Is this the part of
a queene, and daughter to a king ? to Hue like a
bruite bealt (and like a mare that yeeldeth her bodie
to the horfe that hath beaten hir companion awaye,)
to followe the pleafure of an abhominable king that
hath murthered a farre more honefter and better
man then himfelf in maffacring Horuendile, the honor,
and glory of the Danes, who are now efteeraed of no
force nor valour at all, fmce the fhining fplendure
of knighthood was brought to an end by the moft
wickedeft, and cruelleft villaine lining vpon earth : I
for my part will neuer account him for my kinfraan,
nor once knowe him for mine vncle, nor you my
deer mother for not hauing refpeft to the blud that
ought to haue vnited us fo ftraightly together, &
who neither with your honor nor without fufpition
of confent to the death of your hufband could euer



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haue agreed to haue marryed with his cruell ene-
mie : O Queene Geruthe, it is the part of a bitch, to
couple with many, and defire acquaintance of diuers
maftiffes : it is hcentioufnes only that hath made
you deface out of your minde the memory of the
valor & vertues of the good King your hufband and
my father : it was an vnbrideled defire that guided
the daughter of Roderick to imbrace the Tirant
Fengon, & not to remember Horuendile (vnworthy
of fo ftrange intertainment), neither that he killed
his brother traiteroufly, and that Ihee being his fa-
thers wife betrayed him, although he fo well fauoured
and loued her, that for her fake he vtterly bereaved
Norway of her riches and valiant fouldiers, to aug-
ment the treafures of Roderick, and make Geruthe
wife to the hardyeft prince in Europe. 