"The lyon, lord of everie beast in field,"

Quoth she, "his princely puissance doth abate,
And mightie proud to humble weake does yield,
Forgetfull of the hungry rage, which late
Him prickt, in pittie of my sad estate :-
But he, my lyon, and my noble lord,
How does he find in cruell hart to hate
Her, that him lov'd, and ever most adord

As the god of my life? why hath he me abhord ?"

III. 3. Far from all peoples preace,] Press or crowd. TULD.

And, to augment her painefull penaunce more, Thrise every weeke in ashes shee did sitt,

And next her wrinkled skin rough sackecloth

wore,

And thrise-three times did fast from any bitt: But now for feare her beads she did forgett. Whose needlesse dread for to remove away, Faire Una framed words and count'naunce fitt: Which hardly doen, at length she gan them pray,

That in their cotage small that night she rest her may.

XV.

The day is spent ; and commeth drowsie night,
When every creature shrowded is in sleepe:
Sad Una downe her laies in weary plight,
And at her feete the lyon watch doth keepe:
In stead of rest, she does lament, and weepe,
For the late losse of her deare-loved Knight,
And sighes, and grones, and evermore does
steepe

Her tender brest in bitter teares all night; All night she thinks too long, and often lookes for light.

XVI.

Now when Aldeboran was mounted hye
Above the shinie Cassiopeias chaire,
And all in deadly sleepe did drowned lye,
One knocked at the dore, and in would fare;
He knocked fast, and often curst, and sware,
That ready entraunce was not at his call;
For on his backe a heavy load he bare
Of nightly stelths, and pillage severall,
Which he had got abroad by purchas criminall.

XVII.

He was, to weete, a stout and sturdy thiefe,
Wont to robbe churches of their ornaments,
And poore mens boxes of their due reliefe,
Which given was to them for good intents:
The holy saints of their rich vestiments

He did disrobe, when all men carelesse slept; And spoild the priests of their habiliments; Whiles none the holy things in safety kept, Then he by conning sleights in at the window crept.

XVIII.

And all, that he by right or wrong could find,
Unto this house he brought, and did bestow
Upon the daughter of this woman blind,
Abessa, daughter of Corceca slow,
With whom he whoredome usd that few did
know,

And fed her fatt with feast of offerings,
And plenty, which in all the land did grow;
Ne spared he to give her gold and rings:
And now he to her brought part of his stolen things.

ΧΙΧ.

Thus, long the dore with rage and threats he bett;
Yet of those fearfull women none durst rize,
(The lyon frayed them,) him in to lett;
He would no lenger stay him to advize,
But open breakes the dore in furious wize,
And entring is; when that disdainfull beast,
Encountring fierce, him suddein doth surprize;
And, seizing cruell clawes on trembling brest,
Under his lordly foot him proudly hath supprest.

XVI. 9. —by purchas criminall.] Robberies. UPTON.
XIX. 8. And, seizing] Fixing. CHURCH.

xx. 2. His bleeding hart is in the vengers hand;] i. e. His bleeding heart is in the pawes of the lion, which revenged her cause. UPTON.

XXI. 5.—that long-wandring Grecke,] Ulysses. UPTON.

III.

Great troupes of people traveild thetherward
Both day and night, of each degree and place;
But few returned, having scaped hard,
With balefull beggery, or foule disgrace ;
Which ever after in most wretched case,
Like loathsome lazars, by the hedges lay.
Thether Duessa badd him bend his pace;
For she is wearie of the toilsom way;
And also nigh consumed is the lingring day.

XLII, 7. yron brand,] Sword. Topd. XLIII. 7. will or nill] Nolens volens. Nill, will not; contracted from ne will. UPTON.