Mongst which the cause of their so cruell heat
He did them aske, who all that passed gan repeat.
And told at large how that same errant Knight, xxxvi
To weet faire Britomart, them late had foyled
In open turney, and by wrongfull fight
Both of their publicke[165] praise had them despoyled,
And also of their priuate loues beguyled,
Of two full hard to read the harder theft.
But she that wrongfull challenge soone assoyled,
And shew’d that she had not that Lady reft,