How euer, sure I rew his pitteous plight.

Not one, nor other, (said the Palmer graue)

Hath him befalne, but cloudes of deadly night

A while his heauie eylids couer’d haue,

And all his senses drowned in deepe senselesse waue.

Which, those his cruell[698] foes, that stand hereby, xxv

Making aduantage, to reuenge their spight,

Would him disarme, and treaten shamefully,

Vnworthy vsage of redoubted knight.

But you, faire Sir, whose honorable sight