Who finding litle leasure her to wooe,

On Tromparts steed her mounted without stay,

And without reskew led her quite away.

Proud man himselfe then Braggadocchio deemed,

And next to none, after that happie day,

Being possessed of that spoyle, which seemed

The fairest wight on ground, and most of men esteemed.

But when he saw himselfe free from poursute[1052], xiv

He gan make gentle purpose to his Dame,

With termes of loue and lewdnesse dissolute;