Whom Calidore a while well hauing vewed, vii

At length bespake; What[420] meanes this, gentle swaine?

Why hath thy hand too bold it selfe embrewed

In blood of knight, the which by thee is slaine,

By thee no knight; which armes impugneth plaine?

Certes (said he) loth were I to haue broken

The law of armes; yet breake it should againe,

Rather then let my selfe of wight be stroken,

So long as these two armes were able to be wroken.

For not I him[421], as this his Ladie here viii