Of Faerie knights[°] and fairest Tanaquill,[°]

Whom that most noble Briton Prince[°] so long

Sought through the world, and suffered so much ill,

That I must rue his undeserved wrong:

O helpe thou my weake wit, and sharpen my dull tong.

III

And thou most dreaded impe of highest Jove,[°]

Faire Venus sonne, that with thy cruell dart

At that good knight so cunningly didst rove,