Through wounds, and strokes, and stubborne handeling,

That death were better, then such agony,

As griefe and furie vnto me did bring;

Of which in me yet stickes the mortall sting,

That during life will neuer be appeasd.

When he thus ended had his sorrowing,

Said Guyon, Squire, sore haue ye beene diseasd;

But all your hurts may soone through temperance be easd.

Then gan the Palmer thus, Most[573] wretched man, xxxiv

That to affections does the bridle lend;