Versos English Edmund Spenser Xxii

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Soone as she parted thence, the fearfull twaine, That blind old woman and her daughter deare,° Came forth, and finding Kirkrapine there slaine, For anguish great they gan to rend their heare, And beat their brests, and naked flesh to teare. And when they both had wept and wayld their fill, Then forth they ran like two amazed deare, Halfe mad through malice, and revenging will, To follow her, that was the causer of their ill.