While on this lawrell fixed was mine eie, The skie gan everie where to overcast, And darkned was the welkin all about, When sudden flash of heavens fire out brast*, And rent this royall tree quite by the roote; Which makes me much and ever to complaine, For no such shadow shalbe had againe.

[* Brast, burst.]

CHAPTER III A KIDNAPPING "And with that sound the castle all to-brast; so she took him, and they two fared forth hand in hand."

His mouth and throat yawned wide; The fire brast [burst] out on ilka