Where she captiued long, great woes did proue;

That where ye left, I may her seeke, as doth behoue.

To whom thus Britomart, Certes[109] Sir knight, xxxv

What is of her become, or whether reft,

I can not vnto you aread a right.

For from that time I from enchaunters theft

Her freed, in which ye her all hopelesse left,

I her preseru’d from perill and from feare,

And euermore from villenie her kept:

Ne euer was there wight to me more deare