6 Tell then, O lady tell, what fatal proof
proof > experience, trial
7 Has with so huge misfortune you oppressed?
so > such
8 That I may cast to compass your relief,
That > [So that] cast > contrive compass > accomplish
9 Or die with you in sorrow, and partake your grief."
partake > share in (trans.)
201.49
With feeble hands then stretched forth on hye,
2 As heauen accusing guiltie of her death,
And with dry drops congealed in her eye,
4 In these sad words she spent her vtmost breath:
Heare then, {o^} man, the sorrowes that vneath
6 My tongue can tell, so farre all sense they pas:
Loe this dead corpse, that lies here vnderneath,
8 The gentlest knight, that euer on greene gras
Gay steed with spurs did pricke, the good Sir +Mortdant+ was.