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Holy
Land
Europe
,
Africa
The
Seven
Saints
of
Ric.
Chiswell
,
M.
Wotton
,
G.
Conyers
,
B.
Walford
Of
the
Wonderful
and
strange
Birth
of
St.
How
he
was
cut
out
of
his
Mothers
Womb
,
and
after
stoln
from
his
Nurse
by
the
Lady
of
the
Woods
:
Her
Love
to
him
,
and
her
Gifts
:
And
how
he
enclosed
her
in
a
Rock
of
Stone
,
and
Redeemed
Six
Christian
Knights
out
of
Prison
.
The
Valiant
Knight
St
My
Honourable
Lord
,
you
know
I
am
by
Birth
the
King
of
Daughter
,
and
for
these
one
and
twenty
years
have
I
been
your
True
and
Lawful
Wife
.
Yet
never
was
in
hope
of
Child
till
now
,
or
that
by
me
your
Name
should
survive
:
Therefore
I
conjure
you
by
the
pleasure
of
your
Youth
,
and
the
dear
and
natural
Love
you
●ear
to
the
Infant
conceived
in
my
Womb
,
that
either
by
Art
,
Wisdom
,
or
some
other
Inspiration
,
you
Calculate
upon
my
troublesome
Dreams
,
and
tell
me
what
they
signifie
:
For
these
thirty
Nigh●s
past
,
my
●ilent
slumbers
have
been
greatly
hindred
by
grievous
Dreams
;
for
night
by
night
,
no
sooner
could
sweet
sleep
take
possession
of
my
Senses
,
but
methought
I
was
conceived
with
a
Dreadful
Dragon
,
which
would
be
the
cause
of
his
Parents
Death
:
Even
as
the
Beauteous
Queen
of
was
in
her
Womb
,
Dreamed
to
be
Conceived
of
a
Firebrand
,
which
indeed
was
truly
verified
:
For
having
Ravished
the
Paragon
of
and
brought
in
Revenge
thereof
the
turned
the
Towers
of
into
Blazes
of
Fire
.
Therefore
most
dear
and
well
beloved
Lord
,
prevent
the
like
danger
,
that
I
be
not
the
Mother
of
a
Viperous
Son
.
My
most
dear
and
beloved
Lady
,
what
Art
,
or
Learning
can
per●orm
,
with
all
convenient
speed
shall
be
accomplished
,
for
never
shall
Rest
take
possession
of
my
Heart
,
nor
Sleep
close
the
Closets
of
mine
Eyes
,
till
I
understand
the
signification
of
these
thy
troublesome
Dreams
.
O
Heavens
!
why
cover
you
not
the
Earth
with
Everlasting
Night
?
Why
do
these
accursed
Eyes
behold
the
Sun
?
O
that
the
Waves
of
might
end
my
days
,
or
like
an
Exile
,
joy
in
Banishment
,
where
I
may
warble
forth
my
Sorrows
to
the
whispering
Woods
,
that
sensless
Trees
may
Record
my
Loss
,
and
untam'd
Beasts
grieve
at
my
want
.
What
Monster
hath
bereaved
me
of
my
Child
?
or
what
Tyrant
hath
been
glutted
with
this
Tragedy
?
O
that
the
wind
would
be
a
Messenger
,
and
bring
me
happy
News
of
his
abode
:
if
he
be
drench'd
in
the
deepest
Seas
,
thither
will
I
dive
to
fetch
him
up
:
if
he
be
hid
in
the
Caverns
of
the
Earth
,
thither
will
I
dig
to
see
my
son
:
or
if
he
like
a
feathered
Fowl
lie
hovering
in
the
Air
,
yet
thither
will
I
flie
and
embrace
him
that
never
yet
mine
Eyes
beheld
.
But
why
do
I
thunder
forth
my
Exclamations
thus
in
vain
,
when
neither
Earth
nor
Seas
,
nor
any
thing
in
Earth
nor
Seas
will
grant
me
Comfort
for
his
Recovery
!
Thou
knowest
(
my
dear
how
worthily
I
have
served
thy
Love
,
and
how
for
thy
sake
I
have
kept
my
Viginity
unstained
,
yet
,
thou
more
cruel
than
the
Tygers
bred
in
rejectest
me
.
Dear
Knight
,
fulfill
my
desires
,
and
at
thy
pleasure
,
my
Charms
shall
practice
wondrous
things
,
as
to
move
Heaven
to
Rain
Showers
of
Stones
upon
thy
Enemies
,
to
convert
the
Sun
to
Fire
,
the
Moon
to
Blood
,
or
make
a
Desolation
of
the
whole
World
.
Most
Wise
and
Learned
thou
Wonder
of
the
World
,
I
condescend
to
all
thy
desires
,
upon
this
condition
,
that
I
may
be
sole
Protector
and
Governor
of
this
Inchanted
Cave
,
and
that
thou
describe
to
me
my
Birth
,
my
Name
,
and
Parentage
:
Thou
art
by
Birth
Son
to
the
Lord
High
Steward
of
and
from
thy
Birth
to
this
day
have
I
kept
thee
as
my
Child
,
within
these
solitary
Woods
:
These
are
Six
worthy
Champions
of
Christendom
;
The
first
is
St.
the
second
St.
the
third
St.
the
fourth
St.
the
fifth
St.
the
sixth
St.
and
thou
art
born
to
be
the
Seventh
,
thy
Name
being
St.
for
so
thou
shalt
be
termed
in
time
to
come
.
Six
of
these
belong
to
the
six
Champions
,
and
the
seventh
will
I
bestow
upon
thee
,
whose
Name
is
thou
art
Armed
in
Richer
Furniture
than
was
the
first
Monarch
of
the
World
:
thy
Steed
is
of
such
Force
and
Invincible
Power
,
that
whilst
thou
art
mounted
on
his
back
,
there
can
be
no
Knight
in
all
the
World
so
hardy
as
to
Conquer
thee
:
thy
Armour
is
of
the
purest
Lydian
Steel
,
that
neither
Weapon
can
pierce
,
nor
Battle-Ax
bruise
:
thy
Sword
which
is
called
is
made
of
the
Cyclops
,
that
it
will
separate
and
cut
the
hardest
Flint
,
and
hew
in
sunder
the
strongest
Steel
:
for
in
the
Pummel
lies
such
precious
Vertue
,
that
neither
Treason
,
Witchcraft
,
nor
any
other
Violence
can
be
offered
thee
,
so
long
as
thou
wearest
it
.
this
is
a
place
of
horror
,
where
nought
is
heard
but
shrieks
and
ruful
groans
of
dead
Mens
Souls
:
but
if
thy
ears
can
endure
to
hear
them
,
and
thy
eyes
behold
them
,
I
will
lead
thee
the
way
.
's
Lamentation
in
the
Rock
of
stone
,
her
Will
and
Testament
,
and
how
she
was
torn
in
pieces
by
Spirits
:
with
other
things
that
hapned
in
the
Cave
.
O
miserable
accursed
be
thy
Destiny
,
for
now
thou
art
inclosed
within
a
Desolate
and
darksome
Den
,
where
neither
Sun
can
lend
thee
comfort
with
his
bright
Beams
,
nor
Air
extend
breathing
coolness
to
thy
woeful
Body
,
for
in
the
deep
foundations
of
the
Earth
thou
art
for
evermore
enclosed
,
that
hast
been
the
wonder
of
time
for
Magick
:
I
that
by
Art
have
made
my
journey
to
the
deepest
Dungeons
of
Hell
,
where
multitudes
of
ugly
,
black
,
and
fearful
Spirits
have
trembled
at
my
Charms
:
I
that
have
bound
up
the
Furies
in
Beds
of
Steel
,
and
caused
them
to
attend
my
pleasure
like
swarms
of
Hornets
,
that
overspread
the
Mountains
of
or
the
Flies
upon
the
parched
Hills
,
where
the
tawny
tanned
Moors
do
inhabit
,
am
now
constrained
to
languish
in
eternal
darkness
:
woe
to
my
Soul
,
woe
to
my
Charms
,
and
woe
to
all
my
Magick
Spells
,
for
they
have
bound
me
in
this
hollow
Rock
:
pale
be
the
brightness
of
the
clear
Sun
,
and
cover
the
Earth
with
everlasting
darkness
:
Skies
turn
to
pitch
,
Elements
to
flaming
Fire
,
Roar
Hell
,
Quake
Earth
,
Swell
Seas
,
Blast
Earth
,
Rocks
rend
in
twain
,
all
Creatures
mourn
at
my
Confusion
,
and
sigh
woeful
and
pitiful
Exclamations
Come
,
come
,
you
Princes
of
the
Elements
;
come
,
come
,
and
tear
this
Rock
in
pieces
,
and
let
me
not
be
inclos'd
in
this
Eternal
Languishment
:
Appear
you
shadows
of
black
misty
night
,
Come
when
I
call
First
,
welcome
my
sad
Executors
,
welcome
my
Grave
and
everlasting
Tomb
,
for
you
have
digged
it
in
the
fiery
Lakes
of
my
winding
sheet
wherein
to
shrowd
both
my
Body
and
contemned
Soul
,
is
a
Cauldron
of
boiling
Lead
and
Brimstone
,
and
the
Worms
that
should
consume
my
Carkass
are
fiery
Forks
which
toss
burning
Fire-brands
from
place
to
place
,
from
Furnace
to
Furnace
,
and
from
Cauldron
to
Cauldron
,
therefore
attend
to
woful
Testament
,
and
engrave
the
Legacy
she
gives
in
Brass
Rolls
,
upon
the
burning
Banks
of
First
,
These
eyes
that
now
too
late
weep
hapless
tears
,
I
give
unto
the
Watry
Spirits
,
for
they
have
wrackt
the
treasures
hidden
in
the
deepest
Seas
,
to
satisfie
their
most
unsatiable
looks
:
Next
I
bequeath
these
hands
which
did
subscribe
the
bloody
Obligation
of
my
perpetual
banishment
from
Joy
,
unto
those
Spirits
that
hover
in
the
Air
:
my
Tongue
that
did
conspire
against
the
Majesty
of
Heaven
,
I
give
to
those
Spirits
which
have
their
being
in
the
fire
:
my
earthly
heart
I
bequeath
to
those
gross
Demons
that
dwell
in
the
Dungeon
of
the
Earth
,
and
the
rest
of
my
Condemned
Body
,
to
the
Torments
due
to
my
deservings
.
How
St.
slew
the
burning
Dragon
in
and
Redeemed
the
King's
Daughter
from
Death
:
How
he
was
betray'd
by
the
black
King
of
and
sent
to
the
Soldan
of
where
he
slew
two
Lions
,
and
remained
seven
years
in
Prison
.
for
so
you
seem
by
your
Gravity
,
may
a
Traveller
for
this
Night
crave
Entertainment
within
your
Cottage
,
not
only
for
himself
but
his
Horse
,
or
is
there
some
City
near
at
hand
,
where
unto
I
may
take
my
Journey
without
danger
?
Sir
Knight
of
thy
Country
I
need
not
demand
,
for
I
know
it
by
thy
Burgonet
,
(
for
indeed
thereon
was
graven
the
Arms
of
but
I
sorrow
for
thy
hard
Fortune
,
that
it
is
thy
Destiny
to
arrive
in
this
our
Country
of
wherein
is
not
left
sufficient
alive
to
bury
the
Dead
,
such
is
the
Distress
of
this
Land
,
through
a
Dangerous
and
Terrible
Dragon
,
now
ranging
up
and
down
the
Country
,
which
if
he
be
not
every
day
appeased
with
the
Body
of
a
true
Virgin
,
which
he
devoureth
down
his
Venomous
Bowels
;
that
day
so
neglected
,
will
he
breathe
such
a
stink
from
his
Nostrils
,
whereof
grows
a
most
grievous
Plague
and
Mortality
of
all
things
,
which
use
hath
been
observed
four
and
twenty
years
,
and
now
there
is
not
left
one
true
Virgin
but
the
King's
Daughter
throughout
which
Damsel
to
morrow
must
be
offered
up
in
Sacrifice
to
the
Dragon
:
therefore
the
King
hath
made
Proclamation
,
that
if
any
Knight
dare
prove
so
adventurous
as
to
Combat
with
the
Dragon
,
and
preserve
his
Daughter's
Life
,
he
shall
in
Reward
have
her
to
his
Wife
,
and
the
Crown
of
after
his
Decease
to
Almidor
Victoria
,
Victoria
George
of
England
My
Soul's
delight
,
my
Heart
's
chief
comfort
,
sweet
Sabra
,
Why
art
thou
more
obdurate
than
the
Flint
,
whom
the
Tears
of
my
true
Heart
can
never
mollifie
;
how
many
thousand
sighs
have
I
breathed
for
thy
sweet
sake
,
which
I
have
sent
to
thee
as
true
Messengers
of
my
Love
,
yet
never
wouldst
thou
requite
me
with
a
smiling
Countenance
?
Refuse
not
her
,
dear
Lord
of
that
for
thy
Love
will
forsake
Parents
,
Country
,
and
Inheritance
,
which
is
the
Crown
of
and
like
a
Pilgrim
follow
thee
throughout
the
wide
World
:
On
therefore
knit
that
Gordian
knot
of
Wedlock
,
that
none
but
Death
can
afterwards
untie
;
that
I
may
then
say
,
The
Sun
shall
lose
his
brightness
,
the
Moon
her
splendant
beams
,
the
Sea
her
tydes
,
and
all
things
under
the
Cope
of
Heaven
grow
centrary
to
Kind
,
before
the
Heir
of
prove
Unconstant
to
sweet
Lady
of
Can'st
thou
not
be
content
,
that
I
have
ventured
my
Life
to
free
thee
from
Death
,
but
I
should
link
my
future
Fortunes
in
a
Woman's
Lap
and
so
bury
all
my
Honours
in
Oblivion
?
No
,
no
,
is
a
Knight
,
born
in
a
Country
where
true
Chivalry
is
nourisht
,
and
hath
sworn
to
search
the
World
,
so
far
as
ever
the
Lamp
of
Heaven
doth
lend
his
Light
,
before
he
tie
himself
in
the
troublesome
State
of
Marriage
;
therefore
attempt
me
no
more
that
am
a
Stranger
and
a
Wanderer
from
place
to
place
:
but
seek
to
aim
at
higher
states
,
as
the
King
of
who
will
attempt
to
climb
to
Heaven
to
gain
thy
Love
,
and
good
Liking
:
The
King
of
is
as
bloody
▪
minded
as
a
Serpent
,
but
thou
more
gentle
then
a
Lamb
;
his
Tongue
as
ominous
as
the
screeching
Night
Owl
,
but
thine
more
sweet
than
the
Morning
Lark
:
his
kind
embracings
like
the
stinging
Snakes
,
but
thine
more
pleasant
than
the
creeping
Vine
.
What
if
thou
beest
a
Knight
of
a
strange
Country
,
thy
Body
is
more
precious
to
mine
Eves
▪
than
Kingdoms
to
mine
Heart
.
There
stay
I
am
a
Christian
,
thou
a
Pagan
;
I
Honour
God
in
Heaven
,
thou
Earthly
Shadows
here
below
:
therefore
if
thou
●●ilt
obtain
my
Love
and
Liking
,
thou
must
forsake
thy
and
be
Christned
in
our
Christian
Faith
.
With
all
my
Soul
,
I
will
forsake
my
Countrey
Gods
,
and
for
thy
Love
become
a
Christian
:
and
therewithal
she
burst
a
Ring
in
twain
,
the
one
half
she
gave
to
him
in
pledge
of
Love
,
and
kept
the
other
half
for
her self
:
Know
Great
Monarch
of
the
East
,
that
I
have
a
Secret
to
unfold
,
which
toucheth
nearly
the
safeguard
of
your
Countrey
.
It
was
my
chance
this
Evening
at
shutting
up
of
Golden
Gates
,
to
take
the
comfort
of
the
Western
breathing
Air
under
your
private
Garden
.
Walk
,
where
I
heard
(
though
unseen
)
a
deep
pretended
Treason
betwixt
your
Daughter
and
the
English
Knight
,
for
●he
hath
vowed
to
for
sake
her
gods
,
and
believe
as
Christians
do
,
and
likewise
she
intends
to
●lie
from
this
her
Native
Country
,
and
go
with
this
Wandring
Traveller
,
which
hath
been
so
much
Honoured
in
your
Court.
Now
by
and
all
our
Country
gods
,
we
commonly
adore
this
Damned
Christian
shall
not
gain
the
Conquest
of
my
Daughters
Love
,
for
he
shall
lose
his
Head
,
yet
not
in
our
Court
,
but
by
violence
el●ew●ere
.
Therefore
he
secre●
in
my
intent
for
I
will
send
him
to
my
Cousin
,
the
Souldan
,
from
whence
he
shall
never
return
to
again
,
except
his
Ghost
,
bring
News
of
his
bad
Success
into
my
Daughter
:
King
of
and
the
Eastern
Territories
,
send
Greeting
to
Thee
●he
Mighty
Souldan
of
great
Emperor
of
the
Provinces
of
bigger
This
is
the
Request
upon
the
League
of
Friendship
betwixt
us
to
shew
the
Bearer
hereof
,
thy
Servant
,
Death
:
for
he
is
an
utter
Enemy
to
all
and
a
proud
Contemner
of
our
Religion
.
Therefore
sail
not
in
my
Request
,
as
thou
wilt
answer
on
the
Oath
,
and
so
in
haste
farewel
,
Now
bloody-minded
Monster
what
Countrey-man
soever
thou
art
,
Jew
,
Pagan
,
or
misbelieving
Christian
,
look
for
a
Sentence
of
severe
punishment
for
every
drop
of
blood
thy
unhappy
hand
hath
here
shed
:
first
,
thy
skin
with
sharp
Razors
shall
be
pared
from
thy
flesh
alive
.
Next
,
thy
,
flesh
with
burning
Irors
seared
from
thy
bones
:
Lastly
,
thy
cursed
Limbs
drawn
in
pieces
joynt
from
joynt
,
with
untamed
Horses
.
Oh
wherefore
died
I
not
in
this
my
troublesome
Dream
that
my
Ghost
might
have
haunted
those
inhumane
Monsters
which
have
thus
falsly
betrayed
the
bravest
Champion
under
the
Cope
of
Heaven
!
for
his
sake
will
I
exclaim
against
the
ingratitude
of
and
like
Ravished
fill
every
corner
of
the
Land
with
Ecchoes
of
his
wrong
:
my
Woes
shall
exceed
the
Sorrows
of
Queen
of
mourning
for
How
Saint
the
Champion
of
lived
Seven
years
in
the
shape
of
an
Hart
,
and
how
proud
the
King's
Daughter
of
was
transformed
into
a
Mulberry-Tree
,
and
how
they
recovered
their
former
shapes
by
means
of
Saint
's
Horse
What
Magick
Charms
or
other
bewitching
Spells
,
remain
within
this
cursed
Tree
?
whose
wicked
Fruit
hath
confounded
my
future
Fortunes
,
and
converted
me
to
a
miserable
estate
;
O
thou
Coelestial
Director
of
the
World
,
and
all
you
pitiful
Powers
of
Heaven
,
look
down
with
a
kind
Countenance
upon
my
hapless
Transformation
:
and
bend
your
browsto
hear
my
woful
Lamentation
:
I
was
of
late
a
Man
,
but
now
a
horned
Beast
;
I
was
a
Soldier
,
and
my
Countrey
's
Champion
,
but
now
a
loathsome
Creature
,
and
a
prey
for
Dogs
,
my
glistering
Armour
is
exchanged
into
a
Hide
of
Hair
,
and
my
brave
Array
more
baser
than
the
low
Earth
:
henceforth
instead
of
Princely
Palaces
,
these
shady
Woods
must
serve
to
shrowd
me
in
:
wherein
my
Bed
of
Down
must
be
a
heap
of
Sun-burn'd
Moss
;
my
sweet
recording
Musick
the
blustering
Winds
,
that
with
Tempestuous
Gusts
,
do
make
the
Wilderness
to
tremble
:
the
Company
I
daily
keep
must
be
the
Silvan
Satyrs
,
Driades
,
and
Airy
Nymphs
,
which
never
appear
to
worldly
eyes
,
but
in
twilights
,
or
at
the
prime
of
the
Moon
,
the
Stars
that
beautifie
the
Crystal
Veil
of
Heaven
shall
henceforth
serve
as
Torches
to
light
me
to
my
woful
Bed
:
the
scowling
Clouds
shall
be
my
Canopy
:
my
Clock
to
count
how
Time
runs
stealing
on
,
the
sound
of
hissing
Snakes
,
or
else
the
croaking
of
Toads
.
Juno
,
Pallas
Sir
Knight
,
by
whom
my
Life
,
my
Love
,
and
Fortunes
are
to
be
commanded
,
and
by
whom
my
Humane
Shape
and
natural
Form
is
recovered
:
First
know
,
you
Magnanimous
Champion
,
that
I
am
by
Birth
the
King
of
's
Daughter
,
and
my
Name
was
called
for
my
Beauty
proud
For
which
contemptuous
Pride
,
I
was
transformed
into
this
Mulberry-tree
,
in
which
green
substance
I
have
continued
Fourteen
years
.
As
for
my
Love
thou
hast
deserved
it
,
before
all
Knights
in
the
World
,
and
to
thee
do
I
plight
that
true
Promise
before
the
Omnipotent
Judger
of
all
things
:
and
before
that
secret
Promise
shall
be
infringed
,
the
Son
shall
cease
to
shine
by
Day
,
and
the
Moon
by
Night
,
and
all
the
Planets
forsake
their
proper
Nature
.
England
,
France
,
Spain
,
Italy
,
Scotland
,
Wales
,
How
St.
the
Champion
of
continued
seven
years
dumb
for
the
love
of
a
fair
Jew
,
and
how
he
should
have
been
shot
to
death
by
the
Maidens
of
with
other
things
which
chanced
in
his
Travels
.
Knowest
thou
not
,
bold
Knight
that
it
is
the
Law
of
to
harbour
no
uncircumcised
Man
,
but
either
to
banish
him
the
Land
,
or
end
his
days
by
some
untimely
Death
?
Thou
art
a
Christian
,
and
therefore
shalt
die
;
not
all
thy
Country
Treasures
,
the
Wealthy
Spanish
Mines
,
not
if
all
the
Alps
,
which
divide
the
Countries
of
were
torn'd
to
Hills
of
burnisht
Gold
,
and
made
my
Lawful
Heritage
,
they
should
not
redeem
thy
Life
.
Yet
for
the
honour
thou
ha●●
done
in
I
grant
thee
this
favour
by
the
Law
of
Arms
to
choose
thy
Death
,
else
hadst
thou
suffered
a
vigorous
Torment
.
Thou
great
Commander
of
Coelestial
moving
Powers
,
convert
the
cruel
motions
of
my
Father's
mind
,
into
a
spring
of
pitiful
tears
,
that
they
may
wash
away
the
Blood
of
this
innocent
Knight
,
from
the
habitation
of
his
stained
purple
Soul
.
O
within
whose
Bosoms
live
a
Wilderness
of
Tygers
,
degenerate
from
Nature's
kind
,
more
cruel
than
the
hungry
Cannibals
,
and
more
obdurate
than
untamed
Lions
!
what
merciless
Tygers
can
unrip
that
Breast
,
where
lives
the
Image
of
true
Nobility
,
the
very
Pattern
of
Kinghthood
,
and
the
Map
of
a
noble
Mind
?
No
,
no
,
before
my
hand
shall
be
stained
with
Christians
Blood
,
I
will
like
against
all
Nature
,
sell
my
Country's
safety
,
or
like
wander
with
the
Golden
Fleece
to
unknown
Nations
.
Most
Noble
Knight
,
and
true
Champion
of
Christendom
,
thy
Life
and
Liberty
I
have
gained
,
but
therewith
thy
Banishment
from
which
is
a
Hell
of
Plorror
to
my
Soul
:
for
in
thy
bosome
have
I
built
my
happiness
,
and
in
thy
heart
I
account
the
Paradise
of
my
true
Love
,
thy
first
sight
and
lovely
Countenance
did
ravish
me
,
for
when
these
eyes
beheld
thee
mounted
on
thy
Princely
Palfry
,
my
heart
burned
in
Affection
towards
thee
:
therefore
dear
Knight
,
in
reward
of
my
Love
,
be
thou
my
Champion
,
and
for
my
sake
wear
this
Ring
,
with
this
Poesie
engraven
in
it
,
Ardeo
affectione
:
Dumb
Knight
Diana
,
Venus
The
terrible
Battel
betwixt
St.
the
Champion
of
and
the
gyant
and
afterwards
of
the
strange
Entertainment
in
the
Gyant
's
Castle
,
by
a
Lady
,
and
what
hapned
to
him
in
the
same
Castle
.
Oh
here
the
Thracian
begins
the
Hell
of
all
my
Grief
▪
These
six
milk-white
Swans
,
most
honourable
Knight
,
you
behold
swimming
in
this
River
be
my
natural
Sisters
,
both
by
Birth
and
Blood
,
and
all
Daughters
to
the
King
of
being
now
Governor
of
this
unhappy
Countrey
,
and
the
beginning
of
our
Imprisonment
began
in
this
unfortunate
manner
.
The
King
my
Father
,
ordained
a
solemn
hunting
to
be
holden
thro'
the
Land
,
in
which
honourable
pastime
,
my self
,
in
Company
of
my
six
Sisters
was
present
.
So
in
the
middle
of
our
Sports
,
when
the
Lords
and
Barons
of
were
in
Chase
after
a
mighty
she
Lion
,
the
Heavens
suddenly
began
to
lour
,
the
Firmaments
over-cast
,
and
a
general
darkness
overspread
the
face
of
the
whole
Earth
:
then
presently
rose
such
a
Storm
of
Lightning
and
Thunder
,
as
though
Heaven
and
Earth
had
met
together
:
by
which
our
Lordly
Troops
of
Knights
and
Barons
were
separated
one
from
another
,
and
〈◊〉
poor
Ladies
forced
to
seek
for
sheiter
under
the
bottom
of
this
high
and
steepy
Mountain
:
where
when
this
Cruel
Gyant
espied
us
,
as
he
walked
upon
his
Battlements
,
he
suddenly
descended
the
Mountain
,
and
fetcht
us
all
under
his
Arm
up
into
the
Castle
,
where
ever
since
we
have
lived
in
great
servitude
;
and
for
the
wonderful
transformation
of
my
six
Sisters
thus
,
it
came
to
pass
as
followeth
.
Fair
Lady
and
most
Renowned
Knight
for
so
you
seem
both
by
your
speeches
and
honourable
demands
,
the
cause
of
this
Ringing
is
for
the
loss
of
the
King
's
seven
Daughters
,
the
number
of
which
Bells
be
seven
,
called
after
the
Names
of
the
seven
Princesses
,
which
never
yet
have
ceased
their
doleful
melody
,
since
the
departure
of
the
unhappy
Ladies
,
nor
never
must
,
until
joyful
News
be
heard
of
their
safe
return
.
Then
now
their
tasks
be
ended
Rosalinde
)
for
we
bring
happy
News
of
the
seven
Princesses
abidings
.
My
most
devoted
Lady
and
Mistriss
a
second
for
thy
Love
,
a
stain
to
for
thy
beauty
's
compare
for
Constancy
,
and
for
Chastity
,
the
wonder
of
all
Maids
:
the
faithful
Love
that
hitherto
I
have
found
since
my
arrival
,
for
ever
shall
be
shrined
in
my
heart
,
and
before
all
Ladies
under
the
cope
of
Heaven
,
thou
shalt
live
and
die
my
Love
's
true
Goddess
:
and
for
thy
sake
I
'll
stand
as
Champion
against
all
Knights
in
the
World
:
but
to
impair
the
Honour
of
my
Knighthood
,
and
to
live
like
a
Carpet
Dancer
in
the
Laps
of
Ladies
I
will
not
;
though
I
can
tune
a
Lute
in
a
Princes
Chamber
,
I
can
sound
a
fierce
Alarm
in
the
Field
;
Honour
calls
me
forth
,
dear
and
Fame
intends
to
buckle
on
my
Armour
,
which
now
lies
rusting
in
the
idle
Court
of
Therefore
I
am
constrained
(
though
most
unwillingly
)
to
leave
the
comfortable
sight
of
thy
Beauty
,
and
commit
my
Fortune
to
a
longer
Travel
;
but
I
protest
wheresoever
I
become
,
or
in
what
Region
soever
I
be
harboured
,
there
will
I
maintain
to
the
loss
of
my
Life
,
that
both
thy
Love
,
Constancy
,
Beauty
,
and
Chastity
,
surpasseth
all
Dames
alive
:
and
with
this
promise
,
my
most
Divine
I
bid
thee
farewell
Sir
Knight
by
whom
my
Liberty
hath
been
obtained
:
the
Name
of
Lady
and
Mistress
wherewith
you
entitle
me
,
is
too
high
and
proud
a
Name
,
but
rather
call
me
Hand-maid
,
or
servile
Slave
,
for
on
thy
Noble
Person
will
I
evermore
attend
:
It
is
not
can
harbour
me
when
thou
art
absent
,
and
before
I
do
forsake
thy
company
and
kind
fellowship
,
Heaven
shall
be
no
Heaven
,
the
Sea
no
Sea
,
nor
the
Earth
no
Earth
;
but
if
thou
provest
unconstant
,
as
did
to
who
for
his
sake
stole
her
Fathers
Purple
Hat
,
whereof
depended
the
safety
of
his
Countrey
,
or
like
wandring
Aeneas
forsake
the
Queen
of
these
tender
and
soft
hands
of
mine
shall
never
be
unclasped
,
but
hang
on
thy
Horse-bridle
till
my
Body
like
's
Son
be
dash●
in
sunder
against
hard
flinty
Stone
:
Therefore
forsake
me
not
,
dear
Knight
of
Christendom
.
If
ever
proved
true
to
her
to
her
Lover
will
be
as
true
to
thee
:
so
with
this
plighted
Promise
she
caught
him
fast
about
the
Neck
,
from
whence
she
would
not
unclose
her
Hands
till
he
had
vow'd
by
the
Honour
of
true
Chivalry
,
to
make
her
sole
Companion
,
and
only
Partner
of
his
Travels
:
Animede
Love's
Minion
How
St
the
Champion
of
Travelled
into
a
Vale
of
Walking
Spirits
,
and
how
he
was
set
at
Liberty
by
a
going
Fire
,
after
his
Journey
into
where
he
recovered
the
Six
Ladies
to
their
natural
shapes
,
that
had
lived
seven
years
in
the
likeness
of
milk-white
Swans
,
with
other
Accidents
that
befell
the
most
Noble
Champion
.
Will
with
the
Wisp
Jack
with
the
Lanthorn
The
fair
Maid
of
Ireland
Phoebus
,
Luna
,
Mars
,
Mercury
,
This
day
a
Martyr
or
a
Conqueror
Now
for
the
honour
of
Christendom
,
This
day
a
Martyr
or
a
Conqueror
:
How
St.
the
Champion
of
Redeemed
the
Six
Ladies
out
of
the
hands
of
thirty
bloody-minded
and
of
their
purposed
Travel
in
a
Pursuit
after
the
Champion
of
St.
Patrick
Know
,
brave
minded
Knight
,
that
we
are
the
unfortunate
Daughters
of
the
King
of
whose
Lives
have
been
unhappy
ever
since
our
Births
,
for
first
we
did
endure
a
long
Imprisonment
under
the
hands
of
a
Cruel
Gyant
,
and
after
the
Heavens
to
preserve
our
Chastities
from
the
wicked
desire
of
the
said
Gyant
,
transformed
us
into
the
shape
of
Swans
,
in
which
likeness
we
remained
seven
years
,
but
at
last
recovered
by
a
worthy
Christian
Knight
,
named
St.
the
Champion
of
after
whom
we
have
Travelled
many
a
weary
step
,
never
crossed
by
any
Violence
,
until
it
was
our
angry
Fates
to
arrive
in
this
unhappy
Wilderness
,
where
your
eyes
have
been
true
witnesses
of
our
Misfortunes
.
The
Christian
Champion
after
whom
you
take
in
hand
this
weary
Travel
is
my
approved
Friend
,
for
whose
Company
and
wished
for
Sight
,
I
will
go
more
weary
miles
than
there
be
Trees
in
this
vast
Wilderness
,
and
number
my
steps
with
the
Sands
hidden
in
the
Seas
:
Therefore
,
most
excellent
Ladies
,
true
Ornaments
of
Beauty
,
be
sad
Companions
in
my
Travels
,
for
I
will
never
cease
till
I
have
found
our
Honourable
Friend
,
the
Champion
of
or
some
of
those
brave
Knights
,
whom
I
have
not
seen
these
seven
Summers
.
How
St.
the
Champion
of
slew
the
Count
in
the
Court
,
and
after
how
he
was
sent
to
the
Enchanted
Garden
of
wherein
by
Magick
Art
he
slept
seven
years
.
Now
are
my
Triumphs
turned
into
Everlasting
Woes
,
from
a
Comical
Pastime
,
to
a
direful
and
Bloody
Tragedy
;
O
most
unkind
Fortune
,
never
Constant
but
in
Change
!
why
is
my
Life
deferred
to
see
the
downfall
of
my
dear
Son
,
the
Noble
Count
Why
rends
not
this
accursed
Earth
whereon
I
stand
,
and
presently
swallow
up
my
Body
into
her
hungry
Bowels
?
Is
this
the
use
of
Christians
?
For
true
Honour
to
repay
Dishonour
?
Could
not
base
blood
serve
to
stain
his
deadly
hands
withall
,
but
the
Royal
blood
of
my
dear
Son
,
in
whose
Revenge
the
face
of
the
Heavens
is
stained
with
Blood
,
and
cries
for
Vengeance
to
the
Majesty
of
Mighty
Jove
.
The
dreadful
Furies
,
the
direful
daughters
of
dark
Night
,
and
all
the
baleful
company
of
burning
whose
Loins
shall
be
girt
with
Serpents
,
and
Hair
be
hanged
with
Wreaths
of
Snakes
,
shall
haunt
,
pursue
,
and
follow
that
accursed
Christian
Champion
,
that
hath
bereaved
my
Country
of
so
precious
a
Jewel
as
my
dear
Son
the
Count
was
,
whose
Magnanimous
Prowess
did
surpass
all
the
Knights
of
our
recovery
.
How
St.
escaped
out
of
Prison
at
and
how
he
Redeemed
the
Champion
of
from
his
Enchantment
;
with
other
things
that
happened
to
the
English
Knight
:
with
the
Tragical
Tale
of
the
Necromancer
Porter
,
Open
the
Gates
,
for
St.
is
escaped
,
and
hath
murdered
the
Grooms
,
in
whose
Pursuit
the
City
is
in
Arms.
To
tell
the
Discourse
of
my
own
Life
(
replyed
will
breed
a
new
sorrow
in
my
heart
,
the
remembrance
of
which
will
read
my
very
Soul
:
but
yet
most
Noble
Knight
,
to
fulfil
thy
Request
,
I
will
force
my
Tongue
to
declare
what
my
Heart
denies
to
utter
:
Therefore
prepare
thine
Ear
to
entertain
the
wofullest
Tale
that
ever
Tongue
delivered
.
What
knows
not
her
whom
his
Lust
hath
stained
with
Dishonour
?
See
,
see
unconstant
Knight
,
the
Pledge
of
Faithless
Vows
,
behold
the
Womb
where
springs
thy
lively
Image
;
behold
this
mark
which
stains
my
Father's
Ancient
House
,
and
sets
a
shamefac'd
blush
upon
my
Cheeks
,
always
when
I
behold
the
company
of
chaste
Virgins
:
dear
shadow
this
my
Shame
with
Marriage-Rites
,
that
I
be
not
accounted
a
By-word
to
the
World
,
nor
that
this
my
Babe
in
time
to
come
,
be
termed
a
base-born
Child
:
remember
what
plighted
Promises
,
what
Vows
and
Protestations
passed
betwixt
us
,
remember
the
place
and
time
of
my
Dishonour
,
and
be
not
like
surious
Tygers
that
repay
Love
with
Despite
.
O
Sister
hath
Nature
harboured
in
thy
Breast
a
Bloody
mind
!
what
Fury
hath
incensed
thee
thus
to
commit
my
Tragedy
?
In
what
have
I
misdone
,
or
wherein
hath
my
Tongue
offended
thee
?
What
cause
hath
been
the
occasion
that
thy
remorsless
band
against
Nature
,
hath
,
converted
my
joyful
Nuptials
to
a
woful
Funeral
:
This
is
the
cause
that
I
have
bathed
my
hands
in
thy
detested
Blood
.
the
unhappy
Bed
,
wherein
thy
accursed
Husband
hath
sown
his
Seed
,
by
which
my
Virgins
honour
is
for
ever
stained
,
this
is
the
spot
which
thy
heart
blood
must
wash
away
,
and
this
is
the
shame
that
nothing
but
death
shall
finish
;
therefore
a
sweet
Revenge
,
and
a
present
Murther
likewise
will
I
commit
upon
my self
,
whereby
my
loathed
Soul
in
company
of
my
unborn
Babe
shall
wander
with
my
Ghost
along
the
Draw
near
you
blazing
Stars
,
you
Earthly
Angels
,
you
embroidered
Girls
,
you
lovely
Ladies
,
and
flourishing
Dames
of
behold
her
woful
end
,
whose
Glories
mounted
to
the
Elements
,
behold
my
Marriage-bed
here
beautified
with
Tapestry
,
converted
to
Death's
Bloody
Habitation
,
my
brave
Attire
to
Earthly
Mould
,
and
my
Princely
Palaces
to
shades
,
being
a
place
appointed
for
those
Dames
that
lived
and
dy'd
true
Virgins
,
for
now
I
feel
the
pains
of
Death
closing
my
Life's
Windows
,
and
Heart
ready
to
entertain
the
stroke
of
Destiny
.
Come
come
instead
of
Arms
,
get
Eagles
Wings
,
that
in
thy
Bosom
I
may
breathe
my
murdered
Ghost
.
World
fare
thou
well
,
I
was
too
proud
of
thy
inticing
pleasures
:
thy
Princely
Pomp
and
all
thy
glistring
Ornaments
,
I
must
for
ever
bid
adieu
.
Father
,
farewell
,
with
all
my
Masking
Train
,
Courtly
Ladies
,
Knights
and
Gentlewomen
:
my
Death
I
know
will
make
thy
Palace
Death's
Gloomy
Regiment
;
and
last
of
all
,
farewell
my
Noble
for
thy
sweet
sake
here
is
Murdered
How
St.
arrived
at
where
he
stole
away
the
King's
Daughter
of
from
the
Blackmoor
King
,
and
how
she
was
known
to
be
a
pure
Virgin
by
the
means
of
the
Lion
,
and
what
hapned
to
him
in
the
same
Adventure
.
thou
resemblest
both
in
Princely
Countenance
and
Courteous
Behaviour
,
that
thrice
honoured
Champion
of
for
whose
sake
I
have
daily
bestowed
my●
benevolence
for
this
seven
years
:
his
Name
is
St.
his
Fame
I
know
thou
hast
heard
Reported
in
many
a
Country
to
be
the
bravest
Knight
that
ever
buckled
on
Steel
Helm
.
Therefore
for
his
sake
will
I
grace
thee
with
the
chiefest
Honour
in
this
Court
,
instead
of
thy
Russet
Gaberdine
,
I
will
Cloath
thee
in
Purple
Silk
,
and
instead
of
thy
Ebon
Staff
,
thy
hand
shall
wield
the
richest
Sword
that
ever
Princely
eye
beheld
.
I
have
heard
the
Princely
Atchievements
and
Magnanimous
Adventures
of
that
Honoured
English
Knight
,
which
you
so
dearly
Affected
,
bruited
through
many
Princes
Court
,
and
how
for
the
Love
of
a
Lady
,
he
hath
endured
a
long
Imprisonment
,
from
whence
he
never
looked
to
return
,
but
to
spend
the
remnant
of
his
days
in
lasting
misery
:
Thou
knowest
,
my
Divine
Mistress
,
that
for
thy
Love
I
would
endure
as
many
Dangers
,
as
suffered
in
the
Isle
so
I
might
at
last
enjoy
the
pleasure
of
true
Virginity
.
For
how
is
it
possible
thou
canst
remain
a
pure
Maid
,
when
thou
hast
been
a
Crowned
Queen
these
seven
years
,
and
every
night
hast
entertained
a
King
into
thy
Bed
?
Faint
not
my
dear
Lady
here
is
that
good
Sword
that
once
preserved
thee
from
the
burning
Dragon
;
and
before
thou
shalt
die
for
want
of
Sustenance
,
it
shall
make
way
to
every
corner
of
the
Wilderness
;
where
I
will
either
kill
some
Venison
to
refresh
thy
hungry
Stomach
,
or
make
my
Tomb
in
the
Bowels
of
some
Monstrous
Beast
:
Therefore
abide
thou
here
under
this
Tree
in
company
of
thy
faithful
Eunuch
,
till
I
return
either
with
the
flesh
of
some
wild
Deer
,
to
else
some
flying
Bird
to
refresh
thy
Spirits
for
a
new
Travel
.
I
have
by
this
sufficiently
proved
●●iy
true
Virginity
:
for
it
is
the
Nature
of
a
Lion
,
be
he
never
so
furious
,
not
to
harm
the
unspotted
Virgin
,
but
humbly
to
lay
his
bristled
Head
upon
a
Maidens
Lap.
Therefore
Divine
Paragon
,
thou
art
the
World
's
chief
wonder
for
Love
and
Chastity
,
whose
honoured
Vertues
shall
ring
as
far
as
sends
his
Lights
,
and
whose
Constancy
I
will
maintain
in
every
Land
where
I
come
,
to
be
the
truest
under
the
Circuit
of
the
Sun
:
How
the
Seven
Champions
Arrived
in
at
the
Emperor's
Nuptials
,
where
they
performed
many
Noble
Atchievements
,
and
how
after
open
Wars
were
Proclaimed
against
by
the
Discovery
of
many
Knights
,
and
how
every
Champion
departed
into
his
own
Countrey
.
Golden
Knight
Silver
Knight
Red
Knight
We
,
the
High
and
Mighty
Emperors
of
great
Commanders
both
of
Land
and
Seas
,
Proclaim
by
general
Consent
of
all
the
Eastern
Potentates
,
utter
Ruine
and
Destruction
to
the
Kingdoms
of
Christendom
,
and
to
all
those
Nations
where
any
Christian
Knights
are
harboured
:
First
,
the
Souldan
of
in
Revenge
of
a
Bloody
Slaughter
done
in
his
Palace
,
by
an
King
,
in
Revenge
of
his
Daughter
,
violently
taken
away
by
the
same
Knight
:
the
black
King
of
in
Revenge
of
his
Queen
,
likewise
taken
away
by
the
said
Champion
:
The
great
Governor
of
in
Revenge
of
his
Daughter
,
taken
away
by
a
Knight
:
The
King
of
in
Revenge
of
his
Daughter
,
taken
away
by
a
Knight
:
The
Emperor
,
in
Revenge
of
his
Son
Count
slain
by
the
unhappy
hand
of
the
Champion
of
Monarch
,
in
Revenge
of
his
vain
Travel
after
his
seven
Daughters
,
now
in
keeping
of
certain
Christian
Knights
:
In
Revenge
of
which
Injuries
,
all
Kingdoms
from
the
further
parts
of
Dominions
to
the
Borders
of
the
Red-Sea
,
have
sent
down
their
Hands
and
Seals
to
be
Aiders
in
this
bloody
War
.
How
the
Seven
Champions
of
arrived
with
all
their
Troops
in
the
Bay
of
the
number
of
the
Christian
Armies
,
and
how
St.
made
an
Oration
to
the
Soldiers
.
Agamemn
on
England
,
Wales
For
Christendom
we
Fight
,
For
Christendom
we
Live
and
D●e
.
Of
the
Dissention
and
Discord
that
hapned
amongst
the
Army
of
the
Pagans
in
the
Battel
betwixt
the
Christians
and
the
Moors
in
and
how
the
Black
King
of
was
sodden
to
Death
in
a
Cauldron
of
boiling
Lead
and
Brimstone
.
First
,
Be
it
known
unto
all
Nations
that
fight
in
the
Quarrel
of
under
the
Conduct
of
our
three
great
Gods
,
what
invincible
Forces
be
now
arrived
in
this
Renowned
Kingdom
of
a
Land
honoured
through
the
World
,
not
only
for
Arms
,
but
curious
Buildings
,
and
plentified
with
all
manner
of
Riches
.
First
,
We
have
from
the
Emperor
of
two
hundred
thousand
.
From
the
Emperor
of
two
hundred
and
fifty
thousand
.
From
the
Emperor
of
an
hundred
threescore
and
three
thousand
.
From
the
Souldan
of
two
hundred
thousand
.
From
the
King
of
four
hundred
thousand
.
Of
one
hundred
and
twenty
thousand
.
Of
Cole-black
one
hundred
and
forty
thousand
.
Of
one
hundred
and
sixty
thousand
.
Of
one
hundred
and
thirty
thousand
and
odd
.
Of
one
hundred
and
fifty
thousand
.
Of
two
hundred
and
ten
thousand
.
Of
fifteen
thousand
six
hundred
.
Of
three
hundred
and
six
thousand
.
Of
seven
thousand
three
hundred
.
Of
one
hundred
and
five
thousand
.
Of
ten
thousand
three
hundred
.
Of
seven
thousand
three
hundred
.
Of
sixty
thousand
.
Of
fourscore
thousand
Prester
John
Persia
,
Ptolomy
I
will
be
King
in
spite
of
Fortune
:
I
am
a
King
in
spite
of
Fortune
:
I
have
been
a
King
while
it
pleased
Fortune
:
Most
Mighty
and
Invincible
Champion
of
Christendom
let
my
Life
be
Ransomed
,
and
Thou
shalt
yearly
receive
ten
Tuns
of
tryed
Gold
,
Five
hundred
webs
of
woven
Silk
,
the
which
our
Maids
shall
sit
and
Spin
with
Silver
Wheels
:
an
hundred
Ships
of
spices
and
Refined
Sugar
shall
be
yearly
paid
thee
by
our
Merchants
:
an
hundred
Waggons
likewise
laden
with
Pearl
and
Jasper
stones
,
which
by
our
cunning
Lapidists
shall
be
yearly
chosen
forth
and
brought
thee
home
to
to
make
that
blessed
Country
the
richest
within
the
Dominions
of
Likewise
I
will
deliver
up
my
Diadem
,
with
all
my
Princely
Dignities
,
and
in
company
of
these
Lords
,
like
bridled
Hories
draw
thee
daily
in
a
silver
Chariot
up
and
down
the
circled
Earth
,
till
Death
give
end
to
our
Lives
Pilgrimage
;
therefore
most
admired
Knight
at
Arms
,
let
these
salt
tears
that
trickle
from
the
Conduits
of
my
eyes
,
obtain
one
grant
of
comfort
at
thy
hands
,
for
on
my
bended
knees
I
beg
for
life
,
that
never
before
this
time
did
kneel
to
Mortal
Man
.
Barbary
,
Morocco
Great
Potentate
of
by
whose
Mightiness
Fortune
sits
fettered
in
the
Chains
of
Power
,
my
Golden
Diadem
,
and
Regal
Scepter
by
constraint
I
must
deliver
up
:
But
before
I
will
forsake
my
Country-gods
,
I
will
endure
a
hundred
Deaths
;
and
before
my
Conscience
be
reformed
to
a
new
Faith
,
the
Earth
shall
be
no
Earth
,
the
Sea
no
Sea
,
the
Heaven
no
Heaven
.
Thinkest
thou
now
proud
Christian
,
by
thy
threatned
Torments
,
to
make
me
forget
my
Creator
,
and
believe
in
thy
God
the
supposed
King
of
the
Jews
,
and
basely
born
under
an
Ox's
Stall
?
No
,
no
,
accursed
Christians
,
you
Off-spring
of
you
Generation
of
you
Seed
of
Vipers
,
and
accursed
through
the
World
,
look
for
a
speedy
shower
of
Vengeance
to
Rain
from
Heaven
upon
you
wicked
Nations
:
Your
bloody
practices
have
pierced
the
Battlements
of
and
your
Tyrannies
beaten
open
the
Gate
of
Mighty
who
had
provided
Whips
of
burning
wyre
to
scourge
you
for
your
Cruelties
,
proffered
to
,
and
against
his
blessed
Worshippers
:
Now
with
this
deadly
Curse
I
bid
you
all
farewell
:
The
Plagues
of
●ight
upon
your
Kingdom
:
The
Curse
of
Cain
upon
your
Children
,
the
Famine
of
upon
your
Friends
,
and
the
misery
of
upon
your selves
Honour
and
Victory
follow
St.
for
he
hath
Redeemed
from
a
miserble
Servitude
How
the
arrived
in
and
what
hapned
to
them
there
.
The
Tragedy
of
the
Lustful
Earl
of
was
bound
to
a
Stake
to
be
burnt
:
And
how
St.
Redeemed
her
.
Lastly
,
How
the
King
cast
himself
from
the
top
of
a
Tower
,
and
broke
his
Neck
.
That
they
should
not
utterly
destroy
their
declining
Countrey
,
but
shew
mercy
to
unhappy
Egypt
:
You
unconquered
Knights
of
Christendom
,
whose
worthy
Victories
and
Noble
Atchievements
the
whole
World
admires
,
let
him
that
never
kneeled
to
any
Man
till
now
,
and
in
former
times
disdained
to
humble
himself
to
any
Potentate
on
Earth
;
let
him
I
say
,
the
most
unfortunate
Wretch
alive
,
crave
mercy
,
not
for
my self
,
but
for
my
Countrey
;
my
Commons
Blood
will
be
required
at
my
hand
:
Our
Murthered
Infants
will
call
to
Heaven
for
Revenge
,
and
our
slaughtered
Widows
sink
down
to
Hell
for
Revenge
:
so
will
the
Vengeance
of
Heaven
light
upon
my
Soul
,
and
the
Curse
of
Hell
upon
my
Head
.
Renowned
Champion
of
under
whose
Custody
my
dear
Daughter
is
kept
,
even
for
the
love
of
her
be
merciful
to
The
former
Wrongs
I
proffered
thee
when
I
sent
thee
,
like
a
guiltless
Lamb
,
into
was
contrary
to
my
Will
:
for
I
was
incensed
by
the
slattery
of
that
accursed
Black-moor
King
,
whose
Soul
for
ever
be
scourged
with
whips
of
wyre
,
and
plagued
with
the
punishment
of
in
Hell
:
If
my
life
will
serve
for
a
just
Revenge
,
here
is
my
naked
Breast
,
let
my
heart-blood
stain
some
Christian's
Sword
,
that
you
may
bear
the
bloody
Witness
of
my
death
into
Christendom
,
or
let
me
be
torn
into
a
thousand
pieces
by
mad
untamed
Steeds
,
as
was
Son
of
in
his
charmed
Chariot
Most
Mighty
Controulers
of
the
World
,
command
the
dearest
things
in
they
be
at
your
pleasures
,
we
will
forsake
our
Gods
,
and
believe
in
that
God
which
you
commonly
adore
,
for
he
is
the
true
and
living
God
,
ours
false
and
hateful
in
the
sight
of
Heaven
.
's
Champion
instead
of
Arms
get
Swallows
wings
,
and
flie
to
if
ever
thou
wilt
see
thy
beloved
Lady
,
for
she
is
judged
to
be
burned
at
a
stake
for
murdering
the
Earl
of
whose
lostful
Desires
would
have
stained
her
Honour
with
Infamy
,
and
made
her
the
scorn
of
Vertuous
Women
:
Yet
this
Mercy
is
granted
by
the
King
of
that
if
within
twelve
Months
a
Champion
may
be
sound
,
that
for
her
lake
will
venture
his
life
,
if
it
be
his
fortune
to
overcome
the
the
Challenger
of
her
Death
,
she
shall
live
:
but
if
it
be
his
fatal
Destiny
to
be
Conquered
,
then
must
she
suffer
the
heavy
Judgment
before
pronounced
;
therefore
as
you
love
the
life
of
your
chaste
and
beloved
Lady
,
haste
into
delay
no
time
,
for
delay
is
dangerous
,
and
her
life
in
hazard
to
be
lost
.
O
unkind
Have
I
adventured
my
Life
in
thy
Defence
,
and
for
thy
Defence
have
lain
in
the
Field
of
buckled
on
my
Armour
in
many
a
parching
Summers-day
,
and
many
a
freezing
Winters
night
,
when
you
have
taken
your
quiet
sleeps
on
Beds
of
Down
;
and
will
you
repay
me
with
this
discourtesie
,
or
rather
undeserved
wrong
,
to
adjure
her
spotless
body
to
consuming
fire
?
whose
blood
,
if
it
be
spilt
before
I
come
,
I
vow
never
to
draw
my
trusty
Sword
in
's
Quarrel
more
,
nor
never
account
my self
her
Champion
,
but
I
will
rend
my
Warlike
Colours
into
a
thousand
pieces
,
the
which
I
wear
on
my
Burgone●
,
(
I
mean
the
crimson
Cross
of
and
wander
unknown
Countries
,
obscurely
from
the
sight
of
any
Christian
eye
.
Is
it
possible
that
will
be
so
ungrateful
to
her
Friend
?
can
that
Renowned
Country
harbour
such
a
Lustful
Monster
,
to
seek
to
dishonour
her
,
within
whose
heart
the
Fountain
of
Vertue
springs
?
Or
can
that
Noble
City
,
the
Nurse
and
Mother
of
my
Life
,
entertain
so
vile
a
Homicide
,
that
will
offer
Violence
to
her
,
whose
Chastity
and
true
Honour
hath
caused
tameless
Lions
to
sleep
in
her
Lap.
Most
Divine
and
Peerless
Paragon
thou
only
Wonder
of
the
World
for
Beauty
and
excellent
Ornaments
of
Nature
,
know
that
thy
two
twinkling
Eyes
that
shine
more
brighter
than
the
Lights
of
Heaven
,
being
the
true
Darts
of
Love
,
have
pierced
my
heart
,
and
those
thy
crimson
Cheeks
,
as
lovely
as
Countenance
,
when
she
draws
the
Curtains
of
her
purple
Bed
to
entertain
her
wandring
Lover
,
those
Cheeks
I
say
have
wounded
me
with
Love
:
therefore
except
thou
grant
me
kind
comfort
,
I
am
like
to
spend
the
remnant
of
my
Life
in
Sorrow
,
Gare
,
and
Discontent
:
I
blush
to
speak
what
I
desire
,
because
I
have
setled
my
Love
where
it
is
unlawful
,
in
a
bosome
where
Kings
may
sleep
and
surfeit
with
delight
,
thy
Breast
I
mean
,
most
Divine
Mistress
,
for
there
my
Heart
is
kept
Prisoner
,
Beauty
is
the
Keeper
,
and
Love
the
Key
,
my
Ransome
is
a
constant
Mind
:
Thou
art
my
I
will
be
thy
thou
art
my
I
will
be
thy
thou
art
my
I
will
be
thy
thou
art
my
and
I
will
be
thy
Admit
thy
Lord
and
Husband
be
alive
,
yet
hath
he
most
unkindly
left
thee
to
spend
thy
young
years
in
solitary
Widow-hood
?
He
is
unconstant
like
and
thou
more
hapless
than
He
marcheth
up
and
down
the
world
in
glistring
Armour
,
and
never
doth
intend
to
return
:
He
abandoneth
thy
presence
,
and
lieth
sporting
in
strange
Ladies
Laps
;
therefore
,
dear
live
not
to
consume
thy
youth
in
singleness
,
for
Age
will
overtake
thee
too
soon
,
and
convert
thy
Beauty
to
wrinkled
Frowns
.
Most
Noble
Lord
for
our
bounteous
Banquet
,
courteous
Entertainment
,
I
give
the
humble
thanks
of
a
poor
Lady
;
but
for
your
Suit
and
unlawful
desire
,
I
do
detest
as
much
as
the
sight
of
a
Crocodile
,
and
your
flattering
Glosses
I
esteem
as
much
as
doth
the
Ocean
of
a
drisling
shower
of
Rain
:
your
Syrens
Songs
shall
never
enrice
me
to
listen
to
your
fond
Requests
:
but
I
will
,
like
stop
my
ears
,
and
bury
all
your
flattering
inticements
in
the
Lake
of
Forgetfulness
.
Think
you
that
I
will
stain
my
Marriage-Bed
with
the
least
spot
of
Infamy
,
that
will
not
proffer
me
one
thought
of
wrong
,
for
all
the
Treasures
of
the
wealthy
Seas
?
Surely
the
gorgeous
Sun
shall
lose
his
light
by
Day
,
and
the
silver
Moon
by
Night
,
the
Skies
shall
fall
,
the
Earth
shall
sink
,
and
every
thing
shall
change
from
Kind
and
Nature
,
before
I
will
falsifie
my
Faith
,
or
prove
Disloyal
to
my
beloved
attempt
no
more
,
my
Noble
Lord
,
to
batter
the
Fortress
of
my
good
Name
with
the
Gun-shot
of
your
Flattery
,
nor
seek
to
stain
my
Honour
with
your
Lustful
desires
.
What
if
my
Lord
and
Husband
prove
Disloyal
and
chose
out
other
Loves
in
Foreign
Lands
?
yet
will
I
prove
as
constant
to
him
,
as
to
her
and
if
it
be
his
pleasure
never
to
return
,
but
spend
his
days
among
strange
Ladies
,
yet
will
I
live
in
single
Solitariness
like
to
the
Turtle
Dove
when
she
hath
lost
her
Mate
▪
abandoning
all
company
,
or
as
the
mournful
Swan
that
swims
upon
's
Silver
Streams
,
where
she
records
her
dying
tunes
to
raging
Billows
;
so
will
I
spend
away
my
lingering
days
in
grief
,
and
die
.
Why
,
my
dear
Mistriss
,
have
you
a
heart
more
hard
than
flint
,
that
the
tears
of
my
true
Love
can
never
mollifie
?
Can
you
behold
him
plead
for
grace
,
that
hath
been
sued
unto
by
many
worthy
Dames
?
I
am
a
Man
that
can
Command
Countries
,
yet
can
I
not
command
thy
stuboorn
heart
.
Divine
if
thou
wilt
grant
me
thy
Love
,
and
yield
to
my
desire
,
I
will
have
thee
clad
in
Silken
Robes
,
and
Damask
Vestures
,
imbost
with
Indian
Pearls
,
and
rich
Refined
Gold
,
perfumed
with
Camphire
,
Biss
,
and
Syrian
sweet
Persumes
:
by
day
a
hundred
Virgins
like
to
tripping
on
the
silver
Sands
,
shall
usually
attend
thy
Person
;
by
night
a
hundred
Eunuchs
with
their
strained
Instruments
shall
bring
thy
Senses
into
a
golden
slumber
:
If
this
procureth
not
thy
sweet
content
,
I
will
prepare
a
sumptuous
Chariot
made
with
Gold
,
wherein
thou
shalt
be
drawn
by
sable
sported
Steeds
along
the
Fields
and
gallant
Past●res
adjoyning
to
our
City
Walls
,
whereas
the
Evening
Air
shall
breathe
a
coolness
,
●ar
more
sweet
than
Balm
upon
thy
Cheeks
,
and
make
thy
Beauty
glister
like
the
purple
Pillar
of
when
he
leaves
blushing
in
her
Bed
,
whereby
the
Heavens
and
all
the
Powers
therein
shall
stand
and
wonder
at
thy
Beauty
,
and
quite
forget
their
usual
Courses
:
All
this
,
my
dear
Divine
and
dainty
Mistriss
,
is
at
thy
command
,
and
more
,
so
that
I
may
enjoy
thy
Love
and
Favour
:
which
if
I
have
not
,
I
will
discontentedly
end
my
Life
in
Woods
and
Desart
places
,
Tygers
and
untamed
Beasts
being
my
chief
Companions
.
Think
you
,
my
Lord
,
with
Golden
Promises
to
obtain
the
precious
Gem
,
the
which
I
will
not
lose
for
Treasury
?
Henceforth
be
silent
in
that
Enterprize
,
and
never
after
this
,
attempt
to
practise
my
dishonour
,
which
if
you
do
,
I
vow
by
Heaven
to
make
it
known
to
every
one
within
the
City
,
and
to
fill
all
places
with
the
rumour
of
thy
wilful
Lust
:
A
troop
of
modest
Maids
I
will
procure
to
haunt
thee
up
and
down
the
streets
,
to
wonder
at
thee
like
an
Owl
,
that
never
comes
abroad
but
in
the
darkest
night
,
this
I
am
resolved
to
do
,
and
so
farewel
.
Now
,
stubborn
Dame
will
I
obtain
my
long
desired
purpose
,
and
Revenge
by
Violence
thy
former
proud
Denials
:
first
I
will
wrap
this
Dagger
in
thy
Locks
of
Hair
,
and
nail
it
fast
into
the
ground
;
then
will
I
Ravish
thee
by
Force
and
Violence
,
and
triumph
in
the
Conquest
of
thy
Chastity
;
which
being
done
,
I
will
cut
thy
tongue
out
of
thy
mouth
,
because
thou
shalt
not
reveal
nor
desery
thy
bloody
Ravisher
:
Likewise
with
this
Poiniard
will
I
chop
off
both
thy
hands
,
whereby
thou
shalt
never
write
with
Pen
thy
stain
of
Honour
,
nor
in
Sampler
sow
this
proffered
Disgrace
.
Therefore
,
except
thou
wilt
yield
to
quench
my
desired
Love
with
the
pleasures
of
thy
Marriage
Bed
,
I
will
by
force
and
violence
inflict
those
vowed
punishments
upon
thy
delicate
Body
:
be
not
too
resolute
in
denials
,
for
if
thou
bee'st
,
the
gorgeous
Sun
shall
not
glide
the
compass
of
an
hour
before
I
obtain
my
long
desired
purpose
:
My
Lord
of
is
Vertue
banished
from
your
breast
?
have
you
a
mind
more
tyrannous
than
the
Tygers
in
that
nothing
may
suffice
to
satisfie
Your
Lustful
desires
but
the
stain
of
mine
Honour
,
and
the
Conquest
of
my
Chastity
?
If
it
be
my
Beauty
that
hath
inticed
you
,
I
am
content
to
have
it
converted
to
a
loathsome
Leprosie
whereby
to
make
me
odious
in
your
Eyes
:
If
it
be
my
rich
and
costly
Garments
that
make
me
Beautiful
,
and
so
intangle
you
,
henceforth
I
will
attire
my
Body
in
poor
and
simple
array
,
and
for
evermore
dwell
in
Countrey
Caves
and
Cottages
;
so
that
I
may
preserve
my
Chastity
unspotted
.
If
none
of
these
may
suffice
to
abase
your
Tyrannous
Intent
,
but
that
your
Lust
will
make
me
Time's
wonder
,
and
pointing
stock
,
and
scorn
of
vertuous
Ladies
,
then
will
the
Heavens
revenge
my
wrongs
,
to
whom
I
will
uncessantly
make
my
petitions
:
The
Birds
in
the
Air
after
their
kind
,
will
evermore
exclaim
against
your
wickedness
:
the
Silvane
Beasts
that
abide
in
Woods
and
Desarts
,
will
breathe
forth
clamours
of
your
wickedness
:
the
creeping
worms
that
live
within
the
crevices
of
the
Earth
,
will
give
dumb
signs
and
tokens
of
your
wickedness
:
The
running
Rivers
will
murmur
at
your
wickedness
:
The
Woods
and
Trees
,
Herbs
and
Flowers
,
with
every
sensless
thing
,
will
sound
some
motions
of
your
wickedness
.
Return
,
return
,
my
Noble
Lord
,
unto
your
former
Vertues
:
banish
such
fond
desires
out
of
your
mind
;
stain
not
the
Honour
of
your
House
with
such
black
Scandals
and
Disgrace
,
bear
this
in
mind
before
you
do
attempt
so
vile
a
sin
;
What
became
of
Ravishment
,
but
the
Destruction
of
Renowned
What
of
's
Rape
,
but
the
Banishment
of
And
what
of
's
foul
Deflourment
by
her
Sister's
Husband
,
the
Lustful
King
of
but
the
bloody
Banquet
of
his
young
Son
whose
tender
body
they
served
to
his
Table
baked
in
a
Pye
?
At
which
speeches
the
●●eful
Earl
wrapped
his
hands
within
her
Locks
of
Hair
,
which
was
covered
with
a
costly
Caul
of
Gold
,
and
in
this
manner
presently
replied
unto
her
.
What
tellest
thou
me
of
Poets
Tales
Rape
,
and
's
bloody
Banquet
?
thy
Ravishment
shall
be
an
Induction
to
thy
Tragedy
,
which
,
if
thou
yield
not
willingly
,
I
will
obtain
by
Force
and
Violence
:
therefore
prepare
thy self
either
to
entertain
the
Sentence
pronounced
,
or
yield
thy
Body
to
my
pleasure
.
There
is
no
condition
but
I
would
yield
unto
,
so
thou
wilt
grant
my
desire
,
and
make
me
chief
commander
of
thy
Love
.
First
,
my
Lord
shall
you
suffer
me
to
sit
some
certain
hours
upon
this
bed
of
Violets
,
and
bewail
the
loss
of
my
good
name
,
which
shortly
shall
be
yielded
up
to
your
pleasure
:
then
shall
you
lie
and
dally
in
my
Lap
,
thereby
to
make
my
Affections
,
yet
freezing
cold
,
to
flame
with
burning
brands
of
Love
:
that
being
done
,
you
shall
receive
your
wished
desires
.
Grant
,
you
Immortal
Powers
of
Heaven
that
of
these
two
Extreams
I
choose
the
best
;
either
must
I
yield
my
Body
to
be
dishonoured
by
his
unchaste
desires
,
or
stain
my
hands
with
the
trickling
streams
of
his
heart-blood
.
If
I
yield
unto
the
first
,
I
shall
be
then
accounted
for
a
Vicious
Dame
;
but
if
I
commit
the
last
,
I
shall
be
guilty
of
a
wilfull
Murther
,
and
for
the
same
the
Law
will
adjudge
me
a
shameful
death
.
What
,
shall
I
fear
to
die
,
or
lose
my
Vertue
and
Renown
?
No
,
my
heart
shall
be
as
Tyrannous
as
his
Daughters
,
that
slew
their
Fifty
Husbands
in
a
night
;
or
as
's
Cruelty
,
which
scattered
her
Brother's
bloody
Joynts
upon
the
Sea
Shore
,
thereby
to
hinder
the
swift
pursuit
of
her
Father
,
when
got
the
Golden
Fleece
from
Isle
.
Therefore
stand
still
you
glistring
Lamps
of
Heaven
,
stay
wandring
Time
,
and
let
him
sleep
eternally
.
Where
art
thou
,
sad
that
speakest
of
nothing
but
of
Murders
and
Tragedies
:
where
be
those
Dames
that
evermore
delight
in
Blood
;
Come
,
come
,
assist
me
with
your
Cruelties
,
let
me
exceed
the
hate
of
for
her
Ravishment
:
rage
heart
,
and
take
delight
in
Blood
,
banish
all
thoughts
of
pity
from
thy
breast
,
be
thou
as
merciless
as
King
's
Queen
,
that
in
Revenge
of
five
and
twenty
Murdered
Sons
,
that
with
her
own
hands
stained
the
Pavements
of
's
Court
with
purple
Gore
said
she
Robin
Red-breast
Long
live
St.
true
Champion
for
and
King
of
Be
witness
,
Heaven
and
all
your
bright
Coelestial
Angels
;
be
witness
Sun
and
Moon
,
all
true
beholders
of
my
Fact
:
be
witness
thou
clear
Firmament
,
and
all
the
World
be
witness
of
my
Innocency
;
the
blood
I●shed
was
for
the
safeguard
of
my
Honour
and
unspotted
Chastity
:
great
God
of
Heaven
,
if
the
Prayers
of
my
unstained
heart
may
move
thy
mighty
Majesty
,
or
my
true
Innocency
prevail
with
thy
immortal
Power
,
command
that
either
my
Lord
may
come
to
be
my
Champion
,
or
sad
beholder
of
my
Death
.
But
if
my
hands
were
stained
with
the
blood
about
some
wicked
Enterprize
,
then
Heaven
shew
present
Vengeance
upon
me
,
else
by
some
Noble
Champion
save
my
body
alive
.
Now
frown
,
you
fatal
Stars
eternally
,
that
did
predominate
at
my
Birth
,
for
he
is
Slain
and
Vanquished
,
that
never
stoopt
to
any
Knight
before
this
day
.
How
St.
in
his
Journey
towards
arrived
in
a
Country
inhabited
only
by
Maids
,
where
he
atchieved
many
strange
and
wonderful
Adventures
:
Also
of
the
Ravishment
of
seven
Virgins
in
a
Wood
,
and
how
preserved
her
honour
from
a
terrible
Gyant
.
Most
Divine
and
Fair
of
all
Fairs
,
Queen
of
sweet
Beauty
let
a
Travelling
Knight
obtain
this
favour
at
your
hands
,
that
both
himself
and
his
Lady
whom
you
behold
here
wearied
with
Travel
,
may
take
our
rest
within
your
Pavilion
for
a
night
.
For
we
have
wandred
up
and
down
this
Country
many
a
d●●
,
neither
seeing
Man
to
give
us
Lodging
,
nor
finding
food
to
cherish
us
,
which
made
us
wonder
that
so
brave
Country
,
and
so
beautified
with
Nature's
Ornaments
as
this
is
,
should
be
left
desolate
of
People
,
the
cause
whereof
is
strange
I
know
,
and
full
of
wonder
.
Sir
Knight
(
for
so
you
seem
both
by
your
Behaviour
and
gallant
Stature
)
what
Favour
my
Pavilion
may
afford
,
be
assured
off
;
but
the
remembrance
of
my
Country's
Desolation
which
you
speak
of
,
breeds
a
Sea
of
Sorrow
in
my
Soul
,
and
maketh
me
sigh
when
I
remember
it
;
but
because
you
are
a
Knight
of
a
strange
Land
,
I
will
report
it
,
though
unto
my
grief
:
About
some
twelve
years
since
,
it
was
a
Necromancer's
chance
to
arrive
within
this
Countrey
,
his
name
is
the
cunningest
Artist
this
day
living
upon
the
Earth
,
for
he
can
at
his
call
raise
all
the
Spirits
out
of
Hell
,
and
with
his
Charms
make
Heaven
to
Rain
continually
showers
of
blood
:
my
beauty
at
that
instant
tempted
him
to
Love
,
and
drowned
his
Senses
so
in
desire
,
that
he
assailed
by
all
perswasions
that
either
Wit
or
Art
could
devise
,
to
win
me
to
his
Will
;
but
I
having
vowed
my self
to
's
Chastity
,
to
live
in
singleness
among
these
Maids
,
contemned
his
Love
,
despised
his
Person
,
and
accounted
his
perswasions
as
ominous
Snakes
;
for
which
he
wrought
the
destruction
of
this
my
Realm
and
Kingdom
;
for
by
his
Magick
Art
and
damned
Charms
,
he
raised
from
the
Earth
a
mighty
Tower
,
the
Mortar
whereof
he
mingled
with
Virgins
Blood
,
wherein
are
such
Enchantments
wrought
,
that
the
light
of
the
Sun
,
and
the
brightness
of
the
Skies
is
quenched
,
and
the
Earth
blasted
with
a
terrible
Vapour
,
and
black
Mist
,
that
ascendeth
from
the
Tower
,
whereby
a
general
darkness
overspread
our
Land
,
the
compass
of
four
and
twenty
Leagues
,
so
this
Countrey
is
clean
wasted
and
destroyed
,
and
my
People
fled
out
thereof
.
This
Tower
is
haunted
day
and
night
with
ghastly
Fiends
;
and
at
his
departure
into
where
he
now
by
Enchantment
aids
the
Souldan
in
his
Wars
against
the
Christians
,
he
left
the
guarding
of
the
same
to
a
mighty
and
terrible
Gyant
,
for
shape
the
ugliest
Monster
that
ever
Eye
beheld
,
or
ever
Ear
heard
tell
of
,
for
he
is
thirty
foot
in
length
;
his
head
three
times
larger
than
the
head
of
an
Ox
:
his
eyes
bigger
than
two
Pewter
Dishes
,
and
his
teeth
standing
out
of
his
mouth
more
than
a
Foot
,
wherewith
he
will
break
both
Iron
and
Steel
:
his
Arms
big
and
long
without
any
measure
,
and
his
Body
as
black
as
any
Coal
,
and
as
hard
as
Brass
;
also
of
such
a
strength
,
that
he
is
able
to
carry
away
at
once
three
Knights
Armed
:
And
he
never
eateth
any
other
meat
,
but
raw
flesh
of
Mankind
:
he
is
so
light
,
and
swift
,
that
a
Horse
cannot
run
from
him
;
and
oftentimes
he
hath
hath
assailed
with
great
Troops
of
Armed
Men
,
but
all
of
them
could
never
do
him
any
harm
,
neither
with
Sword
,
Spear
,
Cross-bow
,
nor
any
other
Weapon
.
Thus
have
you
heard
,
most
Noble
and
Courteous
Knight
,
the
true
Discourse
of
my
utter
Ruine
,
and
the
Vengeance
shewed
upon
my
Countrey
by
this
wicked
Necromancer
;
for
which
I
have
remained
ever
since
in
this
Pavilion
amongst
my
Maidens
,
where
we
pray
both
day
and
night
,
that
some
unhappy
Fortune
or
terrible
Vengeance
may
fall
upon
this
wicked
Conjurer
.
Now
as
I
am
a
true
English
Knight
,
(
replied
St.
no
sooner
shall
the
Morning
Sun
appear
,
but
I
will
take
my
Journey
to
that
Inchanted
Tower
,
in
which
I
'll
enter
in
despite
of
the
Gyant
,
and
break
the
Enchantment
,
or
make
my
Grave
within
the
Monsters
Bowels
;
which
if
I
happily
perform
,
then
will
I
travel
into
and
fetter
up
the
most
wicked
Necromancer
,
and
like
a
Bloud-hound
lead
him
up
and
down
the
World
in
Chains
.
Most
dangerous
is
the
Adventure
(
quoth
the
Queen
)
from
whence
as
yet
did
never
Knight
return
;
but
if
you
be
so
Resolute
and
Noble-minded
,
as
to
attempt
the
Enterprize
,
then
happy
be
your
Fortune
,
and
know
,
brave
Knight
,
that
this
Tower
lyeth
Westward
from
hence
some
thirteen
miles
.
There
was
in
the
Country
about
some
Twelve
years
since
,
a
cunning
Necromancer
,
that
by
Inchantment
built
this
Tower
,
the
which
you
now
behold
,
and
therein
caused
a
terrible
Fire
to
spring
from
the
Earth
,
that
cast
such
a
smoak
over
the
whole
Land
,
whereby
the
People
that
were
wont
to
dwell
therein
are
fled
and
farnished
for
Hunger
:
Also
this
Enchanter
by
his
Art
made
the
River
that
you
have
passed
,
the
which
did
ever
Man
before
this
time
,
without
Death
:
Also
within
the
Tower
,
near
unto
the
fire
,
there
stands
a
fair
and
pleasant
Fountain
,
to
which
if
any
Knight
be
able
to
attain
and
cast
the
Water
thereof
into
the
Fire
,
then
shall
the
Darkness
ever
after
cease
,
and
the
Inchantment
end
,
for
which
cause
I
have
been
bound
to
guard
and
keep
the
Tower
from
the
Atchievement
of
any
Knight
.
Sir
Knight
,
you
are
most
welcome
,
and
happily
returned
,
for
you
are
the
Flower
of
Christendom
,
and
the
bravest
Champion
of
the
World
.
Command
my
Service
,
Duty
,
and
Obedience
;
for
whilst
I
live
,
I
do
profess
by
the
burning
Banks
of
never
to
follow
any
other
Knight
but
you
,
and
hereupon
I
kiss
your
Golden
Spur
,
which
is
the
Noble
Badge
of
Knighthood
.
Oh
you
Immortal
Powers
of
Heaven
and
you
Coelestial
Planets
,
being
the
true
Guiders
of
the
Firmament
,
open
your
bright
Coelestial
Gates
,
and
send
some
fatal
Planet
,
or
some
burning
Thunder-bolt
,
to
rid
me
from
the
Vale
of
Misery
,
for
I
will
nevermore
return
to
my
Lord
,
since
I
am
thus
deformed
,
and
made
an
ugly
Creature
,
my
loathsome
face
will
prove
a
Corrosive
to
his
heart
,
and
my
Body
a
torment
to
his
Soul
:
my
sight
will
be
unpleasant
,
my
Company
hated
,
my
Presence
loathed
,
and
every
one
will
shun
my
sight
,
as
from
a
Crocodile
;
therefore
I
will
remain
within
this
Grove
,
till
Heaven
either
bring
me
to
my
former
Beauty
,
or
end
my
Languishing
Misery
;
yet
witness
Heaven
,
of
my
Loyalty
unto
my
Lord
,
and
in
what
extremity
I
have
maintained
my
Chastity
:
in
remembrance
of
my
true
Love
,
here
will
I
leave
this
Chain
of
Gold
for
my
beloved
Lord
to
find
,
that
he
may
know
for
his
sake
I
have
endured
a
World
of
Woe
.
O
discontented
sight
here
lies
the
blood
of
my
beloved
Lady
,
the
truest
Woman
that
ever
Knight
enjoyed
:
that
Body
,
which
for
Excellency
deserved
a
Monument
of
Gold
,
more
rich
than
the
Tomb
of
I
fear
lies
buried
in
the
Bowels
of
that
Monstrous
Gyant
,
whose
Life
unhappily
I
granted
.
Here
is
the
chain
besmeared
in
blood
,
which
at
our
first
Acquaintance
I
gave
her
in
a
Courtly
Mask
:
this
Golden
Chain
,
I
say
,
stained
with
the
blood
of
my
dear
Lady
,
shall
for
evermore
be
kept
within
my
Bosome
,
near
unto
my
bleeding
heart
,
that
I
may
still
remember
her
true
Love
,
Faith
,
and
Constancy
.
But
fond
fool
that
I
am
,
why
do
I
talk
in
vain
?
it
will
not
recompence
her
murthered
Soul
,
the
which
methinks
I
hear
how
it
calls
for
Revenge
in
every
corner
of
the
Grove
.
It
was
I
that
left
her
carelesly
within
the
danger
of
the
Gyant
,
whom
I
little
mistrusted
,
therefore
I
will
meet
her
in
shades
,
and
crave
remission
for
my
committed
Trespass
,
for
on
this
Oak
I
will
abridge
my
Life
,
as
did
the
worthy
Knight
for
the
Love
of
O
stay
thy
hand
,
most
Noble
and
Invincible
Knight
,
the
World
's
chief
Wonder
for
admirable
Chivalry
,
and
let
my
dying
Soul
convert
thee
from
so
wicked
a
Deed
:
Seven
Virgins
in
this
Thicket
have
I
Ravished
,
and
buried
all
their
Bodies
in
my
accursed
Bowels
,
but
before
I
could
deflour
the
eighth
,
in
a
strange
manner
her
bright
Beauty
was
changed
into
a
loathsome
Leprosie
,
whereby
I
detested
her
sight
,
and
left
her
Chastity
undefiled
,
but
by
her
sad
complaints
,
I
since
have
understood
,
how
that
she
is
your
Lady
and
Love
,
and
to
this
hour
she
bath
her
Residence
within
this
Thicket
:
How
St.
and
his
Lady
lost
themselves
in
a
Wilderness
,
where
she
was
Delivered
of
three
goodly
Boys
.
The
Fairy
Queen's
Prophecy
upon
the
Children's
Fortunes
.
Of
St
return
into
where
he
Christened
his
Children
,
and
of
finding
his
Father's
Grave
,
over
which
he
built
a
stately
Tomb.
My
most
dear
and
loving
Lord
my
true
and
only
Champion
at
all
times
and
seasons
,
except
at
this
hour
,
for
it
is
the
painful
hour
of
my
Delivery
,
therefore
depart
from
out
of
the
hearing
of
my
Cryes
,
and
commit
my
Fortune
to
the
pleasures
of
the
Heavens
:
for
it
is
not
convenient
for
any
man's
eye
to
behold
the
secrets
of
a
Woman
in
such
a
case
:
stay
not
,
I
say
,
dear
Lord
,
to
see
the
Infant
now
sprawling
in
my
Womb
,
to
be
delivered
from
the
Bed
of
his
Creation
;
forsake
my
presence
for
a
time
,
and
let
me
,
like
the
Noble
Queen
of
obtain
the
favour
of
some
Fairy
to
be
my
Midwife
,
that
my
Babe
may
be
as
happily
born
in
this
Wilderness
as
was
her
Valiant
Sons
the
one
of
them
was
cherish●d
by
a
King
,
and
the
other
by
a
Bear
,
yet
both
of
them
grew
famous
in
their
Deeds
;
my
pain
is
great
,
dear
Lord
,
therefore
depart
my
Cabinet
,
and
before
lodgeth
in
the
West
,
I
shall
either
be
a
happy
Mother
,
or
a
lifeless
Body
,
thou
a
joyful
Father
,
or
a●
sorrowful
Widower
.
My
most
dear
and
well
beloved
Lord
,
the
pains
I
have
endured
to
make
you
the
happy
Father
of
three
lovely
Boys
,
hath
not
been
more
painful
than
the
stroke
of
Death
,
but
yet
my
Delivery
more
joyful
than
the
pleasures
of
this
World
:
the
Winds
carried
my
groans
to
every
corner
of
this
Wilderness
,
whereby
both
Trees
and
Herbs
assisted
my
complaints
,
Beasts
,
Birds
,
and
feathered
Fowls
,
with
every
se●sless
thing
that
Nature
framed
on
this
Earth
,
seem'd
to
pity
my
moans
;
but
in
the
midst
of
my
Torments
,
when
my
Soul
was
ready
to
forsake
this
worldly
habitation
,
there
appeared
to
me
a
Queen
Crowned
with
a
Golden
Diadem
,
in
State
and
Gesture
like
Imperious
and
in
Beauty
to
Divine
her
Garments
for
Bravery
seemed
to
stain
the
Rain-Bow
in
her
brightest
hue
,
and
for
diversity
of
Colours
,
to
surpass
the
Flowers
of
the
Field
:
on
her
attended
many
beautiful
Nymphs
,
some
clad
in
Garments
in
colour
of
the
Crystal
Ocean
,
some
in
Attire
as
gallant
as
the
pleasant
Rose
,
and
some
more
glorious
than
the
Azured
Firmaments
:
her
Wisdom
might
compare
with
her
Judgment
with
and
her
skill
with
for
no
sooner
entred
she
my
presence
,
but
my
Travels
ceased
,
and
my
Womb
delivered
up
my
grievous
Burden
;
my
Babes
being
brought
to
light
by
the
virtue
of
her
skill
,
she
prepared
these
rich
and
sumpthou
;
Cradles
,
the
which
were
brought
invisibly
to
my
Cabine
;
likewise
these
Mantles
,
and
this
Imbroidered
Coverlet
,
she
frankly
bestowed
upon
me
,
and
so
immediately
vanished
away
.
My
Love
I
will
adventure
for
thy
sake
,
more
dangers
then
did
for
's
Love
:
I
will
search
the
thickest
Groves
,
and
chase
the
nimble
Doe
to
Death
,
the
flying
Fowl
I
'll
follow
up
and
down
from
Tree
to
Tree
,
till
over-wearied
they
do
fall
down
and
die
,
for
love
of
thee
and
these
my
tender
Babes
,
whom
I
esteem
more
dear
than
the
Conquest
of
rich
I
will
adventure
more
dangers
than
did
for
the
Love
of
and
more
extreams
than
did
in
his
bloody
Battels
this
is
the
wofullest
day
that
ever
hapned
to
me
,
for
in
the
time
of
your
unhappy
Hunting
,
a
Lioness
,
a
Tygress
,
and
a
Wolf
came
into
the
Cabin
,
and
took
my
Children
from
their
Cradles
;
what
is
become
of
them
I
know
not
,
but
greatly
I
fear
by
this
time
they
are
intombed
within
their
hungry
Bowels
.
Oh
simple
Monuments
for
such
sweet
Babes
:
Well
if
the
Monsters
have
bereaved
me
of
my
Children
,
this
bloody
Sword
that
dived
into
the
Entralls
of
the
fallow
Deer
,
shall
rive
my
woful
heart
in
twain
.
Accursed
be
this
fatal
day
,
the
Planets
that
predominate
,
and
Sun
that
shines
thereon
;
Heaven
blot
it
from
the
year
,
and
let
it
never
more
be
numbred
,
but
accounted
for
a
dismal
day
throughout
the
World
;
let
all
the
Trees
be
blasted
in
those
accursed
Woods
;
let
Herbs
and
Grass
consume
away
and
die
,
and
all
things
perish
in
this
Wilderness
.
But
why
breathe
I
out
these
Curses
in
vain
,
when
as
methinks
I
hear
my
Children
in
untamed
Lions
Dens
,
crying
for
help
and
succour
?
I
come
sweet
Babes
,
I
come
,
either
to
redeem
you
from
Tygers
wrathful
Jaws
,
or
make
my
Grave
within
their
hungry
Bowels
.
Come
,
come
,
my
pretty
Babes
,
your
safe
Deliveries
from
these
inhumane
Monsters
,
will
add
long
Life
unto
your
Mother
,
and
hath
preserved
your
Father
from
a
desperate
Death
;
from
henceforh
let
Heaven
be
your
guide
,
and
send
you
as
happy
Fortunes
as
the
first
Founders
of
Imperious
which
in
their
Infancies
were
Nursed
with
the
Milk
of
a
Ravenous
Wolf
,
and
as
Prosperous
in
your
Adventures
,
as
was
that
Potentate
,
which
fed
on
the
Milk
of
a
Bitch
.
O
Fortune
,
Fortune
how
many
Griefs
heapest
thou
upon
my
head
?
wilt
thou
needs
enjoyn
me
to
an
endless
Sorrow
?
See
see
,
I
have
redeemed
our
Sons
,
and
freed
them
from
the
Tygers
bloody
Jaws
,
whose
wrathful
Countenance
did
threaten
Death
.
How
St.
with
his
Lady
arrived
in
Of
their
Royal
Entertainment
in
the
City
of
and
also
how
was
Crowned
Queen
of
Grand
Cair
The
bloudy
Battel
betwixt
the
Christians
and
the
Persians
,
and
how
the
Negromancer
,
raised
up
,
by
his
Magick
Art
,
an
Army
of
Spirits
to
fight
against
the
Christians
;
how
the
Six
Champions
were
Enchanted
,
and
recovered
by
St.
the
Misery
and
Death
of
the
Conjurer
,
and
how
the
Souldan
Brained
himself
against
a
Marble
Pillar
.
Thou
wondrous
Man
of
Art
whom
for
Necromancy
the
World
hath
made
famous
:
Now
is
the
time
to
express
the
Love
and
Loyalty
thou
bearest
thy
Soveraign
:
Now
is
the
time
thy
charming
Spells
must
work
for
's
good
;
thou
seest
my
Fortunes
are
deprest
,
my
Souldiers
dead
,
my
Captains
slaughtered
,
my
Cities
burned
,
my
Fields
of
Corn
consumed
,
and
my
Country
almost
conquered
.
I
that
was
wont
to
cover
the
Seas
with
Fleets
of
Ships
,
now
stand
amazed
to
hear
the
Christians
Drums
,
that
sound
forth
doleful
Funerals
for
my
Souldiers
:
I
that
was
wont
,
with
armed
Legions
,
to
drink
up
Rivers
as
we
marched
,
and
made
the
Earth
to
groan
with
bearing
of
our
Multitudes
:
I
that
was
wont
to
make
whole
Kingdoms
tremble
at
my
Frowns
,
and
force
imperious
Potentates
to
humble
at
my
Feet
:
I
that
have
made
the
Streets
of
many
a
City
to
run
with
Bloud
,
and
stood
rejoycing
when
I
saw
their
Buildings
burnt
:
I
that
have
made
the
Mothers
Wombs
the
Infants
Tombs
,
and
caused
Cradles
for
to
swim
in
streams
of
Bloud
,
may
now
behold
my
Country's
ruine
,
my
Kingdom
's
fall
,
and
mine
own
fatal
overthrow
.
Awake
,
great
from
thy
dreaming
Trance
,
awake
,
I
say
,
and
raise
a
Troop
of
black
infernal
Fiends
to
sight
against
the
damned
Christians
,
that
like
swarms
of
Bees
do
flock
about
our
Walls
;
prevent
,
I
say
,
my
Land's
Invasion
,
and
as
I
am
great
Monarch
of
I
'll
make
thee
King
over
twenty
Provinces
,
and
sole
Commander
of
the
Ocean
;
raise
up
,
I
say
,
thy
charmed
Spirits
,
leave
burning
empty
for
a
time
,
to
aid
us
in
this
bloudy
Battel
.
It
is
not
nor
all
the
petty
Bands
of
armed
Knights
,
nor
all
the
Princes
in
the
World
,
that
shall
abate
your
Princely
Dignity
:
Am
not
I
the
great
Magician
of
this
Age
,
that
can
both
loose
and
bind
the
Fiends
,
and
call
the
black-faced
Furies
from
low
Cocitus
?
Am
not
I
that
skilful
Artist
,
which
framed
the
charmed
Tower
amongst
the
Amazonian
Dames
,
which
all
the
Witches
in
the
World
could
never
spoil
?
Therefore
let
Learning
,
Art
,
and
all
the
Secrets
of
the
Deeps
,
assist
me
in
this
Enterprise
,
and
then
let
frowning
do
her
worst
;
my
Charms
shall
cause
the
Heavens
to
rain
such
ratling
showers
of
Stones
upon
their
Heads
,
whereby
the
Earth
shall
be
over-laden
with
their
dead
Bodies
,
and
Hell
over-filled
with
their
hateful
Souls
;
senceless
Trees
shall
rise
in
humane
shapes
,
and
fight
for
If
wise
were
ever
famous
for
Arts
,
that
did
the
like
for
safeguard
of
her
Father's
State
,
then
,
Why
should
not
practice
Wonders
for
his
Soveraign's
Happiness
?
I
'll
raise
a
Troop
of
Spirits
from
the
lowest
Earth
,
more
black
then
dismal
Night
,
the
which
in
ugly
Shapes
shall
haunt
them
up
and
down
,
and
when
they
sleep
within
their
rich
Pavilions
,
legions
of
fiery
Spirits
will
I
up-raise
from
Hell
,
that
like
to
Dragons
spitting
flames
of
Fire
,
shall
blast
and
burn
the
damned
Christians
in
their
Tents
of
War
:
the
Fields
of
Grand
shall
be
over-spread
with
venemous
Snakes
,
Adders
,
Serpents
,
and
impoysoned
Toads
,
the
which
unseen
shall
lurk
in
mossie
Ground
,
and
sting
the
Colonels
of
warlike
Horses
;
down
from
the
crystal
Firmament
I
will
conjure
Troops
of
airy
Spirits
to
descend
,
that
like
to
Virgins
clad
in
princely
Ornaments
shall
link
those
Christian
Champions
in
the
Charms
of
Love
;
their
Eyes
shall
be
like
the
twinkling
Lamps
of
Heaven
,
and
dazle
so
their
warlike
Thoughts
,
and
their
lively
Countenance
,
more
bright
then
Fairies
,
shall
lead
them
captive
to
a
Tent
of
Love
,
the
which
shall
be
articially
erected
up
by
Magick
Spells
;
their
warlike
Weapons
that
were
wont
to
smoak
in
Pagans
Bloud
,
shall
,
in
my
charmed
Tent
,
b●
hung
upon
the
bowers
of
Peace
;
their
glist●ing
Armour
that
were
wont
to
shine
within
the
Fields
of
〈◊〉
,
shall
henceforth
for
evermore
be
stained
with
Rust
;
and
themselves
s●rname●
for
Martial
Discipline
,
the
Wondrous
Champions
of
the
World
,
shall
surfeit
with
delightful
Loves
,
and
sleep
upon
the
laps
of
the
airy
Spirits
,
that
descend
the
Elements
in
Virgins
shapes
;
Terror
and
Despair
shall
mightily
oppress
their
merciless
Souldiers
,
that
they
shall
yield
the
honourable
Conquest
to
your
Excellency
:
such
strange
and
wonderful
Accidents
by
Art
shall
be
accomplished
,
that
Heaven
shall
●rown
at
my
Enchantments
,
and
the
Earth
tremble
to
hear
my
Conjurations
;
therefore
,
most
mighty
Persian
,
number
up
thy
scattered
Bands
,
and
to
morrow
in
the
morning
set
open
thy
Gates
,
and
march
thitherward
with
thy
armed
Souldiers
;
leave
not
a
Man
within
the
City
,
but
let
every
one
that
is
able
to
bear
Arms
,
fight
in
the
honour
of
and
before
the
closing
of
the
night
,
I
'll
make
thee
Conquerour
,
and
yield
up
the
braging
Christians
as
Prisoner
to
thy
Mightiness
.
If
this
prove
true
,
renowned
as
thou
hast
promised
Earth
shall
not
harbour
that
too
dear
for
thee
;
for
thou
shalt
have
myself
,
my
Kingdoms
,
Crowns
and
Scepters
at
command
:
the
wealthy
River
shall
pay
thee
yearly
Tribute
with
her
Treasure
,
the
place
where
wash'd
her
golden
Wish
away
.
All
things
that
Nature
framed
precious
shall
thou
be
Lord
and
sole
Commander
of
,
if
thou
prevent
the
Invasion
of
my
Country
.
Now
is
the
Battle
furiously
begun
,
for
methinks
I
hear
the
Souldan
cry
for
help
;
now
is
the
time
my
charming
Spells
must
work
for
Victory
,
and
fatal
Overthrow
Stand
still
you
wandring
Lamps
of
Heaven
,
move
not
,
sweet
Stars
,
but
linger
on
till
Charms
be
brought
to
full
effect
.
O
thou
great
Prince
of
damned
Ghosts
,
thou
chief
Commander
of
those
fearful
Shapes
,
that
nightly
glide
by
misbelieving
Travellers
,
even
thou
that
holdest
the
snaky
Scepter
in
thy
hand
,
sitting
upon
a
Throne
of
burning
Steel
,
even
thou
that
bindest
the
Furies
up
in
Chains
,
even
thou
that
tossest
burning
Fire-brands
abroad
,
even
thou
whose
Eyes
are
like
to
unlucky
Comets
,
even
thee
I
charge
to
let
my
Furies
loose
,
open
thy
brazen
Gates
,
and
leave
thy
boyling
Cauldron
empty
;
send
up
such
Legions
of
Infernal
Fiends
that
may
in
number
countervail
the
Blades
of
Grass
that
beautifie
those
bloody
Fields
of
Come
,
princely
Gallants
,
come
,
away
with
Arms
,
forget
the
sounds
of
bloody
War
,
and
hang
your
angry
weapons
on
the
power
of
Peace
:
you
see
hath
sent
her
Messengers
from
to
lead
you
to
the
paradise
of
Love
;
there
Heaven
will
rain
down
Nectar
and
Ambrosia
,
sweet
for
you
to
feed
upon
,
and
there
the
melody
of
Angels
will
make
you
Musick
;
there
shall
you
fight
upon
beds
of
Silk
,
and
encounter
with
inticing
Kisses
.
Unconstant
Fortune
why
dost
thou
entertain
me
with
such
bitter
news
?
Are
my
Fellow-champions
come
from
Christendom
to
win
immortal
Honour
with
their
Swords
,
and
lie
they
now
bewitcht
with
Beauty
?
Come
they
from
to
fight
in
coats
of
Steel
,
and
will
they
lye
distraught
in
Tents
of
Love
?
Came
they
to
to
purchase
Kingdoms
,
and
by
bloody
War
to
ruinate
Countries
,
and
will
they
yield
their
Victories
to
so
foul
Disgrace
?
O
shame
and
great
dishonour
to
Christendom
!
O
spot
to
Knighthood
and
true
Chivalry
!
this
news
is
far
more
bitter
to
my
Soul
,
than
was
the
poysoned
Dregs
that
gave
to
in
his
Drunkenness
,
and
a
deadsier
pain
unto
my
Heart
,
than
was
that
Juice
that
suckt
from
his
fatal
King
.
Come
,
Souldiers
,
come
you
Followers
of
those
cowardly
Champions
;
unsheath
your
warlike
Weapons
,
and
follow
him
whose
Soul
hath
vowed
either
to
redeem
them
from
the
Necromancer's
Charms
or
die
with
honour
in
that
Enterprize
.
If
ever
mortal
Creatures
warred
with
damned
Furies
,
and
made
a
passage
to
enchanted
Dales
,
where
Devils
dance
,
and
warlike
Shadows
in
the
Night
:
Then
Souldiers
let
us
march
unto
that
Pavilion
,
and
chain
the
cursed
Charmer
to
some
blasted
Oak
,
that
hath
so
highly
dishonoured
Christendom
.
Now
for
the
Fame
of
Christendom
,
fight
;
Captains
be
now
Triumphant
Conquerors
,
or
Christian
Martyrs
.
O
Heavens
how
my
Soul
abhors
this
Spectace
!
Champions
of
Christendom
arise
,
brave
Knights
stand
up
,
I
say
,
and
look
about
like
Men
:
Are
you
the
chosen
Captains
of
your
Countries
,
and
will
you
bury
all
your
Honours
up
in
Ladies
Laps
?
For
shame
arise
,
I
say
they
have
the
Tears
of
Crocodiles
,
the
Songs
of
Syrens
to
enchant
:
To
Arms
,
brave
Knights
,
let
Honour
be
your
Loves
:
Blush
to
behold
your
Friends
in
Arms
,
and
blush
to
see
your
Native
Country-men
steeping
the
Fields
of
with
their
Bloods
:
Champions
arise
,
St.
calls
,
the
Victory
will
tarry
till
you
come
:
Arise
,
and
tear
the
womanish
Attire
,
surfeit
not
in
silken
Robes
;
put
on
your
steely
Corslets
,
your
glistering
Burgonets
,
and
unsheath
your
conquering
Weapons
that
Fields
may
be
converted
into
a
purple
Ocean
.
Let
Hell's
Horror
,
and
tormenting
Pains
be
their
eternal
Punishment
;
let
flaming
Fire
deseend
the
Elements
,
and
consume
them
in
their
warlike
Triumphs
,
and
let
their
ways
be
strowed
with
venemous
Thorns
,
that
all
their
Legs
may
rancle
to
the
Knees
,
before
they
march
to
their
Native
Country
.
But
why
exclaim
I
thus
in
vain
,
when
Heaven
itself
preserves
their
Happiness
?
Now
all
my
Magick
Charms
are
ended
,
and
all
my
Spirits
forsaken
me
in
my
need
,
and
here
am
I
fast
chained
up
to
starve
and
dye
.
Have
I
had
power
to
rend
the
Vales
of
Earth
,
and
shake
the
mighty
Mountains
with
my
Charms
?
Have
I
had
power
to
raise
up
dead
Mens
shapes
from
kingly
Tombs
,
and
can
I
not
unchain
myself
from
this
accursed
Tree
?
O
no
,
for
I
am
fettered
up
by
the
immortal
Power
of
the
Christians
God
;
against
whom
because
I
did
rebel
,
I
am
now
condemned
to
everlasting
Fire
.
Come
all
ye
Necromancers
in
the
World
,
come
all
you
Sorcerers
and
Charmers
,
come
all
you
Schollars
from
the
learned
Universities
,
come
all
you
Witches
,
Beldams
,
and
Fortune-tellers
,
and
all
that
practice
devilish
Arts
,
come
,
take
example
by
the
story
of
my
Eyes
.
A
Vale
of
Walking-Spirits
O
Heavens
now
have
you
thrown
a
deserved
Plague
upon
my
Head
,
and
all
those
guiltless
Souls
that
in
former
times
my
Tyranny
have
murthered
,
may
now
be
fully
satisfied
;
for
I
that
was
wont
to
have
my
Table
beautified
with
Kings
,
am
now
constrained
to
feed
alone
in
a
Dungeon
,
where
Sorrow
is
my
Food
,
and
Despair
my
Servitor
;
I
that
have
famished
thousands
up
in
Walls
of
Stone
,
am
now
constrained
to
feed
upon
mine
own
Flesh
,
or
else
to
starve
and
die
:
yet
shall
these
cruel
Christians
know
that
as
I
lived
in
Tyranny
,
so
will
I
die
;
for
I
will
make
a
Murther
of
myself
,
that
after
this
Life
,
my
angry
Ghost
may
fill
their
Sleeps
with
ghastly
Visions
.
Aegypt
,
Persia
O
thou
Omnipotent
God
of
New
we
not
only
give
thee
condign
Praise
for
our
late
atchieved
Victories
against
the
Enemies
,
who
by
their
Wickedness
seek
daily
to
pull
thee
from
thy
celestial
Throne
;
but
also
do
render
thee
hearty
Thanks
,
that
hast
delivered
us
safely
from
the
fury
of
the
raging
Seas
,
that
otherwise
might
have
drenched
us
in
her
devouring
Gulf
as
thou
didst
with
his
golden
Chariots
,
and
his
invincible
Legions
;
therefore
great
King
of
under
whose
Name
we
have
taken
many
things
in
hand
,
and
have
atchieved
so
many
Victories
,
grant
that
these
true
Obligations
of
our
thankful
Hearts
may
be
acceptable
in
thy
sight
,
which
be
no
sained
Ceremonies
,
but
the
inward
Devotions
of
our
Souls
.
Thus
,
gentle
Reader
,
hast
thou
heard
the
first
of
the
princely
Atchievements
,
noble
Adventures
,
and
honourable
Lives
of
these
renowned
and
worthy
Champions
.
The
Second
Part
relates
the
noble
Atchievements
and
strange
Fortunes
of
St.
Three
Sons
;
the
Loves
of
many
gallant
Ladies
;
the
Combates
and
Turnaments
of
many
valiant
Knights
,
and
Tragedies
of
mighty
Potentates
.
Likewise
the
rest
of
the
noble
Adventures
of
the
renowned
Seven
Champions
;
also
the
manner
and
place
of
their
honourable
Deaths
,
and
how
they
came
to
be
called
the
Seven
Saints
of
Christendom
.
W.
Onley
Ric.
Chiswell
,
M.
Wotton
,
G.
Conyers
,
B.
Waisord
The
Second
Part
of
the
Seven
Champions
of
Christendom
,
First
Part.
How
St.
three
Sons
were
entertained
into
the
Famous
City
of
and
after
how
their
Mother
was
Slain
in
a
Wood
,
with
the
Pricks
of
a
thorny
Brake
;
her
Blessings
she
gave
her
Sons
;
St.
Lamentation
over
her
bleeding
Body
;
and
likewise
of
the
Journey
the
Seven
Champions
intended
to
to
visit
the
Sepulchre
of
Christ
.
Guy
,
Alexander
Dear
Lord
in
this
unhappy
Hunting
must
you
lose
the
truest
Wife
that
ever
●ay
by
any
Prince's
side
;
yet
mourn
not
you
,
nor
grieve
you
my
Sons
,
nor
you
brave
Christian
Knights
;
but
let
your
warlike
Drums
convey
m●
royally
to
my
Tomb
,
that
all
the
World
may
write
in
brazen
Books
,
how
I
have
followed
my
Lord
(
the
Pride
of
Christendom
)
through
many
a
bloody
Field
,
and
for
his
sake
have
left
my
Parents
,
Friends
and
Country
,
and
have
travelled
through
many
a
dangerous
Kingdom
;
but
now
the
cruel
Fates
have
wrought
their
last
spight
,
and
finished
my
Life
,
because
I
am
not
able
to
perform
what
Love
he
hath
deserved
of
me
.
And
now
to
you
my
Sons
this
Blessing
do
I
leave
behind
,
even
by
the
Pains
that
forty
Weeks
I
once
endured
for
your
sakes
,
when
as
you
lay
enclosed
in
my
Womb
,
and
by
my
Travels
in
the
Wilderness
,
whereas
my
Groans
upon
your
Birth-day
did
(
in
my
thinking
)
cause
both
Trees
and
Stones
to
drop
down
Tears
,
when
as
the
merciless
Tygers
and
tameless
Lyons
did
stand
like
gentle
Lambs
,
and
mourned
to
hear
my
Lamentations
,
and
by
a
Mother's
Love
that
ever
since
I
have
born
you
,
imitate
and
follow
your
Father
in
all
his
honourable
Attempts
,
harm
not
the
silly
Infant
,
nor
the
helpless
Widow
,
defend
the
Honour
of
distressed
Ladies
,
and
give
freely
unto
wounded
Souldiers
,
seek
not
to
stain
the
unspotted
Virgins
with
your
Lust
,
and
adventure
evermore
to
redeem
true
Knights
from
Captivity
,
live
evermore
professed
Enemies
to
Paganism
,
and
spend
your
Lives
in
the
Quarrel
and
Defence
of
Christ
,
that
Babes
(
as
yet
unborn
)
in
time
to
come
may
speak
of
you
,
and
record
you
in
the
Books
of
Fame
to
be
true
Christian
Champions
.
This
is
my
Blessing
,
and
this
is
the
Testament
I
leave
behind
;
for
now
I
feel
the
chilness
of
pale
Death
closing
the
Closets
of
mine
Eyes
:
Farewel
vain
World
,
dear
Lord
farewel
,
sweet
Sons
,
you
'r
famous
Followers
of
my
and
all
true
Christian
Knights
,
adieu
.
Gone
is
the
Star
that
lighted
all
the
Nothern
World
;
whithered
is
the
Rose
that
beautified
our
Christian
Fields
;
dead
is
the
Dame
that
for
her
beauty
stained
all
Christian
Women
,
for
whom
I
'll
fill
the
Air
with
everlasting
Mones
.
Let
this
day
henceforth
be
fatal
to
all
times
,
and
counted
for
a
dismal
day
of
Death
:
let
never
the
Sun
shew
forth
his
Beams
thereon
again
,
but
Clouds
as
black
as
pitch
cover
the
Earth
with
fearful
Darkness
:
let
every
Tree
in
this
accursed
Forrest
,
henceforth
be
blasted
with
unkindly
Winds
:
let
Brambles
,
Herbs
and
Flowers
consume
and
wither
:
let
Grass
and
blooming
Buds
perish
and
decay
,
and
all
things
near
the
place
where
she
was
slain
be
turned
to
dismal
,
black
and
ghastly
colour
,
that
the
Earth
itself
in
mourning
Garments
may
lament
her
loss
:
let
never
Bird
sing
chearfully
on
tops
of
Trees
;
but
like
the
mournful
Musick
of
the
Nightingale
,
fill
all
the
Air
with
fatal
Tunes
:
let
bubling
Rivers
murmure
for
her
loss
,
and
silver
Swans
that
swim
thereon
sing
doleful
Melody
:
let
all
the
Dales
belonging
to
these
fatal
Woods
be
covered
with
green
bellied
Serpents
,
croaking
Toads
,
hissing
Snakes
,
and
sigh-killing
Cockatrices
:
in
blasted
Trees
,
let
fearful
Ravens
shrick
,
let
Howlets
cry
,
and
Crickets
sing
,
that
after
this
it
may
be
called
a
place
of
dead
Mens
wandring
Ghosts
.
But
fond
Wretch
,
why
do
I
thus
Lament
in
vain
,
and
bath
her
bleeding
Body
with
my
Tears
,
when
Grief
by
no
means
will
recal
her
Life
?
yet
this
shall
satisfie
her
Soul
,
for
I
will
go
a
Pilgrimage
unto
and
offer
up
my
Tears
to
Jesus
Christ
upon
his
blessed
Sepulchre
,
by
which
my
stained
Soul
may
be
washt
from
this
bloody
Guilt
,
which
was
the
cause
of
this
sorrowful
day's
mishap
.
Of
the
strange
Gifts
that
St.
's
Sons
offered
at
their
Mother's
Tomb
,
and
what
happ'ned
thereupon
;
how
her
Ghost
appeared
to
them
,
and
counselled
them
to
the
pursuit
of
their
Father
;
also
how
the
King
of
Installed
them
with
the
Honour
of
Knighthood
,
and
furnished
them
with
Habiliments
of
War
.
Oh
you
Degenerate
from
Nature's
kind
!
why
do
you
seek
to
make
a
Murther
of
yourselves
?
can
you
indure
to
see
my
Body
rent
in
twain
,
my
Heart
split
in
sunder
,
and
my
Womb
dismembred
?
Abate
this
fury
,
stain
not
your
Hands
with
your
own
Blouds
,
nor
make
my
Tomb
a
Spectacle
of
more
Death
.
Unite
yourselves
in
Concord
,
that
my
discontented
Soul
may
sleep
in
Peace
,
and
never
more
be
troubled
with
your
unbridled
Humours
.
Make
hast
,
I
say
,
arm
yourselves
in
steel
Corslets
,
and
follow
your
valiant
Father
to
he
is
there
in
danger
and
distress
of
Life
;
away
,
I
say
,
or
else
my
angry
Ghost
shall
never
leave
this
World
,
but
hunt
you
up
and
down
with
gastly
Visions
.
How
St.
's
Sons
,
after
they
were
Knighted
by
the
English
King
,
travelled
towards
and
how
they
redeemed
the
Duke's
Daughter
of
from
Ravishment
,
that
was
assailed
in
a
Wood
by
three
Tawny-moores
;
and
also
of
the
tragical
Tale
of
the
Virgin
's
strange
Miseries
,
with
other
Accidents
.
O
Heavens
be
kind
and
pitiful
unto
a
Maiden
in
Distress
,
and
send
some
happy
Passengers
that
may
deliver
me
from
these
inhumane
Monsters
.
Come
,
come
,
some
courteous
Knight
,
or
else
I
must
forgo
that
precious
Jewel
which
all
the
World
can
never
again
recover
.
Most
noble
and
true
renowned
Men
at
Arms
,
to
tell
the
cause
of
my
passed
Misery
,
were
a
prick
onto
my
Soul
,
for
the
Discourse
thereof
will
burst
my
Heart
with
Grief
;
but
consider
your
Nobilities
,
the
which
I
do
perceive
by
your
princely
Behaviour
,
and
kind
Courtesies
extended
towards
me
,
being
a
Virgin
in
Distress
,
under
the
hands
of
these
lustful
whom
you
have
justly
murthered
,
shall
so
much
imbolden
me
,
though
unto
my
Heart
's
great
Grief
,
to
Discourse
the
first
cause
of
my
miserable
Fortune
:
My
Father
whilst
gentle
Fortune
smiled
upon
him
,
was
Duke
and
sole
Commander
of
the
State
of
a
Country
now
situated
in
the
Kindom
of
whose
Lands
and
Revenues
in
his
prosperity
was
so
great
,
that
he
continually
kept
as
stately
a
Train
,
both
of
Knights
and
Gentlemen
,
as
any
Prince
in
wherefore
the
King
of
greatly
envied
,
and
by
bloody
Wars
deposed
my
Father
from
his
Princely
Dignity
,
who
for
safeguard
of
his
life
,
in
company
of
me
his
only
Heir
and
Daughter
,
betook
us
to
these
solitary
Woods
,
where
ever
since
we
have
secretly
remained
in
a
poor
Cell
or
Hermitage
;
the
which
by
our
industrious
Pains
hath
been
Builded
with
plants
of
Vines
and
Oaken
boughs
,
and
covered
over-head
with
clods
of
Earth
,
and
turfs
of
●ra●s
:
seven
Years
we
have
continued
in
great
Extremities
,
sustaining
our
Hunger
with
the
Fruits
of
Trees
,
and
quenching
of
our
Thirst
with
the
Dew
of
Heaven
,
falling
nightly
upon
fragrant
Flowers
;
and
here
instead
of
princely
Attire
,
imbroidered
Garments
,
and
damask
Vestures
,
we
have
been
constrained
to
cloath
our selves
with
Flowers
,
the
which
we
have
painfully
woven
up
together
;
here
instead
of
Musick
,
that
wont
each
morning
to
delight
our
Ears
,
we
have
the
whilstling
Winds
resounding
in
the
Woods
;
our
Clocks
to
tell
the
Minutes
of
the
wandring
Nights
;
are
Snake
and
Toads
,
that
sleep
,
in
roots
of
rotten
Trees
;
our
Canopies
to
cover
us
,
are
not
wrought
of
Silk
,
the
which
Virgins
Weave
upon
their
silver
Looms
,
but
the
fable
Clouds
of
Heaven
,
when
as
the
chearful
day
hath
closed
her
crystal
Windows
up
:
Thus
in
this
manner
continued
we
in
this
solitary
Wilderness
,
making
both
Birds
and
Beasts
our
chief
Companions
,
these
merciless
Tawny-moores
(
whose
hateful
Breasts
you
have
made
to
water
the
parched
Earth
with
streams
of
Blood
)
who
as
you
see
came
into
our
Cell
,
thinking
to
have
found
some
store
of
Treasure
(
but
casting
their
gazing
Eyes
upon
my
Beauty
,
they
were
presentl●
〈…〉
with
lustfull
Desires
,
only
to
crop
the
sweet
B●d
of
my
Virginity
then
with
furious
and
dismal
Countenance
,
more
black
than
the
〈◊〉
Garments
of
sad
when
she
mourn●ully
writes
of
bloudy
Frage●hes
and
with
Hearts
more
cruel
than
was
's
the
tyranous
Emperour
,
when
he
beheld
the
Entrails
of
his
natural
Mother
la●d
open
by
his
inhumane
and
merciless
Commandment
,
or
when
he
stood
upon
the
highest
top
of
a
mighty
Mountain
,
to
see
that
famous
and
imperial
City
of
set
on
fire
by
the
remorseless
hands
of
his
unrelen●ing
Ministers
that
added
unhallowed
Flames
to
his
unholy
Furies
.
In
this
kind
,
I
say
these
merciless
and
wicked
minded
Negroes
with
violent
hands
took
my
aged
Father
,
and
most
cruelly
bound
him
to
the
blasted
,
Body
of
a
withered
Oak
,
standing
before
the
entry
of
his
Cell
;
where
neither
the
rever
and
honour
of
his
silver
Hairs
,
glistering
like
the
frozen
Isikles
upon
the
Northern
Mountains
,
nor
the
strained
Sighs
of
his
Breast
,
wherein
the
Pledge
of
Wisdom
was
inthronized
,
nor
all
my
Tears
or
Exclamations
could
any
whit
abate
their
Cruelties
,
but
(
grim
Dogs
of
in
they
left
my
Father
,
fast
bound
unto
the
Tree
,
and
like
egregious
Vipers
took
me
by
the
Trammels
of
my
golden
Hair
,
draging
me
like
a
silly
Lamb
unto
this
flaughtering
place
,
intending
to
satisfie
their
Luftwith
the
flower
of
my
Chastity
.
Being
used
thus
,
I
made
my
humble
Supplication
to
the
highest
Majesty
,
to
be
revenged
upon
their
Cruelties
:
I
reported
to
them
the
rewards
of
●●oudy
Ravishments
,
by
the
Example
of
sometime
King
of
and
his
furious
Wife
,
that
in
revenge
of
her
Sister's
Ravishment
,
caused
her
Husband
to
eat
the
Flesh
of
his
own
Son
.
Likewise
,
(
to
preserve
my
undefiled
Honour
)
I
told
them
that
for
the
Rape
of
and
his
whole
Name
was
ever
banished
out
of
with
many
other
Examples
:
thus
,
like
the
Nightingale
,
recorded
I
nothing
but
Rape
and
Murther
,
yet
neither
the
Fears
of
Heaven
,
nor
the
terrible
Threats
of
Hell
could
mollifie
their
bloudy
Minds
;
but
they
protested
to
persevere
in
that
Wickedness
,
and
vowed
that
if
all
the
Leaves
of
the
Trees
,
that
grew
within
the
Wood
,
were
turned
into
Pearls
,
and
that
place
made
as
wealthy
as
the
golden
Streams
of
washt●her
golden
Wish
away
,
yet
should
they
not
redeem
my
Chastity
from
the
stain
of
their
insatiable
and
lustful
Desires
.
This
being
said
,
they
bound
me
with
the
Trammels
of
mine
own
Hair
to
this
Orange
tree
,
and
at
the
very
instant
they
proffered
to
defile
my
unspotted
Body
,
you
happily
approached
,
and
not
only
redeemed
me
from
their
tyrannous
Desires
,
but
quit
the
World
from
three
of
the
wickedest
Creatures
that
ever
Nature
framed
;
for
which
(
most
noble
and
invincible
Knights
)
if
ever
Virgin
's
Prayers
may
prevail
,
humbly
will
I
make
my
Supplications
to
the
Deities
that
you
may
prove
as
valliant
Champions
as
ever
put
on
Helmet
,
and
that
your
Fames
may
ring
to
every
Prince's
Ear
,
as
far
as
bright
doth
shew
his
golden
Face
Robin
Red-breast
Of
the
Adventures
of
the
Golden
Fountain
in
how
six
of
the
Christian
Champions
were
taken
Prisoners
by
a
mighty
Giant
,
and
how
after
they
were
delivered
by
St.
and
also
how
he
redeemed
fourteen
Jews
out
of
Prison
,
with
divers
other
strange
Accidents
that
hapned
.
I
am
sure
you
invincible
Knights
,
that
you
marvel
at
my
solitary
course
of
Living
,
and
that
you
greatly
muse
,
wherefore
I
exempt
myself
from
the
company
of
Worldlings
,
except
my
seven
Sons
,
whose
Sights
are
my
chief
Comfort
,
and
the
only
Prolongers
of
my
Life
;
therefore
prepare
your
Ears
to
encertain
the
strangest
Discourse
that
ever
Tongue
pronounced
,
or
wearied
old
Man
in
the
height
of
his
extremity
delivered
:
I
was
in
my
former
Years
(
whilst
Fortune
smiled
upon
my
Happines
)
the
principal
Commander
,
and
chief
Owner
of
a
certain
Fountain
,
of
such
wonderful
and
precious
Vertue
,
that
it
was
valued
to
be
worth
the
Kingdom
of
the
Water
thereof
was
so
strange
in
the
Operation
,
that
in
four
and
twenty
Hours
it
would
convert
any
Mettal
,
as
Brass
,
Copper
,
Iron
,
Lead
or
Tin
,
into
rich
refined
Gold
;
the
stony
Flint
into
pure
Silver
,
any
kind
of
Earth
into
excellent
Mettal
:
By
the
Vertue
thereof
,
I
have
made
the
Leaves
of
Trees
a
flourishing
Forest
of
Riches
,
and
the
Blades
of
Grass
valuable
to
the
Jewels
that
be
found
in
the
Country
of
The
Vertue
thereof
was
no
sooner
bruited
through
the
World
;
but
it
caused
many
Foreign
Knights
to
try
the
Adventure
,
and
by
force
of
Arms
to
bereave
me
of
the
Hononour
of
this
Fountain
.
But
at
that
time
Nature
graced
me
with
one
and
twenty
Sons
,
whereof
seven
be
yet
living
,
and
the
only
Comfort
of
my
Age
;
but
the
other
fourteen
(
whom
frowning
Fortune
hath
bereaved
me
of
)
many
a
day
by
their
valiant
Prowess
and
matchless
Fortitudes
defended
the
Fountain
from
many
great
and
furious
Assailers
;
for
there
was
no
Knight
in
all
the
World
that
was
found
so
hardy
or
of
such
invincible
Courage
,
that
if
they
but
once
attempted
to
Incounter
with
any
of
my
valiant
Sons
,
they
were
either
taken
Prisoners
,
or
slain
in
the
Combate
.
The
Fame
of
their
Valours
,
and
the
Riches
of
the
Fountain
run
through
many
strange
Countries
,
and
lastly
,
came
to
the
Ears
of
a
furious
Giant
,
dwelling
upon
the
Borders
of
who
at
the
report
thereof
came
armed
with
his
steely
Coat
,
with
a
mighty
Bat
of
Iron
on
his
neck
,
like
to
furious
that
burst
the
brazen
Gates
of
and
bore
the
mighty
Mountain
upon
his
Shoulders
;
he
was
the
Conqueror
of
my
Sons
,
and
the
first
Causer
of
my
sudden
Downfal●
:
But
when
I
thus
had
intelligence
of
the
Overthrow
of
fourteen
of
my
Soils
,
and
that
he
had
made
Conquest
of
my
wealthy
Fountain
,
I
with
the
rest
of
my
Children
,
thinking
all
hope
of
Recovery
to
be
past
,
betook
ourselves
to
this
solitary
course
of
Life
,
where
ever
since
in
this
Mansion
or
Hermitage
we
have
made
our
abode
and
residence
,
spending
our
Wealth
to
the
relief
of
traveling
Knights
and
wandering
Pilgrims
,
hoping
once
again
that
smiling
Fortune
would
advanc●
us
to
some
be●●e●
Hap
;
and
to
be
plain
,
r●●ht
worthy
Champions
,
since
then
my
hope
was
never
at
the
hight
of
full
perfection
till
this
〈◊〉
time
,
wherein
your
excellent
Presence
almost
assure
me
that
the
〈…〉
conquered
,
my
Fountain
restored
;
and
●hy
Son●
Deaths
(
for
dead
sure
they
are
)
revenged
.
I
have
not
without
great
wonder
(
most
reverend
and
courteous
old
Man
)
heard
the
strange
Discourse
of
thy
admirable
Fountain
,
and
do
not
a
little
lament
that
one
of
so
kind
and
liberal
a
Disposition
should
be
dispossessed
of
such
exceeding
Riches
,
neither
am
I
less
sorry
that
so
inhumane
a
Monster
,
and
known
Enemy
to
all
Courtesie
and
kindness
,
should
have
the
Fruition
of
so
exceeding
great
Treasure
;
for
to
the
Wicked
,
Wealth
is
the
cause
of
their
more
Wickedness
.
But
that
which
most
grieveth
me
,
is
,
That
having
had
so
many
valiant
Knights
to
his
Sons
,
they
all
were
so
unfortunate
to
fall
into
the
hands
of
that
relentless
Monster
;
but
be
comforted
,
kind
old
Man
,
for
I
hope
by
the
Power
of
my
Maker
,
we
were
directed
hither
to
Punish
that
hateful
Giant
,
Revenge
the
Injuries
offered
to
thine
Age
,
satisfie
with
his
Death
,
the
Death
of
thy
Children
,
if
they
be
Dead
,
and
restore
to
thy
bounteous
Possession
that
admirable
rich
Fountain
again
.
And
now
to
you
my
valiant
Champions
I
speak
,
that
with
me
through
many
Dangers
have
adventured
;
let
us
couragiously
attempt
this
rare
Adventure
,
wherein
such
Honour
to
our
Names
,
such
Happiness
to
our
Friends
,
such
Glory
to
God
consists
,
in
recovering
Right
to
the
Wronged
,
and
punishing
rightfully
the
Wrongers
of
the
Oppressed
;
and
that
there
be
no
Contention
among
us
who
shall
begin
this
Adventure
,
for
I
know
all
you
thirst
after
Honour
,
therefore
let
Lots
be
made
,
and
to
whomsoever
the
chief
Lot
falleth
,
let
him
be
foremost
in
Assayling
the
Giant
,
and
so
good
Fortune
be
our
Guides
.
How
infinitely
I
find
myself
bound
unto
you
,
you
famous
and
undoubted
Christian
Champions
,
all
my
Ableness
is
not
able
to
express
,
only
Thankfulness
from
the
depth
of
a
true
Heart
shall
to
you
be
rendred
.
Macedonian
Alexander
I
that
have
fought
for
Christian
Knights
in
Fields
of
purple
Bloud
,
and
made
my
Enemies
to
swim
in
Streams
of
crimson
Gore
,
shall
I
not
now
confound
this
bloody
and
inhumane
Monster
,
that
hath
discomfitted
six
of
the
bravest
Knights
that
ever
Nature
framed
;
I
slew
the
burning
Dragon
in
I
conquered
the
terrible
Glant
that
kept
the
enchanted
Castle
amongst
the
Amazonians
:
then
Fortune
let
me
accomplish
this
dangerous
Adventure
,
that
all
Christians
and
Christian
Knights
may
applaud
my
Name
.
unreasonable
deformed
Monster
,
and
either
make
delivery
of
the
captive
Knights
whom
thou
wrongfully
detainest
,
or
prepare
thy
ugly
self
to
abide
the
uttermost
force
of
my
warlike
Arm
and
death
prepared
Weapon
.
Of
the
Champions
return
to
and
after
how
they
were
almost
famished
in
a
Wood
;
and
how
St.
obtained
them
Food
by
his
Valour
in
a
Giant
's
House
,
with
other
things
that
hapned
.
You
magnanimous
Knights
of
Christendom
,
whose
true
Nobilities
hath
circled
the
Earth
with
Reports
of
Fame
,
whose
bare
Feet
for
the
love
of
our
sweet
Saviour
,
have
set
more
weary
steps
upon
the
parched
Earth
,
than
there
be
Stars
within
the
golden
Canopy
of
Heaven
,
return
,
return
into
the
bloudy
Fields
of
War
,
and
spend
not
the
Honours
of
your
time
in
this
ceremonious
manner
,
for
great
things
by
you
must
be
accomplished
,
such
as
in
time
to
come
shall
fill
large
Chronicles
,
and
cause
Babes
as
yet
unborn
to
speak
of
your
honourable
Atchievements
.
And
you
chast
Maidens
that
spend
your
time
in
the
Service
of
God
,
even
by
the
plighted
Promise
you
have
made
to
true
Virginity
,
I
charge
you
to
furnish
forth
these
warlike
Champions
with
such
approved
Furniture
as
hath
been
offered
to
this
Royal
Sepulchre
,
by
those
traveling
Knights
,
which
have
fought
under
the
Banner
of
Christendom
.
This
is
the
pleasure
of
high
Fates
,
and
this
for
the
redress
of
all
wrong'd
Innocents
in
Earth
,
must
be
with
all
immediate
dispatch
forthwith
accomplished
.
Thou
that
hast
given
me
many
Victories
;
thou
that
hast
made
me
Conquerour
of
Kings
and
Kingdoms
;
and
thou
by
whose
invincible
Power
I
have
tamed
the
black
fac'd
Furies
of
dark
that
mask
abroad
the
World
in
Humane
shapes
;
look
down
sweet
Queen
of
Chance
,
I
say
,
from
thy
Imperial
Seat
;
shew
me
some
favour
,
and
do
not
consent
that
I
and
my
Company
perish
for
Hunger
and
want
of
Victuals
;
make
no
delay
to
remedy
our
great
Necessity
;
let
us
not
be
meat
for
Birds
hovering
in
the
Air
,
nor
our
Bodies
cast
as
a
Prey
for
the
ravenous
Beasts
ranging
in
these
Woods
;
but
rather
,
if
we
must
needs
perish
,
let
us
die
by
the
hands
of
the
strongest
Warriors
in
the
universal
World
,
and
not
basely
lose
our
Lives
with
cowardly
Hunger
.
Brave
Knights
,
for
so
you
seem
by
your
Courtesies
and
Behaviours
,
to
tell
the
Story
of
my
bitter
Woes
,
and
the
Causes
of
my
endless
Sorrows
,
will
constrain
a
spring
of
Tears
to
trickle
from
the
conduits
of
my
aged
Eyes
,
and
make
the
mansion
of
my
Heart
rive
in
twain
,
in
remembering
of
my
undeserved
Miseries
;
as
many
drops
of
Bloud
hath
fallen
from
my
Heart
,
as
there
be
silver
Hairs
upon
my
Head
,
and
as
many
Sighs
have
I
strained
from
my
Breast
,
as
there
be
Minutes
in
a
Year
,
for
thrice
seven
hundred
times
the
Winters
Frosts
,
hath
nipt
the
Mountain-tops
since
first
I
made
those
ruful
Lamentations
:
during
all
which
time
I
have
sat
before
this
Crystal
Image
,
hourly
praying
that
some
courteous
Knight
would
be
so
kind
as
to
aid
me
in
my
vowed
Revenge
,
and
now
Fortune
I
see
hath
smil'd
upon
me
,
in
sending
you
hither
to
work
just
Revenge
for
the
inhumane
Murther
of
my
Daughter
,
whose
perfect
Image
lieth
here
carved
in
fine
Crystal
,
as
the
continual
Object
of
my
Grief
;
and
because
you
shall
understand
the
true
Discourse
of
her
timeless
Tragedy
,
I
have
written
it
down
in
a
Paper-book
with
mine
own
Bloud
,
the
which
my
sorrowful
Tongue
is
not
able
to
reveal
.
What
happened
to
the
Champions
after
they
had
found
an
Image
of
fine
Crystal
,
in
the
form
of
a
murthered
Maiden
,
where
St.
had
a
golden
Book
given
him
,
wherein
was
written
in
Blood
,
the
true
Tragedies
of
two
Sisters
;
and
likewise
how
the
Champions
intended
a
speedy
Revenge
upon
the
Knight
of
the
Black
Castle
,
for
the
Deaths
of
the
two
Ladies
.
O
you
valiant
Knights
that
by
your
Prowess
come
to
the
reading
of
this
dismal
Tragedy
,
and
come
to
the
hearing
these
bloody
●ine●
contained
in
this
Golden
Book
,
consider
the
great
Constan●y
and
Chastity
of
this
unfortunate
Malden
,
and
let
the
Grief
thereof
move
you
to
take
Vengeance
of
this
Cruelty
shewed
without
any
Desert
.
O
cruel
Knight
what
infernal
Heart
remained
in
thy
Breasts
,
or
what
hellish
Fury
did
bear
thee
Company
,
that
thy
Hands
have
committed
this
inhumain
Sacrifice
!
was
it
not
possible
that
this
her
surmounting
Beauty
might
have
moved
thee
to
pity
,
when
it
is
of
power
to
move
the
bloody
Canibal
to
remorse
,
and
constrain
even
savage
Monsters
to
relent
?
Oh
unfortunate
Lady
?
Born
in
a
sorrowful
Hour
,
when
some
blazing
and
unlucky
Comet
raigned
:
oh
!
unhappy
Destinies
that
made
me
Wife
unto
so
cruel
a
Knight
,
whose
foul
Misdeeds
have
made
the
very
Elements
to
blush
;
but
yet
I
know
that
Fortune
will
not
be
so
far
unkind
,
but
that
he
will
procure
a
strange
Revenge
upon
his
purple
stained
Soul
:
Oh
you
immortal
Powers
!
Revenge
me
on
this
wicked
Homicide
,
if
not
,
I
swear
that
I
will
with
mine
own
Hands
put
in
practice
such
an
Enterprize
,
and
so
stain
my
unspotted
Heart
with
Willful
murther
,
that
all
the
Fates
above
,
and
all
the
bright
celestial
Planets
shall
sit
and
look
from
their
immortal
Palaces
,
and
tremble
at
the
Terrour
of
my
Hate
.
Now
do
I
wish
so
much
Evil
unto
the
World
,
that
I
will
not
leave
a
Son
of
so
wicked
a
Father
alive
;
for
I
will
wash
my
hands
in
their
accursed
Bloods
,
were
they
in
number
as
many
as
King
Take
there
(
thou
Traytor
)
the
Fruit
that
thy
wieked
Seed
created
in
my
Body
,
For
the
bloody
Fact
which
thou
so
lately
hast
committed
,
thy
Life
draws
near
to
a
shameful
End
;
and
thy
Castle
,
with
all
thy
Treasure
therein
shall
be
destroyed
,
or
fall
into
the
hands
of
him
whose
Daughters
thou
hast
so
cruelly
Murthered
.
Oh
unhappy
Chance
!
(
quoth
I
)
oh
cruel
and
most
spightful
Fortune
!
why
diddest
thou
not
make
me
lose
this
bitter
and
sorrowful
Life
in
my
Child-hood
?
or
why
didst
thou
not
permit
and
suffer
me
to
be
strangled
in
my
Mother's
Womb
,
or
to
have
perished
in
my
Cradle
;
or
at
my
Nurse's
Pap
?
then
had
my
Heart
never
felt
this
Sorrow
,
my
Ears
heard
the
Murther
of
my
Children
,
nor
mine
Eyes
had
never
wept
so
many
helpless
Tears
.
Oh
you
Mountains
,
you
untamed
Beasts
!
oh
you
deep
Seas
,
and
you
infernal
powers
of
revengful
Hell
!
come
,
I
say
,
and
willingly
assist
me
in
this
mortal
Tragedy
,
that
these
my
aged
Hands
,
which
never
yet
practised
any
hamous
Crime
,
may
now
be
stained
in
his
accursed
blood
that
hath
bereaved
me
of
the
prop
and
stay
of
declined
Age
,
my
Daughters
(
I
mean
)
whose
bleeding
Ghosts
will
never
be
appeased
,
nor
never
sleep
in
quiet
upon
the
joyful
Banks
of
the
Fields
,
but
wander
up
and
down
in
the
World
,
filling
each
corner
of
the
Earth
with
fearful
and
doleful
clamou●
of
Murther
and
Revenge
,
nor
ever
shall
the
furies
of
angry
Souls
be
pacified
,
until
mine
Eyes
behold
a
stream
of
purple
gore
run
trickling
from
the
detestable
Breast
of
that
accursed
Ravisher
,
and
that
the
Blood
may
issue
from
his
guilty
Heart
like
a
Fountain
with
a
number
of
Springs
,
where
the
Pavements
of
this
Castle
may
be
sprinkled
with
the
same
,
and
the
Walls
of
his
T●rrets
coloured
with
a
crimson
hue
,
like
to
the
Streets
of
when
as
her
Channels
ran
with
Blood
:
at
the
end
of
this
sorrowful
Lamentation
,
what
for
Grief
,
and
what
for
want
of
natural
Rest
,
my
Eyes
closed
together
,
and
my
Senses
fell
into
a
heavy
Sleep
.
But
as
I
lay
slumbring
in
the
green
Meadows
,
I
dreamed
that
there
●s
a
great
and
fierce
Wild-man
,
which
stood
before
me
with
a
sharp
Fauchion
in
his
hand
,
making
as
though
he
would
kill
me
,
whereat
me
thought
I
was
so
frighted
,
that
I
gave
(
in
my
troublesome
Dream
)
many
terrible
shrieks
,
calling
for
succour
to
the
empty
Air.
Then
me
thoughts
there
appeared
before
my
Face
a
company
of
courteous
Knights
which
said
unto
me
:
Fear
not
,
old
Man
,
for
we
be
come
from
thy
Daughter
to
aid
and
succour
thee
,
but
yet
for
all
this
the
Wild-man
vanished
not
away
,
but
struck
with
his
Fauchion
upon
my
Breast
,
whereas
it
seemed
to
open
,
and
then
the
wild
Centaure
put
his
hand
into
the
gaping
Wound
,
and
pulled
out
my
bleeding
Heart
:
where
at
the
same
instant
,
methought
that
one
of
the
Knights
likewise
laid
hold
upon
my
Heart
,
and
they
strove
together
with
much
Contention
,
who
should
pull
it
from
the
others
hands
;
but
in
the
end
,
each
of
them
remained
with
a
piece
in
his
Hand
,
and
my
Heart
parted
in
two
.
Then
the
piece
which
remained
in
the
Wild-man's
keeping
,
turned
into
a
hard
Stone
,
and
the
piece
which
remained
in
the
power
of
the
Knight
,
converted
into
red
Blood
,
and
so
they
vanished
away
.
Then
straight
after
this
,
there
appeared
before
mine
eyes
the
Image
of
my
murthered
Daughter
,
in
the
self
same
manner
and
form
as
you
behold
her
portrayed
,
who
with
a
naked
Body
all
besmared
in
Blood
,
reported
unto
me
the
true
Discourse
of
her
unhappy
Fortunes
,
and
told
me
what
place
,
and
where
her
Body
lay
in
the
Woods
,
dishonoured
for
want
of
Burial
:
also
desiring
me
not
of
myself
to
Attempt
the
Revengement
,
for
it
was
unpossible
,
but
to
intomb
her
Corpse
by
her
Mother
,
and
cause
the
picture
of
her
Body
to
be
most
lively
portrayed
and
wrought
of
fine
Crystal
,
in
the
same
manner
that
I
found
it
in
the
Woods
,
and
after
erect
it
near
unto
a
common
Passage
,
where
Adventurous
Knights
do
usually
Travel
.
And
assuring
me
that
thither
would
come
some
certain
Christian
Champions
that
should
revenge
this
Injury
and
inhumain
Murther
.
Which
words
being
finished
,
me
thought
she
vanished
away
with
a
grievous
and
heavy
Groan
,
leaving
behind
her
certain
drops
of
Blood
sprinkled
upon
the
Grass
:
Whereat
with
great
perplexity
and
Sorrow
,
I
awaked
out
of
my
Dream
,
bearing
it
in
my
grieved
Mind
,
not
telling
it
to
one
,
not
so
much
as
to
the
vast
Air
,
but
with
all
expedition
performed
her
bleeding
Souls
request
.
Where
ever
since
,
most
courteous
and
noble
Knights
,
I
have
here
lamented
her
untimely
Death
,
and
my
unhappy
Fortune
,
spending
the
time
in
writing
her
doleful
Tragedy
in
Blood-red
Lines
,
the
which
I
see
with
great
grief
you
have
read
in
this
Book
of
Gold
.
Therefore
most
curious
Knights
,
if
ever
Honour
encouraged
you
to
fight
in
noble
Adventures
,
I
now
most
earnestly
intreat
you
with
your
Magnanimous
Fortitudes
to
assist
me
to
take
Revengement
,
for
that
great
cruelty
that
hath
been
used
against
my
unfortunate
Daughter
.
Caesar
,
A
wonderful
and
strange
Adventure
that
happ'ned
to
St.
his
Sons
,
in
the
persuit
of
their
Father
,
by
finding
certain
drops
of
Blood
,
with
Virgin
's
Hair
scattered
in
the
Field
,
and
how
they
were
certified
of
the
injurous
dealing
of
the
Knight
of
the
Black
Castle
against
the
Queen
of
O
Love
!
now
shalt
thou
no
more
rejoyce
,
nor
have
any
longer
dominion
over
me
,
for
Death
I
see
is
ready
to
cut
my
thred
of
Life
,
and
finish
these
my
sorrowful
Lamentations
:
how
often
have
I
ask'd
Revengement
at
the
Hands
of
Fortune
against
that
wicked
Wretch
that
hath
been
the
causer
of
my
Banishment
,
but
yet
she
will
not
〈◊〉
my
Request
:
how
oft
have
I
made
my
sad
Complaints
to
Hell
,
ye●
have
the
fatal
Furies
stopt
their
Ears
against
my
mournful
Cries
.
Oh
my
(
quoth
she
)
the
unhappy
figure
of
him
,
that
without
pity
hath
wounded
my
Heart
,
and
left
me
comfortless
with
the
greatest
cruelty
that
ever
Knight
or
Gentleman
left
Lady
:
How
hath
it
been
possible
that
I
have
had
the
force
to
bring
up
thee
,
the
Child
of
such
a
Father
which
hath
bereaved
me
of
my
Liberty
!
O
you
Soveraign
Powers
,
grant
that
I
may
establish
in
my
mind
the
remembrance
of
the
Love
of
thy
adulterous
Father
?
O
Girl
,
born
to
a
further
Grief
,
here
do
I
desire
the
guiders
of
thy
Fortunes
,
that
thy
glistering
Beauty
may
have
such
force
and
power
,
whereby
the
shining
beams
thereof
may
take
revengement
of
the
dishononr
of
thy
Mother
:
give
ear
,
dear
Child
,
I
say
,
unto
thy
dying
Mother
,
thou
that
art
born
in
the
Dishonour
of
thy
Generation
,
by
the
loss
of
my
Virginity
,
here
do
I
charge
thee
upon
my
Blessing
,
even
at
my
hour
of
Death
,
and
swear
thee
by
the
band
of
Nature
,
never
to
suffer
thy
Beauty
to
be
enjoyed
by
any
one
,
until
thy
disloyal
Father's
Head
be
offered
up
in
Sacrifice
unto
my
Grave
,
thereby
somewhat
to
appease
the
fury
of
my
discontented
Soul
,
and
recover
part
of
my
former
Honour
.
Come
Daughter
behold
thy
Mother
at
her
latest
Gasp
,
and
imprint
my
dying
Request
in
thy
Heart
,
as
in
a
Table
of
Brals
,
that
it
never
may
be
forgotten
;
time
will
not
give
longer
respite
,
that
with
Words
I
may
shew
unto
thee
my
deep
Affections
,
for
I
feel
my
Death
approaching
,
and
the
fatal
Sisters
ready
to
cut
my
thread
of
Life
asunder
between
the
edges
of
their
Shears
,
insomuch
that
I
most
miserable
Creature
do
feel
my
Soul
trembling
in
my
Flesh
,
and
my
Heart
quivering
at
this
my
last
and
fatal
Hour
,
but
one
thing
(
my
sweet
and
tender
Child
)
do
I
desire
of
thee
before
I
die
,
which
is
,
That
thou
wouldest
procure
that
this
Letter
may
be
given
to
that
cruel
Knight
thy
disloyal
Father
,
giving
him
to
understand
of
this
my
troublesome
Death
,
the
occasion
whereof
was
his
unreasonable
Cruelty
:
O
my
sweet
Mother
,
tell
me
not
that
you
will
die
,
for
it
adds
a
Torment
more
grievous
unto
my
Soul
than
the
Punishment
which
his
Daughters
feel
in
Hell
:
I
had
rather
be
torn
in
pieces
by
the
fury
of
some
merciless
Monster
,
or
to
have
my
Heart
parted
in
twain
by
the
hands
of
him
that
is
my
greatest
Enemy
,
than
to
remain
without
your
company
.
Sweet
Mother
,
let
these
my
youthful
Years
and
this
green
budding
Beauty
encourage
you
still
to
revive
,
and
not
to
leave
me
comfortless
,
like
an
Exile
in
the
World
;
but
if
the
gloomy
Fates
do
triumph
in
your
Death
,
and
abridge
your
breathing
trunk
of
Life
,
and
your
Soul
must
needs
go
wander
in
the
Shades
,
with
Shadow
,
and
with
Ghost
,
here
I
protest
by
the
great
and
tender
Love
I
bear
you
,
and
by
the
due
Obedience
that
I
own
unto
your
Age
,
either
to
deliver
this
your
Letter
into
the
hand
of
my
unkind
Father
,
or
with
these
my
ruful
Fingers
to
rend
my
Heart
in
sunder
;
and
before
I
will
forget
my
Yow
,
the
silver
streamed
shall
forsake
her
Course
,
the
Sea
her
Tydes
,
and
the
glistering
,
Queen
of
Night
her
usual
Changes
,
neither
shall
any
Forgetfulnes●
be
an
occasion
to
withdraw
my
Mind
from
performing
your
dying
Requests
:
O
you
sacred
and
immortal
Gods
,
and
all
you
bright
celestial
Powers
of
Happiness
,
into
your
divine
Bosomes
now
do
I
commend
my
dying
Soul
,
asking
no
other
Revengement
against
the
causer
of
my
Death
,
but
that
he
may
die
l●ke
me
for
want
of
Love
.
Here
lie
thou
,
near
adjoyning
to
my
bleeding
Heart
,
never
be
removed
until
I
have
performed
my
dying
Mother's
Testament
.
Oh
Works
,
and
the
last
Work
of
those
her
dying
Hands
,
here
do
I
swear
by
the
Honour
of
true
Virgins
,
not
to
part
it
from
my
grieved
Bosome
,
until
such
time
as
Love
has
rent
the
disloyal
Heart
of
my
unkind
Father
What
is
this
dost
thou
think
to
recal
thy
Mother's
Life
with
ceremonious
Complaints
,
and
not
perform
that
which
by
her
was
commanded
thee
?
Arise
,
arise
,
I
say
,
gather
unto
thyself
Strength
and
Courage
,
and
wander
up
and
down
the
World
,
till
thou
hast
found
thy
disloyal
Father
,
as
thy
true
heart
hath
promised
to
do
.
Lately
I
was
whilst
Fortune
smiled
on
me
,
the
only
Child
and
Daughter
of
this
liveless
Queen
that
you
behold
here
lying
Dead
,
and
she
before
my
Birth
,
whilst
Fortune
granted
her
Prosperity
,
was
the
Maiden
Queen
of
a
Country
called
adjoyning
near
unto
this
unhappy
Island
,
whom
in
her
young
Years
when
her
Beauty
began
to
flourish
,
and
her
high
Renown
to
mount
upon
the
wings
of
Fame
,
she
was
so
intrapped
with
the
golden
Bait
of
blind
and
●o
intangled
with
the
Love
of
a
disloyal
Knight
,
called
the
Knight
of
the
Black
Castle
who
after
he
had
flourisht
in
the
spoil
of
her
Virginity
,
and
had
left
his
fruitful
Seed
springing
in
her
Womb
,
grew
weary
of
her
Love
,
and
most
discourteously
left
her
as
a
Shame
unto
her
Countrey
,
and
a
Stain
unto
her
Kindred
,
and
after
gave
himself
to
such
Lustful
and
Lascivious
manner
of
Life
,
that
he
unlawfully
Married
a
Shepherd's
Daughter
in
a
Forreign
Land
,
and
likewise
ravished
her
own
Sister
,
and
after
committed
her
to
a
most
inhumain
Slaughter
in
a
desart
Wood
:
this
being
done
,
he
fortified
himself
in
his
Black
Castle
,
and
only
consorted
with
a
cunning
Necromancer
,
whose
skill
in
Magick
is
now
grown
so
excellent
,
that
all
the
Knights
in
the
World
can
never
conquer
the
Castle
,
where
ever
since
he
hath
remained
in
despight
of
the
whole
Earth
.
But
now
speak
I
of
the
tragical
Story
of
my
unhappy
Mother
,
when
as
I
,
her
unfortunate
Babe
,
began
first
to
struggle
in
her
Womb
,
wherein
I
wish
I
had
been
strangled
;
she
heard
news
of
her
Knight's
ill
demeanour
,
and
how
he
had
given
himself
to
the
spoyl
of
Virginity
,
and
had
for
ever
left
her
Love
,
never
intending
to
return
again
,
the
Grief
whereof
so
troubled
her
Mind
,
that
she
could
not
in
any
wise
dissemble
it
;
and
so
upon
a
time
being
amongst
her
Ladies
,
calling
to
remembrance
her
spotted
Virginity
,
and
the
Seed
of
Dishonour
placed
in
her
Womb
,
she
fell
into
a
wonderful
and
strange
Trance
,
as
though
she
had
been
oppressed
,
with
sudden
Death
,
which
when
her
Ladies
and
Damsels
beheld
,
they
presently
determined
to
unbrace
her
rich
Ornaments
,
and
to
carry
her
unto
her
Bed
,
but
she
made
Signs
with
her
hands
that
they
should
depart
and
leave
her
alone
,
whose
Commandment
was
straightways
obeyed
,
not
without
great
Sorrow
of
them
all
,
for
their
Loves
were
dear
unto
her
;
this
afflicted
Queen
,
when
she
saw
that
she
was
alone
,
began
to
exclaim
against
her
Fortune
,
reviling
the
Fates
with
bitter
Exclamations
.
Oh
unconstant
Queen
of
Chance
thou
that
hast
wraped
such
strange
Webs
in
my
Kingdom
,
thou
that
gaved
my
Honour
to
that
Tyrant's
Lust
,
which
without
all
Remorse
hath
left
me
Comfortless
,
it
is
thou
that
didst
constrain
me
to
set
my
Life
to
sale
,
and
to
sell
my
Honour
as
it
were
with
the
Cryer
,
compelling
me
to
do
that
which
hath
spotted
my
princely
Estate
,
and
stained
my
bright
Honour
with
black
Infamy
:
woe
is
me
for
Virginity
!
that
which
my
Parents
gave
me
charge
to
have
Respect
unto
,
but
I
have
carelesly
kept
it
and
small●
regarded
it
:
I
will
therefore
chastise
my
Body
,
for
thus
forgetting
of
myself
,
and
be
so
revenged
for
the
little
regard
that
I
have
made
of
my
Honour
,
that
it
shall
be
an
Example
to
all
noble
Ladies
and
Princes
of
high
Estate
in
the
whole
World
.
Oh
miserable
Queen
!
oh
fond
and
unhappy
Lady
!
thy
Speeches
be
too
foolish
,
for
although
thy
desperate
Hand
should
pull
out
thy
despised
Heart
from
thy
bleeding
Breast
,
yet
can
it
not
make
satisfaction
for
thy
Dishonour
.
O
you
Clouds
!
why
do
you
not
cast
some
fiery
Thunder-bolt
down
upon
my
Head
?
or
why
doth
not
the
Earth
gape
and
swallow
my
infamous
Body
?
oh
false
and
deceived
Lord
,
I
would
thy
loving
and
amorous
Words
had
never
been
spoken
!
nor
thy
quick-sighted
Eyes
ever
gazed
upon
my
Beauty
,
then
had
I
flourisht
still
with
Glory
and
Renown
,
and
lived
a
happy
Virgin
of
chaste
's
Train
My
Lords
I
shame
to
entitle
myself
your
Queen
and
Soveraign
,
in
that
I
have
desamed
the
honour
of
my
Country
,
and
little
regarded
the
Welfare
of
my
Common-wealth
,
my
glistering
Crown
me
thinks
is
shaded
with
a
Cloud
of
black
Disgrace
,
and
my
princely
Attire
converted
into
unchaste
Habiliments
,
in
which
I
have
both
lost
the
liberty
of
my
Heart
,
and
withal
my
wonted
Joy
,
and
now
am
constrained
to
indure
perpetual
Pain
,
and
an
ever-pining
Death
,
for
I
have
lost
my
Honour
,
and
reaped
nothing
but
Shame
and
Infamy
.
To
conclude
,
I
have
foregone
the
liberty
of
a
Queen
,
and
sold
myself
to
a
slavish
Sin
,
only
mine
own
is
the
Fault
,
and
my
own
shall
be
the
Punishment
.
Therefore
without
making
any
Excuse
,
I
here
surrender
up
my
Body
into
your
Powers
,
that
you
may
(
as
an
evil
Queen
)
sacrifice
me
unto
our
Gods
,
for
now
my
Lords
you
shall
understand
,
that
I
am
dishonoured
by
the
Knight
of
the
Black
Castle
,
he
hath
planted
a
Vine
within
my
fruitful
Garden
,
and
also
sown
a
Seed
within
my
accursed
Womb
,
that
hath
made
Infamous
;
he
it
is
that
hath
committed
hourly
Evils
in
the
World
,
he
it
is
that
delights
in
Virgins
Spoyls
,
and
he
it
is
that
hath
bereaved
me
of
my
Honour
,
but
with
my
Consent
I
must
needs
confess
,
and
left
me
for
a
Testimony
of
this
my
evil
Deed
,
big
with
Child
,
by
which
my
Virgin
's
Glory
is
converted
to
a
monstrous
Scandal
:
over
the
of
the
unfortunate
Queen
of
Armenia
.
Here lies the Body of a helpless Queen , Whose great Good-will to her small Joy did Bring ; Her willing Mind requited was with Teen , Though she deserv'd , for love , a Regal King : And as her Corpse inclosed here doth lie , Her luckless Fate , and Fame should never die .
Of
the
preparation
that
the
Knight
of
the
Black
Castle
made
by
Magick
Art
,
to
withstand
his
Enemies
,
and
how
the
Seven
Champions
entred
the
same
Castle
,
where
they
were
Enchanted
into
a
deep
Sleep
so
long
as
seven
Lamps
burned
,
which
could
not
be
quenched
but
by
the
Water
of
an
Enchanted
Fountain
.
If any dare attempt this place to see , By sounding this , the Gate shall opened be ; A Trumpet here enchin'd by Magick Art , To daunt with fear the proudest Champion's Heart ; Look thou for blows that enterest in this Gate , Return in time , Repentance comes too late .
Come
down
thou
wicked
Knight
,
thou
spoyl
of
Virginity
,
thou
that
art
invironed
with
these
monstrous
Giants
,
these
the
wondring
works
of
Nature
,
whose
daring
Looks
seem
to
scale
the
Clouds
,
much
like
unto
the
Pride
of
when
he
offered
to
build
up
's
confused
Tower
.
Come
down
I
say
,
from
they
brazen
Gallery
,
and
take
to
thee
thy
Armour
,
thou
that
hast
a
Heart
to
commit
a
Virgin
's
Rape
,
for
whose
Revenge
we
come
;
now
likewise
have
a
Courage
is
thy
Defence
,
for
we
vow
never
to
depart
out
of
thy
Castle
,
till
we
have
confounded
thee
,
or
by
thy
Force
be
discomfited
.
England
:
Proud
Knight
or
Peasant
,
whatsoever
thou
art
,
I
pass
not
the
smallest
Hair
of
my
Head
,
for
thy
upbraiding
me
with
thy
unruly
Tongue
,
I
will
return
thy
Speeches
on
thy self
,
for
the
Pavements
of
my
Castle
shall
be
sprinkled
with
thy
cursed
Blood
,
and
the
Bones
of
those
thy
unhappy
Followers
shall
be
buried
in
the
sinks
of
my
Channels
.
If
thou
hadst
brought
the
Army
of
that
made
all
Lands
to
tremble
where
he
came
,
yet
were
they
but
as
a
blast
of
wind
unto
my
force
;
seest
thou
not
my
Giants
which
stand
like
Oaks
upon
our
brazen
Gallery
?
they
at
my
Commandment
shall
take
you
from
the
places
where
you
stand
,
and
throw
you
over
the
Walls
of
this
my
Castle
,
in
such
fort
,
that
they
shall
make
you
flee
into
the
Air
,
more
then
ten
Fauchions
high
.
And
for
that
thou
hast
upbraided
me
with
the
disgrace
done
unto
a
Virgin
,
I
tell
thee
,
if
I
had
thy
Mother
here
,
of
whom
thou
tookest
first
the
ayr
of
Life
,
my
hand
should
spilt
her
Womb
,
that
thou
mightest
see
the
Bed
of
thy
Conception
,
as
did
in
or
it
thy
Wife
and
Children
were
here
present
before
thy
face
,
I
would
al
ridge
their
Lives
,
that
thy
accuried
Eyes
might
be
witnesses
of
their
bloody
Murthers
,
so
much
Wrath
and
Hare
rageth
in
my
Heart
,
that
all
the
Blood
in
thy
Body
cannot
wa●●●●
thence
.
Art
thou
that
bold
Knight
that
with
thy
witless
Words
hast
so
anger'd
the
mighty
the
Lord
of
this
Castle
?
If
thou
be
,
I
advse
thee
by
Submission
to
seek
to
appease
his
furious
Wrath
before
Revengement
be
taken
upon
thy
Person
.
Also
I
do
charge
thee
(
that
if
thou
wilt
remain
with
thy
Life
)
that
thou
dost
leave
thy
Armour
and
yield
thyself
with
all
these
Followers
,
with
their
hands
bound
behind
them
,
and
go
and
ask
Forgiveness
at
his
Feet
:
thy
Counsel
I
do
not
like
,
nor
thy
Advice
will
I
receive
,
but
rather
do
we
hope
to
send
thee
and
all
thy
Followers
without
tongues
to
the
infernal
King
of
fiery
and
for
that
you
shall
not
have
any
more
time
to
speak
such
folly
and
foolishness
,
either
return
your
ways
from
whence
you
came
,
and
repent
of
this
which
you
have
said
,
or
else
prepare
yourselves
to
a
mortal
Battle
.
In
an
evil
Hour
camest
thou
hither
and
so
shall
thy
▪
Lodgings
be
,
and
thy
Entertainment
worse
;
for
now
thou
art
in
a
place
where
thou
shalt
look
for
no
other
thing
but
to
be
Meat
unto
some
furious
Beast
,
and
thy
surmounting
Strength
shall
not
be
able
to
make
any
Defence
.
O
false
and
accursed
Charmer
whom
ill
Chance
confound
for
thy
condemned
Arts
,
and
for
whom
the
Fiends
have
digged
an
everlasting
Tomb
in
Hell
,
what
fury
hath
incenst
thee
,
that
with
thy
false
and
devillish
Charms
thou
dost
prastise
so
much
evil
against
travelling
and
adventurous
Knights
?
I
hope
to
obtain
my
Liberty
in
despight
of
all
thy
Mischief
,
and
with
the
strength
of
this
Arm
to
break
all
thy
Bones
in
sunder
.
All
that
thou
dost
and
wilt
do
I
suffer
at
thy
hands
,
replyed
the
Necromancer
;
only
for
Revengement
that
I
will
take
of
thee
for
the
slaughter
of
my
Master's
Giants
,
which
as
yet
lie
Murthered
in
the
Court
,
and
that
very
quickly
:
How
Saint
three
Sons
after
their
departure
from
the
Queen
of
Sepulchre
,
in
company
of
her
Daughter
met
with
a
Wild
Man
,
with
whom
there
hapned
a
strange
Adventure
:
and
after
how
they
entered
the
Black
Castle
,
where
they
quenched
the
Lamps
,
and
awaked
the
seven
Champions
of
Christendom
,
after
they
had
slept
seven
day
,
upon
an
Enchanted
Bed
,
with
other
things
that
chanced
in
the
same
Castle
.
Let
no
Man
be
so
fool-hardy
,
as
to
enter
here
,
for
it
is
a
place
of
Terrour
and
Confusion
.
What
is
become
of
you
brave
Champions
(
said
he
,
)
Where
is
now
your
wonted
Valours
,
of
late
so
much
renowned
through
the
World
?
What
is
become
of
your
surmounted
strengths
,
that
hath
bruised
enchanted
Helmets
,
and
quail'd
the
power
of
mighty
Multitudes
?
What
is
become
of
your
terrible
blows
,
that
have
subdued
Mountains
,
hewed
in
sunder
Diamond
Armours
,
and
brought
whole
Kingdoms
under
your
subjections
?
Now
I
see
that
all
is
forgotten
,
and
nothing
worth
,
for
that
we
have
buried
all
our
Honours
,
Dignities
,
and
Fames
,
in
slothful
flumbers
,
upon
a
silken
Bed
.
Thou
that
art
the
Guider
of
all
our
Fortunes
,
unto
th●e
I
invocate
and
call
,
and
desire
thee
to
help
us
,
and
do
not
permit
us
to
have
our
Fames
taken
away
for
this
dishonour
,
and
let
us
merit
Dignity
by
our
Victories
,
and
that
our
bright
Renowns
may
ride
upon
the
glorious
wings
of
Fame
,
whereby
the
Babes
as
yet
unborn
may
speak
of
us
,
&
in
time
to
come
fill
whole
Volumes
with
our
princely
Atchievements
.
How
after
the
Christian
Knights
were
gone
to
bed
in
the
Black
Castle
,
Saint
was
awaked
from
his
sleep
in
the
dead
time
of
the
Night
,
after
a
most
fearful
manner
,
and
likewise
how
he
found
a
Knight
lying
upon
a
Tomb
that
stood
over
a
flaming
Fire
,
with
other
things
of
note
that
hapned
upon
the
same
.
O
thou
invincible
Knight
of
England
,
thou
that
art
not
frighted
with
this
sorrowful
dwelling
,
wherein
thou
canst
see
nothing
but
Torments
,
rise
up
I
say
,
from
thy
sluggish
bed
,
and
with
thy
undaunted
courage
and
strong
Arm
,
break
the
charm
of
my
Enchantment
.
Who
art
thou
Sir
,
Knight
,
that
art
come
into
this
place
of
Sorrow
,
where
nothing
is
heard
but
clamours
of
Fear
and
Terrour
?
Nay
,
tell
me
(
said
Saint
who
thou
art
,
that
with
so
much
Grief
dost
demand
of
me
,
that
which
I
stand
in
doubt
to
reveal
to
thee
.
I
am
the
King
of
(
answered
he
)
which
without
all
consideration
,
with
my
cruel
hand
did
pierce
thorow
the
white
and
delicate
Brest
of
my
beloved
Daughter
;
Woe
be
to
me
,
and
woe
unto
my
Soul
therefore
,
for
she
at
once
did
pay
her
offence
by
Death
,
but
I
a
most
miserable
wretch
,
with
many
Torments
do
die
living
.
Of
a
Tragical
Discourse
pronounced
by
a
Lady
in
a
Tomb
,
and
how
her
Enchantment
was
finished
by
Saint
with
other
strange
accidents
that
hapned
to
the
other
Six
Champions
of
Christendom
.
It
doth
little
avail
thee
to
run
away
,
for
that
thou
shalt
d●●
by
this
revengeful
hand
,
paying
me
with
thy
Death
the
Dishonour
that
my
Crown
hath
received
by
thy
Flight
.
Monstrous
Murtherer
,
more
cruel
than
the
mad
Doggs
in
Aegypt
,
why
dost
thou
determine
to
slaughter
the
most
chast
and
loyallest
Lady
in
the
World
,
even
the
within
whose
lap
untamed
Lions
will
come
and
sleep
.
Thou
art
thy self
(
I
say
)
the
occasion
of
all
this
evil
,
and
thine
only
is
the
fault
,
for
that
thy self
wert
so
malicious
,
and
so
full
of
mischief
,
that
she
d●rst
not
let
thee
understand
of
her
Love
.
Oh
cruel
Murtherer
!
(
said
he
,
)
crept
from
the
Womb
of
some
untamed
Tyger
:
I
will
be
so
revenged
upon
thee
,
O
unnatural
King
,
that
all
Ages
shall
wonder
at
thy
misery
.
And
likewise
thou
unhappy
Virgin
shalt
endure
like
punishment
,
in
that
thy
accursed
Tongue
hath
bruited
this
fatal
Deed
unto
my
Ears
,
the
one
for
committing
the
Crime
,
and
the
other
for
reporting
it
.
For
I
will
cast
such
deserved
vengeance
upon
your
Heads
,
and
place
your
Bodies
in
such
continual
Torments
,
that
you
shall
lament
my
Ladies
Death
,
leaving
alive
the
Fame
of
her
with
your
Lamentations
.
How
the
Knight
of
the
Black
Castle
after
Conquest
of
the
same
by
the
Christian
Champions
,
wandred
up
and
down
the
World
in
great
terror
of
Conscience
,
●nd
after
how
he
was
found
in
a
Wood
by
his
own
Daughter
,
in
whose
presence
he
desperately
slew
himself
,
with
other
accidents
that
after
hapned
.
Leoger
,
Leoger
TO
thee
thou
disloyal
Knight
of
the
Black
Castle
,
the
unfortunate
Queen
of
can
neither
send
nor
wish
salutations
:
for
having
no
health
my self
,
I
cannot
send
it
unto
him
whose
cruel
mind
hath
quite
forgotten
my
true
love
:
I
cannot
but
lament
continually
,
yea
and
complain
unto
my
Fates
incessantly
,
considering
that
my
fortune
is
converted
from
a
Crowned
Queen
to
a
miserable
and
banished
Caitiff
,
whereas
savage
Beasts
are
my
chief
Companions
,
and
the
mournful
Birds
my
best
Solicitors
Oh
why
didst
thou
leave
me
comfortless
without
all
cause
,
as
did
his
unfortunate
what
second
love
hath
bereaved
me
of
thy
sight
,
and
made
thee
forget
her
that
ever
shall
remember
thee
?
O
remember
the
day
when
first
I
saw
thy
face
;
which
day
be
fatal
evermore
,
and
counted
for
a
dismal
,
day
in
time
to
come
,
both
heavy
,
black
,
and
full
of
foul
mischances
for
it
was
unhappy
unto
me
,
for
in
giving
thee
joy
,
I
bereaved
my self
of
all
,
and
lost
the
Possession
of
my
liberty
and
honour
,
although
thou
hast
not
esteemed
nor
took
care
of
my
sorrowful
Fortunes
,
yet
thou
shouldest
not
have
mockt
my
perfect
love
,
and
disdained
the
servent
affection
that
I
have
born
thee
,
in
that
I
have
yielded
to
thee
that
precious
Jewel
,
the
which
hath
been
denyed
to
many
a
Noble
King
:
O
love
,
cruel
and
spiteful
love
,
that
so
quickly
didst
make
me
blind
,
and
deprived
me
of
the
knowledge
that
belonged
to
my
Royal
Highness
!
Oh
uncourteous
Knight
,
being
blinded
with
thy
Love
:
the
Queen
of
stained
her
honesty
,
which
she
ought
to
have
kept
,
and
preserved
it
from
the
biting
canker
of
disloyal
Love
:
Hadst
thou
pretended
to
meck
me
,
thou
shouldst
not
have
suffered
me
to
have
lost
so
much
as
I
did
forgo
for
thy
sake
.
Tell
me
,
why
didst
thou
not
suffer
me
to
execute
my
Will
,
that
I
might
have
opened
my
white
Breast
with
a
piercing
Sword
,
and
sent
my
Soul
to
shady
Banks
of
sweet
Then
had
it
been
better
for
me
to
have
dyed
,
than
to
live
still
and
daily
die
.
Remember
thy self
and
behold
the
harm
that
will
come
hereof
:
have
a
care
to
the
Pawn
which
thou
hast
sealed
in
my
Womb
,
and
let
it
be
an
occasion
that
thou
mayst
(
after
all
thy
violent
Wrongs
)
return
to
see
me
sleeping
on
my
Tomb
,
that
my
Child
may
not
remain
Fatherless
in
the
Power
of
Wild
Beasts
,
whose
hearts
be
fraughted
with
nothing
but
cruelty
.
Do
not
consent
that
the
perfect
love
which
I
bear
thee
should
be
counted
vain
,
but
rather
perform
the
Promise
which
thou
hast
made
to
me
.
Oh
unkind
O
cruel
and
hard
heart
!
is
falshood
the
firm
love
that
so
unfeignedly
thou
didst
profess
to
me
?
What
is
he
that
hath
been
more
unmerciful
than
thou
hast
been
?
There
is
no
furious
Beast
nor
lurking
Lyon
in
the
Desarts
of
whose
merciless
paws
are
all
besmeared
in
blood
,
that
is
so
cruelly
hearted
as
thy self
,
else
wouldes●
thou
not
leave
me
comfortless
,
spending
my
days
in
solitary
Woods
;
whereas
Tygers
mourn
at
my
distresses
,
and
the
chirping
Birds
in
their
kinds
,
grieve
at
my
lamentations
:
the
unreasonable
torments
and
sorrows
of
my
soul
are
so
many
,
that
if
my
Pen
were
made
of
Libian
Steel
,
and
my
Ink
the
purple
Ocean
,
yet
could
I
not
write
the
number
of
my
Woes
.
But
now
I
determine
to
advertise
thee
of
my
desired
Death
,
for
in
writing
this
my
last
Testament
,
the
Fates
are
cutting
asunder
my
thread
of
life
,
and
I
can
give
thee
knowledge
of
no
more
:
but
yet
I
desire
thee
by
the
true
love
which
I
bear
thee
,
that
thou
wilt
read
with
sorrow
these
few
lines
,
and
now
I
desire
the
Destinies
that
thou
mayst
die
the
death
that
for
thee
I
now
do
:
and
so
●end
,
O
my
Child
,
how
happy
should
I
be
,
that
thus
imbracing
one
in
anothers
Arms
,
we
might
depart
together
?
then
should
I
be
joyful
in
thy
company
,
and
account
my self
happy
in
my
death
:
but
alas
,
I
must
leave
thee
unto
the
World
.
Daughter
farewel
,
good
Fortune
preserve
thee
,
and
for
ever
may
she
take
thee
into
her
Favour
.
How
the
Magician
found
Armour
hanging
upon
a
Pine
Tree
,
kept
by
the
Queens
Daughter
of
betwixt
whom
hapned
a
terrible
Battel
:
also
of
the
desperate-Death
of
the
Lady
:
and
after
,
how
the
Magician
framed
by
Magick
Art
an
Enchanted
Sepulchre
,
wherein
he
inclosed
himself
from
the
sight
of
all
humane
Creatures
.
Be
not
so
hardy
thou
Knight
as
to
undo
this
Trophie
,
except
thou
prepare
thy self
to
win
it
by
the
Sword
.
Oh
cruel
Destinies
(
said
she
)
sith
your
rigours
have
bereaved
me
of
both
my
Parents
,
and
left
me
to
the
World
a
comfortless
Orphan
,
receive
the
Sacrifice
to
my
Chastity
,
in
payment
of
your
Vengeance
,
and
let
my
blood
here
shed
upon
this
Grave
,
shew
the
singleness
of
my
heart
.
And
with
the
like
Solemnity
may
all
their
hearts
be
broken
in
pieces
,
that
seek
the
downfall
and
dishonour
of
Ladies
.
How
the
seven
Champions
of
Christendom
restored
the
Babylonian
King
unto
the
Kingdom
:
and
after
how
honourably
they
were
received
at
where
Saint
fell
in
love
with
the
Emperors
Daughter
,
being
a
professed
Nun
:
of
the
mischief
that
ensued
thereby
,
and
of
the
desperate
end
of
young
Prince
of
O
m●●t
excellent
and
chast
Diana
,
in
whose
blessed
b●●om
we
undetiled
Virgins
do
recreate
our selves
,
unto
thy
most
Divine
excellency
do
I
now
〈◊〉
this
my
last
Sacrifice
,
calling
to
record
all
the
Gods
,
that
I
have
done
my
best
to
continue
a
sp●tless
Maiden
of
thy
most
〈◊〉
Train
.
O
my
belov●d
〈…〉
hearts
delight
,
is
this
the
Sacrifice
wherein
through
thy
desp●rateness
thou
hast
deceived
me
,
who
loved
thee
more
th●n
my
life
?
〈…〉
respite
that
thou
requirest
for
seven
days
,
wherein
th●●
ha●t
conclude
〈…〉
,
and
my
utter
Confusion
.
O
Noble
and
my
〈…〉
were
thy
intention
,
why
didst
thou
not
first
Sacrifice
me
thy
Servant
〈◊〉
●ove
,
wholly
subjected
unto
thy
Divine
Beauty
?
Woe
be
unto
●e
,
〈…〉
unto
my
unhappy
enterprize
:
for
by
it
is
she
lost
,
who
was
m●de
Sover●g●
Lady
of
my
heart
.
accursed
be
this
Chance
,
because
thou
hast
consented
to
so
bloody
a
Tragedy
:
for
I
do
here
protest
,
that
never
more
shalt
thou
be
worshipped
,
but
in
thy
stead
every
Land
and
Country
where
the
Champion
cometh
,
shall
Lucina
be
adored
.
For
from
henceforth
will
I
seek
to
diminish
thy
Name
,
and
blot
it
from
the
Godral
of
the
Firmament
;
yea
,
and
utterly
extinguish
it
for
ever
,
so
that
there
shall
never
more
memory
remain
of
thee
for
this
thy
bloody
Tyranny
,
in
suffering
so
lamentable
a
Sacrifice
.
O
you
fatal
Torches
of
the
Elements
,
why
are
you
not
clad
in
mournful
Habiliments
,
to
cloak
my
wandring
steps
in
eternal
darkness
?
Or
shall
I
be
made
a
scorn
in
for
my
Cowardize
?
Or
shall
I
return
and
accompany
my
Roman
Friends
in
death
,
whose
Blood
methinks
I
see
sprinkled
about
the
Fields
of
Methinks
I
hear
their
bleeding
Souls
fill
each
corner
of
the
Earth
with
my
base
flight
:
therefore
will
I
not
live
to
be
termed
a
fearful
Coward
,
but
die
couragiously
by
mine
own
hands
,
whereby
those
accursed
Champions
shall
not
obtain
the
Conquest
of
my
Death
,
nor
triumph
in
my
Fall
.
Of
the
Triumphs
,
Tilts
,
and
Turnaments
,
that
were
solemnly
held
in
by
the
Grecian
Emperor
;
and
of
the
honourable
Adventures
that
were
there
atchieved
by
the
Christian
Champions
,
with
other
strange
accidents
that
hap●ed
.
France
,
Italy
,
Spain
and
Scotland
,
Most
mighty
Emperour
,
and
my
Royal
Father
,
this
is
the
Knight
in
whose
power
and
strength
all
Christendom
do
put
their
Fortunes
,
and
this
is
he
whom
the
whole
world
admires
for
Chivalry
.
The
great
and
furious
Boaster
is
overthrown
,
and
his
mighty
strength
hath
little
availed
him
.
Sir
Knight
,
yonder
brave
and
valiant
Giant
,
my
Lord
and
Master
,
doth
send
unto
thee
this
Warlike
Spear
,
and
therewithal
he
willeth
thee
to
defend
thy self
to
the
uttermost
of
thy
power
and
strength
,
for
he
hath
vowed
before
Sun-set
,
to
be
either
Lord
of
thy
Fortunes
,
or
a
Vassal
to
thy
Prowess
;
and
likewise
saith
,
that
he
doth
not
only
defie
the●
in
the
Turnament
,
but
also
challenge
thee
to
a
mortal
Battel
.
Friend
,
go
thy
ways
,
and
tell
the
Giant
that
sent
thee
,
that
I
do
accept
his
Demand
,
although
it
do
grieve
my
very
Soul
to
hear
his
arrogant
Defiance
,
to
the
great
disturbance
of
this
Royal
Company
,
in
presence
of
so
mighty
an
Emperour
:
but
seeing
his
Stomach
is
gorged
with
so
much
pride
,
tell
him
that
is
ready
to
make
his
defence
,
and
also
that
shortly
he
shall
repent
him
by
the
pledge
of
my
Knighthood
.
Thou
furious
and
proud
Beast
,
thou
scorn
of
Nature
and
enemy
to
true
Knighthood
,
thinkest
thou
for
to
entrap
me
treacherously
,
and
to
gore
me
at
unawanes
,
like
to
a
savage
Boar
?
Know
as
I
am
a
Christian
Knight
,
if
my
knotty
Spear
have
good
success
,
I
will
revenge
me
on
thy
incivility
.
How
a
Knight
with
two
Heads
tormented
a
beautiful
Maiden
,
that
had
betrothed
herself
to
the
Emperours
Son
of
and
how
she
was
rescued
by
Saint
's
Sons
;
and
after
how
they
were
brought
by
a
strange
Adventure
into
the
Company
of
the
Christian
Champions
,
with
other
things
that
hapned
in
the
same
Travels
.
Here
rest
thou
near
unto
my
true
loving
heart
,
thou
precious
Token
,
and
remembrance
of
my
dearest
Lady
,
never
to
be
hence
removed
till
such
time
as
my
eyes
may
either
behold
her
Body
,
or
my
ears
hear
certain
News
of
her
untimely
Death
,
that
I
may
in
death
consort
with
her
.
Frown
you
glistring
Lamps
of
Brightness
,
that
gave
first
Light
unto
this
fatal
morning
,
for
by
your
dismal
Light
the
pride
of
Earthly
Women
is
dishonoured
.
Come
,
come
,
you
wrathful
Planets
,
descend
the
luckless
Horison
,
and
rain
upon
my
head
eternal
vengeance
,
oppress
my
Body
with
continual
misery
,
as
once
you
did
the
woful
King
of
for
by
my
slothful
negligence
and
over-long
tarrying
,
this
bloody
Tragedy
hath
been
committed
.
And
for
her
sake
I
vow
to
travel
through
the
World
,
as
far
as
ever
golden
lends
his
Light
,
●illing
each
corner
of
the
Earth
with
clamours
of
her
Name
,
and
making
the
Elements
resound
with
Ecchoes
of
my
Lamentation
.
will
little
profit
thee
,
thou
cruel
Tyrant
,
this
thy
bold
hardiness
,
for
that
I
am
beloved
of
so
worthy
a
Knight
,
as
will
undoubtedly
revenge
this
tyranous
Cruelty
proffered
me
.
Now
I
have
thee
in
my
power
,
there
is
no
humane
creature
of
strength
able
enough
to
deliver
or
redeem
thee
from
the
torments
that
(
in
my
determination
)
I
have
purposed
thou
shalt
endure
.
What
,
didst
thou
not
hear
the
great
Lamentation
that
my
Lady
made
(
as
to
me
it
seemed
)
being
in
a
small
Barque
that
is
passed
by
,
and
gone
forwards
along
the
Seas
?
Arise
I
say
,
bring
forth
my
Armour
,
call
upon
the
Marriners
that
they
may
launch
their
Boat
into
the
Sea
;
for
by
the
omni
potent
I
swear
that
I
will
not
be
called
the
Son
of
my
Father
,
if
I
do
suffer
such
violence
to
be
done
against
my
Love
,
and
not
procure
with
all
my
strength
to
revenge
the
same
.
Most
courteous
Knights
,
I
request
you
to
take
me
into
your
Gally
that
being
in
her
,
I
may
the
better
accomplish
my
desire
.
Now
shall
you
do
that
by
force
,
which
before
(
I
using
great
courtesie
)
you
would
not
yield
unto
.
O
Heavens
,
said
I
cannot
believe
to
the
contrary
,
but
that
this
is
the
God
of
War
,
that
doth
contend
in
a
Battel
with
me
,
and
for
the
great
envy
he
bears
against
me
,
he
goeth
about
to
dishonour
me
:
O
Love
,
is
it
possible
to
be
true
,
that
I
am
overthrown
in
this
first
Encounter
and
Assault
of
my
Knighthood
?
Here
I
curse
the
day
of
my
Creation
,
and
the
hour
when
first
I
merited
the
name
of
Knight
;
henceforth
I
'le
bury
all
my
honours
in
disgrace
,
and
spend
the
remnant
of
my
life
in
base
Cowardize
:
O
unhappy
Son
of
St.
now
a
Coward
and
of
little
Valour
,
I
know
not
how
thou
caust
name
thy self
to
be
the
Son
of
the
valiantest
Knight
in
the
World
,
for
that
thou
hast
lost
thy
honour
in
this
last
Assault
.
This
Countrey
(
said
he
)
is
called
but
yet
most
courteous
Knight
,
you
must
pardon
me
,
for
that
I
do
request
you
to
return
again
,
and
proceed
no
further
,
if
you
do
esteem
of
your
Lives
,
for
in
going
this
way
there
is
nothing
to
be
had
but
Death
.
For
that
the
Lord
of
this
Countrey
is
a
furious
Monster
,
called
the
Two-headed
Knight
,
and
he
is
so
furious
in
his
Tyranny
,
that
never
any
stranger
could
as
yet
escape
out
of
his
hand
alive
:
And
for
proof
of
his
Cruelty
,
no
longer
than
yesterday
he
brought
hither
a
Lady
Prisoner
,
who
at
her
first
coming
on
shoar
,
he
all
to
bewhipt
and
beat
her
in
such
sort
,
that
it
would
make
the
most
tyrannous
tyrant
that
is
,
to
relent
and
pity
her
distress
,
swearing
that
every
day
he
would
so
torment
her
,
till
her
life
and
body
did
make
their
separation
.
my
true
betrothed
Husband
,
where
art
thou
now
,
that
thou
comest
not
to
succour
me
?
Fond
Knights
,
what
wretched
folly
and
madness
hath
bewitched
you
,
that
without
any
leave
you
have
adventured
to
untye
the
Lady
from
the
Pillar
,
where
I
left
her
,
or
come
you
to
offer
up
your
Blood
in
sacrifice
upon
my
Fauchin
?
We
be
Knights
of
a
strange
Country
,
that
at
the
sorrowful
complaint
of
this
Lady
arrived
at
this
place
,
and
seeing
her
to
be
a
fair
and
beautiful
Woman
,
and
without
any
desert
to
be
thus
evil
intreated
,
it
moved
us
to
put
our
persons
in
adventure
against
them
that
will
seem
farther
to
misuse
her
.
Great
Emperour
and
Noble
Knights
,
this
Knight
that
leadeth
the
Lady
,
hath
long
loved
her
:
in
their
Births
there
is
great
difference
,
so
that
their
Parents
croft
their
affections
:
for
him
she
hath
indured
much
sorrow
,
and
for
her
he
will
and
hath
suffered
many
hazards
.
His
coming
thus
to
your
Court
is
to
this
end
,
to
approve
her
the
only
desertful
Lady
in
the
world
,
himself
the
faithfullest
Knight
,
against
all
Knights
whatsoever
,
which
with
your
Imperial
leave
,
he
,
my self
,
and
these
two
my
Associates
,
will
maintain
:
desiring
your
Majesty
to
give
judgment
as
we
shall
deserve
.
Of
the
renowned
and
praise
worthy
Death
of
Saint
how
he
buried
his
own
self
:
and
for
what
cause
the
to
this
day
,
do
wear
their
red
Cross
upon
Saint
Of
the
honourable
Victory
won
by
Saint
Of
his
Death
,
and
cause
why
Leeks
are
by
custom
,
of
worn
on
Saint
day
:
with
other
things
that
hapned
.
Now
is
the
time
brave
Martialists
,
to
be
canonized
the
Sons
of
F●me
,
this
is
the
day
of
Dignity
or
Dishonour
;
an
Enterprize
to
make
●s
ever
live
,
or
to
end
our
Names
in
obscurity
:
let
not
chill
fear
,
the
Cowards
companion
pull
us
back
from
the
golden
Throne
,
where
the
adventurous
Souldier
sits
in
glory
deservedly
:
we
are
to
trample
in
a
Field
of
death
and
dead
mens
Bones
,
and
to
buckle
with
an
Enemy
of
great
strength
,
a
Pagans
power
that
seeks
to
over-run
all
Christian
Kingdoms
,
and
to
wash
our
Fields
with
innocent
Blood
,
To
Arms
,
I
say
,
brave
followers
,
I
will
be
the
first
to
give
death
the
onset
,
and
for
my
Colours
or
Ensign
do
I
wear
upon
my
Burgonet
(
you
see
a
green
Leek
beset
with
Gold
,
which
shall
(
if
we
win
the
Victory
)
hereafter
be
an
honour
unto
and
on
this
day
,
being
the
first
of
be
for
ever
worn
by
the
in
remembrance
hereof
How
Saint
was
Beheaded
in
his
own
Countrey
,
and
how
by
a
Miracle
shewed
at
his
Death
,
the
whole
Kingdom
of
received
the
Christian
Faith
.
There
was
come
into
his
Kingdom
a
strange
Knight
,
a
false
Believer
,
one
that
in
time
would
draw
the
love
of
his
Subjects
from
him
,
to
the
Worship
of
a
strange
God
:
and
that
in
despight
of
him
and
his
Country
,
he
would
establish
a
falufyed
Opinion
,
and
that
he
wore
upon
his
Breast
the
Christian
Cross
:
Most
mighty
,
but
yet
cruel
King
,
think
not
but
yet
this
exceeding
Tyranny
will
be
requited
in
a
strange
manner
:
thy
censure
I
take
with
much
joy
,
in
that
I
die
for
him
,
whose
Colours
I
have
worn
from
mine
Infancy
,
and
this
my
Death
seals
up
the
obligation
of
all
my
Comforts
:
And
thou
sweet
Country
,
where
I
first
took
life
,
receive
it
again
a
Legacy
due
unto
thee
:
for
this
my
Blood
which
here
I
offer
up
into
thy
Bosom
,
is
the
best
gift
I
can
bestow
upon
thee
.
Farewel
Knighthood
,
farewel
honourable
Adventures
and
Princely
Atchievments
.
Never
may
this
dauntless
arm
brandish
.
Weapon
more
in
honour
of
the
Christian
Cross
:
For
death
awaiteth
at
my
back
to
cut
off
all
such
noble
hopes
,
and
I
by
Tyranny
am
betrayed
thereto
.
Of
the
Tyrannous
Death
that
the
Champion
was
put
unto
:
and
how
God
revenged
the
same
in
a
strange
manner
:
and
of
other
things
that
hapned
.
Of
the
Honourable
and
Worthy
Death
of
the
Champion
,
how
in
the
height
of
pleasure
in
his
own
Countrey
,
death
(
by
a
Prophecy
)
seized
upon
him
.
Mars
,
Jupiter
,
Saturn
,
Apollo
,
The
honour
of
Anthony
of
Italy
Of
t●●
Martyrdom
of
St.
the
Scottish
Champion
,
and
how
his
death
was
revenged
by
the
King
of
that
Countrey
,
and
by
what
means
was
brought
unto
the
Christian
Faith
.
Greece
,
Constantinople
,
Rome
Of
the
Adventure
performed
by
St.
how
he
received
his
Death
by
the
sting
of
a
venomous
Dragon
:
and
of
the
Honours
and
Royalties
done
unto
his
Name
,
being
intitled
our
English
Patron
of
Knighthood
.
Guy
,
Alexander
That
a
Christian
Knight
never
born
of
a
Woman
,
should
be
the
Destroyer
thereof
,
and
his
Name
in
after
Ages
for
Accomplishing
the
Adventure
,
should
be
holden
for
an
eternal
Honour
to
the
Kingdom
.
George
Conyers
Bartholomen-Close
Gate
John
Back
Daniel
Rawlinson
Fenchurch-Street
,
London
Fairy
Queen's
The
great
Joy
of
the
Infidels
for
the
Death
of
the
Seven
Champions
,
the
Soldan
of
Persia
,
his
Letter
for
the
Mustering
up
of
an
Army
;
with
the
Effects
thereupon
.
Mahomet
,
Termagant
To all those Potentates and Followers of the Sect of Mahomet , the High and Mighty Emperour the Soldan of Persia , sendeth Greeting .
KNow
ye
that
our
Gods
have
now
at
last
sent
the
Messenger
of
Death
,
which
hath
arrested
,
and
clapt
up
into
the
Graves
those
terrors
of
our
People
,
the
seven
Champions
of
Christendom
,
by
whom
we
have
sustained
so
much
harms
and
dammages
;
by
which
means
a
gap
is
left
ope
,
whereby
we
may
revenge
our
wrongs
and
injuries
.
To
this
purpose
we
therefore
desire
ye
to
meet
us
with
what
power
of
Men
ye
can
make
on
the
Plains
of
there
to
joyn
with
the
Forces
of
other
Kings
and
Princes
,
to
be
revenged
on
the
Christians
,
by
slaying
their
people
,
burning
their
Towns
and
Cities
,
and
utterly
destroy
them
from
off
the
face
of
the
Earth
.
of
Persia.
still
encreasing
Garion
,
Carus
,
Phidon
siezed
of
his
Prey
●assa
of
Allepo
Most
Mighty
Kings
,
Princes
and
Captains
of
this
invincible
Army
;
It
is
not
unknown
unto
you
what
injuries
and
mischiefs
we
have
received
from
the
Christian
Armies
,
under
the
conduct
of
those
persons
whom
they
called
the
seven
Champions
of
Christendom
;
to
enumerate
them
all
in
particular
,
would
make
my
Oration
too
tedious
unto
you
,
I
shall
therefore
only
give
you
some
few
instances
:
What
injury
did
St.
the
Champion
of
King
of
by
stealing
away
his
daughter
,
as
also
from
King
of
his
dearest
Lady
and
Mistress
;
did
not
the
Kings
Daughter
of
run
away
from
her
Country
by
the
sly
insinuations
of
St.
as
also
the
King
of
Daughter
by
the
like
perswasion
of
St.
what
intollerable
injury
was
it
to
the
King
of
to
have
his
fair
Daughter
tempt'd
away
from
her
Country
by
the
Champion
,
but
much
more
from
the
Champion
of
to
be
deprived
of
his
other
six
Daughters
;
did
not
the
Welch
Champion
slay
the
Count
Palatine
of
in
his
Fathers
Court
,
besides
infiuite
other
mischiefs
,
losses
and
disgraces
we
have
received
from
them
;
all
which
whilst
they
lived
we
were
not
able
to
revenge
;
but
now
since
Death
hath
been
so
kind
to
take
them
out
of
the
World
,
let
us
pluck
up
our
courages
,
and
manfully
sight
in
revenge
of
our
injuries
;
let
pity
be
exiled
from
our
thoughts
,
neither
sparing
old
Age
for
their
hoary
head
,
nor
the
tender
infant
for
his
pitiful
cry
;
let
not
the
tears
of
Matrons
find
regard
,
nor
the
wailings
of
Widows
any
respect
,
but
let
all
be
destined
to
the
sword
,
that
we
may
have
a
general
triumph
in
their
utter
confusion
.
How
St.
George's
Three
Sons
left
England
to
seek
Adventures
in
Forreign
Countries
;
how
they
Arrived
in
Sicily
,
and
killed
a
terrible
Monster
,
named
Pongo
;
How
Urania
the
King
of
Sicily's
Daughter
fell
in
love
with
Sir
Guy
,
with
other
things
which
happened
.
Granary
of
the
World
the
Pongo
cometh
plauches
argent
Eagles
Sable
Juno
,
Pallas
Most
Peerless
Princess
Guy
)
if
the
bleeding
wounds
of
my
heart
could
speak
,
which
you
have
pierced
by
the
beams
of
your
matchless
Beauty
,
then
would
it
save
my
Tongue
the
labour
to
declare
the
affection
which
I
bear
to
your
Noble
Person
:
If
I
have
aim'd
too
high
,
blame
your
matchless
Beauty
and
Vertues
that
have
caused
it
;
Let
me
therefore
conjure
you
by
all
the
Rites
and
Charmes
of
Love
,
and
by
those
fair
Eyes
that
have
enthralled
mine
,
not
to
prove
obdurate
in
thy
Love
,
though
I
must
confess
my self
unworthy
of
so
high
a
Bliss
;
yet
shall
the
Sun
sooner
cease
to
run
his
course
,
the
Stars
to
give
light
,
and
every
thing
alter
from
his
wonted
course
,
e're
will
prove
false
,
or
cease
to
honour
the
perfections
of
the
Princess
Sir
,
You
must
pardon
me
if
I
look
before
I
leap
;
That
my self
together
with
our
whole
Country
is
indebted
to
your
Prowess
,
we
shall
for
ever
acknowledge
.
But
to
love
,
and
so
to
love
as
to
make
you
a
promise
of
being
my
Husband
,
for
I
hope
you
mean
no
other
thing
but
what
tends
to
my
Honour
)
you
must
excuse
me
,
having
no
other
assurance
of
your
reality
,
but
only
your
own
verbal
expressions
;
besides
you
being
a
Stranger
,
and
I
am
Heiress
to
a
Crown
,
were
your
Estate
answerable
to
your
(
I
must
confess
)
excellent
Qualifications
,
yet
could
I
not
be
so
at
my
own
disposal
to
conclude
of
what
you
desire
,
seeing
not
only
my
Parents
,
but
my
Country
have
so
great
a●share
in
me
.
Most
Excellent
Lady
;
Do
not
entertain
a
Heart
more
hard
then
Flint
,
which
the
tears
of
my
true
love
cannot
mollifie
,
nor
think
my
affections
to
you
to
be
like
breath
on
Steel
,
soon
on
and
soon
off
;
No
,
I
protest
by
all
the
Sacred
Oaths
of
Religion
,
and
by
your self
,
that
is
,
by
all
that
is
good
,
my
Love
shall
be
as
durable
and
firm
,
as
whatsoever
is
most
permanent
.
Nor
do
not
think
because
some
have
proved
treacherous
,
and
disloyal
to
their
Loves
,
that
once
so
unworthy
a
thought
should
ever
enter
into
my
Heart
.
No
,
although
Aeneas
proved
false
to
yet
will
be
as
true
to
his
Urania
,
as
ever
was
to
his
beloved
what
though
basely
forsook
his
by
whose
means
he
obtained
the
yet
shall
my
Faith
alwayes
remain
firm
,
and
be
as
constant
to
thee
as
was
unto
his
How
Sir
Guy
took
his
leave
of
the
Princess
Urania
;
the
Battle
betwixt
the
Sicilians
and
Thracians
;
The
Message
of
the
Princess
Mariana
to
the
Inchanted
Castle
,
and
how
Sir
Alexander
counted
the
Princess
.
BLam●
me
not
that
for
a
while
I
am
Summoned
by
the
highest
tye
of
Honour
to
depart
from
you
;
being
in
such
a
cause
to
help
the
injured
,
which
all
true
Knights
are
bound
to
perform
:
Yet
Madam
,
know
that
no
distance
of
place
shall
remove
the
affection
I
bear
to
your
Vertues
;
and
this
I
swear
by
all
that
is
Sacred
,
and
can
make
an
Oath
:
Let
me
desire
you
therefore
to
cherish
a
good
Opinion
of
me
,
until
Crowned
with
Victory
I
return
again
,
to
evidence
my self
to
be
,
Most
Courteous
Knight
,
may
the
Heavens
prosper
your
undertakings
according
to
the
justness
of
your
Cause
,
and
that
your
return
may
be
both
speedy
and
honourable
,
and
for
your
more
prosperous
proceeding
;
assure
your self
you
shall
have
a
Virgins
Prayers
day
and
night
.
In
the
mean
time
let
me
request
you
to
wear
this
Scarf
for
my
sake
,
that
by
looking
on
the
same
I
may
not
be
altogether
out
of
your
remembrance
.
Most
Heroick
Knight
although
my
Tongue
is
not
able
to
express
how
much
I
am
indebted
to
your
Victorious
Arm
,
nor
to
set
forth
your
due
deserved
merits
,
whose
worth
transcends
all
E●comions
of
Praise
;
yet
shall
the
remembrance
of
these
so
great
kindnesses
never
be
out
of
my
Heart
,
nor
the
thoughts
of
them
out
of
my
Mind
,
without
a
grateful
acknowledgment
.
And
as
for
you
Sir
,
the
causer
of
all
this
mischief
,
how
just
reason
of
hatred
I
may
have
unto
you
,
you
cannot
surely
but
imagine
,
for
could
you
think
this
the
way
to
come
a
woing
?
I
am
sure
if
you
did
,
you
might
well
think
it
was
not
the
way
to
come
a
speeding
;
And
now
Sir
,
since
we
have
you
,
(
and
I
must
confess
,
rather
as
an
Enemy
then
a
Lover
)
you
must
not
be
angry
if
we
safely
secure
you
,
until
we
hear
how
Our
Royal
Father
is
used
by
those
that
belong
unto
you
Inchanted
Island
Inchanted
ground
Most
Gracious
Princess
;
I
think
the
Stars
could
have
alotted
me
,
no
greater
good
,
then
to
behold
the
surpassing
work
of
Nature
in
you
.
Your
Excellencies
having
so
captivated
my
heart
,
that
to
live
without
your
good
liking
,
will
be
but
a
lingring
death
unto
me
:
I
must
confess
my
presumption
great
in
aiming
so
high
;
but
who
can
look
on
such
perfections
without
liking
,
and
who
can
like
without
loving
?
And
though
the
small
tryal
you
have
of
the
real
affection
wherewith
I
honour
your
Vertues
,
may
discourage
you
to
credit
my
words
,
yet
I
hope
that
in
the
trying
of
me
how
willing
I
shall
be
to
merit
your
favour
,
you
will
find
my
deserts
not
altogether
unworthy
of
your
regard
,
since
the
utmost
of
my
abilities
is
,
and
shall
be
devoted
to
your
service
.
Most
Courteous
Knight
,
to
whom
I
stand
so
much
obliged
for
former
courtesies
,
that
all
which
I
can
do
will
not
stand
in
competition
of
your
deserts
,
yet
the
natural
affection
which
I
bear
to
my
Aged
Father
,
compels
me
at
this
time
humbly
to
implore
your
further
assistance
,
which
as
I
doubt
not
(
the
Gods
being
just
in
rightfull
causes
)
you
will
perform
;
so
assure
your self
your
extraordinary
kindness
afforded
to
me
in
such
a
time
of
necessity
,
shall
never
be
razed
out
of
my
heart
,
and
therefore
of
this
you
may
be
ascertained
,
that
no
one
whatsoever
hath
so
large
a
Possession
therein
as
your self
;
so
that
should
you
(
as
the
Gods
forbid
)
miscarry
therein
;
when
I
am
dead
(
as
Death
must
assuredly
ensue
thereon
)
they
will
find
the
name
of
written
in
my
heart
Madam
,
There
is
no
danger
in
the
World
so
great
which
I
shall
not
adventure
on
for
your
sake
;
were
it
to
perform
the
twelve
labours
of
or
with
Aeneas
to
encounter
with
the
Gyant
Be
pleased
therefore
to
accept
me
as
your
Knight
and
Servant
,
and
I
hope
to
behave
my self
so
hereafter
,
as
you
shall
have
no
cause
to
repent
you
thereof
.
Sir
,
I
do
accept
you
for
my
Knight
,
and
hope
the
Gods
will
be
so
propitious
to
you
for
my
sake
,
that
you
shall
not
have
an
enemy
able
to
withstand
you
.
wear
this
for
my
sake
,
that
whensoever
hereafter
you
look
on
it
,
it
may
add
fresh
courage
into
your
breast
by
the
remembrance
of
me
.
Inchanted
Castle
Brandamore
the
Pandaphilo
the
cruel
Inchanted
Castle
GUarded
by
the
Almighty
Power
,
and
influenced
by
your
divine
beauty
,
we
have
given
the
a
great
overthrow
,
which
we
do
not
impute
so
much
to
the
strength
of
our
Arms
,
as
to
the
justness
of
our
Cause
,
and
sighting
under
the
Banner
of
such
a
perfection
of
Excellencies
.
As
for
the
King
your
Father
,
of
whom
I
know
you
are
impatient
to
hear
,
all
we
can
understand
o●
Him
is
by
some
Prisoners
we
have
taken
,
that
he
is
confined
in
the
from
which
we
hope
ere
long
to
free
Him
:
Till
then
,
most
Dear
Princess
rest
in
hope
assuring
your self
for
the
effecting
thereof
,
there
shall
not
be
wanting
the
at
most
endeavours
of
Inchanted
Castle
Cataracts
of
Nil●s
THat
good
Fortune
is
always
attendant
upon
Vertue
,
your
actions
demonstrate
;
and
for
your
Valour
shewed
against
my
Enemies
,
I
shall
over
stand
obliged
to
you
:
For
the
Present
you
sent
me
,
I
could
not
but
view
it
with
admiration
,
as
by
the
same
having
a
porspect
of
the
vast
bulk
of
that
unweildly
Monster
,
and
therein
your
invincible
courage
to
encounter
with
him
,
and
happy
success
in
his
overthrow
.
May
the
Heavens
prosper
your
future
endeavours
with
good
success
,
and
that
your
actions
may
be
crowned
with
victory
,
which
to
effect
shall
be
the
hearty
Prayers
of
Inchanted
Castle
Inchanted
Castle
AFter
many
dangers
and
troubles
passed
in
my
peregrination
,
it
was
my
hap
to
come
into
this
Country
,
with
great
expectation
of
enjoying
your
happy
Society
;
but
hearing
how
crosly
you
are
matcht
,
and
how
your
Husband
undervalues
your
Kindred
;
because
I
cannot
appear
so
splendid
before
him
,
as
stands
to
your
credit
.
I
would
desire
you
to
come
to
me
as
privately
as
you
can
to
the
Castle
in
the
Island
,
Commanded
by
my
especial
Friend
Sir
where
we
may
conferr
together
in
safety
:
Thus
desiring
your
presence
as
soon
as
possibly
you
can
:
I
remain
,
How
Sir
Guy
conducted
the
Army
of
the
Sicilians
into
their
own
Country
,
and
Sir
Alexander
that
of
the
Thessalians
;
how
hearing
of
the
great
preparation
of
the
Infidels
,
they
returned
into
Christendom
to
raise
Forces
to
withstand
them
.
Long
live
the
King
of
and
the
Renowned
Knight
Sir
Euridice
,
Andromache
Hector
,
Aegens
Theseus
,
Antigone
My
Dearest
I
must
confess
the
excess
of
my
sorrow
doth
scarce
give
way
to
the
relief
of
words
,
being
anchored
down
with
cares
in
the
Seas
of
woe
;
so
that
I
am
in
effect
but
a
living
Coarse
,
for
which
I
can
only
blame
your
unkindness
.
Hath
my
Prayers
prevailed
so
far
with
the
Divine
Powers
,
to
bring
you
unto
me
again
in
safety
,
and
now
will
you
leave
me
to
enter
again
into
fresh
dangers
:
Did
you
not
swear
by
all
that
is
Divine
and
Humane
,
sooner
should
Phaebus
cease
to
shine
by
day
,
or
Luna
lend
us
her
light
by
night
,
then
that
your
heart
should
be
separated
from
mine
,
which
then
you
pretended
to
be
dearer
unto
you
then
victuals
to
the
almost
famisht
Soul
,
or
drink
to
those
whose
Throats
are
parcht
with
thirst
.
If
my
Love
was
so
dear
unto
you
then
,
what
change
have
you
found
,
in
me
,
that
after
the
accomplishment
of
your
Journey
,
we
should
not
then
enjoy
the
fruition
of
our
Loves
,
but
that
you
will
adventure
again
on
new
engagements
,
preferring
your
honour
and
desire
of
Fame
,
before
my
unstained
Love
,
which
hath
been
as
true
and
constant
to
you
,
as
ever
was
that
of
the
chast
to
wandering
How
the
Christians
Army
Assembled
together
in
Naples
.
The
Oration
of
Sir
Guy
unto
the
Souldiers
,
and
how
they
marched
against
the
Pagan
Army
.
Lando
the
Warlike
Pandrasus
the
Dane
Fellow
Souldiers
and
Brethren
in
Arms
,
I
think
I
shall
not
need
many
words
to
stir
you
up
to
Magnanimity
,
the
justness
of
our
Cause
being
such
as
rightly
considered
,
is
enough
to
make
a
coward
valiant
;
I
hope
you
are
not
so
forgetful
,
that
you
now
go
to
fight
for
your
Parents
,
your
Wives
,
your
Children
,
your
Country
,
and
what
should
be
most
dear
unto
you
,
the
Christian
Religion
;
against
Pagans
,
Infidels
,
and
Miscreants
,
enemies
to
God
and
goodness
;
whose
delight
is
only
in
Blood
and
Rapine
,
whose
trade
and
practice
is
the
burning
and
destroying
of
Towns
and
Villages
,
murthering
of
Matrons
,
ravishing
Wives
and
Virgins
,
tossing
of
sprawling
Infants
on
the
tops
of
their
mercyless
Pikes
;
In
sum
,
such
people
as
act
all
what
barbarism
and
cruelty
prompts
them
to
.
Therefore
if
ye
are
not
willing
to
see
these
miseries
fall
upon
ye
,
be
valiant
and
couragious
,
and
so
let
us
willingly
go
on
,
armed
with
a
just
cause
,
and
doubt
not
in
the
least
,
but
the
just
God
will
give
us
victory
.
How
the
seven
Champions
being
raised
from
their
Graves
,
are
solved
to
follow
the
Christian
Army
:
How
by
Tempest
they
were
cast
upon
the
Coast
of
Thessaly
.
The
great
Battle
fought
betwixt
the
Thessalians
and
Thracians
;
how
afterwards
they
went
to
the
Christian
Army
,
and
of
the
great
battle
fought
betwixt
the
Christians
and
Pagans
.
France
,
Spain
,
Italy
,
Scotland
,
Ireland
Lando
the
Warlike
Scottish
men
How
Sir
Turpin
of
France
,
Sir
Pedro
of
Spain
,
Sir
Phelim
of
Ireland
,
and
Sir
Owen
of
the
Mountains
arrived
in
Cyprus
,
how
they
put
down
the
Tyrant
Isakius
,
and
restored
the
Rightful
Prince
Amadeus
to
the
Throne
.
Owen
of
the
Mountains
pell
mell
Think
not
(
proud
Christians
)
although
by
stealth
and
fraud
you
have
Invaded
our
Country
,
that
you
shall
ever
subdue
our
Hearts
,
although
you
may
hap
to
●ubj●gate
our
Bodies
:
Now
if
your
Arms
be
answerable
to
your
Artifices
,
and
that
you
will
maintain
with
your
Sword
what
you
have
compassed
by
Craft
.
I
Challenge
the
best
of
you
all
to
fight
with
me
,
upon
this
condition
,
that
if
you
overcome
me
,
we
will
submit
our selves
and
Country
to
your
disposal
,
but
if
you
be
overcome
by
me
,
then
to
pass
away
quietly
out
of
our
Land
,
and
restore
what
unjustly
you
have
taken
from
us
:
This
you
cannot
refuse
if
you
have
any
spark
of
Valour
in
you
.
Owen
of
the
Mountains
Proud
Gyant
,
whose
Valour
consisteth
most
in
boasting
,
and
who
Triumphest
before
Conquest
:
Know
that
thy
Challenge
shall
be
answered
in
justification
of
what
we
have
done
,
prepare
therefore
thy self
against
to
morrow
,
when
I
will
not
fail
to
meet
thee
;
till
then
Farewel
.
French
,
Spanish
Proud
Knight
,
now
shall
thy
Life
pay
for
thy
presumption
,
and
thy
ruin
be
the
effects
of
thy
over-daring
,
who
thinkest
to
encounter
with
me
in
single
Combat
,
from
whose
presence
whole
Troops
have
run
,
as
dreading
to
come
within
the
compass
of
my
invincible
Arm
:
therefore
before
thou
urgest
me
too
far
,
let
me
advise
thee
to
dismount
,
and
humble
thy self
at
my
feet
,
which
may
be
a
means
to
obtain
the
more
favour
at
my
hands
.
Gyant
,
leave
thy
proud
boasting
,
for
know
it
will
behove
thee
more
to
use
thy
hands
then
thy
Tongue
.
When
thou
hast
me
in
thy
power
,
use
me
as
thou
wilt
,
and
since
thou
wer
't
so
courteous
as
to
advise
me
,
I
shall
also
be
so
kind
as
to
warn
thee
to
have
a
care
of
thy self
,
least
with
my
Sword
I
so
belabour
thy
Jacket
,
as
shall
make
thee
to
promise
less
,
except
thou
couldst
perform
more
.
Think
it
not
strange
(
Gentlemen
)
if
your
words
so
on
the
sudden
do
surprize
me
,
nor
blame
me
not
if
I
am
slow
to
believe
wonders
,
for
such
your
speeches
do
import
.
'T
is
true
indeed
,
I
have
heard
of
several
persons
who
have
left
their
Commands
and
Riches
to
enjoy
the
quiet
of
a
retired
Lise
;
but
for
the
Servant
of
a
Shepherd
to
be
the
Son
of
a
King
,
and
he
ignorant
of
it
,
appears
no
less
than
a
Miracle
to
me
.
The
Famous
Adventures
of
the
two
Renowned
Captains
,
Sir
Orlando
of
Italy
,
and
Sir
Ewin
of
Scotland
,
how
they
Redeemed
the
Duke
of
Candys
Daughter
from
her
Inchantment
,
with
other
things
that
happened
.
Dyon
,
Most
Magnanimous
to
whom
Iam
indebted
for
the
remainder
of
my
unfortunate
Life
,
you
have
so
far
obliged
me
for
this
favour
,
and
that
so
perfectly
,
that
I
must
be
your
debtor
all
the
days
of
my
life
:
All
that
I
can
offer
unto
you
is
that
you
would
employ
me
in
your
service
,
that
I
might
testifie
unto
you
in
some
part
a
requital
of
your
favours
;
which
I
acknowledge
you
have
so
undeservedly
conferred
upon
us
.
Most
Divine
Lady
,
who
art
inspired
with
all
the
Excellencies
that
the
World
can
bestow
upon
your
Sex
;
I
shall
account
it
an
honour
to
me
to
become
your
Servant
;
my
resolution
herein
being
so
Magnanimous
,
that
I
suppose
no
ill
Fortune
can
attend
upon
it
;
Daign
then
Madam
to
accept
me
for
such
,
which
may
prove
a
spur
to
my
Courage
,
in
fighting
under
so
divine
a
beauty
.
Sir
I
acknowledge
my self
doubly
engaged
to
you
,
as
for
your
love
so
also
for
my
liberty
,
for
which
I
cannot
in
the
least
make
you
a
requital
;
but
since
you
do
establish
your
Content
upon
my
acceptance
of
your
Service
,
your
hopes
cannot
deceive
you
much
,
if
an
acknowledgment
of
my
Affections
to
you
may
be
any
ways
the
means
of
making
you
happy
.
How
the
Seven
Champions
came
to
a
Land
where
the
men
for
their
sins
were
changed
all
into
the
shape
of
beasts
▪
and
how
by
finishing
the
adventure
of
the
Golden
Cave
,
they
returned
to
their
shapes
again
.
Renowned
Champions
and
fellow
Soldiers
in
Arms
,
be
not
dismayed
at
this
which
hath
happened
unto
you
,
since
nothing
comes
by
chance
,
but
what
is
before
preappointed
of
the
Gods
,
and
must
inevitably
come
to
pass
;
which
things
though
seeming
to
us
strange
and
wonderful
,
yet
many
times
are
the
fore-runners
and
causes
of
good
both
to
us
and
others
;
let
us
therefore
be
armed
with
patience
,
and
not
think
to
fight
against
Heaven
,
as
they
do
who
murmur
and
repine
at
any
mischance
which
befalls
them
;
for
know
assuredly
,
whom
the
Gods
love
they
will
protect
,
and
to
a
valiant
mind
no
peril
comes
unlookt
for
;
and
if
we
perish
in
this
extremity
,
let
it
be
our
comfort
that
we
dye
unconquered
of
our
enemies
.
Renowned
English
Champion
,
for
of
your
Country
I
am
not
ignorant
,
having
in
my
Youth
travelled
thro'
most
parts
thereof
.
Know
that
by
the
Destinies
I
was
informed
of
your
coming
hither
,
and
therefore
came
to
this
place
on
purpose
to
meet
you
:
Come
then
along
with
me
,
and
I
will
shew
you
things
transcending
the
power
of
a
strong
belief
Golden
Cave
Golden
Cave
Golden
Cave
Proud
Knights
,
presume
not
to
come
within
the
compass
of
these
Gates
,
least
you
repent
your
folly
,
and
with
the
loss
of
your
lives
pay
for
your
presumption
:
Dwarf
,
go
tell
your
Masters
,
we
come
to
try
our
skills
with
them
,
to
prove
which
of
our
Sword
,
cuts
sharpest
.
Golden
Cave
Monster
of
Nature
,
let
me
advise
thee
to
yield
thy self
,
and
not
to
oppose
●●any
.
farther
in
the
Conquest
of
the
since
it
is
ref●dred
by
the
Destinies
,
that
I
and
my
follows
should
be
the
persons
that
by
finishing
the
Adventure
,
should
restore
the
People
to
their
Humane
Shapes
.
Golden
Cave
How
St.
Georges
Three
Sons
were
separated
by
a
Tempest
,
and
how
Sir
Alexander
lighted
on
the
Ship
wherein
were
t●●e
Seven
Champions
▪
How
he
was
Married
to
the
Princess
Mariana
,
and
Crowned
King
of
Thessaly
:
The
Tragical
Story
of
Duke
Ursini
,
and
the
Death
of
the
Seven
Champions
.
Thrice
welcom
hither
most
Renowned
Champions
,
whom
the
Gods
have
appointed
for
the
relief
of
the
distressed
,
and
the
chastisement
of
the
vicious
.
Fames
Golden
Trumpet
hath
sounded
the
renown
of
your
Honourable
Actions
,
and
by
quelling
the
force
of
the
Pagan
Armies
,
given
us
great
hopes
hereafter
for
to
enjoy
dayes
of
peace
Alexander
;
Sir
how
much
I
am
bound
to
the
Immortal
Powers
for
your
preservation
,
my
Heart
is
not
able
to
conceive
,
much
less
my
Tongue
for
to
express
:
Now
as
Heaven
has
been
kind
to
me
in
hearing
my
Prayers
for
your
safe
return
,
so
shall
I
account
it
my
farther
happiness
that
leaving
off
Arms
,
you
now
come
to
enjoy
the
fruits
of
our
Amours
,
and
instead
of
following
the
Camp
of
we
solace
our selves
in
the
Tents
of
Mistake
me
not
,
(
Dear
Sir
)
I
mean
not
by
spending
out
time
in
wanton
dalliance
,
but
in
the
Honourable
State
of
Matrimony
,
that
being
joyned
in
bands
,
we
may
have
our
joyes
crowned
with
the
issues
of
an
unfeigned
love
.
Most
Gracious
Princess
Alexander
)
your
speeches
are
the
sole
effects
of
my
thoughts
,
and
your
desires
to
me
absolute
Commands
,
being
such
as
tend
only
to
my
profit
and
welfare
;
wonder
not
then
most
peerless
Madam
,
if
I
willingly
embrace
what
I
so
earnestly
covet
Long
live
Alexander
and
Mariana
,
King
and
Queen
of
Thessaly
.
Vertue
like
the
clear
Heaven
is
without
Clouds
.
What
happened
to
St.
Georges
Eldest
Son
Sir
Guy
,
after
he
was
parted
from
his
two
Brothers
,
the
woful
Story
of
Selindus
,
how
he
was
deprived
of
his
Barony
by
Euphemius
,
and
restored
again
by
the
valour
of
Sir
Guy
and
Captain
Bolus
.
COuld
I
in
the
least
imagine
what
should
cause
your
so
sudden
departure
,
if
it
lay
in
my
power
,
the
cause
thereof
should
be
removed
,
but
the
fore
not
being
known
,
how
can
the
remedy
,
be
administred
!
If
you
think
upon
your
restraint
,
think
also
upon
your
free-given
Liberty
,
and
do
not
write
the
one
in
Marble
,
the
other
in
Sand.
That
I
seek
for
love
to
you
,
impute
it
not
to
lightness
,
but
to
a
real
affection
;
and
let
your
return
again
to
me
demonstrate
that
your
heart
is
not
inexorable
,
when
perhaps
my
presence
may
plead
more
in
my
excuse
then
can
this
Paper-Messenger
;
so
wishing
you
what
she
wants
her self
,
Health
;
she
remains
ever
yours
WHat
should
cause
you
to
dote
where
you
are
hated
,
I
cannot
imagine
love
but
lust
;
therefore
I
shall
not
esteem
of
your
Tongue
,
knowing
that
Bees
have
stings
as
well
as
honey
:
Nor
think
not
to
entrap
me
any
more
by
your
suger'd
baits
,
but
know
that
none
so
much
hates
the
memory
of
you
as
doth
your
sworn
Enemy
,
and
must
I
live
to
be
despised
,
and
he
to
triumph
in
my
overthrow
:
ungrateful
man
,
can
all
my
courtesies
reap
no
other
profit
but
only
disdain
?
Is
it
possible
that
I
can
continue
to
love
thee
,
that
deservest
rather
to
live
in
my
hatred
;
but
why
do
I
thus
exclaim
against
him
,
who
perhaps
doth
this
only
to
try
me
;
no
,
no
,
he
slights
thy
love
;
Then
dye
fond
Queen
,
defer
not
to
live
any
longer
;
yet
dear
in
my
death
shall
I
make
it
known
how
near
thy
love
was
to
my
heart
,
and
how
highly
thou
wer
't
prized
in
my
Affections
.
My
Lords
,
I
am
now
taking
my
last
leave
of
you
,
the
spent
Hour-glass
of
my
Life
is
near
at
hand
,
and
now
at
my
parting
ghost
I
do
adjure
ye
,
as
you
will
answer
it
before
the
Higher
Powers
,
whither
I
am
now
going
to
appear
,
that
ye
invest
King
when
I
am
dead
and
gone
;
and
though
I
doubt
not
of
your
performance
herein
,
yet
for
my
more
assurance
,
and
that
my
ghost
may
quietly
rest
hereafter
;
I
shall
desire
you
to
take
an
Oath
to
do
it
,
which
if
you
should
fail
in
the
performance
,
know
assuredly
you
will
both
wrong
your selves
and
him
,
him
in
depriving
him
of
his
Crown
and
your selves
of
a
good
King
,
he
being
a
Prince
kind
,
wise
,
just
and
merciful
,
and
only
unkind
unto
me
.
MEN
do
tax
our
Sex
for
being
unconstant
,
but
now
I
must
apply
that
fault
to
you
,
I
say
to
you
,
whose
Oaths
did
give
so
great
a
Testimony
of
your
fidelity
,
that
I
du●st
not
doubt
them
for
fear
of
injuring
my self
.
Ah
doth
Honours
change
Manners
,
can
you
so
soon
forget
whom
you
swore
so
firmly
to
love
Now
if
thou
hast
no
pity
for
me
,
take
some
compassion
on
the
fruit
of
my
Womb
,
the
seal
of
our
loves
,
wherein
thy
lively
Image
is
implanted
;
and
if
thou
hast
any
thing
of
Nature
in
thee
,
thou
canst
not
but
deplore
its
condition
,
and
provide
a
remedy
for
the
same
;
we
still
hoping
thou
wilt
remain
constant
,
I
rest
,
Rhamnusian
Nemesis
HAth
your
impudence
no
other
person
to
Father
your
Pastard
brat
but
upon
me
,
whose
known
reputation
is
such
,
as
will
free
me
in
the
Consciences
of
all
honest
persons
,
from
the
known
calumnies
of
such
a
vile
Strumpet
;
was
it
not
my
vertue
preferred
me
by
a
general
consent
to
a
Kingdom
;
and
do
you
think
by
detraction
to
bespatter
my
good
name
?
Cease
then
perverse
Monster
of
Women-kind
,
to
prosecute
any
further
claim
unto
me
,
lest
it
prove
the
deserved
destruction
of
thee
and
thine
.
And
is
it
possible
such
Perjury
can
remain
in
men
,
do
they
think
Oaths
are
not
binding
,
or
that
divine
vengeance
doth
not
follow
upon
breach
of
promise
?
Ah
can
thy
heart
prove
so
disloyal
;
were
all
the
protestations
thou
so
often
didst
reiterate
unto
me
,
only
feigned
baits
to
entrap
me
to
my
destruction
?
Then
glory
in
thy
triumph
,
but
know
accursed
Caitiff
,
my
soul
shall
haunt
thee
after
death
,
as
did
the
ghost
of
Queen
Body
of
Perjured
Aeneas
How
Sir
Guy
arrived
in
Sicily
,
where
he
overcame
the
Rebels
,
which
after
the
King
of
Sicilies
death
,
had
Rebelled
against
the
Queen
Urania
;
How
he
was
Married
to
her
,
and
afterwards
Crowned
King
of
Sicily
.
The
〈◊〉
No
Varlet
,
thou
mightest
have
taken
it
when
it
was
proffered
thee
,
but
now
nothing
but
death
can
satisfie
for
thy
disloyalty
,
My
dearest
Love
recompence
can
our
Country
afford
thee
in
retribution
of
such
inestimable
benefits
,
as
the
Divine
Powers
,
by
thy
victorio●s
Arms
,
have
bestowed
upon
us
;
how
had
our
Weal
beee
b●ried
in
woe
,
our
Plenty
in
penury
,
our
Riches
in
ruine
,
hadst
not
thou
rescued
us
from
Rake-hells
and
Rebels
.
Consider
this
my
Honoured
Nobles
,
and
so
submit
to
him
as
your
King
,
whom
I
intend
very
speedily
to
make
my
Husband
.
still
increasing
True
Glory
the
only
prize
the
end
Crowns
all
Argos
,
Wildamore
How
Sir
David
and
his
Company
were
almost
Famished
with
Hunger
:
How
they
came
to
the
Isle
Fortuna
,
where
Sir
David
slew
a
Dragon
,
and
delivered
the
Island
Ancona
from
Enchantment
.
O
you
Immortal
Powers
,
why
did
you
reserve
us
thus
from
the
hands
of
our
Enemies
,
to
perish
by
a
more
lingring
and
ignoble
death
!
O
why
was
I
born
to
see
this
day
;
far
better
it
had
been
for
us
to
have
been
slain
by
the
swords
of
the
Insidels
;
then
had
we
dyed
in
the
bed
of
Honour
,
and
not
thus
miserably
to
end
our
Lives
,
by
that
which
Valour
cannot
encounter
,
nor
the
stoutest
Courage
be
able
to
resist
Most
Reverend
Father
,
we
may
well
be
said
to
come
from
the
Land
of
our
excess
of
grief
scarce
giving
way
to
the
relief
of
words
,
such
has
been
our
so
pinching
want
of
Victuals
at
Sea
,
and
Death
here
on
land
as
has
deprived
me
of
most
of
my
followers
;
for
coming
for
succour
unto
this
Island
,
the
greatest
part
of
my
men
by
eating
of
some
deadly
fruit
unknown
unto
them
,
were
soon
arrested
by
Natures
bold
Pursivant
,
grim
gastly
death
,
under
whose
dominion
they
lye
,
if
no
other
remedy
can
be
procured
then
what
we
have
knowledge
of
.
Most
Courteous
Knight
both
cause
and
cure
are
well
known
unto
me
,
and
which
I
shall
experience
to
you
presently
:
Enchanted
Castle
Inchanted
Castle
Most
dear
Daughter
,
in
wh●●●
sight
me
thinks
I
behold
the
perfections
of
thy
Mother
,
the
joy
which
I
have
to
behold
thee
is
enough
to
blot
out
all
the
story
of
my
misfortune
,
for
what
thing
can
there
be
under
the
Heavenly
Canopy
that
can
bring
more
gladness
to
my
Soul
,
or
can
present
my
Genius
with
a
fuller
blandishment
of
transportation
,
then
by
pouring
my self
forth
into
Labyrinths
of
joy
to
behold
the
jem
of
my
desires
,
whom
I
despaired
ever
to
have
seen
,
but
now
that
I
have
seen
thee
I
have
my
desire
.
and
shall
the
more
willingly
descend
to
my
Geave
,
when
I
shall
lye
every
minute
expecting
deaths
sad
summons
.
How
Sir
David
was
Married
to
the
Queen
Rosetta
,
how
he
over
came
the
remnant
of
the
Pagan
army
:
Sir
Pandrasus
with
his
men
landing
in
Ancona
;
and
how
they
hanged
a
Sagittary
upon
a
Tree
.
Madam
,
I
see
so
many
perfections
residing
in
you
,
that
not
to
love
you
would
argue
a
stupidity
of
knowledge
,
and
obliges
me
to
honour
your
excellent
endowments
to
the
utmost
of
my
power
;
for
believe
me
Madam
,
my
desires
are
good
,
and
my
wishes
flow
from
a
sincere
affection
towards
you
,
that
if
you
please
to
yield
to
me
your
Love
,
you
shall
find
me
both
constant
in
affection
towards
you
,
faithful
to
deal
Honourably
with
you
,
and
Loyal
,
not
to
do
any
thing
that
shall
be
disagreeable
to
your
will
.
Most
Courteous
Knight
to
whose
valour
we
are
so
much
indebted
,
as
we
want
words
to
express
a
due
thankfulness
for
what
you
have
done
for
us
;
for
your
suit
in
love
though
it
be
a
thing
strange
unto
me
,
as
not
acquainted
with
any
Men
before
your
coming
hither
;
so
cannot
I
promise
you
any
thing
in
it
,
as
not
being
at
my
own
disposal
,
my
Father
and
Country
claiming
a
knowledge
thereof
,
before
I
give
a
final
consent
to
a
thing
of
such
consequence
;
yet
as
I
would
not
have
you
hope
too
much
(
since
your
merit
might
command
more
)
so
would
I
not
have
you
to
despair
,
since
you
shall
not
find
me
who
am
most
concerned
in
it
,
the
most
ob●oxious
to
your
suit
;
Account
me
no●
over
sound
in
my
expressions
,
since
such
high
deservings
,
joyned
with
such
Manhood
and
Courtesie
,
cannot
but
attract
●●willing
acceptance
of
that
which
is
so
vertuously
offered
.
●h●y
second
self
my
ambition
is
no
higher
to
〈◊〉
but
by
a
Ladder
of
desert
;
though
all
I
can
do
,
were
it
far
●●gher
then
what
I
have
already
done
,
must
needs
come
far
short
〈◊〉
the
enjoyment
of
so
divine
a
Jewel
as
your self
.
Most
worthy
Chief●ain
,
if
you
are
as
fortunate
in
conquering
●●
Amours
as
you
are
at
Arms
,
it
is
not
in
the
power
of
●●y
Lady
to
withstand
thee
,
and
therefore
Daughter
it
is
in
vain
to
resist
the
●●nshot
of
his
Eloquence
,
●nce
his
Arguments
like
Arrowes
,
are
not
swister
of
●light
then
sure
of
aim
.
Sir
,
David
,
if
●ny
Eloquence
were
as
able
to
conquer
as
her
Beauty
,
I
should
not
despair
of
obtaining
the
victory
:
Rosetta
in
the
conjunction
of
so
many
Arts
and
Arms
,
it
is
no
disgrace
at
all
to
be
conquered
.
Arm
,
arm
,
with
all
the
speed
you
can
,
for
Enemies
are
upon
our
Coast
,
who
have
already
done
much
mischief
,
and
if
not
prevented
are
like
to
do
much
more
.
Antenor
,
Rosetta
Sagit
〈◊〉
Long
live
King
and
Queen
of
with
all
the
Islands
belonging
thereto
.
The
taking
of
the
Horse-faced
Tartar
,
as
also
of
the
Negroman●er
Orpine
,
the
Relation
of
Sir
Pandrasus
,
concerning
his
strange
Adventures
after
his
departure
from
the
Seven
Champions
of
Christendom
.
O
Heavens
,
why
do
you
thus
prolong
my
life
in
misery
?
what
heart
so
flinty
that
will
not
grieve
to
hear
my
mones
,
being
the
direst
Tragedy
that
ever
challenged
wonder
,
which
who
so
hears
his
Eyes
may
spare
to
weep
,
and
learn
to
bleed
Carnation
tears
.
Who
can
look
upon
my
woes
but
must
there
in
behold
the
prospect
of
consuming
grief
,
for
there
is
nothing
can
sooner
make
a
worker
of
miracles
,
then
to
see
that
there
is
any
thing
like
to
my
ill
fortune
:
Come
then
death
and
end
my
miseries
,
if
so
be
that
death
could
end
it
;
but
how
can
he
think
to
come
to
Heaven
that
always
travelled
the
road
to
Hell
;
how
can
he
think
to
converse
with
the
Heavenly
Hierarchy
of
Angels
,
whose
practise
was
only
to
converse
with
infernal
Spirits
:
O
the
horrors
of
a
guilty
Conscience
!
the
pains
of
are
not
comparable
unto
mine
,
and
yet
should
I
end
this
misery
,
alas
it
is
but
the
beginning
of
a
worse
,
and
this
momentary
death
but
an
entrance
into
eternal
death
;
O
what
hath
my
wicked
ambition
brought
me
to
!
what
my
desire
of
revenge
,
but
a
worse
plague
upon
my
own
head
.
Let
not
Dear
Friends
,
sudden
Passions
so
prevail
over
Reason
as
without
Causes
throughly
weighed
,
and
mature
deliberation
taken
,
to
engage
in
such
a
quarrel
wherein
the
Victor
must
needs
suffer
:
Here
is
nothing
of
premeditated
malice
,
and
shall
we
go
about
to
murther
those
for
doing
that
which
they
themselves
wish
had
never
been
done
,
therefore
in
seeking
to
do
justice
to
the
dead
,
let
us
not
go
about
to
do
injury
to
the
living
;
but
that
without
any
more
mischief
,
we
may
argue
the
case
by
Argument
rather
then
Arms
,
since
it
is
a
well
known
approved
Maxim
,
Vertue
ever
lives
Mahomet
,
Termagant
What
am
I
awake
,
or
is
this
some
Apparition
which
appeared
to
my
deceased
ghost
?
Art
not
thou
my
Friend
and
were
we
not
engaged
in
fight
with
a
Gyant
and
a
Lyon
;
if
this
then
be
the
Gyant
,
what
is
become
of
the
Lyon
?
or
how
cometh
it
to
pass
that
instead
of
fighting
we
without
blows
commune
so
lovingly
together
?
and
how
came
my
Soul
which
was
just
now
sinking
into
Boat
,
to
take
possession
again
of
my
Body
!
false
Villain
now
shall
thy
Life
pay
for
thy
treachery
,
not
all
the
wealth
of
the
Indies
shall
redeem
the
out
of
my
hand
.
How
Sir
Pandrasus
in
his
return
homewards
came
to
an
Island
where
Sir
Phelim
and
Sir
Owen
had
killed
a
great
Gyant
,
and
taken
his
Castle
,
and
what
torments
the
Gyant
inflicted
on
his
Prisoners
.
Owen
of
the
Mountains
Pedro
of
Spain
O
ye
immortal
powers
,
what
have
I
deserved
to
have
this
punishment
in●licted
on
me
?
How
is
it
that
Death
siezes
on
those
who
would
willingly
live
,
and
flyes
from
him
who
would
court
his
embraces
.
O
that
would
cut
in
twain
the
thread
of
my
Life
,
to
put
a
period
to
my
miseries
,
but
they
are
as
in
exorable
as
this
Monster
of
Mankind
,
whose
Adamantine
hearts
will
not
hearken
to
my
request
:
Come
Gentle
Death
,
O
come
,
come
,
for
it
is
thou
alone
who
canst
ease
my
misery
.
Monsters
of
Nature
,
whose
wanton
cruelty
knows
no
end
,
and
who
please
your selves
in
making
others
to
feel
the
effects
of
your
Tyranny
;
now
satiate
your selves
in
cruelty
,
for
you
shall
not
be
readier
to
inflict
,
then
I
to
suffer
what
the
utmost
of
your
malice
can
lay
upon
me
.
Most
Gracious
Soveraign
,
blame
not
these
matchless
whose
invincible
Manhood
hath
gained
our
freedom
,
and
whose
peerless
Prowess
hath
overcome
our
insulting
Enemy
,
making
his
Carcase
become
food
for
hungry
Ravens
,
who
used
to
feast
his
Eyes
in
beholding
our
miseries
:
What
Thanks
can
we
render
to
those
Persons
equal
to
the
benefits
they
have
bestowed
upon
us
.
my
dearest
,
I
dye
for
love
of
thee
,
How
Sir
Phelim
and
Sir
Owen
,
with
Sir
Pandrasus
,
fought
with
the
Gyant
Curlo
,
who
came
to
be
revenged
for
the
death
of
his
Brother
Briomart
:
How
they
flew
him
and
all
the
rest
that
came
with
him
;
with
other
things
which
happened
.
Am
I
awake
,
or
is
this
only
some
santastical
vision
?
Can
Fortune
afford
one
smile
unto
me
?
or
may
I
hope
to
see
one
serene
day
in
my
Life
?
Oye
Immortal
Powers
,
that
Govern
the
affairs
here
below
,
give
me
one
spoonful
of
sweets
,
to
those
many
Gallons
of
bitterness
which
I
have
swallowed
.
And
am
I
capable
of
more
sorrow
,
can
all
the
compass
of
the
light
show
a
more
happy
Creature
than
I
?
Did
I
no
sooner
receive
a
glimpse
of
comfort
,
but
on
a
sudden
to
be
thrown
down
again
into
a
dungeon
of
misery
?
Ah
my
dear
Lord
,
since
I
could
not
live
with
thee
,
I
will
not
live
without
thee
And
will
you
also
become
my
enemies
?
What
injury
have
I
done
ye
that
you
deprive
me
of
the
only
benefit
I
desire
to
enjoy
How
Sir
David
failed
to
the
precious
Fountain
,
and
rescued
Sir
Wonder
:
How
he
put
to
death
the
Tyrant
Almantor
,
and
setled
Aged
Pamdion
in
his
Estate
.
Warlike
Island
Most
worthy
Knight
,
whose
Fame
resounds
as
far
as
darts
his
Golden
Rayes
;
and
whose
valiant
Acts
are
memorized
all
the
world
over
,
let
melting
pity
creep
into
your
heart
to
give
some
comfort
to
my
Calamity
;
Know
then
most
worthy
Chieftain
,
that
in
my
Native
Country
being
an
Island
hard
by
,
there
liveth
a
cruel
Tyrant
,
one
whose
will
is
his
Law
,
and
who
seldom
sleeps
soundly
unless
he
hath
Blood
for
his
Bolster
thinking
no
thing
unlawful
that
makes
for
his
advantage
,
and
to
that
intent
keeping
a
constant
kennel
of
Blood-Hounds
to
accuse
whom
he
pleaseth
,
and
who
are
so
desperately
wicked
for
his
purpose
,
that
they
will
dispose
whatsoever
he
would
have
them
;
by
these
men
was
I
accused
to
have
conspired
against
his
Life
,
and
though
there
were
neither
plain
Evidence
,
nor
and
circumstance
conducible
thereunto
,
yet
being
Judge
in
his
one
Cause
,
I
was
condemned
,
and
presently
had
my
Estate
siezed
on
,
which
indeed
was
the
main
cause
of
my
Accusation
.
I
was
then
blest
with
a
Beautiful
Daughter
named
of
whom
this
Tyrant
burned
in
Lust
,
who
took
her
from
me
,
pretending
to
keep
her
as
a
pledge
of
my
fidelity
,
but
having
her
in
his
keeping
,
sought
to
deflower
her
,
but
she
resisting
his
unchaste
desires
,
and
giving
him
some
opprobrious
words
,
he
in
a
great
rage
stuck
her
to
the
heart
with
his
Dagger
.
I
having
notice
of
what
was
passed
,
thought
it
high
time
to
provide
for
my self
,
and
daring
trust
no
body
,
I
lay
hid
for
two
or
three
dayes
and
nights
amongst
Bushes
,
Thorns
and
Brakes
,
when
disguising
my self
,
I
went
to
a
village
hard
by
,
where
I
heard
of
your
notable
Atchievments
in
conquering
this
Island
,
the
Garden
of
and
Orchard
of
hoping
according
to
your
former
favours
to
others
in
distress
,
that
you
will
afford
me
some
succour
in
redressing
my
wrongs
.
Sad
is
the
choice
Almantor
)
chuse
which
I
will
:
For
1.
To
be
hanged
on
a
Gibbet
is
to
dye
the
death
of
a
Dog
.
2.
To
be
put
into
a
sack
and
drowned
is
to
be
devoured
by
Fishes
,
and
want
decent
Burial
.
3.
To
have
my
Head
smitten
off
,
is
indeed
the
death
of
a
Nobleman
,
but
which
no
Nobleman
would
willingly
have
.
4.
To
be
poysoned
,
is
to
be
a
stinking
Carcase
before
I
am
scarce
cold
in
my
Grave
.
5.
To
be
burned
is
of
all
deaths
most
cruel
.
6.
To
be
stung
to
death
with
snakes
is
a
painful
lingring
death
.
7.
To
be
cast
down
from
a
high
Tower
,
an
uncertain
death
.
What
then
remains
but
the
last
kind
of
death
,
to
be
killed
with
Arrows
,
and
that
is
the
death
of
a
Soldier
,
which
I
shall
soonest
choose
,
come
then
,
seeing
you
think
me
not
fitting
to
live
,
quickly
dispatch
me
out
of
the
World
.
do
your
worst
landed
in
des●ig●t
of
all
the
〈◊〉
they
could
make
,
and
being
on
land
,
he
with
his
sword
quickly
made
wa●
for
his
Soldiers
to
follow
him
,
who
encouraged
by
his
example
,
as
soon
made
〈◊〉
of
their
〈◊〉
Enemies
,
that
fled
before
their
conquering
swords
like
flocks
of
Sheep
before
the
devouring
Wolves
.
But
now
the
fury
of
their
rage
being
over
,
Sir
David
scorning
to
●●ult
over
a
vanquished
party
,
caused
a
retreat
to
be
sounded
,
and
sent
Messengers
after
them
,
that
he
would
parley
with
them
;
to
which
they
willingly
condelcended
,
and
to
that
Purpose
sent
3
or
4
of
the
chiefest
of
than
,
to
whom
Sir
David
spake
as
followeth
.
The
cause
of
my
sending
to
you
is
to
offer
you
Peace
and
Liberty
:
Liberty
from
the
T●raldom
of
an
insulting
Tyrant
;
to
whose
insatiable
ava●ice
your
Bodies
and
Estates
were
made
thrall
;
one
who
not
only
delighted
in
Crueety
,
but
took
delight
in
the
several
forms
of
executing
the
same
;
who
hath
now
paid
his
just
desots
by
the
●●oke
of
Justice
,
being
shit
to
death
for
his
cruel
Tyranny
;
in
stead
of
whom
we
shall
〈◊〉
for
your
Governor
,
one
well
known
unto
you
,
(
and
here
he
presented
to
them
the
Ancient
Gentleman
)
whom
if
you
refuse
to
accept
,
then
expect
no
other
●●t
what
the
Sword
and
a
conquering
Arm
well
inforce
you
to
do
.
The
Messengers
having
heard
these
words
,
with
a
loud
voice
cryed
out
,
long
live
our
Lord
Pandion
,
(
for
so
was
the
ancient
Gentleman
called
)
and
thereupon
they
desired
leave
to
go
immediately
to
acquaint
the
rest
with
their
determination
;
which
when
they
had
done
,
there
was
such
an
acclama●on
and
shout
of
the
People
,
as
surpassed
that
which
Thracian
Boreas
makes
a
mongst
the
Pines
of
Ossa
,
or
as
when
the
Artillery
of
Heaven
are
discharged
along
the
cleaving
Sky
:
And
thereupon
coming
all
to
Sir
David
,
they
submitted
themselves
,
promising
faithful
Obedience
to
the
Aged
Pandion
,
which
he
most
lovingly
embraced
,
giving
them
many
wholesome
admonitions
,
and
desiring
Sir
Pandion
to
be
a
Gracious
Lord
unto
them
.
And
thus
having
setled
him
in
the
Tyrant
Alma●ters
place
,
he
returned
to
the
island
of
the
precious
Fountain
;
where
leaving
a
sufficient
Guard
with
Sir
Wonder
,
and
taking
with
him
some
store
of
the
Fruit
,
as
also
some
Vessels
of
the
healing
Wine
of
the
Fountaln
,
he
returned
back
to
his
ow●
country
,
where
he
was
very
welcome
to
his
Queen
Rosetta
,
and
joyfully
entertained
by
the
rest
of
his
Subjects
.
Now
the
three
Sons
of
St.
George
,
Sir
Guy
,
Sir
Alexander
,
and
Sir
David
,
met
at
a
great
Justs
at
Constantinople
,
as
also
Sir
Turpin
of
France
,
Sir
Pedro
of
Spain
,
Sir
Orlando
of
Italy
,
Sir
Ewin
of
Scotland
,
Sir
Phelim
of
Ireland
,
and
Sir
Owen
of
Wales
,
where
they
obtained
the
Victory
voer
all
that
Juste
awith
them
,
being
richly
rewarded
by
the
Emperour
for
their
high
Valour
.
Barbary
S●eed
A●ch●●a
spl
ever
〈◊〉
such
to
Opposers
without
Clouds
fruitfully
comforting
not
so
consumed
my
Master
by
me
advises
ye
to
make
the
best
defence
you
can
,
that
by
your
stout
resistance
,
he
may
obtain
the
greater
Honour
in
your
overthrow
.
Go
tell
thy
Master
I
am
prepared
for
him
,
and
that
it
is
not
good
to
sell
the
Lyons
Skin
until
he
be
dead
.
Scottish
Galloway
hoping
for
day
innocently
harmless
Owen
of
the
Mountains
without
fear
or
envy