I ment no more to steale it like a thiefe,
But maried Elstride, whom I lou’d as life,
And for her sake I put away my wyfe.
22.
Likewise I caus’d, was Elstride Queene proclaymd,[252]
And tooke her as my lawfull wife by right:
But Guendoline, that sawe her selfe disdaynd,
Strayght fled, and mou’de the Cornish men to fight.
To them when she declarde her piteous plight,
In hast they drest[253] an army, for to be