And through the forrest bore her quite away,

With briers and bushes all to rent and scratcht;

Ne care he had, ne pittie of the pray,

Which many a knight had sought so many a day.

He stayed not, but in his armes her bearing

Ran, till he came to th’end of all his way,

Vnto his caue farre from all peoples hearing,

And there he threw her in, nought feeling, ne nought fearing.

For she deare Ladie all the way was dead, ix

Whilest he in armes her bore; but when she felt