Oppressed her, and there (as it is told)
Got these three louely babes, that prov’d three champions bold.
Which she with her long fostred in that wood, xlvi
Till that to ripenesse of mans state they grew:
Then shewing forth signes of their fathers blood,
They loued armes, and knighthood did ensew,
Seeking aduentures, where they anie knew.
Which when their mother saw, she gan to dout
Their safetie, least by searching daungers new,
And rash prouoking perils all about,