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Howe the virgyne was led forth of the Cyte / and bounde to a Pyller to be deuoured of ye dragon. Capitulum. vii.
With suche wordes / the wofull kynge & quene
Laboured to temper / theyr doughters heuynes
And to refrayne / the terys of theyr iyen
They stodyed myrth / in vysage to expres
But wo and pyte / withstode that besynes
For teres and syghes / brake out on euery syde
No outwarde chere / theyr inwarde wo coude hyde.
Laboured to temper / theyr doughters heuynes
And to refrayne / the terys of theyr iyen
They stodyed myrth / in vysage to expres
But wo and pyte / withstode that besynes
For teres and syghes / brake out on euery syde
No outwarde chere / theyr inwarde wo coude hyde.
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Unto the gates / they brought this mayde echone
Whiche to this tyme / were kept fast close and shyt
Than made they all / suche wofull crye and mone
It playnely to wryte / it passyth mannys wyt
Syghes had theyr longes / almoste in sunder kyt
The mayde they halsyd / and kyssyd tenderly
And toke theyr leue: syns was no remedy.
Whiche to this tyme / were kept fast close and shyt
Than made they all / suche wofull crye and mone
It playnely to wryte / it passyth mannys wyt
Syghes had theyr longes / almoste in sunder kyt
The mayde they halsyd / and kyssyd tenderly
And toke theyr leue: syns was no remedy.
At last the gates / anone were cast abrode
The mayde went / forth hyr seruauntes hyr about
The kynge / the quene: and Comons styll abode
Within the wallys / mournynge with wofull shout
This ferefull virgyne / was in this wyse shyt out
Hyr here abrode: in weddynge ornament
Of golde clere glystrynge / for stonys oryent.
The mayde went / forth hyr seruauntes hyr about
The kynge / the quene: and Comons styll abode
Within the wallys / mournynge with wofull shout
This ferefull virgyne / was in this wyse shyt out
Hyr here abrode: in weddynge ornament
Of golde clere glystrynge / for stonys oryent.
The seruauntes than / sad and with wofull mone
Unto a pyller / this mayde with chaynes bounde
Auoyde of confort / hyr leuynge there alone
Lyke to a goddes / there stode she on the grounde
To Helena none / lyker: coude be founde
She mekely abode / hyr ende and deth alway
Amonge the monstres: as dyd Andromade.
Unto a pyller / this mayde with chaynes bounde
Auoyde of confort / hyr leuynge there alone
Lyke to a goddes / there stode she on the grounde
To Helena none / lyker: coude be founde
She mekely abode / hyr ende and deth alway
Amonge the monstres: as dyd Andromade.
Her iyen she tourned / towarde the fyrmament
Drede hyr nat suffred / the monstre to beholde
And quakynge for fere / callyd with hole intent
On all theyr Idollys: of goddes manyfolde
To proue if any: of them hyr socour wolde
Hyr mone was thus: harde to the cyte wall
The wynde was lowde: wherfore they harde nat all.
Drede hyr nat suffred / the monstre to beholde
And quakynge for fere / callyd with hole intent
On all theyr Idollys: of goddes manyfolde
To proue if any: of them hyr socour wolde
Hyr mone was thus: harde to the cyte wall
The wynde was lowde: wherfore they harde nat all.
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