Definition of "albe"

Why ſhould not that dead carrion ſatisfie / The guilt, which if he liued had thus long, / His life for due reuenge ſhould deare abie ? / The treſpaſſe ſtill doth liue, albe the perſon die.

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie