8 He plucked a bough; out of whose rift there came
rift > fissure
9 Small drops of gory blood, that trickled down the same.
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Therewith a piteous yelling voyce was heard,
2 Crying, O spare with guilty hands to teare
My tender sides in this rough rynd embard,
4 But fly, ah fly far hence away, for feare
Least to you hap, that happened to me heare,
6 And to this wretched Lady, my deare loue,
O too deare loue, loue bought with death too deare.
8 Astond he stood, and vp his haire did houe,
And with that suddein horror could no member moue.
1 Therewith a piteous yelling voice was heard,
Therewith > With that; thereupon
2 Crying, "O spare with guilty hands to tear
guilty > criminal; conscious, cognizant
3 My tender sides, in this rough rind embarred: