Sorweful

This strem yow ledeth to the sorweful were There as the fish in prysoun is al drye; Th'eschewing is only the remedye!" (Riverside Chaucer, 387:127-40).

Chaucer's Melibee tells his tale "in sorweful wise" (VII.

"Thurgh me men goon," thanne spak that other side, "Unto the mortal strokes of the spere Of which Desdain and Daunger is the gide, That nevere yit shal fruit ne leves bere; This streem you ledeth to the sorweful were Ther as the fissh in prison is al drye: Th'eschewing is only the remedye." (134-40) The first line of the second stanza of Keats's ballad repeats the initial inquiry on which the poem opens, "O what can all thee, Knight at arms," (5) but the next line of the second stanza elaborates on the physical appearance of the knight; "Alone and palely loitering" introduced in stanza one is embellished by "So haggard, and so woe begone" (6).