Note 272 — How Qveene Elstride the Concubine and second wife of king Locrinus was miserably drowned by Queene Guendoline, The yeare before Christ, 1064.
Reading edition
Omitted stanza from ed. 1575.
As for my Queene as yet I none possesse, Therefore thou rather maiste voutchsafe to take That place thy selfe, then waite on her I gesse, Whose beautie with thy face no match can make: The Gods denye that I thy heste forsake; I saue thy life, eke God forbid that I Should euer cause so fayre a Ladie die.