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www.TaleBooks.comAnd him she told her Dame his freedome did denye.LVII. Yet thus much friendship she to him did show,That his scarse diet somewhat was amended,And his worke lessened, that his love mote grow:Yet to her Dame him still she discommended,That she with him mote be the more offended.Thus he long while in thraldome there remayned,Of both beloved well, but litle frended,Untill his owne true love his freedome gayned:Which in an other Canto will be best contayned.FIFTH_BOOKE|CANTO_VICANTO VITalus brings newes to BritomartOf Artegals mishap:She goes to seeke him, Dolon meetes,Who seekes her to entrap.I. SOME men, I wote, will deeme in ArtegallGreat weaknesse, and report of him much ill,For yeelding so himselfe a wretched thrallTo th' insolent commaund of womens will;That all his former praise doth fowly spill:But he the man, that say or doe so dare,Be well adviz'd that he stand stedfast still;For never yet was wight so well aware,But he, at first or last, was trapt in womens snare.II. Yet in the streightnesse of that captive stateThis gentle knight himselfe so well behaved,That notwithstanding all the subtill baitWith which those Amazons his love still craved,To his owne love his loialtie he saved:Whose character in th' Adamantine mouldOf his true hart so firmely was engraved,That no new loves impression ever couldBereave it thence: such blot his honour blemish should.III. Yet his owne love, the noble Britomart,Scarse so conceived in her jealous thought,What time sad tydings of his balefull smartIn womans bondage Talus to her brought;Brought in untimely houre, ere it was sought:For, after that the utmost date assyndeFor his returne she waited had for nought,She gan to cast in her misdoubtfull myndeA thousand feares, that love-sicke fancies faine to fynde.IV. Sometime she feared least some hard mishapHad him misfalne in his adventurous quest;Sometime least his false foe did him entrapIn traytrous traine, or had unwares opprest;But most she did her troubled mynd molest,Page 545 , Faerie Queene, The - Edmund Spenser