And downe mee drencht the Sabrine fish to feede:
Where I abode till now from whence I came,
And there the waters hold as yet my name.[328]
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Lo thus this gelous Queene, in raging sort,
With bloudy hate bereft her husband’s health:
And eke my mother Elstride’s life (God wot)
Which neuer ment to hurt this common wealth.
And mee, Locrinus’ childe, begot by stealth:
Agaynst all reason was it for to kill