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What meane these bloudy vowes, and idle threats,
2 Throwne out from womanish impatient mind?
What heauens? what altars? what enraged heates
4 Here heaped vp with termes of loue vnkind,
My conscience cleare with guilty bands would bind?
6 High God be witnesse, that I guiltlesse ame.
But if your selfe, Sir knight, ye faultie find,
8 Or wrapped be in loues of former Dame,
With crime do not it couer, but disclose the same.

1 "What mean these bloody vows, and idle threats,

idle > empty

2 Thrown out from womanish impatient mind? 3 What heavens? what altars? what enraged heats,

heats > fits of passion; quarrels

4 Here heaped up with terms of love unkind,

terms > words, language unkind > unnatural; unkind

5 My conscience clear with guilty bonds would bind? 6 High God be witness that I guiltless am. 7 But if yourself, sir knight, you faulty find,

faulty > guilty