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Orlando Furioso
by Lodovico Ariosto · August 1, 1996
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1. Of Loves and Ladies, Knights and Arms, I Sing of Courtesies, and Many a Daring Feat;
2. In the Same Strain of Roland Will I Tell
3. Good Seed of Hercules, Give Ear and Deign,
4. And Me, Amid the Worthiest Shalt Thou Hear,
5. Roland, Who Long the Lady of Catay,
6. To Make King Agramant, for Penance, Smite
7. For Here Was Seized His Dame of Peerless Charms,
8. For Bold Orlando and His Cousin, Free
9. Vowing with Her the Warrior to Content,
10. There, Lodged by Charles, That Gentle Bonnibel,
11. With Shield Upon His Arm, in Knightly Wise,
12. This Was That Paladin, Good Aymon's Seed,
13. The Affrighted Damsel Turns Her Palfrey Round,
14. Here Stood the Fierce Ferrau in Grisly Plight,
15. Thither at Speed She Drives, and Evermore
16. Courteous, and Haply Gifted with a Breast
17. Thus, as They Are, on Foot the Warriors Vie
18. After the Two Had Struggled Long to Throw
19. The Peer's Proposal Pleased the Paynim Well.
20. And Now the Warlike Pair at Fault, for They
21. Beside the Water, Where He Stoop'd to Drink,
22. A Bough He Severs From a Neighbouring Tree,
23. Armed at All Points He Was, Except His Head,
24. Bristled the Paynim's Every Hair at View
25. Nor Having Time His Falsehood to Excuse,
26. And This New Vow Discharged More Faithfully
27. For Far the Warrior Fared Not, Ere He Spied,
28. Through Dreary Woods and Dark the Damsel Fled,
29. As a Young Roe or Fawn of Fallow Deer,
30. One Day and Night, and Half the Following Day,
31. Weening Removed the Way by Which She Wends,
32. If Friend or Foe, She Nothing Comprehends,
33. Pensive, Above an Hour, with Drooping Head,
34. If Any Ask Who Made This Sorrowing,
35. He for Her Sake From Orient's Farthest Reign
36. The Warrior in the Field Had Been, and Viewed,
37. While Sacripant Laments Him in This Plight,
38. With Deep Attention, While the Warrior Weeps,
39. But Her From Harm Amid Those Woods to Keep,
40. But Not the More for This the Maid Intends
41. An Apparition Bright and Unforeseen,
42. Not with Such Wonderment a Mother Eyes,
43. He, Full of Fond and Eager Passion, Pressed
44. Her Chances All to Him the Damsel Said,
45. Haply the Tale Was True; Yet Will Not Seem
46. This Said, He for the Soft Assault Prepares,
47. With the Bold Semblance of a Valiant Knight,
48. Him He Defies to Fight, Approaching Nigh,
49. Not Brindled Bulls or Tawny Lions Spring
50. Nor Swerved the Chargers From Their Destined Course;
51. Upright Upon His Steed, the Knight Unknown,
52. As the Bewildered and Astonished Clown
53. He Sighs and Groans, Yet Not for Mischief Sore
54. While She So Seeks the Saracen to Cheer,
55. King Sacripant Made Answer, "as You See,
56. After the Woeful Warrior Long Had Thought
57. Two Miles They Had Not Rode Before They Hear
58. The Bold Circassian Lighted, and Applied
59. Then to the Maid He Goes Submissively,
60. With Her Left Hand She Takes Him by the Bit,
61. Then, as at Hazard, She Directs Her Sight,
62. Mixed with Such Secret Bane the Waters Glide,
63. She Answers Not, and Knows Not in Her Fear
64. Injurious Love, Why Still to Mar Accord
65. Thou to Rinaldo Show'st the Damsel Fair,
66. As Two Fierce Dogs Will Somtimes Stand at Gaze,
67. He, When the King Would Urge Him, Takes the Rest,
68. As Soon as Sacripant, with Well-Timed Leap,
69. When the Fair Damsel Saw, with Timid Eye,
70. So Turned Her Horse Into the Gloomy Chase,
71. Wasted He Was as Much by Fasts as Age,
72. The Lady Prayed That Kindly Friar, That He
73. This Opened, Quick and Mighty Marvel Wrought;
74. You Might Have Seen Those Angry Cavaliers
75. So, Passing Where the Prompt Bayardo Stood,
76. Let It Not, Sir, Sound Strangely in Your Ear
77. For When Angelica, in Random Dread,
78. And, with Desire to Bring Him to the Maid,
79. Now Good Bayardo Had Believed the Tiding
80. At Night Rinaldo Rests His Steed, with Pain
81. He, for He Fears the Afric King's Pursuit,
82. For He Is Bent Again to Try the Fate
83. Rinaldo Never Executed Thing
84. And There, in Scorn of Cautious Pilot's Skill
85. The Watchful Mariners, in Wary Sort,
86. Starboard and Larboard Bears the Fitful Gale,
87. I Speak of That Famed Damsel, by Whose Spear
88. A Cavalier Was Suitor to the Dame,
89. Alone Thenceforth She Sought Her Lover (He
90. Through a Delicious Mead the Fountain-Rill,
91. A Cavalier, Who Underneath the Shade,
92. Urged by the Passion Lodged in Every Breast,
93. The Knight Relapsed Into His First Disease,
94. With Aspect Changing Still, the Beauteous Dame
95. And, After, When She Deemed That All Was Clear,
96. The Knight Replied, "Then Nought to Me Remains
97. So Said, the Cavalier Remounts His Horse,
98. The Courier, Who So Plied His Restless Heel,
99. This Goodly Town, with Many Miles of Plain,
100. Whether or Not She Should the Call Obey,
101. And Did with Such Excuse That Post Appay,
102. For 'Twixt Maganza's and Old Clermont's Line
103. And So the Traitor's Troubled Fancy Rack
104. He, When He Saw Himself Within the Brake,
105. So Said, He Pushed His Courser Up the Height
106. A Void Was at the Bottom, Where a Wide
107. When Her Approach the County's First Intent
108. Who, by Her Lovely Semblance and Rich Vest,
109. The Beauteous Bradamant, Who Was More Bold
110. The Severed End She to the Count Commended,
111. But Not, as Was the Will of Pinabel,
112. Who Will Vouchsafe Me Voice That Shall Ascend
113. Than Whose Fair Line, 'Mid Those by Heavenly Grace
114. But Should I Seek at Full Its Worth to Blaze,
115. Till When, This Chisel May Suffice to Scale
116. The Wily Traitor Thought That Damsel Sweet
117. Leave We Sometime the Wretch Who, While He Layed
118. For the First Cavern in a Second Ended,
119. Touched with the Sanctifying Thoughts Which Wait
120. The Daughter of Duke Aymon Stood Aghast,
121. And Full of Joy the Adventure Strange Pursues,
122. Whether It Be the Native Operation
123. Scarcely Had Bradamant Above the Sill
124. Here Merlin Ceased, That for the Solemn Feat
125. This Done, Into the Church She Called the Maid,
126. So with the Lady's Leave the Volume Closed,
127. All Night the Maid Reposes in the Cave,
128. They Gain a Hidden Glen, Which Heights Inclose,
129. Of These the Greater Portion Served to Guide
130. Discoursing Thus, They Came Upon the Sea
131. The Maid Brunello Knows as Soon as Found
132. Oft Glances at His Resless Hand, in Fear
133. Though an Ill Mind Appear in Simulation,
134. If After Painful Proof We Scarcely Find
135. She Feigns as Well with That Deceitful Scout;
136. And Sees the Host and All His Family,
137. Broad Were His Pinions, and of Various Hue;
138. The Watchful Maid Attends to Every Thing,
139. What Useful Was to Say, She Said, and What
140. From Wood to Wood, From Mount to Mountain Hoar,
141. A Rock From That Deep Valley's Centre Springs;
142. Scarped Smooth Upon Four Parts, the Mountain Bare
143. But Deems It Foul, with Blood of Man to Stain
144. Neither by Tears, Nor Groans, Nor Sound of Woe,
145. Not Long Within His Gate the Enchanter Stayed,
146. On His Left Arm Alone His Shield He Took,
147. No Empty Fiction Wrought by Magic Lore,
148. Drawn by Enchantment From His Distant Lair,
149. This Truth by Him with Fictions Was Combined,
150. When She Sometime Had Fought Upon Her Horse,
151. The Shield Might Have Been Shown at First, Nor He
152. To Cat and Mouse, in Battles Fought Before,
153. Not That the Shining Metal Could Offend,
154. Already Cased Again, the Shield Was Hung,
155. And Ran to Bind Her with a Chain, Which He,
156. Intending to Behead the Fallen Foe,
157. Round by the Conqueror with the Chain He Bore,
158. Then From the Lady's Toils the Wizard Clears
159. There Is Gradasso, There Is Sacripant,
160. As Her He Prized Before His Eyes, His Heart,
161. Now That the Stripling Sees Her Here, and Knows
162. To Take Him by the Rein the Lady There
163. Gradasso, Sacripant, Rogero, Who
164. This Was Atlantes the Enchanter's Deed,
165. Now the Bold Youth From His Frontino Flings
166. When Her Rogero the Fair Dame Discerned,
167. She on Rogero Looks with Stedfast Eyes
168. And Lest the Courser Should Become the Prey
169. After the Hippogryph Has Won Such Height,
170. Day After Day the Good Rinaldo Fares,
171. Through This Roves Many a Famous Cavalier,
172. And Other Worthies of the Table Round;
173. Without a Guide or Company He Went
174. The Monks and Abbot to Mount Alban's Peer
175. They Answered, in Those Woods He Might Be Sure
176. Rinaldo Mused Awhile, and Then Replied,
177. When the New Dawn, with Streaks of Red and White,
178. Seeking Their Way to Shorten as They Wound,
179. But Woe Begone and Weeping Was the Maid
180. The Ruffians Turn Their Backs and Take to Flight
181. And as the Lady Nearer He Surveyed,
182. Among All Other Animals Who Prey
183. What Fury, What Abominable Pest
184. Not Simply a Rank Sinner, He Appears
185. Such, and No Other Were Those Ruffians Two,
186. Above All Other Fortune, to the Knight
187. And for St. Andrew's Town, with Eager Speed,
188. That Thither Had Repaired a Stranger Knight,
189. Beyond the City, Fought Upon Accord,
190. And Will That She (He Will Not Long Delay
191. Six Knights on Foot Within the Palisade
192. Rinaldo Pierces Through the Parted Swarm,
193. So Moved the King the Grave Authority
194. Next That He There in Arms Would Testify
195. Him, Through His Breast, Impaled Upon the Spear,
196. He Brings Not His Confession to a Close,
197. And When, Through His Uplifted Casque Displaid,
198. Him the Good King Entreated to Declare
199. Wretched That Evil Man Who Lives in Trust
200. The Unhappy Polinesso Hopes Had Nursed,
201. And Forfeited Estate, and Life, and Love
202. Ariodantes, Whom with Tearful Eye
203. But, as It Oft Befalls Despairing Wight,
204. And, Now Despising, as of Folly Bred,
205. At First He Heard That, Through Excess of Woe,
206. Nor for His Brother Felt Less Enmity
207. And That Who Well the Youthful Champion Knew,
208. He, Having This Concluded in His Thought,
209. And Yielding to His Natural Inclination,
210. Rinaldo for Dalinda Mercy Won;
211. Although Rogero Is of Constant Mind,
212. That Hippogryph, Huge Fowl, and Strange to Sight,
213. When the Huge Bird His Pinions Long Had Plied,
214. A More Delightful Place, Wherever Hurled
215. Small Thickets, with the Scented Laurel Gay,
216. Amid Red Roses and White Lilies There,
217. When the Hyppogryph Above the Island Hung,
218. And There, Close-By Where Rose a Bubbling Fount,
219. And, Now, to Bathe His Burning Lips He Strains;
220. Meanwhile the Courser by the Myrtle's Side,
221. As in a Stick to Feed the Chimney Rent,
222. And Hence a Clear, Intelligible Speech
223. At the First Sound, Rogero Turns to See
224. Next Drops Were Seen to Stand Upon the Bark,
225. The Good Rogero, Who From Fame Had Learned
226. As Best He Could, He Strove to Soothe His Pain;
227. The Courser From the Myrtle He Untied,
228. He to Remount the Steed, and Through the Air
229. A Lofty Wall at Distance Meets His Eye
230. When He Was Nigh the City-Walls, So Bright,
231. Was Never Yet Beheld a Stranger Band,
232. This Gallops on a Horse Without a Bit;
233. The Captain of This Crew, Which Blocked the Road,
234. One, with a Human Shape and Feet, His Crest,
235. That Monster Would Have Smote Him with a Spear,
236. One to the Teeth, Another to the Breast,
237. If He Had Thought the Magic Shield to Show,
238. On Unicorn Was Seated Either Fair,
239. Into the Mead Rode This and the Other Dame,
240. Above, a Cornice Round the Gateway Goes,
241. Upon the Sill and Through the Columns There,
242. For So with Reason I This Place May Call,
243. Here, Where with Jovial and Unclouded Brow,
244. Above the Laurel and Pine-Tree's Height,
245. To Good Rogero Here Was Brought a Steed,
246. That Kindly Pair Who, by the Wicked Band
247. Their Grateful Thanks the Ladies, Worthily
248. The Traveller, He, Whom Sea or Mountain Sunder
249. But This Be Great or Small, I Know Not Why
250. Of Finest Metal Was Her Armour Bright,
251. No Larger Wolf, I Ween, Apulia Roams;
252. The Giantess's Crest and Shield Appear,
253. As Quick and Daring, the Gigantic Pest
254. And Came Already with His Lifted Blade,
255. Along the Path, Which Through a Forest Lay,
256. To Meet the Child, Alcina, Fair of Hue,
257. Not So Much Does the Palace, Fair to See,
258. Her Shape Is of Such Perfect Symmetry,
259. Two Black and Slender Arches Rise Above
260. As if Between Two Vales, Which Softly Curl,
261. Like Milk the Bosom, and the Neck of Snow;
262. To All Her Arms a Just Proportion Bear,
263. A Springe Is Planted in Rogero's Way,
264. The Beauteous Lady Whom He Loved So Well
265. At Board Lyre, Lute and Harp of Tuneful String,
266. What Table, Spread by Whatsoever Heir
267. They Form a Ring, the Board and Festive Cheer
268. Soon, and Much Sooner Than Their Wont, Was Ended
269. And When of Comfits and of Cordial Wine
270. At Every Movement Heard on Distant Floor,
271. At Length, When Dropping Sweets the Costly Fay
272. When the Successor of Astolpho Spies
273. Though but in a Light Sendal Clad, That She
274. The Plant No Closer Does the Ivy Clip,
275. These Things Were Carried Closely by the Dame
276. No Pleasure Is Omitted There; Since They
277. Now by Glad Hill, or Through the Shady Dale,
278. Rogero Revels There, in Like Delight,
279. Of Her I Speak Before the Royal Pair,
280. Of Hundreds Questioned, Upon Every Side,
281. She Cannot, Will Not, Think That He Is Dead;
282. At Length to Find the Wondrous Cave She Thought,
283. She Who Preserved Her with Protecting Care,
284. Him on That Courser Plainly She Had Eyed,
285. And Thus Such Gentle Knight Ingloriously
286. But That Enchantress Kind, Who with More Care
287. She, Not Like Old Atlantes, Rendered Blind
288. By Him He to Alcina's Isle Had Been
289. Returning Now to Her That Well Foreknew
290. Nigh Dead the Maid Remains, in Piteous Guise,
291. And Told to Her, the Tale Continuing,
292. Giving the Ring, Her Cause She Recommends
293. Some Farfarello, or Alchino He,
294. Herself She Changed with Wonderful Disguise,
295. To Imitate His Speech, and Face, and Cheer,
296. Alone She Finds Him, Fitting Well Her Will,
297. About the Stripling's Neck, a Splendid String
298. Crisped Into Comely Ringlets Was His Hair,
299. Him in the Figure of Atlantes Sage
300. Abashed and Mute, Rogero, Listening,
301. So Speaking, to the Natural Shape She Wore
302. Dispatched by Her, Who Him in Anxious Pain
303. How Bradamant Had Loved, and Loves, She Says,
304. Brings Hate on That Which He So Loved Before;
305. Like Boy Who Somewhere His Ripe Fruit Bestows,
306. Rogero Thus, When by Melissa's Lore
307. Pale, Lean, and Wrinkled Was the Face, and White,
308. By Art She Gave Herself the Lovely Look,
309. But, as Melissa Counselled Him, He Wore
310. Next Balisarda to His Flank He Tied
311. Provided Thus, He to the Stables Came,
312. Nor, if He Took Him Not, Would He Suggest
313. Assaulting Suddenly the Guardian Crew,
314. Who with Angelica's, or Rather Who
315. Rogero, Still Dissembling, as I Said,
316. He on His Fist a Ravening Falcon Bore,
317. Towards Him Came the Knave, with Semblance Haught,
318. Then Flies His Bird, Who Works So Well His Wing,
319. Nor Will the Falconer's Dog Appear More Slow;
320. The Servant Made at Him, and Smote Him Sore;
321. Constrained at Length, His Sword Rogero Drew
322. He Knew Each Little That He Longer Stayed,
323. He Raised the Crimson Cloth in Which He Wore
324. In the Mean Time, Alcina, Who Had Heard
325. Divided Next, One Squadron by the Way
326. Without a Guard She Left Her Palace There,
327. Thence, Through the Fields, Fast Hurrying From That Dome,
328. They to Their Several Homes Dispatched, Repair,
329. Thus by Rogero's Suit the Enchantress Won,
330. The Sage Melissa Found This Spear of Gold,
331. Meantime, Through Rugged Rocks, and Shagged with Thorn,
332. The Sunbeams on the Neighbouring Mountain Beat
333. The Heat and Thirst and Labour Which He Bore
334. By King, by Daughter, and by All Degrees,
335. The King Made Answer, That `Without Delay,
336. So Sent Through All His Realm, with Expedition,
337. The Wind Sat in the Poop; Rinaldo Good
338. The Emperor Charles, and He, King Otho Grave,
339. The Prince I Speak of, Who on Otho's Throne
340. But Here, Sir, It Behoves Me Shift My Ground,
341. His Heart with Love of That Rare Beauty Glowed,
342. And for the Flying Maid Was Far Before,
343. And as Sagacious Dog on Mountain Tried
344. What Was the Friar's Design I Well Surmise;
345. After the Flying Maid Had Shaped Her Course
346. She Cannot, Howsoe'er the Rein She Ply,
347. Landward in Vain Her Eyes the Damsel Bright
348. She, Fixed and Stupid in Her Wretchedness,
349. From the Extremest Height the Hermit Hoar
350. When Him, Yet Unagnized, She Saw Appear,
351. To Comfort Her, Some Reasons Full of Grace,
352. A Pocket at the Ancient's Side Was Dight,
353. It Here Behoves Me, From the Path I Pressed,
354. Old Stories, Speak They Falsely or Aright,
355. This Was Sore Torment to the Sire, Severe
356. Sea-Proteus to His Flocks' Wide Charge Preferred
357. And Girding Them on Every Side, the Rout
358. And This It Was the Cruel Usage Bred;
359. Were the Old Tale of Proteus' False or True,
360. With Frigate and with Galley Wont to Roam,
361. Keeping That Region Close Aboard, to Explore
362. The Beauty, by Circassian Sacripant
363. Oppressed with Heavy Sleep Upon the Shore,
364. But Such Her Matchless Beauty's Power, the Maid
365. Who Shall Relate the Anguish, the Lament
366. To Find a Verse of Less Lugubrious Strain,
367. This While Round Paris-Walls the Leaguer Lay
368. To the Just Plaint of Aged Charlemagne
369. All Night Long Counsel of His Weary Bed,
370. To Memory Now Returned His Lady Gay,
371. This in Orlando Moved Great Grief, and He
372. Already Every Where, with Due Repose,
373. To Good Orlando It Appeared as He,
374. He with the Fullest Pleasure Overflows,
375. Meanwhile the Unhappy Lover Lost the Dame
376. Not Thinking That Like Images Are Vain,
377. And to Pass Every Where, Yet Not Expose
378. At Midnight He Departed Silently,
379. To Him This Was a Lady Passing Dear,
380. She When She Has Expected Him in Vain
381. Who Having Old Almontes' Blazonry
382. What Cannot, When He Has a Heart Possess'd
383. But I Excuse Him Well, Rejoiced to Know
384. So Generous Is Orlando's Heart, He Base
385. And When the Day Its Shining Light Displayed,
386. He Sojourns There Three Days, the Camp to See;
387. Between October and November's Moon,
388. As (Such His Wont) From Land to Land He Goes,
389. The Paladin This Bank and the Other Eyed,
390. Steered Not to Land; as Haply with Suspicion
391. To Hear the Whole Orlando Scarce Could Bear,
392. Breaking His Every Scheme, This Phantasy
393. Breac and Landriglier Past on the Left Hand,
394. A Distance Traversed in Four Days, in One
395. As Soon as Harboured There in Shattered Plight,
396. And Prays Him, on a Damsel's Part, `That He
397. For Hitherto, by Land or Sea Conveyed,
398. With Him Did Roland to the City Go,
399. Here Her Discourse, Wherewith Were Interposed
400. Through the Still Deeps, on This or the Other Side,
401. Armed at All Points, the County Passed Ashore,
402. Orlando Fares to Dordrecht, Where He Views
403. One, Good Orlando to the Monarch's Ear
404. He Hopes as Well, if He the Warrior Slay,
405. He All This While Had Made His Guard Delay
406. As Wary Fowler, Bent on Greater Prey,
407. Where He Perceives the Assailants Thickest Stand,
408. No Otherwise, Upon the Further Shore
409. The Lance Now Broke, His Sword the Warrior Drew,
410. And with Loud Voice and Menacing Command
411. The Monarch Turns His Back, and Leaves the Knight
412. From Street to Street, Before the Count He Made;
413. Who Rends the Branch and Overthrows the Stone;
414. Behind, the Weapon Flames in Lightning's Guise,
415. Whether It Was His Great Desire to Kill
416. Let Him Imagine, When From Earth He Sprung,
417. And, What Before He Could Not, When Possest
418. In Rout the People Fly, Who Cannot Guess
419. They Would Not Wait to Seek the Dungeon-Key,
420. She Who Had Thither Good Orlando Brought,
421. The People, Throned in Her Paternal Reign,
422. Not with Intent, in His Defence to Bear
423. And Thus, When of the Tidesway He Was Clear,
424. Such Was the Paladin's Desire to Explore
425. Nor He in England Nor in Ireland Port
426. Sumptuous and Fair the Bridal There Is Made;
427. Of All the Loves, of All Fidelity
428. And This She by So Many Proofs and Clear,
429. Not Only Should He Nevermore Deceive
430. If Her Bireno Loved, as She Had Loved
431. And When You Shall Have Heard the Impiety,
432. The Promises and Empty Vows Dispersed
433. Of Those in the First Flower of Youth Beware,
434. Such Is the Practise of These Striplings Who,
435. I Not for This (for That Were Wrong) Opine
436. A Daughter They Have Found (Above Was Said)
437. The Gentle Damsel Had Not Past Fourteen,
438. Than That Which on Bireno's Bosom Fed,
439. Nor Feels Bireno Mere Satiety;
440. And if the Other He Too Much Caress,
441. Already Holland and Its Headlands All
442. As Soon as They Were Harboured in a Hight,
443. The Fear and Late Sea Sorrow, Which Had Weighed
444. The Lover False, Who, Hatching Treason Lies,
445. Behind the Land Was Left; and There to Pine
446. And Seaward Ran, Her Visage Tearing Sore,
447. On the Far Shore There Rose a Rock; Below
448. Where Unavailing Was the Feeble Note,
449. But the Loud Wind Which, Sweeping Ocean, Bears
450. Stretched on the Bed, Upon Her Face She Lay,
451. She to the Shore's Extremest Verge Anew,
452. But Let Her Grieve Till My Return. to Show
453. While to the Warrior Thirst and Labour Sore,
454. Reclined on Alexandrian Carpets Rare
455. To Hold the Stirrup One Approaching Near,
456. Now So Saltpetre Fine and Sulphur Pure,
457. As Loud as She Could Raise Her Voice, She Said,
458. Beside All These and More Injurious Cries,
459. On Him with Threat and Curse She Ever Cried;
460. The Ferryman Put Forth the Child to Meet,
461. He Praised Rogero Much, That He Had Fled
462. When He Beholds Forth-Issuing From the Strand,
463. Such Choler She Had Never Felt Before
464. Thus Logistilla's Pilot; and Beside,
465. One Who Stood Sentry on the Citadel
466. Four Ladies Are Arrived Upon the Strand,
467. Beneath the Castle, Safe From Wind and Swell,
468. Alcina Flies; and Her Sad Troop Around
469. No Fairy Dies, or Can, While Overhead
470. Return We, Where Eternal Fame Is Due,
471. Than This a Stronger or More Bright in Show
472. What Gives to Them Superiority
473. Their Rays, Which Imitate the Sunshine, Fill
474. On Arches Raised, Whereon the Firmament
475. Never in Any Place Such Goodly Tree
476. But Here the Verdure Still Is Permanent,
477. That Such a Gentle Lord Had Sought Her Rest,
478. When They a Day or More Their Weariness
479. She Shows Him What to Do, if He on High
480. When at All Points Rogero Was Prepared,
481. Rogero Thence Departs; but as Before
482. Borne Hither, Good Rogero, Leaving Spain,
483. Here the Catay, and There He Mangiane,
484. Although the Child by Every Wish Was Pressed
485. Yet Think Not, Sir, That in So Long a Flight,
486. Where He in Meadows to the City Nigh
487. Rogero Came Exactly as the Show
488. And Added, Having Ended This Display
489. What Time Rogero Sees the Fair Array,
490. So That to Raise More Wonder in the Train.
491. And Saw Fabulous Hibernia, Where
492. Bound to the Naked Rock Upon the Strand,
493. There but That Morning Bound in Cruel Wise;
494. The Cruel and Inhospitable Crew
495. Her Would Rogero Have Some Statue Deemed
496. And as He Fastened His on Her Fair Eyes,
497. And Gladly with Her Hands Her Face Would Hood,
498. Rogero Overhand, Not in the Rest
499. When He Perceives the First of No Avail,
500. As Eagle, That Amid Her Downward Flight,
501. So the Fell Orc Rogero Does Not Smite
502. With Suchlike Warfare Is the Mastiff Vext
503. With His Huge Tail the Troubled Waves So Sore
504. He Then New Counsel Took, and 'Twas the Best,
505. I Say the Ring, Which Bradamant, to Free
506. He Gave It Now Angelica; for He
507. He in the Monster's Eyes the Radiance Throws,
508. This While the Lady Begs Him Not to Bray
509. Upon the Beach the Courser Plants His Feet,
510. He Kept No More the Way, as He Before
511. Now Here, Now There, Confused by Different Throng,
512. Although a Feeble Rein, in Mid Career,
513. What Reason Then Rogero Shall Withhold
514. Warmed by Whose Youthful Beauties, the Severe
515. This Is the Ring She Carried Into France,
516. With This Passed Viewless From the Turret-Cell,
517. Now That She This Upon Her Hand Surveys,
518. Yet Still Rogero Gazed Like Wight Distraught,
519. So Saying, Like One Blind, with Bootless Care,
520. And About Evening, When Refreshed with Rest
521. Then Phillis' and Neaera's Praise Forbear,
522. This While Rogero, After He Had Passed
523. To His First Ill Addition Grave and Sore
524. Afflicted Beyond Measure, He, with Shield
525. He Heard a Din, and Fearful Clashing Sound
526. Covered with Shield and Sword, One, Leaping, Sped
527. Yet Not for This Would Lend the Champion Aid,
528. Of His Sweet Lady, of His Passing Fair,
529. And on His Shoulder Flings and Bears Away;
530. This Flying and That Following, the Two
531. More Than a Hundred Fathom Buried So,
532. To Italy and France, on Every Hand
533. This Saker, Culverine, or Falcon Hight,
534. How, Foul and Pestilent Discovery,
535. And I Shall Think, in Order to Pursue
536. It Was the Will of Heaven That He, Before
537. Home to His Breast the Count Pulls Either Oar,
538. Approaching to the Naked Rock as Near
539. Because She Distant Is, and Evermore
540. As Cloud From Humid Vale Is Seen to Rise,
541. He, as One Well Resolved in His Intent,
542. As Soon as Him the Monster Has Descried,
543. The Prop So Placed, Orlando Now Secure
544. Now Floats the Monstrous Beast, O'Ercome with Pain,
545. So Swimming Till the Island Is Attained,
546. As a Wild Bull, About Whose Horn Is Wound
547. This the Red Sea with Reason Would Be Hight
548. Forth From His Grotto Aged Proteus Hies,
549. With Melicerta on Her Shoulders, Weeping
550. Of the Islanders Had Trooped No Petty Throng,
551. And That It Better Were to Sue for Peace,
552. These, Armed with Sling or Bow, Upon the Shore,
553. But as the Usage Is of Surly Bear,
554. And Speedily He Made Them Yield Him Place,
555. What by Orlando Others Cannot Do,
556. While So the Paladin Had Kept in Play
557. Little or No Defender the Island-Crew
558. As if the Mighty Tumult Which He Hears,
559. Wretched Olympia; Whom, Beside the Scorn
560. Orlando Asks What Evil Destiny
561. Next She Related, with Loud Sobs and Sighs,
562. For, as She Can, Her Waist She Hides, and Breast,
563. And, Swimming, How, Amid the Watery Roar,
564. Oberto, Though the Paladin to Sight
565. Knew Him, Because a Page of Honour He
566. Orlando Is No Less Rejoined to See
567. To Him He Told the Many Proofs and Clear
568. Her Face Was Such as Sometimes in the Spring
569. The Stripling Heats His Golden Arrow's Head
570. Olympia's Beauties Are of Those Most Rare,
571. In Whiteness They Surpassed Unsullied Snow,
572. The Swelling Hips and Haunches' Symmetry,
573. And Had She in the Idaean Glen Unveiled
574. Or in Crotona Dwelt, Where the Divine
575. I Do Not Think Bireno Ever Viewed
576. And Her to Holland Promises to Bear,
577. Now Will It Need to Send in Search of Vest
578. But Never Silk So Choice or Gold So Fine
579. To See That Love So Kindled by the Dame,
580. To Him, That There She Was Not, Soon Was Clear,
581. So Levied in Few Days His Warlike Band,
582. Oberto Takes to Wife Olympia Fair,
583. The Remnant of the Winter, He with Shield
584. That Winter's Remnant He So Passed That Feat
585. Ceres, When From the Idaean Dame in Haste
586. And Lit at Vulcan's Fire the Double Brand,
587. Had Roland of Eleusis' Deity
588. Through France He Sought Her, and Will Seek Her Through
589. Who in His Arms a Captive Damsel Bears,
590. I Say Not Is, but That She to the Sight
591. That Felon Stops Not, Nor to Him Replies,
592. Of Various Marbles, Wrought with Subtle Care,
593. He Suddenly Dismounts, and Thundering Fares
594. Here Beds Are Seen Adorned with Silk and Gold;
595. This While, as Here and There in Fruitless Pain
596. All in Pursuit of the Offender Speed,
597. Roland, When He Round That Strange Dome Had Paced
598. While Roland Wanders Round the Sylvan Hall,
599. He Thinks He Hears Angelica, and She
600. These Words Repeated Once, and Yet Again,
601. Returning to Rogero, Left, I Said,
602. As Soon as He His Foot Has Lifted O'Er
603. After Four Times or Five He So Had Wound
604. One Voice, One Shape, Which to Anglantes' Peer
605. This Was a New and Unwonted Spell,
606. Not Only He, but Others Who Stood High
607. But to Angelica Return We, Who
608. King Sacripant, or Roland, Willingly
609. Now This, Now That She Sought with Fruitless Care,
610. She Enters, Hidden From the Enchanter's Eyes,
611. She Knows Not Which with Her Will Best Accord,
612. But Sacripant at Pleasure Could Depose,
613. Ferrau and Roland Came Upon the Maid;
614. Helm on the Head and Corselet on the Breast
615. Till He Had That Erst Wrested by the Peer,
616. Upon the Enchanted Dome Lay Such a Spell,
617. Nor Might Nor Mean in Old Atlantes Lies
618. And When These From the Magic Palace She
619. Although She First the Scheme Had Entertained
620. In Haste, They Through the Forest, Here and There,
621. In the Mid Wood, Where They the Maid Did Lose,
622. Then Turning to Ferrau,, "but That Thine Head,
623. The Good Orlando Could No More Forbear,
624. By You, Fair Sir, Already, I Presume,
625. Alike a Charmed Life Orlando Bore,
626. Waxing More Fierce and Fell the Combat Rages,
627. For, During This, the King of Circassy,
628. After the Damsel Had Sometime Descried
629. To Give It to Orlando Was She Bent,
630. But Ferrau, Who First Chanced the Loss to See,
631. And in Opinion with Ferrau Agreed,
632. Towards a Vale Upon the Left the Count
633. Angelica, the Sylvan Spring Beside,
634. The Spanish Cavalier the Stream Beside
635. She Disappeared, I Say, as Forms Avaunt
636. This He Soon Recognised, for Here He Read
637. When in This Goodly Casque He Was Arrayed,
638. Tempering the Grief Which Glowed Within His Breast,
639. Angelica Thus, Viewless and Alone,
640. By What Appeared to Her the Meetest Way,
641. But of Angelica I Now No More
642. At the First City, Whither He Was Brought
643. It Was the Hour That Our of Ocean's Bed
644. Two Squadrons He Encountered; One an Old
645. These, with the Other Saracen Array,
646. The Quivering Brook, as Warmer Breezes Blew,
647. Hence Did the King of Tremisen' Repair,
648. Alzirdo, as the Approaching Count He Eyes,
649. Arrogant, Young, and of Redoubted Force,
650. Rises a Sudden and a Horrid Cry,
651. With Sound Like That, with Which From Hill Repair,
652. He Held Unsheathed That Thundering Sword in Hand,
653. Nor Safety Cotton Vest, Nor Cloths Supply,
654. His Mirror Valour Bore About, and Here
655. Astounded From His Saddle Reels the King,
656. He Ceased Not His Ensanguined Blade to Sway
657. Through Wood and Field His Courser Did He Goad,
658. By Day It Had Been Hidden Evermore;
659. By a Long Flight of Steps Was the Descent
660. In the Mid Cave, Beside a Fire Was Seen
661. An Aged Dame Was with Her, and the Pair
662. With Pain the Virgin to the Count Replies,
663. Those Ancient Cavaliers Right Happy Were,
664. Above I Told You How a Gentle Maid
665. The Gentle Damsel So Her Tale Pursues,
666. With Squinting Look and Dark, and but One Eye,
667. With Bitter Smile, Upstarting on His Feet,
668. The Brand Discharged by Him, Hit Either Brow,
669. A Spacious Table in Mid Cavern Stood,
670. I Could Not Say What Mischiefs These Offend;
671. Those Whom the Board Had Little Maimed or Nought,
672. He After Drags Them Bound Without the Cave,
673. The Ancient Woman, the Assassin's Friend,
674. And Turn to Her, Who to the Count Applied,
675. Without Encountering Aught That Might Appear
676. The Beauteous Lady Who Desires in Vain,
677. The Time Long Past, She, Lying in That Place,
678. When Her She Saw, Without Her Love Returned,
679. And Next Pursued, Relating to Her All
680. Seeing the Sage, All Think They See a Squire,
681. The Valorous Maid with the Intent to Slay
682. And as the Fairest Topic of All Those
683. When of the Larger Portion of Her Seed
684. And Yet Again Advised the Martial Maid,
685. When She Beheld Him in Such Perilous Strait,
686. She Cried, "and Is Not This Rogero, Who
687. Of Which No Sooner Has She Past the Door,
688. But Leave We Bradamant, Nor Grieve, O Ye
689. Meseems That I Have Many Threads to Clear
690. For Besides Horse and Foot, in the Campaign
691. In Many a Fierce Assault and Conflict Dread,
692. So Bloody Was the Price of Victory,
693. When the Calesians and the Picards Yielding,
694. You, with Such Glorious Hearts, Who Were Not Slow
695. Rome's Mighty Column, by Your Valiant Hand
696. This Dear-Bought Victory Brought More Relief
697. Our Present Safety, and Life Held in Fear,
698. Hadst Thou Not Made Resistance to Thy Foe,
699. As the Illustrious King of France Has Need
700. Marsilius First, and After Agramant,
701. With Balugantes Leon's Race Comes on,
702. Stordilane, Tessira, and Baricond,
703. They of Toledo and of Calatrave,
704. The Household-Troops Which Guard Marsilius' State,
705. Follicon, Kind Marsilius' Bastard, Hies
706. When So Had Filed the Warlike Host of Spain
707. Marmonda's Men Next Past the Royal Moor,
708. He Give Arganio Charge of Libicane,
709. And but That Ferrau's Brother Isolier,
710. Thus, Not Without a Cause, Brunello Pined,
711. Hesperia's People Come with Soridan,
712. Next Mulga and Arzilla's Legions Two.
713. Ruled by Clarindo, Bolga's People Go,
714. Gualciotto Dead, Bellamarina's Crew,
715. There Was No Saracen of Bolder Strain,
716. Noritia's Men and Tremisene's Alone
717. Where the Bold Africans Their Standards Plant,
718. Renowned He Was for Many a Glorious Quest
719. When the Squire Told His News Amid That Show
720. He of the Squire Demanded What the Vest
721. Marsilius Had to Mandricardo Sped,
722. The King Encounters Many of the Crew
723. Nor He Long Was Had Rode, Ere He Descried
724. As Wolf or Mastiff-Dog, Who Comes the Last
725. Where This Deep Stream Was Fordable, He Scanned
726. He Who for Scorn Had Daffed the World Aside,
727. Now Sword Nor Club the Warlike Tartar Bore,
728. Great Is the Tartar Monarch's Daring, Those
729. When This He Saw Was Broke, the Truncheon Sound
730. In Running to Their Death the Wretches Vie,
731. But After They at Their Expense Had Read
732. As in the Well-Dried Fen or Stubble-Land,
733. When Afterwards He Marks the Entrance Free,
734. And in the Middle of the Mead Surveyed
735. Her Fear Increased When She Approaching Spied
736. When That Fair Face by Him of Tartary
737. Yet Not So Far His Courtesy He Strained,
738. He Dames, Maids, Ancient Men, and Others, Who
739. Saying, "How Woe-Begone Will Be Her Sire,
740. The Tartar, Joying in the Prize Possest,
741. Doralice He Consoled This While, Whose Eyes
742. These Words, and Many Others on His Part,
743. Next Much More Affable, with Courteous Lore
744. Riding in Her Glad Company A-Field,
745. Pastoral Lodgings Were the Dwellings Near,
746. What Afterwards Was Done at Close of Day
747. Thence From One Place to the Other Wandering, They
748. Now Lofty Fancy, Which One Course to Run
749. Tidings Had Reached the Moorish Sovereign's Ear
750. Innumerable Ladders for the Scale
751. The Emperor, on the Vigil of the Day
752. At the High Church, He, Girt with Paladine
753. So Spake the Holy Emperor Aloud,
754. Infinite Other Prayers as Well Preferred,
755. And the Ineffable Goodness, Who in Vain
756. Upon the Thought the Posting Angel Brooded,
757. Weening That He Shall Find Him Here, He Plies
758. Nor Here He Love, Nor Here He Peace Surveys,
759. Even Her, to Whom the Eternal Sire as Well,
760. Examinations, Summons, and a Store
761. Her Michael Calls to Him, and Give Command
762. Though Fraud Was Alway Wont to Deal in Lies,
763. In Blest Arabia Lies a Pleasant Vale,
764. Beneath the Shadow of This Forest Deep,
765. Mindless Oblivion at the Gate Is Found,
766. The Angel Him Approaches Quietly,
767. Silence to Him No Otherwise Replied
768. Silence the Advancing Troop Kept Skirting Round,
769. While with Such Haste His Band Rinaldo Led,
770. He Who the Moorish Monarch's Force Would Tell,
771. The Larum-Bells, Loud-Sounding Through the Air,
772. Lamenting May Be Heard the Aged Just,
773. Here Might You Paladin and Baron Ken,
774. And Them He Ordered in Convenient Post,
775. Paris Is Seated on a Spacious Plain,
776. The Town, Whose Walls for Miles in Circuit Run,
777. Where'er the Walls of Paris Wound About,
778. With Eyes of Argus, Pepin's Valiant Son,
779. With Old Sobrino, on the Left of Seine,
780. As Swarming to Assail the Pastoral Bowl,
781. Upon Their Walls the Christians in Array,
782. Nor in This Was Is Iron Plied Alone,
783. Meanwhile, Up to the Walls the Second Crew
784. With Crimson Rodomont His Banner Stains,
785. Whom Mandricardo Took, as I Before
786. At Once the Foes a Thousand Ladders Rear.
787. He in a Cuirass, Hard and Strong, Was Drest;
788. Nor Rodomont to Nimrod Yields in Might,
789. Dripping and Foul with Water and with Weeds,
790. Rodomont Has No Sooner Gained the Shore,
791. He Drops the Shield; and with Two-Handed Sway
792. At One Back-Stroke Sir Spineloccio True,
793. Down From the Wall Andropono and Moschine
794. Lewis the Provencal Is Cleft in Two;
795. The Crowd, by Rodomont of Sarza Led,
796. Besides, That Ours, with Those Upon the Height,
797. While So the Foes Descend, or Rather Fling
798. The Moat of Thirty Feet, Not Less, He Cleared,
799. This While, Not Idle, Those of Ours Had Laid
800. Charged with Salt-Petre, Oil, or Sulphur Pale,
801. A Horrid Concert, a Rude Harmony
802. Though Conquest Fruit of Skill or Fortune Be,
803. You, Sir, Earned Worthy Praise, When You O'Erbore
804. This Was the Paynim Little Skilled to Do,
805. Of Twenty Thousand Warriors Thither Sent,
806. For He to the Inner Bank, by Foes Possest,
807. This While a Band King Agramant Had Brought,
808. And Corineus of Mulga, Prusion,
809. But All Things Counter to the Hopes Ensue
810. And of Inferior Count Withal, a Horde
811. And Thus by Her a Barque Is Fitted Out;
812. By Scyth and Indian She Prefers the Peer
813. Next, When She All in Readiness Espied,
814. How Man Should Guard Himself From Magic Cheats
815. I Say, the Horn Is of Such Horrid Sound,
816. Quitting the Port and Smoother Waves, They Stand
817. Astolpho, Furrowing That Ocean Hoar,
818. Scouring at Large Broad Ocean, with a Guide
819. Thus of the Victories, by Land and Main,
820. This While They Saw, as for Their Port They Made,
821. Through Araby the Blest He Fares, Where Grow
822. Astolpho Along Trajan's Channel Goes,
823. Erst Argalia's Courser, Which Was Born
824. A Hermit in the Poop the Bark Did Guide
825. Between the Mighty River and the Fen,
826. As in Hill-Farm or Castle, Fenced with Moat,
827. Caligorant Was Standing at the Gate
828. Towards the Marish, Where Green Rushes Grow,
829. When Him the Wary Paladin Espied,
830. Astolpho Blew, Still Watchful of Surprise,
831. Astolpho, Who Beholds His Bulky Prey
832. With Subtle Thread of Steel Had Vulcan Wrought
833. Mercury From the Smith Conveyed the Prize,
834. The Nymph (It Seems) Was Taken as She Flew,
835. He Fixed It Here, Beneath the Sandy Plain,
836. After, His Other Knots Unfastening,
837. Him Helm and Shield He Gives Alike to Bear,
838. Ran All the People in Tumultuous Tide,
839. Then Cairo Was Not Such, as Common Cry
840. And Therein (Christian Renegadoes All)
841. For at Nile's Outlet There, Beside His Bed,
842. To See if He Could Break the Thread Which Tied
843. He Here Orrilo and Two Knights in Mail
844. The Necromancer Had This While (to Say
845. The Monster, Slaughtered by the Brethren Two,
846. Gryphon and Aquilant by Turns Divide,
847. If the Thief's Head Be Severed by the Pair,
848. Two Ladies, Meetly Clad in Fair Array,
849. Since, From Gismonda They Had These Conveyed,
850. Though It Was Noon in the Happy Islands, Day
851. The Duke, Who by Their Ensigns, and Yet More
852. The Ladies to Repose the Warriors Led
853. Here They Bid Bind the Giant on the Green,
854. Astolpho in His Book Had Found Exprest
855. The Duke No Less with Hope of Conquest Glows
856. But Willingly to Him These Yield the Emprize,
857. Together with the Mace He Lops the Fist;
858. That Fool, Who Had Not Marked the Warrior's Feat,
859. Yet Pleased Astolpho Had Not in Like Guise
860. Amid Innumerable Locks, No Hair
861. Nor Do I Think That Either Gentle Fay
862. When to the Castellan Was Certified
863. As He Had Brought the Adventure to an End,
864. Gryphon and Aquilant Thus Bid Adieu,
865. The Warriors to the Left-Hand Might Incline,
866. So That, Before They Enter on Their Road,
867. They, at the Entrance of the City, View
868. Designing There a Fortilage, in Front
869. As Deputy, the Sainted Land He Swayed,
870. In Quittance, Sansonet, His Sword to Bear,
871. Cleansed of Their Errors in a Monastery,
872. While Grace the Warlike Three Devoutly Sought,
873. For His Misfortune, One of Lovely Feature
874. In Constantine's Imperial City, Burned
875. Sir Gryphon, From the Time He Heard the News
876. It Therefore Is His Purpose, Without Say
877. I Say, I Said, and, While I Live, Will Say,
878. Let Him Lament, Who Plays a Slavish Part,
879. The Youthful Gryphon Finds Him in This Case,
880. Resuming the Fair History, I Say,
881. He Nigh Damascus Met the Lover, Who
882. As I Relate to You, the Cavalier
883. Damascus' King a Splendid Festival
884. But Like Most Cunning and Audacious Quean,
885. She, After Suiting with Much Suavity
886. The Wicked Woman, Full of Subtlety
887. Nor He the Fraud of Her, More False Than Fair,
888. And to Damascus, with the Cavalier
889. Yet I Of Origilla's Treachery
890. I Left You Where King Agramant Prepared
891. One and the Other Host Its Worth, Before
892. The Frequent Darts a Storm of Hail Appear,
893. I Know Not, Sir, if You the Adventure Dread
894. When He Was Known the Thickening Crowd Among,
895. But This the Cruel Sword Concedes to Few,
896. What by Weak Herd, in Fields of Hircany,
897. Of All He Cuts, and Thrusts, and Maims, and Bleeds,
898. Religion Cannot for the Priest Bespeak
899. Nor the Impious King Alone with Human Blood,
900. Though Flames Demolish All Things Far and Wide,
901. While the Accursed Man, Amid the Rout,
902. It Was God's Will, That While Through Town and Tower
903. Rinaldo Had, with Edward, Sent a Force,
904. Rinaldo Sent with These the Baggage Train
905. But Having First the Peers and Captains Wheeled
906. Such Reasons, and Yet Better for, That Need
907. He, Without Clamour, Without Any Noise.
908. The Paladin Rode on, Along the Shore,
909. With Such a Faithful Escort Fortified
910. Rinaldo Spurs Before the Troops Combined
911. As the Aspect of the Paladin of France,
912. He Stoops Upon the Weapon Which He Strains,
913. Well-Matched in Skill, They Aimed Their Cruel Blows,
914. With the Good Spear New Levelled in His Fist,
915. Nor Did the Buckler So the Weapon Stay,
916. Rinaldo, Having Broke His Rested Spear,
917. Yet Few the Tempered Plates or Iron Pins
918. The Foremost Squadron Had Been Put to Flight,
919. Both Spurred Their Coursers on, with Rested Lance,
920. It Seemed as if Each Coward Paynim Grew
921. Less Worthless Men of Africa Were They,
922. Thraso, This While, the Valiant Duke of Mar,
923. The Deep Sonorous Trumpet's Bellowing,
924. The Arrows' Double Shower the Ample Sky
925. When, Harassed with Fatigue, a Wearied Crew
926. Zerbino Was More Wonders Seen to Do
927. Chelindo and Mosco (Bastards Were the Twain
928. Pierced by Three Lances Lay the Courser Strong,
929. When Him So Killed, as 'Twere by Stealthy Blow,
930. When That Fell Blow Calamidor Espied,
931. He Quits the Horse, and Thence for Safety Crawls;
932. Then Artalico and Margano Knew
933. Sir, Think Not That More Inland on the Plain
934. Forward Sir Oldrad Pricks and Fieramont;
935. Well Matched Awhile the Christian and the Moor
936. The Duke of Glocester Matalista Bold
937. Hence 'Tis Among the Moors Amazement All,
938. But Ferrau, Who Till This Time Ever Nigh
939. A Stripling He, Who Such Sweet Musick Vented,
940. When Bold French Beheld His Cruel Plight,
941. Nor Stops He Here, Nor Leaves a Corslet Whole,
942. Into the Medley Pricks King Agramant,
943. Agramant From the Wall a Numerous Band
944. The King of Fez Upon This Service Prest;
945. Elsewhere the Paladin Was Making Fly
946. He Plants His Courser, Where Their Squadrons Yield
947. He From a Squire Receives a Lance, and Spies
948. That Weapon Broken, He Fusberta Rears,
949. The Good Rinaldo, Who to Overthrow
950. What Time, Without, in Such Destructive Frays
951. To Him a Squire Approached, Who Pale with Dread,
952. With Many Peers and Chiefs, Who Worthiest Are,
953. God, Outraged by Our Rank Iniquity,
954. Domitian and the Latter Antonine;
955. What Shall I Of Fierce Attila, What Say
956. Who, as if Having More Than Served to Fill
957. Now God Permits That We Should Feel the Spite
958. The Christian People Then God's Placid Front
959. Charles, by the Way, His People's Butchery
960. Thither Large Portion of the Populace,
961. And Smote and Thundered, 'Mid a Fearful Shower,
962. Rodomont Stands Before the Portal, Bright
963. Nor Bulwark, Stone, Nor Arbalest, Nor Bow,
964. Through Those Fair Chambers Echoed Shouts of Dread,
965. Charles Turned Him Round to These, of Vigorous Hand,
966. This Said, He Spurred His Courser, Couched His Spear,
967. But Let Us, Sir, for Love of Heaven, Forego
968. Of All the Cities Under Eastern Skies,
969. Two Crystal Streams the Wealthy City Scower;
970. Then the High-Street Gay Signs of Triumph Wore,
971. Within the City Gates in Frolic Sport,
972. Forward Sir Gryphon Pricked, with His Array,
973. And Told How He, Who, Norandino Hight,
974. Gryphon, Though He Came Not That Joust to See,
975. Large Portion of the Night, in Like Discourse,
976. The Circling Drums' and Trumpets' Echoing Strain
977. The Man of Antioch in His Company,
978. They in the Square Arrived and Stood Aside,
979. It Was the Syrians' Practise in That Age
980. God's Worshippers, Where They Should Couch the Lance,
981. If Verily Most Christian You Would Be,
982. If Fear of Famishing Within Thy Cave,
983. Thou Mighty Lion, That Art Charged to Keep
984. The Lovely Ladies From Their Scaffolds Throw
985. A Suit of Arms Was Prize of the Assay,
986. Of This You More in Other Place Shall Hear.
987. At Open Barriers, One by One, the Place
988. That Witless Antiochite, Who, Worthily,
989. Who Will Pursue the Brindled Beast for Ten,
990. Yet He Who Would Excuse the Sudden Wheel,
991. Clapping of Hands, and Cries, at Every Turn,
992. With Burning Heart, and Visage Red with Shame,
993. Already He the Lance Upon His Thigh
994. Gryphon Returned, and Did the Weapon Wield.
995. Gryphon, Who in His Saddle Sees the Peer
996. Here Two Good Brothers of Apamia Were,
997. Bold Salinterno, Mid the Warlike Train,
998. But He Makes Answer with a Massy Spear,
999. Two of Damascus Next Sir Gryphon Sped,
1000. Yet in the Field Remained Seleucia's Knight,
1001. They Cast the Truncheons Down, Their Coursers Wheel,
1002. He of Seleucia at Sir Gryphon's Casque,
1003. Each One Might See How Much Seleucia's Lord
1004. The Eight, Who Had to Keep the Field Pretended
1005. And, for Such Little Time Endured the Play,
1006. Sir Gryphon, During This, Had Made Return
1007. Whether the Youth Believed the Tale or No,
1008. Sir Gryphon, Was He or His Horse Foredone
1009. No Sooner He His Head Had Rested There,
1010. Martano Schemed to Take Away the Steed
1011. He, Who Was Clad in Trappings Not His Own,
1012. And Bids Them the Sonorous Metal Blow,
1013. Him Lodgings Fair He Gave, Wherein to Dwell
1014. When He How Late It Was, Awaking, Knew,
1015. The Host, Arriving, Him at Full Possest
1016. Now He Lamenting for His Folly Stood,
1017. He Better Would Have Gone Like Naked Man,
1018. On the Left Hand a Castle Richly Dight
1019. With the High Tower the Beauteous Gallery, Clear
1020. And, Taken for the Man Whose Crest He Wears,
1021. Who, After Feat So Base and Foul, Anew
1022. That Vessel of All Filthy Vices, He,
1023. A Voucher He in Origilla Had,
1024. With Many Armed Men That Baron Fares,
1025. His Ready Wit a Fit Excuse Supplies
1026. Gryphon Is Brought with Shame Into the Square,
1027. Thronging About the Ignoble Car, Appear
1028. That Which of His Disgrace Had Been the Ground,
1029. The Warrior's Gyves No Sooner They Undo,
1030. Often, to Shield the Absent One From Blame,
1031. Had Norandine Been with Your Care Endued,
1032. Whither Fear Drives, in Rout, the Others All,
1033. Of Those Who to the Portal Foremost Fleed,
1034. Two Nimble Gryphon Seizes, Mid the Train,
1035. Many There Were Who Feared in Their Alarms,
1036. But I Will to Another Time Delay,
1037. Eight Lances' Shock, That Eight Such Warriors Guide,
1038. Rainier and Guido, Richard, Salomon,
1039. Not So, Well-Keyed Into the Solid Stone,
1040. He at His Head Took Aim Who Stood Most Nigh;
1041. All the Defences, Round, Abandoned Are,
1042. As When Within the Closely-Fastened Cage
1043. But if the Mother Spring at Him, and Hang,
1044. Of Cavaliers and Footmen Such the Squeeze,
1045. Unknowing How Himself From Thence to Free,
1046. The Monarch Rolls About His Horrid Eyes,
1047. He Who Has Seen the Fence, in Well-Thonged Square,
1048. At One Cross-Blow Fifteen or Twenty Foes
1049. He From the Square Retires in Such a Mode,
1050. As the High-Couraged Beast, Whom Hunters Start
1051. He Turned Upon the Rabble-Rout Who Bayed
1052. Athwart the Current Swam, with Arms and All,
1053. And Him So Sorely Anger Stung and Pride,
1054. I Have of Haughty Discord Now to Say,
1055. And She Believed, That She with Greater Power
1056. The Implacable Discord Went, and with the Dame,
1057. When She Fell Into Mandricardo's Hand,
1058. Jealousy Had That Little Dwarf Espied,
1059. Of Means to Embroil the Sarzan and the Son
1060. As Soon as the Redoubted Rodomont
1061. Her Flint and Steel, Fell Discord, as He Said,
1062. As Tiger Rages, Who in Vain Descends
1063. So Raging, to the Pigmy Dwarf Who Bore
1064. Discord at This, Who Read His Secret Thought,
1065. He These at Saint Marcellus' Gate, Where Lay,
1066. Agramant Has Remounted in His Sell,
1067. While So the Battle Stands, King Charlemagne
1068. The Saracenic Squadrons Had Begun
1069. He in This Time a Mighty Lance Had Spanned,
1070. In Other Part, Rinaldo, in His Mood,
1071. The First Was of the Alzerban Army Head,
1072. Zumara's King Is Not Forgotten Here,
1073. Yet Will His Squadron Not So Firmly Stand,
1074. But Faster Than the Rest Alzerba Flies,
1075. Almontes' Memory, Through the Moorish Bands,
1076. Down Fell This Aramon, and to Afford
1077. Lurcanio Next Met Dardinello's Eye;
1078. Dardinel, to Avenge Him, Took a Spear,
1079. From Me It Sure Were Needless to Demand,
1080. He Charges, Chases, Breaks, and Overthrows
1081. Fortune Still Blocked Their Path Throughout the Day,
1082. But Here Enough for This One While Is Shown
1083. King Norandine, Girt with Peer and Knight,
1084. And Nigh a Temple Strongly Walled, and Round
1085. But When, Approaching Near, He Saw the Band,
1086. Fore-Stroke and Back He Deals, and on the Ground
1087. But Valour, Who So Oft Befriends Her Own,
1088. Next Seeing Him More Near, Whose Falchion's Sweep
1089. And, Lifting His Bare Hand, in Sign Affied,
1090. When He Beheld the Monarch's Altered Cheer,
1091. Here, Wounded, He Remained Some Days Before
1092. One and the Other Are Alike to Seek
1093. Aquilant Asked Him, if He Had Possest
1094. Aquilant Brooked Not Gryphon Such a Feat,
1095. From the South-East Up-Sprung So Strong a Breeze,
1096. From Thence, Towards the East the Pilot Veered
1097. To Inform Himself of That Martano Bent;
1098. He Towards Lidia and Larissa Goes,
1099. And Through That Evil Woman's Treachery,
1100. When Origille Hears Him, in Affright
1101. Aquilant Thundered Still, and, to His Dread,
1102. His Cunning Might Have Proved of Good Avail,
1103. Aquilant Had in Antioch Chanced to Know
1104. And, Though She for Excuse Tried Many Wiles,
1105. Others Exclaimed, "How Fittingly Combined,
1106. Attended with Few Squires the Syrian King,
1107. Thither They Go, Where Gryphon From His Bed
1108. Bound Is the Wretch, but Not 'Mid Grass and Flower,
1109. The Valiant Norandino Could Not Choose
1110. And He Determined, in the Public Sight
1111. For Which He Made What Stately Preparation
1112. For a Renowned and Valiant Cavalier
1113. Thither the Twain Their Way Those Countries Through,
1114. Marphisa Was the Warlike Virgin's Name,
1115. When Sansonnetto and the English Knight
1116. His Pleasing Ways She Did in Mind Retrace,
1117. They Questioned One Another of Their Way;
1118. To Have Such a Comrade Either Cavalier
1119. And When the Clear and Lucid Sun Again
1120. Straight to the City Ride the Martial Band,
1121. Norandine, Sure That, in the Martial Game,
1122. The Arms Which in the Former Joust the Due
1123. But From Effecting What He Had Intended
1124. Though, as a Hindrance, She Upon the Road
1125. You Shall Take with You, When by Manifest
1126. And Throwing Some on Earth, It Chanced That More
1127. No Wishful Child More Joyfully, 'Mid All
1128. She Spurred Her Courser, and with Lance in Rest,
1129. Bold Sansonnetto and Astolpho Near,
1130. The Errant Cavaliers Who to That Stage,
1131. Of These, Some Will the Crowded Rabble's Band
1132. The Pair of Warlike Brethren Witnessing
1133. On Rabican, Pricked Forth Before His Hand,
1134. From Lofty Saddle Sansonnet O'Erthrew,
1135. Sansonnet and Astolpho Are Not Slow
1136. Seizing Their Steeds and Mounting, Either Son
1137. He, at the First Approach, Astolpho Knew,
1138. And Why They Had Those Arms, Without the Fear
1139. While He and Gryphon Stood in Colloquy,
1140. Some One Who Hears Marphisa Hold Is There,
1141. As Norandine Is Told That Name of Dread,
1142. The Sons of Oliver, on the Other Hand,
1143. Gryphon, Who Little Had Those Arms at Heart,
1144. To the City, Their Rejoicings to Renew,
1145. And Make Experiment, if They Indeed
1146. And There a Carack Find, About to Steer
1147. The Island of the Amorous Deity
1148. A Fruitful Rill, by Limpid Fountain Fed,
1149. To the North Wind, Which Blew Upon Their Right,
1150. The Clouds Their Gloomy Veil Above Them Strain,
1151. The Sailors, in This War of Wind and Flood,
1152. The Cruel Wind Increased Throughout the Night,
1153. It Lulls Not, Nor Its Fury Slakes, but Grown
1154. While Fortune on the Sea Annoys This Crew,
1155. The Shield, of Which Almontes' Son Was Vain,
1156
1157
1158. Upon All Parts, a Freezing Fear Goes Through
1159
1160. As Languishes the Flower of Purple Hue,
1161. As Waters Will Sometime Their Course Delay,
1162. Letting the Flyers Fly, of Those Who Stand
1163. In Peril Were the Moors, That None Again
1164. He Bids Forthwith the Moorish Ensigns Be
1165. That King, Who Deemed Himself in Desperate Case,
1166. But the Best Portion Neither Signal Knew,
1167. But Nought by Sovereign or Sobrino Done,
1168. And Even Within Their Lines, in Panic Sore,
1169. By the Creator Haply Hastened, Who
1170. King Charles Returns No More Within the Town,
1171. That Livelong Night the Foes, Throughout Their Tents,
1172. Two Moors Amid the Paynim Army Were,
1173. Of Nimble Frame and Strong Was Cloridane,
1174. These Two Were Posted on a Rampart's Height,
1175
1176. Amazed Was Cloridan a Child Should Show
1177. Seeing That Nought Would Bend Him, Nought Would Move,
1178. And Thus Resolved, Disposing in Their Place
1179. So Said He, and His Talk Cut Quickly Short,
1180. And Now the Saracen with Wary View
1181. Next Came the Warrior Where, with Limbs Outspread,
1182. He to Labretto's Duke, Leaving Those Dead,
1183. Malindo, with Andalico, He Slew,
1184. Rearing the Insidious Blade, the Pair Are Near
1185. At the Youth's Prayer From Parted Cloud Outshone
1186. And Dropt the Burden, Weening His Medore
1187. Those Horsemen, with Intent to Make the Two
1188. Of Old an Ancient Forest Clothed That Lair,
1189. By Whom He Is Beloved Can No One Know,
1190. Were the Heart Seen as Is the Outward Cheer,
1191. The Closest Path, Amid the Forest Gray,
1192. So Far Was Cloridan Advanced Before,
1193. So Saying, in the Wood He Disappears,
1194. A Hundred Horsemen Who the Youth Surround,
1195. As in Her Rocky Cavern the She-Bear,
1196. Cloridan Who to Aid Him Knows Not How,
1197. Together, All the Others of the Band
1198. Zerbino, Captain of Those Horse, No More
1199. To Him the Stripling Turns, with Suppliant Cry,
1200. This While, a Churlish Horseman of the Band,
1201. So Grieved Zerbino, with Such Wrath Was Stung,
1202. And Casts Away His Bow, and, 'Mid the Band
1203. The Scots Pursue Their Chief, Who Pricks Before,
1204. By Chance Arrived a Damsel at the Place,
1205. Angelica, When She Had Won Again
1206. And Above Every Other Deed Repented,
1207. When Fair Angelica the Stripling Spies,
1208. And Calling Back to Memory Her Art,
1209. And Recollects a Herb Had Caught Her Sight
1210. Returning, She Upon a Swain Did Light,
1211. Angelica Alights Upon the Ground,
1212. And Into Him Infused Such Force Again,
1213. Nor Would the Damsel Quit the Lowly Pile
1214. The Shepherd Dwelt, Between Two Mountains Hoar,
1215. A Wound Far Wider and Which Deeper Lies,
1216. Her Ill but Festered and Increased the More
1217. She, if of Vain Desire Will Not Die,
1218. O Count Orlando, O King of Circassy,
1219. To Pluck, as Yet Untouched, the Virgin Rose,
1220. In the Low Shed, with All Solemnities,
1221. The Beauteous Boy Is with Her Night and Day,
1222. Amid Such Pleasures, Where, with Tree O'Ergrown,
1223. When She Believed They Had Prolonged Their Stay
1224. No Love Which to the Paladin She Bears,
1225. She, Not Possessing Wherewithal to Pay
1226. Within Valencia or Barcelona's Town
1227. But, Ere They There Arrive, a Crazed Wight
1228. Marphisa, Astolpho, Gryphon, Aquilant.
1229. Waves Lifted by the Waxing Tempest Start
1230. This One Beneath the Poop, Beneath the Prow
1231. More Spitefully the Wind on the Third Day
1232. A Pilgrimage Is Vowed to Sinai,
1233. They Bale and Chest and All Their Heavy Lumber
1234. They in This Trouble, in This Woe, Remained
1235. When, Flaming, They the Beauteous Light Surveyed,
1236. This on the Sea Remained So Passing Strong,
1237. For This the Master Finds a Remedy,
1238. They, Driven on Syria, in Laiazzo's Bay
1239. They Cannot Fly, Nor Yet Can Keep the Sea;
1240. Sore Dangerous 'Twas to Doubt; Lest Hostile Band
1241. To Him Relates the Patron How a Crew
1242. And if He Brings to End the Former Feat,
1243. So Strange a Custom of the Neighbouring Strand
1244. The Sailors by the Patron's Rede Abide,
1245. Already When Their Bark Was First Espied
1246. They Thitherward Were Worked with Warp and Oar,
1247. Like a Half-Moon, Projected From the Beach,
1248. No Sooner There the Harboured Ship Was Seen
1249. A Dame, as the Cumean Sybil Gray,
1250. At What She Deemed the Cavaliers Would Start,
1251. The Patron Is Commanded Their Reply
1252. These Through the Middle of the City Go,
1253. All Others of the Manly Sex They Seat,
1254. The Knights Determining by Lot to Try
1255. But with the Others She, the Martial Maid,
1256. High Up the Spacious City Is Place,
1257. On Pieballed Horse Marphisa Entered, -- Spread
1258. On a Large Courser Came the Leading Foe,
1259. At Once Their Spears in Rest Nine Warriors Laid,
1260. Of Smooth and Balanced Pace, the Damsel's Horse
1261. The Bosom of the First She Opens So,
1262. Many Good Spears Were Broken on the Dame,
1263. At the End of the Career, She Checked Her Steed,
1264. With Such Just Measure Him She Cleaves, I Say,
1265. He, Signing with His Right Hand, Made Appear
1266. So Said He, and Obedient to His Hest
1267. No Mouth Was Opened and No Eyelid Fell,
1268. Both Lances, Made of Willow Thin and Dry,
1269. Marphisa in Her Life, with Certain Wound,
1270. They Scarcely Touch the Ground Before They Gain
1271. If Heavy Falls the Savage Damsel's Blade,
1272. The Women Who Have Sate Long Time, to View
1273. Communing with Herself, Marphisa Said,
1274. Till Eve They Strove, Nor Did It Yet Appear
1275. So by Consent the Combatants Divided,
1276. They Unsuspecting with the Prayer Complied,
1277. Much Marvels with Herself the Gentle Dame,
1278. Great Fears the Women of Antiquity
1279. Women Have Reached the Pinnacle of Glory,
1280. To Me It Plainly Seems, in This Our Age
1281. To Her Returning Yet Again; the Dame
1282. The Other, Since 'Twas His to Speak, Begun
1283. Sir Guido Is Besought of Them to Say
1284. Here Guido Ceased to Address the Martial Peers,
1285. Guido, Who Gladly Would in Other Place
1286. He Grieves, as Well, the Other Cavaliers
1287. On the Other Hand, the Stripling's Age, in May
1288. These Speeches by Marphisa Made, and More,
1289. Sir Guido Speaks That Night with Alery
1290. She Into Guido's Palace Had Before
1291. Not Yet From Earth's Hard Visage Has the Sun
1292. Hence to Descend Towards the Sea or Port
1293. Toward the Other Gate Sir Guido Went,
1294. Sir Guido and the Cavaliers Who Go
1295. As Family, Awaked in Sudden Wise,
1296. Above, Below, and Here and There, the Rout
1297. Amid the Mighty Ruin Which Ensued,
1298. But of Marphisa What Will Be Your Thought,
1299. For So to Friend as Stranger, Noxious Are
1300. One Sought the Sea, and One the Mountain-Top,
1301. Marphisa, Guido, and the Brethren Two,
1302. The Duke Within and Out the Town Had Bear
1303. The Duke Arrives, Seeking the Friendly Band,
1304. They From That Cruel and Ensanguined Ground
1305. Fixed on His Course, the Pilot Passes by
1306. Last Rises Luna, Where His Family
1307. There Was Not Bradamant, Who Used to Sway
1308. Saying She Deems Unfitting for a Knight
1309. But None with Her Opine, and, in the Lack
1310. Courteously I, in Outward Show, Would Say;
1311. But I Will First Pursue the Martial Maid,
1312. This Was the Beldam Who Had Wont to Ply
1313. The Semblance Now of Foreign Cavalier
1314. And Next Implored the Maid, She of Her Grace
1315. In Shining Armour and in Fair Array,
1316. He of Maganza Was a Count, Who Bore
1317. But When the Magic Tower Upon the Hill
1318. As Wanton and Ill-Customed, When She Spies
1319. And That She This Would Prove Upon Her Knight
1320. Marphisa Grasped a Mighty Lance, and Thrust,
1321. And Willed That She Should Don the Youthful Weed,
1322. On the Fourth Day They Met a Cavalier,
1323. Vainly the Young Zerbino, Through the Glade,
1324. Zerbino Laughed Parforce, When He Descried
1325. Older Than Sibyl Seemed the Beldam Hoar,
1326. To Have Sport of Him -- as She Had -- an Air
1327. To Him Marphisa, "Thou in Thy Despite
1328. Much Grieved the Prince, to Whom in Other Fray
1329. Without Awaiting Answer, to Career
1330. He Mounts, and Blames Himself in Angry Wise,
1331. And, Sighing Deeply, Cries, in His Despair,
1332. So Spake Zerbino, and Like Grief Displaid,
1333. If You Remember What Was Said Before,
1334. And She to Her Zerbino's Goodly Cheer
1335. As the Dog's Rage Is Quickly Overblown,
1336. And with More Winning Mien to Her Applied,
1337. Questioning of the Maid, He When and Where
1338. At Length Zerbino to His Tongue Gave Rest,
1339. They Hence, by Strange and Solitary Way,
1340. No Cord I Well Believe Is Wound So Tight
1341. Faith Should Be Kept Unbroken Evermore,
1342. And This Maintains as It Maintained Should Be,
1343. Of Him I Told Who Felt at Heart Such Load,
1344. The Hag, Who the Approaching Warrior Knew,
1345. Because as Foe to Her and Hers She Knew
1346. As Nearer Now, the Stranger Knight Espied
1347. Him Young Zerbino Answered Courteously,
1348. This and Yet More He Vainly Says; Nor Stand
1349. Hermonides of Holland Levelled Low,
1350. Thinking Him Slain Who Only Lay Amazed,
1351. So Said Hermonides, and Had Pursued
1352. Zerbino, in Excuse, Assured the Peer,
1353. He, if He Might, Is Any Thing Beside,
1354. Zerbino Thence, Upon the Promised Way,
1355. Well Read in Young Zerbino's Hate, the Dame
1356. Ye Courteous Dames, and to Your Lovers Dear,
1357. Such Was She; and I Hide Not What Is True;
1358. For One I Dare to Censure in My Lays,
1359. He Entered, 'Twixt Two Hills, a Narrow Way,
1360. I In the Cruel City Left the Peer,
1361. He, After Some Few Days, in Natoly
1362. To Aix-La-Chapelle Thence, Through Arden's Wood,
1363. Here, Learning Afterwards That Otho Old
1364. A Breeze Which, From the Starboard Blowing Light,
1365. Now to the Right, Now to the Other Hand,
1366. And Traversing a Forest, at the Feet
1367. His Lips He Had Not Wetted in Its Bed
1368. That Robber Did Not Let the Courser Strain
1369. On Rabican, Who with the Wind Might Race,
1370. He Plies His Feet, and Searches Still in Vain
1371. He, Wearied and Confused with Wandering Wide,
1372. I' the Book, of That Enchanted House at Large
1373. Astolpho with Desire to Bring to End
1374. He, with His Spells and Shapes of Devilish Kind,
1375. The Child, Gradasso, Iroldo, Bradamant,
1376. But He No Sooner Has the Bugle Wound
1377. The Warder Fled; with Him His Prisoned Train,
1378. He, Having Chased the Enchanter Moor Away,
1379. There He Found Fastened by a Golden Chain
1380. I Know Not if You Recollect How Tied
1381. At Nought Astolpho Could More Joyous Be
1382. Him He That Day in India Proved, When Sped
1383. Minded to Take the Hippogryph, He Flung
1384. Good Cause He Had to Love That Rabicane,
1385. He Stood Upon the Watch if He Could View
1386. But It Behoves That, Ere the Rest I Say,
1387. Rogero Looks on Bradamant, and She
1388. A Thousand Times They Their Embrace Renew,
1389. The Gentle Bradamant, Who Was I' the Vein
1390. Rogero Good, Who Not Alone to Be
1391. Then on His Way to Be Baptized He Hied,
1392. Rogero, as Still Courteous, Still Humane
1393. Touched Deeply, Bradamant His Danger Hears,
1394. And to the Maid, Whose Troubled Face Apears
1395. The Haughty Semblance and the Lofty Say
1396. Rogero Ceased; and in the Nearest Way
1397. And Lo, in Eager Hurry From the Gate
1398. He Next Proceeds, as He Had Wont Before
1399. Bradamant for Long Time with Earnest Prayer,
1400. The Child Demanded of That Elder, Who
1401. This While Had Issued From the Fortress Near,
1402. Sansonet, of Such Staves, Above Five Pair
1403. With These Which Might the Solid Anvil Bore,
1404. I Have Already Said, the Enchanted Light
1405. The Other by Less Skilful Artist Wrought,
1406. And This Was the First Comrade of the Train
1407. This While Sir Pinnabello Had Drawn Near
1408. The Courser, and, Through Him, the Cavalier,
1409. To Threaten Him with Vengeance, and to Lay
1410. Pale and Dismayed His Spurs the Caitiff Plied
1411. The Other Three, Who From the Fortress Came,
1412. The Cruel Courtezan by Whom Was Made,
1413. She of the Castle Presses on This Side,
1414. With the Same Lance with Which He Overbore
1415. Although Three Times Alone the Child Was Fain
1416. Rogero Shocked the Valiant Gryphon, Where
1417. It Rent and Tore the Veil Which Served to Hide
1418. These Here, or There, to Earth Astonished Reel;
1419. He Saw the Damsel, Stretched Among the Rest
1420. Away Rogero Posted with the Dame,
1421. As, Thinking Thus, He Journeyed on His Way,
1422. Filled to the Brim with Water Was the Well;
1423. When That So Strange Adventure to the Rest
1424. Upon Rogero's Parting Thence, Where Fell
1425. Nor Any Thing Throughout That Livelong Day
1426. Bradamant in Close Pass, This While, Had Staid
1427. She Would Return Where She Had Left the Knight,
1428. Let Each Assist the Other in His Need;
1429. Now Mark What Chanced to Pinnabel, the Event
1430. Pinnabel Deemed He to an End Had Brought,
1431. Anselm in Altaripa Held Command,
1432. When She Has Put to Death the Treacherous Peer,
1433. Nor Knowing Where for Shelter She Should Rove,
1434. With Sorrow and Repentance Oft Assailed,
1435. These Words and Others She in Mournful Strain
1436. Nor Far Had Rode, Ere From the Greenwood-Trees
1437. By Chance She Found Him, as the Cavalier
1438. None Could Astolpho Have Found Any Where
1439. Embracing Twice or Thrice the Cousins Stand,
1440. But She Scarce Marvelled When Above the Plain
1441. Astolpho Says on Her He Will Bestow
1442. Bent, Since a Course in Air Was to Be Flown,
1443. Backed by Astolpho, and Ascending Slow,
1444. Bradamant, When Departed Was the Peer,
1445. Here Standing in Suspense, by Chance She Spied
1446. To Vallombrosa to Direct Her Way
1447. She Here and There, as She Her Way Pursued,
1448. She, When She Recognized the Place, Became
1449. He Came From Billeting the Bands Which Lay
1450. Bradamant Enters Montalbano's Seat,
1451. Because She Could Not Go, One in Her Stead
1452. She Purposed the Same Messenger Should Bear
1453. Valiant Rogero, When Too Bold of Sprite
1454. Each Damsel and Each Dame Who Her Obeyed,
1455. How Graven in Her Heart Rogero Lies,
1456. Hippalca Was the Attendant Damsel Hight.
1457. She Made the Damsel Mount Upon a Pad,
1458. Of Many and Many Things, Whereof to Treat
1459. At Noon of Day, Descending From a Mount,
1460. On the First Courser He Should Find, the Knight
1461. Duke Aymon's Daughter Scarce Had Turned Away
1462. Dead Lay Sir Pinnabel, and Bathed in Gore;
1463. The Hag to Wait Was Ordered by the Peer,
1464. If She in Any Manner Could Have Thought,
1465. Zerbino After Some Short Space Came Back,
1466. A Spacious Town, Which Altaripa Hight,
1467. Zerbino Asked the Occasion, and 'Twas Said
1468. After Some Little Time, the Funeral Bier
1469. While Solemn Preparation So Was Made
1470. From Voice to Voice, From One to Other Ear,
1471. Or Were It but to Gain the Promised Prize; --
1472. And, Weeping, with Raised Hands, Was Heard to Say,
1473. That Night in Prison, Fettered with a Pair
1474. When, the Next Morn, Aurora Stains with Dye
1475. But He Who with the Innocent Oft Sides,
1476. With Him Was Wended She, That in the Cell,
1477. She Had Beneath Orlando's Convoy Strayed,
1478. And Asked Him Why and Wherefore Him They Led
1479. And, After He Had Heard 'Twas at the Hest
1480. Orlando to the Rabble Cried, "Untie
1481. The Shining Armour Which the Chief Had Rent
1482. All at One Course, of Other of the Band,
1483. Above a Third He Killed, and Chased the Rest,
1484. Of a Hundred Men and Twenty, in That Crew,
1485. While Roland, After He Had Loosed the Knight,
1486. When Young Zerbino at His Side Surveyed
1487. From Quickly Clipping Her in His Embrace,
1488. And Worse He Grieved, That She Was with a Knight
1489. The Three in Silence Journey to a Font,
1490. And Without More Delay or Scruple, Prest
1491. When Speech Returned, Ere Yet the Maiden Well
1492. Proffers and Thanks Had Followed, with a Round
1493. This Was the Tartar Mandricardo, Who
1494. Yet Knew Not That It Was Anglantes' Peer
1495. Orlando, All This While, From Head to Feet,
1496. Already Distant Half the Range of Bow
1497. The Truncheons Which the Valiant Champions Bear,
1498. How Can the Saracen Conclude the Fray
1499. Him Griped Athwart, He, in Impetuous Mood,
1500. The Beauteous Doralice, Who Sees Her Guide
1501. Not Looking to His Feet, by High or Low,
1502. Here Stopt the Horse; but Him He Could Not Guide,
1503. The Paynim Deems It Were Discourtesy
1504. She Had Upon Her Back the Gallant Gear,
1505. Stordilane's Daughter and the Tartar King
1506. He Flies and Hurries Through the Forest Gray
1507. He Mounts His Horse, and Watches Long, Before
1508. At His Departure Waxed Zerbino Woe,
1509. Next, if They Met the Saracen, Before
1510. The Lovers Promised Willingly to Do
1511. The Course in Pathless Woods, Which, Without Rein,
1512. The Mid-Day Fervour Made the Shelter Sweet
1513. Turning Him Round, He There, on Many a Tree,
1514. In a Hundred Knots, Amid Those Green Abodes,
1515. But Stirred and Aye Rekindled It, the More
1516. Splay-Footed Ivy, with Its Mantling Spray,
1517. Here From His Horse the Sorrowing County Lit,
1518. In Arabic Was Writ the Blessing Said,
1519. Three Times, and Four, and Six, the Lines Imprest
1520. Then Well-Nigh Lost All Feeling; So a Prey
1521. Stiffed Within, the Impetuous Sorrow Stays,
1522. He Somewhat to Himself Returned, and Thought
1523. With Such Vain Hope He Sought Himself to Cheat,
1524. Languid, He Lit, and Left His Brigliador
1525. The More the Wretched Sufferer Seeks for Ease,
1526. Little Availed the Count His Self-Deceit;
1527. How at Angelica's Persuasive Prayer,
1528. Nor Thinking She of Mightiest King Was Born,
1529. A Deadly Axe Was This Unhappy Close,
1530. When He Can Give the Rein to Raging Woe,
1531. Amid the Pressure of Such Cruel Pain,
1532. In Him, Forthwith, Such Deadly Hatred Breed
1533. Never From Tears, Never From Sorrowing,
1534. All Night About the Forest Roved the Count,
1535. Cleft Through the Writing; and the Solid Block,
1536. For He Turf, Stone, and Trunk, and Shoot, and Lop,
1537. Wearied and Woe-Begone, He Fell to Ground,
1538. So Fierce His Rage, So Fierce His Fury Grew,
1539. He Many Others, with as Little Let
1540. The Shepherd Swains, Who Hear the Tumult Nigh,
1541. Let Him Make Haste His Feet to Disengage,
1542. Various Are Love's Effects; but From One Source
1543. I In the Other Canto Said Before,
1544. Viewing the Madman's Wonderous Feats More Near,
1545. He by One Leg the Heavy Trunk in Air
1546. By Such Examples Warned, the Rustic Crew
1547. Already Might'st Thou Hear How Loudly Ring
1548. As Beats the Wave Upon the Salt-Sea Shore,
1549. Twice He Ten Peasants Slaughtered in His Mood,
1550. He Would Have Been in Peril on That Day,
1551. Since Every One Had Left the Place for Dread,
1552. Thence, Repossest with the Desire to Rove,
1553. Now Right, Now Left, He Wandered, Far and Wide,
1554. When Roland Had Departed on His Quest,
1555. Zerbino Speedily the Prisoner Knew,
1556. Even Then How All Had Chanced, with Punctual Lore,
1557. The Two That Had Sir Odoric in Their Ward,
1558. Lighting, with Open Arms and Hurried Pace,
1559. Almonio Cried, "Since God Is Pleased in the End,
1560. After Almonio Had His Tale Suspended,
1561. The Faithless Man Alighted, and Down Fell
1562. So Said Sir Odoric; and After Showed
1563. Whether or No to Venge Such Infamy,
1564. While Scotland's Prince Is Doubting in Such Wise
1565. The Horse, That Had the Others of That Band
1566. The Wicked Hag Is Kept, So Bids the Peer,
1567. So Many Women, Many Men Betrayed,
1568. To Keep the Pact Zerbino Makes Him Swear
1569. Corebo Frees the Traitor in the End,
1570. This Author Vouches (I Declare Not Who)
1571. Zerbino, Who the Paladin Pursues,
1572. So Mighty Is the Love Zerbino Bore,
1573. This Was the Term for Which Orlando Said
1574. Far Off, He Saw That Something Shining Lay,
1575. For Durindane, He Sought the Greenwood, Round,
1576. Had but the Lovers Seen a Drop of Blood,
1577. Questioned by Good Zerbino, Him the Swain
1578. Isabel Lights as Well; and, Where They Lie
1579. Her Brandimart Had Left Disconsolate
1580. If She Had Been in That Enchanted Hold,
1581. To Flordelice Were Known the Arms and Sword
1582. Here Prince Zerbino All the Arms Unites,
1583. Orlando's Arms, King Charles's Paladine.
1584. Zerbino Having Done the Pious Deed,
1585. In Scaping Durindane, a Flame in Show
1586. As the Swift-Footed Dog, Who Does Espy
1587. On the Other Side, Where'er the Foe Is Seen
1588. In the End He Cannot Scape One Downright Blow,
1589. And, but That Somewhat Short the Blow Descends,
1590. The Fearful Stroke Was Mightier in Show,
1591. Almost on His Steed's Neck the Tartar Fell,
1592. Zerbino, on the Watch, Whose Eager Eye
1593. Zerbino, Here and There, Seeks Every Way
1594. He Ever Wastes His Blood; His Energies
1595. Doralice, Who as Courteous Was as Fair,
1596. Fair Flordelice, Who Ill Maintained Descries
1597. Seeking Him Morn and Evening, but in Vain,
1598. For to Leave Durindana Such Misdeed
1599. For Weakness Can the Prince No Further Hie,
1600. She, Blaming Fortune, and the Cruel Sky,
1601. At This the Sorrowing Isabel, Declining
1602. I Think Not These Last Words of Scotland's Knight
1603. On the Ensanguined Corse, in Sorrow Drowned,
1604. The Holy Man Next Made the Damsel See,
1605. Not That She Would Her Mighty Love Forbear,
1606. The Cautious Elder Would Not Bear Away
1607. He Thought to Bear Her to Provence, Where, Near
1608. So, Compassing a Mighty Round, They Fare
1609. After the Fight Between the Two Was Done,
1610. Him Doralice, as Soon as He His Front
1611. As a Good Hawk, Who Duck or Woodcock Shy,
1612. When the Two Hostile Warriors Were So Near,
1613. They Pass to Outrage, Shout, and Ire, Unsheath
1614. Of Those Two Infidels, Unmatched in Worth,
1615. Without Once Gathering Breath, Without Repose,
1616. Mid Thousand Blows, So, with Two-Handed Swing,
1617. But as Steel Arbalest That's Loaded Sore,
1618. Rodomont Smites, and in the Very Place
1619. King Mandricardo's Courser, Who Abhorred
1620. He Falls, and Mandricardo on the Plain
1621. The African, Who Feels His Horse Give Way,
1622. A Messenger Arrives, That From the Moor,
1623. The Moorish Messenger Not Only Knows,
1624. But to Fair Doralice Approached, and Said
1625. The Lady, with Bold Heart, 'Twixt Either Foe
1626. The Messenger Rehearsed, When She Had Done,
1627. Intending, When From Siege Their Chivalry
1628. Discord, at Hearing This, Impatient Grew;
1629. To Keep the Truce the Rival Warriors Swore;
1630. Yet Love Sways More; for, Save That the Command
1631. They at a Mead Arrived, Where, in Disport,
1632. He From That Well a Mile Is Hardly Gone
1633. Rogero Stood Awhile in Pensive Case,
1634. Pursuing Thence Their Ancient Road Again,
1635. Because the Troop About That Fortress See
1636. As on the Stripling's Face He Turns His Eyes,
1637. He Drew His Falchion Without More Delay,
1638. As While at Feed, in Full Security,
1639. Rogero Smites the Head From Six or Four,
1640. Such Good Rogero's Force and Valour Are,
1641. At Every Stroke He Never Less O'Erthrew
1642. But to Have Forged That Falchion Sorely Rued,
1643. As Hare From Hound Unslipt, That Helpless Train
1644. He, Who Was Angered Sore, as Best He Cou'd,
1645. When Now Rogero and the Stranger Knight,
1646. In Wary Wise, Intent the Truth to Find,
1647. So Richardetto Spake, and by His Say
1648. Bastard of Buovo, Brother to the Pair,
1649. His Cousin Richardetto, as Behoved,
1650. To Richardetto He Exclaims, Instead
1651. Sir Richardetto the Ill News Displease,
1652. The Other Heard Him Not, or Heard at Most
1653. And at the Feast, Where Plenty for the Three
1654. The Siege of Agramant, to Him That Day
1655. That True Religion Had the Stripling Swayed
1656. He Next Bethinks Him of the Promise Plight
1657. He, Having Thought on Many Things, in the End
1658. That Which Is Needed, in Obedience Meet,
1659. And, as He Erst by Word, He Now Explained
1660. Rogero Is Such Words His Thoughts Exposed,
1661. When He Had Closed the Sheet, That Amorous Knight
1662. And When the Greenwood Birds 'Gan, Far and Wide,
1663. When Clad and Thoroughly in Arms Arrayed --
1664. True to the Time and Place of Change, They Hie
1665. Those Three Adventurous Warriors Halted Where
1666. In Former Ages Courteous Ladies Were,
1667. Bradamant Well Would Deathless Praise Inherit,
1668. He, with Those Two of Clermont, as Whilere
1669. When Those Three of That Warrior Were Espied,
1670. Some One, Meseems, May Crave the Stranger's Name,
1671. The Two of Clermont and Their Bold Compeer
1672. And When, Now Nearer, the Advancing Crew
1673. They of Maganza From One Quarter Steer,
1674. Nor Buovo's Nor Duke Aymon's Valiant Son
1675. Marphisa with Rogero Moved Her Horse
1676. Rogero, Charging This, or the Other Band,
1677. If Ever You Remember to Have Viewed,
1678. Not So Sir Richardet and Aldigier,
1679. This Cause Made Him Who in His Fury Shared,
1680. Marphisa, Waging All the While the Fight,
1681. She Marvels at the Champion's Horrid Blows;
1682. With the Same Downright Stroke, He Overbore
1683. Good Turpin, He Who Knows That He Tells True,
1684. As She Had Mars in Bold Rogero Seen,
1685. To Rout Each Hostile Squadron, Filled with Dread,
1686. The Conqueror's Prize Remained Both Field and Prey;
1687. Besides Good Quantity of Silver Fine,
1688. When Now the Conquering Troop Their Temples Bare,
1689. With Viewing Her They Cannot Sate Their Eyes,
1690. This Spring Was One of Those Four Fountains Rare,
1691. Here, to Appearance, From the Forest Prest
1692. The Beast the Low and Those of Proudest Port
1693. Whate'er She Touches, Wall or Rampire Steep,
1694. Approaching Next, Is Seen a Cavalier,
1695. Of Those Who So Against Beast Advance,
1696. The Tenth, in Writing, on His Back Displayed
1697. In Wonder Stood Long Time That Warlike Train,
1698. So Malagigi to His Comrades Said,
1699. To Converse Gay the Friends Themselves Addrest,
1700. Hippalca She; From Whom Was Torn Away
1701. And, for to Her Well Known Was That Repair,
1702. She Turned Her Wholly to Sir Richardet,
1703. At This Rogero, Leaping on His Feet,
1704. Richardet (Though It Seems Discourtesy
1705. To Him Hippalca Said, When She Apart
1706. She Added How the Author of That Deed
1707. Listening, the Visage of the Youthful Knight
1708. With Him, Without Repose, the Damsel Rides,
1709. Hippalca's Ardour to Retrieve the Prey,
1710. Until King Agramant Shall Succoured Be,
1711. Marphisa Had, at Her Companions' Prayer,
1712. As Soon as Mandricardo Saw Her Face,
1713. Hence with a Damsel to Provide the Peer,
1714. Vivian and Malagigi (Who Were Dight
1715. Sir Vivian Is the First Who Moves His Horse,
1716. That Tartar's Harder Weapon Makes the Shield
1717. The Other of Those Brethren Armed Before
1718. Him on the Left Side Smote That Paynim Peer,
1719. Next Richardetto Comes, and for the Blow
1720. Marphisa Raised Her Face with Haughty Cheer,
1721. The Damsel Donned Her Sword, When Armed All O'Er,
1722. Like Brittle Crystal, in That Proud Career,
1723. So Perfect Are the Champions' Plate and Chain,
1724. Next Prays Not Only with That Tartar Knight
1725. Hippalca He to Mont Albano Prayed,
1726. And Gave the Letter to That Maid to Bear,
1727. Rogero Followed Fast the Paynim Knight,
1728. Arrived, Rogero Knew Frontino Gay,
1729. The First Day This and Last, That E'Er in Fight
1730. Add, That He Knows Rogero Is the Peer
1731. Three Hundred Miles, a Thousand, Would He Ride,
1732. Adding That He, in Doing So, Would Do
1733. While of That African He So Demands
1734. He Bore on Azure Field That Eagle White,
1735. King Mandricardo Is Like Blazon Wore
1736. The Tartar and Rogero Had Before
1737. And at the Same Time, Strained His Goodly Sword;
1738. First, in Belief He Should Marphisa Gain,
1739. Their Fury Waxed, and Angrier Words Ensued,
1740. As Peasant, When a River Saps Its Mounds,
1741. So, While the Tartar and Rogero Rage,
1742. Marphisa, to Appease the Warriors Bent,
1743. On Argier's King He Sprang, Like Savage Boar,
1744. Even to His Courser's Neck Rogero Bends;
1745. Him O'Er the Field His Courser Bears Away;
1746. Rodomont O'Er the Plain Pursues His Man.
1747. As Soon as to Himself the Child Returns,
1748. Rogero Storms Upon the Paynim's Crest;
1749. Discord, Believing Nothing Could Ensue
1750. Rogero's Blow Was Levelled with Such Spite,
1751. Marphisa Has King Mandricardo Prest
1752. Marphisa's Martial Steed, in Turning Short,
1753. Rogero, When Marphisa on the Ground
1754. Rodomont, of His Senses Repossest,
1755. Into That Gentle Palfrey's Form, Who Bore
1756. It Was a Mighty Leap, Yet Not So Wide
1757. At the First Hearing of That Voice, the Son
1758. Marphisa Rose Meanwhile, to Fury Stirred;
1759. They in the Paynim Camp Will Find Each Foe,
1760. Thither Returns Rogero, Where Apart
1761. Of Malagigi He and Viviane
1762. A Woman for the Most Part Reasons Best
1763. That Seemed Good Counsel, but Was Ill Indeed
1764. Had He Some Little Prize for Counsel Stayed,
1765. So the Two Lovers, Following Her Who Flies,
1766. The Wayward Fiend Who Makes That Palfrey Ramp
1767. The Sarzan and the Tartar the First Day
1768. A Cunning, Old Enchanter Him Deceived,
1769. Now, the Field Won, Wherein with Mickle Fame
1770. Her to Anglantes or to Brava Brought,
1771. Within He Takes a Day or Two's Repose;
1772. But the Ancient Foe, Deluded by Whose Say,
1773. King Sacripant and King Gradasso (Who
1774. Thither Another Fiend That Ruthless Foe
1775. Later by Half an Hour, Against Their Foes,
1776. The First Four Ride Until Themselves They Find
1777. Where Thickest Camped Lay Charles's Host, They Spurred,
1778. The Christian Host Throughout Is Overthrown,
1779. All Armed Is Charlemagne, Except His Head,
1780. Advancing, He on Earth Saw Many More,
1781. Where the Small Band Advances in Such Wise,
1782. Not to the Ramparts of the Paynim Crew
1783. As When We Spark to Loaded Mine Apply,
1784. Front and Askance, the Assailants Smote, and Low
1785. Many Who Had Escaped by Quick Retreat,
1786. Who 'Scape One Peril, Into Other Fly,
1787. Marphisa and the Child, of Danger Clear,
1788. At Once a Formidable Larum Rose;
1789. The Force of the Redoubted Rodomont,
1790. Of Fierce Marphisa and Her Bold Allies
1791. Many Through Reckless Haste Were Drowned in Seine,
1792. And. Like Orlando and Duke Aymon's Son,
1793. From Earth Beneath the Widow's Outcry Swells,
1794. Red Blushed the Blessed Angel, Who Believed
1795. As Servant Faithful to His Lord, and More
1796. Again He to That Monastery Flew,
1797. Albeit in Back and Arms All Over Shent
1798. And Good Rogero (She Inflames Them So)
1799. As Well Marphisa to Troyano's Son,
1800. To Have the First Possession of the Field
1801. The Tartar King, for More Perplexity,
1802. King Agramant, with Prayer and Kingly Word,
1803. Four Lots the Monarch Bade Prepare, Which Done,
1804. Rogero and Mandricardo for That Play
1805. There Lies a Place, of Paris Little Wide,
1806. In This Place Is Prepared the Listed Mead,
1807. In That, Which Looks Towards the Western Sun,
1808. High on a Throne of Ample State Appeared
1809. Were Seated with the Queen of Fair Castille
1810. In Dress Succinct Marphisa Sate; in Plight
1811. The Frequent Crowd Expects the Double Foe;
1812. Sericane's Monarch, Having with His Hand
1813. He, Seeing This, Agnised It for the Blade
1814. And Asks Had He by Force or Treaty Won,
1815. Saying the Count, in Yielding to His Foe
1816. And Over Mastered by His Choler, Flies
1817. Fury and Scorn Gradasso's Visage Heats,
1818. If Many Had Not Interposed, and Sought
1819. Agramant Those Contending Warriors Made
1820. While Royal Agramant Would Peace Restore,
1821. And There Had They Arrived, Where with His Spume
1822. And as His Points and Nimble Parts, More Near,
1823. This From Beneath Him Had Brunello Borne
1824. Assured 'Twas No Mistake, Circassia's Chief
1825. The Furious King of Argier, That in Pride
1826. Fierce and Enraged, Replied Circassia's Peer,
1827. No Greater Were the Daring and the Might
1828. This While Some Voice to Agramant the News
1829. Rodomont Reined His Anger, and Retired
1830. The King Bade Sacripant Explain His Right,
1831. Marphisa, Whom These Cries, Mid Others, Bring,
1832. The Others Who Stood Round Her, Wont to Hear
1833. Him by Mid Breast Marphisa Griped Amain,
1834. Above the Universal Noise and Shout,
1835. Held on the Pommel Grappled by His Hair,
1836. Not That He Loved the Losel or Esteemed,
1837. But the Wise King, Sobrino, Who Was by,
1838. Small Profit and Much Peril Would Succeed
1839. Right Willingly King Agramant Gave Way
1840. At This Mad Discord Laughed, No More in Fear
1841. Paris-Town Rocked, and Turbid Ran the Flood
1842. Five Have Set Up Their Rest, Resolved to Be
1843. King Agramant Oft Moved, Between the Pair,
1844. As His Best Lore, at Length the Monarch Said,
1845. The Mighty King of Sarza, Who Long Space
1846. All Know What Exploits Wrought by Him Had Been
1847. They, After, Ratify the King's Award,
1848. But Wonted Anger Chasing Shame Which Dyed
1849. Kind Mandricardo on His Feet Once More,
1850. Branded with Double Scorn, Before Those Peers,
1851. As the Afflicted Bull Who Has Foregone
1852. Rogero Moved, His Courser to Regain,
1853. To Have Frontino Ravished in His Sight,
1854. And Would Have Quickly Joined Him That Was Gone,
1855. When Afterwards He Would Remount the Sell,
1856. How He by Sacripant Was Overtaken,
1857. Wherever That Afflicted Paynim Goes,
1858. These Plaints and Countless Others to the Wind
1859. Though None for Whom I Hitherto Have Sighed
1860. Yet Will I Make Such Search Before I Die,
1861. The Saracen, Whom Rage No Less Profound
1862. And Would That From His Realm, in Want and Woe,
1863. And Thus the Saracen Pours Forth His Moan,
1864. The Victual, Disembarked From Loaded Barge,
1865. The King of Argier (for the Dusky Air
1866. To Warlike Rodomont, with Goodly Cheer
1867. Mine Host, Most Diligent in His Vocation
1868. Then Silence Broke, and with a Milder Air,
1869. Except Mine Host, Those Others Were Agreed
1870. Ladies, and All of You That Ladies Prize,
1871. Omit This Canto, and -- the Tale Untold --
1872. Let Him Who Will, Three Leaves or Four Pass-By,
1873. As Yet, Upon the Bloom of Spring, the Maid
1874. Here Paused Mine Host; to Whom on Every Side
1875. Of Sounder Judgement, 'Mid That Company,
1876. So Reasoning, That Just Elder and Sincere,
1877. Having Stopt Further Question in This Wise,
1878. For with Such Care for His Good Horse's Plight,
1879. Rodomont Navigates the Day and Night
1880. As the Sick Man Who with a Fever Grows,
1881. Rodomont Brooked No More Aboard to Stay,
1882. To Pass to Afric Straight, the Cavalier
1883. Here, Newly Built Upon a Hillock's Crest,
1884. He Changed His Scheme of Seeking Afric's Land,
1885. Here Standing, Full of Thought, Upon a Day,
1886. Who That Attendant Monk and Damsel Were,
1887. Although in Her Pale Face and Troubled Guise,
1888. As Soon as He of Sarza Saw Appear
1889. Her with the Kindest Mien and Mildest Tone
1890. And Said That She From Reason Wandered Wide,
1891. The Monk, That to This Talk Has Lent an Ear,
1892. And Having Interrupted Him in Vain,
1893. That Which He Rashly Uttered to Your Blame,
1894. But That in This the Witless Infidel
1895. And, as New Love the King Did Heat and Goad,
1896. The King, Who Long Had Taxed Himself to Bear
1897. And (So His Fury Waxed) That, as It Were
1898. He Fell Into the Sea, by One Is Said,
1899. Cruel King Rodomont, When From His Side
1900. And Now, So Temperate Showed That Infidel,
1901. And by Degrees So Thought to Mould the Dame
1902. Sad Isabella in Her Mind Is Bent
1903. She Sees That Paynim Monarch's Passion Blind
1904. She Cried Unto That Paynim, Foul to See,
1905. And Will Maintain His Promise, Till the Fact
1906. Argier's Perfidious King to Isabel
1907. When Herbs Enow by Them in Many a Beat,
1908. Who, Wearing Out the Weary Night in Sport,
1909. To Argier's Warlike King, Unused to Wine,
1910. Meanwhile That Lady From the Fire Does Lift
1911. She Washed, as Said, and Gladly Did Decline
1912. This Made Three Bounds, and Thence in Accents Clear
1913. His Eyes From Heaven Did the Creator Bend,
1914. So Spake the Sire; and Cleared the Ambient Air,
1915. That Placated, or in Some Content,
1916. In All Parts Round About This Chosen Site,
1917. This Nearly Imitates That Pile Beside
1918. Two Coursers, That Abreast Have Thither Made,
1919. Within Ten Days, or Shorter Time, Was Placed
1920. Whereat He Armed, and Issued for the Stower,
1921. The Pagan Had Imagined, as a Pain,
1922. If Those He Conquers Are of Pagan Strain,
1923. It Chanced Orlando, in His Furious Mood,
1924. Orlando Running Thus His Wild Career,
1925. This While, a Gentle Damsel Sought the Place
1926. When Flordelice That Bridge and Tower Was Near,
1927. She Stopt, the Issue of That Strife to Know,
1928. This Hand and Now That Other He Puts Out,
1929. Roland, Whose Better Wit Was Lost Withal,
1930. Quickly the Stream Asunder Bore the Pair.
1931. Along the Bridge Which Spanned That Foaming Tide
1932. Much Country Had Been Traversed by the Knight,
1933. Here He by Chance Encountered in Mid Road
1934. To This Address Orlando Answered Nought,
1935. Upon Those Youths Next Sprang the Furious Knight.
1936. That Other to a Jutting Fragment Clung,
1937. Even in Such Mode as Often We Descry
1938. These and More Marvels Does the Count, Who Bends
1939. Where He Somedeal May Shun the Noontide Ray,
1940. So Different From Himself Was He to Sight,
1941. Nigh Buried in Their Sockets Are His Eyes,
1942. When Crazed Orlando Was of Her Aware,
1943. The Youth, That Sees Him Chase His Love Who Fled,
1944. When on His Back Orlando Felt Him Beat,
1945. At Speed Angelica Impelled Her Mare.
1946. Was It Through Fear, or Was She, While She Stript
1947. If but Two Inches Short Had Fallen His Prey,
1948. Doubt Not That She Another Will Provide;
1949. Orlando Seizes Her with That Delight
1950. As in This Course to O'Erleap a Ditch He Sought,
1951. Next, for He Felt That Weight Too Irksome Grow,
1952. To Drag That Palfrey Ceased He Not, Though Dead,
1953. As Much, or Little Less, Would Do the Knight
1954. Would That of Her Orlando Were Possest,
1955. When Reason, Giving Way to Heat of Blood,
1956. But Like Sick Man Am I, Who, Sore Bested,
1957. Well Hope I, From Your Sovereign Courtesy,
1958. No Less Beside Myself Than Brava's Peer
1959. And He, Who Could Like Any Otter Swim,
1960. Then Leaping on His Horse, by Different Way
1961. He Came at Last to Malaga, and Here
1962. Departing Thence, Insane Orlando Flees
1963. He Plunged Into the Waves, at Last, Parforce;
1964. Nor Poops Nor Prows Does Roland More Descry,
1965. He Sinks, and Would with Him Draw Down His Load;
1966. But Fortune, That of Madmen Is the Guide,
1967. To Say So Many Things I Am Intent,
1968. King Mandricardo, Proud That in His Right
1969. Agramant and Marsilius Strive in Vain,
1970. Rogero Brooks Not That in Other Fight
1971. Rogero and Gradasso, at This Say
1972. A Seely Boy Then Dipt His Hand and Drew
1973. Gradasso Every Thought and Every Deed
1974. After the Drawing Lots and King's Award,
1975. The Foolish Rabble Anxiously Attends
1976. Nor What a Heavy Loss He Would Sustain
1977. Agramant Recognized This Truth; but Thought
1978. Five or Six Months Would They the Strife Delay,
1979. But More Than King, Than All, Who Sought in Vain
1980. Accompanying Words with Tears and Sighs,
1981. So Said He; and with Reasons Passing Good
1982. And Had; but That Aurora -- on His Way
1983. When That Loud Sound Is by the Tartar Heard,
1984. The Tartar Arms Himself in Haste; with Pain
1985. Put on and Laced the Shining Helmets Were,
1986. From This Side and From That, the Eagle Flew,
1987. As Turpin Truly Writes, Into the Sky
1988. They, Pointing at the Vizors' Sight, Attacked,
1989. They Level at the Vizor, Which Is Double,
1990. But Yet No Stroke Well Worthy of Their Might
1991. The Assistants' Hearts Were Frozen at the Blow,
1992. I Think That Blow Was by Some Angel Stayed,
1993. Had Balisarda Smote Him Full, Though Crowned
1994. Never Raged Trampled Serpent, Never So
1995. Poised in His Stirrups Stood the Tartar Lord,
1996. Rogero Drawing Balisarda Back,
1997. For This He Pauses Not, but Spurs Amain,
1998. Whate'er That Sword Takes-In It Shears Outright,
1999. If Cleft His Vizor Through the Midst; 'Twas Well
2000. The Spouting Blood of Either Cavalier
2001. He the Left Side of His Good Cuirass Gored,
2002. Not Unavenged the Unhappy Monarch Dies;
2003. Smit Was the Child by Mandricardo's Hand,
2004. Rogero Was the First Who Went to Ground,
2005. But When by Tokens Manifest Appear
2006. Each with Rogero Is Rejoiced, and Feels
2007. Nor to Rogero Lean the Men Alone;
2008. I Say Perchance, Nor Warrant It I Dare,
2009. Though He Did Well Alive, What Could Be Done
2010. Agramant Bids Them Diligently Lay
2011. With Mandricardo's Arms, His Other Weed
2012. Bradamant's Torment Have I To Recount,
2013. And How the Child, in Rescue of the Steed,
2014. To Find Herself with Written Scroll Appaid
2015. Four Times, Nay Six, She That Epistle Read,
2016. Rogero's Word Was Pledged for His Return
2017. To Her Rogero, in His Absence, Said
2018. The Comfort That Hippalca's Words Convey,
2019. But in That He His Promise Ill Maintained,
2020. This While Mount Alban's Prince and Castellain,
2021. Hither Had Good Rinaldo Now Repaired;
2022. There, Hearing of the Safety of That Pair,
2023. His Course to Mont Albano Had He Ta'En;
2024. Guichard, Duke Aymon's Eldest Born, and They,
2025. And, Saying That She Ailed, Most Truly Said;
2026. What Sweeter, Gladder, State Could Be Possest
2027. For by All Bitters Else Which Interpose
2028. That Which the Heart Aye Sees, Though Undiscerned
2029. Scorn, and Repulse, and Finally Each Pain
2030. This Is That Cruel and Envenomed Wound
2031. I Speak Not of What Fatal Mischief Wrought
2032. The Following Day They Met a Cavalier,
2033. Him Underneath the Vizor's Sight Offends
2034. His Lance Guichardo Levelled, When He Spied
2035. All to Be Foremost in the Joust Contend,
2036. So Spake the Knight, Yet Spake Not in a Tone
2037. The Chargers Such a Rough Encounter Made,
2038. And to His Foe, That Having Wheeled Anew,
2039. To Him Rinaldo, "if We for Thy Horse
2040. To That King Paladin with Praise Replied
2041. Their Cruel and Despiteous Blows Resound,
2042. One Hour and More Than Half Another, Stood
2043. Rinaldo in Himself Revolving Weighed
2044. The Stranger Knight, Upon the Other Side,
2045. He Gladly Would Be Quit of the Emprize
2046. He of Mount Alban Is the First to Say,
2047. For Montalbano's Lord the Stranger Guest,
2048. Guido the Savage Was That Cavalier,
2049. Sir Guido, When He Knew His Host to Be
2050. While Neither They Through Talk Their Journey Stay,
2051. I Will Not Tell What Welcome to the Peer
2052. Ever, I Deem, Good Guido Would Have Been
2053. So One Day and Another Prick the Train,
2054. As Guido Them, They Gallant Guido Knew.
2055. Nor Them He Less Had Recognized at Sight;
2056. They -- Erst at Feud and with Sore Hate Possest,
2057. When She, That Gentle Damsel, Now More Near,
2058. Fair Flordelice Was She, the Stranger Dame;
2059. By Accident, So Strange and Sad, Distrust,
2060. But Since His Band Already Had He Dight,
2061. His Squadron in the Wood He Placed, and There,
2062. A Mile An-End with Aquilant He Prest,
2063. At the First Charge on That Unchristened Band,
2064. To Strike More Dread Into the Moorish Foe,
2065. Is None So Bold of All That Paynimry
2066. Guido Succeeds; No Less Their Foe Pursue,
2067. Seven Hundred Men with Good Rinaldo Speed,
2068. If Good Rinaldo Gathers Small Supplies
2069. Them Now in Succour of King Charles He Stirred,
2070. Tidings to Charles Rinaldo Had Conveyed,
2071. Whom by Such Long and by Such Tedious Way
2072. To Dame and Damsel in That Ancient Age
2073. Had He Such Strange and Evil Tidings Heard
2074. She Tells Him How the Perilous Bridge's Floor
2075. Brandimart, Who the Country Loves as Dear
2076. Thitherward Were Orlando She Had Spied,
2077. With Lofty Voice the Sovereign of Argier,
2078. Brandimart, at the Paynim's Proud Discourse,
2079. The Paynim's Courser, Ever Used to Go
2080. With Heavy Spears, the Growth of Forest Hoar,
2081. When Either Steed Would Nimbly Spring From Ground,
2082. With All Their Weight, Down Hurtled From the Steep,
2083. He Where 'Tis Hand and Where 'Tis Softer Knows,
2084. Whelming Them Upside-Down, the Waters Flow,
2085. Moved by Her Words, He Lent Her Lover Aid,
2086. All Happiness Was in That Damsel Spent,
2087. She Parts, and Has Anew Already Planned
2088. Who Was That Champion, Shall Be Said Elsewhere;
2089. King Agramant in His Pavilion Lies,
2090. Uncounselled and Confused, the King Arrayed
2091. Marsilius So, Sobrino So, Their Fear
2092. Agramant to Those Lords' Opinion Bent,
2093. Those Whom Rinaldo, Whom His Brethren Slew,
2094. Here One Conjectures Malagigi Bore
2095. Chased by Rinaldo and King Charlemagne,
2096. Nay; When He Hears It Is Mount Alban's Knight
2097. Gradasso Had Desired Long Time Before
2098. Hence Had That King Repaired to the Sea-Shore,
2099. Now That Gradasso Learns Mount Alban's Peer
2100. He Seeks the Paladin, Now Here Now There,
2101. When King Gradasso Recognized the Foe,
2102. Guido the Savage, as He Spake, Was Nigh
2103. Courteous Was Sericana's Cavalier,
2104. Next Calls Upon the Son of Buovo, Who
2105. The King of Sericane, as Loath to Leave
2106. Thither Rinaldo Will the Steed Convey,
2107. With Mighty Marvel and with Greater Pain,
2108. When They So Agreed, Gradasso Made
2109. It Seemed Rinaldo's Friends Were All in Fear,
2110. And Malagigi, More Than All the Rest,
2111. When Now From Either Side Those Warriors Meet,
2112. I Recollect That I Was Bound to Sing
2113. So Was I Bound to Sing, but I Begun
2114. But It Behoves, Ere More of These Be Said,
2115. With Horse and Foot, of Good or Evil Sort,
2116. He Offers Rodomont, if to His Side
2117. As a Free Gift to Him the Martial Fair
2118. She Pardoned Every Ancient Injury,
2119. The Hangman Hung His Corpse in Desert Field,
2120. This While Does Good Duke Aymon's Daughter Mourn,
2121. Aye Sick with Hope Deferred, the Expecting Maid,
2122. How Oft of Dormouse, Badger, or of Bear,
2123. She Here and There, Throughout the Livelong Night,
2124. When, Saving Some Four Days, the Term Was Ended,
2125. When Shining Arms at Distance She Perceives,
2126. And Then She Arms, and Will the Warrior Meet;
2127. Sorrow the Maid So Wholly Occupies,
2128. For a Month's Space Beyond Those Twenty Days
2129. Bound Homeward From the Hostile Camp, Where Lay
2130. Of Him a Full Account Did He Afford,
2131. But Then Subjoins the Gascon Cavalier
2132. And Hope, When Healed Shall Be the Youthful Knight,
2133. What He Rehearsed, the Gascon Knight Believed,
2134. That She with Him Had Brought the Paynim Aid,
2135. She Solely to the Camp Had Ta'En Her Way,
2136. When Bradamant the Gascon's Story Heard,
2137. Turned on Her Face, Her Body on the Bed,
2138. Resolved to Die, 'Twas So the Damsel Cried;
2139. The Vest Is of That Colour Which Is Spied
2140. She Took the Courser That Was Wont to Bear
2141. Without Attendants, Without Squire, Alone,
2142. Before the Lady and Behind Her Ride
2143. After Him Gallops Not, Nor Hurries Ought,
2144. This Grieved the Damsel's Heart, but Far Above
2145. As When From Squall, or Other Chance, a Barge
2146. She Raised Her Eyes at Last, and Saw the Sun
2147. To Better Speed Fair Bradamant Aroused
2148. To Her the Shepherd Said, "I Know of None
2149. Though Rabican's Good Paces Merit Praise,
2150. He Answers That the Place Is Occupied
2151. The Guard His Message Bore, Where at Their Ease
2152. Three Cavaliers They Were, of Might So Tried,
2153. In Feats of Arms Few Warriors Were More Stout;
2154. Such Transport as the Longing Gallant Cheers,
2155. When She Beheld, How, of the Drawbridge Clear
2156. The King of Sweden, Foremost of Those Knights,
2157. When at Three Strokes She Had Unhorsed Them All,
2158. As Bradamant Unarms, and First Her Shield,
2159. As When the Stage's Curtain Is Uprolled,
2160. Already So Well-Grown and Widely Spread
2161. With Modest and with Mirthful Talk This While,
2162. In the Great Hall That Plenteous Board Was Laid,
2163. So Beauteous Are the Figures, That Instead
2164. The Guests Were Placed, and Now About to Eat,
2165. The Lord Some Matrons of His Household Crew
2166. The Warder Cries to That Islandic Dame,
2167. As in a Moment's Time a Cloud Obscure
2168. The Maid Turns Pale, and All Her Colour Flies,
2169. Bradamant -- Grieved That Maid of Gentle Kind
2170. As When Hot Summer Sun the Soil Has Rived,
2171. At Length the Supper, Which Had Long Been Dight,
2172. The Supper Done -- Brought Sooner to a Close
2173. Timagoras, Parrhasius, Polygnote,
2174. And Those, Yet Living or of Earlier Day,
2175. The Painters We Have Seen, and Others, Who
2176. Yet Let Not Artist Whether New or Old,
2177. That Art, Whereby Those Ancient Erst Pourtrayed
2178. So Said, He Leads the Listening Ladies Where
2179. He Shows King Pepin, Shows King Charlemagne;
2180. A Youthful Pepin of the Royal Line
2181. He Shows Them Next (but After Interval,
2182. And the French Host, Decoyed in Cunning Wise
2183. Successively That Castellain Displayed
2184. The Warder of the Castle, Who Makes Clear
2185. So Saying, to His Guests the Cavalier
2186. Under Italian Escort Next They See
2187. The Host Reproved Himself, While So He Said,
2188. That Warder Then Shows Caesar Borgia, Grown
2189. These Histories and More the Pictures Shew,
2190. When with These Pictures They Their Sight Had Fed,
2191. Yet Slumber Toward Dawn, and in a Dream
2192. The Clouds Were Gone, the Horizon Overspread
2193. And Found, the Lady Messenger, with Maid
2194. Add to Such Ill, That, Hungering Sore for Food,
2195. And -- Each Resolved to Die or Else His Name
2196. Not Thinking, Howsoe'er, She Was a Maid,
2197. For Bradamant No More Her Courser Wheeled,
2198. For They, as Thither They Their Course Addrest,
2199. When They by Ulany Were Certified
2200. What Arms They Had Upon Them, They Unbound,
2201. And That They Evermore Afoot Would Fare
2202. Lodged in a Township at the Fall of Night,
2203. No Signal They, No Trumpet They Attend,
2204. None E'Er by Proof Two Other Faulchions Chose
2205. With Mickle Industry, with Mighty Pain
2206. Rinaldo with More Skill His Blade Inclined,
2207. They Good Baiardo by a Monster View,
2208. Perhaps It Was a Bird; but When or Where
2209. Rinaldo and Gradasso, Who Descried
2210. Quitting the Fount, They Follow, Where They View
2211. Rinaldo Ceased in Little Time to Spy
2212. In Case, as Erst Concerted by the Twain,
2213. And Found Him Shrowded in His Caverned Lair,
2214. Astolpho in His Flight Will I Pursue,
2215. To Arragon He Past Out of Navarre,
2216. Beneath Him Cadiz and the Strait He Spied,
2217. Morocco, Fez, and Oran, Looking Down,
2218. To Other Tremizen He Posts, Where Bred
2219. In Aethiopia's Realm Senapus Reigns,
2220. Astolpho Lighted in the Spacious Court,
2221. High Prized Withal, Albeit It So Abound,
2222. In Wall and Roof and Pavement Scattered Are
2223. The Soldan, King of the Egyptian Land,
2224. Of All Those Aethiop Monarchs, Beyond Measure,
2225. Whene'er to Eat or Drink the Wretched Man
2226. And This, Because Upborn by Such a Tide
2227. Upon This Hill Which Well-Nigh Kissed the Skies,
2228. God Marred the Rash Emprise, and From on High
2229. And Him Had Plunged in Uttermost Despair
2230. Now That with Wonderment His Followers Spy
2231. Within the Castle Court Astolpho Flew,
2232. Forthwith a Solemn Banquet They Prepare
2233. All Bear a Female Face of Pallid Dye,
2234. The Fowls Are Heard in Air; Then Swoops Amain
2235. At Croup or Collar Now He Aims His Blow,
2236. That King Had Firmly Hoped the Cavalier
2237. And First to Fill Their Ears, to King and Train,
2238. The Meats He to an Open Galley Bears,
2239. Almost at That Aerial Mountain's Feet,
2240. O Fierce and Hungry Harpies, That on Blind
2241. Too Foul a Fault Was His, Who Did Unclose
2242. Till She Her Sons Has Shaken by the Hair,
2243. Hunting Those Hideous Birds, That Cavalier
2244. Astolpho Doubts if He Within Shall Wend,
2245. He Speedily His Winged Horse Forsook;
2246. But as He More Descends Into That Lair,
2247. In That Dim Cavern Was So Little Light,
2248. When Him a Melancholy Voice Addressed;
2249. Nor Juno, Nor Eurystheus, in Such Chase
2250. Since Wretched Lydia Spake No More, the Peer
2251. The Motion of His Quickly Shifting Feet
2252. And Next to Bar the Way Against That Band,
2253. While in That Cave Astolpho Did Remain,
2254. Then Backed the Griffin-Horse, and Soared a Flight
2255. Here Sapphire, Ruby, Gold, and Topaz Glow,
2256. Warble the Wanton Birds in Verdant Brake,
2257. And This, Mid Fruit and Flower and Verdure There,
2258. Thither Where Those Transparent Walls Appear,
2259. Astound with Wonder, Paused the Adventurous Knight,
2260. An Elder, in the Shining Entrance-Hall
2261. He, with Glad Visage, to the Paladin,
2262. He of Our Lord So Loved, the Blessed John;
2263. Translated Thither, He Found Company,
2264. The Holy Ancients to a Chamber Lead,
2265. When with That Daily Payment Which Man Owes,
2266. Much That Not Lawfully Could Here Be Shown,
2267. In Talk the Blest Apostle Is Diffuse
2268. Four Goodly Coursers Next, and Redder Far
2269. The Chariot, Towering, Threads the Fiery Sphere,
2270. Here Doubly Waxed the Paladin's Surprize,
2271. Here Other River, Lake, and Rich Champaign
2272. He, That with Other Scope Had Thither Soared,
2273. Nor Here Alone of Realm and Wealthy Dower,
2274. The Lover's Tears and Sighs; What Time in Pleasure
2275. He, Passing by Those Heaps, on Either Hand,
2276. Golden and Silver Hooks to Sight Succeed,
2277. O'Erturned, Here Ruined Town and Castle Lies,
2278. He Marks Mighty Pool of Porridge Spilled,
2279. A Large Provision, Next, of Twigs and Lime
2280. He Turns Him Back, Upon Some Days and Deeds
2281. The Names of Those Whose Wits Therein Were Pent
2282. Some Waste on Love, Some Seeking Honour, Lose
2283. Since His Consent the Apostle Signified
2284. A Second Dame Replaced the Work When Done
2285. On All the Fleeces That Erewhile Were Laid
2286. That Elder Is So Nimble and So Prest,
2287. Madonna, Who Will Scale the High Ascent
2288. To Have Anew That Judgment, Through the Skies,
2289. Astolpho Wandered Through That Palace Wide,
2290. The Beauteous Fleece He Saw with Wondrous Glee
2291. I Know Not if You Recollect; of Him
2292. I Say, That When Upon the River Side
2293. Along That River and Around It Fly
2294. When They Would Raise Themselves in Upward Flight,
2295. Thus, Counter to That Ancient's Will Malign,
2296. To Immortality 'Tis Sacred; There
2297. Of That Old Sire, and Why He Would Dispense
2298. Henceforth with That Apostle Let the Peer
2299. And Afterwards Arriving in a Town,
2300. She Towards Provence, by the Nearest Road,
2301. She Sought One of an Otter's Nimbleness,
2302. Flordelice Marked the Maid, That, in Her Sight,
2303. With These Last Words a Sigh That Damsel Drew,
2304. And as the Maid Appears in Martial Scale,
2305. King Rodomont Prepares His Course to Run;
2306. Scarce for Her Horse the Martial Damsel Can
2307. The Damsel Wheeled, Towards the Cavalier
2308. Silent and Sad, He Raised Himself From Ground,
2309. He Parts; and Save That in a Caverned Cell
2310. Besides the Arms of Monodantes' Heir
2311. All Others, Taken From the Paynim Train,
2312. Stript of His Armour and Afoot, Did Part
2313. Yet Still with New Desire the Warrior Burned
2314. When She in Other Writing Had Displaid
2315. Through Long Days' Journey, by That River-Shore,
2316. She Forward Rode, Within the Enclosure Sped,
2317. Rogero Stands Confused; He Finds No End
2318. To Think 'Twas Rodomont the Youthful Peer
2319. To Agramant and King Marsilius Flew
2320. In Beauteous Arms and Costly Surcoat Drest,
2321. The Moorish King, That on the Rampart's Height
2322. Grandonio De Volterna, Fierce of Mood,
2323. She Cries, "I Would Not Thy Discourtesy
2324. Bradamant's Sharp and Stinging Answer Stirred
2325. To Him the High-Minded Damsel Gave His Horse,
2326. They on the Walls, That Know Not Who the Peer
2327. The Third Encounter Craved Lanfusa's Son,
2328. He Bowned Him for the Tournay, on His Side
2329. She Spoke the Word in All Simplicity,
2330. They Take Their Ground, and to the Encounter Ride,
2331. Rogero (for Not Yet That Warrior Knows
2332. Where'er They Be, All Hearts of Gentle Strain
2333. Among the Warriors of Antiquity
2334. All the Inhuman Deeds Which Wrought by Hand
2335. Though a Foul Vengeance in That Blow Was Meant
2336. This Will I Pass, Nor Their So Many More
2337. As Hector and Aeneas, Mid the Flood,
2338. Feruffine 'Scaped, the Good Cantelmo Left,
2339. I Ween, Mid Warriors in the Days of Yore,
2340. I Of That Lady Fair, of Mickle Might,
2341. Rogero Heard the Call in Joyous Vein,
2342. Stung, at These Tidings, by the Amorous Dart --
2343. Now Fierce Marphisa, Who Was There, and Prest
2344. She Leapt Upon Her Horse, and Thither Hied
2345. Whether the Maid Would Publish, in Her Pride,
2346. Or Rather She, That Gentle Lady Thought,
2347. Parforce to Ground Must Go the Royal Maid,
2348. She Whirls This While Her Faulchion, and Would Fain
2349. Scarce Down, Marphisa Started From the Plain,
2350. This While Some Knights (Some Knights Upon Our Side,
2351. Troyano's Generous Son, Who Had Espied
2352. The Enamoured Youth, with Beating Heart, Intent,
2353. And When He Saw Unfinished Was the Fight,
2354. If So Rogero Could with Honour Do,
2355. On This Side and That Other, Rings the Alarm,
2356. As Fierce as Thought Could Think, 'Twixt Either Host
2357. By the Eagle Argent on the Shield of Blue
2358. So Said, She Spurred at Him Amid the Throng;
2359. Her Further Meaning Well Did He Divine,
2360. Rogero, When He Saw Her So Offended,
2361. Above Three Hundred Men in That Affray
2362. As When Soft Southern Breezes Are Unpent,
2363. Would She Not, Could She Not, She Nought Replied,
2364. Within That Thicket, of White Marble Wrought,
2365. But Turn We to Marphisa, That Anew
2366. She Pricks Her Horse Behind the Two, and Gains,
2367. And Him Perfidious She Anew Did Name.
2368. Angrier Than Venomed Viper, with a Bound,
2369. Bradamant Who Will Die, or in That Just
2370. But Is Too Slow Withal; for on Her Feet
2371. At Half-Sword's Engage the Struggling Foes;
2372. When He Entreaties Unavailing Found,
2373. Rogero Ceased Not From His Task; He Caught,
2374. At Last His Faulchion Young Rogero Drew;
2375. Bradamant Took Her Sword, and to Descry
2376. He Knew the Virtues of That Weapon Well,
2377. In That, a Mighty Stroke Marphisa Sped,
2378. And Had Upon His Head Descended Shear,
2379. I Cannot Tell You Truly in What Wise,
2380. The Horrid Voice Exclaims, "Your Quarrel Leave;
2381. Gladly a Sister in the Martial Queen
2382. Rogero From Marphisa Does Not Hide,
2383. Marphisa to Rogero Makes Request
2384. And How a Lovely Daughter, Who Excelled
2385. And Country, Sire, and Brethren Two Betrayed,
2386. Valiant Marphisa, with a Tranquil Face,
2387. When Afterwards She From Her Brother Knew
2388. In the Beginning So He Should Have Done,
2389. But, as to Bradamant Whilere, He Cries,
2390. And She, That Every Day Had Sought His Bed,
2391. If, as in Seeking Other Gift to Gain,
2392. And, if They of Themselves Sufficient Were
2393. To Furnish Mutual Aid Is Not Enow,
2394. But Hands or Tongue Ne'Er Had, Nor Has, the Skill,
2395. Not Only Thomyris and Harpalice,
2396. Faithful, Chaste, and Bold, the World Hath Seen
2397. But Ye That Prosper in the Exercise
2398. Erewhile Marullo and Pontante for You
2399. One of This Pair (Besides That, of His Will,
2400. So That He Never More Will Wearied Be
2401. And Well He Merits, That a Dame So Blest,
2402. New Trophies He on Oglio's Bank Has Shown;
2403. There's Hercules of the Carnuti, Son
2404. And Beside These and Others of Our Day,
2405. If I Of These Would Separately Tell,
2406. One Will I Choose, and Such Will Choose, That She
2407. As Phoebus to His Silvery Sister Shows
2408. Mid Victories Born, Victoria Is Her Name,
2409. If Chaste Laodamia, Portia True,
2410. If That Loud-Voiced Maeonian Trump Whilere
2411. If All That Is to Tell, and All I Fain
2412. Now, Being Here to Listen to My Say,
2413. Ladies, in Fine I Say, That Every Age
2414. Bradamant and Marphisa Would I Say,
2415. As Said, in Act to Go Rogero Stood;
2416. They Rode An-End; and Louder Waxed the Sound,
2417. As Vulcan's Son, That Sprang (as It Is Versed)
2418. At That Dishonest Sight and Shameful, Glows
2419. And Recognised the Other Two No Less;
2420. Ulany, That in Bradamant Descried,
2421. What of the Shield Became, She Cannot Say,
2422. To Hear, Yet More to See, So Foul a Wrong,
2423. With One Constant, the Maids and Cavalier,
2424. To Gentle Bradamant Ulania Showed
2425. They to a Hamlet on the Summit Wound,
2426. Not More Bold Jason Wondered, and the Train
2427. The Martial Damsels Bid for Ulany,
2428. How in That Impious Man Such Fury Grew,
2429
2430
2431. So Saying, in Those Maids of Martial Might
2432. The Chamber Wench, Made Prisoner with His Prize,
2433. News Being After to Her Foeman Brought,
2434. He on a Sumpter Horse the Prisoner Sent
2435. As the Flood, Swoln with Vesulo's Thick Snows,
2436. Them with Such Hatred, Them with Such Disdain
2437. But First 'Tis Right That Woman to Unchain,
2438. Even as the Wolf, Who, Laden with His Prey,
2439. Not Only They the Dame and Martial Gear,
2440. Thence, Lightened Thus, Their Way They Thither Bend,
2441. They Reached a Summit, and From Thence Espied
2442. As Soon as in the Town That Cavalcade
2443. Marphisa, Who Had Planned the Thing Whilere
2444. The Maid of France Is with Marphisa Gone,
2445. As Many as Are Touched, So Many Lie
2446. Meanwhile the Hands of Marganor, Behind
2447. Such End to Compass Is No Hard Assay;
2448. Since None Dares Trust Another, Nor His Will,
2449. The Rabble, Full of Rage and Enmity,
2450. Many, of Whom the Sister Had Been Slain,
2451. To the Hag, Who Bore Such Hatred to That Wight,
2452. Nor She the Courier Maid, Nor They That Ride
2453. As Torrent One While Foams in Haughty Tide,
2454. So Marganor Whilere Each Bound and Bourn
2455. This Without Contest Its Possessors Yield,
2456. For From the Day That They Were Overthrown
2457. For She Would Have Been Dragged, -- Like Others, Whom
2458. Before They Hence Depart, the Martial Twain
2459. Then Make Them Promise Never to Bestow
2460. And, if He Then Were Wived, or Ever Were
2461. Nor Hence They Part Ill From the Filthy Place,
2462. Beside a Church, the Martial Damsels Twain
2463. Within the Town the Troop Set Up Their Rest,
2464. Here Ulany Remained, and in Her Power
2465. Throughout All That and the Succeeding Day,
2466. Ye Courteous Ladies, Who Unto My Strain
2467. If From Her Side for Other Cause Had Gone,
2468. Yet to Preserve Our Honour Not Alone
2469. For if His Life, Whom Gentle Woman Loves,
2470. His Duty Good Rogero Satisfied,
2471. He Will Perform His Duty to Repair
2472. To Arles-Town Whither Had His King Conveyed
2473. Bradamant, When She in the Camp Appeared,
2474. When Next 'Tis Known, the Second of the Twain
2475. By Them Was Charles Saluted Reverently,
2476. Her Kindly Charlemagne Received, and Wide
2477. She Adds, the Christian Faith She Will Receive,
2478. Charles, No Less Eloquent Upon His Side,
2479. Then Rose and Locked Her in a New Embrace,
2480. They Deck the Ground for the Ensuing Day;
2481. In Sacred Stole, Pontifical, Arraid,
2482. The Duke Descended From the Lucid Round,
2483. That He, for This and for His First Desert,
2484. Then Made Him That Plumed Beast Again Bestride,
2485. Great Was the Joy, and Great Was the Delight,
2486. So That Not Only Those Whom He Demands
2487. The Night Before the Day, When on Its Road
2488. He, as His Master Erst Instruction Gave,
2489. To Nubia He, Rejoicing in His Prey,
2490. And Having Gained the Mountain's Hither Side,
2491. After He, Lowly Kneeling in the Dust,
2492. They, Neighing Shrill, Down Narrow Paths Repair,
2493. He Fourscore Thousand of His Nubian Power,
2494. Erewhile a Nimble Bark, with Sail and Oar,
2495. Agramant, Hearing in What Peril Lies
2496. He Said; and on Marsilius Seated Nigh
2497. Thus Warily the Spanish King Replied,
2498
2499
2500. With These and Other Sayings Yet More Sound,
2501. In This Accord Like Cause for Pleasure Find,
2502. Rinaldo Felt Himself Much Magnified,
2503. Rogero, Though Much Honoured, on His Part,
2504. But Because Sister of the Christian Knight
2505. If Silently Rogero Made Lament
2506. Nought Can Result to Bradamant but Pain,
2507. For, Without Shame and Scorn, She Never May,
2508. But She, That Ever, When Things Adverse Were,
2509. Meanwhile Their Weapons for the Future Fray
2510. Whether Chance Moved Mountalban's Martial Lord,
2511. Watchful Aurora Hardly From the Bower
2512. After Short Pause, Was Seen Upon the Plain
2513. On the Other Part, Without His Camp Appears
2514. And, of Two Axes, Hath Duke Namus One,
2515. After the Second Choice of Arms Was Made
2516. Charlemagne, at His Altar, to the Sky
2517. This Done, They Seek That Altar, Sumptuously
2518. And Like Him, Nor in Under Tone, He Swears,
2519. Now with the Axe's Blade, Now with Its Heel
2520. Rather to Parry Then to Smite Intent,
2521. Than That Fell Woe Which on Rogero Weighs
2522. Rinaldo, Unimpeded by Such Thought,
2523. To Most of Them That Led the Paynim Bands,
2524. Meanwhile the Weird Melissa, She -- the Font
2525. She Towards Troyano's Mournful Son Did Guide,
2526. He, Thinking That the Monarch of Algiers
2527. The Champions Two, That, Against All Accord,
2528. They Sweat Anew, the King Who Had O'Erthrown
2529. As Greyhound in the Slip, That the Fleet Hare
2530. They Till That Hour Upon the Spacious Plain,
2531. Marphisa Piercing Her First Victim's Breast,
2532. They Witness to Each Others' Exploits Are,
2533. As When Benigner Winds More Swiftly Blow,
2534. So Those High-Minded Virgin Warriors Two,
2535. He at His Exhortation (So He Trowed)
2536. And, with Those Peers, Is More Than One Confest
2537. But, Putting This Affray Some While Aside,
2538. Such as the Monarchs Could in Haste Engage,
2539. So Proved They; for the Foe Was Scarce in View,
2540. More Grieved as Bucifaro's Loss Alone,
2541. Him Under Monaco, Upon the Shore,
2542. A Paladin Himself, Astolpho Knows
2543. Astolpho Leading Such a Countless Band
2544. And Filling Next as Full as They Could Be
2545. They Wax in Number Beyond All Esteem;
2546. It Was a Miracle to See Them Grown
2547. Twenty-Six Thousand Were the Troop That Manned
2548. She Carried Those, Whom at the Bridge of Dread,
2549. The Patron, Yet Unweeting He Should Find
2550. But When, Arrived, the Imperial Eagle Spread,
2551. But No Retreat From Peril Is There Here,
2552. King Otho's Son Kind Welcome Did Afford
2553. Of Charles, and in What State, What Order Are
2554. The Duke Astolpho and the Goodly Throng,
2555. The Naked Savage Whirled a Sapling Round,
2556. This Was Fair Flordelice, Whose Bosom So
2557. When Now She for That Harbour Would Have Weighed,
2558. She Knowing Old Bardino in That Wight,
2559. As Soon as Landed, That Biserta Lies
2560. The Gentle Baron No Less Gladly Eyed
2561. He Stretched His Arms, and Would Embrace the Knight;
2562. At the Same Time, Withal, Astolpho Bold
2563. With Breast and Heart Transfixed with Pity, Cried
2564. So Grieve and So Lament the Greater Part
2565. Seeing the Circle Round About Him Grow,
2566. It Only Burst the Shield, and in Such Thunder
2567. Orlando Shook Himself, and England's Knight,
2568. And Save His Morion Had Been More Than Good,
2569. Dudon Orlando From Behind Embraced,
2570. Let Him Imagine, So Orlando Drew
2571. He Many a Hawser Made Them Thither Bring,
2572. As Soon as Down, They All Upon Him Are,
2573. Seven Times Astolpho Makes Them Wash the Knight;
2574. Valiant Astolpho Had Prepared the Vase,
2575. As One, That Seems in Troubled Sleep to See
2576. Aldabelle's Brother, Monodantes' Son,
2577. Then Said, as Erst Silenus Said -- When Seen,
2578. When to His Former Self He Was Recovered,
2579. Meanwhile Bardino Told to Brandimart,
2580. He Said, Mid Many Reasons Which He Prest,
2581. Upon the Following Day, for Provence Steer
2582. The Order Taken to Attack the Town
2583. Well Nigh Abandoned Was Their Royal Lord
2584. Yet Royal Agramant the Fight Maintains;
2585. Marphisa by the Same Desire Was Stirred,
2586. As Two Fair Generous Pards, That From Some Crag
2587. Yet Therefore Halt Not, but in Fury Go
2588. And Bade on Rhone Break All the Bridges Down.
2589. Of the Great Multitude of Either Train,
2590. Meanwhile His Heavy Ships of Deepest Draught
2591. Royal Marsilius, in That Fatal Hour,
2592. Yet Sometimes Two or Three Their Lips Unclose,
2593. Not in Biserta's Port His Host to Land
2594. Not Yet to Him Have Tidings Been Conveyed,
2595. In Bearing Down, Impelled by Winds That Blow
2596. Bold Dudon's Men, to Whom Unwonted Might
2597. One Headlong Plunged, Pursued by Fire and Sword,
2598. Him, That to Save His Life I' the Waters Thought,
2599. This Vainly to the Sea Resorts, Whom Spear
2600. The Diverse Chances of That Sea-Fight Dread,
2601. Your Faithful People Gazed on a Long Show,
2602. I Saw Not, I, Who Was Compelled to Course,
2603. But Trotto, Present at This Victory,
2604. He That Those Wrecks and Blazing Fires Discerned,
2605. Hence Agramant, That by the Dark Deceived,
2606. Into a Boat He with Some Few Descends,
2607. Agramant Flies, and with Him Old Sobrine,
2608. And Hence in Public Order Was It Said,
2609. Orlando and the Duke, Like Christians True,
2610. And So, When Now Devoutly Have Been Done
2611. The Holy Priests Within Biserta's Wall,
2612. And, When the Cadi Hath His Blessing Said,
2613. Washed by the Sea, Upon Two Quarters, Were
2614. The Nubian King Is Charged by England's Peer,
2615. This and That Other Thing the Nubians Bore,
2616. The Nubian Upon Hope of Gain Intent,
2617. For Steel, and Fire, and Roof, and Turret There,
2618. The Assault Is Reinforced on Every Side,
2619. Orlando, Oliviero, Brandimart,
2620. So Better Could Be Seen Each Warrior's Claim,
2621. Brandimart to the Walls a Ladder Brought,
2622. Here Clang with Hand and Foot the Daring Knight,
2623. Not Therefore Blenched the Valiant Cavalier,
2624. He, Without Any Harm on the Hard Ground,
2625. Throughout the Squadrons a Deep Rumour Flew,
2626. Those Warriors, and Orlando Most of All,
2627. As on Loud Ocean, Lashed by Boisterous Gale
2628. Thus When Those Win the Wall, They Leave a Space
2629. Even with That Rage Wherewith the Stream That Reigns,
2630. Even with That Rage Rushed in the Impetuous Band,
2631. Filled with Dead Bodies of the Paynim Horde,
2632. The Victors, Laden with Their Mighty Prey,
2633. By Olivier, Amid That Slaughter Wide,
2634. Agramant, Who Had Left Without a Guide
2635. In Such and Such Like Words, with Wary Art,
2636. Jugurtha, Martial Hannibal, and More
2637. And Therefore Aye, Throughout That Warfare Drear
2638. Eastward King Agramant Had Turned His Prow;
2639. With Juniper and Myrtle Overgrown,
2640. Here Other Vessel, Sheltered From the Main,
2641. With Much Displeasure Sericana's Knight
2642
2643. Gradasso's Second Offer Seemed to Be
2644. Stricken in Years, Yet Vigorous Was the Sage,
2645. With Equal Number of Armed Knights to Be,
2646. From Those Three Monarchs to the Cavalier
2647. Deeming He Should Not Find That King Elsewhere,
2648. He Chose for His Companions in the Fight
2649. Orlando (as I Oft Have Certified)
2650. What Could Be Had of Armour, Rusted O'Er
2651. She, Without Pilot, Without Crew, Alone,
2652. I Spake of That Good Pair of Warriors, Who
2653. Meanwhile a Servant of the Child's, at Hand,
2654. Thence He Departed; but He First Renewed
2655. From All He Hears Repeated, Far and Near,
2656. Rogero Ponders if He Should Remain,
2657. A Wakeful, Stinging Care, on the Other Side
2658. He All That Day and the Ensuing Night
2659. He Made for Arles, Where Yet He Hoped Would Ride
2660. Upon Some Boat He Hoped to Lay His Hand,
2661. The Vessels of the Moor That Were Not Made
2662. Dudon Had Issued Forth Upon Dry Land,
2663. Rogero, When From Far the Ships He Spied,
2664. In Their Unhappy State to Leave That Crew
2665. The Noise Sir Dudon Hears, the Slaughter Spies,
2666. He Called on Every One to Stand Aside,
2667. Already, on His Part, Had Moved the Dane;
2668. Bold Dudon Had with Him That Iron Mace,
2669. But for the Gentle Youth Was Ever Willed
2670. He Therefore Never Thrust in That Affray,
2671. The Flat as Featly as the Edge He Plies,
2672. The Odour Which Well-Fashioned Bear or Hair,
2673. The Drink That to His Cost Good Icarus Drew
2674. The Famous Lineage, for So Many Years
2675. As in His Every Other Feat Exprest,
2676. The Danish Warrior Was Well Certified,
2677
2678. With That He Showed Those Seven Whereof I Spake,
2679. He Looses Bark and Sail; and in Bold Wise
2680. It Shifts From Poop to Beam, From Beam to Prow,
2681. Now Blows the Wind in Front, and Now in Rear,
2682. But Sound or Signal Little Boots; the Eye
2683. In the Strained Tackle Sounds a Hollow Roar,
2684. Fallen on Her Starboard Side, on Her Beam Ends,
2685. A Fierce Assault and Cruel Coil Doth Keep
2686. On a Despiteous Sea, That Livelong Night,
2687. Three Times and Four the Pale-Faced Pilot Wrought
2688. Perceiving Now That Nothing Can Defend
2689. Rogero, on Beholding Master, Mate,
2690. Goes Down, and, Foundering, Drags with Her Whoe'er
2691. One Sinks Outright, No More to Reappear;
2692. Himself with Hands and Feet the Warrior Rows,
2693. She, Having Drifted Wildly with Her Guide,
2694. And Willing to Discover if Alone,
2695. Who Was So Hurried in His Hasty Flight
2696. And How Beneath Carena, on the Plain
2697. Such Pressing Need, in That He Had to Fight
2698. And, for of Harness He Had Little Need,
2699. Against the Day of Fight, in Goodly Gear
2700. Bold Brandimart Designed Upon the Day
2701. With Her Own Hand the Lady Wrought That Vest,
2702. The Heartfelt Fear, the Torment Evermore
2703. The Warriors to the Wind Their Canvas Rear,
2704. Scarce, with Much Labour, the Two Captains Led
2705. Orlando Disembarks, with His Array,
2706. Until the Skies the Dawning Light Receive,
2707. Thus Brandimart to Afick's Cavalier;
2708. When the First Whitening of the Dawn Was Seen,
2709. Cleaving the Flood with Nimble Hands and Feet
2710. Those Many Promises Remembered Are
2711. And Ne'Er, in Succour of the Moorish Train,
2712. His Vigour Grows; Unwearied Is His Mind;
2713. All the Others That Had Plunged Into the Flood
2714. Yet He with an Unconquered Heart, Intent
2715. Who Cries, on His Approaching Him, "Saul, Saul,
2716. And He, That Holiest Anchoret, Pursued,
2717. That Anchoret Pursues, and Does Upbraid
2718. Then Comforts Him -- That Christ Aye Heaven Allows
2719. Above That Hallowed Cell, on the Hill's Brow,
2720. That Hermit Lit a Fire, and Heaped the Board
2721. There Dwells the Young Rogero, Well Content
2722. The Lord, That Every Thing Doth See and Hear,
2723. And, How That Treason Should Be Smothered So,
2724. And How the Child, in Might and Beauty Grown,
2725. And Because Charles Shall Say in Latin `Este',
2726. Who Shall, in Vision, to His Consort True
2727. On Azos, Alberts, Obysons, Did Dwell
2728. Meanwhile Orlando and Bold Brandimart,
2729. When They Encounter in Mid Field, Pell-Mell,
2730. Baiardo Shocked the Steed of Lesser Might,
2731. With Agramant Encounters Olivier,
2732. Now Brandimart, That Upon Earth Descried
2733. Roland Who Saw Gradasso in Such Guise,
2734. Foreseeing the Assault with Wary Eye,
2735. Of Such Fine Steel Was Balisarda's Blade,
2736. Upon the Shoulder; Nor, Though Twisted Chain
2737. The Valorous Count, Redoubling Still His Blows,
2738. Bold Brandimart, Who Guides Frontino's Rein,
2739. Better Than Good Frontino Horse Is None
2740. Orlando Had Left Sobrino (as I Said)
2741. He Seized the Horse (for None the Deed Gainsaid)
2742. And in Face, Bosom, and in Thigh It Seamed,
2743. No More in Arms Can Trust the Cavalier
2744. While So the Fight Is Balanced 'Mid Those Foes,
2745. And Turned Anew to Olivier, to Speed
2746. He Hopes, if Him but Little He Withstood,
2747. Brandimart Has Found Out the Royal Moor,
2748. Him in the Flank Gradasso Too Had Gored;
2749. Gradasso Has Orlando Half Disarmed;
2750. Gradasso, Desperate When He Descried
2751. And Would by Any Other So Have Done;
2752. So by the Noise Was Scared the Horse That Bore
2753. But Turning Round, Beholds the Royal Moor
2754. Gradasso Turned, Nor More Orlando Sought,
2755. An Iron Ring That Girt His Helmet Round,
2756. Come to Himself, the County Turns His Eye
2757. What Bit, What Iron Curb Is to Be Found,
2758. And Is the Mind Sometimes, if So Possest,
2759. Unconquered Duke Alphonso, Anger So
2760. Seeing Thy Fall Caused Thine Such Mighty Pain,
2761. Haply Heaven's Vengeance Ordered What Befel,
2762. To End; I Say That Other Rage Is None
2763. As Nomade Swain, Who Darting on Its Way
2764. Scaped, Bleeding, with Helm Loosened Form His Head,
2765
2766. As the Headless Trunk of Africk's Cavalier
2767. Orlando Levels at His Better Side,
2768. Orlando Lifts the Helmet, and Descries
2769. And -- "Roland, in Thy Helping Orisons, I
2770. Orlando, Albeit He Should Joy in Heart
2771. Warlike Sobrino, of Much Blood Bereaved,
2772. And but Orlando Helped (So Woe Begone
2773. The Victory Brought Orlando Small Delight;
2774. The County Has Him Taken, Bleeding Sore;
2775. Here as My Story Stood Not on Good Ground,
2776. Nor Deems He Likely, That Six Cavaliers,
2777. So, of Fulgoso's Race Thou Shining Ray,
2778. Meanwhile His Eyes the Good Orlando Reared,
2779. See What She Does Withal, the Lady True,
2780. And Now Her Too Accustomed Plaint and Wail
2781. The Sage Melissa She Accused, and Cursed
2782. Marphisa Shrugs Her Shoulders; What Alone
2783. She Makes Her Somewhat Thus Her Grief Restrain;
2784. I Say Rinaldo That (as Known to You)
2785. To Seek Her He a Hundred Couriers Sent,
2786. A Case, So Strange and Wondrous, Marvel Sore
2787. And So Much More, That Out of Prison Ward
2788. But How Much More Rinaldo's Strange Demand
2789. For His Reply He Craved Some Small Delay,
2790. Then One He Chooses, in Love-Cases Read,
2791. And Says, Rinaldo, Having Drunk Whilere
2792. Him His Ill Star and Cruel Fate Conveyed
2793. Rinaldo Seeking Out the Sage Anew
2794. In That Bold Lover No Displeasure Deep
2795. No Power Hath He to Make One Sole Reply;
2796. Licence He Asks of Pepin's Royal Son,
2797. Charles Gives Him Leave to Go; Though, Far and Nigh,
2798. Ever in Memory Dwells the Restless Thought,
2799. The Thought Will Never From His Mind Depart,
2800. When Within That Adventurous Wood Has Hied
2801. What in a Thousand, Thousand Quests Had Ne'Er
2802. The Monster So the Fierce Assault Did Make
2803. The Monster Threw a Serpent at His Breast,
2804. Wend Where the Warrior Will, An-End or Wide,
2805. By Gloomiest Track and Blindest Path He Still
2806. But Aid, and in Good Time, a Horseman Bore,
2807. That Warrior's Mace a Fire Eternal Fills,
2808. The Stranger Horseman, Like a Warrior Bold,
2809. But Scarcely Was on Earth Extended, Ere
2810. And, While He Chases Her or Holds at Bay,
2811. The Stranger, When He to Her Dark Retreat
2812. When Him Returned Beheld Montalban's Knight,
2813
2814. My Lord, That Fountain's Chilling Stream and Clear
2815. Arriving at That Limpid River's Side,
2816. Upon the Green Sward Lit the Martial Two,
2817. Whenas Rinaldo, Sated with the Draught,
2818. So Saying, Suddenly He Passed From Sight;
2819. Of if an Angel From the Heavenly Sphere
2820. Old Hate Revived Upon Rinaldo's Side;
2821. He Pricked to Basle Upon the Following Day,
2822. Rinaldo Had Gladly Been at Roland's Side,
2823. Much Towards Eve Already Sloped the Sun,
2824. He, After Greeting Him, if He Were Tied
2825. A Bowshot From the Way Diverged the Two,
2826. Of Serpentine and of Hard Porphyry Are
2827. A Gateway Is There to Each Galleried Row,
2828. Above, Project the Arches in Such Sort,
2829. Tall Columns, with Their Capitals of Gold,
2830. By Cunning Master, Diligent and Wise,
2831. Fair Amalthaea's Horn in the Right Hand
2832. Upon Two Beauteous Images Below
2833. The Images Below Them in Their Hand
2834. A Statue No Less Jocund, No Less Bright,
2835. The Pair That Such Desirous Ardour Shew
2836. One Was Elizabeth, One Eleanor,
2837. And One, Through Whom That City's Name (Where Sweet
2838. Dian Is Next in Order of That Train.
2839. And a Cavallo Shall Make Such a Font
2840. Between This and That Lofty Column's Place
2841. None Knows, Observing Her with Steadfast View,
2842. Albeit Such Grace and Passing Sweetness Shewed
2843. The Statues in the Middle Form a Round,
2844. Conversing with His Courteous Host, the Peer
2845. Oft with Desire Was Good Rinaldo Stung
2846. The Host Then Somedeal Smiling, From the Board
2847. Rinaldo Was Nigh Moved the Cup to Raise,
2848
2849. Some Earth and Sea and Heaven Above Us Square,
2850. Armies by Him Are Broken in His Pride,
2851
2852. Fain Would He Think Awhile, of Whom I Speak,
2853
2854
2855. Meanwhile the Good Rinaldo Saying So,
2856
2857
2858
2859
2860
2861
2862
2863
2864
2865
2866
2867. His Tale the Mournful Cavalier So Taught;
2868
2869
2870. Here Ends Rinaldo, and -- the Parley Done --
2871. For Bed and Bower, Within, Were Ready Dight;
2872. Good Seemed That Proffer in Rinaldo's Eyes,
2873. As Soon as He Reclines His Weary Head,
2874. Of Those Two Horns That Which T'Ward Venice Goes
2875. So Saying, in His Barge He All This While
2876. Before When He with Him That Way Had Gone,
2877. He Heard, It in Fair Mansions Would Outdo
2878. And So Would Flourish Through His Study and Care,
2879. So Wends the Warrior Summing in His Mind
2880. While Thus Rinaldo Speaks, So Swiftly Borne
2881. Montalban's Martial Lord (as It Befell,
2882. And Him Bethinks Therewith of What the Knight
2883. The Knight of Clermont Buried in This Mood,
2884. The Substance of the Talk Between the Two
2885
2886
2887
2888
2889
2890
2891
2892
2893
2894
2895
2896
2897
2898
2899
2900
2901
2902
2903
2904
2905
2906
2907
2908
2909
2910. The Fruits of Love Long Culled That Cavalier
2911
2912
2913
2914
2915
2916
2917
2918
2919
2920
2921
2922
2923
2924
2925
2926
2927
2928
2929
2930
2931
2932
2933. So Said the Mariner, and Some Brief Fit
2934. When the Sun Climbed a Steeper Road, the Knight
2935. Then Was Not Fair Bastia Built, Deem I,
2936. Though Oft of Money He Had Small Supply,
2937. Since Here None Takes His Rein, Rinaldo Bends
2938. There Changes Back; and Thence in Haste He Goes
2939. Thither He Came What Time Anglante's Peer
2940. From Tears Could Not the Mournful Count Refrain,
2941. All Comfort That He Could He Gave; Though None
2942. At the Fair Conquest Won by Roland's Blade,
2943. The Night Preceding That Ill-Omened Day
2944. And Seemed to Say, "Yet From My Lord Have I
2945. When They Are Entered, and She Sees No Show
2946. She in Her Hair, When Life Returns Again,
2947. Now to the One, to the Other Now Her Prayer
2948
2949
2950
2951
2952. Repeating This and Other Plaint, So Spite
2953. Roland with Olivier, Who Much Requires
2954. With a Fresh Wind, That in Their Favour Blows,
2955. He, When He Saw His Order Duly Done,
2956. Upon the Paladin's Return the Cry
2957
2958
2959
2960
2961. These Sad Laments and More Orlando Made;
2962. They Raise the Warrior's Bier, and Ranged to Bear
2963. By Hundreds and by Hundreds Followed More,
2964. The Ceremonies Would Be Long to Say
2965. He in the Church Was Placed; and, When with Vain
2966. Still in That Sepulchre She Dwelt, and Worn
2967. The Servant of the Lord of Paradise
2968. Who, Warring for the Christian Faith, in Fight
2969. And in the Name of Those Eternal Three,
2970. Sobrino, So Diseased That He Described
2971. So Him Baptized the Hermit; and as Well
2972. Rogero From the Day He Swam Ashore
2973. Roland on Shipboard Sends One From His Throng,
2974. And as in Talk It Often Doth Befall
2975. All, for They Know He Is a Christian, Stand
2976. In Poor Abode, Mid Paltry Walls and Bare,
2977. Hence It Ensues That Peace and Pact Between
2978. Though Little Prone to Friendship Is That Sort,
2979. In His Retreat That Ancient Eremite
2980. All Kind He Found Them, and of Courteous Lore;
2981. Rinaldo More Than All That Lordly Train
2982. The Fearful Risk by Richardetto Run
2983. To Honour and to Hold Rogero Dear,
2984. Welcome, with Endless Proffers, on His Side,
2985
2986. And His Discourse Pursuing Still, the Seer
2987
2988. Now Good Rinaldo, of His Father Wide,
2989. That Day and Night, and of the Following Day
2990. The Child Who, So Long Banished, Had Not Stayed
2991. And, Though the Enchanted Sword with Better Right
2992. When of That Bloody, Dear-Brought Victory
2993. Erewhile Restored, in Afric Waters Ride
2994. Home, Horse and Foot, the Nubian Host Arraid
2995. I Say, Enclosed in Skins That Wind He Gave,
2996. When They Have Lofty Atlas Passes Won,
2997. He Reached Sardinia at One Flight and Shear,
2998. To Him the Charge Did Sainted John Commit,
2999. Thence to Marseilles He Came; and Came the Day
3000. Of the Kings Slain Upon the Paynim Part,
3001. To Honour Those Fair Pillars That Sustain
3002. The Emperor Charles with Bright and Cheerful Brow,
3003. And Him Rogero of Risa's Son Declare,
3004. The Emperor Bids Rogero Mount Again,
3005. With Pomp Triumphal and with Festive Cheer
3006. At Every Turn, in Various Places Are,
3007. With Sound of Shrilling Pipe and Trumpet Proud,
3008. His Son to Aymon on a Day Made Known
3009. Duke Aymon Heard His Heir with Some Disdain;
3010. But Beatrice, His Wife, with More Despite
3011. Silent Stands Mournful Bradamant, Nor Dares
3012. Deny She Dared Not, Nor Yet Seem Content;
3013
3014. If Cruel Thoughts the Afflicted Maid Torment,
3015. Of Other Goods Which Nature's Hand Supplies,
3016. But They at Whose Disposal Honours Lie,
3017. This Vulgar (to Say Out What I Would Say)
3018
3019
3020
3021
3022. These Things Rogero Said, and More Beside,
3023. But Most, of All the Sorrows That Were Said
3024
3025
3026
3027
3028
3029. Other and Many Words with Comfort Rife,
3030. In That the Gentle Bradamant, Who Fain
3031
3032
3033. With Cheerful Face the Emperor Made Reply,
3034. Who Against Bradamant with Fury Flame,
3035. A Castle This, Which Royal Charlemagne
3036. The Martial Maid of No Less Modest Vein
3037. Rinaldo, Who Thus Ravished From His Hand,
3038. Rogero, Bearing This and Sore Afraid
3039. His Limbs in Arms, Which Trojan Hector's Were,
3040. Where Save Into Dark Danube Makes Descent,
3041. Within Belgrade, and Through the Neighbouring Peak,
3042. The Greeks in That Affray Were Four to One,
3043. With Many Horse and Foot in Battle Dight,
3044. The Bulgar Host Hath Hitherto Made Head;
3045. He Spurs Frontino, That in His Career
3046. Advanced Before the Others, He Descried
3047. Leo Augustus on a Swelling Height,
3048. He Knew Full Well by Ensignry Displaid,
3049. And, as a Man of Great and Noble Heart,
3050. As Baby, Albeit Its Fond Mother Beat
3051. But if Young Leo Loved Him and Admired,
3052. Leo, for Fear His Bands Be Wholly Spent,
3053. Into the Power O' the Bulgars Many Fall,
3054. When Done Was That Day's Fight, Wherein (Since Borne
3055. Some Bow and Some Salute Him; of the Rest
3056. As King or Captain Them Will He Command
3057. A Thousand Miles and More for This Alone
3058. Such Vantage Leo Has in Flight (to Flee
3059. Because He Wots Not Where to Lodge, He Goes
3060. Ungiardo Had That City in His Guard,
3061. In the Same Hostelry with Him a Guest
3062. He by the Buckler Knew as Soon as Spied
3063. By How Much Higher We See Poor Mortal Go
3064. By How Much More Deprest on the Other Side,
3065. King Lewis, Stepfather of My Duke's Son;
3066
3067. Through That Fair Victory, When Overthrown
3068. But She, That Wills No Trust Shall E'Er Be Placed
3069. He to Ungiardo Hastens to Declare
3070. Ungiardo From the Crowd, Which Had Pursued
3071. And That Undriven He Should Have Made His Way
3072. By His Own Shield Accused, That Witness True,
3073. Constantine on That Night with All His Host,
3074. Here From Attack the Emperor Makes Assure
3075. The Emperor, Swimming in a Summer Sea,
3076. No Less Occasion Has the Emperor's Son
3077. Theodora Was by Other Thoughts Possest,
3078
3079
3080. So Well She Mourns; and in Such Moving Wise
3081. And, Not Therein His Orders to Delay,
3082. At the Commandment of That Woman Dread,
3083
3084. Meanwhile King Charlemagne Upon His Side,
3085. The Choice of Arms Must Be by Her Foregone,
3086. Though for the Daughter Choler and Disdain
3087. As He That Hath Beheld a Garden, Bright
3088. What Is Become of Him She Doth Not Dare
3089
3090. And That with Further End the Youthful Lord
3091. And Her Reproves for Having Lent an Ear
3092. And Thinking, Ever and Anon, Anew
3093
3094
3095. The Unhappy Bradamant Laments Her So,
3096. The Cruelty Which by That Beldam Ill
3097. The Courteous Leo That Rogero Loved,
3098. In Secret, Leo with the Man That Bore
3099. Leo, Escorted by None Else Beside,
3100
3101. Lovingly Leo Clipt the Child, and, "Me,
3102
3103. He His Discourse with More Beside Pursues,
3104. Rogero Is Rescued; and the Gaoler Slain
3105. Open the Gaol Is Found at Dawn of Light,
3106. So Wildered by Such Kindness, So Immersed
3107. Much Muses He by Night and Much by Day;
3108. Thither Meanwhile Had Tidings Been Conveyed
3109. Communing with Himself, He Can Supply
3110. But Two Things Must He Do; Must, First, Dispose
3111. Much Weighs the Grecian's Eloquence; but More
3112. Albeit No Sooner He the Intent Exprest,
3113. Right Sure He Is to Die; if He Forego
3114. To Die Is He Disposed; but How to Die
3115. For He with Bradamant, as with a Foe,
3116. With the Emperor's Licence, Armour to Prepare,
3117. Leo Will Enter Not the Town; but Nigh
3118. To Send Afield the Damsel, Who Denied
3119. Rogero Past the Night Before the Day
3120
3121. Nay, Bold Astolpho, and the Lady Who
3122. For Easily That Steed of Generous Kind
3123. With a New Sword Will He the Maid Await;
3124. To Look Like Leo, O'Er His Breast Is Spread
3125. Dordona's Martial Maid Is of a Vein
3126. As on the Start the Generous Barb in Spied,
3127. As Sometimes After Thunder Sudden Wind
3128. But Well-Built Wall, Strong Tower, or Aged Oak,
3129. Now Aims That Martial Maid a Trenchant Blow,
3130. As He That Layeth Siege to Well-Walled Town,
3131. Sparks Now His Shield, Now Helm, Now Cuirass Scatter,
3132. Now Stopt, Now Circled, Now Retired the Knight,
3133. By How Much More Hope Fails the Damsel, So
3134. Didst Thou, O Miserable Damsel, Trow
3135. King Charles and Peers Him Sheathed in Plate and Shell
3136. When Phoebus Wholly Under Water Goes,
3137
3138. And Showing Himself Spiritless and Spent,
3139. Now by Straight Way and Now by Crooked Wound
3140
3141
3142. These Words He Said and Many More, with Sigh
3143. He Entered Into That Dark Woodland, Where
3144
3145
3146. If Him These Thoughts So Harass and Torment,
3147. Ere She Herself to Any Consort Tie,
3148
3149
3150
3151
3152
3153. These Things and More Beside the Damsel Bright
3154. This Moves the Haught Marphisa, When 'Tis Morn,
3155. And This, Before All Others, Will Prove True
3156. Whether Marphisa True or Falsely Spake,
3157. Sorely by This Disturbed, King Charlemagne
3158. Joy Good Orlando and Joy Rinaldo Show,
3159. For if Such Words Have Pass'd Between the Twain,
3160
3161
3162
3163. As in the Southern or the Northern Breeze
3164. These with Rogero, Those with Leo Side;
3165. And Said, "in That Anther Cannot Have
3166. Leo Who if He Had the Cavalier
3167
3168. Through City, and Through Hamlet, and Through Town,
3169. I, if My Chart Deceives Me Not, Shall Now
3170. A Burst of Joy, Like Thunder to My Ear,
3171
3172. With Julia, a New Ginevra Is in Sight,
3173. Beauteous, but Wiser and More Chaste Than Fair,
3174. If She Had Dwelt in Rimini of Yore,
3175. The Consort of My Lord of Bozzolo
3176. Julia Gonzaga, She That Wheresoe'er
3177. Anne Gentle, Courteous, and as Sage as Fair,
3178. My Ladies of Ferrara, Those of Gay
3179. Adorned with Scarlet Hat, and Scarlet Pall,
3180. With Them Lactantius Is, Claude Ptolemy,
3181
3182
3183. Bernardo Capel, Peter Bembo Here
3184. Upon Me Nicholas Tiepoli
3185. Of High and Superhuman Genius, Tied
3186
3187. Joys Victor Fausto; Tancred Joys to View
3188. Much Bent Was This Melissa (as I Know
3189. A Prey to Deep and Stubborn Grief, Reclined
3190. Leo That, One by One, Dispatched His Train
3191
3192
3193. It Suddenly Came Into Leo's Mind
3194. They Found Rogero Fasting From All Food
3195. There Thinking What an Injury He Had Done
3196. Nor Therefore Interrupts He His Lament,
3197. Approaching Nearer and Yet Nearer, Now
3198. Him with the Sweetest Words Young Leo Plied,
3199
3200
3201. He Said; and with Such Forceful Prayer Appealed;
3202
3203
3204
3205
3206. And That He Him Doth for Rogero Know
3207. And Says, "That Day My Host Was Overthrown,
3208
3209
3210
3211
3212. These Words He Spake, and More to That Intent,
3213. Melissa Generous Wine and Goodly Cheer
3214. Who, Though by Leo Helped, with Much Ado
3215. Wherein What of That Day Was Yet Unworn
3216. Since They That Had for King Proclaimed the Knight
3217. He of the Fight Has Told Which at Belgrade
3218. He Speaks with That of Certain News, Which Say
3219. To Charles' Court He Wends; the Bird He Bore
3220. In Royal Ornaments and Costly Gown,
3221
3222
3223. King Charlemagne and All His Peerage Stand
3224
3225. She Spake This with Such Anger and Disdain,
3226. As Looked Old Aegeus at the Accursed Board,
3227. And Ran Forthwith to Clip the Cavalier;
3228. Leo, Who Well Can Play the Spokesman, Now
3229. So That to Her Rogero Being Brought,
3230. And He From Point to Point Continuing, Said
3231. So Efficaciously He After Prayed
3232. To Her, Where, of Her Feeble Life in Doubt,
3233. Of All Her Vigour Is She So Foregone,
3234. Joys Clermont's, Joys Mongrana's Noble House,
3235. Besides That Oftentimes Before the Rage
3236. Those Envoys of the Bulgars That Had Made
3237. Where Kept for Him in Adrianople Are
3238. He Accepts the Realm, by Their Entreaties Won;
3239. Nor Needeth He Depart in Haste, to Guide
3240. The Rich and Royal Nuptials They Prepare
3241. He a Free Court Bids Cry; Whither His Way
3242. Guested Within Fair Paris Cannot Be
3243. The Weird Melissa Against the Coming Night
3244. She Had Prepared the Genial, Fruitful Bed,
3245. From Constantine That Lay Therein, Who Swayed
3246. Two Thousand Tedious Years Were Nigh Complete,
3247. The Curtiest Cavalier, the Kindliest Shoot
3248. But When by Treachery Perished Priam's Heir,
3249. That Constantine, Whom Thou Shall Ever Rue
3250. Here the Three Graces in Gay Vesture Gowned
3251. Hippolytus a Little Label Said,
3252. There Is It Seen, How He His Blooming Age
3253. A Cardinal He Next Is Seen, Though Young
3254. That Brave Youth's Liberal Pastimes Are Designed
3255. He Is Descried, Amid a Fair Array
3256. The First Part of the Storied Walls Pourtraied
3257. In This Part Is the Princely Youth Espied
3258. Him in Another Quarter You Descry,
3259. Elsewhere in Martial Panoply He Shone,
3260. Elsewhere He Stands Upon His Native Strand,
3261. Upon Those Figures Gazed the Courtly Crew,
3262. Though Not Instructed in That History
3263. Who Is a Valiant Knight, Is Here Descried;
3264. On the Last Day, When at Their Festive Cheer
3265. The King of Argier He; That for the Scorn
3266. Albeit of Charles and Agramant the Moor
3267. He Neither Lighted From His Horse, Nor Bowed
3268. To Charles and to Rogero Opposite,
3269
3270. Rogero, with the Leave of Pepin's Son,
3271. He Can Defend Himself; Nor Need He Crave
3272. They Tell Rogero That, as Newly Wed
3273. Marphisa and Bradamant in Corslet Case
3274. The Pale-Faced Dames and Damsels Troop, in Guise
3275. So Him Deemed All the Rabble; and So Most
3276
3277
3278. But Prayer Availed Not on the Damsel's Part
3279. Rodomont's Lance Which Smote in the Career
3280. And -- but His Lance Resists Not That Fierce Shock,
3281. With Bridle and with Spur the Martial Pair
3282. Rodomont Had Not That Hard Dragon-Hide
3283. Clad Was the King in Other Goodly Mail;
3284. When Rodomont Beholds in That Fierce Close
3285. With That Excessive Force, Wherewith the Gin,
3286. As if About to Fall, the Youthful Lord
3287
3288. Yet Leaps From Earth as Nimbly, Moved by Spleen
3289. He at Rogero Rode, Who That Rude Shock
3290. Rodomont, Grasping Still in That Close Fight
3291. Rogero Flank and Thigh Dyed Red Beheld,
3292. In the Helmet-Cheek and Shoulder-Bone Below
3293. Rogero Lost No Time, and with Fierce Blows
3294. His Wounded Thigh and Gaping Flank Had Sore
3295. So Shifting Oft His Hold, About the Moor
3296. Such Was the Shock Wherewith King Rodomont
3297. As Sometimes Where They Work the Golden Vein
3298. Yet Rodomont So Twists and Strives, He Gains
3299. And Smiting Twice or Thrice His Horrid Front,
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