VI.
“All times have shown that man has still pursued
“With hate, in every clime, his natural foe;
“But to deal death to those who seek our good
“Does from too ill and foul a nature flow.
“Now, that the truth be better understood,
“I shall from first to last the occasion show,
“Why in my tender years, against all right,
“Those caitiffs would have done me foul despite.
VII.
“’Tis fitting you should know, that in the spring
“Of life, I to the palace made resort;
“There served long time the daughter of the king,
“And grew with her in growth, well placed in court.
“When cruel love, my fortune envying,
“Willed I should be his follower and his sport;
“And made, beyond each Scottish lord and knight,
“Albany’s duke find favour in my sight.
VIII.
“And for he seemed to cherish me above
“All mean; his love a love as ardent bred.
“We hear, indeed, and see, but do not prove
“Man’s faith, nor is his bosom’s purpose read.
“Believing still, and yielding to my love,
“I ceased not till I took him to my bed;
“Nor, of all chambers, in that evil hour,
“Marked I was in Geneura’s priviest bower.
