The rather since[432] that fortune hath this day

Giuen to me the spoile of this dead knight,

These goodly gilden armes, which I haue won in fight.

All which when well Sir Calidore had heard, xxxiv

Him much more now, then earst he gan admire,

For the rare hope which in his yeares appear’d,

And thus replide; Faire[433] chyld, the high desire

To loue of armes, which in you doth aspire,

I may not certes without blame denie;

But rather wish, that some more noble hire,