So did this Ladies goodly forme decay,

And into nothing goe, ere one could it bewray.

Which when as all that present were, beheld, xxvi

They stricken were with great astonishment,

And their faint harts with senselesse horrour queld,

To see the thing, that seem’d so excellent,

So stolen from their fancies wonderment;

That what of it became, none vnderstood.

And Braggadochio selfe with dreriment

So daunted was in his despeyring mood,