Then breake the vow, that to faire Columbell

I plighted haue, and yet keepe stedfastly:

As for my name, it mistreth not to tell;

Call me the Squyre of Dames, that me beseemeth well.

But that bold knight, whom ye pursuing saw lii

That Geauntesse, is not such, as she seemed,

But a faire virgin, that in martiall law,

And deedes of armes aboue all Dames is[1039] deemed,

And aboue many knights is eke esteemed,

For her great worth; She Palladine is hight: