To loose the badge, that should his deedes display.

To whom Sir Burbon, blushing halfe for shame,

That shall I vnto you (quoth he) bewray;

Least ye therefore mote happily me blame,

And deeme it doen of will, that through inforcement came.

True is, that I at first was dubbed knight liii

By a good knight, the knight of the Redcrosse;

Who when he gaue me armes, in field to fight,

Gaue me a shield, in which he did endosse

His deare Redeemers badge vpon the bosse: