This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ...To seeke2 her strayed champion if she might attayne. 9. The lyon would not leave her desolate, But with her went along, as a strong gard Of her chast person, and a faythfull mate Of her sad troubles and misfortunes hard: Still when she slept he kept both watch and ward; a And when she wakt he wayted dilligent, With humble service to her will prepard:4 From her fayre eyes he tooke commandement, ' And ever by her lookes conceived her intent. 10. Long she thus traveiled through deserts wyde, By which she thought her wandring knight shold pas, Yet never shew of living wight espyde; Till that at length she found the troden gras, In which the tract of peoples footing was, Under the steepe foot of a mountaine hore: The same she followes, till at last she has A damzel spyde, slow footing her before, That on her shoulders sad 6 a pot of water bore. 1 Brood. Breed; race. 2 To seeke, $c To seeke if she might attayne her strayed champion. Still when she slept, $c Ever while she slept he maintained wakefulness, and kept guard over her. To watch is to abstain from sleep. 4 With humble service, f;. Prepared with humble service to her will; ready with humble subserviency to her will. a Commandement. See p. 40, note 7. 1 Sad. Steady. The word is used in its original sense of set or settled. Hence it came to denote grave or serious, and also heavy or sorrowful. 11. To whom approching she to her gan call, To weet if dwelling place were nigh at hand; But the rude wench her answerd nought at all: She could not heare, nor speake, nor understand; Till seeing by her side the lyon stand, With suddeine feare her pitcher downe she threw, And fled away: for never in that land Face of fayre lady she1 before did vew, And that dredd lyons looke her cast in deadly hew.2...