With a faire Mayden clad in mourning weed,

Vpon a mangy iade vnmeetely set,

And a lewd foole her leading thorough dry and wet.

But by what meanes that shame to her befell, xvii

And how thereof her selfe she did acquite,

I must a while forbeare to you to tell;

Till that, as comes by course, I doe recite,

What fortune to the Briton Prince did lite,

Pursuing that proud Knight, the which whileare

Wrought to Sir Calidore[492] so foule despight;