7 For it is chaste and pure, as purest snow, 8 Nor lets her waves with any filth be dyed, 9 But ever like herself, unstained, has been tried.
tried > shown to be
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From thence it comes, that this babes bloudy hand
2 May not be clensd with water of this well:
Ne certes Sir striue you it to withstand,
4 But let them still be bloudy, as befell,
That they his mothers innocence may tell,
6 As she bequeathd in her last testament;
That as a sacred Symbole it may dwell
8 In her sonnes flesh, to minde reuengement,
And be for all chast Dames an endlesse moniment.
1 "From thence it comes that this babe's bloody hand 2 May not be cleansed with water of this well:
well > spring; spring with supernatural powers
3 Neither certes sir, strive you it to withstand,
certes > assuredly
4 But let them still be bloody, as befell,
still > always befell > [it befell]