Where Thames doth the Medway wedd,

and feasts the Sea-gods all.

Bvt ah for pittie that I haue thus long i

Left a fayre Ladie languishing in payne:

Now well away[198], that I haue doen such wrong,

To let faire Florimell in bands remayne,

In bands of loue, and in sad thraldomes chayne;

From which vnlesse some heauenly powre her free

By miracle, not yet appearing playne,

She lenger yet is like captiu’d to bee: