Through countries waste, and eke well edifyde,
Seeking aduentures hard, to exercise
Their puissance, whylome full dernely tryde:
At length they came into a forrest wyde,
Whose hideous horror and sad trembling sound
Full griesly seem’d: Therein they long did ryde,
Yet tract of liuing creatures[863] none they found,
Saue Beares, Lions, and Buls, which romed them around.
All suddenly out of the thickest brush, xv
Vpon a milk-white Palfrey all alone,