Who will not mercie vnto others shew, xlii
How can he mercy euer hope to haue?
To pay each with his owne is right and dew.
Yet since[414] ye mercie now doe need to craue,
I will it graunt, your hopelesse life to saue;
With these conditions, which I will propound:
First, that ye better shall your selfe behaue
Vnto all errant knights, whereso on ground;
Next that ye Ladies ayde in euery stead and stound.
The wretched man, that all this while did dwell xliii