To me he lent this rope, to him a rustie knife.

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With which sad instrument of hasty death,

That wofull lover, loathing lenger light,

A wide way made to let forth living breath.

But I more fearfull, or more luckie wight,

Dismayd with that deformed dismall sight,

Fled fast away, halfe dead with dying feare:[°]

Ne yet assur'd of life by you, Sir knight,