IX. "For els my feeble veffel, craz'd and crackt "Through thy ftrong buffets and outrageous " blowes, "Cannot endure, but needes it must be wrackt "On the rough rocks, or on the fandy fhallowes, "The whiles that Love it fteres, and Fortune "rowes; "Love (my lewd pilott) hath a reftleffe mind, "And fortune (botcfwaine) no affuraunce knowes, But faile withouten ftarres gainst tyde and "winde : "How can they other doe, sith both are bold and "blinde? Her former forrow into fudden wrath XIII. As when a foggy mift hath overcaft The face of heven, and the cleare ayre engroste, XIV. Eftfoones her goodly fhield addreffing fayre, That mortall speare the in her hand did take, And unto battaill did herfelfe prepayre. The knight approaching fternely her befpake; "Sir Knight, that doest that voyage rafhly make "By this forbidden way in my defpight, "Ne docft by others death enfample take, "I read thee foone retyre, whiles thou haft might, "Leaft afterwards it be too late to take thy "flight." XV. Ythrild with deepe difdaine of his proud threat, She shortly thus; " Fly they that need to fly; "Wordes fearen babes; I meane not thee entreat "To paffe; but maugre thee will pass or dy." Ne lenger ftay'd for th' other to reply, But with fharpe fpeare the reft made dearly knowne : Strongly the ftraunge knight ran, and sturdily Strooke her full on the breft, that made her downe Decline her head, and touch her crouper with her crown. XVI. But the againe him in the fhield did smite And through his mayled hauberque, by mischaunce XVII. Like as the facred oxe, that careleffe ftands XVIII. The martiall mayd stayd not him to lament, But forward rode, and kept her ready way Along the ftrond; which, as she over-went, |