If death it be, it is not the first wound,

That launched hath my brest with bleeding smart.

Begin, and end the bitter balefull stound;

If lesse, then that I feare,[247] more fauour I haue found.

Then gan the Dwarfe the whole discourse declare, xxvi

The subtill traines of Archimago old;

The wanton loues of false Fidessa faire,

Bought with the bloud of vanquisht Paynim bold:

The wretched payre transform’d to treen mould;

The house of Pride, and perils round about;