But to the highest and the worthiest

Lifteth it vp, that else would lowly fall:

It lets not fall, it lets it not to rest:

It lets not scarse this Prince to breath[962] at all,

But to his first poursuit him forward still doth call.

Who long time wandred through the forrest wyde, iii

To finde some issue thence, till that at last[963]

He met a Dwarfe, that seemed terrifyde

With some late perill, which he hardly past,

Or other accident, which him aghast;