THE
Famous
Historie
of
Chinon
of
England
,
with
his
strange
aduentures
for
the
loue
of
Celestina
daughter
to
Lewis
King
of
Fraunce
.
With
the
worthy
Atchiuement
of
Sir
Lancelot
du
Lake
,
and
Sir
Tristram
du
Lions
for
faire
Laura
,
daughter
to
Cador
Earle
of
Cornewall
,
beeing
all
Knights
of
King
Arthurs
round
Table
.
By
Chr.
Middleton
.
AT
LONDON
,
Printed
by
Iohn
Danter
,
for
Cuthbert
Burbie
,
and
are
to
be
sold
at
his
shop
by
the
Royall
Exchange
.
1597.
To
the
right
worshipfull
Master
Edward
Stanley
Esquire
.
SIR
,
were
I
not
more
comforted
with
assurance
of
your
Generous
disposition
,
than
perswaded
of
anie
merit
on
my
part
,
by
offering
the
Patronage
of
this
Historie
to
your
hands
;
I
should
as
certainly
dispaire
of
the
acceptaunce
,
as
I
am
vncertaine
whether
it
bee
worthie
to
bee
accepted
From
the
time
of
my
first
entraunce
in
Printing
till
now
,
it
is
the
first
Booke
of
this
kinde
I
euer
had
power
to
dedicate
,
from
my
first
yeres
of
capacitie
to
read
anie
printed
thing
,
my
affectionate
dutie
hath
to
your
W.
been
dedicated
.
Enisham
one
of
your
Lordships
was
my
birth-place
;
and
as
my
Frends
there
pay
dueties
for
the
place
they
liue
in
,
so
tender
I
this
here
as
part
of
my
duteous
loue
.
The
Authour
of
the
Booke
hath
left
it
to
the
wide
world
without
a
Patron
,
perchance
esteeming
it
vnworthie
protection
:
neyther
doo
I
thinke
it
in
the
least
part
worthie
your
protection
,
before
whose
excelent
iudgement
(
so
daily
conuersant
among
the
most
iudiciall
)
it
cannot
but
vanish
like
light
smoake
before
a
bright
flame
.
All
my
excuse
is
loue
,
all
my
request
is
pardon
;
which
as
(
I
first
inferd
)
your
noble
disposition
assures
mee
of
.
On
which
foundation
building
,
I
cease
now
to
bee
more
bold
.
Your
Worships
,
most
dutifully
affectionate
:
Iohn
Danter
.
The
famous
History
of
Chinon
of
England
,
Sonne
to
Lord
Cador
Earle
of
Cornewall
,
with
his
rare
atchiuements
for
faire
Cellestina
daughter
to
Lewes
King
of
Fraunce
.
CHAP.
I.
How
Chinon
the
Earle
of
Cornewalles
Sonne
was
borne
a
foole
,
and
of
the
excellent
ornaments
of
nature
wherewith
his
faire
Sister
Laura
was
beautefied
.
IN
the
beginning
of
this
flourishing
Kingdome
,
when
Arthur
then
Monarch
of
this
little
worlde
,
with
his
attendant
Knights
,
whose
valorous
exployts
euery
where
acted
for
theyr
Countries
honour
,
hath
eternized
their
euerliuing
names
,
euen
in
the
farthest
coasts
of
the
barbarous
Pagans
,
where
yet
in
despite
of
consuming
time
liues
their
eternal
Trophies
as
spectacles
for
all
posteritics
.
In
this
time
liued
there
in
England
an
auncient
Knight
,
whome
this
famous
king
for
his
many
merits
and
well
deseruing
déedes
,
had
installed
in
the
Earledome
of
Cornewall
,
a
dignity
as
hee
thought
fitting
the
deserts
of
this
famous
man
,
that
had
so
often
vndergone
the
furious
attempts
of
the
vnciuill
Pagans
,
enemies
to
God
,
foes
to
his
countrie
,
and
great
hindrances
to
the
then
but
young
plants
of
springing
Christianity
,
as
also
endeuoring
himselfe
euery
where
to
defend
the
fame
of
his
countrie
,
then
of
all
other
only
fame
worthy
the
Honour
of
his
order
euery
where
honored
,
and
the
dutie
belonging
to
his
Knighthood
,
which
hee
alwaies
performed
,
till
at
the
last
when
the
waight
of
many
wearie
yeares
,
gan
bow
his
declining
bodie
downe
to
the
lowly
earth
,
making
his
oft
tried
Armour
too
heauie
a
burthen
for
his
now
war
weakned
body
,
his
brandishing
sword
beating
downe
his
age
fallen
armes
,
and
euery
supporter
of
his
lustie
limmes
beginnes
to
faile
of
their
former
force
,
he
determins
to
end
his
life
in
peace
at
home
,
whose
beginning
he
had
spent
in
warres
abroad
,
incouraging
younger
men
with
the
spectacle
of
his
former
valours
,
couragiously
themselues
to
attempt
the
like
indeuors
.
In
which
time
of
his
home
aboad
,
the
heauens
blessed
him
with
two
goodly
Children
,
a
Sonne
&
a
Daughter
:
but
yet
as
it
is
the
continual
course
of
al
ruling
fortune
to
mixe
with
euery
good
some
ill
,
with
euerie
swéet
a
sowre
,
&
with
euery
sunshine
show
of
promising
hap
,
a
tempestuous
storme
of
ill
boading
hurt
,
so
fared
it
in
the
issue
of
this
yet
vnhappie
Prince
:
for
when
the
stealing
houres
of
all
ripening
time
had
brought
them
from
their
Infant
Cradelles
to
some
participation
of
sencible
knowledge
,
his
Daughter
whose
name
was
Laura
,
so
forwardly
prospered
in
euery
Liniament
of
her
beautifull
bodie
,
&
all
eternall
quallities
of
a
vertuous
minde
:
so
that
in
short
time
she
became
the
censured
subiect
of
all
wise
iudgements
,
in
determination
whether
nature
had
better
beautified
her
bodie
,
(
where
indéede
shee
had
excéeded
her self
)
or
the
Gods
quallified
her
mind
,
wherin
they
had
made
her
the
only
similitude
of
themselues
.
No
penne
that
was
not
busied
in
painting
her
praises
,
though
all
too
little
for
that
purpose
,
and
no
tongue
but
was
still
telling
her
perfections
,
though
they
neuer
could
attaine
them
:
for
too
bright
was
her
beautie
,
to
be
shadowed
in
the
couloring
cunning
of
a
mortall
capacitie
,
and
too
high
her
heauenly
minde
,
to
be
enstauld
with
the
earthlie
wéedes
of
mans
base
wit
,
that
as
the
toile
some
Sailers
in
the
dangerous
Seas
watching
the
misfortunes
of
a
tedious
night
,
doth
with
themselues
mightily
admire
the
gorgeous
state
of
many
twinckling
stars
,
till
when
the
siluer
Moone
proudlie
rising
from
her
glorious
bed
,
drawes
backe
their
daseled
eies
to
behold
her
more
than
common
countenance
:
so
fares
it
in
this
age
of
theirs
,
where
no
starre
may
compare
with
her
state
,
no
face
with
her
faire
fortune
,
nor
no
grace
with
the
least
glimce
of
her
glorie
:
so
to
leaue
to
expresse
that
in
wordes
,
which
could
not
bée
comprehended
in
all
wits
,
neuer
did
nature
before
compose
of
so
rude
a
Chaos
,
so
comely
a
creature
:
But
her
Brother
whose
name
was
Chynon
,
outwardly
formed
in
as
faire
a
fashion
,
as
might
well
beséeme
the
sonne
to
such
a
fire
,
but
in
his
minde
more
than
a
maimed
man
,
wanting
that
portion
of
sensible
capacity
which
commonly
doth
accompany
euen
the
meanest
seruillitie
:
So
that
by
how
much
his
Sister
excéeded
in
extraordinarie
wisedome
,
by
so
much
was
hee
scanted
in
ordinarie
witte
,
where
in
stéede
of
Princely
feature
,
was
nothing
found
but
foolish
behauiour
,
for
high
atchiuementes
boyish
follies
:
for
that
which
is
required
in
a
man
,
not
so
much
as
is
commonly
found
in
a
childe
,
vncapable
of
the
rudiments
of
good
counsaile
,
and
vnsit
to
conceiue
the
commoditie
of
comelie
quallitie
:
whence
as
all
men
with
admiration
wondred
at
the
one
,
so
none
but
with
commisseration
pittied
the
other
,
that
so
well
fashioned
a
body
should
containe
so
ill
formed
a
minde
,
strongly
had
nature
forged
hys
limbes
,
which
promised
his
valour
,
but
weakely
had
the
enuious
Fates
framed
his
mind
,
wher
was
no
hope
of
better
,
So
that
heere
nature
vnnaturally
handling
so
good
a
subiect
,
had
enclosed
in
the
perfecte
body
of
a
man
,
little
better
than
the
vnperfect
soule
of
a
beast
,
like
almost
the
imitating
of
an
apish
artificer
,
that
in
faire
showes
deciphers
a
formall
substance
,
in
curious
cunning
colours
painting
a
Princely
perfection
,
which
satisfies
the
outward
sence
as
the
same
,
but
cannot
content
the
inward
conceit
,
beeing
but
a
bare
show
:
So
by
euery
outward
appearance
was
he
iudged
well
,
till
triall
by
experience
to
euery
one
proued
him
worse
,
but
how
great
a
corsiue
it
was
to
his
careful
Parents
,
I
leaue
it
to
them
to
consider
whom
experience
hath
taught
to
conceaue
the
like
inconuenience
,
great
griefe
was
it
to
his
old
father
that
had
béene
himselfe
full
of
valour
,
to
sée
his
young
sonne
though
able
,
yet
vnfit
for
any
such
endeuour
,
which
turned
his
hoped
for
rest
to
haplesse
ruine
,
his
aged
mirth
to
angrie
moane
,
and
what
so
euer
other
content
,
into
a
contrarie
conceit
,
to
sée
his
poore
neighbours
comfort
their
seruile
liues
with
the
sight
of
their
forward
Children
,
and
hee
their
vnfortunate
Lord
wanting
that
redresse
which
those
poore
creatures
in
respect
of
him
in
such
plentifull
manner
do
daylie
possesse
.
Thus
grieuing
to
remember
that
which
hee
cannot
forget
and
sorrie
to
haue
so
discontented
an
obiect
to
his
aged
eies
,
which
he
stil
be
wailed
,
though
by
no
meanes
his
griefe
could
be
healed
,
atlast
learnes
with
patience
to
beare
that
which
with
paines
he
cannot
amend
,
and
instantly
solicites
the
great
Parlament
of
heauen
,
in
whose
dispose
rests
the
estate
of
all
creatures
,
that
in
their
vnsearchable
wisedome
they
woulde
either
open
the
eyes
of
his
blinded
soule
,
forged
in
the
mistie
vale
of
a
cloudy
ignorance
,
or
els
cut
short
the
vnpleasant
date
of
his
wearie
life
,
and
so
preuent
the
insuing
ignominie
of
his
future
times
:
where
wée
must
now
leaue
him
a
while
in
his
follie
,
till
the
processe
of
our
History
bring
vs
thither
againe
.
CHAP.
II.
How
two
of
King
Arthurs
Knights
,
ariued
in
Earle
Cadors
Court
,
and
how
Launcelot
du
Lake
obtained
the
Ioue
of
faire
Laura
.
DUring
which
time
this
young
Ladie
Daughter
to
this
worthie
Earle
Cador
,
with
the
report
of
her
matchles
beautie
,
resounded
in
euery
eare
the
welcome
sounde
of
selfe
pleasing
loue
,
and
thereby
incited
many
aduentorous
Princes
,
and
matchles
Knightes
to
forsake
their
farthest
Countries
with
contented
trauailes
,
to
confirme
with
their
eyes
what
had
so
filled
their
longing
eares
,
as
doth
the
neuer
moouing
pole
drawe
the
adamantine
touche
of
euerie
stéely
compasse
,
still
to
direct
their
purpose
to
one
point
,
so
fared
it
here
,
whether
declines
the
glance
of
al
eies
,
the
thoughts
of
all
harts
,
and
the
aime
of
all
actions
,
amongst
whom
arriued
two
Knightes
of
the
honourable
order
of
King
Arthurs
rounde
Table
,
which
was
then
so
fullie
furnished
with
a
peareles
troupe
of
couragious
Cauiléers
,
as
iustly
compared
with
all
countries
for
like
company
,
whose
names
were
Sir
Lancelot
du-lake
,
and
Sir
Tristram
du-Lions
,
two
wonders
for
their
worthines
,
matchles
for
their
might
,
and
for
their
curtesie
excéeding
compare
:
who
amongst
many
millions
of
other
braue
Gallants
there
all
for
one
purpose
assembled
,
proudly
opposes
themselues
against
all
approaching
powers
both
of
forraine
and
homeborne
foes
that
durst
any
way
set
themselues
against
her
Soueraignetie
,
wherein
they
so
valiantly
behaued
themselues
,
especiallie
Sir
Lancelot
du-lake
,
whose
vndaunted
courage
stroke
such
terror
to
the
hearts
of
his
foes
,
and
won
such
fauour
in
the
sight
of
his
friends
,
as
hee
was
generallie
admired
of
all
,
but
especiallie
of
Laura
whose
maiden
heart
béeing
nowe
touched
with
the
pricke
of
affection
,
receaued
so
déepe
an
impression
,
as
could
neuer
after
be
raced
forth
againe
,
and
looke
as
there
is
no
substance
without
his
accident
,
no
fire
without
his
smoake
,
nor
shadow
without
his
body
:
so
is
there
no
loue
how
closely
soeuer
it
bée
shadowed
,
howe
cunningly
soeuer
it
bee
dissembled
,
or
how
farre
so
euer
remooued
,
but
will
by
some
meanes
manifest
it selfe
,
which
in
her
proued
true
:
for
though
her
modest
countenance
blushing
,
ashamed
at
first
to
discouer
the
earnest
affection
of
a
so
soone
conquered
louer
,
labored
what
in
her
lay
still
to
repres
her
new
mounting
thoughts
winged
with
the
aspiring
defence
of
a
restles
louer
:
yet
like
fire
the
more
it
is
kept
downe
the
fiercer
it
riseth
,
floods
the
surer
they
are
stopped
,
the
sooner
they
ouerflow
their
bankes
,
and
windes
the
greater
that
are
their
oppositions
,
the
more
furious
are
their
forces
:
so
fared
it
with
the
laboring
heart
of
this
lawles
louer
,
sometimes
determining
to
disclose
with
her
tongue
what
lay
so
hid
in
her
heart
,
and
then
she
blushed
for
shame
:
then
determined
to
smother
it
in
obliuion
;
and
then
lookes
she
pale
as
fainting
in
dispaire
:
no
minute
but
there
entred
into
her
minde
the
thought
of
a
thousand
doubtes
,
no
doubt
but
redoubled
her
trouble
some
thoughtes
,
and
both
more
and
more
doubtes
,
still
increases
she
vnquenchable
fire
of
her
loue-thirsting
soule
.
In
that
thinges
by
howe
much
they
are
hard
to
compasse
,
by
so
much
are
more
worth
being
once
compassed
,
gladly
would
she
forget
that
which
most
shée
delighteth
to
remember
,
faine
would
she
shunne
the
snare
that
shée
so
willingly
runneth
into
,
and
desires
to
winke
at
that
shee
doeth
most
desire
:
On
the
other
side
the
worthie
Knight
dispairing
of
his
good
fortune
,
or
els
doubting
his
former
force
,
grew
with
melancholly
demeanor
to
spend
halfe
in
dispaire
,
the
dayes
hee
was
wont
to
ouerpasse
in
the
fulnes
of
desire
,
thinking
eyther
her
affections
were
els
where
so
throughly
setled
as
could
not
be
seuered
,
or
his
worth
merriting
demeanor
deserued
not
so
much
as
a
fayre
aspect
from
those
powerfull
plannets
that
guides
the
distressed
estate
of
his
sicklie
soul
.
Looke
as
a
weary
wayfaring
man
,
that
tired
with
the
toilsome
labor
of
a
tedioust
auaile
,
dispayring
with
in
his
time
to
enioy
the
end
of
his
iourney
,
and
therefore
vseth
a
spéedier
pace
to
perfourme
his
purpose
,
so
fares
it
with
the
still
troubled
minde
of
this
distressed
Knight
,
who
determining
with
himselfe
how
he
might
worke
some
meanes
that
might
merrite
mercie
in
the
moodie
censure
of
that
disdainefull
Judge
,
who
as
he
thought
with
a
seuere
sentence
,
would
rather
pronounce
his
death
than
promise
his
life
,
determined
with
himselfe
how
he
might
doe
his
endeuour
to
obtain
her
frendly
fauour
,
which
with
long
consultation
hee
thus
concluded
,
namely
to
vndertake
some
hardie
aduenture
,
&
dedicate
his
labour
to
her
loue
,
and
so
if
peraduenture
the
happie
course
of
all
helping
heauens
did
so
prosperously
further
his
attempts
,
as
that
in
his
wearie
plotted
way
,
hee
might
but
fortunately
finde
any
worthie
worke
,
whose
conquest
might
deserue
commendations
,
he
fed
himselfe
with
this
hope
,
that
the
setled
perswation
of
his
sure
loue
confirmed
by
the
dangerous
endeuors
of
his
longing
life
,
perfectly
presented
to
her
memorie
,
by
the
atcheiuements
of
his
worthie
victorie
,
wold
somwhat
asswage
the
fury
of
her
contemptuous
conceit
,
&
if
not
at
the
first
win
her
,
yet
by
little
&
little
weare
out
the
blot
from
her
memorie
,
that
detaines
his
loue
from
her
minde
:
yet
least
his
abrupt
departure
might
be
a
greater
cause
of
his
disgrace
,
hee
determined
before
hee
went
to
paint
forth
that
passion
in
the
vnblushing
lines
of
an
amoreus
letter
,
which
he
could
not
disclose
with
the
inforsiue
words
of
a
pittie
moouing
louer
,
&
therfore
sequestring
himselfe
from
the
resort
of
all
company
,
hee
thus
in
pittiful
termes
discouers
his
pure
loue
.
Lancelot
du-Lake
,
to
the
Soueraigne
of
his
soule
,
matchles
faire
Laura
.
LAura
,
pardon
my
rude
proceeding
,
in
that
I
so
barely
begin
with
thy
naked
name
,
for
that
thou
dimmest
all
accents
of
fayre
,
and
exceedest
all
Epethites
of
wit
,
the
Poets
thought
Venus
fayrest
when
she
was
naked
,
for
that
her
beautie
being
sufficient
of
it selfe
,
scorned
all
the
artificiall
ornaments
of
rich
apparell
:
And
so
of
thee
,
whose
shaddow
fairer
than
her
substance
,
canst
not
bee
fitted
with
any
stile
which
thou
doest
not
farre
surmount
:
Looke
downe
vppon
the
seruile
estate
of
a
subiect
slaue
,
that
burning
in
the
fierce
flame
of
a
neuer
dying
fire
,
prostrates
his
sillie
soule
at
thy
perfections
shrine
,
so
deepely
imprinted
in
his
hart
,
as
but
the
comfort
of
thy
pleasing
selfe
,
no
salue
may
ease
his
dying
smart
,
onely
thou
hast
hurt
mee
,
and
saue
thy selfe
none
can
heale
mee
.
Ah
doo
not
then
triumph
in
my
tragedie
,
because
peculiarly
from
thee
proceedes
my
remedie
:
nor
bee
not
proude
of
thine
Art
,
because
thus
piteouslie
I
implore
thine
aide
,
but
with
gentle
fauour
intertaine
what
with
humble
submission
I
intreat
,
and
in
requitall
of
that
deede
I
will
impose
to
my selfe
a
toile
without
rest
,
a
trauell
without
end
,
and
be
a
Conquerour
without
conquest
,
till
my
ceaselesse
paine
may
deserue
thy
pittie
,
my
toilesome
trauell
procure
our
truce
,
and
the
Trophies
of
my
victorie
requite
some
part
of
thy
curtesie
:
Thus
what
I
doe
or
what
I
suffer
,
what
I
presently
possesse
,
or
whatsoeuer
I
shall
haue
,
I
sacrifice
at
thy
Altar
,
as
propitiatorie
offrings
,
and
with
the
sad
sighes
of
a
sorrowfull
hart
cense
thy
sacred
shrine
,
still
intreating
but
this
,
that
thou
wouldest
gently
accept
these
rude
lines
of
a
rude
Louer
,
and
when
discontented
distance
shall
diuorce
mee
from
thy
Angelicall
presence
,
thou
wouldest
at
the
least
pittie
my
sorrow
,
though
thou
wilt
not
salue
my
sore
.
Thine
whilst
his
owne
Lancelot
du
Lake
.
THis
Letter
he
deliuered
to
a
Page
attendant
vpon
him
,
and
whilst
his
seruant
was
gone
to
conuay
it
to
her
,
himselfe
went
in
to
take
his
leaue
of
the
Duke
and
the
rest
of
his
Noble
friends
and
fellow
Knights
,
where
with
a
tedious
discourse
he
discouers
the
cause
of
his
so
sodaine
departure
,
vowing
his
deuoted
seruice
wholly
to
her
honor
,
for
whose
loue
he
was
now
forced
to
leaue
his
Country
,
and
séeke
straunge
Aduentures
in
forraine
Coastes
,
whom
they
all
were
sorry
to
forgoe
;
yet
séeing
his
importance
,
solemnely
commits
him
and
his
intended
enterprises
to
the
good
fortune
of
his
still
fauourable
starres
,
except
Sir
Tristram
du-Lyons
,
who
for
loue
of
him
,
and
honourable
care
of
his
solemne
order
,
would
néedes
in
despite
of
what
euer
contrarie
perswations
,
accompany
him
in
his
course
:
whom
when
Sir
Lancelot
had
with
many
perswasiue
arguments
of
forceable
friendship
diswaded
from
his
indeuour
,
laying
open
vnto
him
the
great
cause
of
his
delefull
departure
,
which
so
deuoutly
hee
had
vowed
to
performe
,
as
also
what
discontent
the
absence
of
so
many
Knights
would
bréed
in
their
King
and
Captaine
Arthur
of
England
,
whose
royall
furnished
Table
had
ransacked
the
treasurie
of
the
world
for
to
supply
his
want
:
yet
all
in
vaine
stroue
his
wordes
to
disswade
the
other
from
his
will
,
for
not
all
the
sugered
wordes
the
others
oratorie
could
afford
,
would
anie
whit
diswade
him
from
his
former
purpose
:
but
in
despite
of
what
euer
accident
should
ensue
,
he
would
needs
accompany
him
in
his
iournie
,
vowing
to
sustaine
what
hardy
stormes
of
abiect
misfortune
soeuer
shoulde
betide
this
thrice
famous
Lancelot
hys
vowed
brother
,
that
neuer
should
the
burning
heate
of
all
springing
sommer
,
nor
the
cruell
colde
of
deade
killing
winter
,
weale
nor
woe
,
prosperous
felicitie
,
nor
aduerse
extreamitie
,
sunder
their
soules
whilst
life
did
vphold
their
bodies
:
Whom
when
Lancelot
saw
that
by
no
meanes
he
could
diswade
,
hee
gentlie
admits
his
so
long
desired
company
,
and
with
as
many
thankes
accepts
it
,
as
the
other
with
millions
of
offers
had
vrged
it
.
CHAP.
III.
How
Lancelot
du-Lake
,
and
Tristram
du-Lions
ariued
in
the
French
Kings
Court
,
&
how
Lancelot
du-Lake
ouercame
Roderigo
Duke
of
Austria
,
and
wonne
the
chiefest
prizes
in
the
Turnament
,
with
other
thinges
that
hapned
.
THus
these
two
aduenturers
for
honor
,
after
they
had
solemnly
tane
their
leaues
,
ioyfully
set
forwarde
on
their
iournie
,
&
with
a
prosperous
winde
quickly
cuts
ouer
the
calme
consenting
Seas
vnto
the
bordering
rockes
that
walles
their
countrie
France
from
the
furie
of
the
sometime
surging
Sea
,
and
after
their
ariual
,
being
proudly
mounted
vpon
stately
Stéedes
,
stout
of
courage
,
able
of
limmes
,
and
beauteous
in
show
,
attended
onely
with
two
Pages
,
who
for
that
purpose
they
had
appointed
,
takes
vppon
them
the
nearest
and
directest
way
that
bordered
vpon
that
coast
where
they
lately
landed
,
&
spending
the
partching
heate
almost
of
a
whole
sommers
day
wandring
through
desart
woods
and
manie
vnpeopled
plaines
:
till
when
the
sweating
Horses
,
of
the
weary
sunne
swiftly
descending
from
the
highest
top
of
that
heauenly
hill
,
whence
in
his
glory
hee
ouerlookes
the
mightiest
mountaines
that
the
earth
affordes
,
&
by
their
fiery
tract
summoned
the
silent
night
vp
to
her
wearie
watch
,
they
began
to
looke
out
where
they
might
espy
any
conuenient
place
for
their
purpose
,
where
that
night
they
might
repose
themselues
to
rest
.
At
last
after
much
curious
search
descending
down
into
the
pleasant
bottome
of
a
lowlie
dale
,
where
by
chance
ran
from
forth
,
the
bowels
of
a
mighty
mountaine
,
a
coole
fresh
spring
,
whose
siluer
current
shadowed
ouer
with
the
heat
expelling
power
of
thicke
tuffted
trees
,
refreshes
the
increase
of
all
adioyning
vallies
,
who
weary
with
wandering
,
and
willing
no
thing
more
than
such
pleasure
as
there
was
plentifully
promised
,
they
alighted
,
and
rayning
all
their
horses
to
the
big
bowes
of
an
aged
neighboring
Oake
,
gins
with
the
fresh
coole
current
of
that
plesant
spring
to
alay
the
thirst
of
their
hot
stomackes
,
where
they
had
not
long
solicited
themselues
in
the
shade
after
their
great
trauaile
,
but
that
an
auncient
Hermite
inhabiting
the
desart
roomes
of
that
unaccquainted
corner
,
walking
his
accustomed
iournie
,
by
chaunce
lightes
vpon
these
wearie
knights
,
as
they
were
cooling
their
weake
limmes
in
the
delightsome
depth
of
that
pleasant
spring
,
who
as
ioyfull
to
see
some
creature
,
of
whome
they
might
be
better
directed
for
the
furderance
of
their
affaires
,
as
the
other
was
willing
to
supplie
their
wants
,
with
that
poore
prouision
that
himselfe
wanted
not
,
they
with
curteous
salutation
entertaine
him
,
and
hee
curteously
regréeting
them
with
the
like
wishes
of
good
lucke
,
requires
what
,
whence
,
and
who
they
were
that
had
so
farre
wandred
from
the
beaten
wayes
of
those
wide
Desarts
,
to
whome
Lancelot
with
reuerent
regard
to
his
olde
age
,
mildely
answers
that
they
were
two
Knights
of
the
round
Table
,
aduenterers
in
Armes
,
that
had
for
the
honor
of
their
order
,
the
credit
of
their
countrie
,
&
the
loue
of
their
loue
worthy
Ladyes
,
vndertaken
to
trauaile
euen
as
far
as
sunne
and
seas
,
the
one
would
giue
them
light
,
and
the
other
afford
them
land
.
Then
answered
the
old
Hermite
,
are
you
happely
come
into
these
Confines
:
for
not
far
from
hence
is
the
great
Court
of
that
mighty
Monarch
Lewes
of
France
,
that
for
the
eternall
memorie
of
all
succéeding
posterity
,
hath
for
to
trie
the
strength
,
valour
,
&
manhood
that
all
the
wide
world
can
afford
,
appointed
thrée
Prises
,
the
first
a
rich
Armour
curiouslye
wrought
,
and
richly
bee
deckt
with
precious
stones
,
whose
worth
I
cannot
in
words
sufficiently
set
forth
,
with
al
the
habilliaments
thereunto
belonging
:
the
next
a
gorgeous
Bedde
curiously
couered
ouer
with
beaten
gold
,
the
fashion
whereof
farre
excéedeth
the
worth
of
the
massie
worke
,
&
all
the
rich
adorninges
thereunto
appertaining
:
the
last
but
best
,
faire
Celestina
his
daughter
and
heire
,
whome
I
may
well
call
the
wonder
of
our
world
,
whose
beautie
I
will
not
labour
to
blase
,
least
fayling
in
furdering
that
rare
report
,
I
should
discredite
my selfe
in
séeming
curiously
to
commend
that
whose
least
moytic
excéeds
the
highest
reach
of
any
earthly
minde
:
There
may
you
trie
the
trust
you
haue
in
your selues
,
&
cut
short
the
processe
of
your
long
pretended
iournie
:
for
that
thither
will
resorte
all
the
flowers
of
Cheualrie
,
that
now
flourishe
ouer
the
face
of
the
whole
world
:
To
morrow
begins
these
triumphes
,
whether
in
good
time
you
shall
attaine
,
and
for
that
this
day
well
nigh
done
,
will
not
afford
you
any
further
trauaile
,
please
it
you
but
to
accept
the
turfio
Cabbine
of
a
homely
Hermitage
,
and
the
simple
supper
of
a
sillie
sequestered
man
,
that
hauing
forsaken
the
vaine
delights
of
his
young
dayes
,
hath
be
taken
himselfe
to
the
melanchollie
remembrance
of
his
after
life
:
where
to
supplie
your
want
of
meate
,
you
shall
haue
store
of
welcomes
,
and
when
the
next
morne
shall
bring
glad
tidings
of
the
swift
insuing
sun
,
my selfe
will
directe
you
backe
thither
,
from
whence
you
far
erred
in
declining
your
wearie
iournie
hither
.
These
two
Knights
curteously
accepting
the
pleasure
of
this
aged
Hermite
,
contented
themselues
that
night
with
the
vnbolstred
bed
of
a
hard
hurdle
,
&
when
the
liuely
Larke
a
gladsome
Harrald
to
the
dawning
day
,
gan
with
her
siluer
sounding
note
to
discharge
the
melanchollie
glooming
night
,
hence
haste
these
same
following
aduenturers
,
to
practise
their
forward
indeuours
,
whome
the
olde
Hermite
duclie
directes
how
they
should
againe
get
into
the
great
traced
way
that
directlie
would
carrie
them
to
the
Court
,
and
so
with
manie
praiers
for
their
good
spéede
,
committeth
them
to
the
charge
of
him
that
carieth
the
care
of
all
creatures
:
from
whence
they
had
not
long
trauailed
recounting
to
themselues
the
happie
chance
of
theyr
spéedie
ariuall
,
but
before
them
ouer
an
euen
leuelled
plaine
,
they
might
espie
a
wide
beaten
way
,
béeing
full
fraught
with
still
approaching
trauailers
,
that
like
a
huge
and
mightie
streame
sending
all
his
force
to
the
sea
,
turnes
all
the
course
of
their
conueiance
to
one
end
,
directs
their
iournney
with
al
spéed
thither
,
supposing
that
to
be
the
way
that
should
lead
them
to
the
Court
,
and
those
trauailers
wandring
thither
to
be
witnesses
of
the
rare
report
of
those
déeds
of
Armes
,
wherof
their
old
Hoast
had
the
other
night
giuen
such
great
commendations
:
where
when
they
came
,
they
found
it
to
be
euen
so
as
they
before
imagined
,
and
turning
themselues
that
way
whither
pressed
the
streame
of
the
increasing
company
:
At
last
they
ouertooke
a
mightie
knight
clad
in
habilliments
of
gold
,
such
as
was
the
Armour
of
Achilles
,
mounted
on
a
blacke
Barbarian
Stéede
,
that
with
his
stately
gate
stoutly
contendes
to
put
downe
his
Master
in
pride
,
trapped
with
the
rich
pompe
of
Persian
worke
,
curiously
set
with
starres
like
Diamonds
,
that
playing
with
the
dazeling
beames
of
the
golden
Sunne
,
dimes
all
the
gazing
eyes
of
the
gréedy
beholders
:
before
him
rides
richly
mounted
ten
Esquiers
bearing
ten
lustie
Launces
,
and
thus
martching
in
as
triumphant
a
state
as
euer
did
Caesar
in
the
Romane
streets
,
he
comes
to
the
Court
,
where
were
readie
prepared
all
necessarie
circumstances
for
such
Knightly
seruices
:
where
before
the
Court
vppon
a
plaine
gréene
prouided
for
that
purpose
,
the
attendants
appointed
to
bee
erected
a
riche
Pauillion
of
wealthie
wrought
Crimson
silke
,
the
ropes
of
the
same
colour
wrought
with
siluer
threds
,
and
what
els
belonged
to
the
supporting
thereof
was
workemanlike
wrought
of
the
same
mettall
:
there
till
the
time
that
euery
thing
was
ready
for
the
Tilt
,
he
reposes
himselfe
,
where
Lancelot
longing
to
know
and
proue
what
was
conteined
with
in
all
this
Port
,
boldly
gins
inquire
of
an
attendant
vpon
him
what
he
should
be
,
who
answered
that
his
Master
was
sonne
and
heire
to
the
great
Soldan
of
Babilon
,
drawne
from
his
Country
with
the
same
of
faire
Celestina
,
for
whose
loue
hee
came
thither
,
to
aduenture
his
life
.
Shortly
after
approaches
the
place
another
puisant
Knight
clad
all
in
blacke
,
and
he
onely
attended
by
a
little
Page
that
bore
his
Lance
,
erected
a
sable
Tent
,
of
whom
when
he
required
to
knowe
,
it
was
answered
that
he
was
called
Triamore
,
sonne
to
the
Duke
of
Brittaine
,
who
for
that
hée
had
long
affected
this
beauteous
Prince
(
for
whose
sake
all
this
was
prouided
)
and
shée
with
like
affection
answered
his
loue
,
séemed
discontented
in
himselfe
,
that
shée
should
be
offered
to
any
but
himselfe
.
Next
him
came
many
other
of
whome
were
too
long
seuerally
to
dilate
.
But
in
the
ende
when
all
were
ready
,
&
euery
thing
for
these
stately
triumphs
orderly
prouided
,
the
Prizes
brought
forth
,
the
Judges
set
,
and
euery
other
appurtenance
orderly
appointed
,
the
first
that
entred
the
Lists
was
Ferdinand
heire
to
the
Emperour
of
Almaine
,
mounted
on
a
white
Courser
,
that
being
artificially
arrayed
with
cunning
conceited
wings
,
Peggasean-like
deceaued
the
earnest
eies
of
euery
beholder
,
with
a
showe
of
fained
flight
.
Against
him
prepares
a
Pagan
,
mightie
of
body
,
and
cruell
of
countenance
,
who
furiously
méeting
,
like
the
fatall
opposition
of
two
Elements
,
shiuers
their
strong
staues
,
whose
splinters
spinning
in
the
emptie
Aire
,
with
their
buzsing
sound
,
tels
the
braue
encounters
of
their
furious
fight
from
whome
they
flew
,
which
course
the
Pagan
borne
from
his
Horse
,
and
sore
brused
with
the
big
bound
of
his
vnweildie
body
,
was
conuayed
from
the
place
of
their
Chiualrie
,
almost
past
hope
of
recouery
.
In
whose
reuenge
stepped
footh
many
mightie
men
,
hardie
and
approued
Knights
whome
this
yong
Prince
with
like
furie
,
forced
to
fall
with
their
fellowes
:
till
at
last
like
an
angry
Bore
newly
roused
from
his
drowsie
den
,
busling
vp
his
big
brissels
,
as
aiming
at
an
act
of
rigorous
reuenge
,
steps
foorth
the
proud
Soldans
sonne
,
and
he
pricking
his
Palfray
to
the
end
he
might
rigorosly
root
out
the
springing
hope
of
this
young
Prince
,
clapping
as
heauie
a
Launce
in
his
strong
rest
,
as
euer
Aiax
fore
the
walles
of
Troy
,
shiuered
for
the
recouerie
of
their
vnhappie
losse
:
euen
like
the
furious
stroke
of
two
strong
streames
,
that
with
their
tirrible
thunder
affrights
the
vnacustomed
eares
of
their
neare
neighbours
:
méetes
in
the
midest
of
the
Lists
the
liuely
Lordes
,
where
with
equall
encounters
they
were
both
dung
downe
to
the
grounde
,
where
Ferdinand
his
horse
vnhappily
falling
vppon
his
Masters
leg
,
so
brused
it
,
as
hee
was
not
able
againe
to
recouer
his
saddle
,
but
was
conueyed
thence
:
which
when
the
young
Soldan
perceaued
,
stoutlye
triumphing
in
his
valiant
victory
gins
saucely
to
proclaime
aproud
challenge
against
all
Christians
,
for
the
reuenge
of
those
fore
punished
Pagans
:
which
vaine
glorious
vaunt
so
stirred
vp
the
neuer
vanquished
valour
of
valiant
Lancelot
,
as
that
addressing
him
to
the
fight
,
gins
shew
himselfe
at
the
other
ende
of
the
Listes
,
as
ready
to
recouer
the
almost
lost
Honor
of
his
Christian
Countrie
,
whome
so
soone
as
the
Soldan
had
espied
,
spreading
his
winges
like
a
gréedy
Goshauke
houering
ouer
a
fearéfull
couie
of
cowardly
Fowles
,
gins
addresse
himselfe
to
his
former
demeanor
:
whome
Lancelot
with
such
courage
encountred
,
as
bearing
downe
both
horse
and
man
to
the
ground
,
astonished
the
vnchristned
slaue
with
so
fearefull
a
fall
,
as
almost
quite
expelled
the
vitall
spirits
from
his
bigge
swollen
breasts
:
But
yet
féeling
himselfe
in
so
great
a
daunger
of
deuouring
death
,
&
out
of
all
hope
of
the
pittifull
compassion
of
his
eager
enemie
,
beganne
againe
to
rouse
himselfe
,
and
spéedily
preparing
his
strong
fencing
furniture
,
so
assay
the
fortune
of
a
furious
fight
,
casting
ouer
his
shoulder
a
large
sheltering
shield
and
brandishing
in
hys
hand
a
kéene
edged
Turtle-axe
,
gins
no
we
a
foote
to
assayle
him
,
that
before
on
Horse
backe
hee
did
assault
.
When
Lancelot
perceaued
it
,
he
prouided
himselfe
for
the
like
purpose
,
and
couragiously
encounters
this
harme
hammering
Heathem
,
where
betwixt
them
againe
beganne
a
farre
more
fiercer
fray
on
foote
,
then
was
cruell
encounters
before
with
their
Horse
,
which
continuing
very
long
on
both
sides
confirmed
with
the
fierce
falles
of
their
vnwildie
weapons
,
makes
at
length
Sir
Lancelot
du-Lakes
armes
(
weakned
with
the
issue
of
much
blood
,
that
the
Pagan
had
spilt
with
his
blowes
)
almost
to
faile
of
his
former
forces
,
which
béeing
espied
of
the
Christians
,
and
especially
of
the
King
,
who
aboue
all
other
,
despised
a
Pagan
should
possesse
so
Princely
a
Prize
,
as
they
had
there
prouided
,
gins
euery
where
to
enquire
of
that
Knight
,
on
whose
strength
almost
nowe
depended
their
whole
estate
,
to
whom
at
length
word
was
brought
that
it
was
a
Knight
of
King
Arthurs
round
Table
,
whose
name
was
Sir
Lancelot
du-Lake
,
to
whome
all
the
Confines
of
Christendome
hardly
in
Chiualrie
afforded
a
fellow
:
which
stroke
such
a
dismall
dumpe
into
the
moodie
minde
of
this
discontented
King
,
to
sée
the
Champion
of
Christendome
so
néere
vanquished
,
vnder
the
pittilesse
power
of
a
most
hellish
heathen
,
as
almost
driues
the
bright
Rosiall
colour
from
his
afore
well
coloured
Chéekes
.
Till
when
this
still
triumphant
Knight
shakeing
himselfe
as
from
a
sluggish
slumber
,
reaches
at
the
Pagan
with
such
power
,
as
that
at
one
blow
with
his
well
tempered
sword
,
hee
quite
cuts
a
sunder
the
strong
turret
that
hemmed
in
his
head
,
&
settling
further
downe
to
his
harmefull
head
,
batters
a
sunder
the
siluer
wall
that
shieldes
the
principall
partes
of
soule
seruing
sence
,
and
the
rest
remayning
remnants
of
that
little
world
,
wanting
the
direction
of
their
greatest
guide
,
altogether
faile
any
further
to
sence
their
fainting
fellowes
from
his
battring
blowes
,
which
sight
bred
no
small
content
to
the
almost
sickly
soule
of
the
King
,
who
expected
nothing
lesse
then
the
so
spéedy
death
of
his
spitefull
foe
,
who
béeing
by
the
conquered
disarmed
of
his
rich
habilliaments
,
was
by
the
rest
of
his
company
quickly
conuaied
to
his
curions
Tent
,
and
all
his
attendants
sent
home
with
sorrow
,
that
whilome
flourished
in
such
hope
for
felicitie
.
After
this
approached
many
other
Knights
to
trie
their
fortunes
in
that
fight
:
from
whence
Sir
Tristram
du-Lions
won
the
honor
of
that
day
,
still
working
for
greater
glorie
with
more
manlike
demeanor
:
Till
when
the
nights
blacke
shadow
,
gins
set
an
end
to
that
dayes
bright
showes
,
and
so
euery
one
expecting
the
end
of
their
aduentures
,
thronged
to
heare
the
iust
iudgement
of
that
sure
censuring
Senate
,
forepointed
by
the
King
to
determine
of
this
doubt
,
who
with
one
assent
after
they
had
highly
commended
the
many
valerous
déedes
of
diuers
couragious
Cauiléers
,
did
aboue
all
wholly
attribute
the
honor
of
that
dayes
dutie
to
Sir
Lancelot
du-Lake
,
as
one
that
had
best
deserued
it
of
them
all
,
and
so
putting
him
to
the
King
,
at
whose
hands
he
was
to
receaue
this
renowned
reward
:
he
there
with
no
lesse
pleasure
to
heare
the
murmering
noyse
of
the
muttering
multitud
,
buzsing
the
report
of
his
valerous
déedes
:
then
with
the
hope
of
those
rich
rewardes
appointed
for
the
Conquerours
méed
,
receaued
at
his
Kingly
hands
al
those
robes
,
of
more
than
estimable
estate
,
and
whatsoeuer
by
due
was
sitting
his
desert
.
Amongst
which
was
that
more
than
faire
Celestina
,
for
whom
rather
than
the
rest
was
assembled
such
and
so
many
mightie
men
,
euen
from
the
furthiest
Coasts
of
al
the
Esterne
Kingdomes
to
the
Westerne
Iles
,
bound
vp
in
the
Oceans
bosome
:
but
for
that
himselfe
had
before
setled
his
seruice
,
to
honour
that
Saint
whose
Idea
grauen
with
the
Diamond
points
of
Christall
caruing
eyes
,
in
the
impregnable
table
of
his
secret
heart
,
whence
no
furie
of
newe
assaulting
force
,
can
euer
wash
it
away
,
determines
in
this
to
winne
to
himselfe
the
report
of
more
worth
,
than
by
his
former
acts
he
had
fully
atchieued
:
and
therefore
with
many
thankes
to
his
Maiestie
,
receauing
the
rewardes
of
his
honour
,
which
nowe
lay
all
in
hys
power
to
dispose
after
some
conference
,
such
as
to
like
affaires
are
most
fit
,
calling
for
Sir
Tryamore
,
of
whome
we
before
told
you
,
that
he
was
sonne
&
heire
to
the
Brittaine
Duke
,
gins
thus
discourse
his
honorable
intent
.
Since
quoth
he
the
vnmerited
mercy
of
euer
helping
heauen
,
from
the
great
attemptes
of
many
more
mightier
than
my selfe
,
hath
attributed
the
honour
of
this
day
to
the
vndeserued
dutie
of
my
deedse
:
By
the
censure
of
which
sentence
,
I
am
to
enioy
the
possession
of
all
this
pleasure
,
whose
especiall
good
,
rests
in
the
glorie
of
this
more
than
a
Goddesse
:
yet
since
my
minde
not
cappiable
of
her
loues
impression
,
because
alrerady
it
retaineth
the
beautie
of
another
,
in
such
sure
possession
,
as
that
no
time
can
trie
it
,
no
beutie
blot
it
,
nor
other
loue
with
languishment
lauish
it
away
,
to
thée
will
I
giue
what
I
might
by
right
take
away
,
and
so
gaine
more
honour
by
the
voluntary
release
of
her
loue
to
thee
,
then
I
should
get
fame
by
the
forceable
detayning
of
her
affections
to
my selfe
:
In
which
I
shall
binde
thy
loue
to
me
,
as
to
a
friend
,
her
liking
as
to
a
fauorer
of
her
fortunes
,
and
further
the
faire
fruite
of
a
yet
scarce
blooming
bud
,
in
the
blessed
bosome
of
anothers
beautie
;
&
so
deliuering
her
fréely
ouer
to
Sir
Triamore
,
twixt
whome
there
had
béene
afore
such
settled
likeing
of
likely
loue
,
to
the
Kinges
great
content
,
the
louers
full
consent
,
and
his
owne
more
furthered
intent
,
he
disposed
of
the
greatest
part
of
his
prize
:
the
other
seueral
rewardes
he
determined
to
send
ouer
into
England
to
present
to
his
Laura
:
for
whose
conueyance
he
adressed
a
trustie
Esquire
of
his
owne
,
that
from
a
childe
had
followed
him
in
all
hys
actions
of
honor
:
where
awhile
we
must
leaue
him
to
his
further
aduentures
,
and
prosecute
the
presentment
of
his
Prize
to
his
peareles
Parramour
,
which
by
his
Page
was
quickly
performed
:
who
flying
with
the
fauorable
fortune
of
well
wishing
windes
,
in
shorter
space
than
commonly
acompanieth
such
tired
trauellers
,
ariued
in
England
at
the
olde
Earle
Cadors
Court
,
where
was
then
a
Royal
assembly
of
Courtlike
company
:
to
whom
when
it
was
knowne
that
there
was
arriued
one
ready
to
tell
straunge
tydings
of
the
admirable
atchiuements
of
their
late
fortune
finding
friends
,
assembled
all
together
to
heare
those
welcome
wordes
into
the
Earles
great
Hall
:
where
both
himselfe
,
his
daughter
and
his
vnséemely
sonne
,
as
also
the
rest
of
that
Royall
resort
orderlie
placed
with
attentiue
diligence
,
quieted
themselues
to
heare
expressed
these
straunge
exploits
:
to
whose
presence
did
prease
a
comely
Esquire
attended
by
a
drudging
Dwarffe
that
was
loaded
with
a
rich
Armour
,
who
after
he
had
in
order
rendred
deseruing
duty
to
euery
seuerall
assemblant
,
thus
deliuered
hys
message
.
Great
Earle
to
whose
honor
wholly
submites
it selfe
the
whole
worth
of
his
worke
,
that
from
the
fierce
furie
of
Alians
armes
hath
brauely
born
away
these
Princely
rewards
Grant
pardon
to
my
rash
resort
,
and
giue
licence
to
my
truth
telling
tonge
in
few
wordes
to
disclose
the
especial
cause
of
my
hastie
comming
:
and
then
with
the
honorable
accidents
of
these
worth
worthie
wars
,
gins
he
to
paint
forth
the
praises
of
that
famous
fight
:
wherein
from
the
stil
flowing
force
of
many
furious
foes
,
had
his
matchles
master
brauely
borne
away
the
home
brought
booties
:
Which
tale
hee
so
furnished
with
fitting
Epethites
,
and
true
titles
of
aduenterous
valour
,
as
neuer
sung
the
swéet
tuned
tongue
of
heauenly
Tullie
in
the
famous
Capitoll
of
still
renowmed
Roome
,
with
more
applausiue
spéeches
of
a
truth
vrging
tale
,
extolling
the
eternized
honor
of
those
thrice
famous
aduenterours
with
the
heauen
scaling
stile
of
a
more
than
earthly
Oration
:
and
then
with
the
blacke
tragicke
tunes
of
strange
misfortune
,
such
as
was
the
Art
framed
action
of
that
Thracian
Knight
,
when
he
described
to
doleful
Dido
the
true
story
of
Troys
estate
:
To
whose
powerfull
spéech
listned
the
attentiue
care
of
that
pitty
mouing
Prince
of
whom
we
before
told
,
when
the
happy
heauens
dispersing
now
the
sable
vale
of
sad
faced
follie
,
that
so
long
in
the
darke
dungeon
of
ignominy
,
had
lockt
vp
the
happines
of
his
after
hopes
,
being
now
able
in
himselfe
to
sée
,
that
which
before
in
another
he
could
not
discerne
,
euen
as
the
Eagle
after
her
age
casts
her
bill
,
the
Serpent
slides
off
his
skin
,
or
the
wanton
Bucke
his
harmles
head
:
So
he
to
the
great
admiration
of
all
those
worthy
witnesses
,
suddainely
starting
at
the
strange
tale
of
this
well
spoken
Page
,
grieuously
be
wailed
the
lucklesse
date
of
his
forespent
dayes
that
had
so
sluggishly
ouer
slipt
the
young
yeares
of
his
youthfull
iollitie
in
the
fabling
fancies
of
childish
follie
:
wherein
hee
neyther
had
discharged
the
duty
of
a
sonne
,
satisfied
the
honour
owing
to
hys
countries
seruice
,
nor
won
the
least
part
of
that
worth
,
that
by
due
desert
he
saw
generally
attributed
to
many
men
of
far
meaner
byrth
,
&
therefore
nowe
turning
his
former
foolish
demeanors
to
more
Princely
promising
endeuours
,
he
suddainelie
sollicited
his
old
sorrow
tyred
sire
,
that
hee
would
thus
far
further
his
intent
,
as
to
graunt
him
leaue
a
while
to
forsake
his
natiue
soyle
,
and
learne
thus
to
aduenture
for
honor
in
far
forraine
lands
,
whose
instant
intreatie
not
brooking
the
deferring
of
further
delay
,
earnestly
vrged
his
now
more
fortunate
Father
to
further
so
his
forward
Sonne
,
as
that
presently
prouiding
all
such
necessaries
as
to
him
was
most
néedefull
,
without
any
more
meanes
made
for
his
bootlesse
abode
,
fitly
furnished
him
in
euery
point
for
such
a
purpose
:
where
euery
necessary
being
prouided
,
and
himselfe
now
readie
to
depart
,
blessed
with
the
many
praiers
of
hys
ioyful
father
to
sée
hys
forward
sonne
recouered
from
the
helples
horror
of
darke
ignorance
,
to
the
approuing
prowesse
of
Princely
pusance
,
and
with
the
well
willing
wishes
of
all
his
friendly
fauorites
,
he
departs
his
home
to
séeke
his
so
long
lost
glorie
abroad
.
Meane
while
whilest
thus
Lancelot
has
sent
ouer
to
hys
Mistris
the
afore
named
fauors
,
spéedy
preparation
was
prouided
in
Fraunce
for
the
solemnezing
of
this
Royall
marriage
betwixt
Sir
Triamore
,
and
faire
Celestina
:
which
for
that
his
father
then
resident
vpon
his
Dukedome
,
was
desirous
to
content
his
old
conceit
with
the
sight
of
his
sonnes
marriage
:
Syr
Triamore
earnestly
intreated
of
the
King
,
that
he
would
so
farre
further
his
olde
fathers
request
,
as
to
licence
their
departure
home
into
Brittanie
,
whereto
the
old
King
willingly
condiscended
and
most
Royally
furnished
this
their
ioyfull
iourney
:
whither
being
attended
with
sir
Lancelot
du
Lake
,
and
sir
Tristram
du
Lions
,
besides
many
other
aswell
valiant
Knights
as
beauty
brauing
Dames
,
drawen
out
from
the
chiefest
choice
of
all
that
Countrie
,
merrily
sets
forward
on
their
way
.
In
the
meane
time
the
Soldan
hearing
of
the
disgraced
death
of
his
sonne
,
and
certefied
by
some
of
his
espials
,
of
the
pretended
purpose
of
these
Christian
Princes
were
the
onely
sharers
of
that
glorie
,
gins
presently
to
leuy
what
forces
his
Countrie
in
so
short
a
time
was
able
to
lend
,
and
imbarking
with
all
spéede
his
Armie
,
in
short
time
landed
all
his
men
vppon
the
vnhappy
Coast
of
Britanie
,
where
orderly
incamping
themselues
,
about
the
warlike
walls
of
that
strong
defended
Towne
,
where
the
Duke
with
all
his
attendants
kept
then
a
puisant
Court
for
the
welcomming
of
his
sonne
and
his
beauteous
Bride
;
cutting
off
all
those
conueying
passages
,
that
leades
any
way
to
their
neighbour
compassing
Confines
,
remoouing
all
semblance
of
succour
from
their
longing
fight
:
And
being
further
certefied
of
the
néere
approach
of
that
triumphant
troope
of
valiant
Victors
,
that
fearing
nothing
lesse
than
such
trothlesse
treason
,
weares
out
their
iourney
with
such
ioy
,
as
experience
in
farre
meaner
mens
matters
proues
passing
all
other
pleasure
.
Whose
purpose
the
subtle
Soldan
purposing
to
preuent
,
in
an
old
ouergrowne
wood
,
scituate
some
foure
miles
from
the
Citie
,
flily
insconsed
a
great
Scout
both
of
horse
and
foote
:
who
as
soone
as
they
had
encompassed
this
carelesse
company
within
their
ill
intending
Armes
,
rudely
rusht
out
vpon
them
:
who
for
because
their
comming
somewhat
too
sudden
in
with
the
other
Knights
,
could
hardly
prouide
to
resist
their
foreplotted
purpose
,
and
the
numbers
so
far
different
,
as
scarcely
might
they
afford
one
Christian
to
twenty
Pagans
,
whereby
they
were
forced
to
a
furious
sight
:
In
which
sane
onely
Lancelot
,
Tristram
,
and
Triamore
all
were
slaine
,
and
Celestina
maugre
all
their
force
,
conueyed
away
in
the
sight
.
Which
when
they
perceaued
,
like
three
inraged
Lions
,
amidst
the
troopes
of
the
Forrests
feareful
inhabitants
,
prayes
vppon
the
cursed
carkases
of
these
vnchristened
Curres
,
till
when
no
more
fuell
was
left
for
their
fire
,
no
remainder
whereon
they
might
,
worke
their
further
reuenge
,
nor
any
other
subiect
for
their
conquering
swords
,
hope
of
recouery
was
past
,
because
their
numbers
were
too
great
;
the
furie
of
further
fight
in
vaine
,
because
themselues
were
too
weake
;
and
being
desperate
almost
,
what
way
to
take
to
find
reliefe
.
Long
time
they
spent
in
disputing
what
were
best
to
doo
in
this
extreame
danger
,
themselues
being
sore
wounded
with
the
many
blowes
of
their
ouer
numbred
foes
,
their
Armour
brused
with
the
oft
falling
forces
of
their
Foe-mens
swords
,
and
their
weapons
almost
all
broken
in
this
barbarous
battell
,
incites
to
their
sadde
thoughts
what
secure
meanes
they
might
séeke
for
their
best
safegard
.
Being
thus
left
destitute
welnigh
of
all
defence
,
they
wandred
vp
and
downe
the
vntrodden
wayes
of
those
wast
woods
,
one
reciting
this
,
another
inditing
that
,
and
the
third
misliking
both
;
till
when
the
comfortlesse
couering
of
the
sad
faced
night
,
gins
hide
away
the
life
ioying
sight
of
the
lightsome
day
,
when
these
sorrowfull
sighing
soules
wandring
in
the
vnpeopled
paths
of
these
wide
woods
,
spent
all
that
tedious
night
in
tyred
trauels
,
sometimes
straying
this
way
,
and
then
stepping
that
way
againe
,
till
the
sorrow
of
their
sower
chance
had
almost
quite
taken
away
the
ready
remembrance
of
them selues
.
At
last
as
euery
sorrowe
hath
an
ende
,
so
had
this
long
night
,
and
the
pleasant
spring
of
the
next
insuing
day
gins
somewhat
to
cheare
vp
their
troubled
mindes
from
the
cruell
cares
of
their
ouer
passed
paines
,
when
determining
with
themselues
to
make
spéedy
post
to
euery
seueral
Christian
Kingdome
,
and
from
thence
to
leuy
such
powers
of
people
,
as
should
perforce
make
this
heathen
Hel-hound
again
to
render
vp
to
their
handes
this
beauty
staining
Bride
,
whom
he
had
so
cowardly
caught
away
:
Till
wandring
together
downe
the
pleasant
side
of
a
summer
showing
hill
they
might
espy
beneath
in
the
broade
bottome
of
a
dismall
dale
a
great
worne
way
,
yet
not
such
as
accustomably
are
the
conueyances
of
peopled
beaten
pathes
,
but
as
it
were
the
fatall
footsteps
of
some
mighty
Monster
that
with
his
ill
fauored
féete
had
poysoned
the
sprouting
springes
of
that
pleasant
Plaine
.
Which
after
they
had
a
long
time
followed
,
prying
euery
way
what
this
wonder
should
import
:
At
last
they
a
farre
off
might
heare
the
vnaccustomed
cryes
(
as
it
should
séeme
)
of
some
tormented
soule
,
that
beeing
grieuously
afflicted
with
some
straunge
torments
,
made
those
ruthfull
moanes
to
mooue
the
compassionate
mindes
of
some
wayfaring
wanderer
to
deliuer
her
from
that
great
miserie
:
which
they
like
two
lost
fellowes
in
a
great
growne
woode
,
that
with
the
resounding
Ecchoes
of
theyr
lowde
scriking
cries
,
brings
themselues
after
long
search
together
againe
,
who
listning
from
what
likeliest
place
this
same
might
growe
,
at
last
vnder
the
darke
shade
of
a
sheltring
Cipresse
that
overhung
the
mouth
of
a
craggie
Caue
,
he
went
out
(
as
it
should
seeme
)
of
the
big
body
of
a
ruinous
Rocke
,
they
might
perfectly
perceiue
the
same
to
proceede
:
Whither
poasting
in
all
hast
,
striuing
who
should
stand
in
most
sted
for
the
release
of
this
losse
(
as
they
supposed
)
rudely
they
together
ran
downe
without
regard
into
this
darke
Denne
,
who
as
soone
as
they
were
in
,
from
out
the
darke
couert
of
another
cabbining
Caue
stept
foorth
a
mightie
Monster
,
framed
with
the
deceitfull
face
of
a
faire
woman
,
but
the
big
body
of
a
subtill
Serpent
,
whose
poyson
swolne
bowelles
bearing
the
breadth
of
a
mighty
Tunne
,
was
supported
with
the
ioyntles
legs
of
a
Castle
carrying
Elephant
,
hands
had
she
in
forme
like
a
man
,
but
in
the
substance
of
her
frame
more
than
a
monster
,
a
tayle
that
Serpent
like
catcheth
in
the
vnprouided
trauailers
,
her
backe
strongly
fenced
with
broad
buckling
scales
,
that
proudly
opposes
it selfe
gainst
the
toughest
stéele
,
her
force
more
than
could
bee
comprehended
within
the
reach
of
a
reasonable
conceit
:
for
she
(
after
her
Crokadile
complaints
she
had
)
drawing
the
harmelesse
Knight
into
that
subtill
snare
,
quickly
routes
vp
against
the
mouth
of
the
hole
a
mightie
stone
,
which
the
force
of
many
men
could
not
els
remooue
,
and
so
locking
in
these
well
meaning
men
within
the
compasse
of
her
loathsome
Denne
,
shée
leaues
them
to
the
comfortlesse
consort
of
their
nowe
almost
curelesse
cares
.
CHAP.
IIII.
How
Chinon
after
his
transformation
from
his
foolishnes
,
betooke
himselfe
to
seek
for
forraine
aduentures
,
and
after
how
hee
encountred
Sir
Lancelot
,
and
Sir
Tristram
in
a
Forrest
,
where
hapned
a
straunge
aduenture
,
and
how
Chinon
pulled
a
sword
from
an
inchaunted
Rocke
of
stone
.
By
this
had
Chinon
crossed
the
Seas
out
of
his
owne
countrie
,
and
ariued
in
Fraunce
where
hee
neuer
came
before
,
and
himselfe
yet
ignorant
in
the
course
of
trauaile
,
wandred
vp
&
downe
a
long
time
,
séeking
some
worthy
work
wheron
he
might
make
triall
of
his
strength
.
But
for
that
the
desolate
Coasts
bordering
vpon
the
sea
side
,
afforded
no
matter
for
his
manly
courage
,
after
he
had
there
spent
some
fewe
dayes
,
he
takes
a
new
course
of
travell
ouer
the
vntrodden
hilles
into
the
bosome
of
the
next
bounding
Country
.
Which
weary
way
,
for
that
his
horse
being
young
and
not
yet
vsed
to
the
hard
hap
of
aduentures
himselfe
,
euen
as
a
childe
that
newe
sprung
from
his
cradle
,
can
hardly
counteruail
the
worlds
weary
works
;
so
fared
it
with
this
new
Knight
,
who
was
gréedy
of
glorie
,
but
vnfit
to
finde
it
:
yet
hoping
of
better
hap
,
drawes
out
his
iourney
ouer
many
high
hilles
,
and
then
settles
hee
downe
into
the
melancholly
shade
of
déepe
darkened
valleys
,
wher
before
neuer
footed
any
earthly
creature
,
saue
foule
Serpents
,
no
noyse
but
the
sorrowfull
sound
of
the
ill
boading
Owle
;
no
light
saue
the
glimmering
of
a
little
beame
that
shining
through
the
transparant
leaues
of
blacke
Cypresse
boughes
showed
him
some
comfort
amidst
this
more
than
the
shadow
of
death
:
No
meate
could
hée
come
by
,
saue
such
as
that
vnfruitful
earth
did
afford
,
nor
drinke
saue
the
troubled
streames
of
an
vnpleasant
spring
,
that
mixed
with
the
vnholsome
sorts
of
deade
dropping
leaues
full
of
the
filthy
slime
of
sluggish
Toades
,
and
many
such
vnholsome
creatures
:
his
Bedde
the
ouergrowne
mosse
vpon
the
side
of
the
mountaine
;
his
pillowe
the
toppe
of
an
vneuen
stone
;
his
couering
nothing
saue
the
ouershadowing
bowes
of
age
trembling
trées
;
his
nightly
sléepes
often
affrighted
with
the
hissing
of
many
foule
snaks
,
vnacustomable
antomes
to
his
eares
:
yet
as
he
that
will
trauell
vpon
the
sea
,
must
addresse
himselfe
to
abide
the
trouble
of
euery
storme
;
hee
that
will
enioy
the
swéet
content
of
felicitie
,
must
néedes
vndergo
all
the
hard
haps
of
enuious
aduersitie
:
so
he
that
wil
in
this
spacious
world
séeke
the
aduantage
of
Honour
,
must
beare
base
direction
of
vnséemely
misfortune
.
So
this
yong
Prince
after
hee
had
long
time
wandred
thus
without
the
direction
of
any
way
,
at
length
espies
a
far
off
a
chalkie
path
,
scaling
the
top
of
a
high
hill
,
whether
with
much
adoe
at
length
he
came
vnto
,
and
after
he
had
long
time
climed
vpon
the
side
of
this
mount
,
at
length
with
many
wearie
steps
he
attains
the
toppe
:
from
whose
height
hee
might
againe
looke
backe
at
his
ouerspent
iourney
:
following
a
longe
while
the
broad
tract
of
that
beaten
way
,
presentlie
he
came
to
a
narrow
cut
of
passage
out
of
the
side
of
a
flintie
Rocke
,
where
the
high
hill
stéepe
ore
his
head
,
troubles
the
course
of
the
winde
wandring
cloudes
,
beneath
the
lowlie
bottome
of
a
blacke
dismall
Dale
,
filled
with
the
furious
force
of
aspyring
springs
,
that
working
from
the
wombe
of
the
sea
,
euen
vnto
the
highest
toppe
of
that
mightie
Promontany
,
breaks
out
againe
,
and
with
a
fierce
fall
downe
into
the
dismall
Dales
,
makes
such
a
hidious
noyse
:
as
when
the
vnbridled
force
of
the
ouerflowing
sea
breakes
downe
the
boundes
of
his
neighboring
bankes
,
and
drownes
all
the
nere
placed
plaines
,
with
his
euer-working
waters
:
Yet
Chinon
still
hoping
that
after
showers
,
at
length
would
come
a
sunne
;
after
woes
,
weale
;
&
after
these
hard
passages
pleasanter
plaines
;
with
as
much
patience
as
hee
could
,
ouergoes
this
griefe
he
had
,
and
gins
at
last
to
sée
the
farther
side
of
his
wearie
way
:
from
whence
looking
downe
,
hee
might
espie
a
more
pleasant
dale
,
whether
descending
by
a
downe
falling
path
that
went
into
the
bottome
of
a
Hill
he
gladly
at
length
attained
,
and
there
in
a
more
fresher
and
pleasanter
streame
than
before
of
a
long
time
hee
had
met
withall
:
hee
some
what
refreshes
himselfe
,
and
beeing
content
with
such
fruit
as
that
soyle
did
afforde
him
,
hee
goes
forwarde
on
hys
iournie
,
still
searching
for
that
hee
coulde
not
finde
:
At
last
he
came
as
hee
thought
to
the
mouth
of
some
Caue
that
was
fullie
filled
vp
with
the
stronge
bulke
of
a
mightie
bigge
stone
,
whose
hugenesse
was
such
as
could
not
be
remooued
by
the
might
of
manie
men
,
where
in
olde
almost
outworne
letters
,
were
these
lines
ingrauen
.
In
prison
here
a
puisant
wight
,
Betraied
by
cunning
craft
now
lies
:
Whence
no
man
but
a
maiden
Knight
,
Can
free
him
from
his
miseries
,
Whose
first
tried
valour
must
assay
,
To
rid
this
wretched
man
away
.
Which
when
he
had
red
and
curiously
considered
,
gins
to
resolue
with
himself
,
to
assay
whether
his
fortune
should
bee
so
good
as
to
performe
this
seruice
,
where
looking
round
about
for
him
that
did
heere
in
a
peremptorie
painted
challenge
kéepe
the
passage
of
that
place
,
where
this
Knight
whereof
mention
was
there
made
,
is
by
subtiltie
inclosed
,
at
last
sodainelie
,
but
from
whence
he
saw
not
,
there
was
a
huge
deformed
Monster
,
such
as
before
he
seldeme
or
neuer
had
séene
,
whose
shape
neyther
imported
the
proportion
of
man
nor
beast
,
but
a
mixture
of
them
both
:
from
foorth
the
furnace
of
whose
fierie
bellie
,
issues
like
the
ashes
of
Aetna
,
many
cloudie
mists
of
darke
smoke
,
that
almost
smoothered
this
famous
follower
of
hardy
déedes
before
he
began
the
fight
,
and
in
this
Fogge
armed
with
the
bulke
of
a
yong
springing
Dake
,
the
fell
force
of
whose
fall
,
had
béene
sufficient
to
haue
ground
him
a
sunder
,
gins
vnawares
to
assaile
him
:
which
when
perceaued
,
nimbly
leaping
backe
to
eschue
the
heauy
stroke
,
prepared
in
as
short
space
as
he
could
to
prouide
himselfe
for
this
fray
,
but
ere
he
could
be
in
euery
point
armed
,
gins
againe
this
monster
the
second
time
to
assault
him
,
which
he
in
the
best
sort
he
could
deuise
,
sought
meanes
to
escape
,
for
to
vndergoe
it
he
could
not
:
and
then
nimbly
conueying
himselfe
within
the
ende
of
his
mighty
weapon
,
with
his
well
tempered
sworde
gins
assay
to
worke
vppon
the
Monster
,
but
all
in
vaine
,
for
so
strongly
was
it
euery
where
buckled
with
insconsing
scales
,
as
no
more
entrance
was
affoorded
for
his
sword
,
then
if
he
had
stroken
vppon
the
hard
face
of
a
flinty
Rocke
,
when
the
subtle
serpent
with
a
sodaine
turne
gaue
the
Knight
such
a
heauy
blowe
with
the
poysoned
weight
of
her
strong
tayle
,
as
perforce
beat
him
downe
to
the
grounde
,
and
almost
banished
the
breath
from
his
body
:
But
hée
mindfull
of
what
hée
had
in
hande
,
to
encounter
so
vnnaturall
an
enemie
;
long
lyes
not
in
that
case
,
but
nimbly
rousing
vp
himselfe
againe
,
gins
freshly
to
assaile
his
enemie
:
who
still
threatning
him
with
the
bigg
blowes
of
his
vnwieldy
weapon
,
puts
him
euery
way
to
his
shift
how
he
might
best
shun
them
.
At
last
spying
a
fit
oportunitie
,
he
with
his
sword
indeuoured
to
cut
asunder
her
vnacustomed
kinde
of
weapon
,
which
in
short
time
he
performed
,
so
that
now
frée
meanes
he
had
for
to
assay
what
he
could
doo
vppon
her
vnwieldy
body
:
But
all
his
labour
was
lost
,
for
so
safely
was
shée
garded
from
all
entrance
,
as
not
the
kéenest
stéele
the
smoakie
Cyclops
forged
for
the
mighty
God
of
wrathfull
warre
,
could
euer
enter
into
her
:
when
hée
troubled
at
once
with
two
illes
,
the
furious
force
of
her
serpentine
taile
,
which
now
prooues
her
best
weapon
,
and
the
brimstone
flaming
which
still
issued
out
at
the
Furnace
of
her
fiery
mouth
.
At
the
last
after
much
labour
,
the
weary
Knight
tyred
almost
with
this
tedious
toyle
,
gins
somewhat
to
returne
backe
,
to
the
end
he
might
recouer
againe
his
nie
lost
breath
:
which
flight
for
that
the
Serpent
did
not
with
such
eager
force
pursue
,
as
she
was
went
to
doe
in
the
beginning
of
their
fight
,
hee
made
longer
stay
to
recouer
thereby
better
strength
,
&
then
as
two
furious
fighting
Stagges
that
fetching
a
farre
flight
,
thereby
to
encounter
with
more
force
,
begins
againe
these
new
olde
enuies
and
with
their
furious
blowes
so
plagued
one
another
,
as
if
the
opposition
of
two
great
Armies
had
sent
the
noyse
of
their
battering
Armes
from
euery
resounding
eccho
:
till
at
length
after
the
many
fierce
assaults
of
the
furious
Knight
,
hys
foyled
enemie
in
a
sudden
as
she
came
,
vanishes
away
,
which
he
suspecting
but
to
be
some
diuelish
deuise
,
with
an
intent
to
set
vpon
him
againe
at
vnawares
,
gins
circumspectly
to
prie
into
euery
corner
,
to
the
end
he
might
be
sure
that
no
intrapping
ambushes
of
her
hobgoblin
companions
,
might
priuily
lurk
to
insnare
his
life
:
when
vnwares
he
perceaued
the
mighty
stone
so
meruailously
laid
ouer
the
Caue
of
it selfe
to
roule
away
,
and
from
foorth
the
hole
issues
out
thrée
goodly
Knights
,
two
whereof
he
knew
,
for
hys
Countrymen
and
olde
acquaintance
:
but
the
thirde
which
was
a
stranger
he
neuer
saw
before
,
these
wer
they
of
whome
we
said
afore
were
by
the
subtill
shift
of
a
deceauing
Syren
,
cunningly
compassed
in
that
Caue
:
where
when
Syr
Lancelot
du
Lake
and
hys
fellow
Tristram
saw
Chinon
,
that
at
their
departure
from
England
they
left
foolish
in
their
friendes
,
&
his
fathers
house
,
miraculously
transformed
to
a
valiant
Knight
,
and
so
luckily
there
ariued
,
for
their
reliefe
:
no
maruaile
if
with
admiration
,
theyr
woondering
wittes
were
drawne
into
a
laborinth
of
such
deepe
conceites
,
how
this
might
come
to
passe
;
that
béeing
amazed
as
were
those
stone
turned
people
,
which
gazing
vppon
Gorgons
heade
,
coulde
hardly
beléeue
in
their
mindes
,
what
was
so
liuely
presented
to
their
eyes
,
till
Chinon
perceiuing
their
passion
,
gins
thus
to
waken
them
from
their
drowsie
and
sluggishe
dreame
.
Fellowes
in
Armes
(
quoth
hee
)
the
very
reporte
of
whose
valour
hath
from
the
heauy
weight
of
obscure
follie
,
rowsed
my
deade
drooping
thoughtes
to
the
liuely
remembrance
of
a
higher
mounting
mind
,
not
happier
shall
you
be
in
this
your
release
,
than
I
in
bringing
you
reliefe
;
in
that
the
succession
of
after
growing
ages
,
shall
eternize
my
name
for
the
opening
of
this
worse
than
hellish
mouth
,
and
for
the
vanquishing
of
that
more
than
miraculous
Monster
,
for
that
by
the
one
I
againe
restored
to
the
world
two
such
valiant
Knights
:
and
by
the
other
,
rid
them
of
a
pestilent
plague
.
Stand
not
in
a
maze
,
for
I
am
the
man
that
lately
you
left
in
a
world
of
follie
,
but
now
by
the
power
of
prouident
heauen
,
raised
from
that
deiection
.
At
last
Lancelot
(
ouercloied
with
ioy
to
sée
him
thus
fortunate
,
that
whilome
was
so
foolish
)
regréetes
his
good
hap
with
many
ioyfull
wordes
,
such
as
commonlie
passe
betwixt
long
parted
friends
at
their
vnexpected
méeting
,
and
then
sir
Tristram
likewise
salutes
hys
honorable
aduenture
,
with
the
many
great
thankes
and
good
wishes
of
like
future
good
fortune
:
then
sir
Triamore
for
that
he
himselfe
altogether
vnacquainted
with
Chinon
,
although
hee
had
often
heard
hys
friendes
and
then
followers
in
Armes
,
with
mickle
griefe
to
relate
the
wofull
case
wherein
they
left
such
a
Prince
,
as
there
they
named
in
England
:
yet
hee
begins
to
enquire
of
sir
Lancelot
the
whole
passed
storie
of
hys
friendes
estate
,
who
with
ioy
repeating
,
what
oft
with
sorrow
hee
had
seene
performed
:
gins
certesse
him
in
euery
point
according
to
his
asking
,
which
when
sir
Triamore
vnderstoode
that
hée
was
a
Knight
of
comely
carriage
and
curteous
demeanor
,
he
forthwith
with
many
gentle
gréetings
and
more
thankes
to
heauen
and
him
for
their
happy
deliuerie
,
vowed
vnto
him
all
the
honor
of
his
actions
:
Who
long
professing
kindly
friendshippe
and
duteous
indeuor
,
to
deserue
this
more
then
common
curtesie
,
they
were
presented
with
a
troope
of
Fairies
;
mongst
whome
was
Oboram
there
King
,
who
especially
choosing
Chinon
from
the
rest
,
began
with
many
wordes
of
woonder
to
commend
his
Cheualry
,
for
that
last
being
his
first
Combate
,
he
had
so
valiantly
behaued
himself
,
as
had
all
the
chiefe
choise
of
powerfull
Christendome
stroue
with
themselues
to
haue
excéeded
his
worth
,
their
Forces
all
ioyned
in
one
,
in
respect
of
him
had
béene
none
:
And
then
turning
to
the
rest
of
the
Knights
,
tolde
them
that
the
Monster
by
whose
deuise
they
were
there
deceaued
,
was
no
other
than
himselfe
,
who
for
the
desire
he
had
to
approue
the
Prowesse
of
this
newe
come
Knight
,
vndertooke
that
shape
,
in
requitall
of
which
wrong
he
had
prouided
a
costly
sword
,
which
by
his
Art
was
fastned
within
the
close
binding
body
of
a
strong
Rocke
,
and
he
of
them
that
should
stoutly
pull
it
out
,
should
for
his
paines
inioy
a
Jewell
of
rich
price
:
which
sword
was
artificially
framed
for
Julius
Caesar
,
by
the
cunning
craft
of
a
mighty
Magitian
,
inhabiting
within
the
desolate
places
of
those
darke
vallies
,
and
for
that
it
so
pleased
the
great
Director
of
all
mens
dealinges
,
that
that
worke
should
come
to
naught
,
for
that
the
valiant
Romane
was
before
the
perfection
thereof
vnluckily
slaine
in
the
Senate
,
hée
had
closely
reserued
it
to
another
vse
:
But
who
that
should
be
of
al
them
foure
,
(
of
which
by
necessity
〈◊〉
néeds
bee
one
)
that
as
yet
was
not
knowne
to
himselfe
,
and
then
leading
them
through
the
darke
shades
of
many
light
lacking
vaultes
,
she
wing
them
the
seacrets
of
his
close
couched
Kingdome
,
bound
vp
within
the
bowels
of
the
earth
:
whether
when
they
were
a
little
descended
,
they
might
partly
sée
armies
of
many
little
Elues
come
posting
towards
him
,
as
speciall
attendants
on
his
traine
,
whose
busie
fingers
woulde
gladly
haue
béene
pinching
theyr
wearie
legges
,
for
higher
they
coulde
not
reach
:
but
that
forbidden
by
the
great
charge
of
their
commaunding
King
,
they
durst
not
aduenture
it
againe
,
Thus
after
their
long
walke
in
those
close
kept
countries
,
hee
brought
them
at
length
into
a
broade
vale
,
in
midst
whereof
was
grauen
vp
a
mighty
ragged
Rocke
,
wherein
was
a
faire
fashioned
sword
curiously
contriued
of
many
sundry
mettals
,
which
should
seeme
by
some
or
other
meanes
to
haue
béene
stroken
thereinto
,
where
this
fairie
King
told
them
they
were
all
to
approue
their
forces
at
the
pulling
of
it
,
and
he
whose
lot
it
should
be
to
win
it
,
for
his
pains
should
alwaies
were
it
,
whose
temperature
was
so
good
as
would
clearely
cut
a
sunder
what
euer
,
stone
,
mettall
,
or
any
harder
obiect
was
opposed
against
it
,
the
vertue
this
,
that
whosoeuer
wore
it
shoulde
neuer
be
assailed
by
base
crosbiting
of
anie
slie
deceitful
Inchanter
.
And
thus
with
many
words
extolling
the
excellencie
of
the
thing
,
and
promising
good
fortune
to
them
whosoeuer
should
attaine
it
.
Hee
first
appoints
Syr
Lancelot
,
who
as
gréedie
of
this
goodly
weapon
,
as
a
hungrie
hauke
of
her
pray
,
stoutly
steps
foorth
,
and
laying
hold
of
the
sword
with
a
maine
force
,
offering
to
vnsheath
it
,
could
nothing
at
all
remoue
it
.
The
next
was
sir
Tristram
,
and
he
also
offering
to
doe
his
endevour
therein
was
also
at
the
first
expelled
:
Next
him
steps
Triamore
,
but
his
force
as
féeble
as
the
rest
let
stand
still
that
for
which
they
also
stroue
:
till
Chinon
taking
sure
hold
vpon
the
hilt
,
with
one
hand
did
more
than
they
were
able
to
effect
with
all
their
power
:
which
when
he
had
done
,
brandishing
it
about
hys
head
,
as
promising
therewith
to
worke
some
extraordinarie
wonders
,
he
straight
waies
by
Oborams
direction
was
presented
with
a
rich
Armour
,
and
all
necessarie
furniture
thereunto
belonging
,
borne
by
two
little
Elues
,
which
he
straight
put
on
,
and
then
girding
himselfe
with
his
new
got
sword
,
makes
all
possibe
spéede
to
returne
as
one
longing
to
approue
what
those
rich
habilliments
did
promise
:
to
whome
Oboram
after
a
long
oration
of
much
prefiguring
valour
and
valiant
exploytes
by
him
to
bee
performed
,
with
many
offered
assurances
of
what
readie
helpe
rested
in
his
power
to
performe
,
whereof
quoth
he
thou
shalt
ere
long
stand
in
need
:
giues
him
further
,
a
faire
shield
,
composed
by
the
cunning
of
a
famous
Inchantres
:
wherein
was
in
rich
mettall
curiouslye
engraven
a
statelye
flintie
Rocke
,
shiuered
in
péeces
by
the
power
of
a
naked
man
,
vnder
which
in
letters
of
gold
was
ingrauen
this
posie
,
Nihil
difficile
,
&
appointing
him
a
Page
of
his
owne
bringing
vp
,
a
little
ill
fauored
Eluish
Dwarffe
,
but
trusty
it
all
assayes
,
commits
him
to
the
kéeping
of
good
seuoring
fortune
,
till
time
and
his
necessity
shall
againe
bring
them
together
.
CHAP.
V.
How
Chinon
and
Tiamore
redeemed
Celestina
from
the
Soldan
of
Babilon
,
after
a
most
strange
maner
,
with
other
Noble
atchiuementes
that
they
performed
in
the
same
exploit
.
THus
in
a
sodaine
trance
they
being
back
againe
conueyed
to
the
place
whence
he
first
led
them
:
where
they
then
beginne
to
acquaint
him
with
all
the
manner
of
their
triumph
in
France
,
the
losse
of
their
Lady
,
the
victory
of
the
Pagan
,
&
what
els
ill
hap
had
betyded
them
since
theyr
departure
from
the
King
of
Frances
Court
,
which
tragick
tale
so
whetted
the
longing
lust
of
this
pearelesse
Prince
,
to
reuenge
the
iniuries
of
those
his
so
happy
met
mates
,
as
that
he
straight
gins
to
deuise
how
hée
might
best
worke
some
spéedy
meanes
for
her
deliliuerie
,
that
nowe
was
closelie
pent
vp
in
delights
,
farre
more
worse
vnto
her
than
darke
Dungeons
:
which
with
many
hammering
plots
:
At
length
hee
thus
purposed
to
bring
to
passe
.
Thou
Triamore
quoth
hee
,
for
that
by
thy
default
this
Lady
so
vnluckely
lost
her
libertie
,
shalt
venture
with
me
thus
to
recouer
her
,
and
these
my
friendes
shall
in
a nother
sort
employ
themselues
,
as
I
will
direct
them
:
then
seeing
thy
yeares
are
yet
young
,
thy
face
louely
,
and
euery
well
fashioned
part
of
thy
body
fit
to
further
our
intent
,
thou
shalt
take
vpon
thee
the
shape
of
some
inchantres
,
I
&
my
dwarffe
trimmed
vp
in
other
apparrell
will
attend
vppon
thée
as
dilligent
seruants
which
thou
shalt
pretend
thou
imployest
in
such
secret
affaires
,
as
none
saue
such
simple
slaues
,
will
abide
to
beare
:
where
thou
shalt
vndertake
to
procure
the
likeing
of
faire
Celestina
,
to
affect
him
which
for
that
no
welcommer
newes
can
come
to
his
besotted
minde
,
than
the
sound
of
such
seruice
,
he
will
easily
condiscend
to
doe
any
thing
that
thou
shalt
direct
him
to
:
which
béeing
done
,
leaue
the
rest
to
my
disposition
,
and
in
the
meane
time
these
my
ancient
friends
shall
whilest
we
worke
within
,
attende
here
without
,
and
the
next
night
when
the
Quéene
of
shades
gin
in
her
quiet
rule
to
dimme
the
glimering
show
of
lesser
lights
,
in
some
secret
place
,
that
thou
(
for
that
the
best
cannot
direct
vs
in
this
cuntrie
)
shalt
appoint
to
attend
our
comming
:
where
for
the
next
dayes
arise
we
will
worke
a
déede
of
such
worth
,
as
shall
eternize
our
honour
in
all
ages
,
and
make
vnborne
Children
hereafter
to
repeat
what
excéeding
valour
,
we
for
our
Christian
Countrie
(
ouerloaden
with
the
hatefull
burden
of
barbarous
Pagans
)
performed
,
and
then
instructing
them
throughly
in
euery
point
of
his
purpose
,
and
carefully
prouiding
to
take
away
euery
obstacle
of
aduerse
suspition
,
that
might
any
waies
be
a
hindrance
to
their
well
intended
purpose
,
they
méeting
all
againe
on
their
sturdie
Stéedes
rides
foorth
,
till
they
came
neare
to
the
place
whereas
the
Pagan
with
all
his
Armie
lay
,
and
there
in
the
same
place
wherby
treason
they
were
surprised
,
staies
Lancelot
and
Tristram
in
a
thicke
Castell
,
couered
ouer
with
thicke
leaued
hollie
,
where
they
might
easly
shrowd
themselues
from
the
sight
of
all
passengers
:
whilest
Chinon
;
Triamore
,
&
hys
Dwarffe
sets
boldly
forward
to
execute
the
fore
plotted
purpose
:
who
comming
into
the
Campe
,
made
it
straight
knowne
to
some
of
the
Soldans
nearest
attendantes
what
they
were
:
Triamore
pretending
himselfe
to
be
(
as
afore
we
told
)
an
Inchauntresse
,
that
was
come
from
far
,
to
further
the
loue
of
the
great
Soldan
to
faire
Celestina
:
Which
newes
when
it
was
told
him
,
sounded
no
lesse
pleasant
in
hys
eares
than
Ane
Caesar
at
his
Coronation
:
where
charging
them
straight
to
be
brought
to
hys
presence
,
he
gins
to
question
with
Triamore
of
his
skill
,
posing
him
in
the
relation
of
kings
past
,
as
how
,
when
,
and
where
he
first
surprised
that
Lady
:
which
Triamore
for
that
himselfe
was
an
vnfortunate
acter
in
that
dolefull
Tragedy
could
in
euery
point
●●tly
answere
him
:
which
the
Pagan
simply
attributing
to
hys
great
skill
,
giues
thankes
to
hys
gods
that
in
so
good
time
had
thither
directed
the
skilfull
Inchantresse
,
by
whose
meanes
he
hoped
not
onely
to
enioy
hys
new
ioyles
loue
:
but
also
to
performe
such
prodigious
exployts
,
as
should
redound
to
the
eternal
dishonour
of
all
Christtan
Countries
,
and
then
begins
to
question
with
him
about
the
recouerie
of
his
loue
.
Triamore
with
a
fine
forged
tale
,
gins
tell
him
that
if
he
would
but
practise
such
meanes
as
he
should
apprint
,
he
would
so
Inchaunt
the
louely
minde
of
that
fayre
Christian
Princesse
to
assert
hym
,
as
mangeral
the
mallice
of
whatsoeuer
opposing
power
,
she
should
forsake
father
and
friends
,
kinsfolks
and
Countrie
,
&
only
bind
herselfe
to
tarrie
with
him
.
Which
soule
pleasing
sound
,
did
ring
such
swéete
musicke
in
his
rude
eares
,
as
that
he
with
all
spéede
willed
her
but
to
determine
what
was
herein
to
bee
done
,
and
he
with
asmuch
expedition
would
fully
effect
,
if
it
were
to
the
losse
euen
of
halfe
his
Kingdome
.
Then
quoth
Triamore
,
this
night
hath
Cinthia
filled
fullie
vp
her
emptie
hornes
,
whose
fauorable
aspects
will
fitly
futher
our
purpose
:
when
therefore
the
silent
night
hath
shut
the
eyes
of
euery
watchfull
creature
,
thou
,
thy
loue
,
and
my selfe
,
must
by
some
such
meanes
as
thou
shalt
best
appoint
,
be
conueyed
secretly
from
the
Campe
into
the
bosome
of
a
neare
bordering
wood
,
where
wee
may
clearly
sée
all
the
coarse
of
the
ceasles
frames
of
neuer
resting
heauen
:
where
I
with
my
inuocations
,
and
sorcesiue
Magick
spels
,
will
so
Inchaunt
the
minde
of
thy
beauteous
loue
,
as
hence
foorth
shee
shall
neuer
affect
any
other
saue
thy selfe
,
and
then
pretending
to
prepare
such
necessarie
furniture
as
should
fit
her
purpose
,
she
desired
that
her selfe
and
her
seruants
might
a
while
bée
remooued
into
some
secret
place
,
where
they
might
prouide
all
thinges
fit
for
their
purpose
,
and
where
they
might
haue
some
speech
,
with
the
Damsel
,
which
was
spéedily
done
:
for
a
secret
seruant
nerely
belongs
to
the
Soldan
,
was
appointed
to
direct
them
:
where
by
themselues
they
had
frée
talk
with
faire
Celestina
:
to
whome
Triamore
begins
to
relate
al
that
had
hapned
them
since
their
inforcesiue
departure
,
with
the
happie
aduenture
of
Chinon
for
their
deliuerie
,
and
what
els
had
befallen
them
,
in
that
trauel
:
and
then
comforts
her
with
the
hope
of
escape
,
by
theyr
thus
plotted
purpose
:
where
long
they
were
repeting
their
ouerpassed
paines
and
reioycing
in
their
hoped
happines
,
till
time
approached
of
their
departure
:
when
the
Soldan
not
vnmindefull
of
this
matter
,
sent
to
the
Sorcerer
to
sée
if
all
thinges
were
readie
for
their
purpose
:
which
affirmed
that
shee
was
orderly
prouided
.
At
last
the
latest
houre
is
come
,
when
he
calling
together
all
the
chiefest
of
his
Captaines
&
acquaints
them
with
the
cause
,
which
tended
so
much
to
the
furtherance
of
his
desire
,
&
intreating
the
most
of
them
that
they
would
walke
with
him
out
into
the
next
adioyning
wood
to
be
witnesses
of
this
work
:
to
whom
they
willingly
condescended
,
&
then
gathering
themselues
together
,
after
the
watch
was
set
,
they
secretly
departed
:
where
the
Soldan
stil
thinking
on
the
inioying
of
his
loue
,
neuer
dreampt
of
any
pretended
treason
that
might
thereby
insue
,
but
gréedily
catching
like
a
foolish
fish
at
the
golden
baite
,
they
still
followe
on
theyr
way
,
till
they
were
come
to
the
place
where
Lancelot
and
Tristram
lay
hid
:
where
Chinon
casting
off
his
disfiguring
maske
,
begins
now
to
shew
himselfe
in
his
owne
likenes
,
and
with
a
watch
word
calling
for
his
fellowes
,
brauely
sets
vpon
these
their
enemies
:
where
in
short
time
they
had
sent
to
hell
all
the
rest
,
saue
the
Soldan
himselfe
,
and
taking
him
prisoner
,
carries
him
away
bounde
:
when
Triamore
now
once
againe
reuelling
in
the
treasury
of
his
loue
:
gins
with
all
humble
submission
,
attribute
to
the
honour
of
Chinon
all
the
fore passed
proofe
of
this
their
fortunate
seruice
which
they
had
performed
.
But
Celestina
that
nowe
like
the
Thracian
Damosell
returned
with
the
Lorde
of
her
loue
from
the
dismall
Gates
of
Hell
,
beginnes
with
the
teares
of
true
ioy
to
prostrate
her selfe
at
his
honorable
féete
,
whose
force
had
againe
restored
her
from
the
tedious
slauerie
of
loathsome
captiuitie
,
to
the
pleasant
presence
of
life
féeding
libertie
,
vowing
deuoted
seruice
for
this
her
second
life
:
But
Chinon
disdayning
that
the
foule
faced
earth
shoulde
enioy
so
much
as
touch
of
her
heauenly
hew
,
with
gentle
intreatie
rayses
her
vp
,
and
thus
replied
to
her
suppliant
spéech
.
Fairer
quoth
he
than
is
the
common
composition
of
earthly
creatures
,
and
therfore
of
more
worth
than
millions
,
if
I
haue
ought
done
in
this
that
hath
bred
thy
content
,
it
is
no
more
than
the
beséemeth
the
dutie
of
my
degrée
:
Then
doe
not
thus
attribute
more
honor
for
my
méede
,
than
is
due
by
deserts
to
my
deed
:
more
is
thy
smile
towards
the
reward
of
a
well
deseruing
worke
,
than
the
rich
rewards
of
many
millions
of
an
others
vowes
,
more
pleasant
is
the
sight
of
an
houres
sunne
,
than
the
show
of
twenty
shadowed
daies
:
but
thy
sight
excéeding
the
brightest
shining
sunne
,
that
day
is
at
the
mid
dayes
height
the
pearcing
beames
of
euery
bright
eyes
sight
,
more
welcome
to
vs
,
than
day
to
the
wearie
watch
,
or
the
repose
of
a
quiet
Inne
to
a
tyred
trauailer
,
gracest
our
paines
with
thy
presence
.
More
worth
is
his
worke
that
rifles
in
the
rich
bowels
of
the
gold
growne
earth
,
than
hee
that
drudges
in
the
bottome
of
a
dunghill
ditch
,
and
yet
the
last
labor
is
more
than
the
first
:
but
that
the
subiect
excéeding
in
worth
,
excels
the
reward
of
his
work
more
than
the
trauaile
graces
the
thing
:
but
the
worth
of
the
subiect
dignifies
the
desert
of
the
déede
,
whereby
our
credit
by
thee
is
maintayned
,
and
not
thy
matchles
selfe
by
our
might
magnified
.
Looke
on
hym
that
for
thy
loue
aduentured
his
life
,
and
the
rewarde
of
my
paynes
is
this
,
that
they
redound
to
thy
pleasure
,
and
for
thée
Triamore
,
fish
new
againe
thou
hast
thy
hearts
content
,
remember
the
estate
of
thy
old
father
as
thou
toldest
mee
,
is
compassed
within
the
circle
of
yonder
beséedged
walles
,
still
expecting
the
spéedy
help
of
his
forward
friends
:
but
yet
hath
this
nights
worke
so
weakned
hysfues
,
as
that
there
is
no
doubt
of
further
danger
.
By
this
with
such
like
that
had
they
chased
awaie
the
sable
show
of
this
silent
night
,
and
next
the
sunne
gins
with
chearefull
countenance
to
looke
vpon
the
honorable
actes
of
their
thrise
prayse
worthy
exployts
,
when
by
this
time
they
were
wandred
farre
from
the
place
where
they
first
gaue
the
onset
to
atchiue
this
honour
:
where
Chinon
calling
to
him
his
two
countrymen
,
giues
this
carefull
charge
,
You
two
quoth
he
whose
honors
accents
is
euerie
where
blayed
for
your
valours
,
shal
hencefoorth
leaue
these
wandring
wayes
,
and
returne
with
me
into
our
Countrie
:
where
I
will
present
to
my
longing
Father
this
Pagan
Prince
,
the
first
frints
of
my
Mayden
manhood
,
dooing
all
my
humble
dutie
to
hys
Honorable
age
:
but
first
in
safety
let
vs
conueye
these
Fayre
friends
to
their
fathers
Court
,
and
set
them
there
safe
from
further
sorrow
at
home
,
that
haue
sustained
the
hard
brunt
of
fell
misfortune
abroad
,
where
may
as
many
pleasures
attend
them
there
in
peace
,
as
honorable
accidents
happen
to
me
in
warres
.
CHAP.
VI.
Of
Chinons
returne
into
England
,
accompanied
with
Sir
Lancelot
and
Sir
Tristram
,
with
their
most
honorable
entertainment
there
.
AFter
that
hee
had
thus
aduentured
for
the
recouerie
of
beauteous
Celestina
from
the
handes
of
the
Soldan
,
that
had
traiterously
tane
her
away
from
Syr
Triamore
,
&
sent
them
home
to
her
fathers
Court
to
solemnize
their
marriage
.
Lancelot
,
Tristram
,
and
himselfe
,
tooke
the
direct
way
that
led
then
home
into
theyr
own
country
,
that
there
they
might
in
quiet
tell
those
thinges
with
pleasure
amongst
theyr
friendes
,
which
they
had
in
trouble
performed
with
labour
amongst
their
foes
:
In
which
iournie
no
occasion
of
further
let
encountered
them
anie
more
,
but
as
fareth
with
ordinary
trauailers
,
they
peaceablie
passe
ouer
their
iournie
,
till
they
came
home
into
Corne
wall
to
Earle
Cadors
Court
,
that
was
not
a
little
glad
to
sée
the
returne
of
his
sonne
,
with
good
hap
to
answere
the
long
expectation
of
hys
faire
hope
,
he
entertaines
them
with
such
curtesie
,
as
commonly
passe
betwixt
lost
friends
,
at
theyr
vnacquainted
méetings
.
Chinon
discoursing
to
hys
old
father
the
storie
of
their
trauailes
whose
very
wordes
bréedes
new
life
in
the
dryed
sinnowes
of
hys
old
limmes
:
as
deeth
the
approaching
sunne
cherrish
the
decayed
winter
worne
strength
of
the
earths
increase
.
Lancelot
hee
presents
to
hys
loue
the
Trophies
of
his
victorie
,
with
many
perswasions
how
for
her
loue
hee
had
aduentured
his
life
in
winning
those
Princely
Prizes
,
the
chiefe
wherof
(
whose
worth
exceeded
all
except
herselfe
)
he
had
bounteously
bestowed
vppon
sir
Triamore
,
Tristram
,
he
followes
on
his
friends
with
the
praises
of
them
both
:
first
how
by
their
meanes
the
Lady
was
atchieued
:
then
how
by
Chino●s
deuise
she
was
secondly
attained
,
with
all
the
whole
History
of
their
former
fortunes
:
where
what
ioy
was
generally
receaued
,
as
well
of
the
King
himselfe
,
and
her
,
that
whose
life
still
lasts
in
the
euerliuing
acts
of
succéeding
ages
,
famoused
as
much
for
the
renowne
of
his
round
table
,
as
Alcides
for
his
twelue
labors
,
Iason
for
hys
iournie
to
Caicos
,
or
the
Gréekes
for
theyr
triumphes
at
Troy
.
Hee
now
in
the
winter
of
hys
waning
age
,
affecting
to
heare
that
now
of
others
which
before
in
his
youth
he
had
effected
the
like
himselfe
,
welcomes
home
all
these
wearie
wanderers
,
that
had
béene
so
long
abroad
,
writing
in
the
Registers
of
other
realmes
the
courage
of
their
own
country
:
as
also
the
poore
inhabitants
of
this
pappy
Kingdome
,
that
ioyed
to
sée
their
neighboring
lands
dispoyled
of
such
riche
rewardes
as
was
brought
home
by
their
countrymen
.
Thus
when
euery
man
had
filled
his
eares
with
the
report
,
Arthur
willing
also
to
further
the
courage
of
this
young
Caualéer
,
summons
a
solemne
méeting
of
all
the
Nobles
and
Péeres
of
his
country
to
his
Court
:
where
when
at
the
time
apointed
all
were
gathered
together
,
the
King
at
a
Royall
banket
,
gins
to
declare
the
cause
of
this
their
calling
together
,
that
themselues
should
sée
how
Princely
he
had
,
and
would
still
pay
the
rewards
of
such
deserts
,
as
by
the
aduentures
of
their
yong
countryman
Chinon
had
béene
prosperously
performed
,
and
then
with
Epethites
accents
of
honour
,
telling
the
victorious
tale
of
his
fight
,
as
Aeneas
the
Tragicke
storie
of
their
fight
he
concludes
hys
spéech
with
the
performance
of
hys
promise
,
which
was
the
solemne
orders
he
commonly
vsed
at
the
instalment
of
any
of
his
Knights
,
and
dubbing
him
,
therewithall
appoints
him
his
place
at
the
Table
:
where
a
while
he
remained
,
as
well
to
comfort
the
decaying
date
of
his
Fathers
yeares
:
whome
wrestling
age
had
almost
now
layed
along
in
hys
graue
,
and
as
Mariegold
that
neuer
spreadeth
her
flowers
but
against
the
sunne
:
So
he
neuer
opened
his
age
dimmed
eyes
to
beholde
the
chearefull
countenance
of
any
creature
saue
his
Son
Chinon
,
and
like
the
melancholly
Turtle
when
her
mate
is
from
her
sight
:
So
fares
it
with
this
aged
Earle
,
that
neuer
sléepes
but
dreames
of
hys
Sonne
,
neuer
is
well
waking
when
he
sées
him
not
,
&
neuer
contented
with
any
sounds
if
he
heare
him
not
:
as
also
the
intire
affection
of
hys
King
and
Captaine
Arthur
of
England
,
that
inamored
with
his
curtesie
,
was
lost
to
leaue
hys
company
,
he
was
forced
a
while
to
refraine
his
affections
,
whose
body
thought
it
was
walled
in
at
home
,
yet
was
his
minde
wandring
abroad
:
which
the
fates
foreséeing
,
(
as
do
the
careful
Parents
prouide
for
their
forward
children
)
séeke
meanes
for
theyr
furtherance
in
that
quallitie
whereto
they
are
most
inclined
,
loath
that
so
many
vertues
should
be
cooped
within
the
compasse
of
a
〈◊〉
Iland
,
and
not
spread
their
braunches
abroad
to
the
wide
world
,
carefully
contriued
a
meanes
to
conuaye
hym
away
.
CHAP.
VII
.
How
Chinon
was
by
the
Fairies
conuaied
into
Egipt
.
THus
hee
spending
the
pride
of
his
dayes
at
home
in
daliance
,
letting
rust
eate
away
his
well
tempered
Armour
,
that
warres
before
had
scoured
,
lying
one
day
vppon
a
pleasant
ouerspread
banke
,
vnder
the
couert
of
a
nature
framed
Canopie
,
bound
together
with
the
bowes
of
swéet
smelling
roses
:
vpon
whose
pleasant
spraies
sate
the
seuerall
sorts
of
musicke
making
birdes
,
that
with
theyr
naturall
notes
,
calles
on
inchaunting
sleep
to
possesse
the
quiet
organes
of
his
body
with
all
pleasing
rest
,
in
the
midst
of
a
swéet
slumber
,
suddainely
appeares
to
the
view
of
his
drowsie
thoughts
,
two
airie
bodies
such
creatures
as
we
call
Fairies
,
whome
some
immagine
to
be
those
spirites
that
fell
dawne
vpon
the
earth
,
and
since
that
time
inhabit
the
seuerall
corners
thereof
;
sometimes
deluding
mens
senses
with
the
showes
of
that
they
are
not
:
other
,
somtimes
showing
themselues
in
the
semblances
they
commonly
accustome
to
put
on
,
dancing
roundelayes
ouer
the
plesaunt
meades
,
searing
the
secrete
corners
of
euerie
shade
:
in
which
sort
it
should
séeme
they
found
thys
Knight
,
to
whom
they
gan
shewe
a
rich
embrodered
armour
,
curiously
carued
and
richly
set
with
all
manner
of
precious
stones
,
and
a
faire
sword
with
all
the
formall
furniture
thereunto
belonging
,
faire
passing
that
which
before
he
had
pulled
out
of
the
Rocke
,
and
there
withall
ginnes
féed
his
fancie
,
that
they
nourished
his
imagination
in
the
perfectest
ioye
of
all
naturall
delight
,
with
the
show
of
a
faire
Virgin
,
whose
rare
countenaunce
promised
more
than
her
outward
colour
of
attire
,
for
that
meake
were
her
wéeds
,
such
as
commonly
we
read
of
the
Arcadian
Shepheardesses
,
whose
perfections
haue
put
to
silence
so
many
pens
in
labouring
to
portrait
their
picture
.
But
her selfe
more
than
a
mortall
Maid
,
looked
vppon
with
the
impartial
censure
of
a
iudging
eye
,
might
draw
into
an
endlesse
Laborynth
,
the
labouring
thoughts
of
an
indeuoring
wit
,
striuing
with
it selfe
to
picture
forth
her
worth
.
Where
a
while
we
must
leaue
him
〈◊〉
-
like
spending
his
time
in
this
swéete
speculation
,
and
for
a
time
talke
of
this
rare
fight
here
showed
hym
in
his
sléep
.
This
Ladie
,
was
daughter
to
an
ancient
Lord
,
named
Bessarian
cheif
Counseller
to
●gba●a●
then
King
of
Egypt
,
and
was
there
earnestly
beloued
of
a
noble
Man
named
Perosin
who
for
that
he
saw
by
no
way
he
could
compasse
his
desire
,
neither
by
amorous
demeanor
of
himselfe
,
instance
of
his
frends
,
nor
earnest
soliciting
deserts
of
his
dumb
intermissiue
gifts
could-preuaile
to
drawe
towarde
him
the
dutye
of
her
loue
he
determining
by
another
drift
ether
to
win
her
to
himselfe
,
or
to
weare
her
out
of
conceit
with
all
other
,
●●●re●ly
〈…〉
●e
with
an
old
Witch
,
whose
name
was
Eurropa
,
who
hyred
by
him
,
hammered
about
to
work
some
meane
how
she
might
change
the
setled
affections
of
her
maidenlyke
minde
,
somwhat
to
encline
themselues
to
his
intent
:
which
when
by
no
meanes
she
could
bring
about
,
she
straight
works
a
way
to
remoue
her
quite
from
all
companie
,
to
liue
on
the
vnpeopled
Plaines
among
brute
beasts
,
and
to
that
ende
aiming
her
actions
,
by
meanes
of
an
ayrie
Spirit
attendant
vppon
her
,
suddenly
conueyed
her
from
the
Courtly
presence
farre
off
to
,
an
vnfrequented
Plaine
,
scit●●●te
by
the
River
Nylus
,
where
shee
perceiuing
her
●●l●e
displaced
,
but
séeing
no
reason
of
her
remooue
,
straitwaies
begins
to
consider
with
her selfe
what
luckles
occasion
might
thus
crosse
her
in
her
hopefull
course
,
and
when
after
long
search
in
the
selfe
knowen
recorde
of
her
inward
conscience
,
shée
could
finde
no
readie
reason
,
how
her
offences
should
anie
wayes
haue
procured
so
great
a
punishment
,
as
this
vnnaturall
diuorse
,
not
onely
from
the
comfort
of
her
kindred
,
but
all
other
frends
,
〈◊〉
with
all
humble
dutie
alwaies
honored
her
superiors
,
&
wyth
carefull
turton
intreated
her
in●●●w●●
beeing
euer
held
as
the
my●rrc●●
of
good
demeanor
.
And
thus
finding
her selfe
as
cleare
from
those
vengeaunces
meriting
●●nes
that
●●●wes
do●●●●
the
heauie
wrath
of
all-iudging
Gods
so
sharply
with
such
seuere
plagues
to
punish
the
o●●●●ces
of
men
,
shedding
manie
showers
of
amber
warens
,
whose
power
were
able
to
haue
drawne
pittie
from
the
stéely
hearts
of
hell-holden
furies
,
sits
her
downe
by
the
side
of
that
siluer
streame
,
that
with
his
seauen
heads
,
still
sends
fresh
supplie
to
the
all
eating
sea
,
and
tuning
her
voice
to
the
bubling
musick
of
his
gliding
course
,
&
to
the
flocking
sortes
of
sundry-fishes
,
that
like
the
dancing
Dolphins
at
the
swéete
sound
of
Arions
Harpe
gather
themselues
together
.
She
singes
this
Dittie
.
Ye
free
borne
people
from
th'
inthralling
bands
,
That
we
poore
soules
perforce
are
subiect
to
:
You
glide
with
pleasure
ore
these
golden
sands
,
And
feeles
no
hope
of
weale
,
nor
hap
of
woe
.
Time
,
fortune
,
foes
,
nor
any
other
power
,
Changes
,
casts
downe
,
or
turnes
your
sweet
to
sower
:
But
we
whome
nature
wrought
vnto
the
best
,
Triumphant
time
still
tosses
vp
and
downe
:
And
they
whome
former
fortune
whilome
blest
,
Cruell
misfortune
with
a
suddaine
frowne
:
Casts
from
a
throane
where
sur'st
we
seeme
to
dwell
,
To
worser
woes
than
death
,
dispaire
,
or
hell
.
Thus
whilest
with
this
song
shee
sought
to
please
her
sorrow
sodainely
this
wicked
woman
,
by
whose
meanes
shee
was
brought
thether
,
)
carried
through
the
emptie
aire
in
●●erie
flaming
care
,
such
as
was
that
secret
searching
Medea
,
amidst
the
sable
shadow
of
the
silent
night
,
ouerr●●●
so
many
toys
of
hilles
to
finde
those
hearbes
,
that
in
the
age
worns
limmes
of
a
bloodles
man
,
cals
backe
fresh
spring
to
kéep
againe
his
residence
in
that
body
:
who
presenting
her selfe
vnto
her
in
the
accustomed
shape
at
other
times
shée
vsually
shewed
her selfe
:
begins
at
her
first
entrance
to
disclose
vnto
her
the
manner
of
translation
from
her
father
and
friends
vnto
these
peopleles
plaines
,
confessing
her selfe
both
to
be
Author
and
actor
of
this
diuellish
deuise
:
where
quoth
she
for
the
coy
countenances
that
so
oft
thou
haste
repayed
to
the
pitty
moouing
perswations
of
him
,
that
for
thy
loue
well
nie
〈◊〉
,
weares
out
in
woe
,
the
dayer
and
watches
with
tirrible
torments
the
night
,
that
in
euerie
sentence
he
speakes
,
so
oft
cites
thée
by
thy
proper
name
,
and
himselfe
with
bare
conceit
that
hee
hath
,
thee
whom
by
consent
he
rightly
should
haue
had
,
pines
awaie
poore
soule
in
the
phisicke
fits
of
a
passionate
louer
.
In
whose
reuenge
quoth
shée
I
haue
here
seated
thée
by
thy selfe
,
far
from
the
resort
of
men
,
where
desolation
shall
here
teach
thée
to
tell
thy selfe
that
thou
art
now
worse
than
wilde
beasts
,
that
before
estéemest
of
thy selfe
better
than
faire
framed
men
:
where
quoth
she
,
till
thou
canst
call
backe
thy
proude
presuming
thought
,
to
pitty
his
case
that
for
thee
spends
his
life
in
such
care
,
here
shalt
thou
haue
thy
abode
,
and
be
as
far
from
any
consulation
●●●ation
of
others
,
as
then
art
from
comforting
of
him
,
and
so
sodainely
leauing
her
againe
to
her selfe
she
departed
.
At
which
abrupt
Oration
,
the
maid
séemed
at
the
first
dismayed
:
yet
at
length
comfortes
somewhat
made
her
conceit
,
in
that
she
knew
the
meanes
of
her
remoue
,
and
so
at
last
after
shee
had
long
remained
〈◊〉
in
that
people
wanting
world
,
to
eschue
the
ec●●●●●
of
harme
,
and
the
effect
of
idlenes
,
shée
be
tooke
〈…〉
carefull
kéeping
of
some
simple
natured
●●●●pe
,
whereof
that
place
was
stored
,
of
whose
wooll
she
now
beginn
to
spinne
her
●●●e
some
homely
atire
,
that
was
wont
to
be
robed
in
the
richest
aray
that
nature
and
Arte
could
afford
,
and
in
the
meane
time
,
the
weary
workes
preuenting
all
occasions
of
further
misfortune
,
that
might
els
in
the
continuance
of
time
haue
crossed
theyr
intent
;
work
or
meanes
to
disert
&
it
her
wofull
Father
:
who
now
destitute
of
all
his
children
,
his
daughter
the
hope
of
comfort
to
hys
diclining
age
,
and
hauing
three
goodly
sonnes
,
whome
nature
had
euery
way
furnished
with
gifts
fitting
their
degrees
,
whose
names
were
Michander
,
Terpander
,
and
Theonas
:
all
those
had
hee
employed
in
the
quest
of
their
sister
,
when
as
his
foes
taking
the
aduantage
of
their
time
,
Perosus
that
was
also
a
Counceller
,
gins
secretlie
to
informe
the
King
of
certaine
treasons
pretended
to
his
life
and
land
,
by
Bessarian
father
to
thys
new
shepheardesse
,
of
whome
before
wee
tolde
you
:
to
the
end
that
hauing
vnfurnished
him
of
the
Kinges
fauour
,
himselfe
might
the
easlier
effect
what
occasion
soeuer
should
be
offered
,
and
the
poore
father
left
destitute
of
all
meanes
to
furthrs
his
sonnes
affaires
:
which
the
king
at
the
first
was
loth
to
beléeue
,
both
for
that
he
had
had
so
long
tryall
of
the
faithfull
seruice
old
Bessarian
had
alwaies
performed
,
as
also
that
hee
supposed
that
such
subtiltie
could
not
harbour
in
a
siluer
coloured
heare
:
for
that
quoth
he
Serpents
alwaies
lurke
in
young
gréene
tufftes
,
&
not
in
winter
wythered
grasse
,
age
abolishes
deceits
,
as
it
abandons
vaine
delights
,
&
as
the
bodie
waxes
weake
,
by
so
much
more
doth
the
minde
waxe
strong
,
as
being
nowe
freed
from
all
the
intisin
●●●●eni●ns
in
〈◊〉
age
,
whereunto
the
vaine
pleasures
of
this
wicked
world
did
still
intise
him
to
in
his
youths
whereunto
the
other
ready
so
replie
with
freshe
〈…〉
●●●●ment
,
shewes
straight
to
the
King
the
intermissiue
letters
that
so
long
had
passed
to
and
fro
,
betwixt
Bessarian
and
many
of
his
Maiesties
enemies
,
for
the
effecting
of
their
treasons
,
to
which
he
had
so
cunningly
counterfetted
the
oldmans
hand
,
as
if
himselfe
had
substantially
set
it
downe
,
and
the
better
to
proue
euery
seuerall
circumstance
of
this
his
surmised
tale
,
hée
presently
produces
two
or
thrée
periured
companions
,
who
for
that
purpose
hee
had
subborned
:
whose
substantiall
tale
tooke
such
effect
,
and
so
farre
incensed
the
King
,
that
in
all
haste
sending
for
the
old
guiltlesse
soule
who
was
so
farre
from
pretending
this
ill
,
that
notwithstanding
all
the
crosse
occasions
that
so
vnluckely
had
hapned
vnto
him
,
he
spends
all
his
time
intending
still
naught
but
hys
Soueraignes
good
:
where
when
hee
came
,
the
King
breaking
foorth
into
impatience
,
beginnes
with
traiterous
names
to
vpbraid
him
,
who
God
knowes
was
so
farre
from
inuenting
it
,
that
he
studied
nothing
more
than
the
preuenting
it
:
and
then
vntipping
vnto
him
the
forged
treason
,
shewing
him
the
counterfet
letters
signed
by
his
own
hand
,
the
seuerall
circumstances
prooued
by
such
sufficient
witnesses
,
as
there
pretended
themselues
to
be
,
impatient
of
excuse
,
and
therefore
vtterly
denying
to
heare
his
further
answere
,
still
vrged
by
the
enuious
inuented
perswasions
of
his
subtill
enemie
,
gins
thus
to
be
wray
his
hatred
.
Experience
quoth
he
hath
taught
vs
,
and
the
dayly
proofe
of
still
present
time
offers
occasions
to
our
eies
of
new
examples
,
how
in
brute
beasts
the
countinance
of
long
time
groundee
perfect
loue
,
as
the
silly
dogge
that
brought
vp
at
hys
Masters
trencher
,
in
his
binde
remembers
his
curtesie
,
and
whiles
nature
lends
him
libertie
of
life
,
indeuors
himselfe
still
in
all
duty
to
requite
it
,
and
shall
then
man
their
reasonable
ruler
,
be
worse
than
these
reasonles
thinges
,
by
him
so
ruled
herbs
,
trées
,
and
other
vegitable
creatures
increasing
from
the
earth
,
to
them
that
with
care
manure
their
roots
,
&
prune
their
branches
render
fruit
for
a
reward
,
the
beastes
they
in
their
sundrie
kindes
requites
their
owners
cost
:
as
one
with
his
skinne
,
another
with
hys
fleeec
;
one
with
his
huffe
,
and
another
with
hys
horne
;
one
with
hys
labour
,
and
another
with
hys
loue
;
and
shall
not
then
he
whome
God
hath
made
as
Master
of
all
these
creatures
excéede
them
in
his
reasonable
raign
,
that
subiect
themselues
reasonles
to
be
ruled
.
Since
first
I
came
to
sway
the
heauie
Scepter
of
this
great
Kingdome
,
and
tooke
into
my
hands
the
tuition
of
so
many
people
as
inhabite
these
spacious
plaines
of
wide
west
Egipt
,
haue
nourished
thée
euen
in
my
bosome
;
nearest
haue
I
kept
thee
to
my selfe
,
because
I
would
draw
thy
affection
from
all
other
,
&
haste
thou
now
with
Hopes
vngratefull
snake
,
stinged
him
in
the
breast
,
that
so
carefully
sought
to
preserue
thée
in
his
bosome
.
Can
it
be
that
vnder
the
reuerend
show
of
such
honourable
age
,
should
rest
the
vndeserued
thoughtes
of
vnreuerent
reuenging
rage
.
Is
there
founde
foule
drosse
in
faire
gold
,
bad
showes
on
good
substances
,
&
can
there
be
such
hatred
in
sure
hearts
?
I
,
I
,
I
sée
the
fayrest
s̄omer
shine
hath
his
sodaine
shower
she
best
blossome
is
oft
times
soone
●●bla●●ed
&
the
truest
friend
prooues
oft
the
most
trecherous
foe
:
But
as
no
man
commends
the
sunnie
morning
,
nor
the
showrie
night
,
the
frustrate
hope
of
his
fruite
,
for
the
bad
blasted
bud
:
so
let
euery
man
especially
condemne
the
soules
secret
friende
,
when
her
turnes
to
a
sore
serching
foe
:
which
simile
I
to
thy selfe
must
now
applie
:
that
vnder
the
faire
show
of
friendship
,
hast
secretly
gone
about
to
ouerturne
my
estate
,
&
bring
this
welgouerned
common
weale
to
a
ruinous
decayed
wracke
,
which
fault
is
so
apparant
,
both
by
thine
owne
hand
sufficiently
set
foorth
,
as
also
confirmed
by
the
Testament
of
others
:
as
that
my
pacience
,
scarce
conteining
it selfe
within
the
bounds
of
euill
behauior
,
cannot
abide
to
heare
any
excuse
,
and
therefore
will
I
against
thée
pronounce
this
heauie
doome
for
thy
ill
deseruing
déedes
,
the
punishment
of
death
were
a
pleasure
to
thée
,
so
that
so
I
should
ease
thée
of
a
great
deale
of
sorrow
,
if
thou
shouldest
still
continue
in
thy
best
state
thou
wert
likely
to
sustaine
,
and
therefore
from
hencefoorth
like
a
cursed
creature
,
shalt
thou
wander
in
the
world
and
eate
the
bitter
bread
of
banishment
in
a
forraine
soyle
,
that
whilome
liuedst
so
swéetly
in
thine
owne
naturall
seat
,
and
so
for
euer
I
banish
thée
from
the
compasse
of
this
Kingdome
,
to
burie
thy
siluer
haires
in
sorrow
,
that
haddest
such
hope
to
harbour
them
in
their
graue
with
ioy
.
At
which
wordes
the
olde
man
not
able
to
speake
for
the
abundance
of
feares
that
stopped
vp
the
way
of
his
wordes
,
was
forced
to
leaue
him
without
further
replie
and
hopeles
of
any
helpe
,
patiently
to
departe
.
By
this
time
had
the
King
(
more
to
punish
his
supposed
amis
,
)
seazed
vpon
all
his
goods
,
to
the
ende
he
might
leaue
him
no
succour
to
saue
himself
abroad
:
which
when
he
saw
,
sorrowfully
sighing
to
himselfe
,
desperately
departes
away
without
any
further
following
the
King
,
for
the
repeale
of
this
his
punishment
,
and
straight
way
betakes
himselfe
to
hys
trauaile
:
which
when
Perosus
perceaued
how
they
now
had
brought
euery
thing
euen
to
the
bent
of
their
own
bow
,
gins
glorie
to
themselues
in
their
likely
prosperitie
,
purchased
by
the
hard
hap
of
an
others
aduersitie
:
but
on
a
sodaine
Eurropa
,
the
Witch
by
whose
counsell
all
this
trecherie
was
contriued
,
looking
further
into
the
matter
what
was
likelie
to
follow
:
by
these
meanes
perceaued
in
the
speculatiue
glasse
,
how
that
the
rightful
reuenging
gods
had
by
many
means
determined
her
release
:
〈◊〉
first
by
Chinon
,
whom
for
that
purpose
they
had
brought
out
of
England
:
then
by
her
brethren
,
who
had
vndertaken
to
search
all
the
world
for
their
sister
and
lastly
by
her
father
,
whose
giltles
banishment
could
not
long
be
concealed
,
&
then
beeing
called
home
to
hys
former
place
,
woulde
séeke
such
meanes
for
her
recouerie
,
as
their
power
coulde
hardly
preuent
,
and
therefore
to
escape
these
insuing
illes
he
thus
determined
to
deale
.
The
maide
who
though
she
was
from
thence
far
remote
,
and
in
a
place
whether
lay
no
ordenarie
passage
:
yet
foreseeing
how
at
length
that
all
would
hit
vpon
that
way
incloses
by
her
wicked
workes
this
faire
Damsell
within
the
ruine
of
an
olde
Rocke
hard
by
the
riuer
side
,
vpon
whose
bankes
before
shée
made
her
abode
:
where
accompanied
with
shadowes
of
naturall
creatures
,
hauing
faire
womanly
faces
like
her selfe
,
that
seemed
to
outward
sence
of
the
far
beholders
,
to
make
her
merrie
with
melodious
musicke
,
but
to
her selfe
she
found
it
far
contrarie
,
proouing
nothing
els
but
a
harsh
discord
of
misliking
sounds
:
which
outward
semblance
was
for
this
purpose
by
them
prouided
,
that
it
might
somewhat
satisfie
any
idle
beholder
,
to
sée
that
her
prison
was
rather
a
pleasure
,
than
anye
such
paine
as
should
mooue
the
mindes
of
men
to
venture
any
thing
for
her
release
:
where
poore
soule
shée
now
coopt
vp
in
a
Cage
that
before
tooke
her
pleasure
vpon
these
spacious
plaines
,
like
to
the
beguiled
bird
that
vnwares
falling
into
the
Fowlers
gin
,
is
nowe
raged
vp
in
a
little
compasse
,
that
whilome
was
went
to
play
vpon
the
broad
branches
of
euery
springing
Plant.
CHAP.
VIII
.
How
Bessarian
her
father
was
by
the
Witch
turned
into
the
likenes
of
a
Beare
,
and
how
hee
met
with
his
sonnes
in
that
shape
.
THVS
hauing
determined
of
her
,
they
straight
waies
begin
to
striue
with
themselues
how
they
might
deuise
some
drift
to
remooue
the
feare
that
they
had
of
her
Fathers
rising
againe
to
his
former
state
,
which
by
the
meanes
of
Eutropa
the
Witch
they
thus
contriued
.
Shée
calling
to
counsaile
her
attendant
spirits
:
by
whose
meanes
shee
brought
to
passe
all
this
matter
,
gins
giue
them
seuerally
in
charge
to
vse
their
Artes
in
plaging
of
this
poore
man
,
which
they
should
so
surely
effect
,
as
no
hope
should
be
left
of
any
more
comfort
to
come
vnto
him
:
where
beating
together
their
hell
bred
braines
,
they
thus
concluded
with
themselues
,
that
they
woulde
chaunge
hym
from
the
shape
of
a
man
,
into
the
big
body
of
an
vgly
Beare
,
and
so
let
him
die
a
beast
that
was
borne
a
man
,
and
further
yet
,
to
aggreuate
hys
woes
,
which
might
notwithstanding
this
enuie
haue
an
end
,
they
intended
in
his
disguise
to
hasten
on
hys
death
,
least
by
some
crossing
occasions
,
as
oftentimes
are
vsually
séene
vnexpectedly
fall
out
for
the
release
of
Magicke
bandes
,
which
they
thus
determined
when
they
had
wrought
their
willes
in
his
transformation
,
about
his
necke
they
hang
a
scroule
,
wherein
were
written
two
verses
which
were
these
.
He
whose
good
hap
shall
kill
this
beare
,
That
man
shall
haue
his
hearts
desire
.
Thinking
by
this
meanes
the
better
to
drawe
on
euery
mans
might
,
to
the
effecting
of
their
former
plotted
purpose
,
for
that
all
men
by
a
naturall
instinct
ar
gréedie
to
get
any
hope
of
pursuing
their
purposes
,
though
oft
times
they
doe
it
with
the
danger
of
theyr
liues
;
where
the
oldman
turned
after
this
manner
,
wanders
through
the
woods
,
clogged
with
the
burden
of
selfe
féeling
sorrow
,
and
in
dispayre
of
reliefe
,
settles
himselfe
to
that
thraldome
without
hope
of
release
.
Many
were
the
miseries
in
this
shape
hee
susstained
,
as
the
many
hungry
dayes
that
in
spite
of
himselfe
he
was
forced
to
spend
,
for
that
his
stomacke
was
not
vsed
to
féede
vpon
such
filthie
carion
,
as
those
beasts
accustomably
deuoure
,
the
raw
restlesse
nights
without
couert
hee
must
now
continue
,
the
want
of
his
friends
,
and
feare
of
hys
foes
,
with
a
countlesse
company
of
more
griefes
than
the
capacitie
of
man
can
conceaue
was
conteyned
in
him
,
being
then
as
a
beast
,
sauing
that
still
he
retayned
the
vse
of
his
reasonable
soule
,
which
they
by
no
meanes
could
make
to
miscarie
.
In
the
meane
time
the
Witch
now
in
the
midst
of
her
busines
,
séeing
in
her
speculatiue
Glasse
(
wherein
sho
vsually
saw
what
accident
soeuer
was
likely
to
happen
)
the
approach
of
her
Brethren
,
who
(
by
tracing
vp
and
downe
in
the
World
)
were
some
of
them
come
néere
(
at
vnwares
)
to
the
place
where
she
was
;
poasted
her selfe
with
all
spéed
,
the
better
to
prosper
her
purpose
,
and
with
violence
inforces
a
spirit
(
one
of
her
owne
Attendants
)
to
vse
the
organes
of
her
bodie
,
to
an
ende
which
her selfe
had
deuised
:
that
was
,
to
send
sundrie
wayes
her
Brethren
,
who
were
like
seuerally
to
come
thether
where
now
their
Sister
did
soiourne
.
And
by
that
time
this
Hag
had
brought
this
purpose
to
passe
,
Michander
her
eldest
Brother
(
that
now
almost
wearied
with
walking
vp
and
downe
among
the
high
desolate
Hills
)
has
framed
his
iourney
towards
that
Riuer
,
the
which
with
his
swelling
waters
moystens
once
euerie
yere
those
pleasant
Egyptian
Plaines
,
to
refresh
his
tyred
limmes
in
the
coole
streames
of
that
pleasant
Current
,
bathing
his
swéet
bodie
in
those
refreshing
Springs
;
suddenly
in
the
midst
of
a
clouen
Rocke
he
espies
sitting
a
companie
of
faire
Creatures
,
whereof
one
(
excéeding
all
lyke
the
Huntresse
amidst
the
naked
troupes
of
her
attendant
Nimphs
)
hee
quickly
startes
vp
and
hies
to
the
place
where
he
supposed
they
should
bée
:
to
which
as
hee
came
néerer
,
he
might
perceaue
the
middle
most
Ladie
that
so
farre
excéeded
the
rest
,
to
be
Cassiopem
his
Sister
,
for
whom
he
had
made
such
search
;
when
in
an
extasie
of
ioye
,
standing
still
as
not
able
at
the
first
to
vtter
the
sudden
mirth
of
his
minde
,
the
enuious
Stone
closes
his
sides
and
shuts
them
al
from
his
sight
.
At
which
sudden
accident
,
his
senses
as
farre
cast
downe
as
before
they
mounted
themselues
with
the
hope
of
recouering
his
Sister
,
gins
with
himself
deuise
what
this
matter
might
meane
,
till
from
the
Rocke
hee
heard
one
pitifully
call
him
by
hys
owne
name
;
which
at
length
he
perceiued
to
be
the
voice
of
his
Sister
whom
before
he
had
séene
:
and
answering
againe
to
her
sudden
call
,
ginnes
demaund
by
what
meanes
he
might
come
vnto
her
.
To
whom
straight
she
answeres
,
that
there
was
no
passage
to
that
piare
:
for
that
by
the
wicked
worke
of
an
enuious
Inchantresse
,
she
was
ther
so
surely
inclosed
,
as
neither
force
of
man
,
edge
of
weapon
,
violence
of
fire
,
nor
any
other
earthly
meanes
whatsoeuer
the
World
could
affoord
was
able
to
auaile
,
except
himselfe
would
aduenture
one
thing
for
her
deliuerance
.
And
then
shée
coniures
him
by
the
dutie
he
ought
to
his
Father
,
the
loue
to
her
his
Sister
,
and
the
care
of
preseruing
their
Kindred
,
that
he
should
vndertake
this
Aduenture
:
which
he
with
more
earnest
desire
offers
to
doo
,
than
she
could
with
her
former
reasons
perswade
hym
too
,
desiring
her
to
tell
him
his
taske
,
that
he
might
slip
no
time
,
but
in
al
hast
hye
him
to
the
performance
of
this
thing
,
which
was
like
so
highly
to
pleasure
thē
both
,
her
with
comfort
,
and
him
with
content
.
To
whom
she
thus
begins
to
vnfold
her
intent
.
Vnder
(
quoth
she
)
that
toplesse
Hill
which
we
call
by
the
name
of
Taurus
,
that
with
his
length
gyrdells
in
the
wyde
Continent
of
flowring
Asia
,
vnder
the
roote
of
an
euerlasting
Lilly
,
stands
there
a
Viall
full
of
Virgins
teares
,
that
encountred
with
the
like
crosse
as
I
am
now
(
poore
Soule
)
in
,
and
before
her
release
dyed
there
for
sorrow
:
to
whose
eternall
memorie
,
against
the
infectiue
rage
of
this
ouer
ruling
power
,
the
Fates
haue
there
reserued
that
powerfull
Potion
,
whose
Vertue
is
to
breake
the
strongest
inchaunted
Bands
;
and
so
Shee
that
by
them
was
thus
bound
while
shee
liued
,
haue
the
Gods
ordained
as
an
Instrument
to
vnbinde
them
now
she
is
dead
.
But
the
still
working
wits
of
these
wicked
wretches
,
hatching
nothing
but
harme
,
intending
nothing
but
what
is
ill
,
and
perfourming
nothing
but
that
which
tends
to
our
plague
,
haue
to
preuent
that
which
is
thus
prouided
,
strongly
garded
the
ground
where
thys
Vyall
standeth
,
with
the
power
of
a
sight
killing
Serpent
,
such
as
we
call
a
Cockatrice
,
against
whom
no
power
is
able
to
preuaile
.
At
which
words
Terpander
breaking
her
from
hir
furder
discourse
,
ginnes
to
perswade
his
sister
a
little
with
patience
,
and
ere
long
hee
doubted
not
by
hys
meanes
to
work
her
libertie
.
And
thus
like
the
greedie
Grey-hound
that
suddenly
sets
out
to
follow
the
swift
footed
Hare
,
flies
he
to
attaine
his
purpose
,
beléeuing
as
his
sorrowfull
Sister
did
,
that
there
had
béen
that
vertue
in
the
water
,
but
it
was
onely
the
deceipt
of
her
deadly
Enemie
,
that
determined
to
make
away
all
her
Bretheren
whose
indeuours
were
else
likely
to
worke
her
release
:
and
therefore
(
as
before
wee
said
inforced
her
tung
to
tattle
that
which
her
minde
did
not
meane
,
whereby
shee
might
bee
theyr
deaths
in
séeking
to
doo
her
good
.
Not
long
after
Terpander
had
thus
betaken
himselfe
to
his
iournie
,
with
hope
that
her
release
from
that
place
shoulde
repay
the
desertes
of
his
paines
,
comes
to
her
the
second
brother
,
whose
name
was
Micander
,
and
hee
as
the
first
ioyfull
to
sée
the
ende
of
hys
iournie
,
which
was
the
sight
of
hys
sister
,
begins
after
the
manner
of
newe
met
friendes
to
resalute
her
,
and
as
he
offered
to
haue
kissed
her
hand
for
ioy
of
his
good
happe
sodainely
the
Rocke
shutting
her
from
him
,
deuorees
a
sunder
both
their
desires
to
resalute
whose
proffered
kindnesse
,
she
speaking
from
her
prison
,
telles
him
with
teares
the
manner
of
her
inclosure
,
intreating
him
by
all
the
true
loue
that
nature
workes
in
the
mindes
of
men
,
that
he
would
vndertake
some
meanes
for
her
fréedome
;
which
he
readier
to
offer
than
shée
willing
to
inioyne
,
calls
to
hys
solemne
vow
all
the
Gods
of
Heauen
and
Guiders
of
Earth
,
that
were
it
a
greater
toyle
than
to
number
the
sands
of
the
Shore
,
the
droppes
in
the
Sea
,
or
the
starres
in
the
Skie
,
more
heauie
than
the
burden
of
Atlas
,
more
foylsome
than
the
Labours
of
Hercules
,
or
more
tedious
than
the
Laborynth
of
Theseus
,
hee
would
with
ease
vndergoe
it
,
with
courage
performe
it
,
and
with
pleasure
procéed
in
it
:
and
therefore
hastened
her
forward
(
poore
Soule
)
to
pronounce
hys
harme
.
She
gins
tell
him
,
that
in
the
Deserts
of
Arabia
rests
Orions
Harpe
,
brought
thether
by
the
meanes
of
an
Inchauuntresse
,
to
release
from
the
thraldome
of
such
subiection
as
now
I
am
in
,
a
valorous
Knight
,
whom
another
Magitian
had
there
imprisoned
:
and
fayling
by
some
crosse
occassion
to
perfourme
the
purpose
whereunto
it
was
brought
,
there
still
remaines
;
but
kept
by
a
man-eating
Canniball
,
hauing
néither
the
forme
of
a
man
,
nor
the
fashion
of
a
beast
,
but
compound
of
them
both
.
Him
(
quoth
shee
)
if
thou
canst
ouercome
,
and
bring
backe
that
well
tuned
Instrument
,
at
whose
stroakes
the
dauncing
Dolphin
delighted
,
beares
on
his
backe
wofull
Orion
from
the
furie
of
the
fierce
swelling
seas
,
when
by
the
Pirates
he
was
cast
among
the
waues
.
The
sound
whereof
wil
be
sufficient
to
vndoo
the
doores
of
this
diuelish
deuice
:
for
which
déed
thou
shalt
bee
blessed
,
and
I
borrowed
from
this
punishing
prison
.
Which
said
,
the
forward
yong
Man
,
loath
to
loose
time
by
standing
on
reply
,
gets
spéedily
from
the
place
and
hies
him
to
his
labour
.
After
whose
departure
,
by
chance
(
as
did
both
the
first
)
comes
Theonas
the
yongest
and
last
of
these
brethren
,
who
at
a
sudden
séeing
his
Sister
there
inclosed
in
the
Rocke
,
gins
as
did
the
other
,
to
resalute
her
with
such
louing
looks
as
accustomable
passe
betwixt
longing
frends
at
their
first
meeting
;
wher
after
manie
words
on
both
sides
,
Theonas
wondring
why
she
should
sit
so
still
in
her
seate
,
and
not
offer
the
like
curtesie
he
intended
to
her
,
gins
to
draw
néerer
the
place
where
she
was
,
when
on
a
sudden
,
the
Rock
(
closing
together
)
denies
his
néerer
approach
:
at
which
,
shee
sorry
within
and
he
as
sad
without
,
gins
both
of
them
distil
as
manie
amber
teares
from
their
christalcies
,
as
might
haue
dissolued
againe
the
craggie
cliffes
of
those
pittiles
Rockes
.
At
length
shee
(
as
afore
to
the
other
two
)
gins
tell
him
the
manner
of
her
life
,
and
intreates
his
aid
for
her
release
,
telling
him
of
a
perilous
Iland
that
was
somteime
kept
by
a
skilfull
woman
named
the
wise
Erganea
,
where
on
an
Altar
in
a
Temple
(
there
built
vnto
her
name
)
lies
a
golden
Booke
,
in
which
(
quoth
she
)
is
contained
all
the
Enchauntments
that
Arte
can
affoord
,
and
their
seuerall
releases
again
,
kept
by
two
Harpies
(
such
were
those
monstrous
birds
with
whom
Alcides
fought
,
and
for
his
conflict
with
them
was
so
great
,
it
was
accounted
as
one
of
the
xii
.
Labours
hee
atchieued
)
:
thence
if
thou
canst
but
fetch
it
away
,
it
wil
be
the
only
meane
to
worke
my
release
,
and
end
thy
long
desires
and
tedious
labour
.
Where
too
the
yong
man
attentiuely
harkening
,
as
one
that
longed
to
eternise
his
name
to
succéeding
posterities
,
for
the
perfourmance
of
some
such
famous
Worke
,
makes
small
delay
to
prosecute
this
busines
,
with
comfortable
promises
of
fairer
dayes
,
cheering
and
comforting
her
minde
,
leaues
her
to
the
mercy
of
her
Foe
,
till
his
happie
returne
make
her
more
fortunate
.
These
seuerall
Aduentures
by
her
imposed
on
her
Bretheren
,
had
this
Witch
before
prouided
,
only
for
a
meane
to
destroy
all
them
that
should
in
this
labour
indeuour
themselues
,
and
perforce
made
her
tongue
the
vnwilling
Instrument
to
incite
them
to
this
ill
:
who
otherwise
intended
their
indeuours
only
for
her
good
.
CHAP.
IX
.
How
Chinon
came
to
the
Rocke
where
the
Ladie
was
inchaunted
,
and
what
happened
thereof
.
IN
this
time
the
Fayries
(
by
whose
meanes
Chinon
was
couueighed
out
of
England
)
had
brought
hym
to
the
place
,
where
in
the
Vision
whilest
he
lay
asléep
vnder
the
Arbour
in
England
,
they
shewed
him
the
faire
Shepheardesse
,
and
had
taken
their
leaue
,
telling
him
,
how
(
by
his
meanes
)
that
Ladie
(
now
in
Captiuitie
)
was
to
bee
released
:
but
how
manie
dangers
hee
must
first
passe
through
,
left
him
there
to
folow
his
farder
fortune
,
with
great
promises
that
after
labour
he
should
finde
rest
,
after
stormes
calmes
,
and
after
frowning
aduersitie
smyling
prosperitie
:
and
so
on
a
sudden
vanished
away
.
When
he
(
séeking
vp
and
downe
for
her
,
whome
by
no
meanes
he
could
find
)
wondring
how
so
rare
beutie
could
be
bred
in
such
a
homely
soyle
,
whereas
the
Earth
was
vnfruitfull
for
want
of
tillage
,
the
Trées
vnorderly
bearing
frute
for
lacke
of
pruning
,
and
the
seuerall
Beasts
disagréeing
in
their
owne
kindes
for
want
of
ordering
:
plainly
the
true
definition
of
solitarie
desolation
,
that
oft
abounding
in
all
things
,
is
cause
of
decay
to
euerie
thing
.
At
last
as
hee
wandered
along
the
Riuer
,
he
heard
excellent
musique
,
and
a
more
excellent
voyce
tune
forth
this
Ditie
.
How
sweete
a
thing
is
this
Content
To
which
poore
countrie
Swaines
are
born
?
These
falls
of
Fortune
they
preuent
,
And
other
hard
mishaps
doo
scorne
.
Oh
how
thrice
blessed
had
I
beene
,
If
(
but
obscurde
in
countrie
weedes
)
Those
mightie
men
I
nere
had
seene
,
Whose
loathed
loue
my
sorrow
breedes
?
But
such
is
the
vnconstant
state
Of
this
still-changing
Worlds
delight
,
Making
the
meane
a
Princes
mate
,
Crossing
high
hopes
with
low
despight
.
Which
makes
my
Soule
(
in
sad
despaire
)
Die
here
ten
thousand
times
a
day
,
Woond
vp
within
a
world
of
care
,
Whence
nought
can
it
release
away
.
When
hée
following
the
sound
of
the
voyce
,
at
length
found
her
where
she
was
sitting
in
the
hollow
side
of
a
Rocke
,
hemmed
round
about
with
a
show
of
such
creatures
as
her selfe
,
to
whom
Chinon
ginnes
thus
to
bewray
himselfe
.
Ah
thou
more
than
thy selfe
,
in
that
thou
retainest
too
heauenly
a
forme
for
anie
earthly
frame
.
How
impartiall
are
the
Fates
that
turnes
the
neuer
standing
Whéele
of
Fortune
,
to
grace
with
so
continuall
a
Sunne
this
Soyle
,
and
lowre
with
obscure
showres
on
other
places
.
Goddesse
of
these
Plaines
that
giuest
more
grace
to
these
fields
,
than
did
the
Goddesses
to
the
place
where
they
pleaded
for
the
golden
Prize
.
Hadst
thou
liued
in
those
dayes
when
young
Apollo
loued
,
then
hadst
thou
béen
the
Paramour
of
Learnings
Prince
,
and
guided
his
will
that
now
gouernes
the
World
.
For
thy
sake
am
I
transported
from
the
furthest
place
of
the
wide
western
World
,
into
these
cynged
Plaines
of
euer
ouer
dried
Egypt
.
For
thée
will
I
follow
the
aduentures
of
Armes
,
so
that
when
for
thy
sake
I
haue
sought
the
World
,
and
with
my
sword
engraued
(
in
neuer
changing
characters
)
thy
God
like
name
in
the
farthest
corners
of
all-bréeding
Earth
,
where
no
consuming
fire
,
cutting
sword
,
nor
eating
eternitie
shall
euer
weare
awaye
thy
memorie
:
so
that
for
my
labour
thou
wilt
reward
me
with
thy
loue
.
When
with
excéeding
passion
he
had
deliuered
these
spéeches
,
with
more
than
common
admiration
he
paused
,
like
one
that
were
suddenly
amazed
wyth
the
showe
of
some
vnacquainted
sight
,
stood
a
long
while
as
in
a
traunce
:
when
as
the
wylie
Witch
perceiuing
this
new
come
Companion
likely
to
marre
what
shee
and
false
Perosus
(
by
their
practises
)
had
béen
so
long
a
making
,
beginnes
to
take
once
more
the
charge
of
her
tongue
,
and
thus
boldly
begins
to
tie
him
to
his
taske
.
Faire
Knight
quoth
shee
,
whose
willing
minde
to
doo
me
seruice
,
wins
more
reward
than
I
am
able
any
wise
to
bestow
:
If
I
were
what
now
I
am
not
,
then
would
I
doe
what
now
I
doe
not
,
with
fauour
requite
thy
forward
fortunes
:
but
thus
it
is
,
and
then
she
begins
in
a
long
Historie
to
relate
her
frowning
fortunes
.
First
drawne
from
the
Court
,
then
perforces
long
time
by
her selfe
to
dwell
solitarily
vpon
that
vnpeopled
soyle
,
and
lastly
when
shee
began
to
comfort
her selfe
with
that
country
content
:
then
solitarily
to
shut
her
vp
in
that
place
,
where
was
no
passage
for
any
people
to
come
to
her
,
and
she
depriued
of
all
power
to
come
out
to
them
,
&
then
telling
how
there
rested
no
hope
of
redresse
,
if
that
for
her
sake
some
mighty
man
would
not
vndertake
a
trebble
taske
,
worse
than
tormented
Sisiphus
hys
toyle
.
Which
words
wrought
such
a
desire
in
the
minde
of
this
forward
Knight
,
as
vowing
to
performe
more
mightie
deedes
than
those
déedes
of
the
olde
Giantes
that
heaping
hill
vpon
hil
assayd
the
height
of
heauen
,
he
instantly
begins
to
intreat
that
in
this
her
charge
,
she
would
admit
of
him
as
her
Champion
.
At
which
wordes
the
Hag
that
all
this
while
had
hid
her
substance
in
an
inuisible
shade
,
gins
vrge
her
to
impose
vpon
him
all
those
plagues
she
had
appointed
the
other
thrée
,
and
when
hys
perswasiue
Oration
was
scarce
done
,
hys
eager
minde
that
alreadie
was
working
for
so
faire
a
rewarde
,
like
the
towring
hawke
,
that
swiftly
takes
the
aduantage
of
the
fearefull
foule
fares
hee
,
that
proud
to
himselfe
so
faire
a
Saint
should
so
soone
accept
of
his
seruice
,
and
imploy
him
in
so
serious
a
peece
of
seruice
as
was
the
remedy
of
her
release
,
flies
with
at
spéed
to
effect
hys
purpose
,
and
shée
poore
soule
hoping
well
that
one
of
her
workmen
would
at
last
returne
againe
with
the
reward
of
their
worke
,
with
comfort
contents
her selfe
to
abide
the
end
:
where
wee
must
a
while
leaue
her
very
melancholily
meditating
with
her selfe
,
howe
shée
might
best
spende
her
time
in
that
wicked
Prison
,
thinking
euery
houre
to
bee
a
whole
yeare
,
and
euery
yeare
a
thousand
,
till
shee
had
heard
againe
some
newes
of
her
searching
seruants
,
that
had
spred
them selues
all
abroad
in
the
wide
world
to
séeke
her
some
meanes
for
to
mittigate
her
miserie
,
and
restore
her
to
her
former
fréedome
againe
,
and
nowe
a
while
follow
our
seuerall
Aduenturers
for
her
aide
,
that
by
this
time
had
trauailed
far
from
the
place
where
they
first
tooke
in
hand
this
iournie
.
CHAP.
X.
How
these
brethren
came
to
the
seuerall
places
appointed
by
the
sister
,
and
of
their
aduenture
there
.
TErpander
the
eldest
brother
,
who
first
vndertooke
this
charge
,
iournying
through
the
spacious
plains
of
Asia
,
hopelesse
to
finde
:
for
that
béeing
long
since
,
hee
came
to
the
side
of
the
mountaine
,
where
hée
was
promised
to
finde
this
viall
of
teares
,
and
had
almost
sought
euerie
seuerall
corner
of
the
same
,
and
yet
could
finde
no
likelyhood
of
any
such
matter
:
Notwithstanding
loath
to
leaue
vnsought
any
place
,
where
shewed
any
appearance
of
such
a
matter
.
At
last
he
saw
a
farre
off
the
rising
as
it
were
of
an
Alablaster
Rocke
that
halfe
ouershadowed
a
hole
,
artificially
cut
into
the
side
of
the
hill
:
whether
hying
him
apace
to
see
what
there
by
might
be
meant
,
came
at
last
to
the
place
,
and
there
at
the
first
seacute
;
eing
nothing
that
might
any
waies
auaile
him
,
was
about
to
depart
againe
,
till
hearing
somewhat
hasting
it self
foorth
of
the
hole
,
he
stood
stil
to
sée
what
it
might
bee
,
at
last
appeares
vnto
him
the
forepart
as
it
were
of
an
ouergrowne
Cocke
,
but
farre
greater
than
any
of
that
kinde
,
that
with
his
fierie
eyes
poysons
euery
obiect
he
sées
,
against
whose
force
Terpander
had
prouidently
prouided
a
bright
Armour
of
stéele
,
which
couered
euery
seuerall
part
of
him
,
on
whome
when
he
looked
,
the
reflexe
of
hys
sight
,
sending
back
againe
the
dart
of
poyson
to
himselfe
,
that
hee
threw
out
at
another
,
powerfully
poysoned
himselfe
,
the
hinder
part
of
this
beast
was
framed
after
the
manner
of
a
Cocodriles
tayle
,
such
as
are
commonly
resident
about
the
bankes
of
Nilus
in
Egipt
,
that
with
the
force
thereof
had
béene
able
to
haue
brused
the
best
prooued
Armour
:
with
which
when
by
the
retorquation
of
hys
ouer
sight
,
he
had
lost
the
vse
of
his
eyes
hee
lustily
laid
about
,
till
such
time
as
the
vpper
part
of
hys
bodie
forceably
swelling
with
the
inwarde
working
poyson
,
made
him
so
vnwildie
that
now
vnable
to
weald
his
body
any
more
,
was
forced
to
fall
downe
,
and
with
the
power
of
the
poyson
shortly
after
died
:
which
when
Terpander
perceaued
that
his
we
was
so
soone
foiled
,
taking
it
to
be
the
place
of
which
his
sister
had
foretold
,
by
reason
that
in
her
disccurse
,
she
discribed
vnto
him
such
a
like
kéeper
of
that
precious
water
,
as
was
this
same
,
that
there
kild
with
his
owne
weapon
,
lay
dead
before
him
,
gins
diligently
to
search
vp
and
downe
for
the
thing
it selfe
,
which
at
last
on
the
other
side
of
the
rocke
he
perceaued
:
where
vnder
a
faire
Lillies
roote
stoode
the
treasure
for
which
he
had
spent
so
much
paines
:
which
when
he
said
,
hartely
thanking
those
helping
heauens
,
that
had
so
mightely
,
not
only
preserued
him
from
the
force
of
hys
foe
,
but
also
helped
him
to
the
inheritance
of
that
hee
so
much
desired
,
goes
boldly
forward
to
the
place
,
where
hee
saw
this
Lillie
spring
,
&
taking
away
the
viall
which
he
poore
soule
tooke
to
be
no
other
than
the
teares
of
a
virgin
,
that
by
such
kind
of
meanes
as
his
sister
had
discribed
vnto
him
was
placed
there
,
and
about
to
returne
with
ioyfull
newes
of
his
sisters
deliuerance
,
hee
had
not
gone
farre
from
the
place
where
first
hee
found
it
,
ere
the
Viall
beginning
to
warme
with
the
heat
of
his
hand
,
sodainely
by
vertue
of
the
venomous
water
therein
inclosed
,
infused
such
a
contagious
heate
into
euery
seuerall
vaine
and
sinnow
of
his
body
,
as
that
wherewith
the
poysoned
shirt
was
that
inraged
madding
Hercules
:
So
this
poore
man
,
that
for
his
good
meaning
,
was
thus
recompensed
with
ill
measure
inraged
with
the
extreame
paine
of
his
inuenomed
limmes
,
gins
fall
into
a
frantike
humor
,
leauing
the
way
should
lead
him
backe
againe
to
hys
Sister
,
and
furiously
without
regard
of
himselfe
,
gins
reuenge
hys
iniurie
vpon
sensles
and
brutish
beastes
,
that
had
now
lost
all
the
power
of
a
man
.
This
was
the
end
the
sorceres
had
intended
shuld
beside
to
him
,
that
in
hope
to
fetch
his
sisters
blis
shuld
there
finde
his
owne
bane
,
and
by
some
meanes
or
other
kill
himselfe
,
or
els
vnable
so
with
reason
to
rule
himselfe
,
should
fall
into
the
daunger
of
some
wilde
beast
,
who
without
pittying
his
case
,
might
cast
hym
away
,
where
we
must
leaue
him
in
his
lunacie
,
and
come
to
the
second
brother
,
who
by
this
time
was
attained
to
the
appointed
place
,
scituate
in
the
bosome
of
the
Arabian
deserts
:
where
vpon
a
Cypresse
branch
he
might
a
far
off
discerne
the
golden
instrument
,
on
whose
trembling
stringes
the
beauteous
beames
of
the
sunne
delights
to
dally
:
There
vnderneath
this
dismall
shade
,
for
that
now
the
sunne
at
the
Zenith
of
this
Sphere
,
dartes
downe
his
perpendicular
beames
with
such
force
vpon
the
face
of
the
earth
,
as
makes
euery
creature
séeke
to
shelter
himselfe
in
the
coole
shades
:
for
which
cause
this
monster
was
then
crept
vnder
the
Cipresse
shadowes
,
and
ouercommed
with
the
heate
of
the
aire
war
then
falne
a
sléepe
:
to
whome
when
Micander
came
néere
,
diligently
vewing
each
seuerall
part
of
his
deformed
body
,
for
that
the
Instrument
hung
high
vpon
the
trée
,
and
without
styrring
this
stubborne
beast
could
no
waies
be
come
by
prepares
himselfe
after
the
best
manner
hee
could
to
Combat
with
this
Curre
,
and
when
he
had
buckled
on
his
Armour
,
made
readie
his
weapon
and
was
now
encouraged
to
encounter
with
hys
enemie
,
gins
with
some
such
noyse
as
then
hee
made
to
rouse
hym
from
hys
rest
.
When
as
the
Canniball
like
the
throted
Dogge
whome
Theseus
awaked
in
the
Gates
of
hell
,
sends
out
such
a
hideous
crie
,
as
affrighted
the
neighboring
Birdes
and
Beastes
that
inhabite
that
part
of
the
world
with
his
terrible
sounde
,
and
shaking
of
himselfe
,
gins
shew
in
hys
vpper
parts
the
perfect
forme
of
a
Dogge
with
long
eares
,
which
long
dangling
eares
that
excéeded
the
substance
of
the
greatest
spanniels
,
hung
well
nie
downe
to
his
middle
.
From
the
middle
downeward
he
had
the
shape
of
a
man
,
big
boned
as
are
these
wilde
people
that
liuing
lawlesse
in
such
vnruled
places
,
seeding
themselues
after
their
fashion
vpon
the
fat
of
the
earth
,
cut
growes
the
common
sort
of
well
guided
people
,
and
taking
vp
from
the
earth
a
great
Iron
club
,
such
as
was
in
his
iudgement
too
big
to
be
swayed
by
a
man
,
without
any
warning
gins
fall
to
his
weapon
:
where
betwixt
them
two
was
begun
a
dangerous
fight
,
&
long
time
continued
with
vncertaine
hope
of
succes
,
till
Micander
nimbly
eschueing
the
weight
of
his
weapons
fall
,
gins
get
within
his
reach
,
&
so
carues
his
skinne
and
bones
with
his
well
tempered
sword
:
which
for
that
purpose
he
had
only
prouided
,
that
in
short
time
hee
made
him
with
the
great
issue
of
blood
that
fell
from
hys
wounds
so
weake
,
as
he
was
not
able
any
more
to
beare
the
waight
of
his
blowes
,
but
was
forced
to
fall
vnder
his
foe
:
which
when
Micander
perceaued
,
he
straight
waies
dismembers
him
of
all
his
limmes
and
leaues
nothing
behinde
for
his
helpe
,
but
the
naked
bulke
of
his
body
,
and
then
reaching
downe
from
the
trée
that
fatall
instrument
,
(
which
the
Witch
to
another
end
than
hee
aimed
at
had
prepared
,
)
gins
turne
back
his
course
,
and
with
that
Consort
,
hie
him
home
to
comfort
his
sister
.
As
thus
hee
was
trauailing
to
his
long
wished
for
place
of
ariuall
sodainely
hee
determined
with
him selfe
to
trie
what
was
the
harmonie
of
that
famous
instrument
,
that
with
his
sound
coulde
call
the
censelesse
trées
from
their
rootes
,
remooue
the
craggie
Rockes
from
their
Cliffes
,
mittigate
the
reuenging
wrath
of
brutish
deuouring
beasts
,
compose
concord
betwixt
the
Lambe
and
the
Lyon
,
the
Hound
and
the
Hare
,
the
Fawcon
and
the
sillie
foule
:
whose
strings
he
had
no
sooner
touched
,
but
determining
with
himselfe
to
sing
some
delightsome
Ditty
to
the
sweete
tenth
of
these
siluer
sounding
stringes
,
for
ioy
hee
had
compassed
his
desire
.
The
powers
of
his
tongue
denying
any
more
to
execute
their
office
,
hee
was
sodainely
stroken
dumbe
,
which
was
the
plague
this
witch
had
pretended
should
light
on
him
,
by
the
Magicke
made
sound
of
this
Instrument
,
which
was
nothing
els
but
an
illusion
as
were
all
the
rest
,
to
draw
these
brethren
into
danger
,
where
we
will
leaue
him
making
what
shift
his
dumb
demeanes
affordes
him
to
trauell
homeward
,
and
come
now
at
last
to
the
third
brother
.
Theonas
that
by
the
fauorable
hope
of
winde
and
weather
was
nowe
ariued
vppon
the
perillous
Iland
:
where
comming
into
the
Temple
of
Erganea
the
wise
Inchauntresse
,
that
was
richly
adorned
with
all
peculiar
thinges
therevnto
belonging
.
At
the
vpper
end
thereof
vppon
an
Altar
of
cleare
Christal
that
was
couered
with
a
curious
cloth
of
gold
,
ouer
whome
was
hung
the
perfect
picture
of
an
ancient
woman
,
which
woman
was
the
fore named
Erganea
,
there
twixt
two
golden
Candlestickes
that
were
filled
with
two
continuall
burning
Tayers
censing
the
Temple
with
swéet
sauours
,
lyes
a
golden
book
which
was
kept
by
two
harpies
,
monsterous
byrdes
,
halfe
Women
,
and
halfe
Serpents
,
that
with
their
winges
so
beats
the
young
aduenturer
,
as
hee
was
scarce
able
to
abide
theyr
force
.
But
as
hée
that
looking
still
vpon
the
goles
is
better
incouraged
to
goe
forward
,
hee
that
sees
the
harbour
,
takes
greater
paines
to
get
home
,
hee
that
is
neare
an
end
of
his
labour
,
thinkes
all
the
paines
but
little
hee
hath
to
spend
:
So
fares
it
with
Theonas
,
that
looking
vpon
the
end
whereto
hee
had
endeuored
himselfe
,
thinkes
the
paines
but
a
pleasure
hee
indured
,
&
in
short
time
so
behaued
himselfe
,
as
that
he
had
ouerthrowne
one
of
hys
enemies
,
and
then
like
the
Hart
,
that
by
casting
his
horne
,
renues
his
strength
,
the
Eagle
by
loosing
his
bill
strengthens
his
flight
so
he
at
the
sight
of
hyr
fall
,
begins
to
fight
a
fresh
,
and
in
short
time
had
the
like
succes
of
the
one
as
before
he
had
found
in
the
other
:
so
that
nowe
there
was
no
partition
betwixt
him
and
his
pray
,
but
that
he
might
take
away
the
booke
,
to
which
when
hee
came
,
opening
it
that
hee
might
bee
an
eye
witness
what
was
there
included
,
in
sréed
of
those
powerfull
spels
that
there
he
shuld
haue
read
,
from
out
the
closure
thereof
came
such
a
dustie
fogge
,
as
filling
his
eies
with
a
blacke
myst
like
vnto
pitchie
smoake
he
was
suddenly
stroken
blind
,
and
there
left
to
grope
his
way
back
,
that
came
thether
with
the
perfect
vse
of
his
eyes
.
This
Booke
(
as
were
both
the
rest
)
was
nothing
els
but
a
deceipt
of
the
Inchaunteresse
,
to
drawe
thether
one
of
these
Brethren
;
where
(
in
stead
of
reléeuing
their
Sister
)
they
might
inthrall
themselues
.
Thus
poore
Theonas
(
euen
in
the
prime
of
his
Spring
)
hauing
lost
the
vse
of
this
light
,
which
is
the
especiall
comfort
of
mas
life
)
wanders
vp
and
down
like
old
forsaken
Oedipus
in
his
exilde
life
:
where
we
must
a
while
leaue
him
in
this
pitteous
case
with
hys
Bretheren
.
CHAP.
XI
How
Chinon
met
with
these
Bretheren
seuerally
one
after
another
,
and
what
became
thereof
.
BY
this
time
was
Chinon
come
to
the
place
where
we
first
left
Thersander
mad
after
hee
had
taken
vp
the
Violl
of
Water
:
who
séeing
him
fare
so
with
himselfe
,
rending
vp
trées
by
the
rootes
,
tearing
vp
mightie
stones
from
theyr
places
where
they
stood
,
and
tumbling
them
downe
from
the
tops
of
high
hills
,
into
the
bottomes
of
déepe
vallyes
;
who
(
notwithstanding
his
misfortune
)
kept
still
the
Uiail
about
him
vntouched
:
to
whom
Chinon
came
wondering
to
sée
what
man
should
walke
that
waye
,
begins
to
question
with
him
about
the
manner
of
his
comming
thether
?
To
whom
the
mad
man
far
vnlike
himselfe
,
(
for
that
before
he
was
courteous
,
but
now
contrarie
to
his
kinde
hee
had
changed
his
countenance
to
hair-braind
crueltie
and
in
stead
of
courteous
behauiour
,
answeres
him
in
rayling
opprobrious
tearmes
,
and
at
the
length
begins
with
force
to
assaile
him
as
an
enemie
;
which
Chinon
perceiuing
,
closing
with
the
mad
man
as
hee
came
to
incounter
with
him
forceablie
casts
him
downe
,
&
taking
from
him
the
Uiall
of
water
,
which
all
this
while
hee
had
kept
closely
in
his
handes
,
beginnes
to
looke
what
it
should
be
the
poore
soule
had
in
such
request
,
when
suddenly
by
the
like
mischance
that
the
other
was
changed
,
himselfe
was
with
Lunacie
presently
possessed
:
and
raging
like
Aiax
after
his
foyle
for
Vlysses
hys
armour
,
or
mightie
Alcides
when
on
the
Mountaine
Oeta
he
built
the
Altare
whereon
himselfe
was
sacrificed
,
tearing
his
clothes
from
his
backe
,
the
hayres
from
his
head
,
and
launcing
with
déepe
wounds
the
limmes
of
his
bodie
;
releases
Tirpander
from
the
plague
wherwith
he
was
possessed
,
and
brings
it
vppon
himselfe
.
Which
the
other
perceiuing
how
hee
was
deliuered
from
that
daunger
,
pittied
the
wofull
estate
of
this
worthie
Man
,
but
helpe
him
hee
could
not
,
for
that
such
was
his
inuincible
strength
,
now
by
the
force
of
his
furie
much
more
augmented
,
which
force
neither
man
nor
beast
,
stocke
nor
stone
,
nor
any
other
creature
whatsoeuer
was
able
to
stand
in
hys
hand
▪
so
that
in
short
time
,
what
with
his
vnorderly
tracing
through
vnfrequented
passages
to
finde
fuell
for
his
fire
,
and
his
swift
paces
that
stil
ouer-went
the
other
wearie
wearie
man
,
who
had
tyred
himself
before
in
his
furie
,
Chinon
was
quite
gone
out
of
his
sight
,
whom
wee
must
now
leaue
after
the
recouerye
of
his
wits
,
trauelling
home
againe
into
hys
owne
Countrey
,
to
séeke
out
some
other
meanes
for
the
release
of
his
Sister
,
and
followe
Chinon
,
who
raging
and
rauing
like
an
angrie
Lion
at
last
ouer-takes
Micander
,
who
(
poore
man
as
quiet
for
the
sorrow
he
had
lost
the
vse
of
his
tongue
,
as
the
other
vnruly
in
his
rage
,
séeing
him
a
farre
off
,
staid
still
to
expect
the
euent
of
his
sudden
epproach
;
when
the
madde
man
comming
to
him
gins
with
vnséemly
behauior
to
abuse
the
other
poore
distressed
Soule
,
and
wyth
force
pulling
from
him
the
Instrument
which
he
was
loth
to
loose
,
though
by
it
he
had
incurred
such
a
displesure
:
yet
at
last
Chinon
(
farre
stronger
than
the
other
perforce
pulls
it
away
,
and
assaying
with
his
fingers
to
strike
the
strings
,
was
at
the
first
sound
thereof
stroken
dumbe
,
whereof
as
soone
as
Chinon
was
possessed
,
Micander
was
straight
waye
released
.
Which
infirmitie
when
Chinon
perceaued
in
himselfe
,
redoubling
the
rigour
of
his
handes
for
the
vse
hee
had
lost
of
his
tongue
,
gins
furiously
to
fall
vpon
Michander
and
beate
him
,
for
being
the
Authour
of
his
ill
:
which
the
other
perceiuing
,
farre
vnable
to
sustaine
the
strength
of
his
streake
makes
meanes
to
escape
his
hands
,
which
by
his
swift
flight
hee
soone
attayned
.
So
in
short
time
ridding
of
himselfe
enough
from
the
feare
of
this
foe
,
hee
for
his
owne
safetie
,
takes
home
the
neerest
waye
hee
could
finde
into
hys
owne
Countrey
.
In
the
meane
time
Chynon
wandring
wyldly
thus
about
the
World
all
carelesse
where
hee
went
,
because
how
soever
hee
turned
,
euerie
where
lay
his
way
,
at
last
comes
downe
vnto
the
Sea
side
,
where
by
chaunce
he
findes
a
Boate
readie
furnished
with
all
prouision
necessarie
for
the
Sea
;
who
(
after
the
manner
of
such
madde
men
)
leaping
there
intoo
,
(
though
ignorant
what
to
do
or
careles
whither
to
go
,
more
than
to
satisfie
his
mad
humor
)
launched
from
shore
,
and
making
shift
to
set
vp
his
saile
,
was
quickly
conueyed
farre
from
the
sight
of
anie
Land
into
the
midst
of
the
merciles
seas
,
sayling
too
and
fro
manie
dayes
not
fearing
to
be
drownd
,
because
he
perceiued
nothing
:
nor
expecting
anie
place
whether
to
goe
,
for
that
he
scarce
knew
,
where
he
was
either
at
sea
or
on
shore
.
But
at
the
last
(
flying
with
his
Barke
before
the
Winde
)
he
was
suddenly
driuen
on
shore
vpon
an
Iland
,
where
(
leaping
a
land
)
he
betooke
himselfe
to
trauaile
vp
into
the
countrie
,
to
sée
what
people
it
did
affoord
:
where
he
had
not
long
trauelled
,
but
a
farre
off
vpon
the
side
of
a
Hil
he
espied
one
sadly
sitting
by
himselfe
,
towards
whom
he
made
what
hast
he
possibly
could
.
This
was
the
yongest
Brother
of
those
thrée
,
that
before
we
told
ye
of
was
stroken
blind
by
looking
into
the
inchanted
Booke
;
to
whom
when
he
came
,
suddenly
snatching
the
Booke
out
his
hande
(
after
hys
fond
furious
fashion
)
opens
the
claspes
to
sée
what
was
therein
contained
,
when
suddenly
issued
out
such
another
fogge
,
as
that
wherewith
Theonas
was
striken
blinde
,
and
in
like
manner
bedazels
his
eyes
:
when
presently
Theonas
was
againe
restored
vnto
his
sight
,
and
wondring
to
see
there
so
goodly
a
man
possessed
with
so
manie
plagues
at
once
,
ginnes
then
with
himselfe
consider
how
it
should
come
to
passe
?
who
for
that
himselfe
was
vnacquainted
with
what
had
happened
to
his
other
Bretheren
,
could
gesse
at
none
but
that
which
lately
he
was
punished
wythall
himselfe
:
one
,
for
that
the
reasonlesse
Man
(
for
all
these
troubles
wherewith
hee
was
tormented
)
could
not
(
by
his
meanes
)
be
brought
within
the
compasse
of
quiet
behauiour
,
thought
it
best
to
prouide
some
meanes
for
his
owne
escape
,
and
leaue
hym
there
to
the
mercie
of
GOD
,
that
would
not
be
ruled
by
the
meanes
of
a
man
;
so
he
betooke
himselfe
to
his
Journey
,
where
wee
must
also
leaue
him
(
ridde
by
thys
meanes
of
a
mischiefe
)
retourning
to
séeke
hys
Bretheren
,
and
take
some
other
order
for
their
inchanted
Sister
.
The
Inchauntresse
now
(
that
all
this
while
sawe
the
issue
of
this
matter
)
gréeuing
that
her
cunning
should
be
so
crossed
,
and
yet
ioying
that
all
these
punishments
were
light
vppon
his
head
,
whom
she
before
feared
more
than
all
the
rest
:
set
all
her
wits
aworke
,
to
deuise
a
meanes
how
shee
might
(
now
hauing
him
at
such
a
vantage
)
make
him
sure
for
euer
escaping
out
of
her
hands
againe
foreséeing
,
that
by
his
meanes
all
this
scattered
Kindred
were
likely
to
be
restored
againe
to
their
former
estate
.
And
therefore
(
by
her
power
)
incloses
him
within
the
clift
of
a
Rocke
,
against
which
she
rouled
vp
a
mightie
stone
,
such
as
the
force
of
manie
ordinarie
men
was
not
able
to
remooue
:
and
so
least
by
any
meanes
he
might
be
recouered
out
of
this
inchaunted
Castle
,
shee
places
as
Porter
before
the
doore
thereof
a
mightie
Gyant
,
twice
as
great
and
grim
as
the
ordinarie
kynde
of
such
ouer-growen
Creatures
vse
to
bée
.
Where
,
when
hee
was
inclosed
(
supposing
him
now
safe
enough
from
anie
resort
that
should
bring
him
reléefe
)
she
was
content
all
his
plagues
should
cease
,
and
hée
(
the
more
to
aggreuate
his
griefe
)
be
restored
againe
to
his
wits
;
which
was
effected
as
speedily
as
determined
.
No
sooner
was
he
closely
shut
vp
into
that
vncomfortable
Cabin
,
but
all
his
Instruments
(
by
whose
meanes
he
came
by
those
crosses
)
as
his
Water
,
his
Harpe
,
and
his
Booke
vanished
away
,
and
he
himselfe
restored
(
as
I
before
said
)
againe
to
the
same
estate
of
sense
as
he
was
before
,
his
libertie
onely
excepted
:
where
we
must
now
awhile
leaue
him
in
his
melancholy
Cell
,
and
retourne
againe
into
England
.
to
sée
the
sorrow
of
olde
Cador
Duke
of
Cornwall
,
for
the
sudden
departure
(
without
taking
leaue
)
of
Chinon
his
Sonne
.
CHAP.
XII
.
How
Arthur
of
England
sent
three
of
his
Knights
to
search
for
Chinon
,
&
how
they
found
him
.
CAdor
Earle
of
Cornwal
whilst
that
these
things
were
thus
by
this
diuelish
Inchauntresse
effecting
,
stil
spent
his
yeares
in
sorrow
for
the
sudden
losse
of
his
Sonne
,
and
at
last
(
wearied
with
too
much
grief
)
he
intended
to
make
some
friendly
meanes
to
the
King
,
for
to
haue
his
royall
fauour
and
helpe
for
his
recouerie
.
Therefore
on
this
determining
he
repaired
one
day
to
the
Court
,
and
there
finding
the
King
and
all
his
Knights
,
as
carefull
for
his
crosse
misfortune
as
himselfe
,
gins
in
very
humble
manner
(
yet
with
honourable
regard
)
thus
to
intreate
his
Maiestie
.
Most
royall
Souereigne
(
for
whom
from
my
first
able
yeares
may
seruice
hath
béen
imployed
)
vouchsafe
me
in
my
decayed
yeares
this
Kingly
comfort
:
Send
foorth
I
beséech
you
)
some
of
his
worthie
fellow
Knights
to
séeke
Chinon
my
Sonne
;
who
albeit
he
hath
yet
deserved
little
either
of
your
Grace
or
of
them
,
yet
his
forward
endeuour
hath
alway
showne
he
would
much
more
ere
this
haue
merited
,
had
not
enuious
fortune
crost
him
in
this
sort
.
To
whom
the
King
and
all
his
Nobles
present
did
most
willingly
condiscend
.
Then
calling
together
al
the
Knightly
companie
of
his
Round
Table
,
declared
to
them
Duke
Cadors
request
,
and
his
owne
readinesse
to
haue
it
vndertaken
:
who
all
were
not
onely
to
goe
in
Quest
of
Chinon
,
but
each
man
manifested
his
more
than
common
earnestnes
,
by
taking
offence
if
anie
one
were
named
beside
himselfe
.
To
ende
this
controuersie
,
the
King
thus
prouided
,
that
euerie
man
should
drawe
his
Lot
,
and
on
whom
soeuer
it
fell
,
that
Knight
should
foorthwith
chuse
hym
two
Fellowes
from
the
rest
of
the
Companie
,
and
so
they
thrée
shuld
take
vpon
them
this
desired
trauaile
.
The
Lots
accordingly
were
made
,
and
euerie
one
of
the
Knights
drew
,
and
the
Lot
fell
vpon
Sir
Calor
,
who
was
Sonne
vnto
Sir
Lancelot
du
Lake
and
the
beauteous
Celestina
Daughter
to
the
King
of
France
,
whose
Parents
Chinon
before
valiantly
rescued
,
being
betraid
and
taken
in
the
hands
of
the
trecherous
Souldan
.
But
before
their
departure
,
it
was
thought
conuenient
(
for
the
better
furtherance
of
their
Journey
)
to
take
some
counsell
of
Merlin
,
who
then
liued
accounted
as
a
Prophet
in
England
,
and
by
his
skill
I
could
tell
of
secrete
things
forepast
,
and
hidden
mysteries
to
come
.
Merlin
beeing
sent
for
by
the
Kings
commandement
,
came
to
the
Court
,
and
shewes
them
in
a
speculatiue
Glasse
the
manner
of
his
departure
out
of
England
,
the
manie
troubles
hee
had
endured
in
hys
Journey
,
and
now
at
last
opens
at
large
the
whole
manner
of
that
great
miserie
whereuntoo
he
is
now
brought
by
the
meanes
of
that
subtill
Inchauntresse
:
telling
them
further
,
that
except
they
made
verie
excéeding
great
spéed
for
to
procure
his
release
,
hee
was
likely
to
dye
there
for
want
of
reléefe
,
being
there
detained
from
all
necessaries
fit
to
sustaine
a
man
;
or
at
least
hauing
of
those
necessaries
a
verie
short
pittance
allowed
him
.
Merlin
hastening
them
forward
on
their
iourney
,
promised
al
the
cunning
he
could
affoord
for
their
spéedie
conueyance
,
which
he
effectually
perfourmed
,
so
that
in
short
time
they
were
arriued
in
this
perillous
Iland
:
where
after
long
search
for
the
place
wherein
Merlin
did
promise
they
should
finde
their
friend
,
at
last
they
might
espie
this
monstrous
man
,
iaylour
to
that
unfortunate
Knight
,
stretching
himselfe
at
the
mouth
of
the
Caue
wherein
in
Chinon
was
kept
.
To
him
they
made
all
possible
spéede
,
and
first
of
all
Syr
Calor
addressing
himselfe
to
fight
,
gins
before
hee
offered
violence
with
curteous
gréetings
to
salute
hym
gently
,
demaunding
what
he
was
that
liued
so
desolately
in
that
vnfrequented
Iland
?
To
whom
the
detested
and
currish
Carle
made
this
vnmannerly
aunswere
.
I
am
quoth
hee
as
thou
séest
,
one
within
whose
clawes
thou
and
the
rest
of
thy
sawcie
companions
haue
compassed
your selues
:
if
therefore
you
will
submit
your selues
to
my
mercy
,
then
will
I
thus
dispose
of
you
héere
within
a
hollow
Caue
hewne
out
of
this
craggie
Rock
,
wherein
lyes
inclosed
a
knight
such
a
one
as
you
are
,
who
for
the
like
offence
that
you
now
haue
offered
,
is
condemned
to
the
eternall
slauerie
of
perpetuall
imprisonment
,
within
shall
you
spend
your
hatefull
liues
,
and
when
for
hunger
you
are
welnie
starued
,
fall
freshly
then
to
eate
one
anothers
flesh
,
but
if
you
stubbornely
stand
out
against
mee
,
thus
will
I
dispoyle
you
in
renting
your
cursed
limmes
péece
meale
a
sunder
,
or
els
fastning
you
seuerall
to
the
big
bulks
of
some
of
these
trées
:
where
when
the
imperiall
punishment
of
hastning
hunger
shall
seaze
vpon
your selues
,
you
shall
there
be
inforced
to
eate
your
owne
flesh
that
might
here
haue
fed
vpon
another
,
to
whome
Syr
Calor
thus
answered
.
Foule
vglie
fiend
,
wee
come
not
to
knéele
to
thée
,
but
to
force
thy
subiection
to
vs
and
for
the
release
of
a
Christian
Knight
thay
thou
kéepest
Captiue
within
thy
power
.
At
which
wordes
the
Giant
séeing
them
addresse
themselues
to
fight
,
presently
be
stirs
himselfe
,
and
taking
an
Iron
mace
,
(
which
to
that
ende
the
Witch
had
prouided
)
let
s
driue
at
Sir
Calor
with
all
the
might
he
could
,
from
which
he
nimbly
leaping
away
eschued
the
force
of
the
fall
,
when
as
the
other
Knights
comming
in
to
rescue
sir
Calor
,
before
the
Giant
could
againe
get
vp
his
weapon
from
the
grounde
,
they
had
so
mangled
hys
limmes
,
as
he
was
now
far
vnable
to
fight
,
but
falling
prostrate
downe
before
them
,
humblie
intreats
for
his
life
:
which
they
were
willing
to
graunt
,
as
not
séeking
the
losse
of
him
,
but
the
life
of
their
friend
,
to
whome
the
Giant
gins
relate
all
the
manner
of
the
imprisonment
of
Chinon
,
and
at
the
last
opens
the
doore
of
the
Caue
,
and
calles
him
out
to
his
friends
,
who
resaluting
one
another
with
such
friendly
gréetings
as
are
vsuall
at
such
aduenturos
accidents
,
take
their
iournie
from
thence
vp
into
the
Countrie
,
and
for
that
the
Giant
had
tolde
them
in
hys
former
discourse
of
the
manner
of
Chinons
imprisonment
,
how
that
Perosus
for
whose
loue
all
this
had
come
about
,
had
in
Egipt
taken
Armes
against
the
King
,
for
that
his
treason
béeing
discouered
,
he
intended
to
recal
old
Bessarian
from
his
banishment
,
and
that
his
power
so
daylie
increased
,
as
that
it
was
now
far
greater
than
the
Kings
,
they
intended
to
shape
their
iournie
thetherwards
and
help
the
king
in
his
warres
against
this
traiterous
rebbell
:
where
wee
must
let
them
goe
forward
a
while
in
their
iourny
,
and
returne
againe
to
our
thrée
aduenturers
for
their
sisters
libertie
.
CHAP.
XIII
.
How
Bessarians
sonnes
met
with
their
Father
in
the
shape
of
a
Beare
.
AFter
that
these
thrée
yong
men
were
againe
restored
to
their
former
estate
,
Terpander
the
first
of
them
trauailing
homewards
to
séeke
againe
his
sister
,
méetes
by
the
way
his
transformed
Father
,
who
not
a
little
glad
to
see
his
sonne
,
though
the
other
taking
him
for
no
lesse
than
he
séemed
,
made
some
hast
to
fly
from
him
,
till
looking
backe
and
perceauing
the
scroule
about
his
necke
for
the
regaining
of
his
harts
desire
,
strikes
his
poore
father
with
such
a
blow
,
as
breaking
his
sword
vpon
the
scalpe
of
his
head
,
he
was
forced
to
flie
for
want
of
weapons
,
fearing
least
the
Beare
should
haue
fallen
freshly
vppon
him
,
béeing
tyred
when
as
God
knowes
the
sillie
man
astonished
with
the
stroke
,
was
rather
afraid
of
an
vnnaturall
deaths
wound
by
his
sonne
,
then
willing
to
prosecute
any
reuenge
for
the
same
.
Not
long
after
Terpander
had
thus
hurt
his
Father
,
comes
that
way
the
second
brother
,
who
in
like
case
méeting
with
the
Beare
and
hoping
by
his
death
to
obtaine
his
desire
,
gins
with
a
Borespeare
hee
had
in
his
hand
eagerly
to
assayle
him
,
in
so
much
shal
in
short
time
hee
had
grieuously
wounded
hym
,
but
the
head
of
his
weapon
by
chance
breaking
off
,
hee
was
forced
to
flie
as
did
his
brother
:
to
be
short
the
Witch
that
intended
by
the
meanes
of
some
of
these
sonnes
,
to
make
away
their
father
.
After
that
the
first
two
had
fayled
,
brought
thether
the
third
,
who
eager
to
accomplish
his
desire
,
promised
by
the
scroule
that
hung
about
hys
fathers
necke
,
begins
a
fresh
fight
,
&
so
wounded
his
sillie
sire
,
as
that
for
want
of
blood
which
hys
weapon
had
lauishly
lanched
out
,
hee
was
forced
to
fall
downe
,
whome
Theonas
supposing
to
be
dead
,
left
there
to
follow
his
desire
.
In
the
meane
time
whilest
these
thinges
were
thus
in
dooing
had
there
béene
sought
a
great
battaile
in
Egipt
,
betwixt
Egbaton
their
King
,
and
Perosus
the
traitour
,
of
whome
before
we
told
you
:
where
by
the
meanes
of
the
Englishmen
the
King
ouercame
,
and
Perosus
was
put
to
flight
:
who
for
his
sauegard
forsaking
hys
Countrie
,
betooke
himselfe
to
the
Mountaines
:
where
after
hee
had
long
traueiled
,
hee
by
chance
met
with
Bessarian
transformed
,
as
afore
wee
haue
told
you
,
who
hauing
some
what
recouered
himselfe
after
the
wounds
of
his
sonnes
,
fearing
least
his
foe
should
at
his
sight
fiie
a
way
,
layes
sodaine
holde
vpon
him
.
At
which
Perosus
béeing
afraid
séeing
himselfe
assailed
,
gins
make
all
the
meanes
hee
could
for
hys
escape
:
but
the
other
loath
to
requite
him
euill
for
hys
ill
dealing
,
in
stéede
of
such
rauinous
behauiour
,
as
comnonly
is
found
in
such
like
beasts
,
gently
fawnes
vpon
him
,
shewing
himselfe
rather
willing
to
helpe
him
,
than
readie
to
hurt
him
.
When
Perosus
calling
to
mind
hys
former
offence
in
the
bewitching
of
the
old
man
,
and
séeing
by
the
writing
about
his
necke
,
that
this
was
he
whome
hée
had
so
cruelly
crost
,
falles
downe
before
him
,
&
with
submissiue
teares
intreats
his
pardon
:
to
whome
the
Beare
though
vnable
to
speake
,
yet
with
dumbe
demeans
shewing
the
effect
of
his
minde
,
answers
in
dum
tokens
what
he
could
not
tel
in
plausible
words
:
to
whom
Perosus
there
promised
,
that
would
hee
but
follow
him
,
hee
would
foorthwith
conduct
hym
to
the
place
where
hys
daughter
was
imprisoned
,
&
where
he
hoped
also
to
méet
with
her
,
by
whose
meanes
all
this
was
brought
to
passe
.
In
the
meane
time
Chinon
and
his
fellow
knights
following
their
foes
from
the
fight
,
by
chaunce
intercepted
Eutropa
the
Witch
as
shée
was
flying
awaie
,
whome
presently
they
intending
to
kill
,
&
shee
knowing
very
well
their
crueltie
,
fell
downe
before
them
,
humbly
asking
pardon
for
her
life
,
and
in
requitall
thereof
shée
would
restore
to
liberty
,
her
for
whose
sake
Chinon
had
suffered
all
this
extreamity
,
than
which
Chinon
desiring
nothing
more
graunts
her
requests
,
whome
shée
presently
transportes
to
the
place
where
Cassiopea
lay
imprisoned
:
where
when
they
came
,
they
found
her
thrée
brethren
dilating
vnto
her
theyr
seuerall
ill
luckes
,
whome
as
soone
as
they
came
,
the
Witch
released
from
the
bondage
of
the
Rocke
,
and
falling
downe
on
her
knées
askes
hartie
pardon
for
her
amis
,
to
whome
the
Lady
glad
of
her
release
straight
forgiues
that
offence
,
and
then
Eutropa
telling
her
the
great
perrill
Chinon
had
ouerpassed
for
her
loue
:
shée
with
all
curtesie
falles
downe
at
hys
seéeke
,
submitting
her selfe
for
requitall
thereof
to
be
disposed
at
hys
pleasure
,
whom
he
taking
vp
from
the
ground
,
offering
himselfe
likewise
to
her
.
In
the
meane
time
whilest
these
folkes
were
thus
reioycing
,
comes
in
Perosus
leading
of
the
transformed
olde
man
,
and
humbly
there
asking
pardon
of
them
all
for
his
offence
,
telling
them
the
manner●
he
had
found
the
old
man
,
who
was
by
the
meanes
the
Witch
presently
restored
to
his
former
shape
,
and
then
returning
all
backe
to
the
Court
to
certifie
the
King
of
their
seuerall
affaires
.
Bessarian
was
then
againe
restored
to
his
dignity
,
&
Perosus
sauerely
punished
for
hys
offence
,
&
Chinon
and
Cassiopeia
by
the
consent
of
their
frends
,
and
mutuall
loue
of
themselues
,
were
matched
together
in
marriage
.
FINIS
.