With better tearmes she did him entertaine,

Which gaue him hope, and did him halfe perswade,

That he in time her ioyaunce should obtaine.

But when she saw, through that small fauours gaine,

That further, then she willing was, he prest,

She found no meanes to barre him, but to faine

A sodaine sickenesse, which her sore opprest,

And made vnfit to serue his lawlesse mindes behest.

By meanes whereof she would not him permit viii

Once to approch to her in priuity,