Uictuall
,
that
they
were
forced
to
land
at
a
certaine
Iland
in
the
Westerne
parts
of
the
world
,
inhabited
onely
by
women
:
where
being
no
sooner
on
land
,
and
giuing
God
thanks
for
deliuering
them
from
that
mortall
perill
,
but
the
Red-rose
Knight
cast
vp
his
eyes
towards
the
higher
parts
of
the
Countrey
,
and
espied
more
then
two
thousand
women
comming
foorth
at
a
Citie
gate
,
all
most
richly
armed
with
Breast-plates
of
Siluer
,
marching
in
trim
aray
,
like
an
Army
of
well
approoued
Souldiers
:
the
which
number
comming
néere
to
the
Sea
side
,
they
sent
two
of
their
Damsels
,
as
Messengers
to
the
English
Knights
,
willing
them
,
as
they
loued
their
liues
,
presently
to
retire
againe
back
to
the
Seas
,
for
that
was
no
Countrey
for
their
abode
.
But
when
the
Red-rose
Knight
of
England
had
vnderstoode
the
hold
message
of
the
two
Damsels
,
he
was
sore
abashed
(
considering
the
number
of
armed
women
he
saw
before
him
,
and
the
great
dangers
they
had
suffered
before
on
the
Sea
for
want
of
v●●●uals
)
that
he
knew
not
in
what
manner
he
were
best
to
answere
them
:
but
hauing
a
good
courage
,
hee
at
last
spake
to
the
two
Damsels
in
this
sort
.
Right
Noble
Ladies
,
I
haue
well
vnderstood
your
spéeches
:
therefore
I
desire
you
for
to
shew
such
fauour
vnto
wandering
Trauailers
,
as
to
tell
vs
in
what
Country
Fortune
hath
brought
vs
to
:
and
for
what
cause
we
are
commanded
by
you
to
returne
to
the
Sea
?
Surely
Sir
Knight
(
answered
one
of
the
Damsels
)
this
Countrey
whereon
you
are
ariued
,
it
is
not
very
bigge
,
but
yet
most
fertile
and
commodious
;
and
is
called
by
the
name
of
the
Fayrie-Land
:
And
now
to
shew
you
the
cause
why
you
are
commaunded
to
returne
,
this
it
is
.
Not
many
yeares
agoe
,
there
raigned
in
this
Countrey
a
King
which
had
to
name
Larmos
,
for
wisedome
and
prowesse
not
his
equall
was
found
in
any
of
these
parts
of
the
world
.
This
King
had
such
continuall
warre
against
the
bordering
Ilanders
,
that
vpon
a
time
he
was
constrained
to
muster
for
the
same
warre
all
the
men
both
young
&
old
which
were
found
in
his
Kingdome
,
whereby
the
whole
Countrey
was
left
destitute
of
men
,
to
the
great
disconten●ment
of
the
Ladies
and
Damsels
that
here
inhabited
:
whereupon
they
finding
themselues
so
highly
wronged
,
liuing
without
the
company
of
men
,
they
generally
assembled
themselues
together
,
with
the
Daughter
of
King
Larmos
,
which
is
called
Caelia
,
no
lesse
in
Beautie
,
then
in
Uertue
and
Wisedome
:
These
Ladyes
and
Damosels
beeing
gathered
together
,
with
a
generall
consent
,
dispatched
certaine
Messengers
to
the
King
,
and
to
their
Husbands
,
willing
them
to
returne
into
their
Countrey
,
and
not
to
leaue
their
wiues
and
children
in
such
extremity
,
without
the
comfort
and
company
of
man
.
Upon
which
,
the
King
answered
,
that
hee
had
besieged
his
Enemies
in
their
Townes
of
Warre
;
and
before
one
man
should
returne
home
till
he
came
with
Conquest
,
his
Country
should
bee
lost
and
made
desolate
,
and
the
Women
giuen
ouer
to
the
spoyle
of
his
Enemies
:
Which
answere
,
when
the
Ladies
had
receiued
,
they
tooke
it
in
such
euill
part
,
that
they
conspired
against
their
King
,
and
Husbands
,
and
put
to
death
all
the
men
children
that
were
in
the
Countrey
;
and
after
determined
,
when
their
Husbands
,
Fathers
,
and
Friends
returned
from
the
Warre
,
that
they
should
the
first
night
of
their
comming
,
bee
slaine
sléeping
in
their
Beds
,
and
that
neuer
after
they
should
suffer
man
to
enter
into
their
Countrey
.
After
this
conclusion
,
they
crowned
Caelia
the
Kings
Daughter
for
their
Quéene
:
And
so
afterward
,
when
the
King
and
his
Armie
returned
from
his
Warres
,
this
bloudy
murther
was
practised
,
and
not
a
man
left
aliue
,
but
onely
the
King
reserued
,
whom
Caelia
would
in
no
wise
against
nature
murther
:
but
yet
notwithstanding
,
shee
deliuered
him
into
the
hands
of
her
chiefest
Ladies
,
which
put
him
into
a
Boat
alone
,
and
so
sent
him
to
the
Sea
to
seeke
his
fortune
.
Therefore
most
noble
Knights
,
this
is
the
cause
,
why
you
may
not
enter
into
our
Countrey
:
which
if
you
doe
,
and
not
presently
withdraw
your selues
vnto
the
Sea
,
the
Ladies
will
suddenly
giue
you
a
meruailous
Battell
.
Now
by
the
Euer-liuing
〈…〉
which
English-men
adore
,
(
said
the
Noble
Red-rose
Knight
)
such
extremitie
haue
wee
suffered
at
Sea
,
that
wée
are
like
to
perish
and
dye
with
hunger
,
vnlesse
wée
finde
some
succeur
at
your
hands
:
and
before
we
will
end
our
liues
with
famine
,
we
will
enter
Battell
with
those
Ladies
,
and
so
dye
with
Honour
in
the
Field
:
yet
this
kindnesse
doe
we
humbly
desire
at
your
hands
,
to
returne
vnto
your
Quéene
,
and
certifie
her
of
our
poore
estate
and
necessity
,
and
that
we
altogether
instantly
desire
her
,
that
if
there
be
any
sparke
of
Uertue
,
or
Nobility
harboured
in
her
breast
,
that
shée
will
haue
pitie
vpon
vs
,
and
suffer
vs
not
to
end
our
liues
by
such
an
unhappy
kind
of
death
.
With
this
request
the
two
Damsels
returned
to
the
Quéen
and
recounted
from
word
to
word
the
humble
suit
of
the
Red-rose
Knight
,
and
what
extremitie
they
were
in
:
Which
when
the
Quéene
vnderstood
,
and
that
they
were
Knights
of
England
,
the
fame
of
which
countrey
shée
had
so
often
heard
reportes
,
shée
demaunded
,
what
manner
of
people
they
were
,
and
of
what
condition
?
Surely
Madam
(
answered
one
of
the
two
Damsels
)
I
neuer
in
all
my
life
saw
more
goodly
men
,
nor
better
spo●en
:
and
it
is
to
bée
supposed
,
they
bée
the
choyce
of
all
humane
people
,
and
with
their
courteous
demeanors
,
are
able
to
draive
the
mercilesse
and
sauage
Nation
to
affect
them
.
The
Quéene
hearing
the
Damsels
so
highly
to
commend
the
English
Knights
,
thinking
also
vpon
their
request
,
began
(
in
minde
)
to
haue
pitie
of
their
misaduentures
,
and
so
instantly
sent
for
them
,
and
gaue
them
frée
libertie
to
make
their
abode
in
her
Countrey
:
which
incontinently
when
the
English
Knights
heard
,
how
they
should
receiue
a
kinde
welcome
,
and
a
friendly
entertainement
,
grew
so
exceeding
ioyfull
,
as
though
Heauen
had
sent
them
present
comfort
:
so
comming
before
the
Quéene
and
her
Ladyes
,
they
saluted
each
other
most
courteously
,
and
with
great
reuerence
.
But
when
the
vertuous
Quéene
behelde
this
noble
company
before
her
,
in
all
humilitie
,
shée
deliuered
to
a
hundred
of
her
Ladies
,
the
hundred
English
Knights
,
and
reserued
the
Princely
Red-rose
Knight
vnto
her selfe
:
and
so
were
they
brought
to
the
Quéenes
Pallace
,
where
euery
Lady
feasted
her
Knight
in
most
gallant
sort
,
and
to
their
hearts
content
.
But
now
when
the
Quéene
had
the
Red-rose
Knight
in
her
Chamber
,
and
had
beheld
the
exceeding
beautie
of
the
noble
Prince
,
shée
tooke
him
by
the
hand
,
and
led
him
into
one
of
her
Chambers
,
where
the
shewed
him
her
Riches
and
Treasure
:
and
after
sayd
vnto
him
in
this
manner
.
Most
noble
and
valiant
Englishman
,
these
Riches
bée
all
onely
at
thy
Commandement
,
and
also
my
body
,
which
here
I
offer
vp
as
a
gift
and
Present
to
thy
diuine
excellencie
:
and
furthermore
,
there
is
nothing
of
value
,
which
I
am
Mistris
of
,
but
shall
be
at
thy
disposing
,
to
the
intent
that
my
loue
may
be
acceptable
to
thy
gracious
eyes
.
But
when
the
Red-rose
Knight
perceiued
to
what
intent
she
spake
these
words
,
in
this
manner
answered
her
,
saying
.
Most
deare
Princesse
,
and
faire
Quéene
of
this
Maiden
countrey
,
I
giue
you
right
humble
thankes
for
these
your
courtesies
,
and
by
no
meanes
possible
may
I
deserue
this
high
honour
you
haue
grac'd
me
with
.
Oh
great
Knight
(
replyed
then
the
Quéene
)
the
smallest
thought
of
your
honourable
minde
,
is
sufficien●●o
recompence
the
vttermost
of
my
deserts
:
yet
let
me
request
this
one
thing
at
your
noble
hands
,
that
neuer
asked
the
like
fauour
of
any
one
before
,
for
she
that
neuer
knew
the
least
motion
of
loue
,
is
now
pricked
with
a
hundred
torments
:
and
vnlesse
you
quench
the
ardent
affection
wherwith
my
heart
is
fired
,
with
the
pleasant
hopes
of
your
comfortable
smiles
,
I
am
like
to
die
desperat
,
and
then
the
world
will
accuse
you
of
cruelty
,
in
murdering
a
consiant
Lady
:
but
if
it
shall
please
you
to
grant
me
loue
,
and
so
espouse
me
according
to
Himens
holy
Kites
,
héere
shall
you
rule
sole
King
,
and
be
the
Lord
of
all
this
Countrey
.
My
right
deare
Lady
(
answered
then
the
Red-rose
Knight
)
you
haue
done
such
pleasure
to
mée
,
and
to
my
distressed
followers
,
in
preseruing
vs
from
famine
,
as
I
shal
neuer
requite
it
,
though
I
should
spend
all
the
rest
of
my
life
in
your
Seruice
,
And
know
(
most
excellent
Princesse
)
that
there
is
no
aduenture
so
dangerous
,
yet
at
your
commandement
would
I
practise
to
accomplish
yet
for
to
tye
my selfe
in
Wedlockes
bonds
,
there
is
no
woman
in
the
world
shall
procure
mee
:
for
till
I
haue
finished
an
Aduenture
which
in
my
heart
I
haue
vowed
,
I
will
not
linke
my
affection
to
any
Lady
in
the
world
.
But
thinke
not
(
Madam
)
that
I
refuse
your
loue
through
disdaine
:
for
I
sweare
by
the
dignity
King
Arthur
grac●d
mée
with
,
I
should
think
my selfe
most
fortunate
,
if
I
had
so
faire
and
noble
a
Lady
,
as
your
diuine
selfe
.
Most
worthy
Knight
(
then
answered
the
Quéene
)
I
imagine
,
that
the
Gods
haue
sent
you
into
this
Countrey
for
two
causes
principally
:
The
first
is
,
that
you
and
your
followers
should
be
preserued
from
death
by
my
meanes
:
The
second
is
,
that
you
should
inhabit
in
this
Countrey
least
it
should
in
short
time
be
left
as
a
desert
wildernesse
:
for
it
is
inhabited
onely
by
Women
without
a
King
,
and
haue
no
other
Gouernour
but
me
,
which
am
their
chiefe
Princesse
:
And
for
so
much
as
I
haue
succoured
you
,
so
succour
you
this
desolate
Citie
,
that
it
may
be
repeopled
with
your
séed
:
and
in
so
doing
,
you
shall
accomplish
a
vertuous
déed
,
and
winne
to
your
names
an
eternall
memory
to
all
ensuing
ages
.
I
confesse
(
quoth
the
Red-rose
Knight
,
)
that
you
and
your
Ladies
haue
succoured
mée
and
my
followers
in
our
great
necessitie
:
and
in
recompense
whereof
,
wee
will
imploy
all
our
indeauours
to
the
repeopling
againe
of
this
Countrey
:
But
in
regard
of
the
secret
vow
my
heart
hath
made
,
I
will
not
yéeld
my selfe
to
your
desires
;
for
if
I
should
infringe
my
oath
,
mine
Honour
were
greatly
impaired
:
And
before
I
would
commit
that
dishonourable
fact
,
I
would
suffer
the
greatest
torment
that
mans
heart
can
imagine
.
Incontinently
,
when
the
loue-sicke
Quéene
heard
this
answere
of
the
English
Knight
,
and
perceiued
that
he
was
firme
in
his
purpose
,
shée
tooke
leaue
of
him
,
and
departed
for
that
time
,
the
Red-rose
Knight
likewise
withdrew
himselfe
into
his
Chamber
,
pondring
in
his
minde
a
thousand
imaginations
.
But
shée
for
her
part
was
so
troubled
in
mind
,
and
so
wounded
with
the
Darts
of
blinde
Cupid
,
that
when
the
mistie
darknes
of
night
had
couered
the
earth
,
shee
layd
her
downe
vpon
her
bed
,
where
betwixt
Shame
and
her
Heart
,
began
a
ferrible
Battell
.
Her
Heart
was
incouraged
,
that
shée
should
goe
and
be
with
him
:
but
shame
began
to
blush
,
and
withstood
that
perswasion
;
by
which
meanes
the
battell
was
great
,
and
indured
a
long
time
:
but
at
last
the
Heart
was
conquerour
,
and
shame
vanquished
and
put
to
flight
,
in
such
sort
,
that
the
faire
Quéene
arose
from
her
bed
,
and
went
and
layd
her
downe
by
her
beloued
Knight
,
where
hée
slept
:
and
being
in
the
bed
,
shée
began
fearefully
to
tremble
,
for
shame
still
followed
her
vnlawfull
practises
:
where
after
her
quiuering
heart
began
a
little
to
be
qualified
,
with
her
trembling
hand
she
awaked
him
,
and
after
spake
in
this
manner
.
My
most
deare
and
affectionat
friend
,
though
like
a
carelesse
wretch
I
come
vnto
thée
apparelled
with
Shame
,
yet
let
my
true
Loue
colour
this
my
infamous
presumption
:
for
your
Princely
person
,
and
Kingly
demeanours
,
like
Adamants
haue
drawne
my
stéeled
Heart
to
commit
this
shamefull
acte
;
yet
let
not
my
feruent
Affection
be
required
with
Disdaine
:
and
although
you
will
not
consent
to
be
my
wedded
Lord
and
Husband
,
yet
let
me
bée
thy
Loue
and
secret
Friend
;
that
a
poore
distressed
Quéene
may
thinke
her selfe
happy
in
an
Englishmans
loue
.
When
the
noble
Knight
heard
the
faire
Caelias
voyce
,
and
felt
her
by
his
side
all
naked
,
hee
was
so
sore
abashed
,
that
hée
wist
not
what
to
doe
:
but
yet
at
last
hauing
the
nature
and
courage
of
a
man
,
hée
turned
to
her
,
vsing
many
amorous
spéeches
,
imbracing
and
kissing
each
other
in
such
manner
,
that
faire
Caelia
was
conceiued
with
Child
.
and
waxe
great
of
a
right
faire
Sonne
:
of
whom
she
was
in
processe
of
time
safe
:
ly
deliuered
;
as
you
shall
heare
discoursed
of
large
in
the
following
History
.
But
to
be
short
,
during
the
space
of
foure
Monethes
,
the
Fayery
Ladyes
lay
with
the
English
Knights
,
and
many
of
them
were
conceiued
with
their
séede
in
such
sort
,
that
the
Countrey
was
afterward
repeopled
with
male
Children
,
and
what
happened
amongst
them
in
the
meane
season
,
I
will
passe
ouer
for
this
time
:
for
the
dayes
and
nights
(
that
haue
no
rest
)
passe
on
their
wonted
course
:
in
which
time
their
Shippe
was
replenished
with
all
necessaries
,
and
the
Red-rose
Knight
summoned
together
Sir
Launcelot
and
the
rest
:
and
being
assembled
,
he
sayd
vnto
them
.
My
good
Friends
and
Countreymen
,
you
know
,
that
long
time
we
haue
soiorned
in
this
Countrey
,
spending
our
dayes
in
idle
pastimes
,
to
the
reproach
of
our
former
glories
:
now
my
intent
is
,
within
these
thrée
dayes
to
depart
this
Countrey
,
therefore
let
euery
man
make
himselfe
in
readines
:
for
there
is
no
greater
dishonour
to
aduenturous
Knights
,
then
to
spend
their
dayes
in
Ladyes
bosomes
.
When
sir
Lancelot
and
the
other
English
Gentlemen
heard
the
forward
disposition
of
the
Red-rose
Knight
,
they
were
all
excéeding
ioyfull
,
and
answered
him
;
that
with
great
willingnesse
they
would
all
be
ready
at
the
time
appointed
.
But
now
,
when
the
Fayerie
Ladies
perceiued
the
preparations
that
the
English
Knights
made
for
their
departure
,
they
grew
excéeding
sorrowfull
,
and
complained
one
to
another
in
most
grieuous
manner
:
but
amongst
the
rest
,
the
Quéene
was
most
displeased
,
who
with
a
sorrowfull
and
sad
heart
came
vnto
the
Red-rose
Knight
,
and
in
this
manner
complayned
to
him
.
Alas
,
alas
,
my
deare
Lord
,
haue
yée
that
tyrannous
heart
,
to
withdraw
your selfe
from
me
,
and
to
forsake
me
before
you
sée
the
fruit
of
your
Noble
person
,
which
is
nourished
with
my
bloud
.
Deare
Knight
,
behold
with
pitie
my
wombe
,
the
chamber
and
mansion
of
your
bloud
;
Oh
let
that
be
a
meanes
to
stay
you
,
that
my
Child
(
as
yet
vnborne
)
be
not
fatherlesse
by
your
departure
.
And
in
speaking
these
words
,
shée
began
to
wéepe
and
sigh
bitterly
,
and
after
to
whisper
secretly
to
her selfe
in
this
order
.
Oh
you
immortall
heauens
,
how
may
mine
eyes
behold
the
departure
of
my
ioy
!
for
being
gone
,
all
comfort
in
the
world
will
forsake
me
,
and
all
consolation
flie
from
me
:
and
centrariwise
,
all
sorrow
will
pursue
mee
,
and
all
misfortune
come
against
me
.
Oh
what
a
sorrow
will
it
be
to
my
scule
,
to
sée
thée
floting
on
the
dangerous
Seas
,
where
euery
minute
,
perils
doe
arise
ready
to
whelme
thée
in
the
bottomlesse
Ocean
!
and
being
once
erempted
from
my
sight
,
my
heart
for
euermore
lie
in
the
bed
of
tribulation
,
vnder
the
coueriure
of
mortall
distresse
,
and
betwéene
the
shéetes
of
eternall
hewaylings
.
Yet
if
there
be
no
remedy
,
but
that
theu
wilt
néedes
depart
,
sweare
vnto
me
,
that
if
euer
thou
doest
accomplish
thy
pretended
boyage
,
(
what
it
is
I
know
not
)
that
thou
wilt
returne
againe
to
this
Country
,
to
tell
mée
of
thy
happy
fortunes
,
and
thatmine
eyes
may
once
more
be
hold
thy
louely
countenance
,
which
is
as
delectable
to
my
soule
,
as
the
Ioyes
of
Paradise
.
When
the
Noble
English
Knight
vnderstoode
that
the
Quéene
condescended
to
his
departure
,
vpon
condition
of
his
returne
,
to
which
he
solemnly
protested
,
if
the
Gods
gaue
him
life
and
good
fortune
,
to
performe
her
request
:
whereby
the
Fayrie
Quéene
was
somewhat
recomforted
:
And
hauing
great
hope
in
the
returne
of
her
deare
Loue
,
thée
ceased
her
lamentations
.
And
now
(
to
abridge
the
Story
)
the
time
came
that
the
valiant
English-men
should
goe
a
Ship-boord
:
vpon
which
day
,
the
Red-rose
Knight
and
his
followers
,
tooke
leaue
of
the
noble
Quéene
and
her
Ladies
,
thanking
them
for
their
kinde
entertainements
,
and
so
went
to
the
Port
of
the
Sea
,
where
they
entred
their
Ships
,
and
so
departed
from
the
Fayrie
Land
.
After
this
,
when
Caelia
had
borne
her
Babe
in
her
wombe
full
forty
wéekes
,
she
was
deliuered
of
a
faire
Sonne
,
who
came
afterward
to
be
called
the
Fayrie
Knight
:
which
for
this
time
wée
will
not
touch
,
but
referre
it
to
the
second
part
of
this
History
.
CHAP.
V.
What
happened
to
the
English
Knights
,
after
their
departure
from
the
Fayrie
Land
.
WIth
a
prosperous
Winde
sayled
these
English
Knights
,
many
a
League
from
the
Fayerie
Land
,
to
their
great
content
and
hearts
desire
,
where
euery
thing
seemed
to
Prognosticate
their
happy
Aduentures
:
so
vpon
a
day
when
the
Sunne
shone
cleare
,
and
a
gentle
calme
Winde
caused
the
Seas
to
lye
as
smooth
as
Christall
Ice
,
whereby
their
Ship
lay
floating
on
the
Waues
,
not
able
to
remooue
:
For
whilest
the
Dolphins
daunc'd
vpon
the
siluer
Streames
,
and
the
red
gild
Fishes
leapt
about
the
Shippe
,
the
Red-rose
Knight
requested
Sir
Lancelot
,
to
driue
away
the
time
with
some
Courtly
Discourse
,
whereby
they
might
not
thinke
their
Uoyage
ouer
long
.
Unto
which
,
the
good
Sir
Lancelot
most
willingly
agréed
:
And
although
hee
was
a
Martiall
Knight
,
delighting
to
heare
the
relentlesse
sound
of
angry
Drummes
,
which
thunders
threats
from
a
Massaker
,
yet
could
hee
like
an
Dratour
,
as
well
discourse
a
Louers
History
:
therefore
requesting
the
Red-rose
Knight
,
and
the
other
English
Gentlemen
,
to
sit
downe
and
listen
to
the
Tale
that
followeth
.
The
pleasant
History
which
Sir
Lancelot
du
Lake
,
told
to
the
Red-rose
Knight
,
being
a
Ship-boord
.
AT
that
time
of
the
yeare
,
when
the
Birds
had
nipt
away
the
tawny
leaues
,
and
Flora
with
her
pleasant
Flowers
,
had
enricht
the
earth
,
and
encloathed
with
Trees
,
Hearbs
,
and
Flowers
,
with
Natures
Tapistrie
,
when
the
golden
Sunne
with
his
glistering
Beames
did
glad
mens
hearts
,
and
euery
Leafe
as
it
were
,
did
beare
the
forme
of
Loue
,
by
Nature
painted
vpon
it
:
This
blessed
time
did
cause
the
Grecian
Emperour
to
proclaime
a
solemne
Turnament
to
bee
holden
in
his
Couet
,
which
as
then
was
replenished
with
many
worthy
and
valiant
Knights
:
but
his
desire
chiefely
was
,
to
beholde
his
Princely
Sonne
Valentine
,
to
try
his
Ualour
in
the
Turnament
.
Many
were
the
Ladies
that
repayred
thither
,
to
beholde
the
worthy
Triumphes
of
this
young
Prince
:
amongst
which
number
,
came
the
beautifull
Dulcippa
,
a
Mayden
which
as
then
wayted
vpon
the
Empresse
,
being
Daughter
to
a
Countrey
Gentleman
This
Dulcippa
,
like
Apollos
Flower
,
being
the
fayrest
Uirgin
in
that
company
,
had
so
firmely
setled
her
loue
vpon
the
Emperours
sonne
,
that
it
was
impossible
to
expell
it
from
her
heart
.
Likewise
,
his
affection
was
no
lesse
in
feruencie
then
hers
:
so
that
there
was
a
iust
equality
in
their
Loues
and
liking
,
though
a
difference
in
their
Birthes
and
Callings
.
This
Princely
Valentine
,
(
for
so
was
the
Emperours
Sonne
called
)
entred
the
Listes
in
costly
Armour
most
richly
wrought
with
Orient
Pearles
,
his
Crest
encompassed
with
Saphire
Stones
,
and
in
his
hand
a
sturdie
Launce
.
Thus
mounted
vron
a
milke-white
Stéede
,
hee
vaunted
foorth
himselfe
to
try
his
warlike
force
:
and
in
prauncing
by
and
downe
,
hée
many
times
(
thorow
his
Beuer
)
stole
a
view
of
his
sayre
Dulciopas
face
:
at
which
time
,
there
kindled
in
his
Breast
two
sundry
Lampes
:
the
one
was
to
winne
the
honour
of
the
day
:
the
other
,
to
obtaine
the
loue
of
his
Mistresse
.
On
the
other
side
,
Dulcippa
did
nothing
but
report
the
valiant
arts
of
his
prowesse
and
chiualrie
,
in
such
sort
,
that
there
was
no
other
talke
amongst
the
Ladies
,
but
of
Valentines
honourable
attempts
.
No
sooner
was
the
Turnaments
ended
,
and
this
loue
begun
,
but
Dulcippa
departed
to
her
lodging
,
where
sighes
did
serue
as
bellowes
to
kindle
Leues
fire
.
Valentine
in
like
manner
being
wounded
to
death
,
still
rometh
vp
and
downe
to
finde
a
salue
for
his
stanchlesse
thirst
:
so
séekes
Dulcippa
to
restore
her
former
liberty
:
for
,
she
being
both
beloued
,
and
in
loue
,
knew
not
the
meane
to
comfort
her selfe
.
Sometime
she
did
exclaime
against
her
wandring
eyes
,
&
wished
they
had
bin
blind
when
first
they
gazed
vpon
the
beauty
of
Princely
Valentine
:
Some
times
in
visious
the
beheld
his
face
chéerefull
,
smiling
vpon
her
countenance
:
and
presently
againe
,
shée
thought
she
saw
his
martiall
hands
bathed
all
in
purple
blood
,
scorning
her
loue
and
former
courtesies
.
With
that
shee
started
from
her
dreaming
passion
,
wringing
her
tender
hands
,
till
flouds
of
siluer
dropping
teares
trickled
downe
her
face
:
Her
golden
haire
that
had
wont
to
be
bound
vp
in
thréeds
of
gold
,
hung
dangling
now
about
her
Iuory
necke
:
the
which
in
most
outragious
sort
she
rent
and
tore
,
till
that
her
haire
which
before
lookt
like
burnisht
Gold
,
were
died
now
in
purple
and
Uermillion
bloud
.
In
this
strange
passion
remained
this
distressed
Lady
,
till
the
Golden
Sunne
had
thrée
times
lodged
him
in
the
Westerne
Seas
,
and
the
siluer
Moone
her
shining
face
in
the
Pallace
of
the
Christall
Cloudes
.
At
this
time
a
heauy
slumber
possessed
all
her
senses
:
for
she
,
whose
eyes
before
in
three
dayes
,
and
as
many
nights
,
had
not
shut
vp
their
Closets
,
was
now
lockt
vp
in
silent
sléepe
,
lest
her
heart
euer
burthened
with
griefe
,
by
some
vntimely
manner
should
destroy
it selfe
.
But
now
returne
wee
to
the
worthy
Valentine
,
who
sought
not
to
pine
in
passion
,
but
to
court
it
with
the
best
,
considering
with
himselfe
,
that
a
faint
heart
neuer
gain'd
faire
Lady
:
therfore
hée
purposed
boldly
to
discouer
his
loue
to
the
faire
Dulcippa
,
building
vpon
a
fortunate
successe
,
considering
that
she
was
but
Daughter
to
a
Gentleman
,
and
he
a
Prince
borne
,
so
attiring
himselfe
in
costly
Silkes
,
wearing
in
his
Hatte
,
an
In
dian
Pearle
cut
cut
of
Ruby
red
.
On
eyther
side
a
golden
Arrow
thrust
through
a
bleeding
Heart
;
to
declare
his
earnest
affection
.
In
this
manner
went
he
to
his
belooued
Lady
,
whom
he
found
in
company
of
other
Ladies
waighting
upon
the
Empresse
:
who
taking
her
by
the
hand
,
he
led
her
aside
into
a
Galery
néere
adioyning
:
where
he
began
in
this
manner
to
expresse
the
passion
of
his
loue
.
Sacred
Dulcippa
,
(
quoth
hee
)
in
beauty
brighter
then
glittering
Cinthia
,
when
with
her
beames
shee
beautifies
the
vales
of
Heauen
.
Thou
art
that
Cinthia
,
that
with
thy
brightnesse
dost
sight
my
clowoy
thoughtes
,
which
haue
many
dayes
been
ouer
cast
with
stormy
showers
of
Loue
:
Shine
with
thy
beames
of
mercie
on
my
minde
,
and
let
thy
light
conduct
me
from
the
darke
and
obscure
Laberinthe
of
Loue
.
If
feares
could
speake
,
then
should
my
tongue
kéepe
silence
:
Therefore
,
let
my
sighes
bee
messengers
of
true
Icue
.
And
though
in
words
I
am
not
able
to
deliuer
the
true
meaning
of
my
desires
:
yet
let
my
cause
beg
pitty
at
your
hands
.
Other
wise
your
deniall
drownes
my
soule
in
a
bottomlesse
Sea
of
sorrow
:
one
of
these
two
(
most
beautious
Lady
,
)
doe
I
desire
:
either
to
giue
life
with
a
chéerefull
smile
,
or
death
with
a
fatall
frowne
.
Valentine
hauing
no
sooner
ended
his
loues
oration
,
but
she
with
a
scarlet
countenance
,
returned
him
this
ioyfull
answere
.
Most
Noble
Prince
,
thy
words
within
my
heart
,
hath
knit
a
gordion
knot
,
which
no
earthly
Wight
may
vntie
:
for
it
is
knitte
with
faithfull
Loue
,
and
Teares
,
distilling
from
a
constant
minde
.
My
heart
which
neuer
yet
was
subiect
to
any
one
,
doe
I
fréely
yeeld
vp
into
thy
bosome
,
where
it
for
cuermore
shall
rest
,
till
the
Fatall
sisters
cut
our
liues
asunder
.
And
in
speaking
these
words
,
they
kissed
each
other
as
the
first
earnest
of
their
loues
.
With
that
the
Empresse
came
thorow
the
Gallerie
,
who
espying
their
secret
conference
,
presently
nursed
in
her
secret
hate
,
which
shée
intended
to
practise
against
the
guiltlesse
Lady
,
thinking
it
a
scandall
to
her
Sonnes
birth
,
to
match
in
mariage
with
one
of
so
base
a
parentage
:
Therefore
purposing
to
crosse
their
loues
with
dismall
stratagems
,
and
dryerie
Tragedies
,
shee
departed
to
her
Chamber
,
where
she
cloked
her
treacheries
vp
in
silence
,
&
pondred
in
her
heart
how
she
might
end
their
loues
,
and
finish
Dulcippas
life
.
In
this
tragicall
imagination
remained
she
all
that
night
,
hammering
in
her
head
a
thousand
seueral
practises
.
But
no
sooner
was
the
deawy
earth
comforted
with
the
hote
beames
of
Apollos
fire
,
but
this
thirsting
Empresse
arose
from
her
carefull
bed
,
penning
her selfe
closely
within
her
Chamber
,
like
one
that
made
no
conscience
for
to
kill
:
shée
in
all
hast
sent
for
a
Doctor
of
Phisicke
,
not
to
giue
Phisicke
to
rest●●e
health
,
but
poyson
for
vntimely
death
:
who
being
no
sooner
some
into
her
presence
,
but
presently
she
lockt
her
Chamber
doore
,
and
with
an
angry
countenance
,
staring
him
in
the
face
,
shee
breathed
this
horror
into
his
harmelesse
eares
.
Doctor
,
thou
knowest
how
oft
in
secret
matters
I
haue
vsed
thy
helpe
,
wherein
as
yet
I
neuer
saw
thy
faith
falsified
:
but
now
amongst
the
rest
,
I
am
to
require
thy
ayd
in
an
earnest
businesse
,
so
secret
,
which
if
thou
dost
but
tell
it
to
the
whispering
windes
,
it
is
sufficient
to
spread
it
through
the
whole
world
:
whereby
my
practises
may
be
discouered
,
and
I
be
made
a
noted
reproach
to
all
hearers
.
Madame
(
quoth
the
Doctor
,
whose
heart
harboured
no
thought
of
bloody
deeds
)
what
needs
all
these
circumstances
,
where
dutie
doth
command
my
true
obedience
?
desist
not
ther
,
fore
gentle
Empresse
,
to
make
me
priuy
to
your
thoughts
:
for
little
did
he
thinke
her
minde
could
harbour
so
vile
a
thought
:
but
hauing
coniured
most
strongly
his
secrefie
,
she
spake
to
him
as
followeth
.
Doctor
,
the
loue
(
nay
rather
raging
lust
)
which
I
haue
spied
of
late
betwixt
my
vnnaturall
sonne
,
and
proud
Dulcippa
,
may
in
short
time
(
as
thou
knowest
)
bring
a
sudden
alteration
of
our
state
,
considering
that
he
being
borne
a
Prince
,
and
descended
from
a
royall
race
,
should
match
in
marriage
with
a
base
and
ignoble
Mayden
,
daughter
but
to
a
meane
Gentleman
:
therefore
,
if
I
should
suffer
this
secret
loue
to
goe
forward
,
and
séeke
not
to
preuent
it
,
the
Emperour
might
condemne
mée
of
falshood
,
and
iudge
me
an
agent
in
this
vnlawfull
loue
;
which
to
a
voyd
,
I
haue
a
practise
in
my
head
,
and
in
thy
hand
it
lyes
to
procure
thy
Princes
happinesse
,
and
Countreys
good
.
Dulcippas
father
(
as
thou
knowest
)
dwels
about
thrée
miles
from
my
Pallace
,
vnto
whose
house
,
will
this
day
send
Dulcippa
,
about
such
businesse
as
I
thinke
best
,
where
thou
shalt
bée
appoynted
,
and
none
but
thou
to
conduct
her
thither
:
where
in
a
thicke
and
bushy
groue
which
standeth
directly
in
the
midway
,
thou
shalt
giue
her
the
cup
of
death
,
and
so
rid
my
heart
from
suspitious
thoughts
.
This
bloody
practise
being
pronounced
by
the
Empresse
,
caused
such
a
terrour
to
enter
into
the
Doctors
mind
,
that
he
trembled
foorth
this
sorrowfull
complaint
.
Oh
you
immortall
powers
of
Heauen
,
you
guider
of
my
haplesse
fortunes
,
why
haue
you
thus
ordained
mee
to
bée
the
bloody
murderer
of
a
chaste
and
vertuous
Lady
,
and
the
true
patterne
of
sobrietie
:
whose
vntimelesse
ouerthrow
if
I
should
but
once
conspire
,
Dianas
Nymphs
would
turne
their
wonted
Natures
,
and
staine
their
hands
with
my
accursed
blood
:
Therefore
most
glorious
Empresse
,
cease
your
determination
,
for
my
heart
will
not
suffer
my
hand
to
commit
so
foule
a
villany
.
And
wilt
not
thou
doe
if
then
,
(
repl●ed
the
Empresse
with
a
mind
fraught
with
rage
and
blood
?
)
●
doe
protest
(
quoth
shée
)
by
Heauens
bright
Maiestie
,
except
thou
doest
consent
to
accomplish
my
intent
,
thy
head
shall
warrant
this
my
secresie
.
Stand
not
on
termes
,
my
resolute
attempt
is
cleane
impatient
of
obiections
.
The
Doctor
hearing
her
resolution
,
and
that
nothing
but
Dulcippas
death
might
satisfie
her
wrath
,
hée
consented
to
her
request
(
and
purposed
cunningly
to
dissemble
with
the
bloody
Quéene
)
who
beléeued
that
hée
would
performe
what
shée
so
much
desired
:
so
departing
out
of
her
chamber
,
she
went
to
the
giltlesse
Lady
,
sending
her
on
this
fatall
message
:
who
like
to
haplesse
Bellerophon
,
was
ready
to
carry
an
embassage
of
her
own
death
But
in
the
meane
time
,
the
Doctor
harbored
in
his
breast
a
world
of
bitter
woes
,
to
thinke
how
vilely
this
vertuous
Lady
was
betrayd
:
and
considering
in
his
minde
,
how
that
he
was
forced
by
constraint
to
performe
this
tragedy
;
therefore
hee
purposed
not
to
giue
her
a
cup
of
Poyson
,
but
a
sleeping
Drinke
,
to
cast
her
into
a
traunce
,
which
shee
should
as
a
cup
of
death
receiue
;
as
well
to
try
her
vertuous
Constancie
,
as
to
rid
himselfe
from
so
haynous
a
crime
.
But
now
returne
wee
to
Dulcippa
,
who
beeing
sped
of
her
Message
,
went
with
the
Doctor
,
walking
on
the
way
,
where
all
the
talke
which
they
had
,
was
of
the
liberall
praise
of
Prince
Valentine
;
who
remayned
in
Court
,
little
mistrusting
what
had
happened
to
his
beloued
Lady
:
and
she
likewise
ignorant
of
the
hurt
that
was
pretended
against
her
life
:
but
being
both
alone
together
in
the
Wood
,
where
nothing
was
heard
but
chirping
Birds
,
which
with
their
voyces
séemed
to
mourne
at
the
Ladyes
misfortune
,
But
now
the
Doctor
breaking
off
their
former
talke
,
tooke
occasion
to
speake
as
followeth
.
Man
of
all
other
creatures
(
most
vertuous
Lady
)
is
most
miserable
,
for
Nature
hath
ordayned
to
euery
Bird
a
pleasant
tune
to
bemoane
their
misshapps
,
the
Nightingale
doth
complaine
her
Rape
and
lost
Uirginitie
within
the
desart
Groues
:
the
Swanne
doth
likewise
sing
a
dolefull
heauie
tune
a
while
before
shée
dyes
,
as
though
Heauen
had
inspired
her
with
some
foreknowledge
of
things
to
come
.
Y●●
Madame
,
now
must
sing
your
Swan-like
Song
;
for
the
pretty
Birds
(
I
sée
)
doe
drope
their
hanging
heads
and
mourne
,
to
thinke
that
you
must
die
,
Maruell
not
Madame
;
the
angry
Quéene
will
haue
it
so
.
Accurst
am
I
in
being
constrayned
to
bee
the
bloody
instrument
of
so
tyrannous
a
fact
.
Accurst
am
I
that
haue
ordained
that
cuppe
,
which
must
by
Poyson
,
stanche
the
thirst
of
the
bloody
Empresse
:
and
most
accursed
am
I
,
that
cannot
withstand
the
angry
Fates
,
which
haue
appoynted
mée
to
offer
outrage
vnto
vertue
.
And
in
speaking
these
words
,
hée
deliuered
the
Cup
into
the
Ladyes
hands
:
who
like
a
Lambe
that
was
led
to
the
slaughter
,
vsed
silence
for
her
excuse
.
Many
times
lift
shee
vp
her
eyes
toward
the
sacred
Throne
of
Heauen
,
as
though
the
Gods
had
sent
downe
vengeance
vpon
her
giltlesse
Soule
,
and
at
last
breathed
foorth
these
sorrowfull
lamentations
.
Neuer
(
quoth
shee
)
shall
vertue
stoope
to
Uice
.
Neuer
shall
Death
affright
my
soule
:
nor
neuer
Poyson
quench
that
lasting
loue
,
which
my
true
heart
doth
beare
to
Princely
Valentine
;
whose
Spirit
(
I
hope
)
shall
méete
mée
in
the
ioyfull
Fields
of
Elizium
,
to
call
those
Ghosts
,
that
dyed
for
Faithfull
loue
,
to
beare
mee
witnesse
of
my
Faith
and
Loyalty
:
and
so
taking
the
Cup
,
shée
said
.
Come
,
come
,
thou
most
blessed
Cup
,
wherein
is
contained
that
happy
Drinke
,
which
giues
rest
to
troubled
mindes
.
And
thou
most
blessed
Wood
,
beare
witnesse
,
that
I
mixe
this
banefull
Drinke
with
Teares
distilling
from
my
bléeding
heart
.
These
Lips
of
mine
that
had
woont
to
kisse
Prince
Valentine
,
shall
now
most
willingly
kisse
this
Ground
,
that
must
receiue
my
Corse
.
The
author
of
my
death
,
I
le
blesse
;
for
shee
honours
mee
,
in
that
I
die
for
my
swéet
Valentines
sake
.
And
now
Doctor
to
thée
(
being
the
instrument
of
this
my
Death
)
I
doe
begueath
all
earthly
happinesse
:
and
here
withall
,
I
drinke
to
Valentines
good
fortune
:
So
drinking
off
the
sleeping
Potion
,
shée
was
presently
cast
into
a
traunce
;
which
shée
poore
Lady
,
supposed
death
.
The
Doctor
greatly
admiring
at
her
vertuous
minde
,
erected
her
body
against
an
aged
Oake
,
where
he
left
her
sléeping
,
and
with
all
spéede
returned
to
the
hatefull
Quéene
,
and
told
her
,
that
he
had
performed
her
Maiesties
command
:
who
gaue
him
many
thanks
,
and
promised
to
requite
his
secrecie
with
a
large
recompence
.
But
now
speake
we
againe
of
Prince
Valentine
,
who
had
intelligence
,
how
the
onely
comfort
of
his
heart
had
ended
her
life
by
Poysons
violence
:
for
which
cause
,
he
leaues
the
Court
;
and
conuerted
his
rich
Attire
to
ruthfull
Roabes
:
his
costly
coloured
Garments
,
to
a
homely
russet
Coat
;
and
so
trauailing
to
the
solitary
woods
,
he
vowed
to
spend
the
rest
of
his
dayes
in
a
Shepheards
life
:
His
royall
Scepter
was
turned
into
a
simple
Shéepehooke
,
and
all
his
pleasure
was
to
kéepe
his
Shéepe
from
the
téeth
of
the
rauenous
Wolues
.
Thrée
times
had
glistering
Phoebe
renewed
her
horned
winges
,
and
deckt
the
elements
with
her
smiling
countenance
:
Thrée
moneths
were
past
,
thrée
Moones
had
likewise
runne
their
wonted
composse
,
before
the
Grecian
Emperou
mist
his
Princely
Sonne
:
whose
want
was
no
sooner
bruted
through
the
Court
,
but
hee
ecchoed
foorth
this
horrour
to
himselfe
.
What
cursed
Planet
thus
indirectly
rules
my
haplesse
course
?
or
what
vn●outh
dryery
Fate
hath
bereaued
me
of
my
Princely
sonne
?
Ioue
send
downe
thy
burning
Thunderb●lts
,
and
strike
them
dead
that
be
pro●urers
of
his
want
:
But
,
if
(
swéet
Venus
)
he
be
dead
for
loue
,
houer
his
Ghost
before
mine
eyes
,
that
hee
may
discouer
the
cau●e
or
his
inflictions
.
But
contrariwise
,
if
his
life
be
finished
by
the
fury
of
some
murtherous
mind
,
then
let
my
exclamations
pierce
to
the
iustfull
Maiestie
of
Heauen
,
that
neuer
Sunne
may
shine
vpon
his
hated
head
,
which
is
the
cause
of
my
Valentines
decay
:
Or
,
that
the
angry
Furies
may
lend
me
their
burning
whips
,
ince●santly
to
scourge
their
purple
soules
,
till
my
Sonnes
wrongs
bee
sufficiently
reuenged
.
Thus
,
or
in
such
a
like
frantick
humour
ranne
hee
vp
and
downe
his
Pallace
,
till
Reason
pacified
his
outragious
thoughts
,
and
by
perswasion
of
his
Lords
,
he
was
brought
into
his
quiet
bed
.
Meane
space
,
Diana
(
the
Quéene
of
Chastitie
)
with
a
Traine
of
beautifull
Nimphe●
,
by
chance
came
through
the
Wood
where
Dulcippa
was
left
in
her
traunce
:
in
which
place
,
rousing
the
Thickets
in
pur●uit
of
a
wilde
Hart
,
the
Quéene
of
Chastity
espied
the
harmlesse
Lady
standing
against
a
Trée
,
and
beheld
her
swéet
breath
to
passe
through
her
closed
lips
:
At
whose
presence
,
the
Quéene
a
while
stood
wondring
at
;
but
at
last
,
with
her
sacred
shee
awaked
her
,
and
withall
asked
the
cause
of
her
traunce
,
and
by
what
meanes
she
came
thither
?
Which
poore
awaked
Lady
,
being
amazed
both
at
her
sodaine
Maiestie
,
and
the
strangenesse
of
her
passed
Fortune
and
distresse
,
with
farre
fetcht
sighes
,
shee
related
what
happened
to
her
in
those
desart
Woods
.
The
heauenly
Goddesse
being
moued
with
pitie
,
with
a
most
smiling
voyce
cheared
her
vp
,
and
with
a
Lilly
taken
from
the
ground
,
she
wiped
the
teares
from
off
Dulcippa
tender
chéekes
,
which
like
to
a
riuer
trickled
from
her
Christall
eyes
.
This
being
done
,
Diana
with
an
Angels
voyce
,
spake
vnto
her
as
followeth
.
Swéete
Uirgine
(
for
so
it
séemeth
thou
art
)
farre
better
would
it
befit
thy
happy
estate
(
happy
I
terme
it
)
hauing
past
so
many
dangers
,
to
spend
the
remnant
of
thy
life
amongst
my
Traine
of
Nimphes
,
whereas
springeth
nothing
but
Chastity
and
purity
of
life
.
Dulcippa
,
though
in
her
loue
both
firme
and
constant
,
yet
did
she
condiscend
to
dwell
with
Dianas
Nimphs
:
where
now
,
instead
of
parly
with
courtly
Gallants
,
shée
singeth
Songs
,
Carrols
,
Roundelayes
:
in
stead
of
Penne
and
Incke
,
wherewith
she
was
wont
to
write
Loue-letters
,
shee
exerciseth
her
Bow
&
Arrows
,
to
kill
the
swift-fat
Deare
:
and
her
downie
Beddes
,
are
pleasant
Groues
,
where
pretty
Lambes
doe
graze
.
But
now
returne
wée
againe
to
the
raging
Emperour
,
who
sifted
the
matter
out
in
such
sort
,
that
hee
found
the
Empresse
giltie
of
her
Sonnes
want
,
and
the
Doctor
to
bee
the
instrument
of
Dulcippas
death
:
who
being
desperat
(
like
one
that
vtterly
detested
the
cruelty
of
the
Empresse
)
would
not
alleadge
,
that
he
had
but
set
the
Lady
in
a
traunce
,
but
openly
confessed
that
he
had
poysoned
her
&
for
that
fact
was
willing
to
offer
vp
his
life
to
satisfie
the
Law
,
therefore
the
angry
Emperour
sweares
,
that
nothing
shall
satisfie
his
Sonnes
reuengement
,
but
death
:
and
thereupon
straightly
commaunded
the
Empresse
to
be
put
in
prison
,
and
the
Doctor
likewise
to
be
lockt
in
a
strong
Tower
:
but
yet
because
shee
was
his
lawfull
Wife
,
and
a
Princesse
borne
hee
something
sought
to
mittigate
the
Law
,
that
if
any
on
within
a
tweluemonth
and
a
day
would
come
and
offer
himselfe
to
combate
in
her
cause
against
himselfe
,
which
would
be
the
appealant
Champion
,
she
should
haue
life
:
if
not
to
bee
burnt
to
ashes
,
in
sacrifice
of
his
Sonnes
death
:
all
which
was
performed
as
the
Emperour
had
commanded
.
But
now
all
this
while
the
poore
Prince
liues
alone
within
the
Woods
,
making
his
complaints
to
the
flockes
of
Séepe
and
washing
their
waell
with
his
di●●
ressed
teares
.
His
bedde
whereon
his
body
rested
,
was
turned
into
a
Sun-burnd
bank
:
his
chaire
of
state
,
couered
with
grasse
:
his
musicke
,
the
whi●●ling
winds
:
the
Rethoricke
,
pittifull
complaints
and
meanes
,
wherewith
he
bewayled
his
passed
fortunes
,
and
the
bitter
crosses
of
his
vnhappy
loue
:
The
solitarie
place
wherein
this
Prince
remained
,
was
not
farre
●distant
from
the
Groue
,
where
Dullcippa
led
her
sacred
life
:
who
by
chaunce
in
a
morning
at
the
Sunnes
vprising
,
attyred
in
gréene
vesiments
,
bearing
in
her
hand
a
Bow
bended
,
and
a
quiuer
of
arrowes
hanging
at
her
backe
,
with
her
hayre
tyed
vp
in
a
Willow
wreath
,
least
the
Bushes
should
catch
her
golden
Tresses
to
beautifie
their
branches
:
in
this
manner
comming
to
hunt
a
sauage
Hart
,
she
was
surprized
by
a
bloody
Satire
bent
to
rape
,
who
with
a
bloody
mind
pursued
her
:
and
comming
to
the
same
place
where
Prince
Valentine
fedde
his
mourning
Lambes
,
hee
ouertooke
her
,
whereat
shee
gaue
such
a
terrible
shrike
in
the
Wood
,
that
shee
stird
vp
the
Shepherds
princely
mind
to
rescue
her
:
but
now
when
the
bloody
Satyre
beheld
a
face
of
Maiestie
shrowded
in
a
shepherds
clothing
,
immediatly
hée
scudded
through
the
Woods
more
swifter
then
euer
fearefull
Deare
did
run
.
But
now
gentle
Reader
,
héere
stay
to
reade
a
while
,
and
thinke
vpon
the
happy
méeting
of
these
Louers
:
for
surely
the
imagination
thereof
will
lead
a
golden
witte
into
the
Laberinth
of
heauenly
ioyes
:
but
being
breathlesse
in
auoyding
passed
dangers
,
they
could
not
speake
a
word
,
but
with
stedfast
eyes
stood
gazing
each
other
in
the
face
:
but
comming
againe
to
their
former
senses
,
Vailentine
brake
silence
with
this
wauering
speach
.
What
heauenly
wight
art
thou
(
quoth
hee
)
which
with
thy
beautie
hast
inspired
me
?
I
am
no
Goddesse
(
replyed
shée
againe
)
but
a
Uirgin
vowed
to
kéepe
Diana
companie
,
Dulcippa
my
name
:
a
Lady
sometime
in
the
Grecian
Court
,
whilst
happy
fortune
smilde
;
but
being
crost
in
loue
,
here
doe
I
vow
to
spend
the
remitant
of
my
dayes
.
And
with
that
,
hee
catching
the
word
out
of
her
mouth
,
said
.
Oh
you
immortall
Gods
:
and
is
my
Dulcippa
yet
aliue
?
I
,
I
,
aliue
I
sée
she
is
:
I
sée
that
sweet
celestiall
beautie
in
her
face
,
which
hath
banished
déepe
sorrow
from
my
heart
:
and
with
that
kissing
her
,
hée
said
.
Soo
,
see
,
faire
of
all
faires
that
Nature
euer
made
,
I
am
thy
Valentine
,
thy
vnhappy
Loue
,
the
Prince
of
Greece
,
the
Emperours
true
Sonne
,
who
for
thy
louely
sake
,
am
thus
〈◊〉
,
and
for
thy
loue
,
haue
left
the
gallant
Court
,
for
this
〈◊〉
and
homely
country
life
.
With
that
,
shée
tooke
him
about
his
manly
necke
,
and
breathed
many
a
bitter
s●●h
into
his
bosome
:
and
after
with
wéeping
teares
,
discoursed
all
her
passed
dangers
,
as
well
the
crueltie
of
the
Empresse
,
as
of
the
vertuous
déed
of
the
good
Doctor
.
And
hauing
both
recounted
their
passed
fortunes
,
they
confented
(
disguised
as
they
were
)
to
trauell
to
the
Grecian
Court
to
sée
if
the
Destenies
had
transformed
the
state
of
the
Emperour
or
his
regiment
;
for
now
no
longer
outcries
,
nor
heauie
stratagems
,
or
sorrowfull
thoughts
sought
to
pursue
them
;
but
smiling
fortune
,
gratious
delights
,
and
happy
blessings
.
Now
Fortune
neuer
meant
to
turne
her
whéele
againe
,
to
crosse
them
with
calamities
,
but
intended
with
her
hand
to
powre
into
their
hearts
oyle
of
lasting
peace
.
Thus
whilst
Apolloes
beames
did
parch
the
tender
twigs
,
these
two
Louers
sate
still
vnder
the
branches
of
a
shadie
Béech
,
recounted
still
their
ioyes
and
pleasures
:
and
sitting
both
thus
vpon
a
grassy
bancke
,
there
came
trauelling
by
them
an
aged
old
man
:
bearing
in
his
withered
hand
a
staffe
to
stay
his
benummed
body
:
whose
face
when
Prince
Vallentine
beheld
,
with
a
gentle
voyce
he
spake
vnto
him
in
this
sort
.
Father
,
God
saue
you
:
How
happeneth
that
you
wéeried
with
age
,
doe
trauell
through
the
desart
Groues
,
befitting
such
as
can
withstand
the
checkes
of
Fortunes
sicklenes
?
Come
faire
old
man
sit
downe
by
vs
:
whose
mindes
of
late
were
mangled
with
griefe
,
and
crost
with
worldly
cares
.
This
good
old
Hermite
hearing
the
curteous
request
of
the
Prince
,
safe
downe
by
them
,
and
in
sitting
downe
,
he
fumbled
forth
this
spéech
.
I
come
(
young
man
)
from
yonder
Citie
,
whereas
the
Emperour
holds
a
heauy
Court
,
and
makes
excéeding
sorrow
for
the
want
of
his
eldest
Sonne
,
and
for
a
Lady
which
is
likewise
absent
:
the
Empresse
being
found
guilty
of
their
wants
,
is
kept
close
prisoner
,
and
is
condemned
to
bee
burnt
,
vnlesse
within
a
tweluemoneth
and
a
day
,
she
can
get
a
Champion
that
will
enter
Battaile
in
her
cause
:
and
with
her
,
a
Doctor
also
is
adiudged
to
suffer
death
.
Great
is
the
sorrow
that
is
there
made
for
this
noble
Prince
,
and
none
but
commends
his
vertue
:
and
withall
the
deserued
praises
of
the
absent
Lady
.
Father
(
replyed
then
the
Prince
)
thou
hast
told
vs
tydings
full
of
bitter
truth
,
able
to
enforce
an
iron
heart
to
lament
:
for
cruell
is
the
doome
,
and
most
vnnaturall
the
Emperour
,
to
deale
s●hardly
with
his
Quéene
.
Nay
(
quoth
the
old
man
)
if
she
be
guilty
,
I
cannot
pitty
her
,
that
will
cause
the
ruine
of
so
good
a
Prince
:
for
higher
powers
must
giue
example
vnto
their
subjects
.
By
Lady
Father
(
quoth
the
Princely
Shepheard
)
you
can
well
guesse
of
matters
touching
Kings
;
and
to
be
a
svitnesse
of
this
accident
,
wee
will
presently
goe
vnto
the
Court
and
sée
what
shall
betide
vnto
this
distressed
Quéene
.
This
being
said
,
they
left
the
aged
man
,
and
so
trauailed
towards
the
Grecian
Court
:
and
by
the
way
,
these
Louers
did
consult
,
that
Prince
Valentine
attired
like
a
Shepheard
,
should
offer
himselfe
to
combat
in
his
Mothers
cause
,
and
so
to
expresse
the
kinde
leue
and
nature
which
was
lodged
in
his
Princely
breast
.
But
being
no
sooner
arriued
in
the
Court
,
and
séeing
his
Father
to
take
the
combat
vpon
himselfe
,
presently
he
knéeled
downe
,
and
like
an
obedient
Senne
,
discouered
himselfe
,
and
withall
Dulcippas
strange
fortunes
:
whereupon
the
Empresse
and
the
Doctor
were
presently
deliuered
,
and
did
both
most
willingly
consent
to
ioyne
these
two
Louers
in
the
bands
of
Mariage
:
where
after
they
spent
their
dayes
in
peace
and
happinesse
.
This
pleasant
Discourse
being
ended
,
which
Sir
Lancelot
had
told
to
the
excéeding
pleasure
of
the
greatest
company
,
but
especially
of
the
Red-rose
Knight
,
who
gaue
many
kind
thanks
.
At
this
time
the
windes
began
to
rise
,
and
blow
chéerefully
,
by
which
they
sayled
on
their
iourney
succesfully
from
one
coast
to
another
,
till
at
the
last
they
arriued
vpon
the
coasts
of
Prester
Iohns
Land
,
which
was
in
an
euening
when
the
day
began
to
loose
her
christall
Mantle
,
and
to
giue
place
to
the
Sable
garments
of
gloomy
night
:
where
they
cast
Anchor
,
vnséene
of
any
of
that
Country
Inhabitants
.
CHAP.
VI.
What
happened
to
the
Red-Rose
Knight
,
and
his
company
in
the
Court
of
Prester
Iohn
,
and
how
the
Red-rose
Knight
slew
a
Dragon
with
three
tongues
,
that
kept
a
golden
Tree
in
the
same
Country
:
with
other
attempts
that
happned
.
THE
next
Morning
by
the
breake
of
day
,
the
Red-rose
Knight
rose
from
his
Cabbin
,
and
went
vpon
the
Hatches
of
the
Shippe
,
casting
his
eyes
round
about
,
to
see
if
hee
could
espie
some
Towne
or
Cittie
where
they
might
take
harbour
:
and
in
looking
about
hee
espied
a
great
spacious
Cittie
,
in
the
middle
whereof
stood
a
most
sumptuous
Pallace
,
hauing
many
high
Towers
standing
in
the
ayre
like
the
Orecian
Piramides
,
the
which
he
supposed
to
be
the
Pallace
of
some
great
Potentate
:
therefore
calling
Sir
Lancelot
(
with
two
other
Knights
)
vnto
him
,
hee
requested
them
to
goe
vp
into
the
Citie
,
and
to
enquire
of
the
Countrey
,
and
who
was
the
Gouernour
thereof
;
the
which
thing
they
promised
to
doe
:
so
arming
themselues
,
(
as
it
was
conuenient
,
being
strangers
in
that
Country
)
they
went
vp
into
the
Citie
;
where
they
were
presently
presented
vnto
Prester
Iohn
,
who
(
being
alwayes
liberall
and
courteous
vnto
Strangers
)
gaue
them
a
royall
intertainment
,
leading
them
vp
into
his
Pallace
:
and
hauing
intelligence
that
they
were
English-men
,
and
aduenturous
trauaileurs
,
he
sent
foure
of
his
Knights
for
the
rest
of
their
company
,
desiring
them
in
the
Knights
behalfe
,
to
returne
to
the
Court
,
where
they
should
haue
a
friendly
welcome
,
and
a
Knightly
entertainment
.
Thus
when
the
Red-rose
Knight
had
vnderstoode
the
will
of
Prester
Iohn
,
by
his
foure
Knights
,
the
next
euening
with
his
whole
company
hee
repaired
to
the
Cittie
,
which
was
right
Noble
and
fayre
,
and
although
it
was
night
,
yet
were
the
Stréetes
as
light
as
though
it
had
béene
mid-day
,
by
the
cleare
resplendant
brightnesse
of
Torches
,
Cressetts
,
and
other
Lights
which
the
Citizens
ordained
to
the
intertaining
of
the
English
Knights
.
The
Stréets
through
which
they
passed
to
goe
to
the
Kings
Pallace
,
were
filled
with
people
,
as
Burgomasters
,
Knights
,
and
Gentlemen
,
with
Ladies
&
beautifull
Damosels
,
which
in
comely
order
stood
beholding
their
comming
.
But
when
the
Red-rose
Knight
was
entred
the
Pallace
:
hée
found
the
renowned
Prester
Iohn
sitting
vpon
his
Princely
Throne
,
vnder
propt
with
pillers
of
Iasper
stone
:
who
after
he
had
giuen
them
an
honorable
welcome
,
he
took
the
Red-rose
Knight
by
the
hand
,
and
led
him
vp
into
a
large
and
sumptious
Hall
,
the
richest
that
euer
he
had
séene
in
all
his
life
:
But
in
going
vp
certaine
stayres
hée
looked
in
at
a
window
,
and
espied
fayre
Anglitora
the
Kings
daughter
,
sporting
amongst
other
Ladyes
;
which
was
the
fayrest
mayde
that
euer
mortall
eye
behelde
,
and
I
thinke
that
Nature
her selfe
could
not
frame
her
like
:
but
being
entred
the
Hall
,
they
found
the
Tables
couered
with
costly
fare
ready
for
supper
:
when
as
the
English
Knights
were
set
at
the
Kings
Table
in
company
of
Prester
Iohn
and
Anglitora
,
with
other
Ladyes
attending
(
hauing
good
stomaches
)
they
fedd
lustily
;
but
Anglitora
which
was
placed
right
ouer
against
the
Red-rose
Knight
,
fedde
only
vpon
his
beauty
and
princely
behauiour
,
not
being
able
to
withdraw
her
eyes
from
his
diuine
excellencie
:
but
the
renowned
Prester
Iohn
for
his
part
,
spent
away
the
supper
time
,
with
many
pleasant
conferences
touching
the
countrey
of
England
and
King
Arthurs
princely
Court
:
the
report
of
which
fame
,
had
so
often
sounded
in
his
eares
.
But
amongst
all
other
deuises
,
he
told
the
English
Knights
of
a
Trée
of
gold
,
which
now
grew
in
his
Realme
,
and
yéerely
brought
foorth
golden
fruit
,
but
he
could
not
enioy
the
benefit
thereof
,
by
reason
of
a
cruell
Dragon
that
continually
kept
it
:
for
the
conquest
of
which
golden
tree
,
hée
had
many
times
solemnly
proclaimed
through
that
part
of
the
World
,
that
if
any
Knight
durst
attempt
to
conquer
it
,
and
by
good
fortune
bring
the
aduenture
to
an
end
,
he
should
haue
in
reward
thereof
his
Daughter
the
faire
Anglitora
in
marriage
:
to
which
many
Knights
reserted
as
well
of
fortaine
Countreys
,
as
his
owne
Nation
;
but
none
proued
so
fortunate
to
accomplish
the
wished
conquest
,
but
lost
their
liues
in
the
same
aduenture
:
therefore
I
fully
beléeue
,
if
all
the
Knights
in
the
world
were
assembled
together
,
yet
were
they
all
vnsufficient
to
ouercome
that
terrible
Dragon
.
With
that
the
Red-rose
Knight
with
a
bold
courage
stood
vp
,
and
protested
by
the
loue
he
bore
vnto
his
countryes
King
,
he
would
performe
the
enterprise
,
or
lose
his
life
in
the
attempt
:
so
in
this
resolution
hée
remained
all
supper
time
,
which
being
ended
,
the
English
Knights
were
brought
into
diuers
chambers
:
but
amongst
the
rest
,
the
Red-rose
Knight
and
Sir
Launcelot
were
lodged
néere
to
the
fayre
Anglitora
,
for
there
was
nothing
betwixt
their
Chambers
,
but
a
little
Gallery
:
into
which
being
come
,
and
no
sooner
layd
in
their
beds
,
but
the
Red-rose
Knight
began
to
conferre
with
Sir
Launcelot
in
this
manner
.
What
thinke
you
(
quoth
he
)
of
the
enterprize
I
haue
taken
in
hand
?
Is
it
not
a
deed
of
honour
and
renowne
?
Surely
(
replyed
Sir
Launcelat
)
in
my
iudgement
it
is
an
enterprize
of
death
:
for
euery
man
in
this
countrey
adiudgeeth
you
ouercome
and
destroyed
,
if
you
but
once
approach
the
sight
of
the
Dragon
,
therefore
bee
aduised
,
and
goe
not
to
this
perrilous
aduenture
,
for
you
can
obtaine
nothing
thereby
but
reproach
and
death
:
and
doubtlesse
they
are
counted
wise
that
can
shun
the
misuentures
,
and
kéepe
themselues
from
danger
.
But
then
(
quoth
the
Red-rose
Knight
)
shall
I
falsifie
my
promise
;
and
the
promise
of
a
noble
minde
ought
still
to
bée
kept
:
therefore
,
ere
I
will
infringe
the
Uow
I
haue
made
,
I
will
be
deuoured
by
the
terrible
Dragon
,
And
in
speaking
these
words
they
fell
asleepe
.
During
which
time
of
their
conference
,
fayre
Anglitora
stood
at
their
chamber
doore
and
heard
all
that
had
passed
betwixt
them
,
and
was
so
surprized
with
the
loue
of
this
gentle
Red-rose
Knight
,
that
by
no
meanes
shée
could
restraine
her
affections
:
and
returning
to
her
chamber
,
casting
her selfe
vpon
her
Bedde
thinking
to
haue
slept
,
but
could
not
,
shée
began
to
say
secretly
to
her selfe
,
this
sorrowfull
lamentation
.
Alas
mine
Eyes
,
what
torment
is
this
you
haue
put
my
heart
vnto
?
for
I
am
not
the
woman
that
I
was
wont
to
be
,
for
my
heart
is
fiered
with
a
flame
of
amorous
desires
,
and
is
subiect
to
the
Loue
of
this
gallant
English
Knight
,
the
beautie
of
the
world
,
and
the
glory
of
Christendome
.
But
fond
feele
that
I
am
,
wherefore
doe
I
desire
the
thing
which
may
not
be
gotten
,
for
I
greatly
feare
,
that
hee
is
already
betr●thed
to
a
Lady
in
his
owne
Countrey
.
And
furthermore
his
minde
is
garnished
with
Princely
cogitations
,
that
I
may
not
enioy
his
Loue
:
and
he
thinketh
no
more
of
me
,
then
on
her
that
he
neuer
saw
.
But
graunt
that
hee
did
set
his
affection
vpon
mée
,
yet
were
it
to
small
purpose
;
for
he
is
resolued
to
aduenture
his
life
in
the
conquest
of
the
Golden
trée
,
where
hee
will
soone
bee
deuowred
by
the
terrible
Dragon
.
Ah
,
what
a
griefe
&
sorrow
will
it
be
to
my
heart
,
when
I
shall
heare
of
his
vntimely
death
for
hee
is
the
choise
of
all
Nature
,
the
Prince
of
Nobilitie
,
and
the
flowre
of
worship
:
for
I
haue
heard
him
say
,
that
hee
had
rather
die
honourably
in
accomplishing
his
Uow
,
then
to
returne
with
reproach
into
England
.
Which
happy
country
,
if
these
eyes
of
mine
might
but
once
behold
,
then
were
my
soule
possessed
with
terrestriall
ioyes
.
Anglitora
with
these
words
fell
asléepe
,
and
so
passed
the
night
away
till
the
day
came
:
who
●o
sooner
with
his
bright
beames
glistered
against
the
Pallace
walles
,
but
the
Red-rose
Knight
arose
from
his
bed
,
and
armed
himselfe
in
great
courage
,
ready
for
the
aduenture
:
where
after
hée
had
taken
leaue
of
the
King
,
and
all
the
rest
of
his
English
friends
,
hée
departed
foorth
of
the
Citie
towards
the
Golden
trée
,
which
stood
in
a
low
vally
,
some
two
miles
from
the
Kings
Pallace
:
This
morning
was
fayr
and
cleare
,
and
not
a
cloud
was
séene
,
the
elements
and
the
Sun
cast
his
resple●dant
beames
vpon
the
earth
:
at
which
time
the
Ladyes
and
Damosels
mounted
vpon
the
highest
Towers
in
the
Pallace
,
and
the
common
people
came
vp
to
the
battlements
and
walles
of
Churches
,
to
behold
the
aduenture
of
this
valiant
Knight
,
who
as
then
wet
most
ioyfully
on
his
iourney
,
till
he
came
to
the
vaile
of
the
Golden
trée
,
wherein
being
no
sooner
entred
,
but
he
behelde
a
most
cruell
and
terrible
Dragon
come
springing
out
of
his
hellow
Caue
.
This
Dragon
was
farre
more
bigger
then
a
horse
;
in
length
full
thirtie
foote
,
the
which
incontinently
as
soone
as
hee
was
out
of
his
Caue
,
began
to
raise
his
necke
,
set
by
his
eares
,
and
to
stretch
himselfe
,
opened
his
throate
,
and
casting
foorth
thereat
most
monstrous
burning
flames
of
fire
:
Then
the
Red-rose
Knight
drew
cut
his
good
Sword
,
and
went
towards
him
,
whereat
the
Monster
opened
his
terrible
throat
,
whereout
sprang
three
tongues
,
●asting
foorth
flaming
fire
in
such
sort
,
that
it
had
almost
burnt
him
.
The
first
blowe
that
the
Knight
strooke
,
hit
the
Dragon
betwixt
the
two
eyes
so
furiously
that
hée
staggered
:
but
being
recouered
,
and
féeling
himselfe
most
grieuously
hurt
,
hée
discharged
from
his
throat
such
abundance
of
thicke
●●●ing
smoake
,
that
it
blinded
the
Knight
in
such
sort
,
that
hée
saw
nothing
:
but
yet
not
withstanding
hée
lifted
vp
h●●
Sword
,
and
discharged
it
vpon
the
Dragon
where
he
imagined
his
head
was
,
and
strooke
so
furious
a
blow
,
that
hée
cut
off
his
thrée
tongues
close
by
their
rootes
:
by
which
the
Dragon
indured
such
marueilous
paine
,
that
hée
turned
his
body
so
sodainely
round
,
that
his
tayle
smote
the
valiant
Knight
a
mighty
blow
vpon
his
backe
,
whereby
hée
fell
downe
vpon
the
Sands
;
being
thus
ouerthrowne
,
hée
was
in
minde
most
marueylously
ashamed
,
but
after
a
while
,
hauing
recouered
himselfe
,
hée
ran
to
the
Dragon
againe
,
and
with
his
good
Sword
smote
such
a
terrible
blow
vpon
his
tayle
,
that
it
cut
it
off
in
the
middle
:
the
which
péece
was
seuen
foote
in
length
.
The
Dragon
through
the
great
paine
that
hée
felt
,
came
and
incountred
the
Knight
in
such
a
fashion
that
he
beate
him
downe
to
the
ground
,
and
after
stood
ouer
him
as
though
he
had
béen
dead
:
but
the
Knight
tooke
his
Sword
,
and
vnderneath
him
thrust
it
vp
to
the
Hilts
so
farre
that
it
pierced
his
heart
:
which
when
the
Dragon
felt
as
smitten
to
death
,
began
to
runne
away
with
the
Sword
sticking
in
his
belly
,
thinking
to
haue
hidden
himselfe
in
his
Caue
but
his
life
departed
before
hée
could
get
thither
.
Incontinently
,
when
the
Red
rose
Knight
had
rest
himselfe
,
and
saw
that
the
Dragon
was
dead
,
he
recomforted
himselfe
,
and
went
and
drew
out
his
Sword
from
his
belly
,
which
was
all
to
be-stayned
with
his
blacke
blood
;
and
after
tooke
the
Daragons
thrée
Tongues
and
●●ucke
them
vpon
his
Sword
;
and
likewise
pulled
a
branch
from
the
golden
Trée
,
which
hée
bore
in
his
hand
:
and
so
in
triumph
went
towards
the
Cittie
:
and
being
come
within
the
sight
thereof
,
hee
lifted
vp
the
Golden
branch
into
the
ayre
as
high
as
he
could
,
that
it
might
glister
in
the
Sunne
for
the
people
to
behold
,
(
which
stood
vpon
high
Turrets
,
expecting
his
comming
,
)
who
perceiuing
it
,
with
great
admiration
began
to
wonder
.
Some
there
were
that
gathered
gréene
Hearbes
and
Flowers
,
and
strewed
the
way
whereas
the
Knight
should
passe
to
goe
to
the
Kings
Pallace
,
saying
:
that
all
Honour
ought
to
bee
giuen
to
so
noble
and
glorious
a
Conquerour
.
Faire
Anglitora
amongst
all
other
,
was
most
ioyfull
,
when
she
beheld
the
glistering
brightnesse
of
the
Golden
branch
,
and
commanded
her
Waighting-maydes
to
put
on
their
richest
attyres
,
to
solemnize
the
honour
of
that
excellent
Uictory
.
And
to
conclude
,
he
was
met
at
the
Citie
gate
,
with
the
mellody
of
Drummes
and
Trumpets
,
and
so
conducted
to
the
Kings
Pallace
:
where
he
was
right
honorably
entertayned
of
Prester
Iohn
and
his
Nobles
.
Surely
there
is
no
man
so
elloquent
,
that
can
discourse
by
writing
the
great
ioy
that
Anglitora
tooke
at
his
returne
:
and
generally
the
whole
Inhabitants
had
thereat
excéeding
pleasure
.
But
now
when
the
valiant
Red-rose
Knight
had
entered
the
Hall
,
and
had
set
the
Golden
branch
vpon
an
Iuory
Cupboard
richly
furnished
with
costly
Plate
,
the
English
Knights
and
many
other
Ladyes
began
to
daunce
most
ioyfully
,
and
to
spend
the
time
in
delicious
sports
till
Supper
was
ready
,
and
then
the
King
and
the
Red-rose
Knight
was
set
:
and
with
them
,
the
noble
and
faire
Anglitora
,
Launcelat
du
Lake
and
other
English
Knights
:
where
(
all
supper
while
)
there
was
no
other
conference
holden
,
but
of
the
valiant
encounters
of
the
Red-rose
Knight
:
who
for
his
part
did
nothing
but
make
secret
loue
signes
to
faire
Anglitora
.
What
shall
I
make
long
circumstances
?
The
Supper
passed
,
and
the
houre
came
that
the
generall
company
withdrew
them
into
their
Chambers
,
the
Red-rose
Knight
was
conducted
to
his
Lodging
by
many
Noble
men
and
others
,
which
brought
the
Golden
branch
after
him
,
and
so
bequeathed
him
for
that
night
to
his
silent
rest
.
But
presently
after
the
Noblemens
departure
,
Anglitora
entred
into
his
Chamber
,
bearing
in
her
hand
a
siluer
Bason
full
of
warme
perfumed
Waters
,
the
which
shée
had
prouided
to
wash
the
Dragons
blood
from
his
body
:
which
when
the
Red-rose
Knight
perceiued
,
and
thinking
vpon
the
kind
loue
that
shée
proffered
him
,
put
off
his
Cloathes
,
and
made
himselfe
ready
to
wash
.
Faire
Anglitora
being
attired
in
a
white
Frocke
without
sléeues
,
turned
vp
her
Smocke
aboue
her
elbowes
,
and
so
with
her
owne
hands
washed
the
body
of
the
Red-rose
Knight
.
But
now
when
this
gentle
Batcheler
beheld
her
louely
Body
,
her
faire
&
round
Breasts
,
the
whitenesse
of
her
Flesh
,
and
that
hee
felt
her
Hands
marueilous
soft
,
hee
was
so
much
inflamed
with
the
ardent
desire
of
loue
,
that
in
beholding
her
Beauty
,
hée
began
to
embrace
her
,
and
kissed
her
many
times
most
courtiously
:
and
so
after
,
when
he
had
been
well
washed
,
Anglitora
caused
him
to
lie
in
his
Bedde
,
beholding
his
well
formed
limbes
,
of
colour
faire
and
quicke
,
and
could
not
turne
her
eyes
from
his
sight
:
Thus
as
they
were
beholding
each
other
without
speaking
any
word
,
at
last
the
noble
Knight
spake
to
her
in
this
manner
.
Most
deare
Lady
,
you
know
that
by
this
Conquest
,
I
haue
deserued
to
bee
your
Husband
;
and
you
,
through
kind
loue
,
to
be
my
Wife
;
whereby
I
may
say
,
that
you
are
mine
,
and
I
am
yours
:
and
of
our
two
Bodies
,
there
is
but
one
:
Therefore
I
require
you
to
seale
vp
the
first
quittance
of
our
loues
,
which
is
,
that
wée
two
for
this
night
,
might
sléepe
together
:
and
so
accomplish
the
great
pleasure
that
I
haue
so
long
frished
for
.
Ah
most
Noble
Knight
(
answered
the
faire
Lady
)
what
in
mée
lyeth
(
that
may
bring
you
the
least
motion
of
content
)
shall
with
all
willingnesse
be
performed
:
But
yet
I
coniure
you
by
the
promise
of
true
Knight-hood
,
that
you
will
saue
mine
Honour
,
lest
I
bee
made
a
scandall
to
my
Fathers
glory
.
There
is
no
man
in
the
world
(
quoth
he
)
that
shall
preserue
thine
Honour
more
then
I.
What
if
you
sléepe
this
night
with
me
in
bed
,
doe
you
any
more
then
your
duty
,
in
that
I
am
your
Husband
,
and
best
beloued
Friend
.
My
deare
loue
(
replyed
she
againe
)
there
is
no
pleasure
which
I
will
deny
yée
:
but
for
this
night
,
you
shall
haue
patience
▪
for
I
will
neuer
yéeld
vp
the
pride
of
my
Uirginitie
,
t●ll
my
Father
hath
giuen
me
Mariage
:
and
therefore
I
desire
you
,
that
to
morrow
you
will
request
that
fauour
at
his
hands
:
which
being
graunted
and
performed
,
then
accomplish
your
content
.
When
the
Red-rose
Knight
had
vnderstood
his
Ladyes
minde
,
hée
like
an
Honourable
Gentleman
,
was
content
to
obey
her
request
.
What
shall
I
say
more
?
but
that
the
night
drew
on
to
the
wonted
time
of
sleepe
,
which
caused
those
two
Louers
(
for
the
time
)
to
breake
off
company
.
Here
slept
the
Red-rose
Knight
till
the
next
morning
:
which
at
the
breake
of
day
,
was
presented
with
a
Consort
of
Musicke
,
which
the
King
himselfe
brought
into
his
Chamber
.
Their
melody
so
highly
contented
his
minde
,
that
he
threw
them
a
Gold
chaine
,
which
was
wrapped
about
his
wrist
:
a
gift
plainely
expressing
the
bounty
that
beautified
his
princely
breast
.
The
Musicians
being
departed
,
hee
arose
from
his
rich
Bed
,
and
went
vnto
the
King
,
whom
he
found
as
then
walking
in
a
pleasant
Garden
:
of
whom
he
requsted
his
Daughter
Anglitora
in
marriage
,
in
recompence
of
his
aduenture
.
The
which
request
so
displeased
the
King
,
that
all
his
former
curtesies
was
exchanged
into
sodaine
sorrow
,
and
would
by
no
meanes
consent
that
Anglitora
should
bee
his
betrothed
Spouse
;
and
answered
:
that
first
hee
would
loose
his
Kingdome
,
before
shée
should
bee
the
wife
of
a
wandring
Knight
.
The
noble
Red-rose
Knight
,
when
hée
vnderstood
the
vnkind
answere
of
Prester
Iohn
(
all
abashed
)
went
vnto
Sir
Launcelat
,
and
his
other
friends
,
and
certified
them
of
all
things
that
had
happened
:
who
counselled
him
,
that
the
next
morning
they
should
depart
.
After
this
conclusion
,
they
went
to
the
King
,
and
thanked
him
for
the
high
Honour
hée
had
grac'd
them
with
:
and
,
after
that
,
went
and
visited
their
Shippe
,
where
for
that
day
they
passed
the
time
in
pleasure
:
and
so
when
the
scouling
night
approached
,
the
Red-rose
Knight
went
to
the
faire
Anglitora
,
and
certified
her
of
the
vnkind
answere
of
her
cruell
Father
:
whereat
thée
grew
sorrowfull
,
and
grieued
in
minde
:
but
at
last
better
considering
with
her selfe
,
shée
yéelded
her
fortune
fully
at
his
pleasure
,
promising
,
that
for
his
loue
,
shee
would
forsake
both
Countrey
,
Parents
,
and
Friends
,
and
follow
him
to
what
place
soeuer
hée
pleased
to
conduct
her
.
And
it
is
to
be
supposed
,
that
this
night
the
fayre
Anglitora
tooke
all
the
richest
Iewels
which
she
had
,
and
trussed
them
in
a
fa●dle
,
and
so
when
it
was
a
little
before
day
,
shée
came
vnto
the
Red
Rose
Knight
and
awaked
him
:
who
presently
made
him
ready
,
and
so
departed
secretly
from
his
Chamber
,
till
they
came
to
their
Shippes
:
where
they
found
all
the
rest
of
the
English
Knights
ready
to
depart
:
So
,
when
they
were
all
a
Board
they
hoysted
Sayle
,
and
departed
from
the
Port.
To
whose
happy
iourney
,
we
will
now
leaue
them
for
a
time
,
and
speake
of
the
discontents
of
Prester-Iohn
,
who
all
that
night
was
exceeding
sorrowfull
for
the
vnkind
answere
,
which
he
had
giuen
to
the
Red-Rose
Knight
,
and
so
Melancholly
that
he
could
neither
sléepe
nor
rest
:
but
at
the
last
hee
concluded
with
himselfe
,
that
he
would
goe
&
conuey
the
English
Knights
(
at
their
departing
)
vnto
their
Ships
;
to
the
end
that
being
in
other
countreys
,
they
might
applaud
his
courtesies
vsed
to
Strangers
.
So
in
the
morning
hee
arose
and
went
to
the
Chamber
where
the
Red
rose
Knight
was
lodged
,
whom
hee
found
departed
contrary
to
his
expectation
.
After
that
,
he
went
into
his
Daughters
Chamber
,
where
he
found
nothing
but
relentlesse
walles
,
which
in
vaine
hee
might
speake
vnto
:
whose
absence
droue
him
into
such
a
desperate
minde
,
that
hée
suddenly
ran
to
the
Sea
coastes
,
where
hee
found
many
of
his
Citizens
,
that
shewed
him
the
Shippes
wherein
the
English
Knights
were
,
which
was
at
that
time
from
the
Port
or
Hauen
,
more
then
halfe
a
mile
Then
the
King
(
wéeping
tenderly
)
demaunded
of
them
,
if
they
had
séene
his
Daughter
Anglitora
?
To
whom
they
answered
,
that
they
had
séene
her
vpon
the
Shippe
hatches
in
company
of
the
Red-rose
Knight
.
At
which
the
King
bitterly
lamented
,
beating
his
Brest
,
and
tearing
his
milke-white
Hayre
from
his
Head
,
vsing
such
violence
against
himselfe
,
that
it
greatly
grieued
the
behold●●●
.
At
that
time
there
was
many
of
his
Lords
present
,
who
by
gentle
perswasions
,
withdrew
him
from
the
Sea
coasts
to
his
Pallace
:
where
he
many
dayes
after
,
lamented
the
disobedient
flight
of
his
Daughter
.
CHAP.
7.
How
Caelia
the
Queene
of
the
Fayrie
Land
was
found
dead
,
floting
vpon
the
waues
of
the
Sea
:
with
other
things
that
happened
to
the
English
Knights
.
MAny
dayes
the
windes
blew
chearfully
in
such
sort
,
that
the
English
Ships
were
within
ke●ning
of
the
Fayery
Land
:
at
which
Sir
Lancelat
tooke
an
occasion
to
speak
vnto
the
Red-rose
Knight
,
and
put
him
in
remembrance
how
hee
had
promised
Caelia
to
returne
into
her
Countrey
:
vnto
which
hée
answered
,
and
said
:
That
he
would
keepe
promise
,
if
the
Destenies
did
afford
him
life
.
And
thereupon
commanded
the
Master
Pilot
to
make
thitherward
:
but
the
windes
net
being
willing
,
raysed
such
a
Tempest
on
the
Sea
,
that
the
Shippe
was
cast
a
contrary
way
,
and
the
Marriners
by
no
means
possible
could
approach
the
Fayery
land
.
At
which
time
,
the
noble
Quéene
Caelia
stood
by
the
sea
side
vpon
an
high
Rocke
,
beholding
the
English
Ship
as
it
passed
by
,
as
her
vsual
manner
was
euery
day
standing
,
expecting
her
deare
Loues
returne
,
many
times
making
this
bitter
lamentation
to
her selfe
.
Ah
gentle
Neptune
,
thou
God
of
Seas
and
Windes
,
where
is
my
desired
Loue
:
bring
him
againe
vnto
mee
,
that
day
and
night
wée
peth
for
his
company
.
Thus
she
complained
at
the
same
instant
when
her
Louers
Shippe
sayled
by
;
for
surely
she
knew
if
by
the
Banners
and
Ensignes
which
were
displayed
in
the
winde
:
but
when
the
poore
Lady
perceiued
the
Ship
to
turne
from
her
,
she
was
sore
abashed
and
dismayed
.
In
stead
of
ioy
,
she
was
forced
to
wéepe
teares
:
and
instead
of
singing
,
was
constrained
to
make
sorrowfull
complaints
.
In
this
manner
she
aboad
there
all
that
ensuing
night
,
and
caused
Fires
and
great
Lights
to
be
made
on
the
shore
,
thinking
thereby
to
call
the
Red-rose
Knigh●
.
vnto
her
.
This
order
kept
shee
every
day
and
night
for
the
space
of
sixe
wéekes
,
wayling
the
want
of
him
,
whom
she
loued
more
deare
then
her
owne
heart
:
but
when
the
sixe
weekes
were
past
,
and
that
the
Fayerie
Quéene
perceiued
that
she
should
haue
no
tydings
of
her
Loue
,
she
went
from
the
Rocke
(
all
in
dispaire
.
)
into
her
Chamber
;
where
being
entred
,
shee
caused
her
Sonne
to
be
brought
vnto
her
,
whom
shée
kissed
many
times
,
for
the
loue
she
bore
vnto
his
Father
:
and
after
beholding
the
little
Infant
,
crossing
her
Armes
,
with
a
sigh
comming
from
the
bottome
of
her
heart
,
she
sayd
:
Alasse
my
deare
Sonne
,
alasse
thou
canst
not
speake
to
demaund
tydings
of
thy
Father
,
which
is
the
brauest
Knight
,
the
most
vertuous
,
and
the
most
valiant
in
Armes
that
God
euer
formed
.
Oh
where
is
Nature
(
swéet
Babe
)
that
should
enioyne
thée
to
wéepe
,
and
my selfe
more
then
thée
,
for
the
lesse
of
so
braue
a
Prince
;
whose
face
I
neuer
more
shall
sée
?
Oh
cruell
and
vnkind
Fortune
:
my
heart
hath
concluded
,
that
I
goe
and
cast
my selfe
,
headlong
into
the
Sea
,
to
the
intent
,
that
if
the
Noble
Knight
bee
there
buried
,
that
I
may
lye
in
the
same
Sepulchre
or
Tombe
with
him
:
where
contrariwise
,
if
hee
be
not
dead
,
that
the
same
Sea
that
brought
him
hither
aliue
,
bring
me
to
him
being
dead
.
And
to
conclude
,
before
I
commit
this
desperate
murther
vpon
my selfe
,
with
my
Blood
I
will
write
a
Letter
,
which
shall
bée
sewed
to
my
Uestments
or
Attyre
,
to
the
intent
that
if
euer
my
body
bee
presented
to
the
Red-rose
Knight
,
that
then
this
bloody
Letter
may
witnesse
the
true
loue
that
I
bore
him
,
to
the
houre
of
my
death
.
Many
Ladyes
and
Damsels
were
in
her
company
whilst
thus
shee
lamented
her
Knights
absence
:
who
hearing
of
her
desperate
intended
death
,
made
excéeding
sorrow
.
Some
there
were
that
so
mightily
grieued
,
that
they
could
not
speake
one
word
:
other
some
there
were
that
sou●ht
to
perswade
her
from
her
desperate
intent
:
but
all
in
vaine
.
For
she
presently
went
from
them
and
with
her
owne
blood
writ
a
Letter
,
and
wrapping
it
in
a
Sear-cloth
,
and
then
solved
it
to
the
Uestures
wherein
she
was
clothed
:
then
taking
her
Crowne
,
shee
bound
it
from
her
head
with
a
Golden
chaine
which
the
Red-rose
Knight
before
time
had
giuen
h●r
.
Then
when
shee
had
done
all
this
,
shee
came
to
her
little
Sunne
,
and
many
times
kissed
him
,
and
●o
deliuered
him
to
the
Ladyes
and
Damsels
to
bee
nourished
:
&
so
after
taking
leaue
of
them
all
,
she
departed
toward
the
sea
,
whether
being
●o●te
,
the
went
to
the
top
of
the
high
rock
,
where
she
began
to
looke
downe
vpon
the
Sea
,
and
after
casting
her selfe
vpon
the
Earth
,
looking
vp
towards
Heauen
,
she
sayd
.
Thou
God
of
my
Fortunes
,
Lord
of
the
Windes
&
Seas
:
thou
that
broughtest
into
this
country
the
right
perfect
Knight
,
in
beauty
,
manhood
,
and
all
vertues
,
graunt
that
when
my
soule
hath
made
passage
out
of
this
world
,
my
body
may
be
intombed
in
his
b●
some
:
which
words
being
sayd
,
shée
turned
her
eyes
towards
her
Pallace
,
and
spake
with
a
high
voyce
:
Adue
my
deare
Babe
,
adue
you
glistring
Towres
,
my
royall
Pallace
:
a●ue
Ladyes
and
Damsels
:
and
lastly
,
adue
to
all
the
world
,
And
in
saying
so
,
she
cast
herselfe
into
the
Sea
,
&
there
desperately
drowned
her selfe
.
But
yet
such
was
her
fortune
,
that
the
waues
of
the
Sea
bore
her
dead
body
the
same
day
to
the
English
Knights
Ship
,
which
as
then
lay
in
a
Road
where
they
had
cast
Anchor
for
to
rest
that
night
,
and
to
be
short
,
it
so
happened
at
the
same
houre
when
her
dead
Body
was
cast
against
the
Shipps
,
the
Red-rose
Knight
went
vp
the
Hatches
to
take
the
fresh
ayre
:
where
(
looking
about
)
he
espyed
the
dead
Lady
richly
attyred
in
cloth
of
Gold
,
that
gorgiously
stone
in
the
Water
,
the
which
he
presently
caused
to
be
taken
vp
and
brought
into
the
Ship
:
where
looking
wi●hly
vpon
her
,
he
knew
her
perfectly
well
:
and
after
stooping
to
kis●e
her
pale
Lippes
,
hee
found
the
bloudy
Letter
which
hee
had
compeled
,
●r●pt
in
Seare-cloth
:
so
,
taking
it
and
reading
the
contents
thereof
,
his
Blood
began
to
change
,
and
to
war
redde
like
the
Rose
,
and
presently
againe
as
pale
as
ashes
.
Whereat
Sir
Launcelat
and
the
other
Knights
were
greatly
abashed
,
but
especially
Anglitora
,
who
demaunded
the
c●use
of
his
griefe
?
Whereunto
the
Red-rose
Knight
was
not
able
to
answere
a
word
,
the
sorrow
of
his
heart
so
exc●eded
:
yet
not
withstanding
,
he
deliuered
the
bloody
letter
to
Anglitora
,
the
contents
whereof
are
these
that
follow
.
The
bloody
Letter
of
Queene
Caelia
.
THou
bright
Star
of
Europe
,
thou
Chosen
of
England
for
prowesse
&
beautie
:
When
wilt
thou
return
to
fulfill
thy
promise
made
vnto
her
,
that
many
a
day
hath
had
her
eyes
planted
vpon
the
Seas
after
thee
,
shedding
more
teares
in
thy
absence
,
then
the
Heauens
conteineh
Starres
?
Ah
my
deare
Loue
,
makest
thou
no
reckoning
nor
account
of
thy
promise
that
thou
madest
to
me
at
thy
departure
?
knowest
thou
not
,
that
euery
noble
mind
is
bound
to
keepe
his
word
,
vpon
paine
of
reproach
and
shame
?
but
thou
hast
infringed
it
,
and
hast
broken
thy
oath
of
Knighthood
:
which
no
excuse
can
recouer
.
For
since
I
last
saw
thy
Shippe
floating
on
the
Seas
.
I
neuer
came
within
my
Pallace
till
the
writing
hereof
,
nor
neuer
lay
in
Bedde
to
take
my
rest
,
nor
neuer
sate
in
iudgement
on
my
Countries
causes
:
but
for
the
space
of
fortie
dayes
,
I
stood
vpon
a
Rocke
,
expecting
thy
returne
,
till
famine
constrayned
me
to
depart
.
There
haue
I
stood
day
and
night
,
in
raine
and
in
snow
,
in
the
cold
of
the
morning
,
and
in
the
heate
of
the
Sunne
;
in
fasting
,
in
prayers
,
in
desires
,
in
hope
;
and
finally
,
languishing
in
dispaire
and
death
:
Where
,
when
I
could
heare
no
newes
of
thy
returne
,
I
desperately
cast
my selfe
into
the
Sea
,
desiring
the
Gods
,
that
they
would
bring
mee
either
aliue
,
or
dead
to
thy
presence
,
to
expresse
the
true
affection
that
I
haue
euer
borne
thy
noble
Person
:
Thus
fare
thou
well
.
From
her
that
liued
and
dyed
with
an
vnsported
minde
.
Thine
owne
true
Louer
,
till
we
meete
in
the
Elizian
fields
:
thy
vnhappy
Caelia
Queene
of
the
Fayerie
Land
.
THus
when
faire
Anglitora
had
read
those
bloody
lines
,
she
greatly
lamented
her
vnhappy
death
:
&
withall
,
requested
the
Red-rose
Knight
,
in
that
she
dyed
for
his
sake
,
to
beare
her
Body
into
England
,
and
there
most
honourably
intombe
it
:
to
which
he
most
willingly
consented
.
So
causing
her
body
to
be
inbalmed
,
they
hoysted
sayle
,
and
departed
towards
England
:
into
which
Country
,
they
within
foure
moneths
safely
ariued
.
At
whose
comming
,
the
Inhabitants
and
dwellers
,
greatly
reioyced
,
but
chiefely
the
Red-rose
Knight
and
his
company
,
who
at
their
first
ariuall
,
knéeled
downe
vpon
the
Earth
,
and
gaue
God
thankes
for
preseruing
them
from
so
many
dangers
and
perils
,
to
their
high
renowne
,
and
triumphant
victoryes
.
After
this
,
they
intombed
the
body
of
Caelia
most
honourably
as
befitted
a
Princesse
of
her
calling
.
This
being
done
,
they
departed
towards
Pendragon
Castle
,
standing
in
Walles
,
where
as
then
King
Arthur
kept
his
royall
Court
:
where
being
ariued
,
they
found
the
King
,
and
many
other
Nobles
in
a
readines
to
giue
them
a
Princely
welcome
:
amongst
whom
was
faire
Angelica
the
Nun
of
Lincolne
,
mother
to
the
Red-rose
Knight
;
yet
kept
in
so
secret
a
manner
,
that
neither
he
,
nor
she
,
had
any
suspition
thereof
,
but
spake
one
to
another
as
méere
strangers
,
The
discouery
of
whom
,
discoursed
at
large
in
the
second
part
of
this
Historie
:
as
likewise
the
strange
fortune
of
Caelias
little
Sonne
,
which
the
Ladyes
in
the
Fayerie
land
called
by
the
name
of
the
Fayerie
Knight
;
and
by
what
meanes
he
came
to
be
called
the
Worlds
Tryumph
:
with
many
other
strang
accidents
,
&c.
But
now
(
to
conclude
this
first
part
)
the
Red-rose
Knight
and
the
faire
Anglitora
were
solemnely
maried
together
,
and
liued
long
time
in
King
Arthurs
Court
in
great
ioy
,
and
tranquilitie
,
and
peace
.
FINIS
.
R.
I.
THE
Second
Part
of
the
Famous
Historie
of
Toma
Lincolne
,
the
Red-rose
Knight
.
Wherein
is
declared
his
vnfortunate
Death
,
his
Ladyes
disloyalty
,
his
Childrens
Honours
,
and
lastly
,
his
Death
most
strangely
reuenged
.
Written
by
the
first
Author
.
At
London
Printed
by
Augustine
Matthewes
,
dwelling
in
the
Parsonage
House
of
Saint
Brides
in
Fleete-street
.
1631.
To
the
Reader
.
PRomise
is
debt
,
(
gentle
Reader
)
I
haue
therefore
performed
what
in
my
first
Part
I
promised
;
which
was
,
to
shew
thee
the
vnfortunate
death
of
the
Red
rose
Knight
,
his
beloued
Lady
Anglitoras
disloyal
affections
towards
him
,
his
Childrens
Honours
,
Renownes
,
and
Dignities
:
and
in
the
period
of
this
small
Historie
,
his
death
both
iustly
,
truely
,
and
strangely
reuenged
:
The
reading
of
which
(
if
with
good
consideration
)
I
doubt
not
but
shall
bring
vnto
thee
much
pleasure
and
delight
,
being
(
for
the
quantitie
thereof
)
nothing
inferiour
to
the
best
that
hath
beene
written
of
the
like
Subiect
(
I
meane
)
of
Knights
aduentures
,
and
Ladyes
beloued
.
I
therefore
dedicate
this
to
thy
reason
,
knowing
that
this
old
Prouerbe
may
confirme
my
expectation
,
which
is
;
That
good
Wine
needs
no
Bush
:
nor
a
pleasing
Historie
craues
no
shelter
.
Farewell
.
R.
I.
The
second
part
of
the
famous
History
of
Tom
a
Lincolne
,
the
Red-rose
Knight
,
&c.
CHAP.
I.
How
Tom
a
Lincolne
knew
not
his
Mother
,
till
forty
yeares
of
his
age
,
nor
whose
Sonne
he
was
:
Of
King
Arthurs
death
,
and
his
dying
speeches
,
and
of
what
hapned
thereupon
.
WHen
Arthur
,
that
renowned
King
of
England
(
being
one
of
the
nine
Worthies
of
the
World
)
had
by
twelue
seuerall
set
Battailes
,
conquered
the
third
part
of
the
Earth
;
and
being
wearied
with
the
exploytes
of
Marti
,
all
aduentures
,
in
his
olde
dayes
betooke
himselfe
to
a
quiet
course
of
life
;
turning
his
Warlkie
habiliaments
,
to
diuine
Bookes
of
celestiall
meditations
:
that
as
the
one
had
made
him
famous
in
this
World
,
so
might
the
other
make
him
blessed
in
the
World
to
come
.
Seauen
yeares
continued
quiet
thoughts
in
his
breast
:
seauen
yeares
neuer
heard
he
the
sound
of
delightfull
Drums
;
nor
in
seuen
yeares
beheld
hee
his
thrice
worthy
Knights
of
the
Round
Table
,
flourishing
in
his
Court
:
by
which
meanes
his
Pallace
grew
disfurnished
of
those
Martiall
troupes
,
that
drew
commendations
from
all
forraigne
Kingdomes
.
In
this
time
,
most
of
those
renowned
Champions
,
had
yéelded
their
liues
to
the
conquering
Tiranny
of
pale
Death
,
and
in
the
bowels
of
the
Earth
lay
sléeping
their
eternall
sléepes
,
the
royall
King
himselfe
laden
with
the
honour
of
many
yeeres
;
and
hauing
now
(
according
to
nature
)
the
burthen
of
death
lying
heauie
vpon
his
shoulders
:
and
the
stroke
lifted
vp
to
diuide
his
body
from
his
soule
,
he
called
before
him
all
the
chiefen
of
his
Court
:
but
especially
his
own
Quéene
,
the
Red-rose
Knight
,
and
his
Lady
Anglitora
,
with
the
faire
Angellica
,
the
Nunne
of
Lincolne
,
whom
hee
had
so
many
yéeres
secretly
loued
:
and
being
at
the
poynt
to
bid
a
wafull
farewell
to
the
world
,
with
Countenance
as
Maiestical
as
King
Priam
of
Troy
,
he
spake
as
followeth
.
First
,
to
thée
my
loued
Queene
,
must
I
vtter
the
secrets
of
my
very
soule
,
and
what
wanton
escapes
I
haue
made
from
any
nuptiall
Bedde
,
otherwise
cannot
this
my
labouring
life
,
depart
from
my
fading
body
in
quiet
:
Long
haue
I
liued
in
the
delightfull
sinne
of
Adulterie
,
and
polluted
our
mariage
Bed
with
that
vile
pleasure
:
pardon
I
beseech
thee
and
with
that
forgiuenesse
(
which
I
hope
will
proceed
from
thy
gentle
heart
)
wash
away
this
long
bred
euill
the
Celestaill
powers
haue
grauated
me
rem●ssion
.
Then
turning
to
Angellica
the
Nunne
of
Lincolne
,
hee
said
.
Oh
thou
my
youths
delight
:
thou
whose
loue
hath
bereaued
my
Quéene
of
much
mariage
pleasure
:
thou
,
and
but
onely
thou
,
haue
I
offended
withall
,
therefore
diuine
Angellica
,
forgiue
me
:
I
like
a
rauisher
spotted
thy
Uirginitie
,
I
●r●pt
thy
sweet
budde
of
Chastitie
;
I
with
flattery
won
thy
heart
,
and
ledde
thee
from
thy
Fathers
house
(
that
good
Earle
of
London
)
to
feede
my
wanton
desires
:
by
thee
had
I
a
Sonne
,
of
whom
both
then
and
I
,
take
glory
of
:
for
in
his
worthynesse
remaine
the
true
Image
of
a
Martialist
;
and
this
renowned
Knight
of
the
Red-rose
,
is
he
:
He
liues
:
the
fruit
of
our
wanton
pleasures
,
borne
at
Lincolne
,
and
there
by
a
Shepherd
brought
vp
,
few
knowing
(
till
now
)
his
true
Parente
,
Ma●●aile
not
deere
Sonne
:
thinke
not
amisse
sweete
Queene
:
for
thou
my
louely
Angellica
:
Be
not
dismayde
you
honourable
States
,
heere
attending
my
dying
houre
:
for
as
I
hope
presently
to
enter
into
Elizium
Paradise
,
and
weare
the
Crowne
of
disertfull
Glory
,
I
haue
reuealed
the
long
secrets
of
my
heart
,
and
truely
brought
to
light
those
things
,
that
the
darknesse
of
obliuion
hath
couered
.
Now
the
Mother
knowes
her
Sonne
,
the
Sonne
the
Mother
.
Now
may
this
valiant
Knight
boast
of
his
Pedegrée
,
and
a
quiet
content
satisfie
all
your
doubts
.
Thus
haue
I
spoke
my
minde
,
&
thus
quieted
,
my
soule
bids
the
world
farwell
.
Adue
faire
Quéene
,
adue
déere
son
,
farwell
louely
Angellica
;
Lords
and
Ladyes
adue
vnto
you
all
:
you
haue
seene
my
life
,
so
now
behold
my
death
:
as
Kings
doe
liue
,
so
Kings
must
die
.
These
were
the
last
of
Kings
Arthurs
words
:
And
being
dead
,
his
death
not
halfe
so
amazed
the
standers
by
,
as
the
strange
spéeches
at
his
liues
farwell
.
The
Quéene
in
a
raging
ielousie
fretted
at
her
Marriage
wrongs
,
protesting
in
heart
,
to
be
reuenged
vpon
the
Nunne
of
Lincolne
.
The
Nunne
of
Lincolne
,
séeing
her
wantonnesse
discouered
,
tooke
more
griefe
thereat
,
then
ioy
in
the
finding
of
her
long
lost
Son
;
supposing
now
,
that
(
the
King
being
gone
)
she
should
be
made
a
scandall
to
the
world
.
The
Red-rose
Knight
,
knowing
himselfe
to
be
begot
in
wantonnesse
,
and
borne
a
Bastard
,
tooke
small
ioy
in
the
knowledge
of
his
Mother
.
Anglitora
(
Tom
a
Lincolnes
Wife
)
excéeded
all
the
rest
in
sorrow
,
bitterly
sobbing
to
her selfe
,
and
in
heart
making
great
lamentation
,
in
that
she
had
forsaken
Father
,
Mother
,
Friends
,
Acquaintance
,
and
Countrey
,
all
for
the
loue
of
a
Bastard
,
bred
in
the
wombe
of
a
shamelesse
Strumpet
:
therefore
she
purposed
to
giue
him
the
slip
;
and
with
her
owne
Sonne
(
a
young
gallant
Knight
,
named
the
Blacke
Knight
,
in
courage
like
his
Father
)
to
trauaile
towards
the
Kingdome
of
Prester
Iohn
,
where
she
first
breathed
life
and
her
Father
reigned
.
In
this
melancholy
humour
spent
they
many
dayes
,
troubling
their
braines
with
diuers
imaginations
.
The
Court
,
which
before
rung
with
Delights
,
and
flourished
in
gallant
sort
,
now
thundred
with
Complaints
;
euery
one
disliking
his
owne
estate
:
Discontent
as
a
proud
Commaunder
gouerned
ouer
them
,
and
their
Attendants
were
idle
Fancies
,
and
disquiet
Thoughts
:
and
to
speake
troth
,
such
a
confused
Court
was
seldome
séene
in
the
Land
;
for
no
sooner
was
Kings
Arthurs
Funerall
solemnized
,
but
the
whole
troupes
of
Lords
,
Knights
and
Gentlemen
,
Ladyes
,
and
others
,
were
(
like
to
a
splitted
Shippe
torne
by
the
Tempest
of
the
Sea
)
seuered
,
euery
one
departed
whither
his
Fancie
best
pleased
.
The
Red-rose
Knight
conducted
his
Mother
Angellica
to
a
Cloyster
in
Lincolne
,
which
place
she
had
so
often
polluted
with
her
shame
,
there
to
spend
the
remnant
of
her
life
in
repentance
;
and
with
her
true
Lamentations
,
to
wash
away
her
blacke
spottes
of
sinne
,
that
so
grieuously
stayneth
her
Soule
:
and
from
a
pure
Uirgine
,
made
her selfe
a
desolute
Strumpet
.
Likewise
,
King
Arthurs
widdowed
Quéene
,
like
to
irefull
Hecuba
,
or
the
tealous
Iuno
,
kept
her
Chamber
for
many
dayes
,
pondering
in
her
minde
what
reuenge
shee
might
take
vpon
Angellica
her
Husbands
late
fauorite
.
On
the
other
side
Anglitora
Lady
and
Wife
to
the
Red-rose
Knight
,
with
her
Sonne
the
Blacke
Knight
,
made
prouision
for
their
departure
towards
the
Land
of
Prester
Iohn
,
where
shée
was
borne
:
so
vpon
a
night
when
neither
Moone
nor
Star-light
appeared
,
they
secretly
departed
the
Court
,
onely
attended
on
by
a
Negar
or
Black-more
;
a
Slaue
fitting
to
prouide
them
necessaries
,
and
to
carry
their
Apparell
and
Iewels
after
them
;
whereof
they
had
aboundant
store
:
The
Blacke
Knight
her
Sonne
,
(
so
called
rather
by
fierce
courage
,
then
this
blacke
complexion
)
was
all
fiered
with
the
ardent
desire
that
hee
had
to
sée
his
Graundsire
.
Prester
Iohn
:
therefore
without
taking
leaue
of
his
Father
(
being
then
absent
in
the
company
of
his
leawde
Graunde
mother
)
with
a
noble
spirit
conducted
his
mother
to
the
Sea
side
,
where
a
shippe
was
ready
then
to
hoyst
Sayle
,
where
of
the
Pilots
they
were
most
willingly
receiued
for
Passengers
.
And
in
this
manner
departed
they
the
Land
,
the
Blacke
Knight
wore
on
his
Helmet
for
a
Scutchon
,
a
blacke
Rauen
féeding
on
dead
mens
flesh
;
his
Caparisons
were
all
of
blacke
veluet
imbrodered
,
which
most
liuely
figured
foorth
the
blacke
furie
lodged
in
his
Princely
boosome
.
Anglitora
his
Mother
,
had
the
attyre
of
an
Amazon
,
made
all
of
the
best
Arabian
silke
,
coloured
like
the
changeable
hue
of
the
Raine-bow
:
about
her
necke
hung
a
Iewell
of
a
wounderfull
value
,
which
was
a
Diamond
cut
in
the
fashon
of
a
Heart
split
asunder
with
a
Turkish
Semiter
:
betokening
a
doubt
that
shee
had
of
her
Knights
loyaltie
.
The
slauish
Moore
that
attended
them
,
went
all
naked
,
except
a
shaddow
of
gréene
Taffata
which
couered
his
priuie
parts
:
vpon
his
foote
a
Morischo
Shoe
,
which
is
nothing
but
a
Soale
made
of
an
Asses
hide
,
bucklde
with
small
Leathers
to
his
insteps
vpon
his
Head
hee
wore
a
Wreath
of
Cypres
guilded
with
pure
gold
,
and
a
Plate
of
Brasse
about
his
necke
close
locked
,
with
the
word
bond-slaue
ingrauen
about
it
.
In
this
manner
passed
they
the
Seas
,
and
was
by
these
strange
habites
wondred
at
in
all
Countries
where
they
came
:
In
which
trauels
wee
will
leaue
them
for
a
time
,
and
speake
of
other
things
pertinent
to
our
Story
.
CHAPTER
.
2
Of
Tom
a
Lincolnes
strang
manner
of
trauelling
,
his
wofull
departure
from
England
,
and
of
his
sorrowfull
lamentations
for
the
vnkindnesse
of
his
Lady
.
WHen
Tom
a
Lincolne
(
the
Red-rose
Knight
)
had
spent
some
two
months
in
the
company
of
his
Mother
at
Lincolne
,
giuing
her
as
much
comfort
as
a
Sonne
might
,
hee
left
her
very
penitent
for
her
liues
amisse
,
and
returned
to
the
Court
,
where
hée
left
both
his
Wife
and
her
Sonne
,
the
Blacke
Knight
,
thinking
at
his
ariuall
,
to
finde
so
ioyfull
a
welcome
,
and
so
courtious
an
intertainement
,
that
all
the
blacke
cloudes
of
Discontent
might
bée
blowne
ouer
by
their
happy
méeting
:
but
as
ill
chaunce
had
allotted
all
things
fell
out
contrary
to
his
expectation
;
for
hee
neither
found
Wife
,
Childe
,
Seruant
,
nor
any
one
to
make
him
answere
:
His
Plate
and
Treasure
was
deminished
,
his
house-hold
Furniture
,
imbesselled
,
and
by
Théeues
violently
carryed
away
,
hée
had
not
so
much
as
one
Stéed
left
in
his
Stable
,
for
them
the
Quéene
had
seazed
on
for
her
vse
:
and
furthermore
(
by
her
commandement
)
a
Decrée
was
made
,
that
whomsoeuer
in
all
the
Land
shewed
him
any
duty
,
or
gaue
him
but
homely
reuerence
,
should
loose
their
heads
,
for
shée
had
intitled
him
,
The
base
borne
seed
of
Lust
,
a
Strumpets
brat
,
and
the
common
shame
of
the
dead
King
.
This
was
the
malice
of
King
Arthurs
widow
:
and
assuredly
Quéene
Iuno
neuer
thirsted
more
for
the
confusion
of
Hercules
then
shée
did
for
Tom
a
Lincolns
ouerthrow
:
But
yet
this
griefe
(
being
cast
from
a
Princesse
fauour
,
to
a
vulgar
disgrace
)
was
but
a
pleasure
,
to
the
sorrow
he
tooke
for
the
misse
of
his
Lady
and
Sonne
:
No
newes
could
hee
heare
of
them
,
but
that
they
were
fled
from
the
furie
of
the
angry
Quéene
:
which
was
but
a
vaine
imagination
laid
vpon
the
enuious
time
:
but
farre
otherwise
did
mischiefe
set
in
her
foote
,
the
doting
minde
of
his
Lady
Anglitora
intended
to
a
further
reach
,
which
was
to
abandon
his
presence
for
euer
,
and
to
thinke
him
as
ominous
to
her
sight
,
as
the
killing
Cockatrice
.
The
effect
of
this
his
Wiues
sodaine
dislike
,
shée
had
caused
(
before
her
departure
)
to
be
carued
in
stone
ouer
the
Chimny
of
his
lodging
,
how
that
She
deserued
damnation
to
leaue
Father
,
Friends
,
and
Countrie
,
for
the
disloyall
loue
of
a
Bastard
.
Of
all
griefes
to
him
this
was
the
very
spring
,
the
roote
,
the
deapth
,
the
hight
:
which
when
hee
had
read
,
hee
fell
into
a
sounde
,
and
had
it
not
béene
for
two
Pages
that
attended
him
,
he
had
neuer
recouered
:
in
this
agony
the
vaines
of
his
breast
sprung
out
into
blood
,
and
all
the
partes
of
his
body
swate
with
griefe
:
downe
fell
hee
then
vpon
his
knees
,
and
immediatly
pulled
the
King
from
his
finger
.
which
shée
had
giuen
him
when
they
were
first
bethrothed
,
and
wash't
it
with
his
teares
,
kissing
it
a
hundred
times
:
All
that
euer
hee
had
from
her
did
hée
wash
in
the
blood
that
trickled
from
his
b●esome
and
after
bound
them
in
a
Cypresse
to
his
left
side
,
directly
where
his
heart
lay
,
protesting
by
that
God
that
created
him
,
and
was
the
guide
of
all
his
passed
fortunes
,
neuer
to
take
them
thence
,
till
either
hee
found
his
Lady
,
or
ended
his
life
.
He
likewise
made
a
solemne
vow
to
Heauen
,
neuer
to
out
his
Haire
,
neuer
to
come
in
Bedde
,
neuer
to
weare
She
,
neuer
to
taste
Food
,
but
onely
Bread
and
Water
,
nor
neuer
to
take
pleasure
in
humanitie
,
till
he
had
eased
his
griefe
in
the
presence
of
his
déerest
Anglitora
,
and
that
her
loue
were
reconc●led
to
him
.
Being
thus
strangely
resolued
,
hée
discharged
his
Seruants
and
Pages
,
giuing
them
all
the
wealth
that
he
had
,
and
clad
himselfe
in
tand
shéeps
skins
,
made
close
vnto
his
Body
,
whereby
hée
séemed
rather
a
naked
Wilde
man
bredde
in
the
Wildernesse
,
then
a
sencible
creature
brought
vp
by
ciuill
conuersation
.
Thus
bare
footed
,
and
bare
legged
,
with
an
Iuory
Staffe
in
his
hand
,
hée
set
forward
to
séeke
his
vnkind
Wife
,
and
vnnaturall
Sonne
:
giuing
this
wofull
farewell
to
his
natiue
Countrey
.
Oh
you
celestiall
Powers
(
quoth
he
)
wherefore
am
I
punished
for
my
Parents
offences
?
Why
is
their
secret
sinnes
,
made
my
publike
miserie
?
What
haue
I
mis-done
,
that
my
Wife
resisteth
me
,
and
like
a
discourteous
Lady
forsakes
mée
,
making
her
absence
my
present
calamitie
.
Oh
thou
gratious
Quéene
of
Loue
,
I
haue
béene
as
loyall
a
seruant
in
thy
pleasures
,
as
euer
was
Hero
to
her
Leander
,
or
Pryamus
to
his
Thisbie
:
Then
what
madding
furie
,
like
a
cruell
commander
,
hath
t●ken
possession
of
my
Anglitoras
heart
,
and
placed
infernall
conditions
,
whereas
the
pure
vertues
of
modest
behauiour
had
wont
to
bee
harboured
?
It
cannot
bee
otherwise
,
but
the
enraged
Quéene
with
her
vn●uenchable
Enuie
,
hath
driuen
her
hence
;
and
not
only
of
one
heart
made
two
,
but
of
two
séekes
to
make
none
;
which
is
,
by
vntimely
death
,
to
worke
both
our
confusions
:
therefore
proud
Quéene
,
fa●●well
:
let
all
the
furies
haunt
thée
,
and
may
thy
Court
séeme
as
hatefull
to
thy
sight
,
as
the
torments
of
Hell
fire
to
a
guilty
Conscience
.
Ungratefull
England
likewise
adue
to
thée
,
for
all
the
honours
I
haue
brought
into
thy
bounds
,
and
with
the
spoyles
of
forraigne
Countries
,
made
thee
the
onely
Prince
of
Kingdomes
:
yet
thou
repayest
me
with
disgrace
,
and
load'st
mée
with
more
contempt
,
then
my
neuer
conquered
Heart
can
inture
:
so
kissing
the
ground
with
his
warme
lippes
,
that
had
so
long
fostered
him
,
and
with
many
a
bitter
teare
,
and
deepe
sobbe
,
like
a
Pilgrime
,
(
as
I
said
before
)
hée
tooke
leaue
of
his
natiue
Countrey
,
and
so
went
to
the
Sea
side
;
where
hee
heard
of
his
Wife
and
his
Sonnes
departure
,
after
whom
(
as
soone
as
the
Wind
conueniently
serued
)
hée
tooke
shipbord
:
Where
wée
will
now
likewise
leaue
him
to
his
fortune
vpon
the
Sea
,
and
speake
of
the
professed
malice
the
Quéene
prosecuted
against
Angellica
,
the
mother
of
the
Red-rose
Knight
.
CHAP.
3
Of
the
wofull
death
of
Angellica
,
Mother
to
the
Red-rose
Knight
,
and
of
the
death
of
the
iealous
Queene
and
others
.
THe
beautious
Angellica
,
béeing
left
by
her
Sonne
,
the
Red-rose
Knight
,
(
at
his
departure
)
in
a
Monestarie
at
Lincolne
,
there
to
bewaile
her
former
offences
;
and
for
her
youths
pleasure
,
in
age
to
taste
the
bitter
food
of
sorrow
:
the
day
time
shée
spent
in
grieued
passion
〈…〉
night
shée
wasted
with
s●ghs
and
heart-breaking
sobbes
:
shée
fed
on
carefull
thoughts
,
her
drinke
was
streames
of
salt
teares
:
her
companions
,
thoughts
of
her
passed
wanton
pleasures
:
her
bed
no
better
then
the
cold
earth
:
her
sléepes
were
few
,
but
her
comforts
lesse
:
her
continuall
exercise
,
was
with
a
Néedle
to
worke
in
silke
vpon
the
Hangings
of
her
Chamber
,
how
shée
was
first
woed
,
then
won
to
King
Arthurs
pleasures
,
in
what
manner
their
meetings
were
,
their
wanton
daliances
,
his
imbraces
,
her
smiles
:
his
Princely
gifts
,
her
courteous
acceptance
:
and
lastly
,
the
birth
of
her
thrice
worthy
Sonne
,
his
bringing
vp
,
his
honours
in
the
Court
,
and
his
strange
discouerie
:
all
which
shee
had
wrought
,
as
an
Arras
worke
,
with
silke
of
diuers
collours
,
in
a
peece
of
the
purest
Holland
cloath
.
In
doing
this
,
twise
had
the
golden
Sunne
runne
his
circumference
about
the
world
,
twise
had
the
pleasant
Spring
beautified
the
Earth
with
her
changable
mantles
,
twise
had
nipping
Winter
made
the
Fields
barren
,
and
the
Woods
leafelesse
:
and
twise
had
the
yeere
shewed
himselfe
to
all
mankind
:
in
which
time
of
twise
twelue
moneths
,
euery
day
made
shée
a
sorrowfull
complaint
for
the
wracke
of
Honour
,
and
her
Uirginities
losse
,
which
so
willingly
she
surrendred
:
in
this
time
,
so
greatly
had
sorrow
and
griefe
changed
her
,
that
her
eyes
(
which
had
wont
like
twinckling
Diamonds
to
giue
light
to
all
affections
)
were
now
sunke
into
their
Cels
,
and
séemed
like
a
hollow
Sepulcher
new
opened
:
her
Face
,
wherein
Beautie
her selfe
dwelt
,
and
her
Chéekes
the
true
die
of
the
Lillie
and
the
Rose
intermixt
,
now
appeared
old
and
writhen
,
like
to
the
countenance
of
Hecuba
when
her
husband
King
Priamus
,
and
all
her
Princely
Children
were
slaine
at
Troyes
destruction
:
and
her
tresses
of
Gold-like
Hayre
,
which
like
to
Indian
Wyers
hung
ouer
her
shoulders
,
were
now
growne
more
white
then
Thistle
downe
,
the
Isickles
of
frozen
Ice
,
or
the
white
mountaine
Snow
:
all
these
griefes
of
Nature
had
not
age
changed
,
but
the
inward
griefe
of
her
carefull
heart
.
But
now
marke
the
wofull
chance
that
hapned
,
euen
vpon
the
day
,
which
by
computation
she
had
in
former
times
yéelded
vp
her
Maydens
pride
,
and
lost
that
Iewell
that
Kingdomes
cannot
recouer
:
vpon
that
haplesse
day
,
came
there
a
Messenger
from
the
Quéene
,
to
bid
her
make
preparation
for
death
;
for
●●
that
day
should
bee
her
liues
end
,
and
her
fortunes
period
:
which
she
most
willingly
accepted
of
,
and
tooke
more
ioy
thereat
,
then
to
be
inuited
to
a
Princely
Banquet
.
Be
not
dismayde
(
said
the
Messenger
)
for
you
shall
haue
as
honourable
a
death
as
euer
had
Lady
:
seauen
seuerall
Instruments
of
death
shall
be
presented
to
you
for
a
choyse
,
and
your
owne
tongue
shall
giue
sentence
which
of
them
you
will
die
by
:
whereupon
this
Messenger
set
this
sorrowsull
Lady
at
a
round
Table
,
directly
in
the
middle
of
a
very
large
roome
,
(
whereinto
he
had
led
her
,
hung
all
about
with
blacke
;
where
being
placed
as
to
a
Banquet
,
or
some
solemne
Dinner
of
State
,
there
entred
seauen
Seruitours
in
disguised
shapes
like
vnto
Murtherers
,
with
seauen
seuerall
deadly
seruices
in
Dishes
of
siluer
Plate
:
The
first
,
brought
in
Fire
burning
in
a
Dish
,
if
shée
would
,
to
consume
her
body
to
ashes
:
The
second
brought
in
a
Dish
,
a
twisted
Ceard
,
to
strangle
her
to
death
:
The
third
,
a
Dish
full
of
deadly
Poyson
,
to
burst
her
body
withall
:
The
fourth
,
a
sharpe
edgd
Rayzor
or
Knife
,
to
cut
her
throat
:
The
fifth
,
an
Iron
wracke
to
teare
her
body
into
small
péeces
:
The
sixth
,
a
Dish
full
of
liue
Snakes
,
to
sting
her
to
death
:
And
the
seuenth
an
impoysoned
Garment
,
being
worne
,
that
will
consume
both
flesh
and
blood
.
These
seauen
deathfull
Seruitours
hauing
set
downe
their
Dishes
(
the
least
whereof
brings
present
death
)
shée
was
commanded
by
the
Messenger
,
which
of
them
she
should
choose
to
die
withall
,
and
to
make
spéedy
choyce
;
for
he
was
sworne
to
the
Quéene
(
on
whom
he
attended
)
to
sée
it
that
day
accomplished
.
At
these
his
words
,
shée
fell
presently
vpon
her
knées
,
and
with
a
courage
readier
to
yéeld
to
deaths
furie
,
then
to
the
mercie
of
the
liuing
Quéene
,
said
as
follloweth
.
Oh
thou
guider
of
this
earthly
Globe
,
thou
that
gauest
my
weake
nature
ouer
to
a
wanton
life
,
and
from
a
Uirgin
chast
,
hast
made
me
an
infamous
Strumpet
:
thou
that
sufferedst
only
a
King
in
Maiestie
to
preuaile
against
mée
,
and
with
the
power
of
greatnesse
worme
mée
to
lewdnesse
;
for
which
I
am
now
doomed
to
a
present
death
,
and
forced
by
violence
,
to
bidde
this
tempted
world
a●ue
;
Inspire
mee
with
that
happy
choyce
of
death
,
as
my
Soule
may
haue
an
easie
passage
from
my
body
.
First
,
to
dye
by
Fire
,
to
an
earthly
imagination
séemes
terrible
,
and
farre
different
from
nature
:
secondly
,
to
die
with
strangling
cord
,
were
base
,
and
more
sitting
for
robbers
,
théeues
,
and
malefactors
:
thirdly
,
to
die
by
deadly
poyson
,
were
a
death
for
Beasts
and
wormes
,
that
féeds
vpon
the
bosome
of
the
Earth
:
fourthly
,
to
die
by
cutting
kniues
and
slicing
razors
,
were
a
death
for
cattle
,
fowles
,
and
fishes
that
dies
for
the
vse
of
man
:
fitly
by
an
iron
wracke
to
end
my
life
,
were
a
barbarous
death
,
and
against
mans
nature
:
but
seuenthly
,
to
die
a
lingring
death
,
which
is
a
life
consuming
by
wearing
of
impoysoned
garments
,
(
where
repentance
may
still
bée
in
company
)
will
I
choose
:
therefore
swéet
Messenger
of
my
death
doe
thy
office
,
attyre
me
in
these
robes
;
and
the
manner
of
my
death
I
beséech
thée
make
knowne
vnto
the
Quéene
:
tell
her
(
I
pray
thée
)
I
forgiue
her
;
and
may
my
death
bée
a
quiet
vnto
her
soule
,
for
my
life
is
to
her
eares
as
the
fatall
sound
of
night
Rauens
,
or
the
Mermaides
tunes
.
Uaine
world
,
now
must
I
leaue
thy
flattering
intisements
,
and
in
stead
of
thy
pompe
and
glory
,
must
shortly
treade
the
dolefull
march
of
pale
death
:
and
this
body
that
hath
béene
so
pleasing
to
a
Princes
eye
,
must
bee
surrendred
vp
for
wormes
to
féed
vpon
.
Many
other
words
would
she
haue
spoken
,
but
that
the
commaunding
Messenger
(
being
tyed
to
an
houre
)
caused
her
to
put
on
the
impoysoned
Roabes
which
no
sooner
came
to
the
warmth
of
her
body
,
but
the
good
Lady
after
a
few
bitter
sighes
,
and
dreadfull
gaspes
yéelded
vp
the
ghost
,
being
(
through
the
extremitie
of
the
infectious
Garment
)
made
like
vnto
an
Anatomie
;
which
they
wrapped
in
Seare
cloth
,
&
the
next
day
gaue
her
buriall
according
to
her
estate
and
so
returned
to
the
inraged
Quéene
,
kéeping
then
her
Court
at
Pendragon
castle
in
Wales
,
into
whose
presence
was
no
sooner
the
Messenger
come
,
but
the
angry
Quéene
beyond
all
measure
being
desirous
to
heare
of
Lady
Angellicas
death
,
in
a
rage
ran
and
clasped
him
about
the
middle
,
saying
.
Speake
Messenger
speake
,
is
the
vile
strumpet
dead
?
Is
the
shame
of
womankind
tortured
?
Is
my
hearts
griefe
by
her
death
banished
my
boosome
?
speake
for
I
am
ouermaistred
with
doubts
.
Most
gracious
Quéene
(
quoth
the
Messenger
)
resolue
your selfe
of
her
death
,
for
the
cold
earth
hath
inclosed
vp
her
body
:
but
so
patiently
tooke
shee
her
death
,
that
well
might
it
haue
mooued
a
Tygers
heart
to
remorse
;
for
in
troth
,
my
heart
relented
at
the
manner
of
her
death
,
Neuer
went
Lambe
more
gently
to
the
slaughter
,
nor
neuer
Turtledoue
was
more
méeke
,
then
this
wofull
Lady
was
at
the
message
of
her
death
:
for
the
Elements
did
séeme
to
mourne
,
closing
their
bright
beauties
vp
to
blacke
and
sable
Curtaines
;
and
the
very
flintie
walles
(
as
it
were
)
sweate
at
the
agonie
of
her
death
,
so
gentle
,
méeke
and
humbly
tooke
shee
her
death
;
commending
her selfe
vnto
your
maiestie
,
wishing
that
her
death
,
might
be
your
soules
contentment
.
And
could
shée
bee
so
patient
(
quoth
the
Quéene
)
that
euen
in
death
would
wish
happinesse
to
the
causers
thereof
?
farewell
thou
miracle
of
womankind
,
I
haue
béen
to
thée
a
sauage
Lionnesse
:
I
was
blinded
at
the
report
of
thy
wantonnesse
,
else
hadst
thou
béen
now
aliue
:
all
my
cruelnesse
against
thée
,
I
now
déeply
repent
,
and
for
thy
deare
hearts
blood
by
me
so
rashly
spilt
,
shall
bee
satisfied
with
the
liues
of
many
soules
.
Hereupon
,
shee
in
a
furie
commanded
the
Messengers
head
to
bee
stricken
off
,
and
seuen
Seruitours
to
bee
hanged
all
at
the
Court
Gate
,
and
afterward
caused
their
limbes
to
be
set
vpon
high
Pooles
by
the
Common
high
wayes
side
,
as
an
example
of
her
indignation
.
Neuer
after
this
houre
(
such
is
the
remorse
of
a
guiltie
conscience
)
could
shée
sleepe
in
quiet
,
but
strange
visions
of
this
Lady
(
as
shee
thought
)
seemed
to
appeare
to
her
:
the
least
noise
that
she
heard
whispering
in
the
silence
of
the
night
,
did
she
imagine
to
bee
some
Furte
to
dragge
her
to
Hell
,
for
the
death
of
this
good
Lady
:
the
Windes
(
as
shee
imagined
)
murmured
foorth
Reuenge
,
the
running
Riuers
hummed
foorth
Reuenge
,
the
flying
Fowles
of
the
Ayre
whistled
out
Reuenge
:
yea
euery
thing
that
made
noyse
(
in
her
conceit
)
gaue
remorse
for
Reuenge
:
and
till
that
her
owne
life
had
giuen
satisfact
on
by
death
for
the
rume
of
so
swéet
a
Ladyes
life
,
no
food
could
doe
her
good
,
no
sléepe
quiet
her
braine
,
no
pleasure
content
her
minde
,
but
Despaire
with
a
terrible
countenance
,
did
euermore
attend
her
,
willing
her
sometime
to
throwe
her selfe
head-long
from
the
top
of
a
Tower
,
sometime
by
poyson
to
end
her
dayes
,
sometime
by
drowning
,
sometime
by
hanging
,
sometime
by
one
thing
,
sometime
by
another
:
but
at
last
in
the
middle
of
the
night
,
hauing
her
heart
déepely
ouermaistred
by
dispaire
,
shee
tooke
a
Girdle
of
pure
Arabian
Silke
,
which
Girdle
shee
first
word
on
her
Princely
Nuptiall
day
when
King
Arthur
marryed
her
:
this
fatall
Girdle
shee
made
a
riding
knot
of
,
and
therewithall
vpon
her
Bed
post
shee
hanged
her
sefle
.
Thus
blood
(
you
sée
)
being
guiltlesse
shed
,
is
quitted
againe
with
blood
.
The
Quéene
being
dead
,
was
not
so
much
pittied
of
the
people
,
as
the
good
Lady
Angellica
,
little
lamentation
was
made
for
her
death
;
for
euery
one
expected
the
like
vntimely
ende
:
but
according
to
the
aleadgeance
of
Subiects
her
Noblemen
gaue
her
a
Princely
Funerall
,
and
set
ouer
her
an
Iron
Tombe
,
in
signification
that
shee
had
an
Iron
heart
,
and
Flintie
conditions
.
Heere
will
wée
leaue
the
dead
to
their
quiet
restes
,
and
returne
to
the
Blacke
Knight
,
and
his
Mother
Anglitora
,
with
the
Indian
slaue
that
attends
them
:
sor
strange
bee
the
accidents
that
happen
to
them
in
forraigne
Countryes
:
and
after
,
wée
will
speake
what
hapned
to
the
Red-rose
Knight
on
the
Sea
.
CHAP.
4
By
what
meanes
Anglitora
became
a
Curtizan
,
and
how
her
Sonne
the
Blacke
Knight
lost
himselfe
in
a
wildernesie
.
THE
Blacke
Knight
,
his
Mother
Anglitora
,
and
the
Blacke
-
〈◊〉
slaue
,
hauing
happily
cr●st
the
Seas
,
and
ariued
in
a
Countrey
very
●ertill
to
see
to
,
replenished
with
all
kinde
of
Trees
and
Fruit
,
yet
were
there
no
Inhabitants
to
finde
,
but
onely
an
old
Castle
built
of
Flui●
stones
,
the
Turrets
whereof
were
made
like
the
Grecian
Piramedes
,
square
and
very
high
:
At
this
Castle
gate
they
knocked
so
boldly
(
each
one
carelesse
of
all
accidents
that
might
vappen
)
as
it
rung
into
the
Chamber
were
the
Knight
of
the
Castle
lay
:
who
immediatly
sent
a
very
low
statur
d
Dwarffe
to
sée
who
knocked
,
and
if
they
were
strangers
,
to
direct
them
vp
into
his
Chamber
to
take
such
kinde
courtesies
as
the
Castle
afforded
:
for
indeed
hee
was
a
Knight
of
a
bountifull
condition
,
&
full
of
liberalitie
.
The
Dwarffe
no
sooner
comming
to
the
Gate
,
and
espying
people
in
such
strange
disguised
attyres
,
neuer
hauing
séene
the
like
before
,
without
speaking
one
word
,
ran
amazedly
vp
to
his
Master
,
certifiing
him
,
that
a
kinde
of
people
of
an
vnknowne
nation
was
arriued
,
and
that
they
séemed
rather
Angels
(
in
shape
)
then
any
earthly
creatures
.
The
Knight
of
the
Castle
hearing
this
,
came
downe
and
met
them
in
a
large
square
Court
paued
with
marble
stone
,
where
hee
kindly
gaue
them
entertainement
,
promising
them
both
lodging
and
other
needfull
things
they
were
destitute
of
.
The
thrée
Trauellers
accepted
of
his
courtesies
,
and
being
long
before
weather-beaten
on
the
Seas
,
thought
themselues
from
a
déepe
dungeon
of
calamities
lifted
to
the
toppe
of
all
pleasures
and
prosperitie
;
thus
from
this
paued
Court
the
Knight
led
them
vp
to
his
owne
Chamber
,
wherein
was
a
fire
made
of
Iuniper
wood
&
Frankinsence
,
which
smelled
very
sweete
:
the
walles
were
hung
about
with
rich
Tapestrie
,
whereon
was
writ
the
story
of
Troyes
destruction
,
the
Creation
of
mankind
,
and
the
fearefull
description
of
the
latter
day
of
Doome
:
likewise
hung
vpon
the
said
wales
,
Instruments
of
all
sorts
of
musicke
,
with
such
varietie
of
other
pleasures
,
as
they
had
neuer
seene
the
like
.
Now
while
these
weary
Trauellers
tooke
pleasure
in
beholding
these
things
,
the
good
Knight
caused
his
Dwarffe
(
which
was
all
the
seruants
that
hee
kept
)
to
couer
the
Table
,
made
of
Cypresse
wood
,
with
a
fine
Damaske
table-cloth
,
and
thereon
set
such
dellicates
as
his
castle
afforded
;
which
was
a
piece
of
a
wild
Fore
,
rosted
the
same
morning
,
with
diuers
other
seruices
of
Fowles
,
whereof
the
Countrey
had
plentie
:
Their
bread
was
made
of
the
Almonds
mixed
with
Goates
milke
(
for
no
corne
grew
in
this
soyle
)
their
Drinke
,
of
the
wilde
grape
,
likewise
mingled
with
Goates
milke
;
which
is
in
my
minde
,
accounted
restoratiue
:
to
this
Banquet
were
the
Trauellers
placed
,
where
hauing
good
stomackes
,
they
quickly
satisfied
hunger
,
&
after
began
to
chat
of
their
aduentures
what
danger
they
indured
by
sea
,
&
how
luckily
they
arriued
in
that
Countrey
,
giuing
the
courteous
Knight
great
thanks
for
his
kindnesse
.
On
the
other
side
,
when
the
Banquet
was
ended
,
euery
one
rising
from
the
table
,
he
tooke
an
Orphirian
that
hung
by
,
and
caused
his
Dwarffe
to
daunce
after
the
sound
thereof
:
the
strings
whereof
hee
himselfe
strayned
with
such
curiositie
,
that
it
mooued
much
delight
,
especially
the
Lady
Anglitora
,
whose
eyes
and
eares
were
as
attentiue
to
the
Melody
,
as
Helle●s
were
to
the
inchaunting
Musicke
of
the
Grecian
Paris
.
In
this
kind
of
pleasure
consumed
they
most
part
of
the
day
,
till
the
bright
Sunne
began
greatly
to
decline
,
then
the
Blacke
Knight
in
a
couragious
spirit
,
said
.
Sir
Knight
(
for
so
you
séeme
to
bee
by
your
entertainement
of
Strangers
)
this
Carpet
kind
of
pleasure
I
like
not
,
it
disagrees
with
my
young
desires
:
the
hunting
of
vntamed
Tygers
,
the
Tilts
and
Turnaments
of
Knights
,
and
the
Battels
of
renowned
Warriours
,
is
the
glory
I
delight
in
:
and
now
considering
no
other
aduentrous
exercise
,
may
bee
found
in
this
Countrey
,
but
only
the
hunting
of
Wilde
beastes
,
I
will
into
the
Forrest
and
by
manhood
fetch
some
wilde
Uemson
for
my
mothers
supper
.
The
Knight
of
the
Castle
(
séeing
his
resolution
)
furnished
him
with
a
hunting
Iauelin
,
and
so
directed
him
to
the
Forrest
,
where
most
plentie
of
such
pleasures
were
:
God
be
his
good
spéed
,
for
wee
will
leaue
the
Blacke
Knight
in
his
exercise
,
and
speake
of
the
wanton
affections
of
Anglitora
,
and
the
Knight
of
the
Castle
,
that
they
cast
vpon
each
other
:
a
short
tale
to
make
,
whereas
two
hearts
make
one
thought
,
the
bargaine
is
soone
made
:
the
Knight
of
the
Castle
hauing
not
had
the
presence
nor
societie
of
a
Woman
in
seuen
yéeres
before
,
grew
as
wantonly
minded
,
as
the
Roman
Tarquinius
,
when
hee
rauished
the
chast
Lady
Lucretia
.
On
the
other
side
,
Anglitora
hauing
the
venome
of
disloyaltie
,
grew
so
pliable
to
his
desires
,
that
at
his
pleasure
hee
obteined
that
loue
which
in
former
times
the
Red-rose
Knight
aduentured
his
life
for
;
she
that
in
former
times
was
accounted
the
worlds
admiration
for
constancie
,
was
now
the
very
wonder
of
shame
,
and
the
by-Word
of
modest
Matrons
:
this
was
the
first
dayes
entrance
into
their
wanton
pleasures
,
which
in
all
daliance
they
spent
till
the
Sunne
had
lost
the
sight
of
the
Earth
:
then
expecting
the
returne
of
the
Blacke
Knight
,
from
Hunting
,
they
sate
as
d●murely
,
as
they
had
béen
the
chastest
liuers
of
the
world
▪
not
a
glance
of
wantonnesse
passed
betwixt
them
,
but
all
modest
and
●iuill
behauiours
;
in
this
sort
stayed
they
attending
for
the
returne
of
the
Blacke
Knight
,
but
all
in
vaine
:
for
hauing
a
wilde
Panther
in
chase
,
hee
followed
so
farre
in
the
vnknowne
Forrest
,
that
hee
lost
himselfe
,
all
that
night
trauelling
to
finde
the
way
foorth
,
but
could
not
;
sléepe
was
to
him
as
meate
to
a
sicke
man
;
his
steps
were
numberlesse
,
like
the
starres
of
heauen
,
or
the
sands
of
the
Sea
:
his
deuises
for
recouerie
little
preuailed
,
the
further
hee
went
,
the
further
hee
was
from
returning
:
thus
day
and
night
(
for
many
dayes
and
nights
)
spent
hée
in
these
comfortlesse
trauailes
;
no
hope
cheered
his
heart
,
no
comfort
bore
him
company
,
but
his
patient
minde
:
and
now
at
last
,
when
hee
saw
all
meanes
fru●rate
,
hee
resolued
to
liue
and
die
in
that
sollitary
Forrest
:
his
foode
hee
made
of
the
Fruits
of
trées
,
his
drinke
of
the
cleare
ruaning
water
,
his
Bed
was
no
better
then
a
heape
of
Sun-burnd
Mosse
,
his
Canopies
the
azure
Elements
full
of
twinckling
lights
,
his
Curtaines
a
row
of
thicke
branched
Trees
,
the
Torches
to
light
him
to
his
Bed
,
the
Starres
of
Heauen
,
the
Melodie
or
Musicke
to
bring
him
asléepe
,
the
croakes
of
Rauens
,
or
the
tearefull
cries
of
night
Owles
:
the
Clocke
to
tell
the
houres
of
the
night
,
were
h●sing
Snakes
,
and
Toades
croaking
in
foggy
grasse
:
his
morning
Cocke
the
cheerefull
Nightingale
,
or
the
cherping
Larke
his
companions
on
the
day
,
were
howling
Woolues
,
rauening
Lyens
,
and
the
wrathfull
Bo●res
:
all
(
as
the
Fates
had
decréed
)
as
gentle
to
him
in
fellowship
,
as
people
of
a
ciuill
gouernment
:
for
to
say
troth
,
time
&
necessitie
had
conuerted
him
to
a
man
of
wild
conditions
:
for
his
hayre
was
growne
long
and
shaggy
,
like
vnto
a
Satyre
:
his
flesh
tanned
in
the
Sunne
as
an
Indian
:
the
nailes
of
his
fingers
were
as
the
tallents
of
Eagles
,
wherewith
hee
could
easily
climbe
the
highest
trees
:
garments
hee
had
not
any
,
for
they
were
worne
out
,
&
as
willingly
was
hée
content
with
nakednesse
,
as
in
former
times
hée
was
with
rich
habiliments
.
Thus
liued
hee
for
seauen
yéeres
in
this
desolate
Forrest
,
by
which
time
hee
was
almost
growne
out
of
the
fauour
of
a
man
:
where
for
a
time
wee
will
leaue
him
,
and
procéed
to
other
accidents
,
also
wée
will
ouer
passe
the
leawd
liues
of
Anglitora
and
the
Knight
of
the
Castle
,
nor
speake
as
yet
any
more
of
their
seauen
yéeres
adulterie
;
for
numberlesse
were
the
sinnes
committed
by
them
in
those
seauen
yéeres
,
in
that
accursed
Castle
.
CHAPTER
.
5
How
the
Red-rose
Knight
found
his
Lady
,
and
how
he
was
most
strangely
murthered
,
and
buried
in
a
dunghill
.
THE
Blackamore
slaue
(
as
you
haue
heard
)
attended
vpon
them
,
like
an
obedient
Seruant
,
and
shewed
all
dutie
and
loue
,
till
Anglitora
gaue
her
body
to
the
spoyle
of
Lust
,
and
from
a
vertuous
Lady
conuerted
her selfe
to
a
hated
Strumpet
,
which
vile
course
of
life
when
the
Indian
perceiued
,
hée
secretly
departed
the
Castle
,
greatly
lamenting
the
wrongs
of
his
Master
,
the
Red-rose
Knight
,
whose
noble
minde
deserued
better
at
her
hands
.
Day
and
night
traualled
the
poore
slaue
toward
England
,
thinking
to
finde
his
Master
there
,
and
to
reueale
that
which
hardly
hee
thought
would
bee
beléeued
by
him
:
wearie
and
opprest
with
hunger
went
hée
this
long
Iourney
:
many
Prouinces
hee
passed
through
,
before
hée
could
learne
the
way
towards
England
;
and
then
was
hée
so
farre
from
it
,
as
at
the
first
,
when
hée
departed
from
the
Castle
.
The
labouring
Husbandman
grieued
not
more
to
sée
his
Corne
and
Cattle
taken
by
Théeues
:
nor
the
Marchant
to
heare
of
his
Shippes
suncke
at
Sea
,
then
did
this
Indian
at
his
vaine
trauels
,
and
wearisome
Iourneyes
to
small
purpose
:
so
at
last
setting
forward
againe
,
hee
came
to
the
sea
side
,
thinking
to
heare
of
some
Shippe
to
giue
him
passage
ouer
:
but
alasse
,
one
crosse
falls
after
another
,
one
mischiefe
comes
vpon
the
necke
of
another
:
and
one
mischance
seldome
happens
alone
;
so
as
this
true
hearted
Negar
stood
beholding
how
the
billowes
of
the
Sea
beate
against
her
banckes
,
and
the
Whale
fishes
lay
wallowing
in
the
Waues
:
behold
such
a
tempest
suddenly
arose
,
that
by
the
force
thereof
,
the
poore
slaue
was
cast
into
the
Sea
:
but
by
reason
of
his
Silken
vaile
tyde
about
his
middle
,
and
his
great
skill
in
swimming
,
(
as
most
Negars
bée
perfect
therein
)
kept
himselfe
from
drowning
:
and
as
good
fortune
would
,
the
same
tempest
droue
the
weather-beaten
shippe
to
the
same
shore
wherein
the
Red-rose
Knight
(
his
master
)
was
,
which
Shippe
had
béene
seuen
yeares
vpon
the
Sea
in
great
extreamitie
,
and
before
this
tyde
could
neuer
sée
land
.
By
that
time
the
tempest
ended
,
the
Shippe
floted
to
land
,
wherein
was
left
but
onely
the
Red-rose
Knight
in
his
Palmers
wéede
(
for
all
the
rest
wer●
starued
vp
for
want
of
food
)
who
being
weake
and
féeble
,
●limbed
to
the
top
of
the
Hatches
,
where
when
hee
had
perce●ued
the
Negar
labouring
for
life
vpon
the
waters
,
cast
out
a
long
coard
,
and
so
saued
him
:
whome
when
the
Red-rose
Knight
saw
,
and
perfectly
knew
,
hée
fell
all
most
into
a
traunce
for
ioy
,
supposing
his
Lady
and
Sonne
not
to
bee
farre
distant
:
but
recouering
his
former
senses
,
hée
spake
as
followeth
.
Oh
blessed
Neptune
,
hast
thou
vouchsafed
to
deliuer
mée
from
the
depth
of
thy
bowels
,
and
cast
mée
on
land
,
where
once
againe
I
may
behold
my
Anglitora
,
and
my
deare
Sonne
,
the
Blacke
Knight
.
These
seuen
yeares
famine
indured
on
the
Sea
,
hath
béene
a
swéete
pleasure
to
mée
,
in
that
the
end
brings
mée
to
my
desires
.
Full
threescore
of
my
miserable
Companions
in
this
Shippe
,
hath
death
seazed
vpon
,
and
through
Famine
,
haue
eaten
one
another
,
making
their
hungry
bowels
graues
for
the
others
Carcases
;
and
though
now
this
belly
of
mine
(
like
the
Canibals
)
haue
béene
glutted
with
humane
flesh
,
and
this
mouth
of
mine
tasted
the
blood
of
man
:
yet
am
I
as
pittifull
as
the
tender
hearted
Mother
,
forgetting
her
Sonnes
offences
:
and
to
my
Anglitora
will
bee
as
kinde
,
as
if
neuer
shée
had
trespassed
:
nor
like
the
Grecian
Helina
,
left
her
marryed
Lord
:
So
taking
the
Blackamoore
by
the
hand
.
Hée
demaunded
of
her
welfare
,
and
in
what
estate
his
Sonne
remayned
?
The
true
hearted
Negar
could
hardly
speake
for
griefe
,
or
vtter
one
word
for
teares
:
yet
at
the
last
with
a
wofull
sigh
,
hée
vttered
foorth
these
heart-killing
speeches
.
Oh
my
noble
Maister
(
quoth
hée
)
by
you
from
a
Pagan
I
was
made
a
Christian
:
by
you
,
from
a
Heathen
nation
without
ciuilitie
,
I
was
brought
to
a
Land
of
Princely
gouernment
;
and
by
you
,
till
my
departure
,
was
I
maintained
in
good
manner
:
there
if
I
should
proue
periured
slaue
,
and
a
false
Uarlet
towards
you
,
my
body
were
worthy
to
bée
made
foode
for
hungry
Folvles
of
the
Ayre
,
and
for
the
rauening
Beasts
of
the
Fields
:
therefore
now
considering
that
dutie
bindes
mee
to
it
,
I
will
reueale
such
wofull
chaunces
;
and
such
disloyall
trickes
shewed
by
your
Lady
as
will
make
your
heart
tremble
,
your
Sinewes
shake
,
&
your
haire
to
stand
vpright
.
Anglitora
your
Lady
and
Wife
,
hath
dishonoured
your
Bed
and
polluted
that
sacred
Chamber
of
secretie
,
which
none
ought
to
know
,
but
onely
you
two
:
That
mariage
vow
shee
made
in
Gods
holy
Temple
,
hath
shée
infringed
,
and
vntyed
the
knot
of
Nuptiall
promise
:
in
a
Countrey
farre
from
hence
hath
shee
wrought
this
hated
crime
:
in
a
Countrey
vnpeopled
liues
shee
in
a
Castle
,
which
is
kept
vp
a
Knight
of
a
wanton
demeanour
;
there
liue
they
two
in
adultery
,
there
liue
they
secreatly
sléeping
in
wantonnesse
:
and
therefore
these
seauen
yeares
hath
shée
made
her selfe
the
childe
of
shame
:
All
this
with
extreame
griefe
doe
I
vnfold
,
and
with
a
heart
almost
kilde
with
sorrow
,
doe
I
breath
out
the
dutie
of
a
seruant
:
if
I
haue
offended
,
let
my
death
make
amends
:
for
what
I
speake
is
truely
deliuered
from
a
heart
vnfaigned
.
All
this
time
of
this
his
sorrowfull
Discourse
,
stood
the
Red-rose
Knight
in
a
bitter
agonie
,
like
one
newlie
dropt
from
the
cloudes
,
not
knowing
how
to
take
these
discourtesies
:
one
while
purposing
to
bée
reuenged
,
and
with
his
nailes
to
teare
out
the
Strumpets
eyes
:
another
while
,
bewayling
her
weake
nature
,
that
so
easily
was
woon
to
leivdnesse
:
but
at
last
,
taking
to
him
(
the
vertue
)
patience
,
hee
resolued
to
trauell
to
the
Castle
,
&
with
his
méek
perswasions
séeke
to
winne
her
former
wickednesse
,
&
to
forget
,
forgiue
,
and
cast
out
of
remembrance
all
these
her
vnwoman-like
demeanours
,
obseruing
the
Prouerbe
,
That
faire
meanes
sooner
winnes
a
woman
,
then
foule
,
Thus
in
company
of
his
true
seruant
the
Negar
,
hee
tooke
his
iourney
toward
the
Castle
;
where
(
after
foure
moneths
trauell
)
they
ariued
;
the
Red-rose
Knight
)
by
the
directions
of
the
Negar
,
knocked
,
and
in
his
Pilgrimes
habite
,
desired
meate
and
lodging
for
himselfe
and
his
guide
.
The
first
that
opened
the
Gate
,
was
his
owne
Lady
,
who
immediately
,
vpon
the
sight
of
them
blushed
,
as
though
some
sodaine
feare
had
affrighted
her
;
yet
dessemblingly
(
colouring
her
acknowledge
of
them
)
shée
in
a
charitable
manner
gaue
them
entertainement
and
conducted
them
to
a
by
roame
at
the
backe
side
of
the
Castle
:
into
which
place
shee
sent
them
(
by
her
Dwarffe
)
victuals
from
her
owne
Table
,
with
a
commaund
,
that
the
next
morning
they
should
auoyde
,
and
neuer
more
trouble
that
place
.
This
message
sent
by
the
Dwarffe
,
much
disquseted
the
Red-rose
Knight
,
and
droue
such
amaze
into
his
minde
,
that
hee
grew
ignorant
what
to
doe
:
And
séeing
his
appointed
time
very
short
to
remaine
there
,
hee
now
thought
fit
to
strike
whilst
the
Iron
was
hotte
,
and
to
discouer
what
hee
was
:
so
taking
the
Scarffe
of
Iewells
and
Kings
tyed
to
his
left
side
against
his
heart
(
which
shée
knew
perfectly
well
to
bée
the
giftes
of
her
Loue
)
and
by
the
Dwarffe
sent
them
her
:
The
which
no
sooner
shee
beheld
,
but
shée
openly
sayd
to
thée
Knight
of
the
Castle
,
that
their
secret
affections
were
discouered
,
and
her
Husband
in
the
habite
of
a
Palmer
made
abode
in
her
House
conducted
thither
by
the
Moore
,
to
bring
their
shame
to
light
,
and
to
carry
her
thence
to
England
,
there
to
be
punished
for
her
sinnes
.
Heereupon
the
Knight
and
shee
purposed
the
same
night
to
rid
themselues
of
that
feare
,
and
by
some
violent
death
sende
the
Palmer
to
his
last
abyding
.
Disquietnesse
attended
on
all
sides
for
that
day
,
and
euery
houre
séemed
ten
,
till
night
approached
;
which
at
last
came
,
though
long
lookt
for
.
Then
Anglitora
in
company
of
the
Knight
of
the
Castle
,
like
vnto
Murtherers
,
rose
from
their
Bedds
,
euen
at
that
houre
of
night
when
mischiefes
are
acted
,
when
no
noyse
was
heard
but
the
barking
of
Wolues
,
the
howling
of
Dogges
,
and
the
croaking
of
Night-owles
,
all
assistance
to
blacke
actions
:
In
this
manner
came
they
into
the
Lodging
of
the
Palmer
who
for
wearinesse
of
his
Iourneyes
,
most
soundly
slept
,
little
dreaming
that
such
crueltie
;
could
be
lodged
in
the
boosome
of
his
wedded
Wife
:
one
whose
loue
he
had
first
gained
with
great
daunger
,
and
alwayes
estéemed
as
deare
as
his
owne
heart
blood
.
All
signes
of
duty
had
shée
obscured
,
not
any
remembrance
had
shee
of
Womanhood
:
Marriage
Loue
was
forgotten
,
their
passed
ioyes
were
as
things
neuer
been
:
not
any
thought
of
remorse
remayned
within
her
;
but
shee
more
cruell
then
the
new
deliuered
Bear
,
or
the
Tyger
starued
for
meate
,
by
the
helpe
of
the
Knight
of
the
Castle
,
tooke
the
Scarffe
of
Iewells
(
sent
her
from
him
the
same
euening
)
and
by
violence
thrust
them
downe
the
Palmers
throat
:
by
which
meanes
they
bereaued
him
of
life
and
without
any
solemnity
due
to
so
braue
a
man
,
they
buried
him
in
a
Dunghill
without
the
Gate
,
not
shedding
so
much
as
one
teare
for
his
death
:
so
great
was
the
〈…〉
of
this
his
〈◊〉
full
Lady
.
The
poore
Negar
they
set
vp
to
the
middle
in
the
ground
so
surely
fastned
,
that
by
any
meanes
he
could
not
stirre
from
thence
,
where
wée
will
leaue
him
wishing
for
death
.
The
Red-rose
Knight
,
or
rather
the
vnhappy
Palmer
,
in
his
vnchristian
like
Graue
,
and
the
Knight
of
the
Castle
with
the
murtheresse
Anglitora
,
to
their
surfetting
Banquets
of
sinne
,
and
returne
to
the
Blacke
Knight
,
which
had
lost
himselfe
in
the
Woods
.
CHAP.
6.
How
the
Blacke
Knight
being
lost
in
a
wildernesse
became
a
wild
man
?
how
his
Fathers
Ghost
appeared
vnto
him
,
and
in
what
manner
hee
slew
his
owne
Mother
.
BY
this
time
the
Blacke
Knight
grewe
so
naturall
a
Wilde-man
,
as
though
hée
had
béene
bredde
in
the
Wildernesse
:
for
day
by
day
hee
sported
with
Lions
,
Leopards
,
Tygers
,
Elephants
,
Unicornes
,
and
such
like
kinde
of
Beasts
,
playing
as
familiarly
with
them
,
as
in
King
Arthurs
Court
hée
had
done
with
gallant
Gentlemen
.
But
marke
how
it
hapned
one
day
aboue
an
other
:
Hee
chaunched
to
walke
downe
into
a
Ually
,
where
hee
set
himselfe
downe
by
the
Riuers
side
,
and
in
humane
complaints
bewayled
his
owne
estate
,
how
beeing
borne
and
breed
of
a
Princely
Race
,
discended
royally
should
thus
consume
his
dayes
in
sauage
sort
,
amongst
Wilde
beasts
,
and
by
no
meanes
could
recouer
his
libertie
,
or
frée
himselfe
from
that
solitary
Wildernesse
,
Being
in
this
distresse
of
mind
,
a
suddaine
feare
assayld
him
,
his
heart
shiuered
,
his
haire
stood
vpright
,
the
Elements
seemed
to
looke
dimme
,
a
terrible
Tempest
tore
vp
huge
trees
,
the
Wilde
Beastes
roared
and
gathered
on
a
heape
together
,
Birdes
fell
liuelesse
from
the
ayre
,
the
Ground
as
it
were
trembled
,
and
a
sodaine
alteration
troubled
each
thing
aboue
him
:
in
this
amaze
sate
hée
a
good
time
,
maruelling
what
would
ensue
;
at
last
there
appeared
(
as
hée
imagined
)
the
Ghost
of
his
Fa●he●
new●y
murthered
with
a
countenance
pale
and
wan
,
with
hollowe
eyes
(
or
none
at
all
)
gliding
vp
and
downe
before
him
casting
such
fearefull
frownes
,
as
might
make
the
stoutest
heart
in
the
world
to
tremble
:
and
at
last
,
setting
himselfe
before
the
Blacke
Knight
,
spake
as
followeth
.
Fearenot
my
Sonne
,
I
am
the
Ghost
of
thy
murthered
Father
,
returned
from
Plutoes
hollow
Region
:
I
came
from
that
burning
Kingdome
where
continually
flames
an
euerlasting
Furnace
;
from
the
fearefull
Pitte
▪
come
I
to
thee
for
reuenge
:
Oh
thou
my
Sonne
,
if
euer
gentle
Nature
were
plyant
in
thy
boosome
:
if
euer
thou
tookest
pleasure
to
hearethy
Fathers
honours
spoken
of
;
if
euer
thou
desirest
to
haue
thy
life
meritorious
in
this
world
,
take
to
thee
thy
neuer
failing
Courage
,
and
reuenge
my
death
vpon
thy
adulterous
Mother
:
thy
Mother
now
liuing
in
the
filthinesse
of
shame
,
making
the
Castle
where
shee
now
remaines
in
,
a
lustfull
stewes
:
there
was
I
murthered
,
and
there
buried
in
a
stincking
Dunghill
;
no
man
gaue
mee
Funeral
teares
,
nor
any
sorrowed
for
my
death
:
I
that
haue
dared
Death
in
the
face
,
and
purchast
Honour
in
many
Kingdomes
,
was
slaine
by
my
owne
Wife
,
by
my
néerest
Friend
,
by
my
second
selfe
,
by
Anglitora
,
by
her
whom
the
whole
world
admired
for
vertue
:
Rise
(
deare
Sonne
)
rise
,
and
hast
thée
to
that
Castle
polluted
with
the
shame
of
thy
wicked
Mother
:
Rise
I
say
,
and
let
the
Pauements
of
that
Castle
,
be
sprinkeled
with
their
detested
blood
,
the
blood
of
that
Monster
that
hath
not
onely
dispoyled
my
marriage
bedde
of
honoured
dignities
,
but
like
a
tyrant
to
her
owne
flesh
hath
murthered
mee
.
Sée
how
the
angry
Heauens
(
as
it
were
)
doe
threaten
my
Reuenge
:
hearke
how
Hell-Furies
doe
howle
and
roare
for
Reuenge
:
my
Wiues
Adulterie
at
the
hand
of
Heauen
deserues
Reuenge
:
My
bléeding
soule
(
Oh
my
Sonne
wandreth
in
vnquiet
paths
,
till
thou
workest
Reuenge
:
my
death
and
murther
cries
(
)
for
Reuenge
:
then
feare
not
(
Sonne
)
to
act
it
;
for
duty
,
loue
and
nature
bindes
thée
to
it
,
By
Heauen
,
and
by
that
great
immortall
Throane
of
happinesse
:
By
that
low
Kingdome
of
eternall
paines
;
By
the
huge
watrey
Seas
I
past
to
follow
her
:
By
Earth
and
by
the
Soules
of
all
the
mortall
men
that
euer
dyed
,
I
commaund
,
●ha●ge
,
and
constraine
thée
to
perseuere
in
this
Reuenge
,
Hence
to
that
foule
defamed
Castle
,
defamed
by
Adulterie
defamed
by
Murther
;
there
to
my
Soule
doe
thy
latest
dutie
:
there
,
wound
thy
cursed
Mothers
breast
,
there
sacrifice
her
liues
blood
,
there
appease
thy
Fathers
Ghost
insenst
with
furie
;
so
shall
my
Soule
in
ioy
,
enter
the
Fields
of
faire
Elizeum
:
But
if
thou
prouest
coward-like
,
and
through
feare
deny
to
execute
my
glorious
Reuenge
,
from
this
day
hence-forth
shall
my
pale
,
wan
,
leane
,
and
withred
Ghost
with
gastly
lookes
,
and
fearefull
steps
,
pursue
and
follow
thee
.
These
were
the
words
of
his
Fathers
Ghost
:
and
hauing
spoken
these
words
,
with
a
grieuous
groane
,
hee
vanished
.
At
this
his
sodaine
departure
,
the
Blacke
Knight
cryed
with
a
loud
and
fearefull
voyce
saying
.
My
noble
Father
,
stay
;
Oh
stay
thy
hasty
steppes
:
once
more
let
mee
heare
thee
speake
.
Whether
flyest
thou
?
Oh
let
me
heare
thy
voyce
againe
:
It
will
not
be
,
He
is
vanished
;
and
my
Mother
liues
as
a
shame
to
all
our
generation
.
Oh
thou
staine
of
woman-hood
:
Oh
thou
bloody
Lionnesse
:
Oh
brutish
act
:
Oh
beastly
desires
:
Where
shall
I
now
finde
a
place
to
shed
teares
in
?
for
my
heart
is
rent
into
tenne
thousand
pieces
,
and
the
terrour
of
this
déed
,
is
too
intollerable
.
Rest
thou
in
peace
,
sweete
Father
:
thou
in
thy
life
wert
both
wise
and
valiant
:
thy
vertue
,
wisedome
,
and
manhood
made
the
very
enemies
to
loue
thée
:
Oh
then
,
what
fortune
hadst
thou
,
to
die
by
the
friendly
trust
of
thy
owne
Wife
,
my
disloyall
Mother
,
thy
neerest
friend
proud
thy
greatest
enemie
;
and
by
a
Womans
mallice
,
that
heart
was
killed
,
that
millions
of
Foes
could
neuer
daunt
.
Oh
sweete
Red-rose
Knight
,
most
happy
hadst
thou
been
to
haue
dyed
●●
the
Fields
of
bloody
Warre
,
and
seal'd
thy
liues
quittance
●mo●est
renowned
Souldiers
:
then
had
thy
death
béene
more
honorable
,
my
wicked
Mother
had
not
murthered
thée
,
nor
I
béen
inforst
to
take
such
bloody
vengeance
,
as
I
intend
(
deare
Father
)
for
thy
sake
:
for
let
mée
neuer
breath
one
day
longer
,
nor
view
the
next
Mornings
rising
Sunne
:
let
mée
neuer
liue
imprisoned
in
this
Wildernesse
,
let
nothing
prosper
that
〈◊〉
I
●ake
in
hand
,
and
here
let
the
worlde
end
,
if
I
cease
to
prosecute
a
mortall
Reuenge
,
as
the
soule
of
my
Father
hath
commaunded
.
Hereupon
hée
set
forward
toward
the
Castle
,
conducted
by
what
chaunce
the
Heauens
has
allotted
him
:
not
one
steppe
hée
knew
aright
,
nor
what
course
to
take
to
finde
the
direct
way
:
but
it
hapned
,
that
a●igni●
fatuus
(
as
hee
thought
)
or
a
goeing
Fire
,
led
him
the
right
way
out
of
the
Forrest
directly
to
the
Castle
where
his
dishonest
Mother
made
her
abode
.
But
comming
néere
vnto
the
Gates
,
hée
found
all
close
,
and
neere
vnto
the
Castle
the
Black-moore
set
halfe
way
quicke
into
the
earth
,
hauing
(
for
want
of
foode
)
eaten
most
part
of
the
flesh
from
his
armes
;
whom
the
Blacke
Knight
soone
digged
vp
,
and
kept
aliue
,
to
be
a
furtherance
to
his
intended
reuenge
.
The
poore
Indian
,
being
thus
happily
preserued
from
d●ath
,
reuealed
all
that
had
happned
in
the
said
Castle
;
how
his
Mother
liued
in
adultery
,
how
his
Father
was
murthered
,
why
himselfe
was
set
quicke
in
the
earth
;
and
lastly
,
for
the
loue
of
his
dead
Master
,
hée
protested
to
conduct
him
through
a
secret
Uault
into
the
Castle
,
that
in
the
dead
of
the
night
they
might
the
easier
accomplish
their
desired
reuenge
:
Thus
lingring
secretly
about
the
Castle
till
the
middle
of
night
:
a
(
time
as
they
imagined
)
to
bée
the
fittest
for
thée
tragicall
businesse
:
at
last
the
midnight
houre
came
,
and
through
a
secret
Cell
they
entred
vnder
the
Castle
into
the
Lodging
where
his
Father
was
murthred
.
This
is
the
place
(
quoth
the
Negar
)
where
my
sad
eyes
beheld
thy
Father
both
aliue
and
dead
;
so
goeing
from
thence
into
the
Chamber
(
which
by
chaunce
,
and
as
ill
lucke
had
appointed
)
was
through
negligence
left
open
,
hée
shewed
him
the
Bedde
where
these
Adulterers
lay
secretly
sléeping
in
each
others
Armes
,
Oh
dolefull
sight
,
This
lust
,
hath
made
mée
fatherlesse
,
and
ere
long
this
Weapon
shall
make
me
motherlesse
:
●o
kneeling
downe
vpon
his
knées
,
in
a
whispering
manner
hee
said
vnto
himselfe
.
Yée
lowring
Destinies
,
now
weaue
vp
the
Webbe
of
their
two
liues
that
haue
liued
too
long
,
You
infernall
Furies
,
draw
néere
:
Assist
me
thou
reuengefull
God
Nemesis
,
for
on
this
Sword
sits
now
such
a
glorious
Reuenge
,
as
being
taken
,
the
world
will
applande
mee
for
a
louing
Sonne
.
Hauing
spoken
these
words
,
hee
sheathed
his
Sword
vp
to
the
hiltes
in
the
boosome
of
the
Knight
of
the
Castle
,
who
lying
in
the
armes
of
Anglitora
,
gaue
so
deadly
a
groane
,
that
shée
immediatly
awaked
:
first
looking
to
the
Knight
that
was
slaine
in
her
Armes
,
thou
percciuing
her
Sonne
standing
with
his
weapon
drawne
;
yet
wreaking
in
the
blood
of
the
dead
Knight
,
meanacing
likewise
her
death
,
with
●
wofull
shrike
she
breathed
out
these
words
,
Oh
what
hast
thou
done
my
cruell
Sonne
?
Thou
hast
●laine
the
miracle
of
humanitie
;
and
one
whom
I
haue
chosen
●o
be
my
hearts
Parramour
,
and
thy
second
Father
.
Oh
Lady
quoth
the
(
Blacke
Knight
)
for
Mother
is
too
proud
a
title
for
thée
:
what
Furie
driueth
thee
to
lament
●he
deserued
death
of
that
lewde
blood
shedder
,
and
not
rather
choose
with
heart-renting
sighes
,
to
bewaile
the
death
of
my
Father
,
thy
renowned
Husband
,
whose
guiltlesse
body
,
euen
dead
,
thou
didst
dispise
,
by
buring
him
wh●●anly
vpon
a
●ounghill
;
but
Heauen
hath
graunted
,
and
Earth
hath
agréed
●etesting
both
thy
misdéedes
,
and
hath
sent
mée
to
sacrifice
thy
blood
vnto
the
Soule
of
my
murthered
Father
,
Whilst
hée
was
speaking
these
words
,
Anglitora
arose
from
her
bed
,
and
in
her
smocke
which
was
of
pure
Cambr●●ke
)
shée
knéeled
to
her
sonne
vpon
her
bare
knées
,
saying
.
Oh
thou
my
deare
Sonne
,
whom
once
I
nourisht
in
my
painefull
wombe
,
and
fedde
thée
with
mine
owne
blood
,
whom
oft
I
choycely
dandled
in
my
armes
,
when
with
lullababyes
and
swéet
kisses
I
rocked
asléepe
:
Oh
fatre
bée
it
from
thée
(
my
louing
Sonne
)
to
harme
that
breast
,
from
whom
thou
first
receiuest
life
:
Of
thée
(
my
Sonne
)
thy
Mother
begging
life
.
Oh
spare
the
life
,
that
once
gaue
thée
life
,
with
bléeding
teares
,
I
doe
confesse
my
wanton
offences
,
I
doe
confesse
through
mee
thy
Father
dyed
:
Then
,
if
confession
of
faults
may
merit
mercie
,
pardon
my
life
.
Obscure
not
thy
renowne
with
cruelty
,
making
thy selfe
unkind
and
monstrous
in
murthering
of
thy
Mother
.
I
charge
thée
,
by
thy
dutie
that
thou
owest
mee
;
by
all
the
bondes
of
loue
betwixt
a
Mother
and
a
Sonne
,
by
all
the
kindnesse
shewed
to
thée
in
thy
infancy
,
let
thy
mother
liue
that
begs
life
vpon
her
bare
knées
:
Doe
not
thou
glory
in
my
miseries
:
let
not
my
teares
whet
on
thy
cruellnesse
:
let
not
thy
minde
bée
bent
to
death
and
murther
:
bee
no
●●●age
Monster
:
bee
not
vnnaturall
,
rude
and
brutish
:
let
my
intreates
preuaile
to
saue
my
life
:
wound
not
the
wombe
that
fostred
thée
,
which
now
I
tearmed
wicked
,
by
onely
fostring
thee
,
what
childe
can
glut
his
eyes
with
gazing
on
his
Parents
wounds
,
and
will
not
faint
in
beholding
them
.
Hereupon
the
Blacke
Knight
not
able
to
indure
to
suffer
his
Mothers
further
intreaties
,
least
pittie
and
remorse
might
mollifie
his
heart
,
and
so
graunt
her
life
(
which
to
Heauen
to
take
away
hée
had
déepely
sworne
)
hée
cut
her
off
with
these
deadly
words
.
Lady
,
I
am
not
made
of
Flint
nor
Adamant
;
in
kinde
regard
of
calamitie
,
I
am
almost
strucke
with
remorce
:
but
dutie
must
quite
vndoe
all
dutie
:
Kinde
must
worke
against
kinde
,
all
the
powers
of
my
body
bée
at
mortall
strife
,
and
séeke
to
confound
each
other
,
Loue
turnes
to
Hatred
:
Nature
turnes
to
wrath
,
and
Dutie
to
Reuenge
:
for
mée
thinkes
my
Fathers
Blood
with
agroning
voice
,
cryes
to
Heauen
for
Reuenge
:
therefore
to
appease
my
Fathers
angry
spirit
,
here
shalt
thou
yéeld
vp
thy
déerest
blood
.
Here
was
hee
ready
to
strike
,
and
with
his
sword
to
finish
vp
the
tragedie
:
but
that
his
grieued
soule
in
kinde
nature
plucked
backe
his
hand
:
whereupon
with
a
great
sigh
he
sayd
.
Oh
Heauens
;
how
am
I
grieued
in
minde
.
Father
forgiue
mee
,
I
cannot
kill
my
Mother
And
now
againe
,
mée
thinks
I
sée
the
pale
shaddow
of
my
fathers
Ghost
glyding
before
mine
eyes
;
mée
thinkes
hée
shewes
me
the
manner
of
his
murther
;
mée
thinkes
his
angry
lookes
threatens
mée
and
tels
how
that
my
heart
is
possest
with
cowardice
,
&
childish
feare
;
Thou
doest
preuaile
,
O
Father
euen
now
receiue
this
sacrifice
of
blood
and
death
;
this
pleasing
sacrifice
,
which
to
appease
thy
troubled
soule
,
I
heare
doe
offer
.
And
thus
in
speaking
these
words
,
with
his
Sword
hée
split
the
deare
heart
of
his
mother
;
from
whence
the
blood
as
from
a
gushing
Spring
issued
.
Which
when
hee
beheld
,
such
a
sodaine
conceit
of
griefe
entred
his
minde
considering
that
hée
had
slaine
his
owne
Mother
,
whom
in
duty
hee
ought
to
honour
aboue
all
liuing
women
,
that
hee
rather
fell
into
a
frenzie
than
a
melancholy
;
and
so
with
a
pale
countenance
and
gastly
lookes
,
with
spartling
like
to
a
burning
Furnace
,
began
to
talke
idlely
.
What
haue
I
done
?
Whome
hath
my
bloody
hand
murthered
?
Now
woe
vnto
my
soule
for
I
am
worse
then
the
Uiperous
brood
that
eates
out
their
Dammes
wombe
to
get
life
vnto
themselues
:
they
doe
but
according
to
nature
,
I
against
all
Nature
;
for
I
haue
digged
vp
the
boosome
that
first
gaue
mee
life
.
Oh
wicked
wretch
;
where
shall
I
nowe
hide
my
head
?
for
I
haue
slaine
my selfe
,
in
killing
her
:
I
haue
staynde
this
Chamber
héere
with
humane
blood
The
Heauens
abhorre
me
for
this
déed
:
The
World
condemnes
mée
for
this
murther
,
and
Hell
Furies
will
follow
mee
with
shame
and
terrour
:
The
Gods
are
grieued
,
Men
(
me
thinks
)
●●ie
my
company
:
dead
Ghosts
arise
in
my
distresses
:
I
see
my
Mother
comes
with
a
brest
bléeding
,
threatning
confusion
to
my
fortunes
.
Oh
thou
vgly
Spirit
,
cease
to
follow
mée
,
torment
me
not
aliue
,
for
the
wrath
of
Heauen
is
fallen
vpon
my
head
.
Dispaire
,
where
art
thou
?
I
must
finde
thée
out
,
I
will
goe
seeke
thee
through
the
world
:
and
if
in
the
world
I
finde
thee
not
,
I
le
saddle
winged
Pegasus
,
and
scale
he
mantion
place
of
loue
.
I
will
ransake
all
the
corners
of
the
●kie
.
I
will
throwe
downe
the
Sunne
,
the
Moone
,
and
Starres
:
then
leauing
heauen
,
I
will
goe
seeks
for
Despaire
in
the
loathsome
poole
of
Hell
;
there
in
Plutoes
Court
will
I
binde
blacke
Cerberus
vp
in
Chaines
,
the
triple-headed
Helhound
,
that
Porter
of
Hell
gates
,
because
hee
let
Despaire
passe
from
thence
.
In
this
frantike
sort
ranne
he
vp
and
downe
the
Chamber
,
and
at
last
with
the
nayles
of
his
fingers
hée
fell
to
graue
vpon
the
Stone
walles
the
picture
of
his
Mother
,
imitating
Pigmalion
,
hoping
to
haue
life
breathed
into
the
same
.
Meane
while
the
poore
Indian
with
fleshlesse
armes
heaued
vp
towards
Heauen
,
and
on
his
bare
knées
,
made
his
supplication
to
the
Gods
,
for
the
Blacke
Knights
recouery
of
his
wittes
.
Oh
you
angry
Heauens
(
quoth
hee
)
reuoke
your
heauy
doomes
,
forget
this
crime
,
forgiue
this
vnnaturall
murther
:
pittie
the
state
of
this
distressed
Knight
,
and
send
some
meanes
to
recouer
his
senses
.
Thou
bright
Lampe
of
Heauen
,
thou
eternall
light
,
although
in
iustice
we
haue
deserued
thy
wrath
,
yet
let
my
prayers
,
my
neuer
ceasing
Prayers
,
my
heartes
renting
Sighs
,
my
déepe
inforced
Teares
,
worke
some
remorce
from
thy
incensed
ire
,
that
either
this
Knight
may
recouer
his
lost
senses
,
or
set
him
frée
from
death
.
Thus
in
a
zealous
manner
prayed
the
poore
Negar
,
desi●ing
God
to
lay
the
Knights
fault
vpon
his
head
,
and
reclaime
his
vnbridled
rage
:
which
Prayer
was
soone
regarded
by
Heauen
,
for
the
Blacke
Knight
had
immediatly
his
madnesse
turned
into
a
sad
melancholly
;
and
in
a
more
gentle
manner
made
his
sad
lamentations
,
as
you
shall
heate
in
the
next
Chapter
.
But
now
the
Negar
,
that
all
the
time
of
Anglitoras
murther
stood
in
a
traunce
,
beganne
now
a
little
(
considering
the
fright
hee
tooke
at
the
Blacke
Knights
madnesse
)
to
summon
againe
together
his
naturall
senses
;
and
perceiuing
the
vnchast
Lady
dead
,
cold
,
pale
,
wanne
,
lying
weltering
in
her
goare
,
and
the
blood
of
her
false
heart
(
shed
by
her
owne
child
)
all
besprinckled
about
the
Chamber
,
sayd
as
followeth
.
Now
(
quoth
the
Negar
,
betwixt
life
and
death
)
haue
you
showne
your selfe
a
dutifull
Sonne
,
and
nobly
reuenged
the
death
of
your
Father
.
These
were
the
last
words
of
the
poore
Indian
;
which
as
then
s●nke
downe
,
and
neuer
after
breathed
▪
Thereupon
came
f●orth
the
Dwarffe
of
the
Castle
,
with
great
store
of
treasure
,
proffering
the
same
to
the
Blacke
Knight
;
who
nothing
thirsting
after
couetousnesse
,
refused
it
,
and
withall
tooke
the
Dwarffe
in
satisfaction
for
the
Negars
death
,
and
crammed
the
treasure
downe
his
throate
;
and
after
buryed
the
two
Seruants
together
in
one
Graue
.
This
being
done
he
digged
vp
his
Fathers
body
from
the
Dunghill
,
and
brought
it
to
the
Chamber
where
his
mother
lay
and
after
in
an
Abby
yard
belonging
to
the
Castle
,
he
buryed
them
both
likwise
,
in
one
Graue
.
This
being
done
,
hee
knéeled
thereupon
,
and
made
his
complaint
in
this
manner
.
CHAP.
7
Of
the
Black
Knights
melancholy
lamentations
ouer
the
graue
of
his
Parents
;
and
of
other
things
that
hapned
.
OH
thric●
happy
for
euer-more
bee
this
ground
that
containes
the
bodyes
of
my
vnfortunate
Parents
;
for
this
Earth
hath
receiued
the
swéete
Darling
of
Nature
,
and
the
onely
delight
of
the
whole
World
;
the
Sunshine
of
Christendome
,
and
the
glory
of
Mankinde
:
Oh
thrice
happy
be
the
grasse
,
that
from
hencefoorth
shall
grow
vpon
this
Graue
:
let
neuer
Sithe
touch
it
,
nor
crafty
●urking
Serpent
with
venemous
breath
,
or
deadly
poyson
,
hurt
it
:
Let
no
Lyons
pawes
,
nor
Beares
foot
,
tread
vpon
it
:
Let
no
Beasres
Horne
in
any
manner
abuse
it
:
Let
no
Birds
with
pecking
,
nor
créeping
filthy
Uermine
,
no
winters
nipping
Frost
,
no
nightly
falling
Dewes
,
no
rage
of
the
par●hing
Sunnes
heate
,
nor
Starres
,
haue
power
from
Heauen
:
nor
fearefull
Tempest
nor
horrible
Lightning
,
in
any
manner
annoy
it
:
Let
no
Plough-man
driue
hither
his
weary
Oren
,
nor
Shepheards
bring
hither
their
Shéepe
,
least
by
the
Bulls
rage
it
bee
harmed
,
or
by
the
harmelesse
Shéepe
it
be
eaten
:
but
let
it
for
euer
grow
,
that
the
displaying
thereof
may
reach
to
Heauen
:
and
may
from
hencefoorth
this
Graue
be
euer
accounted
sacred
:
and
may
the
Grasse
bee
euer
sprinkled
with
swéet
Waters
.
Some
good
man
vpon
this
Graue
set
a
burning
Taper
,
that
then
for
euery
anguish
of
my
heart
,
I
may
beate
my
Breasts
,
till
my
Fistes
haue
strucken
the
winde
from
my
body
;
and
that
my
Soule
may
beare
them
company
into
Elizium
.
Come
you
wanton
fleshly
Satyres
:
Come
you
friendly
Fawnes
:
Come
you
Fayries
and
Dryades
,
and
sing
swéet
Epitaphes
;
lift
vp
your
voyces
to
Heauen
,
and
let
your
prayses
bée
in
the
honour
of
my
Parents
:
my selfe
like
a
wan
,
pale
,
and
dead
man
,
will
beare
you
company
:
I
will
wearie
the
World
with
my
complaints
:
I
will
make
huge
Streames
with
my
Teares
:
such
Streames
,
as
no
Banke
shall
barre
:
such
Streames
,
as
no
Drought
shall
drye
.
But
alasse
what
doe
I
meane
to
repeate
these
seuerall
lamentations
:
since
my
deare
Parents
bée
dead
:
since
from
the
world
they
are
parted
:
since
they
are
buried
without
solemnitie
:
since
my
delights
are
all
inclosed
in
the
Grounde
:
yet
will
I
still
here
make
my
complaints
,
though
no
good
ease
comes
thereby
,
adding
teares
to
teares
,
and
sorrowes
to
sorrowes
.
Oh
frowning
Fortune
.
Oh
vnlucky
Starres
.
Oh
cursed
day
that
euer
I
did
this
déed
,
for
now
no
sence
,
nor
knowledge
,
takes
their
vnsensible
bodyes
of
my
griefes
:
in
this
Graue
there
is
no
féeling
:
in
Death
there
is
no
pittie
taken
.
Oh
thou
Siluannus
thou
commander
of
these
Mountaines
,
helpe
mee
poore
helpelesse
soule
to
shed
teares
:
for
my
religion
,
for
my
deuotion
and
Countries
sake
helpe
mee
:
either
let
me
haue
some
comfort
in
my
sorrowes
,
or
let
me
in
Death
,
beare
my
Parents
company
.
Thou
séest
what
Torments
I
suffer
;
how
my
heart
trembles
,
how
my
eyes
flow
with
teares
,
how
my
head
is
with
teares
possest
,
how
my
Soule
is
full
of
horrible
anguish
:
all
this
thou
séest
,
and
yet
it
little
grieues
thée
to
sée
it
.
Oh
thou
churlish
ground
,
from
hencefoorth
cease
any
more
to
beare
Fruit
:
cease
to
be
deck't
with
Flowers
,
cease
to
be
mantled
in
Gréene
,
for
the
purest
Flowers
are
withered
.
Thy
Garlands
are
decayed
:
my
deare
Parents
are
too
vntimely
bereft
of
life
:
their
sweete
bodyes
thou
harborest
,
and
in
thy
wombe
deliuere●st
them
as
a
food
vnto
Wormes
.
Therefore
thou
cruell
Earth
,
howle
andmourne
,
for
thou
art
vnworthy
of
such
blessed
bodies
.
And
now
,
oh
you
pittifull
Heauens
,
heare
my
complaints
,
conuey
them
to
the
Soules
of
my
deceased
Parents
:
for
my
lamentations
by
the
gentle
Windes
,
are
blowen
from
the
East
vnto
the
West
:
the
dry
Land
,
and
the
Watry
Seas
,
are
witnesses
to
them
:
Therefore
no
day
shall
rise
,
but
it
shall
heare
my
complaints
:
no
night
shall
come
,
but
it
shall
giue
eare
vnto
my
mo●nes
:
neither
day
nor
night
,
shall
be
frée
from
my
heart-breaking
cryes
.
If
that
I
groane
,
mée
thinkes
the
Trees
are
bended
,
as
though
they
pittied
my
teares
.
The
very
Ground
(
for
griefe
)
I
sée
alters
her
complexion
.
All
that
I
heare
,
all
that
I
see
,
all
that
I
feele
,
giues
fresh
increase
to
my
sorrow
.
I
will
neuer
hencefoorth
come
in
peopled
Towne
,
nor
inhabited
Cittie
,
but
wander
all
alone
vp
and
downe
by
low
Uallyes
,
and
sleepy
Rockes
:
or
I
will
dwell
in
darke
Dennes
frequented
onely
by
Wilde
Beastes
,
where
no
path
of
man
was
euer
séene
,
or
to
the
Woods
I
will
goe
,
so
darke
,
and
beset
so
thicke
with
shaddow
branches
,
that
no
Sunne
may
shine
there
by
day
,
nor
no
Starre
by
night
may
be
seene
,
whereas
is
heard
no
voyce
,
but
the
outcryes
of
horrible
Goblings
,
the
balefull
shrikes
of
Night-owles
,
the
vnlukie
sounds
of
Rauens
and
Crowes
;
there
shall
mine
eyes
bee
made
watry
Fountaines
;
there
will
I
make
such
plaints
,
as
Beasts
shall
mourne
to
heare
them
;
such
plaints
will
I
make
,
as
shall
rend
and
riue
strong
trees
,
make
wilde
Panthers
tame
,
and
mollifie
hard
flinty
stones
:
And
if
by
chance
that
sléepe
oppresse
mee
,
on
the
bare
and
cold
Ground
shall
these
wofull
limbs
rest
:
the
gréene
turffe
shall
,
serue
as
a
Pillow
for
my
head
:
boughs
and
branches
of
trées
shall
couer
me
:
and
then
I
hope
,
some
venemous
Serpent
wil
spéedily
giue
mee
my
deaths
wound
,
that
this
my
poore
soule
may
be
released
from
flesh
and
blood
:
by
which
meanes
I
may
passe
to
those
Fields
,
those
faire
Elizium
Fields
,
whereas
my
murthered
Parents
daily
resort
.
In
this
manner
complained
the
Blacke
Knight
vpon
his
Parents
graue
,
thrée
dayes
and
nights
together
,
still
knéeling
vpon
the
cold
ground
and
could
not
by
any
imagination
bee
comforted
:
euery
thing
his
eyes
beheld
,
renewed
fresh
sorrow
,
and
drew
on
new
lamentations
:
but
at
last
,
the
Powers
of
Heauen
intending
to
graunt
him
some
ease
,
cast
his
distressed
Senses
into
a
quiet
slumber
:
where
lying
vpon
his
fathers
graue
,
wee
will
let
him
for
a
time
rest
.
CHAP
8.
How
the
Fayerie
Knight
came
to
be
called
the
Worlds
Triumph
,
Of
his
ariuall
in
England
,
of
the
two
Knights
deaths
,
and
of
the
Proue
rbe
vsed
of
three
Cities
in
England
.
YOu
haue
read
in
the
first
part
of
this
Historie
,
how
the
Fayerie
Knight
the
Sonne
of
Caelia
,
begot
by
the
Red-rose
Knight
,
was
committed
(
by
his
Mother
at
her
death
)
to
the
keeping
of
the
Ladies
of
the
Land
:
for
then
was
there
but
few
Men
liuing
,
being
a
Countrey
onely
of
Women
:
and
now
being
of
lusty
age
,
and
a
Knight
of
renowned
valoure
,
he
betooke
himselfe
to
trauell
:
the
onely
cause
to
finde
his
Father
,
or
some
of
his
kindred
whom
he
had
neuer
seene
.
Many
were
the
Countries
he
passed
:
but
more
the
dangers
hee
indured
:
all
which
for
this
time
,
wee
omit
:
onely
a
little
speake
of
thrée
guifts
giuen
him
by
an
Hermite
,
that
had
thrée
excéeding
Uertues
:
For
comming
to
an
Iland
to
séeke
aduentures
,
it
was
his
chance
to
saue
a
young
beautifull
Mayden
from
rauishing
by
a
satyricall
Wild-man
:
for
he
hauing
tyed
the
golden
locks
of
her
Hayre
to
two
knoity
brambles
,
and
being
ready
to
take
his
venerall
pleasure
vpon
her
,
the
Fayerie
Knight
comming
by
,
and
séeing
that
dishonour
and
violence
offered
to
so
young
a
Uirgin
,
with
his
Sword
at
one
blow
,
paired
away
the
Wild-mans
head
,
and
so
went
with
the
Mayden
home
to
her
Fathers
house
,
which
was
an
Hermitage
some
mile
distant
off
:
where
being
no
sooner
come
,
but
the
good
old
man
,
hauing
a
Head
more
white
then
Siluer
,
but
a
heart
more
heauier
then
Lead
,
by
reason
of
the
want
of
his
daughter
,
so
cruelly
taken
from
him
,
began
at
her
sight
to
be
so
cheered
,
that
he
had
not
the
power
(
for
ioy
)
to
speake
a
good
space
,
but
at
last
,
taking
the
fayerie
Knight
by
the
hand
,
he
led
him
to
an
inward
roome
,
where
hee
banqueted
him
with
such
chéere
as
his
Hermitage
afforded
;
and
after
in
●●ew
of
his
daughters
reschew
,
hee
gaue
him
thrée
such
Gifts
,
and
of
thrée
such
Uertues
,
as
the
like
seldome
had
Knight
.
The
first
,
was
a
King
,
which
whosoeuer
did
weare
,
should
neuer
dye
by
treason
.
The
second
a
Sword
;
that
on
what
Gate
soeuer
it
strucke
,
it
would
presently
fly
open
.
The
third
and
last
,
a
viall
of
such
Drinke
that
whosoeuer
tasted
,
should
sodainely
forget
all
passed
sorrowes
.
Hauing
receiued
these
thrée
Gifts
of
the
good
old
Hermite
,
he
departed
,
and
trauelled
without
any
aduenture
till
he
came
and
found
the
blacke
Knight
afléepe
vpon
his
fathers
Graue
:
which
when
the
Fayerie
Knight
had
awaked
,
in
countenance
they
were
so
alike
,
as
Nature
had
made
them
both
one
,
(
for
indéed
they
were
Brothers
by
the
Fathers
side
,
the
one
true
borne
,
the
other
a
Bastard
)
yet
at
the
first
sight
,
such
a
secret
affection
grew
betwixt
them
,
that
they
plighted
their
●aythes
to
each
other
,
vowing
neuer
to
part
friendships
.
But
when
the
Blacke
Knight
had
reuealed
his
birth
&
parentage
,
his
Fathers
name
,
and
place
of
birth
,
the
Fayerie
Knight
resolued
himselfe
,
that
he
had
found
a
Brother
,
as
well
in
nature
as
condition
:
But
when
hee
heard
the
story
of
his
Fathers
life
,
and
the
manner
of
his
death
,
with
the
murther
of
Anglitora
his
vnchast
wife
,
hee
could
not
choose
but
shed
teares
,
whereof
plenty
descended
from
his
faire
eyes
:
whereupon
hée
tooke
occasion
to
speake
as
followeth
.
Heauen
rest
thy
swéet
soule
(
my
vnknowne
Father
,
)
and
may
the
fruite
of
thee
proue
as
famous
in
the
World
as
thou
hast
been
;
but
more
fortunate
in
their
Mariage
choyse
:
As
for
my
Stepmother
,
though
her
vnchast
life
haue
made
her
in
famous
to
all
Womankinde
,
yet
this
in
charitie
I
desire
,
that
when
shee
comes
to
Plutoes
Realme
,
that
Proserpine
may
send
her
to
the
blessed
fields
of
Elizium
;
in
remembrance
of
whom
,
in
this
world
,
(
if
euer
we
ariue
in
that
noble
Countrey
of
England
,
where
my
Knightly
Father
was
borne
,
)
wee
will
there
erect
her
a
stately
Tombe
:
yet
no
Epitaph
)
shall
show
her
disloyall
life
,
nor
the
cause
of
her
death
:
onely
in
Letters
of
beaten
Gold
,
shall
remaine
ingrauen
vpon
her
Tombe
,
the
name
of
,
Anglitora
Daughter
to
Prester
Iohn
,
and
Wife
to
the
worthy
Red-rose
Knight
.
Hereupon
hee
gaue
his
new-found
Brother
(
the
Blacke
Knight
)
his
Wall
of
Drinke
which
the
Hermit
had
giuen
him
:
who
no
sooner
had
tasted
,
but
all
former
gréefes
were
forgotten
:
hee
remembred
not
the
death
of
his
Father
,
nor
the
murther
of
his
Mother
,
nor
what
sorrow
hee
had
sustayned
in
the
Wildernesse
:
but
like
a
ioconde
Knight
,
gyrt
his
Sword
round
about
him
,
and
stood
on
Thornes
till
hee
was
set
forward
to
seeke
Martiall
aduentures
.
Hereupon
these
two
Knights
departed
toward
England
,
and
performed
many
noble
deeds
of
Chiualrie
by
the
way
;
But
amongst
all
others
,
being
in
the
Turkish
Court
(
this
is
worthy
to
bée
noted
)
for
with
one
Boxe
of
the
eare
,
the
Blacke
Knight
killed
the
Turkes
Sonne
starke
dead
:
for
which
cause
,
by
treason
were
their
liues
conspired
,
and
the
following
night
,
had
their
Lodging
entred
by
twelue
of
the
Turkes
Guard
,
with
an
intent
to
murther
them
:
but
by
reason
of
the
inchaunted
Ring
,
in
the
which
they
put
both
their
little
fingers
,
the
Guard
of
a
sodaine
fell
all
fast
in
a
traunce
:
hereupon
the
two
Knights
departed
the
Turkish
Court
,
But
no
sooner
were
they
out
of
the
Citie
,
but
a
troupe
of
armed
Knights
pursued
them
,
and
followed
them
so
néerely
,
that
they
were
forced
to
enter
a
Castle
that
stood
by
the
Sea
side
,
wherein
no
creature
had
abyding
:
comming
to
the
Gate
,
the
Fayerie
Knight
with
his
Sword
strucke
thereat
,
an
it
presently
opened
:
wherein
being
no
sooner
entred
,
but
the
armed
Knights
of
the
Turkish
nation
closed
them
fast
in
,
and
caused
the
Gates
to
bée
walled
vp
with
Free
Stone
,
and
so
departed
.
Now
were
these
two
Knights
in
more
danger
of
death
,
then
euer
they
had
beene
in
all
their
liues
:
and
sure
they
had
starued
,
had
not
good
pollicie
preserued
their
liues
:
for
the
Castle
walles
were
so
high
,
that
none
durst
venture
downe
without
great
danger
.
As
in
greatest
extreamity
,
mans
wit
is
the
quickest
for
inuention
;
so
the
two
Knights
cut
off
all
the
Hayre
from
their
heads
which
were
very
long
)
and
therewithall
made
along
●oo●sted
Line
or
Cord
,
with
the
which
they
slid
from
the
top
of
the
Wall
to
the
Ground
.
But
this
mischaunce
hapned
;
as
the
Fayerie
Knight
glyded
downe
,
the
Coard
broke
,
and
his
body
tooke
such
a
violent
blow
against
the
stonie
Ground
,
that
it
strucke
the
breath
quite
out
of
his
body
,
no
life
by
the
Blacke
Knight
could
bee
perceiued
,
but
that
his
soule
was
for
euer
diuided
.
This
of
all
misfortunes
,
was
held
the
extreamest
;
therefore
in
great
griefe
hee
breathed
foorth
this
lamentation
.
Oh
you
partiall
Fates
(
quoth
hee
)
Oh
you
vniust
Destinies
:
Why
haue
you
reft
two
liues
by
wounding
one
?
Now
let
the
Sunne
forbeare
his
wonted
light
.
Let
Heate
and
Coulde
,
let
Drought
and
Moysture
,
let
Earth
and
Ayre
,
let
Fire
and
Water
,
be
all
mingled
and
confounded
together
:
let
that
old
confused
Chaos
returne
againe
,
and
heere
let
the
World
end
.
And
now
you
Heauens
this
is
my
request
,
that
my
Soule
may
presently
forsake
this
flesh
:
I
haue
no
soule
of
mine
owne
,
for
it
is
the
soule
of
the
Fayerie
Knight
,
for
but
one
Soule
is
common
to
vs
both
:
then
how
can
I
liue
,
hauing
my
Soule
departed
,
which
spightfull
death
hath
now
separated
?
Oh
thou
my
Knightly
brother
,
though
the
Fates
deny
to
giue
thée
life
,
yet
in
spight
of
them
I
le
follow
thée
.
You
Heauens
receiue
this
halfe
soule
of
my
true
Friend
and
let
not
life
and
death
part
vs
;
with
Eagles
wings
will
I
flye
after
him
,
and
in
Ioues
cele●●iall
Throane
ioyne
with
him
in
friendship
.
We
two
in
life
were
but
one
;
one
will
,
one
heart
,
one
minde
,
one
Soule
made
vs
one
:
one
life
kept
vs
both
aliue
,
one
being
dead
,
drawes
the
other
vnto
death
:
therefore
,
as
wee
liued
in
loue
,
so
will
we
dye
in
loue
;
and
with
one
Graue
wee
may
interre
both
our
bodyes
:
How
glorious
and
happy
were
my
death
,
to
dye
with
my
beloued
friend
:
Now
doe
I
loath
this
life
,
in
liuing
alone
without
my
deare
Brother
:
whereupon
drawing
his
Sword
from
his
side
,
hée
sayd
.
Oh
thou
wofull
Weapon
,
euen
thou
shalt
be
the
meane
,
to
ridde
my
soule
from
this
prison
of
body
.
Oh
faith
vnfaigned
;
Oh
hand
of
sacred
friendship
:
I
am
resolued
both
with
the
force
of
Heart
,
Hand
,
and
Armes
,
to
giue
my
Heart
deaths
deadly
wound
;
for
now
my
noble
Fayerie
Knight
,
this
blood
I
offer
vp
vnto
thy
Soule
.
But
being
ready
with
his
Sword
to
pierce
his
owne
heart
,
hée
saw
a
liuely
blood
spread
in
his
friends
face
,
and
those
eyes
that
were
so
dolefully
closed
vp
,
began
now
to
looke
abroad
;
and
the
countenance
that
was
so
pale
and
wan
,
receiued
a
fresh
complexion
:
whereupon
the
Blacke
Knight
stayed
from
his
desperate
resolution
,
and
from
a
bloody
tragedian
,
became
the
recouerer
of
his
brothers
life
;
who
after
a
while
,
began
to
be
perfect
sencible
:
so
binding
his
bruzed
bones
together
,
they
went
a
Shipboard
on
a
Shippe
that
lay
at
anchor
at
the
next
Port
,
making
for
England
,
so
the
next
morning
(
the
wind
serued
well
)
the
Pilots
hoysted
sayle
,
merily
floting
on
the
waters
.
Ten
wéekes
had
not
passed
toward
the
finishing
of
a
yéere
,
before
they
ariued
on
the
Chaulkie
cliftes
of
England
;
vpon
which
they
had
no
sooner
set
footing
,
but
with
their
warme
lippes
they
gently
kissed
the
cold
earth
,
This
is
the
Land
of
promised
glory
(
said
the
Fayerie
Knight
)
to
finde
this
Land
I
haue
indured
many
miseries
:
to
find
this
Land
I
haue
passed
many
Countries
,
and
in
this
Land
,
must
I
seale
vp
the
last
quittance
of
my
life
,
here
shal
my
bones
rest
,
for
I
am
lawfully
descended
from
the
loynes
of
an
English
Knight
:
peace
bee
in
my
ende
,
for
all
my
dayes
haue
béene
spent
in
much
trouble
.
In
such
like
discourses
left
they
the
shore
side
,
&
trauayling
further
into
the
Land
,
they
met
with
one
of
King
Arthurs
Knights
,
named
Sir
Launcelat
Dulake
,
so
old
and
lame
that
through
his
bruises
in
chiualry
,
hée
séemed
rather
an
impotent
creature
,
then
a
Knight
at
Armes
;
yet
at
the
sight
of
these
two
aduenturous
Knights
,
his
blood
séemed
to
grow
young
:
and
hée
that
before
,
could
not
march
a
mile
on
foote
for
a
Kingdome
,
now
went
as
tiuely
as
any
of
the
two
other
Knights
did
.
First
came
they
to
London
,
where
for
their
fathers
sake
,
they
were
(
by
the
Gouernours
)
most
gallantly
entertained
:
the
stréets
were
hung
round
with
Arras
hangings
,
and
Tape
,
strie
workes
:
Pagiants
were
builded
vp
in
euery
stréet
,
the
Cond●nts
ran
with
Wine
,
and
a
solemne
Holy-day
was
then
proclaimed
to
be
kept
yearely
vpon
that
day
.
To
speake
of
Banquets
prepared
for
them
,
the
Tilts
and
Turnaments
,
and
such
honourable
graces
,
I
thinke
néedlesse
.
In
London
in
great
content
stayed
they
some
twenty
dayes
:
in
which
time
came
noble
messengers
from
the
Court
to
conduct
them
to
the
King
that
then
raigned
:
for
since
the
Blacke
Knight
and
his
mother
departed
the
Land
,
hapned
thrée
changes
,
euery
one
maintaining
the
ancient
honour
of
King
Arthurs
Knights
of
the
Round
Table
,
whereof
these
two
in
presence
of
all
the
Nobilitie
,
were
in
Knightly
sort
created
.
After
this
,
the
King
ordained
a
solemne
Iusting
to
be
kept
in
his
Court
,
&
held
in
great
honour
for
fortie
dayes
:
to
which
Knightly
sports
,
resorted
the
chiefest
flowers
of
Chiualrie
from
all
Countries
,
as
Kings
,
Princes
,
Dukes
,
Marquesses
,
●arles
,
Lords
,
and
Knights
;
and
for
chiefe
Challenger
and
Champion
for
the
Countrey
,
was
the
Fayerie
Knight
:
who
for
his
matchlesse
man-hood
therein
showne
,
had
this
title
giuen
him
by
a
generall
consent
,
to
bee
called
,
The
Worlds
Wonder
.
After
this
,
being
desirous
to
sée
the
Citie
of
Lincolne
,
where
the
Red-rose
Knight
was
borne
,
hee
in
company
of
his
Brother
&
true
friend
,
the
Blacke
Knight
,
and
old
sit
Lancelat
Dulake
,
rod
thither
,
at
whose
comming
into
the
Citie
,
the
great
Bell
(
called
Tom
a
Lincolne
)
was
rung
an
houre
,
which
as
then
was
seldome
showne
to
any
,
excepting
Kings
,
and
renowned
warriours
,
returning
victoriously
from
bloody
●attles
.
Here
builded
they
a
most
sumptuous
Minster
,
which
to
this
day
remaines
in
great
magnificence
and
glory
.
Likewise
here
builded
they
a
most
stately
Tombe
in
remembrance
of
their
Parents
:
the
like
(
as
then
)
no
place
of
England
afforded
.
Thus
hauing
left
the
noble
feats
of
Chiualry
,
they
liued
a
life
zealous
,
and
most
pleasing
to
God
:
erecting
many
Alms-houses
for
poore
people
,
giuing
thereto
great
Wealth
and
Treasure
:
And
when
nature
ended
their
dayes
,
they
were
buried
in
the
same
Minster
,
both
in
one
Tombe
:
which
likewise
was
so
richly
set
vp
with
Pillars
of
Gold
,
that
aboue
all
ot●er
Cities
,
it
grew
the
most
famous
:
whereupon
since
that
time
,
hath
this
old
Prouerbe
of
thrée
Cities
gr●wn
common
,
which
is
vsed
in
these
words
:
Lincolne
was
,
London
is
,
and
Yorke
shall
be
.
FINIS
.
R.
I.