And paynd himselfe with busie care to reare

Her out of carelesse swowne. Her eyelids blew

And dimmed sight with pale and deadly hew

At last she up gan lift: with trembling cheare

Her up he tooke, too simple and too trew,

And oft her kist. At length all passed feare,[°]

He set her on her steede, and forward forth did beare.

CANTO III

Forsaken Truth long seekes her love,

and makes the Lyon mylde,