For thing of weight, or worke of greater care,

Doe spend my dayes, and bend my carelesse wit

To saluage chace, where I thereon may hit

In all this forrest, and wyld wooddie raine:

Where, as this day I was enraunging[422] it,

I chaunst to meete this knight, who there lyes slaine,

Together with this Ladie, passing on the plaine.

The knight, as ye did see, on horsebacke was, x

And this his Ladie, (that him ill became,)

On her faire feet by his horse side did pas