Where I saw standing the goodly portresse,
Who askéd me from whence I came of late;
To whom I ’gan in every thing express
The various hazards of my chequered fate,
All mine adventure, chaunce, and busynesse,
And eke my name; I told her every dell:[B]
When she heard this she likéd me right well.
The stanza becomes purely Spenserian by the addition of the two lines and one word which I here insert in italics:
Till that I came unto a royal gate,