He pluckt a bough;[°] out of whose rift there came

Small drops of gory bloud, that trickled down the same.

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Therewith a piteous yelling voyce was heard,

Crying, O spare with guilty hands[°] to teare

My tender sides in this rough rynd embard,

But fly, ah fly far hence away, for feare

Least to you hap, that happened to me heare,

And to this wretched Lady, my deare love,