Which when that warriour heard, dismounting straict
2 From his tall steed, he rusht into the thicke,
And soone arriued, where that sad pourtraict
4 Of death and +dolour+ lay, halfe dead, halfe quicke,
In whose white alabaster brest did sticke
6 A cruell knife, that made a griesly wound,
From which forth gusht a streme of gorebloud thick,
8 That all her goodly garments staind around,
And into a deep sanguine dide the grassie ground.
4 dolour > labour 1596, 1609
1 Which when that warrior heard, dismounting straight
straight > straightway, immediately; hence, perhaps: intemperately
2 From his tall steed, he rushed into the thick,
the thick > the thicket, the copse, with perhaps a sly connotation of: the thick of it
3 And soon arrived where that sad portrait 4 Of death and dolour lay, half dead, half quick,
dolour > pain; anguish (see Textual Appendix; I have chosen 1590 as the more obvious reading, though "labour" more graphically describes Amavia's suffering and may also refer to her labour in bearing the child) quick > alive
5 In whose white alabaster breast did stick 6 A cruel knife, that made a grisly wound,
grisly > horrible, fearsome