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Cant. V.
Who when she saw Duessa sunny bright,Adornd with gold and iewels shining cleare,She greatly grew amazed at the sight,And th'vnacquainted light began to feare:For neuer did such brightnes there appeare,And would haue backe retyred to her caue,Vntill the witches speach she gan to heare,Saying, yet O thou dreaded Dame, I craueAbyde, till I haue told the message, which I haue.
She stayd, and foorth Duessa gan proceede,O thou most auncient Grandmother of all,More old then Ioue, whom thou at first didst breede,Or that great house of Gods caelestiall,Which wast begot in Dæmogorgons hall,And sawst the secrets of the world vnmade,Why suffredst thou thy Nephewes deare to fallWith Elfin sword, most shamefully betrade?Lo where the stout Sansioy doth sleepe in deadly shade.
And him before, I saw with bitter eyesThe bold Sansfoy shrinck vnderneath his speare;And now the pray of fowles in field he lyes,Nor wayld of friends, nor layd on groning beare,That whylome was to me too dearely deare.O what of Gods then boots it to be borne,If old Aveugles sonnes so cuill heare?Or who shall not great Nightes children scorne,When two of three her Nephews are so fowle forlorne.
Vp then, vp dreary Dame, of darknes Queene,Go gather vp the reliques of thy race,Or else goe them auenge, and let be seene,That dreaded Night in brightest day hath place,
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