And troubled had their quiet loues delight.
Yet since it was his fortune, not his fault,
Him selfe thereof he labour’d to acquite,
And pardon crau’d for his so rash default[440],
That he gainst courtesie so fowly did default.
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He soone allayd that Knights conceiu’d displeasure,
That he besought him downe by him to sit,
That they mote treat of things abrode at leasure;
And of aduentures, which had in his measure