To succour wretched wights, whom we captiued see.
By this her Damzels, which the former chace xxxvii
Had vndertaken after her, arriu’d[981],
As did Belphœbe, in the bloudy place,
And thereby deemd the beast had bene depriu’d
Of life, whom late their Ladies arrow ryu’d:
For thy the bloudy tract they follow fast,
And euery one to runne the swiftest stryu’d;
But two of them the rest far ouerpast,
And where their Lady was, arriued at the last.