“I think of what is gone, and remember your companions, who are dead. Never was lady of my peerage, however fair and good and gracious, ever loved by four such valiant gentlemen, nor ever lost them in one single day. Save you—who were so maimed and in such peril—all are gone. Therefore I call to mind those who loved me so dearly, and am the saddest lady beneath the sun. To remember these things, of you four I shall make a Lay, and will call it the Lay of the Four Sorrows.”
In this line, the author gives fair. Good and gracious almost an existence besides being a word. She names all of them the Four Sorrows which makes the reader feel a little glum. Also referring to herself as the saddest lady pretty much ever really drives how devastated she is. She is using simile to be more dramatic She could have said, "I am very sad" but instead the author chose to use this wording as it is way more creative and captures the reader attention more.