Streight downe againe her selfe in great despight[476]

She groueling threw to ground, as hating life and light.

The gentle knight her soone with carefull paine xlvi

Vplifted light, and softly did vphold:

Thrise he her reard, and thrise she sunke againe,

Till he his armes about her sides gan fold,

And to her said; Yet if the stony cold

Haue not all seized on your frozen hart,

Let one word fall that may your griefe vnfold,

And tell the secret of your mortall smart;