And stopt the bleeding straight, ere he it staunched thought.
Then taking vp that Recreants shield and speare, xiii
Which earst he left, he signes vnto them made,
With him to wend vnto his wonning neare:
To which he easily did them perswade.[459]
Farre in the forrest by a hollow glade,
Couered with mossie shrubs, which spredding brode
Did vnderneath them make a gloomy[460] shade;
Where[461] foot of liuing creature neuer trode,
Ne scarse wyld beasts durst come, there was this wights abode.