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HAT think you was by Surety done,

When that the fight had thuswise gone,

To give example? Fear she grasped

By both her ears, while Fear tight clasped

Her enemy, and thus the two,

With others, tried who best could do,

And never yet in combat were,

I trow, beseen an angrier pair,

Nor e’er before in tourney fierce

Such play was made of thrust and tierce.

Hither and thither leapt they then,

Till both sides summoned up their men,

Who towards them hasting came pell mell,

And round about the sword-strokes fell,

As thick and sharp as April hail,

While each doth murderously assail

His neighbour. Ne’er before that hour,

Or since, hath been more deadly stour.

Abhorring lies, I’m bound to say,

That those who ’gainst the castle lay

Their siege, had little of success,

And Love’s fair god, in deep distress,

Seeing his warriors doomed to death

Unto his mother, in a breath,

Sweet-Looks dispatches, with Franchise,

Begging that she, despising ease,

Will haste her straightway to his aid.

But in the meantime have they made