Now gan his bart all swell in iollity, And of himselfe great hope and help conceiv'd, He gan to hope of men to be receiv'd For fuch as he him thought, or faine would bee; T'avenge his parents death on them that had it Eftfoones to court he caft t'advaunce his fir VII. Thereat the fcarcrow wexed wondrous prowd, Through fortune of his first adventure fayre, And with big thundring voice revyld him lowd; "Vile caytive, vaffall of Dread and Defpayre, "Unworthie of the commune breathed ayre, "Why liveft thou, dead dog, a lenger day, "And doeft not unto death thyfelfe prepayre? "Dy, or thyfelfe my captive yield for ay: "Great favour I thee graunt for aunfwere thus "to stay." VIII. "Hold, O deare lord, hold your dead-doing "hand," Then loud he cryde, " I am your humble thrall." "Ah! wretch," quoth he," thy deftinies with" ftand "My wrathfull will, and doe for mercy call. "I give thee life; therefore proftrated fall, "And kiffe my stirrup: that thy homage bee." The mifer threw himfelfe as an offall, Streight at his foot in bafe humilitee, And cleeped him his liege, to hold of him in fee. IX. So happy peace they made and faire accord. And blow the bellowes to his fwelling vanity. X. Trompart, fitt man for Braggadochio In his light winges, is lifted up to fkye; XI. So forth they pas, a well conforted payre, XII. And coming close to Trompart, gan inquere Of him, what mightie warriour that mote bee, That rode in golden cell with single spere, But wanted (word to wreake his enmitee? "He is a great adventurer," faid he, "That hath his sword through hard affay forgone, And now hath vowd, till he avenged bee "Certes, my lord," said he, " that fhall I foone, "And give you eke good helpe to their decay; "But mote I wifely you advife to doon, "Give no ods to your foes, but doe purvay "Yourfelfe of fword before that bloody day; "For they be two the proweft knights on grownd, "And oft approv'd in many hard affay; "And eke of fureft fteele, that may be fownd, "Doe arme yourselfe against that day, them to "confownd." "Perdy, Sir knight," faide then th' enchaunter Till that they come unto a forrest greene, In which they fhrowd themselves from caufeleffe feare; Yet feare them followes ftill, where so they beene: Each trembling leafe and whistling wind they heare, As ghaftly bug, does greatly them affeare; Yet both doe frive their fearefulneffe to faine. For with dred maieftie and awfull yre, XXIV. Her yvorie forhead, full of bounty brave, XXV. Upon her eyelids many Graces fate, XXVI. So faire, and thoufand thousand times more faire, And made the forreft ring, as it would rive in With golden aygulets that gliftered bright, twaine. Like twinckling starres, and all the skirt about "Perdy," faid Trompart, " let her pas at will, "Leaft by her prefence daunger more befall; "For who can tell (and fure I feare it ill) "But that fhe is fome powre celestiall? "For whiles the fpake, her great words did appall "My feeble corage, and my heart oppresse, "That yet I quake and tremble over all." "And I," faid Braggadochio," thought no leffe, "When first I heard her horn found with fuch ghaftlineffe. XLV. "For from my mother's wombe this grace I have "Me given by eternall Destiny, "That earthly thing may not my corage brave "Difmay with feare, or cause one foot to flye, "But either hellish feends, or powres on hye; "Which was the cause, when earst that horne 1 "heard, "Weening it had beene thunder in the skye, "I hid my felfe from it, as one affeard, "But when I other knew, my self I boldly reard, XLVI. "But now, for feare of worse that may betide, |