And read her sorrow in her count'nance sad;

Their frowning forheads with rough hornes yclad,

And rustick horror[°] all a side doe lay;

And gently grenning, show a semblance glad

To comfort her, and feare to put away,

Their backward bent knees[°] teach her humbly to obay.

XII

The doubtfull Damzell dare not yet commit

Her single person to their barbarous truth;[°]