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dismounted from
your snow-white, goodly steed,
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and wandered hither to an obscure plot
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accompanied but with a barbarous Moor
:54:08
if foul desire
had not conducted you?
:54:11
And, being intercepted in your sport,
:54:14
great reason that my noble lord
:54:16
be rated for sauciness.
:54:19
I pray you, let us hence,
:54:22
and let her 'joy
her raven-colored love.
:54:24
This valley fits
the purpose passing well.
:54:28
The king my brother
shall have notice of this.
:54:31
Good king, to be so mightily abused!
:54:37
Why have I patience
to endure all this?
:54:41
Yah!
:54:43
Aah!
:54:45
How now, dear sovereign
and our gracious mother!
:54:48
Why doth Your Highness
look so pale and wan?
:54:51
Have I not reason,
think you, to look pale?
:54:55
These two have 'ticed me
hither to this place--
:54:58
a barren, detested vale,
you see it is.
:55:01
And when they showed me
this abhorred pit,
:55:04
they told me here,
at dead time of the night,
:55:08
a thousand fiends,
a thousand hissing snakes,
:55:14
ten thousand swelling toads
:55:17
would make such fearful
and confused cries
:55:20
as any mortal body hearing it
:55:23
should straight fall mad
or else die suddenly.
:55:27
No sooner had they told
this hellish tale
:55:31
then straight they told me
they would bind me here
:55:36
and leave me to
this miserable death.
:55:39
And then...
:55:42
they called me foul adulteress,
:55:45
lascivious Goth,
:55:47
and all the bitterest terms
:55:49
that ever ear
did hear to such effect.
:55:52
And had you not
by wondrous fortune come,
:55:56
this vengeance on me
had they executed.