From his tall steed, he rusht into the thicke,

And soone arriued, where that sad pourtraict

Of death and dolour[468] lay, halfe dead, halfe quicke,

In whose white alabaster brest did sticke

A cruell knife, that made a griesly wound,

From which forth gusht a streme of gorebloud thick,

That all her goodly garments staind around,

And into a deepe sanguine dide the grassie ground.

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Beside a bubbling fountaine low she lay,