Whom (as ye lately mote remember well)

An hard aduenture, which did then befall,

Into redoubted perill forth did call;

That was to succour a distressed Dame,

Whom a strong tyrant did vniustly thrall,

And from the heritage, which she did clame,

Did with strong hand withhold: Grantorto was his name.

Wherefore the Lady, which Irena[245] hight, iv

Did to the Faery Queene her way addresse,

To whom complayning her afflicted plight,