At the same time, we must recognize that any translation, however good, cannot be accorded the status of the autographic or apographic texts.

To seeke for succour of her and her Peares, / With humble prayers and intreatfull teares […].

glass frog;  glass shrimp;  glass worm

At last he got his breath and answer'd, 'One, / One have I seen—that other, our liege lord, / The dread Pendragon, Britain's king of kings, / Of whom the people talk mysteriously, / He will be there—then were I stricken blind / That minute, I might say that I have seen.'