To short my tale: this Guendoline I tooke:
I was content agaynst my will: what then?
Nor quite for this mine Elstride I forsooke.
For why, I wrought by skyll of cunning men
A Vault along vnder the ground, a denne
Her company wherein I vsed still,[251]
There we accomplisht our vnhappy will.
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There I begat my Sabrine seely childe,
That virgine smale mine Elstride bare to mee: