The knight himselfe euen trembled at his fall, lv
So huge and horrible a masse it seem’d;
And his deare Ladie, that beheld it all,
Durst not approch for dread, which she misdeem’d,
But yet at last, when as the direfull feend
She saw not stirre, off-shaking vaine affright,
She nigher drew, and saw that ioyous end:
Then God she praysd, and thankt her faithfull knight,
That had atchieu’d so great a conquest by his might.

FOOTNOTES:

[361] i 1 faire] fayre 1590: faire 1596

[362] ii 4 at] it 1590: corr. F. E.

[363] iii om. 1590

[364] 3 be 1596

[365] 4 far, appeare 1596

[366] iv 5 stretcht] stretch 1596

[367] side, 1590, 1596

[368] v 1 his] this 1590 &c.: corr. F. E.

[369] vi 5 asswage; 1609

[370] 6 sound, 1609

[371] 9 scared] feared 1590 &c.: corr. F. E.

[372] viii 7 vaste 1590: wast 1596

[373] ix 4 swerd 1590

[374] x 4 bynd 1596

[375] 5 lynd] kynd 1590

[376] xi 4 slack. 1590: slacke. 1596: slack; 1609

[377] 5 as] all 1590 &c.: corr. F. E.

[378] xii 6 tell, 1590, 1596

[379] xxiii 8 off] of 1590

[380] xxv 1 wroth 1590, 1609

[381] xxvi 6 swinged] singed 1609

[382] xxvii 2 vaunt] daunt 1596, 1609

[383] xxx 5 one] it 1590 &c.: corr. F. E.

[384] xxxiv 8 merueiles 1590

[385] xxxvii 2 yelded] yelled 1609

[386] xxxix 4 sting] string 1596, 1609

[387] 7 string] sting 1596, 1609

[388] 8 in sunder 1609

[389] xl 8 fall, 1590, 1596

[390] xli 4 Nor 1609: For 1590, 1596

[391] 6 strength, 1590, 1596

[392] xliii 1 shield 1590, 1596

[393] xlvi 9 The tree of life, 1590, 1596. But cf. xxix 9

[394] xlviii 7 heale 1596

[395] xlix 6 rowme 1590

[396] li 2 the] her 1596, 1609

[397] 7 spred; 1590 &c.

[398] 8 darke, 1590 &c.

[399] lii 2 woundez 1609