If good find grace, and righteousnesse reward,
2 Why then is Amoret in caytiue band,
Sith that more bounteous creature neuer far'd
4 On foot, vpon the face of liuing land?
Or if that heauenly iustice may withstand
6 The wrongfull outrage of vnrighteous men,
Why then is Busirane with wicked hand
8 Suffred, these seuen monethes day in secret den
My Lady and my loue so cruelly to pen?
1 "If good find grace, and righteousness reward, 2 Why then is Amoret in caitiff bond,
caitiff bond > [wretched bonds; the bonds of a slave]
3 Since more bounteous creature never fared
more bounteous > [a] more virtuous
4 On foot upon the face of living land? 5 Or if heavenly justice may withstand 6 The wrongful outrage of unrighteous men, 7 Why then is Busirane with wicked hand 8 Suffered, these seven months' day, in secret den
Suffered > Allowed day > space (of time), period
9 My lady and my love so cruelly to pen?
311.11
My Lady and my loue is +cruelly+ pend
2 In dolefull darkenesse from the vew of day,
Whilest deadly torments do her chast brest rend,
4 And the sharpe steele doth riue her hart in tway,
All for she Scudamore will not denay.
6 Yet thou vile man, vile Scudamore art sound,
Ne canst her ayde, ne canst her foe dismay;
8 Vnworthy wretch to tread vpon the ground,
For whom so faire a Lady feeles so sore a wound.