r died clear from criminal blemish")

7 That clear she died from blemish criminal;
8 Your little hands imbrued in bleeding breast

imbrued > steeped; stained, defiled

9 Lo I for pledges leave. So give me leave to rest."

201.38

With that a deadly shrieke she forth did throw,
2 That through the wood reecchoed againe,
And after gaue a grone so deepe and low,
4 That seemd her tender heart was rent in twaine,
Or thrild with point of thorough piercing paine;
6 As gentle Hynd, whose sides with cruell steele
Through +launched+, forth her bleeding life does raine,
8 Whiles the sad pang approching she does feele,
Brayes out her latest breath, and vp her eyes doth seele.

7 launched > launced _1609_

1 With that a deadly shriek she forth did throw,
2 That through the wood re-echoed again,
3 And after gave a groan so deep and low
4 That seemed her tender heart was rent in twain,

That > [That it]
rent > torn
twain > two

5 Or thrilled with point of through-piercing pain;

thrilled > pierced

6 As gentle hind, whose sides with cruel steel
7 Through lanced, forth her bleeding life does rain,
8 While the sad pang approaching she does feel,

sad > heavy; solemn; dismal; grievous

9 Brays out her latest breath, and up her eyes does seel.

Brays > Cries
latest > last
seel > close

201.39

Which when that warriour heard, dismounting straict
2 From his tall steed, he rusht into the thicke,
And soone arriued, where that sad pourtraict
4 Of death and +dolour+ lay, halfe dead, halfe quicke,
In whose white alabaster brest did sticke
6 A cruell knife, that made a griesly wound,
From which forth gusht a streme of gorebloud thick,
8 That all her goodly garments staind around,
And into a deep sanguine dide the grassie ground.

4 dolour > labour _1596, 1609_

1 Which when that warrior heard, dismounting straight

straight > straightway, immediately; _hence, perhaps:_ intemperately

2 From his tall steed, he rushed into the thick,

the thick > the thicket, the copse, _with perhaps a sly connotation
of:_ the thick of it

3 And soon arrived where that sad portrait
4 Of death and dolour lay, half dead, half quick,

dolour > pain; anguish (see Textual Appendix; I have chosen 1590 as
the more obvious reading, though "labour" more graphically
describes Amavia's suffering and may also refer to her labour in
b