{ "id": "edmund-spenser/the-legend-of-calidore-or-of-courtesy", "title": "The Legend of Calidore, or of Courtesy", "ordinal": "Book VI", "subtitle": null, "poet": "Edmund Spenser", "poet_slug": "edmund-spenser", "language": "en", "book": "The Faerie Queene", "book_slug": "the-faerie-queene", "book_kind": "volume", "sequence": 7, "container": null, "epigraph": null, "first_published": { "year": 1596, "venue": "The Faerie Queene (1596)", "note": "First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established.", "uncertain": false, "sources": [ "https://archive.org/details/spensersfaeriequ01spenuoft", "https://archive.org/details/spensersfaeriequ02spenuoft", "https://archive.org/details/spensersfaeriequ03spenuoft", "https://archive.org/details/spensersfaeriequ04spenuoft", "https://archive.org/details/spensersfaeriequ05spenuoft", "https://archive.org/details/spensersfaeriequ06spenuoft", "https://github.com/standardebooks/edmund-spenser_the-faerie-queene" ] 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"text": "And sprinckled with such sweet variety", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of all that pleasant is to eare or eye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That I, nigh ravisht with rare thoughts delight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "My tedious travell doe forget thereby;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, when I gin to feele decay of might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It strength to me supplies, and chears my dulled spright.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Such secret comfort and such heavenly pleasures,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ye sacred imps, that on Parnasso dwell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And there the keeping have of learnings threasures", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which doe all worldly riches farre excell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into the mindes of mortall men doe well,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And goodly fury into them infuse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Guyde ye my footing, and conduct me well", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In these strange waies where never foote did use,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne none can find but who was taught them by the Muse.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Revele to me the sacred noursery", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of vertue, which with you doth there remaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where it in silver bowre does hidden ly", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From view of men, and wicked worlds disdaine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Since it at first was by the Gods with paine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Planted in earth, being derived at furst", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From heavenly seedes of bounty soveraine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And by them long with carefull labour nurst,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till it to ripenesse grew, and forth to honour burst.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Amongst them all growes not a fayrer flowre", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Then is the bloosme of comely courtesie;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which though it on a lowly stalke doe bowre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet brancheth forth in brave nobilitie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And spreds it selfe through all civilitie:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of which though present age doe plenteous seeme,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet, being matcht with plaine Antiquitie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ye will them all but fayned showes esteeme,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which carry colours faire that feeble eies misdeeme.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But, in the triall of true curtesie,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Its now so farre from that which then it was,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That it indeed is nought but forgerie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fashion’d to please the eies of them that pas,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which see not perfect things but in a glas:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet is that glasse so gay, that it can blynd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The wisest sight to thinke gold that is bras;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But vertues seat is deepe within the mynd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And not in outward shows, but inward thoughts defynd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But where shall I in all Antiquity", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "So faire a patterne finde, where may be seene", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The goodly praise of Princely curtesie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As in your selfe, O soveraine Lady Queene?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In whose pure minde, as in a mirrour sheene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It showes, and with her brightnesse doth inflame", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The eyes of all which thereon fixed beene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But meriteth indeede an higher name:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet so from low to high uplifted is your fame.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then pardon me, most dreaded Soveraine,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That from your selfe I doe this vertue bring,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to your selfe doe it returne againe.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So from the Ocean all rivers spring,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And tribute backe repay as to their King:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Right so from you all goodly vertues well", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into the rest which round about you ring,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Faire Lords and Ladies which about you dwell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And doe adorne your Court where courtesies excell.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Of court, it seemes, men Courtesie doe call,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For that it there most useth to abound;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And well beseemeth that in Princes hall", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That vertue should be plentifully found,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which of all goodly manners is the ground,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And roote of civill conversation:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Right so in Faery court it did redound,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where curteous Knights and Ladies most did won", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of all on earth, and made a matchlesse paragon.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But mongst them all was none more courteous Knight", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Then Calidore, beloved over-all,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In whom, it seemes, that gentlenesse of spright", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And manners mylde were planted naturall;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To which he adding comely guize withall", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And gracious speach, did steale mens hearts away:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nathlesse thereto he was full stout and tall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And well approv’d in batteilous affray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That him did much renowme, and far his fame display.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Ne was there Knight ne was there Lady found", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In Faery court, but him did deare embrace", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For his faire usage and conditions sound,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which in all mcns liking gayned place,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with the greatest purchast greatest grace:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which he could wisely use, and well apply,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To please the best, and th’evill to embase;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For he loathd leasing and base flattery,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And loved simple truth and stedfast honesty.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And now he was in travell on his way,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Uppon an hard adventure sore bestad,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whenas by chaunce he met uppon a day", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With Artegall, returning yet halfe sad", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From his late conquest which he gotten had:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who when as each of other had a sight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They knew them selves, and both their persons rad;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When Calidore thus first: “Haile, noblest Knight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of all this day on ground that breathen living spright!", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Now tell, if please you, of the good successe", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which ye have had in your late enterprize.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To whom Sir Artegall gan to expresse", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His whole exploite and valorous emprize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In order as it did to him arize.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Now, happy man,” (sayd then Sir Calidore)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Which have, so goodly as ye can devize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Atchiev’d so hard a quest, as few before;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That shall you most renowmed make for evermore.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“But where ye ended have, now I begin", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To tread an endlesse trace, withouten guyde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or good direction how to enter in,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or how to issue forth in waies untryde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In perils strange, in labours long and wide;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In which although good Fortune me befall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet shall it not by none be testifyde.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“What is that quest,” (quoth then Sir Artegall)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“That you into such perils presently doth call?”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“The Blattant Beast” (quoth he) “I doe pursew,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And through the world incessantly doe chase,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till I him overtake, or else subdew:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet know I not or how, or in what place", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To find him out, yet still I forward trace.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“What is that Blattant Beast?” (then he replide.)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“It is a Monster bred of hellishe race,”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "(Then answered he) “which often hath annoyd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Good Knights and Ladies true, and many else destroyd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Of Cerberus whilome he was begot", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And fell Chimaera, in her darkesome den,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through fowle commixture of his filthy blot;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where he was fostred long in Stygian fen,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till he to perfect ripenesse grew; and then", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into this wicked world he forth was sent", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To be the plague and scourge of wretched men,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom with vile tongue and venemous intent", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He sore doth wound, and bite, and cruelly torment.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Then, since the salvage Island I did leave,”", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Sayd Artegall, “I such a Beast did see,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which did seeme a thousand tongues to have,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all in spight and malice did agree;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With which he bayd and loudly barkt at mee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As if that he attonce would me devoure:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But I, that knew my selfe from perill free,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did nought regard his malice nor his powre;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But he the more his wicked poyson forth did poure.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“That surely is that Beast” (saide Calidore)", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“Which I pursue, of whom I am right glad", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To heare these tidings, which of none afore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through all my weary travell I have had;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet now some hope your words unto me add.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Now God you speed,” (quoth then Sir Artegall)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“And keepe your body from the daunger drad,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For ye have much adoe to deale withall.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So both tooke goodly leave, and parted severall.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Sir Calidore thence travelled not long,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "When as by chaunce a comely Squire he found,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That thorough some more mighty enemies wrong", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both hand and foote unto a tree was bound;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who, seeing him from farre, with piteous sound", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of his shrill cries him called to his aide:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To whom approching, in that painefull stound", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When he him saw, for no demaunds he staide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But first him losde, and afterwards thus to him saide.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Unhappy Squire! what hard mishap thee brought", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Into this bay of perill and disgrace?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What cruell hand thy wretched thraldome wrought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And thee captyved in this shamefull place?”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To whom he answered thus: “My haplesse case", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Is not occasiond through my misdesert,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But through misfortune, which did me abase", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto this shame, and my young hope subvert,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ere that I in her guilefull traines was well expert.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Not farre from hence, uppon yond rocky hill,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Hard by a streight, there stands a castle strong,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which doth observe a custome lewd and ill,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And it hath long mayntaind with mighty wrong:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For may no Knight nor Lady passe along", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That way, (and yet they needs must passe that way,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By reason of the streight, and rocks among)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But they that Ladies lockes doe shave away,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And that knights berd, for toll which they for passage pay.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“A shamefull use as ever I did heare,”", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Sayd Calidore, “and to be overthrowne.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But by what meanes did they at first it reare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And for what cause? tell, if thou have it knowne.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sayd then that Squire; “The Lady, which doth owne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "This Castle, is by name Briana hight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then which a prouder Lady liveth none:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She long time hath deare lov’d a doughty Knight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And sought to win his love by all the meanes she might.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“His name is Crudor; who, through high disdaine", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And proud despight of his selfe-pleasing mynd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Refused hath to yeeld her love againe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Untill a Mantle she for him doe fynd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With beards of Knights and locks of Ladies lynd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which to provide she hath this Castle dight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And therein hath a Seneschall assynd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Cald Maleffort, a man of mickle might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who executes her wicked will with worse despight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“He, this same day, as I that way did come", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With a faire Damzell, my beloved deare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In execution of her lawlesse doome", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did set uppon us flying both for feare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For little bootes against him hand to reare.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Me first he tooke unhable to withstond,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And whiles he her pursued every where,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till his returne unto this tree he bond;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne wote I surely whether her he yet have fond.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thus whiles they spake they heard a ruefull shrieke", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of one loud crying, which they streightway ghest", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That it was she the which for helpe did seeke.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tho, looking up unto the cry to lest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They saw that Carle from farre, with hand unblest", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Hayling that mayden by the yellow heare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all her garments from her snowy brest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And from her head her lockes he nigh did teare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne would he spare for pitty, nor refraine for feare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which haynous sight when Calidore beheld,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Eftsoones he loosd that Squire, and so him left", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With hearts dismay and inward dolour queld,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For to pursue that villaine, which had reft", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That piteous spoile by so injurious theft;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom overtaking, loude to him he cryde:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Leave, faytor, quickely that misgotten weft", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To him that hath it better justifyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And turne thee soone to him of whom thou art defyde.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Who, hearkning to that voice, him selfe upreard,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And seeing him so fiercely towardes make,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Against him stoutly ran, as nought afeard,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But rather more enrag’d for those words sake;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with sterne count’naunce thus unto him spake:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Art thou the caytive that defyest me?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And for this Mayd, whose party thou doest take,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Wilt give thy beard, though it but little bee?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet shall it not her lockes for raunsome fro me free.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "With that he fiercely at him flew, and layd", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "On hideous strokes with most importune might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That oft he made him stagger as unstayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And oft recuile to shunne his sharpe despight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Calidore, that was well skild in fight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him long forbore, and still his spirite spar’d,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Lying in waite how him he damadge might;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But when he felt him shrinke, and come to ward,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He greater grew, and gan to drive at him more hard.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Like as a water-streame, whose swelling sourse", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Shall drive a Mill, within strong bancks is pent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And long restrayned of his ready course,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So soone as passage is unto him lent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Breakes forth, and makes his way more violent;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Such was the fury of Sir Calidore:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When once he felt his foeman to relent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He fiercely him pursu’d, and pressed sore;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who as he still decayd so he encreased more.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The heavy burden of whose dreadfull might", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whenas the Carle no longer could sustaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His heart gan faint, and streight he tooke his flight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Toward the Castle, where, if need constraine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His hope of refuge used to remaine:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom Calidore perceiving fast to flie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He him pursu’d and chaced through the plaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That he for dread of death gan loude to crie", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto the ward to open to him hastilie.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "They, from the wall him seeing so aghast,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The gate soone opened to receive him in;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Calidore did follow him so fast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That even in the Porch he him did win,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And cleft his head asunder to his chin.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The carkasse tumbling downe within the dore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did choke the entraunce with a lumpe of sin,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That it could not be shut; whilest Calidore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did enter in, and slew the Porter on the flore.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "With that the rest the which the Castle kept", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "About him flockt, and hard at him did lay;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But he them all from him full lightly swept,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As doth a Steare, in heat of sommers day,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With his long taile the bryzes brush away.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thence passing forth into the hall he came,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where of the Lady selfe in sad dismay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He was ymett, who with uncomely shame", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gan him salute, and fowle upbrayd with faulty blame.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“False traytor Knight!” (said she) “no Knight at all,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But scorne of armes, that hast with guilty hand", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Murdred my men, and slaine my Seneschall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now comest thou to rob my house unmand,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And spoile my selfe that can not thee withstand?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet doubt thou not, but that some better Knight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then thou, that shall thy treason understand,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Will it avenge, and pay thee with thy right;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And if none do, yet shame shal thee with shame requight.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Much was the Knight abashed at that word;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Yet answer’d thus: “Not unto me the shame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But to the shamefull doer it afford.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Bloud is no blemish, for it is no blame", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To punish those that doe deserve the same;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But they that breake bands of civilitie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And wicked customes make, those doe defame", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both noble armes and gentle curtesie.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "No greater shame to man then inhumanitie.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Then doe your selfe, for dread of shame, forgoe", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "This evill manner which ye here maintaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And doe instead thereof mild curt’sie showe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To all that passe: That shall you glory gaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "More then his love, which thus ye seeke t’obtaine.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Wherewith all full of wrath she thus replyde:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Vile recreant! know that I doe much disdaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thy courteous lore, that doest my love deride,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who scornes thy ydle scoffe, and bids thee be defyde.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“To take defiaunce at a Ladies word”", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "(Quoth he) “I hold it no indignity;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But were he here, that would it with his sword", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Abett, perhaps he mote it deare aby.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Cowherd!” (quoth she) “were not that thou wouldst fly", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ere he doe come, he should be soone in place.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“If I doe so,” (sayd he) “then liberty", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I leave to you for aye me to disgrace", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With all those shames, that erst ye spake me to deface.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "With that a Dwarfe she cald to her in hast,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And taking from her hand a ring of gould,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A privy token which betweene them past,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Bad him to flie with all the speed he could", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To Crudor; and desire him that he would", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Vouchsafe to reskue her against a Knight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who through strong powre had now her self in hould,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Having late slaine her Seneschall in fight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all her people murdred with outragious might:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The Dwarfe his way did hast, and went all night;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But Calidore did with her there abyde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The comming of that so much threatned Knight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where that discourteous Dame with scornfull pryde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And fowle entreaty him indignifyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That yron heart it hardly could sustaine:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet he, that could his wrath full wisely guyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did well endure her womanish disdaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And did him selfe from fraile impatience refraine.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The morrow next, before the lampe of light", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Above the earth upreard his flaming head,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The Dwarfe, which bore that message to her knight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Brought aunswere backe, that ere he tasted bread", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He would her succour, and alive or dead", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her foe deliver up into her hand:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therefore he wild her doe away all dread;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, that of him she mote assured stand,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He sent to her his basenet as a faithfull band.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thereof full blyth the Lady streight became,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And gan t’augment her bitternesse much more;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet no whit more appalled for the same,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ought dismayed was Sir Calidore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But rather did more chearefull seeme therefore:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And having soone his armes about him dight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did issue forth to meete his foe afore;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where long he stayed not, when as a Knight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He spide come pricking on with all his powre and might.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Well weend he streight that he should be the same", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which tooke in hand her quarrell to maintaine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne stayd to aske if it were he by name,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But coucht his speare, and ran at him amaine.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They bene ymett in middest of the plaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With so fell fury and dispiteous forse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That neither could the others stroke sustaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But rudely rowld to ground, both man and horse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Neither of other taking pitty nor remorse.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But Calidore uprose againe full light,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whiles yet his foe lay fast in sencelesse swound;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet would he not him hurt although he might;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For shame he weend a sleeping wight to wound.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But when Briana saw that drery stound,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There where she stood uppon the Castle wall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She deem’d him sure to have bene dead on ground;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And made such piteous mourning therewithall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That from the battlements she ready seem’d to fall.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Nathlesse at length him selfe he did upreare", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In lustlesse wise; as if against his will,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ere he had slept his fill, he wakened were,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And gan to stretch his limbs; which feeling ill", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of his late fall, awhile he rested still:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, when he saw his foe before in vew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He shooke off luskishnesse; and courage chill", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Kindling afresh, gan battell to renew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To prove if better foote then horsebacke would ensew.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "There then began a fearefull cruell fray", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Betwixt them two for maystery of might;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For both were wondrous practicke in that play,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And passing well expert in single fight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And both inflam’d with furious despight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which as it still encreast, so still increast", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their cruell strokes and terrible affright;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne once for ruth their rigour they releast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne once to breath awhile their angers tempest ceast.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thus long they trac’d and traverst to and fro,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And tryde all waies how each mote entrance make", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into the life of his malignant foe:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They hew’d their helmes, and plates asunder brake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As they had potshares bene; for nought mote slake", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their greedy vengeaunces but goary blood,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That at the last like to a purple lake", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of bloudy gore congeal’d about them stood,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which from their riven sides forth gushed like a flood.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "At length it chaunst that both their hands on hie", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "At once did heave with all their powre and might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thinking the utmost of their force to trie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And prove the finall fortune of the fight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Calidore, that was more quicke of sight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And nimbler handed then his enemie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Prevented him before his stroke could light,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And on the helmet smote him formerlie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That made him stoupe to ground with meeke humilitie:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And, ere he could recover foote againe,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He, following that faire advantage fast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His stroke redoubled with such might and maine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That him upon the ground he groveling cast;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And leaping to him light would have unlast", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His Helme, to make unto his vengeance way:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who, seeing in what daunger he was plast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Cryde out; “Ah mercie, Sir! doe me not slay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But save my life, which lot before your foot doth lay.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "With that his mortall hand a while he stayd;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And, having somewhat calm’d his wrathfull heat", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With goodly patience, thus he to him sayd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“And is the boast of that proud Ladies threat,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That menaced me from the field to beat,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now brought to this? By this now may ye learne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Strangers no more so rudely to entreat,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But put away proud looke and usage sterne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which shal nought to you but foule dishonor yearne.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“For nothing is more blamefull to a knight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That court’sie doth as well as armes professe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "However strong and fortunate in fight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then the reproch of pride and cruelnesse.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In vaine he seeketh others to suppresse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who hath not learnd him selfe first to subdew:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All flesh is frayle and full of ficklenesse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Subject to fortunes chance, still chaunging new:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What haps to day to me to morrow may to you.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Who will not mercie unto others shew,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "How can he mercy ever hope to have?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To pay each with his owne is right and dew;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet since ye mercie now doe need to crave,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I will it graunt, your hopelesse life to save,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With these conditions which I will propound:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "First, that ye better shall your selfe behave", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto all errant knights, whereso on ground;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Next, that ye Ladies ayde in every stead and stound.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The wretched man, that all this while did dwell", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In dread of death, his heasts did gladly heare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And promist to performe his precept well,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And whatsoever else he would requere.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So, suffring him to rise, he made him sweare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By his owne sword, and by the crosse thereon,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To take Briana for his loving fere", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Withouten dowre or composition;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But to release his former foule condition.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "All which accepting, and with faithfull oth", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Bynding himselfe most firmely to obay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He up arose, however liefe or loth,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And swore to him true fealtie for aye.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then forth he cald from sorrowfull dismay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The sad Briana which all this beheld;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who comming forth yet full of late affray", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sir Calidore upcheard, and to her teld", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All this accord to which he Cruder had compeld.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whereof she now more glad then sory earst,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "All overcome with infinite affect", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For his exceeding courtesie, that pearst", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her stubborne hart with inward deepe effect,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Before his feet her selfe she did project;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And him adoring as her lives deare Lord,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With all due thankes and dutifull respect,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her selfe acknowledg’d bound for that accord,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By which he had to her both life and love restord.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So all returning to the Castle glad,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Most joyfully she them did entertaine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where goodly glee and feast to them she made,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To show her thankefull mind and meaning faine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By all the meanes she mote it best explaine:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, after all, unto Sir Calidore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She freely gave that Castle for his paine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And her selfe bound to him for evermore;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So wondrously now chaung’d from that she was afore.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But Calidore himselfe would not retaine", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Nor land nor fee for hyre of his good deede,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But gave them streight unto that Squire againe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom from her Seneschall he lately freed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to his damzell, as their rightfull meed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For recompence of all their former wrong.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There he remaind with them right well agreed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till of his wounds he wexed hole and strong;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And then to his first quest he passed forth along.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "What vertue is so fitting for a knight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Or for a Ladie whom a knight should love,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As Curtesie; to beare themselves aright", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To all of each degree as doth behove?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For whether they be placed high above", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or low beneath, yet ought they well to know", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their good; that none them rightly may reprove", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of rudenesse for not yeelding what they owe:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Great skill it is such duties timely to bestow.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thereto great helpe dame Nature selfe doth lend;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For some so goodly gratious are by kind,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That every action doth them much commend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in the eyes of men great liking find,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which others that have greater skill in mind,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Though they enforce themselves, cannot attaine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For everie thing to which one is inclin’d", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Doth best become and greatest grace doth gaine:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet praise likewise deserve good thewes enforst with paine.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "That well in courteous Calidore appeares;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whose every deed and word, that he did say,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was like enchantment, that through both the eares", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And both the eyes did steale the hart away.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He now againe is on his former way", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To follow his first quest, when as he spyde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A tall young man, from thence not farre away,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fighting on foot, as well he him descryde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Against an armed knight that did on horsebacke ryde.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And them beside a Ladie faire he saw", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Standing alone on foot in foule array;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To whom himselfe he hastily did draw", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To weet the cause of so uncomely fray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to depart them, if so be he may:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, ere he came in place, that youth had kild", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That armed knight, that low on ground he lay:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which when he saw, his hart was inly child", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With great amazement, and his thought with wonder fild.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Him stedfastly he markt, and saw to bee", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A goodly youth of amiable grace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet but a slender slip, that scarse did see", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet seventeene yeares, but tall and faire of face,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That sure he deem’d him borne of noble race:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All in a woodmans jacket he was clad", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of Lincolne greene, belayd with silver lace;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And on his head an hood with aglets sprad,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And by his side his hunters home he hanging had.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Buskins he wore of costliest cordwayne,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Pinckt upon gold, and paled part per part,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As then the guize was for each gentle swayne:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In his right hand he held a trembling dart,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose fellow he before had sent apart;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in his left he held a sharpe bore-speare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With which he wont to launch the salvage hart", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of many a Lyon and of many a Beare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That first unto his hand in chase did happen neare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whom Calidore awhile well having vewed", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "At length bespake; “What meanes this, gentle Swaine?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Why hath thy hand too bold it selfe embrewed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In blood of knight, the which by thee is slaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By thee no knight; which armes impugneth plaine?”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Certes,” (said he) “loth were I to have broken", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The law of armes: yet breake it should againe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Rather then let my selfe of wight be stroken,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So long as these two armes were able to be wroken.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“For not I him, as this his Ladie here", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "May witnesse well, did offer first to wrong,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne surely thus unarm’d I likely were;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But he me first through pride and puissance strong", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Assayld, not knowing what to armes doth long.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Perdie great blame” (then said Sir Calidore)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“For armed knight a wight unarm’d to wrong:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But then aread, thou gentle chyld, wherefore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Betwixt you two began this strife and sterne uprore.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“That shall I, sooth,” (said he) “to you declare.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "I, whose unryper yeares are yet unfit", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For thing of weight or worke of greater care,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Doe spend my dayes and bend my carelesse wit", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To salvage chace, where I thereon may hit", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In all this forrest and wyld wooddie raine:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where, as this day I was enraunging it,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I chaunst to meete this knight, who there lyes slaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Together with this Ladie, passing on the plaine.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“The knight, as ye did see, on horsebacke was,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And this his Ladie (that him ill became)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On her faire feet by his horse side did pas", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through thicke and thin, unfit for any Dame:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet not content, more to increase his shame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When so she lagged, as she needs mote so,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He with his speare, that was to him great blame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Would thumpe her forward and inforce to goe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Weeping to him in vaine and making piteous woe.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Which when I saw, as they me passed by,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Much was I moved in indignant mind,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And gan to blame him for such cruelty", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Towards a Ladie, whom with usage kind", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He rather should have taken up behind;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Wherewith he wroth, and full of proud disdaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tooke in foule scorne that I such fault did find,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And me in lieu thereof revil’d againe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Threatning to chastize me, as doth t’a chyld pertaine.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Which I no lesse disdayning, backe returned", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His scornefull taunts unto his teeth againe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That he streightway with haughtie choler burned,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with his speare strooke me one stroke or twaine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which I, enforst to beare though to my paine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Cast to requite; and with a slender dart,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fellow of this I beare, throwne not in vaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Strooke him, as seemeth, underneath the hart,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That through the wound his spirit shortly did depart.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Much did Sir Calidore admyre his speach", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Tempred so well, but more admyr’d the stroke", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That through the mayles had made so strong a breach", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into his hart, and had so sternely wroke", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His wrath on him that first occasion broke;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet rested not, but further gan inquire", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of that same Ladie, whether what he spoke", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Were soothly so, and that th’unrighteous ire", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of her owne knight had given him his owne due hire?", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Of all which when as she could nought deny,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But cleard that stripling of th’imputed blame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sayd then Sir Calidore; “Neither will I", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him charge with guilt, but rather doe quite clame:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For what he spake, for you he spake it, Dame;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And what he did, he did him selfe to save:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Against both which that knight wrought knightlesse shame;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For knights and all men this by nature have,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Towards all womenkind them kindly to behave.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But, sith that he is gone irrevocable,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Please it you, Ladie, to us to aread", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What cause could make him so dishonourable", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To drive you so on foot, unfit to tread", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And lackey by him, gainst all womanhead.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Certes, Sir knight,” (sayd she) “full loth I were", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To rayse a lyving blame against the dead;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But since it me concernes my selfe to clere,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I will the truth discover as it chaunst whylere.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“This day, as he and I together roade", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Upon our way to which we weren bent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "We chaunst to come foreby a covert glade", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Within a wood, whereas a Ladie gent", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sate with a knight in joyous jolliment", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of their franke loves, free from all gealous spyes.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Faire was the Ladie, sure, that mote content", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "An hart not carried with too curious eyes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And unto him did shew all lovely courtesyes.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Whom when my knight did see so lovely faire,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He inly gan her lover to envy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And wish that he part of his spoyle might share:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereto when as my presence he did spy", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To be a let, he bad me by and by", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For to alight: but when as I was loth", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "My loves owne part to leave so suddenly,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He with strong hand downe from his steed me throw’th", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with presumpteous powre against that knight streight go’th.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Unarm’d all was the knight, as then more meete", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For Ladies service, and for loves delight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then fearing any foeman there to meete:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereof he taking oddes, streight bids him dight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Himselfe to yeeld his Love, or else to fight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereat the other starting up dismayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet boldly answer’d, as he rightly might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To leave his love he should be ill apayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In which he had good right gaynst all that it gainesayd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Yet since he was not presently in plight", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Her to defend, or his to justifie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He him requested, as he was a knight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To lend him day his better right to trie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or stay till he his armes, which were thereby,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Might lightly fetch: But he was fierce and whot,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne time would give, nor any termes aby,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But at him flew, and with his speare him smot;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From which to thinke to save himselfe it booted not.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Meane while his Ladie, which his outrage saw,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whilest they together for the quarrey strove,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into the covert did her selfe withdraw,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And closely hid her selfe within the grove.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "My knight hers soone, as seemes, to daunger drove,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And left sore wounded: but, when her he mist,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He woxe halfe mad; and in that rage gan rove", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And range through all the wood, where so he wist", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She hidden was, and sought her so long as him list.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“But, when as her he by no meanes could find,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "After long search and chauff he turned backe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto the place where me he left behind:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There gan he me to curse and ban, for lacke", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of that faire bootie, and with bitter wracke", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To wreake on me the guilt of his owne wrong:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of all which I yet glad to beare the packe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Strove to appease him, and perswaded long;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But still his passion grew more violent and strong.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Then, as it were t’avenge his wrath on mee,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "When forward we should fare he flat refused", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To take me up (as this young man did see)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon his steed, for no just cause accused,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But forst to trot on foot, and foule misused,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Pounching me with the butt end of his speare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In vaine complayning to be so abused;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For he regarded neither playnt nor teare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But more enforst my paine, the more my plaints to heare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“So passed we till this young man us met;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And being moov’d with pittie of my plight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Spake, as was meet, for ease of my regret:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereof befell what now is in your sight.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Now sure,” (then said Sir Calidore) “and right,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Me seemes, that him befell by his owne fault:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who ever thinkes through confidence of might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or through support of count’nance proud and hault,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To wrong the weaker, oft falles in his owne assault.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then turning: backe unto that gentle boy,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which had himselfe so stoutly well acquit,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Seeing his face so lovely sterne and coy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And hearing th’answeres of his pregnant wit,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He praysd it much, and much admyred it;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That sure he weend him borne of noble blood,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With whom those graces did so goodly fit:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And when he long had him beholding stood,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He burst into these wordes, as to him seemed good:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Faire gentle swayne, and yet as stout as fayre,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That in these woods amongst the Nymphs dost wonne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which daily may to thy sweete lookes repayre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As they are wont unto Latonaes sonne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "After his chace on woodie Cynthus donne;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Well may I, certes, such an one thee read,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As by thy worth thou worthily hast wonne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or surely borne of some Heroicke sead,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That in thy face appeares and gratious goodlyhead.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“But, should it not displease thee it to tell,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "(Unlesse thou in these woods thy selfe conceale", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For love amongst the woodie Gods to dwell)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I would thy selfe require thee to reveale,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For deare affection and unfayned zeale", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which to thy noble personage I beare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And wish thee grow in worship and great weale;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For, since the day that armes I first did reare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I never saw in any greater hope appeare.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "To whom then thus the noble Youth: “May be,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Sir knight, that, by discovering my estate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Harme may arise unweeting unto me;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nathelesse, sith ye so courteous seemed late,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To you I will not feare it to relate.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then wote ye that I am a Briton borne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sonne of a King, (how ever thorough fate", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or fortune I my countrie have forlorne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And lost the crowne which should my head by right adorne,)", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“And Tristram is my name, the onely heire", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of good king Meliogras which did rayne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In Cornewale, till that he through lives despeire", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Untimely dyde, before I did attaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ripe yeares of reason my right to maintaine:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "After whose death his brother, seeing mee", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "An infant, weake a kingdome to sustaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon him tooke the roiall high degree,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And sent me, where him list, instructed for to bee.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“The widow Queene my mother, which then hight", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Faire Emiline, conceiving then great feare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of my fraile safetie, resting in the might", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of him that did the kingly Scepter beare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose gealous dread induring not a peare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Is wont to cut off all that doubt may breed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thought best away me to remove somewhere", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into some forrein land, where as no need", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of dreaded daunger might his doubtfull humor feed.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“So, taking counsell of a wise man red,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "She was by him adviz’d to send me quight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Out of the countrie wherein I was bred,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which the fertile Lionesse is hight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into the land of Faerie, where no wight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Should weet of me, nor worke me any wrong:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To whose wise read she hearkning sent me streight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into this land, where I have wond thus long", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Since I was ten yeares old, now growen to stature strong.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“All which my daies I have not lewdly spent,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Nor spilt the blossome of my tender yeares", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In ydlesse; but, as was convenient,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Have trayned bene with many noble feres", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In gentle thewes and such like seemly leres:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Mongst which my most delight hath alwaies been", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To hunt the salvage chace, amongst my peres,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of all that raungeth in the forrest greene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of which none is to me unknowne that ev’r was seene.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Ne is there hauke which mantleth her on pearch,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whether high towring or accoasting low,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But I the measure of her flight doe search,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all her pray and all her diet know.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Such be our joyes which in these forrests grow:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Onely the use of armes, which most I joy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And fitteth most for noble swayne to know,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I have not tasted yet; yet past a boy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And being now high time these strong joynts to imploy.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Therefore, good Sir, sith now occasion fit", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Doth fall, whose like hereafter seldome may,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Let me this crave, unworthy though of it,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That ye will make me Squire without delay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That from henceforth in batteilous array", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I may beare armes, and learne to use them right;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The rather, since that fortune hath this day", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Given to me the spoile of this dead knight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "These goodly gilden armes which I have won in fight.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "All which when well Sir Calidore had heard,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Him much more now then earst he gan admire", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For the rare hope which in his yeares appear’d,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And thus replide: “Faire chyld, the high desire", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To love of armes, which in you doth aspire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I may not, certes, without blame denie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But rather wish that some more noble hire", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "(Though none more noble then is chevalrie)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I had, you to reward with greater dignitie.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "There him he causd to kneele, and made to sweare", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Faith to his knight, and truth to Ladies all,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And never to be recreant for feare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of perill, or of ought that might befall:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So he him dubbed, and his Squire did call.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Full glad and joyous then young Tristram grew;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like as a flowre, whose silken leaves small", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Long shut up in the bud from heavens vew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At length breakes forth, and brode displayes his smyling hew.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thus when they lone had treated to and fro,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And Calidore betooke him to depart,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Chyld Tristram prayd that he with him might goe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On his adventure, vowing not to start,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But wayt on him in every place and part:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereat Sir Calidore did much delight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And greatly joy’d at his so noble hart,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In hope he sure would prove a doughtie knight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet for the time this answere he to him behight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Glad would I surely be, thou courteous Squire,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To have thy presence in my present quest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That mote thy kindled courage set on fire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And flame forth honour in thy noble brest;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But I am bound by vow, which I profest", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To my dread Soveraine, when I it assayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That in atchievement of her high behest", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I should no creature joyne unto mine ayde:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Forthy I may not graunt that ye so greatly prayde.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“But since this Ladie is all desolate,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And needeth safegard now upon her way,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ye may doe well, in this her needfull state,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To succour her from daunger of dismay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That thankfull guerdon may to you repay.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The noble ympe, of such new service fayne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It gladly did accept, as he did say:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So taking courteous leave they parted twayne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Calidore forth passed to his former payne.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But Tristram, then despoyling that dead knight", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of all those goodly implements of prayse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Long fed his greedie eyes with the faire sight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of the bright mettall shyning like Sunne rayes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Handling and turning them a thousand wayes:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, after having them upon him dight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He tooke that Ladie, and her up did rayse", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon the steed of her owne late dead knight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So with her marched forth, as she did him behight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "There to their fortune leave we them awhile,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And turne we backe to good Sir Calidore;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who, ere he thence had traveild many a mile,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Came to the place whereas ye heard afore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "This knight, whom Tristram slew, had wounded sore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Another knight in his despiteous pryde:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There he that knight found lying on the flore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With many wounds full perilous and wyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all his garments and the grasse in vermeill dyde.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And there beside him sate upon the ground", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His wofull Ladie, piteously complayning", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With loud laments that most unluckie stound,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And her sad selfe with carefull hand constrayning,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To wype his wounds, and ease their bitter payning.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which sorie sight when Calidore did vew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With heavie eyne, from teares uneath refrayning,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His mightie hart their mournefull case can rew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And for their better comfort to them nigher drew.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then speaking to the Ladie thus he said:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“Ye dolefull Dame, let not your griefe empeach", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To tell what cruell hand hath thus arayd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "This knight unarm’d with so unknightly breach", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of armes, that, if I yet him nigh may reach,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I may avenge him of so foule despight.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The Ladie, hearing his so courteous speach,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gan reare her eyes as to the chearefull light,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And from her sory hart few heavie words forth sight:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "In which she shew’d, how that discourteous knight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "(Whom Tristram slew) them in that shadow found", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Joying together in unblam’d delight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And him unarm’d, as now he lay on ground,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Charg’d with his speare, and mortally did wound,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Withouten cause, but onely her to reave", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From him to whom she was for ever bound:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet when she fled into that covert greave,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He, her not finding, both them thus nigh dead did leave.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "When Calidore this ruefull storie had", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Well understood, he gan of her demand,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What manner wight he was, and how yclad,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which had this outrage wrought with wicked hand.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She then, like as she best could understand,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him thus describ’d; to be of stature large,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Clad all in gilden armes, with azure band", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Quartred athwart, and bearing in his targe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A Ladie on rough waves row’d in a sommer barge.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then gan Sir Calidore to ghesse streightway,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "By many signes which she described had,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That this was he whom Tristram earst did slay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to her said: “Dame, be no longer sad;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For he, that hath your Knight so ill bestad,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Is now him selfe in much more wretched plight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "These eyes him saw upon the cold earth sprad,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The meede of his desert for that despight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which to your selfe he wrought and to your loved knight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Therefore, faire Lady, lay aside this griefe,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which ye have gathered to your gentle hart", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For that displeasure, and thinke what reliefe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Were best devise for this your lovers smart;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And how ye may him hence, and to what part,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Convay to be recur’d.” She thankt him deare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both for that newes he did to her impart,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And for the courteous care which he did beare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both to her love and to her selfe in that sad dreare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Yet could she not devise by any wit,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "How thence she might convay him to some place;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For him to trouble she it thought unfit,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That was a straunger to her wretched case;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And him to beare she thought it thing too base.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which when as he perceiv’d he thus bespake:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Faire Lady, let it not you seeme disgrace", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To beare this burden on your dainty backe;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "My selfe will beare a part, coportion of your packe.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So off he did his shield, and downeward layd", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Upon the ground, like to an hollow beare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And powring balme, which he had long purvayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into his wounds, him up thereon did reare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And twixt them both with parted paines did beare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Twixt life and death, not knowing what was donne.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thence they him carried to a Castle neare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In which a worthy auncient Knight did wonne:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where what ensu’d shall in next Canto be begonne.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "True is, that whilome that good Poet sayd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For a man by nothing is so well bewrayd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As by his manners; in which plaine is showne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of what degree and what race he is growne:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For seldome seene a trotting Stalion get", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "An ambling Colt, that is his proper owne:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So seldome seene that one in basenesse set", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Doth noble courage shew with curteous manners met.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But evermore contrary hath bene tryde,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That gentle bloud will gentle manners breed;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As well may be in Calidore descryde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By late ensample of that courteous deed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Done to that wounded Knight in his great need,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom on his backe he bore, till he him brought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto the Castle where they had decreed:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There of the Knight, the which that Castle ought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To make abode that night he greatly was besought.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He was to weete a man of full ripe yeares,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That in his youth had beene of mickle might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And borne great sway in armes amongst his peares;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But now weake age had dimd his candle-light:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet was he courteous still to every wight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And loved all that did to armes incline;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And was the Father of that wounded Knight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom Calidore thus carried on his chine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Aldus was his name; and his sonnes, Aladine.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Who when he saw his sonne so ill bedight", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With bleeding wounds, brought home upon a beare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By a faire Lady and a straunger Knight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was inly touched with compassion deare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And deare affection of so dolefull dreare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That he these words burst forth: “Ah, sory boy!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Is this the hope that to my hoary heare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thou brings? aie me! is this the timely joy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which I expected long, now turnd to sad annoy?", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Such is the weakenesse of all mortall hope,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "So tickle is the state of earthly things,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That, ere they come unto their aymed scope,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They fall too short of our fraile reckonings,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And bring us bale and bitter sorrowings,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Instead of comfort which we should embrace:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "This is the state of Keasars and of Kings!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Let none therefore, that is in meaner place,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Too greatly grieve at any his unlucky case.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So well and wisely did that good old Knight", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Temper his griefe, and turned it to cheare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To cheare his guests whom he had stayd that night,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And make their welcome to them well appeare.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That to Sir Calidore was easie geare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But that faire Lady would be cheard for nought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But sigh’d and sorrow’d for her lover deare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And inly did afflict her pensive thought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With thinking to what case her name should now be brought:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "For she was daughter to a noble Lord", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which dwelt thereby, who sought her to affy", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To a great pere; but she did disaccord,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne could her liking to his love apply,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But lov’d this fresh young Knight who dwelt her ny,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The lusty Aladine, though meaner borne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And of lesse livelood and hability,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet full of valour the which did adorne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His meanesse much, and make her th’others riches scorne.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So, having both found fit occasion,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "They met together in that lucklesse glade;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where that proud Knight in his presumption", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The gentle Aladine did earst invade,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Being unarm’d and set in secret shade.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereof she now bethinking, gan t’advize", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "How great a hazard she at earst had made", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of her good fame; and further gan devize", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "How she the blame might salve with coloured disguize.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But Calidore with all good courtesie", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Fain’d her to frolicke, and to put away", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The pensive fit of her melancholie;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And that old Knight by all meanes did assay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To make them both as merry as he may.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So they the evening past till time of rest;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When Calidore in seemly good array", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto his bowre was brought, and there undrest", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did sleepe all night through weary travell of his quest.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But faire Priscilla (so that Lady hight)", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Would to no bed, nor take no kindely sleepe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But by her wounded love did watch all night,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all the night for bitter anguish weepe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with her teares his wounds did wash and steepe:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So well she washt them, and so well she wacht him,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That of the deadly swound, in which full deepe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He drenched was, she at the length dispacht him,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And drove away the stound which mortally attacht him.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The morrow next, when day gan to uplooke,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He also gan uplooke with drery eye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like one that out of deadly dreame awooke:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where when he saw his faire Priscilla by,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He deepely sigh’d, and groaned inwardly,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To thinke of this ill state in which she stood;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To which she for his sake had weetingly", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now brought her selfe, and blam’d her noble blood:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For first, next after life, he tendered her good.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which she perceiving did with plenteous teares", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His care more then her owne compassionate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "rorgethill of her owne to mmde his feares:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So both conspiring gan to intimate", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Each others griefe with zeale affectionate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And twixt them twaine with equall care to cast", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "How to save hole her hazarded estate;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For which the onely helpe now left them last", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Seem’d to be Calidore: all other helpes were past.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Him they did deeme, as sure to them he seemed,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A courteous Knight and full of faithfull trust;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therefore to him their cause they best esteemed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whole to commit, and to his dealing just.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Earely, so soone as Titans beames forth brust", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through the thicke clouds in which they steeped lay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All night in darkenesse, duld with yron rust,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Calidore rising up as fresh as day", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gan freshly him addresse unto his former way.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But first him seemed fit that wounded Knight", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To visite, after this nights perillous passe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to salute him, if he were in plight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke that Lady, his faire lovely lasse.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There he him found much better then he was;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And moved speach to him of things of course,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The anguish of his paine to overpasse:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Mongst which he namely did to him discourse", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of former daies mishap, his sorrowes wicked sourse.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Of which occasion Aldine taking hold", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Gan breake to him the fortunes of his love,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all his disadventures to unfold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That Calidore it dearly deepe did move:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In th’end, his kyndly courtesie to prove,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He him by all the bands of love besought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And as it mote a faithfull friend behove,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To safe-conduct his love, and not for ought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To leave, till to her fathers house he had her brought.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Sir Calidore his faith thereto did plight", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "It to performe: so after little stay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That she her selfe had to the journey dight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He passed forth with her in faire array,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fearlesse who ought did thinke or ought did say,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sith his own thought he knew most cleare from wite:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So, as they past together on their way,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He can devize this counter-cast of slight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To give faire colour to that Ladies cause in sight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Streight to the carkasse of that Knight he went,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The cause of all this evill, who was slaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The day before by just avengement", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of noble Tristram, where it did remaine:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There he the necke thereof did cut in twaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And tooke with him the head, the signe of shame.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So forth he passed thorough that daies paine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till to that Ladies fathers house he came;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Most pensive man, through feare what of his childe became.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "There he arriving boldly did present", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The fearefull Lady to her father deare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Most perfect pure, and guiltlesse innocent", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of blame, as he did on his Knighthood sweare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Since first he saw her, and did free from feare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of a discourteous Knight, who her had reft", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And by outragious force away did beare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Witnesse thereof he shew’d his head there left,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And wretched life forlorne for vengement of his theft.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Most joyfull man her sire was her to see,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And heare th’adventure of her late mischaunce;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And thousand thankes to Calidore for fee", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of his large paines in her deliveraunce", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did yeeld: Ne lesse the Lady did advaunce.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thus having her restored trustily,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As he had vow’d, some small continuance", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He there did make, and then most carefully", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto his first exploite he did him selfe apply.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So, as he was pursuing of his quest,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He chaunst to come whereas a jolly Knight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In covert shade him selfe did safely rest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To solace with his Lady in delight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His warlike armes he had from him undight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For that him selfe he thought from daunger free,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And far from envious eyes that mote him spight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke the Lady was full faire to see,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And courteous withall, becomming her degree.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "To whom Sir Calidore approaching nye,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ere they were well aware of living wight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Them much abasht, but more him selfe thereby,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That he so rudely did uppon them light,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And troubled had their quiet loves delight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet since it was his fortune, not his fault,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him selfe thereof he labour’d to acquite,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And pardon crav’d for his so rash default,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That he gainst courtesie so fowly did default.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "With which his gentle words and goodly wit", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He soone allayd that Knights conceiv’d displeasure,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That he besought him downe by him to sit,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That they mote treat of things abrode at leasure,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And of adventures, which had in his measure", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of so long waies to him befallen late.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So downe he sate, and with delightfull pleasure", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His long adventures gan to him relate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which he endured had through daungerous debate:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Of which whitest they discoursed both together,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The faire Serena (so his Lady hight)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Allur’d with myldnesse of the gentle wether", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And pleasaunce of the place, the which was dight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With divers flowres distinct with rare delight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Wandred about the fields, as liking led", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her wavering lust after her wandring sight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To make a garland to adorne her hed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Without suspect of ill or daungers hidden dred.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "All sodainely out of the Forrest nere", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The Blatant Beast forth rushing unaware", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Caught her, thus loosely wandring here and there,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in his wide great mouth away her bare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Crying aloud to shew her sad misfare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto the Knights, and calling oft for ayde;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who with the horrour of her haplesse care", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Hastily starting up, like men dismayde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ran after fast to reskue the distressed mayde.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The Beast, with their pursuit incited more,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Into the wood was bearing her apace", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For to have spoyled her, when Calidore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who was more light of foote and swift in chace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him overtooke in middest of his race;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, fiercely charging him with all his might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Forst to forgoe his pray there in the place,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to betake him selfe to fearefull flight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For he durst not abide with Calidore to fight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Who nathelesse, when he the Lady saw", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "There left on ground, though in full evill plight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet knowing that her Knight now neare did draw,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Staide not to succour her in that affright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But follow’d fast the Monster in his flight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through woods and hils he follow’d him so fast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That he nould let him breath, nor gather spright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But forst him gape and gaspe, with dread aghast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As if his lungs and lites were nigh asunder brast.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And now by this Sir Calepine (so hight)", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Came to the place where he his Lady found", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In dolorous dismay and deadly plight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All in gore bloud there tumbled on the ground,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Having both sides through grypt with griesly wound,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His weapons soone from him he threw away,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And stouping downe to her in drery swound", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Uprear’d her from the ground whereon she lay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in his tender armes her forced up to stay.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So well he did his busie paines apply,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That the faint sprite he did revoke againe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To her fraile mansion of mortality:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then up he tooke her twixt his armes twaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And setting on his steede her did sustaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With carefull hands, soft footing her beside;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till to some place of rest they mote attaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where she in safe assuraunce mote abide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till she recured were of those her woundes wide.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Now when as Phœbus with his fiery waine", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Unto his Inne began to draw apace;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tho wexing weary of that toylesome paine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In travelling on foote so long a space,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Not wont on foote with heavy armes to trace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Downe in a dale forby a rivers syde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He chaunst to spie a faire and stately place,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To which he meant his weary steps to guyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In hope there for his love some succour to provyde.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But, comming to the rivers side, he found", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That hardly passable on foote it was;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therefore there still he stood as in a stound,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne wist which way he through the foord mote pas:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thus whilest he was in this distressed case,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Devising what to doe, he nigh espyde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "An armed Knight approaching to the place", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With a faire Lady lincked by his syde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which themselves prepard thorough the foord to ride.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whom Calepine saluting (as became)", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Besought of courtesie, in that his neede,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For safe conducting of his sickely Dame", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through that same perillous foord with better heede,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To take him up behinde upon his steed;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To whom that other did this taunt returne:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Perdy, thou peasant Knight mightst rightly reed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Me then to be full base and evill borne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "If I would beare behinde a burden of such scorne.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“But, as thou hast thy steed forlorne with shame,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "So fare on foote till thou another gayne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And let thy Lady likewise doe the same,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or beare her on thy backe with pleasing payne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And prove thy manhood on the billowes vayne.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With which rude speach his Lady much displeased", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did him reprove, yet could him not restrayne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And would on her owne Palfrey him have eased,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For pitty of his Dame whom she saw so diseased.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Sir Calepine her thanckt; yet, inly wroth", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Against her Knight, her gentlenesse refused,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And carelesly into the river goth,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As in despight to be so fowle abused", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of a rude churle, whom often he accused", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of fowle discourtesie, unfit for Knight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, strongly wading through the waves unused,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With speare in th’one hand stayd him selfe upright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With th’other staide his Lady up with steddy might.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And all the while that same discourteous Knight", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Stood on the further bancke beholding him;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At whose calamity, for more despight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He laught, and mockt to see him like to swim:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But when as Calepine came to the brim,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And saw his carriage past that perill well,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Looking at that same Carle with count’nance grim,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His heart with vengeaunce inwardly did swell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And forth at last did breake in speaches sharpe and fell:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Unknightly Knight, the blemish of that name,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And blot of all that armes uppon them take,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which is the badge of honour and of fame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Loe! I defie thee; and here challenge make,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That thou for ever doe those armes forsake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And be for ever held a recreant Knight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unlesse thou dare, for thy deare Ladies sake", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And for thine owne defence, on foote alight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To justifie thy fault gainst me in equall fight.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The dastard, that did heare him selfe defyde,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Seem’d not to weigh his threatfull words at all,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But laught them out, as if his greater pryde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did scorne the challenge of so base a thrall;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or had no courage, or else had no gall.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So much the more was Calepine offended,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That him to no revenge he forth could call,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But both his challenge and him selfe contemned,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "No cared as a coward so to be condemned.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But he, nought weighing what he sayd or did,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Turned his steede about another way,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with his Lady to the Castle rid,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where was his won: ne did the other stay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But after went directly as he may,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For his sicke charge some harbour there to seeke;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where he arriving with the fall of day", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Drew to the gate, and there with prayers meeke", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And myld entreaty lodging did for her beseeke.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But the rude Porter that no manners had", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Did shut the gate against him in his face,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And entraunce boldly unto him forbad:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nathelesse the Knight, now in so needy case,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gan him entreat even with submission base,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And humbly praid to let them in that night;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who to him aunswer’d, that there was no place", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of lodging fit for any errant Knight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unlesse that with his Lord he formerly did fight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Full loth am I,” (quoth he) “as now at earst", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "When day is spent, and rest us needeth most,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And that this Lady, both whose sides are pearst", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With wounds, is ready to forgo the ghost;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne would I gladly combate with mine host,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That should to me such curtesie afford,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unlesse that I were thereunto enforst:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But yet aread to me, how hight thy Lord,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That doth thus strongly ward the Castle of the Ford?”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“His name,” (quoth he) “if that thou list to learne,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Is hight Sir Turpine, one of mickle might", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And manhood rare, but terrible and stearne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In all assaies to every errant Knight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Because of one that wrought him fowle despight.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Ill seemes,” (sayd he) “if he so valiaunt be,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That he should be so sterne to stranger wight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For seldome yet did living creature see", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That curtesie and manhood ever disagree.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“But go thy waies to him, and fro me say,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That here is at his gate an errant Knight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That house-rome craves; yet would be loth t’assay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The proofe of battell now in doubtfull night,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or curtesie with rudenesse to requite:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet, if he needes will fight, crave leave till morne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And tell with all the lamentable plight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In which this Lady languisheth forlorne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That pitty craves, as he of woman was yborne.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The groome went streight way in, and to his Lord", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Declar’d the message which that Knight did move:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who, sitting with his Lady then at bord,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Not onely did not his demaund approve,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But both himselfe revil’d and eke his love;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Albe his Lady, that Blandina hight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him of ungentle usage did reprove,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And earnestly entreated, that they might", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Finde favour to be lodged there for that same night.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Yet would he not perswaded be for ought,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ne from his currish will a whit reclame.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which answer when the groome returning brought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To Calepine, his heart did inly flame", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With wrathfull fury for so foule a shame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That he could not thereof avenged bee;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But most for pitty of his dearest Dame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom now in deadly daunger he did see,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet had no meanes to comfort, nor procure her glee.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But all in vaine; for-why no remedy", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He saw the present mischiefe to redresse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But th’utmost end perforce for to aby,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which that nights fortune would for him addresse.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So downe he tooke his Lady in distresse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And layd her underneath a bush to sleepe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Cover’d with cold, and wrapt in wretchednesse;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whiles he him selfe all night did nought but weepe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And wary watch about her for her safegard keepe.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The morrow next, so soone as joyous day", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Did shew it selfe in sunny beames bedight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Serena full of dolorous dismay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Twixt darkenesse dread and hope of living light,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Uprear’d her head to see that chearefull sight.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then Calepine, however inly wroth,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And greedy to avenge that vile despight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet for the feeble Ladies sake, full loth", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To make there lenger stay, forth on his journey goth.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He goth on foote all armed by her side,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Upstaying still her selfe uppon her steede,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Being unhable else alone to ride,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So sore her sides, so much her wounds did bleede;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till that at length, in his extreamest neede,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He chaunst far off an armed Knight to spy", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Pursuing him apace with greedy speede;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom well he wist to be some enemy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That meant to make advantage of his misery.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Wherefore he stayd, till that he nearer drew,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To weet what issue would thereof betyde:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tho, whenas he approched nigh in vew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By certaine signes he plainly him descryde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To be the man that with such scornefull pryde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had him abusde and shamed yesterday;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therefore, misdoubting least he should misguyde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His former malice to some new assay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He cast to keepe him selfe so safely as he may.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "By this the other came in place likewise,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And couching close his speare and all his powre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As bent to some malicious enterprise,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He bad him stand t’abide the bitter stoure", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of his sore vengeaunce, or to make avoure", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of the lewd words and deedes which he had done:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With that ran at him, as he would devoure", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His life attonce; who nought could do but shun", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The perill of his pride, or else be overrun.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Yet he him still pursew’d from place to place,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With full intent him cruelly to kill,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And like a wilde goate round about did chace", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Flying the fury of his bloudy will:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But his best succour and refuge was still", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Behind his Ladies back; who to him cryde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And called oft with prayers loud and shrill,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As ever he to Lady was affyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To spare her Knight, and rest with reason pacifyde:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But he the more thereby enraged was,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And with more eager felnesse him pursew’d;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So that at length, after long weary chace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Having by chaunce a close advantage vew’d,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He over raught him, having long eschew’d", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His violence in vaine; and with his spere", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Strooke through his shoulder, that the blood ensew’d", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In great aboundance, as a well it were", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That forth out of an hill fresh gushing did appere.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Yet ceast he not for all that cruell wound,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But chaste him still for all his Ladies cry;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Not satisfyde till on the fatall ground", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He saw his life powrd forth despiteously;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which was certes in great jeopardy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had not a wondrous chaunce his reskue wrought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And saved from his cruell villany.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Such chaunces oft exceed all humaine thought!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That in another Canto shall to end be brought.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Like as a ship with dreadfull storme long tost,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Having spent all her mastes and her ground-hold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now farre from harbour likely to be lost,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At last some fisher-barke doth neare behold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That giveth comfort to her courage cold:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Such was the state of this most courteous knight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Being oppressed by that faytour bold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That he remayned in most perilous plight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And his sad Ladie left in pitifull affright:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Till that, by fortune passing all foresight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A salvage man, which in those woods did wonne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Drawne with that Ladies loud and piteous shright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Toward the same incessantly did ronne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To understand what there was to be donne:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There he this most discourteous craven found,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As fiercely yet as when he first begonne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Chasing the gentle Calepine around,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne sparing him the more for all his grievous wound.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The salvage man, that never till this houre", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Did taste of pittie, neither gentlesse knew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Seeing his sharpe assault and cruell stoure,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was much emmoved at his perils vew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That even his ruder hart began to rew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And feele compassion of his evill plight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Against his foe that did him so pursew;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From whom he meant to free him, if he might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And him avenge of that so villenous despight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Yet armes or weapon had he none to fight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ne knew the use of warlike instruments,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Save such as sudden rage him lent to smite;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But naked, without needfull vestiments", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To clad his corpse with meete habiliments,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He cared not for dint of sword nor speere,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "No more then for the stroke of strawes or bents:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For from his mothers wombe, which him did beare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He was invulnerable made by Magicke leare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He stayed not t’advize which way were best", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His foe t’assayle, or how himselfe to gard,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But with fierce fury and with force infest", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon him ran; who being well prepard", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His first assault full warily did ward,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with the push of his sharp-pointed speare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Full on the breast him strooke, so strong and hard", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That forst him backe recoyle and reele areare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet in his bodie made no wound nor bloud appeare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "With that the wyld man more enraged grew,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Like to a Tygre that hath mist his pray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with mad moode againe upon him flew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Regarding neither speare that mote him slay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nor his fierce steed that mote him much dismay.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The salvage nation doth all dread despize:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tho on his shield he griple hold did lay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And held the same so hard, that by no wize", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He could him force to loose, or leave his enterprize.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Long did he wrest and wring it to and fro,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And every way did try, but all in vaine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For he would not his greedie grype forgoe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But hayld and puld with all his might and maine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That from his steed him nigh he drew againe:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who having now no use of his long speare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So nigh at hand, nor force his shield to straine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both speare and shield, as things that needlesse were,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He quite forsooke, and fled himselfe away for feare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But after him the wyld man ran apace,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And him pursewed with importune speed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "(For he was swift as any Bucke in chace)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, had he not in his extreamest need", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Bene helped through the swiftnesse of his steed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He had him overtaken in his flight.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who, ever as he saw him nigh succeed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gan cry aloud with horrible affright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And shrieked out, a thing uncomely for a knight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But, when the Salvage saw his labour vaine", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In following of him that fled so fast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He wearie woxe, and backe return’d againe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With speede unto the place, whereas he last", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had left that couple nere their utmost cast:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There he that knight full sorely bleeding found,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke the Ladie fearefully aghast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both for the perill of the present stound,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And also for the sharpnesse of her rankling wound:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "For though she were right glad so rid to bee", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "From that vile lozell which her late offended;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet now no lesse encombrance she did see,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And perill, by this salvage man pretended,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gainst whom she saw no meanes to be defended,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By reason that her knight was wounded sore:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therefore her selfe she wholy recommended", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To Gods sole grace, whom she did oft implore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To send her succour, being of all hope forlore.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But the wyld man, contrarie to her feare,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Came to her creeping like a fawning hound,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And by rude tokens made to her appeare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His deepe compassion of her dolefull stound,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Kissing his hands, and crouching to the ground;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For other language had he none, nor speach,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But a soft murmure and confused sound", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of senselesse words, which nature did him teach", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "T’expresse his passions, which his reason did empeach.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And, comming likewise to the wounded knight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "When he beheld the streames of purple blood", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet flowing fresh, as moved with the sight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He made great mone after his salvage mood;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, running streight into the thickest wood,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A certaine herbe from thence unto him brought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose vertue he by use well understood;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The juyce whereof into his wound he wrought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And stopt the bleeding straight, ere he it staunched thought.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then taking up that Recreants shield and speare,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which earst he left, he signes unto them made", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With him to wend unto his wonning neare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To which he easily did them perswade.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Farre in the forrest, by a hollow glade", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Covered with mossie shrubs, which spredding brode", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did underneath them make a gloomy shade,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where foot of living creature never trode,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne scarse wyld beasts durst come, there was this wights abode.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thether he brought these unacquainted guests,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To whom faire semblance, as he could, he shewed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By signes, by lookes, and all his other gests;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But the bare ground with hoarie mosse bestrewed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Must be their bed; their pillow was unsowed:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And the frutes of the forrest was their feast;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For their bad Stuard neither plough’d nor sowed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne fed on flesh, ne ever of wyld beast", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did taste the bloud, obaying natures first beheast.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Yet, howsoever base and meane it were,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "They tooke it well, and thanked God for all,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which had them freed from that deadly feare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And sav’d from being to that caytive thrall.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Here they of force (as fortune now did fall)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Compelled were themselves awhile to rest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Glad of that easement, though it were but small;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That having there their wounds awhile redrest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They mote the abler be to passe unto the rest.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "During which time that wyld man did apply", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His best endevour and his daily paine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In seeking all the woods both farre and nye", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For herbes to dresse their wounds; still seeming faine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When ought he did, that did their lyking gaine.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So as ere long he had that knightes wound", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Recured well, and made him whole againe;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But that same Ladies hurt no herbe he found", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which could redresse, for it was inwardly unsound.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Now when as Calepine was woxen strong,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Upon a day he cast abrode to wend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To take the ayre and heare the thrushes song,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unarm’d, as fearing neither foe nor frend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And without sword his person to defend:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There him befell, unlocked for before,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "An hard adventure with unhappie end,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A cruell Beare, the which an infant bore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Betwixt his bloodie jawes, besprinckled all with gore.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The litle babe did loudly scrike and squall,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And all the woods with piteous plaints did fill,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As if his cry did meane for helpe to call", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To Calepine, whose eares those shrieches shrill,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Percing his hart, with pities point did thrill;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That after him he ran with zealous haste", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To rescue th’infant, ere he did him kill:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom though he saw now somewhat overpast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet by the cry he follow’d, and pursewed fast.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Well then him chaunst his heavy armes to want,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whose burden mote empeach his needfull speed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And hinder him from libertie to pant;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For having long time, as his daily weed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Them wont to weare, and wend on foot for need,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now wanting them he felt himselfe so light,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That like an Hauke, which feeling her selfe freed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From bels and jesses which did let her flight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him seem’d his feet did fly and in their speed delight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So well he sped him, that the wearie Beare", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ere long he overtooke and forst to stay;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And without weapon him assayling neare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Compeld him soone the spoyle adowne to lay.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Wherewith the beast enrag’d to loose his pray", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon him turned, and, with greedie force", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And furie to be crossed in his way,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gaping full wyde, did thinke without remorse", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To be aveng’d on him and to devoure his corse.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But the bold knight no whit thereat dismayd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But catching up in hand a ragged stone", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which lay thereby (so fortune him did ayde)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon him ran, and thrust it all attone", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into his gaping throte, that made him grone", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And gaspe for breath, that he nigh choked was,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Being unable to digest that bone;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne could it upward come, nor downward passe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne could he brooke the coldnesse of the stony masse.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whom when as he thus combred did behold,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Stryving in vaine that nigh his bowels brast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He with him closd, and, laying mightie hold", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon his throte, did gripe his gorge so fast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That wanting breath him downe to ground he cast;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, then oppressing him with urgent paine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ere long enforst to breath his utmost blast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gnashing his cruell teeth at him in vaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And threatning his sharpe clawes, now wanting powre to traine.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then tooke he up betwixt his armes twaine", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The litle babe, sweet relickes of his pray;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom pitying to heare so sore complaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From his soft eyes the teares he wypt away,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And from his face the filth that did it ray;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And every litle limbe he searcht around,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And every part that under sweath-bands lay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Least that the beasts sharpe teeth had any wound", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Made in his tender flesh; but whole them all he found.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So, having all his bands againe uptyde,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He with him thought backe to returne againe;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But when he lookt about on every syde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To weet which way were best to entertaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To bring him to the place where he would faine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He could no path nor tract of foot descry,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne by inquirie learne, nor ghesse by ayme;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For nought but woods and forrests farre and nye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all about did close the compasse of his eye.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Much was he then encombred, ne could tell", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which way to take: now West he went awhile,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then North, then neither, but as fortune fell:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So up and downe he wandred many a mile", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With weary travell and uncertaine toile,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet nought the nearer to his journeys end;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And evermore his lovely litle spoile", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Crying for food did greatly him offend:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So all that day in wandring vainely he did spend.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "At last, about the setting of the Sunne,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Him selfe out of the forest he did wynd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And by good fortune the plaine champion wonne:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where, looking all about where he mote fynd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some place of succour to content his mynd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At length he heard under the forrests syde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A voice, that seemed of some woman kynd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which to her selfe lamenting loudly cryde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And oft complayn’d of fate, and fortune oft defyde.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "To whom approching, when as she perceived", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A stranger wight in place, her plaint she stayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As if she doubted to have bene deceived,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or loth to let her sorrowes be bewrayd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom when as Calepine saw so dismayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He to her drew, and with faire blandishment", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her chearing up, thus gently to her sayd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“What be you, wofull Dame, which thus lament,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And for what cause, declare; so mote ye not repent.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "To whom she thus: “What need me, Sir, to tell", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That which your selfe have earst ared so right?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A wofull dame ye have me termed well;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So much more wofull, as my wofull plight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Cannot redressed be by living wight!”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Nathlesse,” (quoth he) “if need doe not you bynd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Doe it disclose to ease your grieved spright:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Oftimes it haps that sorrowes of the mynd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Find remedie unsought, which seeking cannot fynd.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then thus began the lamentable Dame:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“Sith then ye needs will know the griefe I hoord,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I am th’unfortunate Matilde by name,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The wife of bold Sir Bruin, who is Lord", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of all this land, late conquer’d by his sword", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From a great Gyant, called Cormoraunt,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom he did overthrow by yonder foord;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in three battailes did so deadly daunt,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That he dare not returne for all his daily vaunt.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“So is my Lord now seiz’d of all the land,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As in his fee, with peaceable estate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And quietly doth hold it in his hand,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne any dares with him for it debate:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to these happie fortunes cruell fate", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Hath joyn’d one evill, which doth overthrow", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All these our joyes, and all our blisse abate;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And like in time to further ill to grow,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all this land with endlesse losse to overflow.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“For th’heavens, envying our prosperitie,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Have not vouchsaft to graunt unto us twaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The gladfull blessing of posteritie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which we might see after our selves remaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In th’heritage of our unhappie paine:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So that for want of heires it to defend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All is in time like to returne againe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To that foule feend, who dayly doth attend", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To leape into the same after our lives end.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“But most my Lord is grieved herewithall,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And makes exceeding mone, when he does thinke", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all this land unto his foe shall fall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For which he long in vaine did sweate and swinke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That now the same he greatly doth forthinke.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet was it sayd, there should to him a sonne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Be gotten, not begotten; which should drinke", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And dry up all the water which doth ronne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In the next brooke, by whom that feend shold be fordonne.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Well hop’t he then, when this was propheside,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That from his sides some noble chyld should rize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which through fame should farre be magnifide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And this proud gyant should with brave emprize", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Quite overthrow; who now ginnes to despize", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The good Sir Bruin growing farre in yeares,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who thinkes from me his sorrow all doth rize.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Lo! this my cause of griefe to you appeares;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For which I thus doe mourne, and poure forth ceaselesse teares.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which when he heard, he inly touched was", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With tender ruth for her unworthy griefe;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, when he had devized of her case,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He gan in mind conceive a fit reliefe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For all her paine, if please her make the priefe;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, having cheared her, thus said: “Faire Dame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In evils counsell is the comfort chiefe;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which though I be not wise enough to frame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet, as I well it meane, vouchsafe it without blame.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“If that the cause of this your languishment", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Be lacke of children to supply your place,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Lo! how good fortune doth to you present", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "This litle babe, of sweete and lovely face,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And spotlesse spirit in which ye may enchace", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whatever formes ye list thereto apply,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Being now soft and fit them to embrace;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whether ye list him traine in chevalry,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or noursle up in lore of learn’d Philosophy.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“And, certes, it hath oftentimes bene seene,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That of the like, whose linage was unknowne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "More brave and noble knights have raysed beene", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "(As their victorious deedes have often showen,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Being with fame through many Nations blowen,)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then those which have bene dandled in the lap:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therefore some thought that those brave imps were sowen", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Here by the Gods, and fed with heavenly sap,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That made them grow so high t’all honorable hap.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The Ladie, hearkning to his sensefull speach,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Found nothing that he said unmeet nor geason,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Having oft seene it tryde as he did teach:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therefore inclyning to his goodly reason,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Agreeing well both with the place and season,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She gladly did of that same babe accept,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As of her owne by liverey and seisin;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, having over it a litle wept,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She bore it thence, and ever as her owne it kept.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Right glad was Calepine to be so rid", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of his young charge whereof he skilled nought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne she lesse glad; for she so wisely did,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with her husband under hand so wrought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That, when that infant unto him she brought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She made him think it surely was his owne;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And it in goodly thewes so well upbrought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That it became a famous knight well knowne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And did right noble deedes; the which elswhere are showne.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But Calepine, now being left alone", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Under the greenewoods side in sorie plight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Withouten armes or steede to ride upon,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or house to hide his head from heavens spight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Albe that Dame, by all the meanes she might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him oft desired home with her to wend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And offred him, his courtesie to requite,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both horse and armes and what so else to lend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet he them all refusd, though thankt her as a frend;", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And, for exceeding griefe which inly grew", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That he his love so lucklesse now had lost,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On the cold ground maugre himselfe he threw", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For fell despight to be so sorely crost;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And there all night himselfe in anguish tost,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Vowing that never he in bed againe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His limbes would rest, ne lig in ease embost,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till that his Ladies sight he mote attaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or understand that she in safetie did remaine.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "O what an easie thing is to descry", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The gentle bloud, how ever it be wrapt", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In sad misfortunes foule deformity", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And wretched sorrowes, which have often hapt!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For howsoever it may grow mis-shapt,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like this wyld man being undisciplynd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That to all vertue it may seeme unapt,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet will it shew some sparkes of gentle mynd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And at the last breake forth in his owne proper kynd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "That plainely may in this wyld man be red,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Who, though he were still in this desert wood,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Mongst salvage beasts both rudely borne and bred,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ever saw faire guize, ne learned good,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet shewd some token of his gentle blood", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By gentle usage of that wretched Dame:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For certes he was borne of noble blood,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "How ever by hard hap he hether came,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As ye may know when time shall be to tell the same.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Who, when as now long time he lacked had", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The good Sir Calepine, that farre was strayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did wexe exceeding sorrowfull and sad,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As he of some misfortune were afrayd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, leaving there this Ladie all dismayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Went forth streightway into the forrest wyde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To seeke if he perchance asleep were layd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or what so else were unto him betyde:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He sought him farre and neare, yet him no where he spyde.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Tho, backe returning to that sorie Dame,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He shewed semblant of exceeding mone", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By speaking signes, as he them best could frame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now wringing both his wretched hands in one,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now beating his hard head upon a stone,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That ruth it was to see him so lament:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By which she well perceiving what was done,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gan teare her hayre, and all her garments rent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And beat her breast, and piteously her selfe torment.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Upon the ground her selfe she fiercely threw,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Regardlesse of her wounds yet bleeding rife,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That with their bloud did all the flore imbrew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As if her breast, new launcht with murdrous knife,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Would streight dislodge the wretched wearie life.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There she long groveling and deepe groning lay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As if her vitall powers were at strife", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With stronger death, and feared their decay:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Such were this Ladies pangs and dolorous assay.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whom when the Salvage saw so sore distrest,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He reared her up from the bloudie ground,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And sought by all the meanes that he could best", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her to recure out of that stony swound,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And staunch the bleeding of her dreary wound:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet nould she be recomforted for nought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nor cease her sorrow and impatient stound,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But day and night did vexe her carefull thought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And ever more and more her owne affliction wrought.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "At length, when as no hope of his retourne", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "She saw now left, she cast to leave the place,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And wend abrode, though feeble and forlorne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To seeke some comfort in that sorie case.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His steede, now strong through rest so long a space,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Well as she could she got, and did bedight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And being thereon mounted forth did pace", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Withouten guide her to conduct aright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or gard her to defend from bold oppressors might.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whom when her Host saw readie to depart,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He would not suffer her alone to fare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But gan himselfe addresse to take her part.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Those warlike armes which Calepine whyleare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had left behind he gan eftsoones prepare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And put them all about himselfe unfit,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His shield, his helmet, and his curats bare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But without sword upon his thigh to sit:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sir Calepine himselfe away had hidden it.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So forth they traveld, an uneven payre", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That mote to all men seeme an uncouth sight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A salvage man matcht with a Ladie fayre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That rather seem’d the conquest of his might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gotten by spoyle then purchaced aright:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But he did her attend most carefully,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And faithfully did serve both day and night", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Withouten thought of shame or villeny,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ever shewed signe of foule disloyalty.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Upon a day, as on their way they went,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "It chaunst some furniture about her steed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To be disordred by some accident,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which to redresse she did th’assistance need", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of this her groome; which he by signes did reede,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And streight his combrous armes aside did lay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon the ground withouten doubt or dreed;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in his homely wize began to assay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "T’amend what was amisse, and put in right aray.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Bout which whilest he was busied thus hard,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Lo! where a knight, together with his squire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All arm’d to point came ryding thetherward;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which seemed, by their portance and attire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To be two errant knights, that did inquire", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "After adventures, where they mote them get.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Those were to weet (if that ye it require)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Prince Arthur and young Timias, which met", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By straunge occasion that here needs forth be set.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "After that Timias had againe recured", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The favour of Belphebe (as ye heard)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And of her grace did stand againe assured,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To happie blisse he was full high uprear’d,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nether of envy nor of chaunge afeard:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Though many foes did him maligne therefore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with unjust detraction him did beard,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet he himselfe so well and wisely bore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That in her soveraine lyking he dwelt evermore.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But of them all which did his ruine seeke,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Three mightie enemies did him most despight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Three mightie ones, and cruell minded eeke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That him not onely sought by open might", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To overthrow, but to supplant by slight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The first of them by name was cald Despetto,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Exceeding all the rest in powre and hight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The second, not so strong but wise, Decetto;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The third, nor strong nor wise, but spightfullest, Defetto.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Oftimes their sundry powres they did employ,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And several deceipts, but all in vaine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For neither they by force could him destroy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne yet entrap in treasons subtill traine.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therefore, conspiring all together plaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They did their counsels now in one compound:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where singled forces faile, conjoynd may gaine.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The Blatant Beast the fittest meanes they found", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To worke his utter shame, and throughly him confound.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Upon a day, as they the time did waite,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "When he did raunge the wood for salvage game,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They sent that Blatant Beast to be a baite", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To draw him from his deare beloved dame", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unwares into the daunger of defame;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For well they wist that Squire to be so bold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That no one beast in forrest, wylde or tame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Met him in chase but he it challenge would,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And plucke the pray oftimes out of their greedy hould.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The hardy boy, as they devised had,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Seeing the ugly Monster passing by,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon him set, of perill nought adrad,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne skilfull of the uncouth jeopardy;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And charged him so fierce and furiously,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That his great force unable to endure,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He forced was to turne from him and fly:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet ere he fled he with his tooth impure", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him heedlesse bit, the whiles he was thereof secure.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Securely he did after him pursew,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Thinking by speed to overtake his flight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who through thicke woods and brakes and briers him drew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To weary him the more and waste his spight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So that he now has almost spent his spright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till that at length unto a woody glade", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He came, whose covert stopt his further sight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There his three foes shrowded in guilefull shade", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Out of their ambush broke, and gan him to invade.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Sharpely they all attonce did him assaile,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Burning with inward rancour and despight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And heaped strokes did round about him haile", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With so huge force, that seemed nothing might", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Beare off their blowes from percing thorough quite:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet he them all so warily did ward,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That none of them in his soft flesh did bite;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all the while his backe for best safegard", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He lent against a tree, that backeward onset bard.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Like a wylde Bull, that, being at a bay,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Is bayted of a mastiffe and a hound", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And a curre-dog, that doe him sharpe assay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On every side, and beat about him round;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But most that curre, barking with bitter sownd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And creeping still behinde, doth him incomber,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That in his chauffe he digs the trampled ground,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And threats his horns, and bellowes like the thonder:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So did that Squire his foes disperse and drive asonder.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Him well behoved so; for his three foes", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Sought to encompasse him on every side,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And dangerously did round about enclose:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But most of all Defetto him annoyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Creeping behinde him still to have destroyde;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So did Decetto eke him circumvent;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But stout Despetto in his greater pryde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did front him, face to face against him bent:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet he them all withstood, and often made relent.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Till that at length, nigh tyrd with former chace,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And weary now with carefull keeping ward,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He gan to shrinke and somewhat to give place,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Full like ere long to have escaped hard;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When as unwares he in the forrest heard", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A trampling steede, that with his neighing fast", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did warne his rider be uppon his gard;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With noise whereof the Squire, now nigh aghast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Revived was, and sad dispaire away did cast.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Eftsoones he spide a Knight approching nye;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Who, seeing one in so great daunger set", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Mongst many foes, him selfe did faster hye", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To reskue him, and his weake part abet,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For pitty so to see him overset:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom soone as his three enemies did vew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They fled, and fast into the wood did get.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him booted not to thinke them to pursew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The covert was so thicke that did no passage shew.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then turning to that swaine him well he knew", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To be his Timias, his owne true Squire;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereof exceeding glad he to him drew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, him embracing twixt his armes entire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him thus bespake: “My liefe, my lifes desire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Why have ye me alone thus long yleft?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tell me what worlds despight, or heavens yre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Hath you thus long away from me bereft?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where have ye all this while bin wandring, where bene weft?”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "With that he sighed deepe for inward tyne:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To whom the Squire nought aunswered againe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, shedding few soft teares from tender eyne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His dear affect with silence did restraine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And shut up all his plaint in privy paine.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There they awhile some gracious speaches spent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As to them seemed fit time to entertaine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "After all which up to their steedes they went,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And forth together rode, a comely couplement.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So now they be arrived both in sight", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of this wyld man, whom they full busie found", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "About the sad Serena things to dight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With those brave armours lying on the ground,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That seem’d the spoile of some right well renownd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which when that Squire beheld, he to them stept", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thinking to take them from that hylding hound;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But he it seeing lightly to him lept,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And sternely with strong hand it from his handling kept.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Gnashing his grinded teeth with griesly looke,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And sparkling fire out of his furious eyne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him with his fist unwares on th’head he strooke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That made him downe unto the earth encline;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whence soone upstarting much he gan repine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And laying hand upon his wrathfull blade", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thought therewithall forthwith him to have slaine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who it perceiving hand upon him layd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And greedily him griping his avengement stayd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "With that aloude the faire Serena cryde", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Unto the Knight, them to dispart in twaine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who to them stepping did them soone divide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And did from further violence restraine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Albe the wyld-man hardly would refraine.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then gan the Prince of her for to demand", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What and from whence she was, and by what traine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She fell into that salvage villaines hand?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And whether free with him she now were, or in band?", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "To whom she thus: “I am, as now ye see,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The wretchedst Dame that lives this day on ground;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who both in minde, the which most grieveth me,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And body have receiv’d a mortall wound,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That hath me driven to this drery stound.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I was erewhile the love of Calepine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who whether he alive be to be found,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or by some deadly chaunce be done to pine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Since I him lately lost, uneath is to define.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“In salvage forrest I him lost of late,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Where I had surely long ere this bene dead,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or else remained in most wretched state,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had not this wylde man in that wofull stead", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Kept and delivered me from deadly dread.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In such a salvage wight, of brutish kynd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Amongst wilde beastes in desert forrests bred,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It is most straunge and wonderfull to fynd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So milde humanity and perfect gentle mynd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Let me therefore this favour for him finde,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That ye will not your wrath upon him wreake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sith he cannot expresse his simple mmde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne yours conceive, ne but by tokens speake:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Small praise to prove your powre on wight so weake.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With such faire words she did their heat asswage,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And the strong course of their displeasure breake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That they to pitty turnd their former rage,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And each sought to supply the office of her page.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So having all things well about her dight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "She on her way cast forward to proceede,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And they her forth conducted, where they might", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Finde harbour fit to comfort her great neede;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For now her wounds corruption gan to breed:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke this Squire, who likewise wounded was", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of that same Monster late, for lacke of heed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now gan to faint, and further could not pas", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through feeblenesse, which all his limbes oppressed has.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So forth they rode together all in troupe", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To seeke some place the which mote yeeld some ease", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To these sicke twaine, that now began to droupe:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all the way the Prince sought to appease", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The bitter anguish of their sharpe disease", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By all the courteous meanes he could invent;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Somewhile with merry purpose, fit to please,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And otherwhile with good encouragement", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To make them to endure the pains did them torment.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Mongst which Serena did to him relate", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The foule discourt’sies and unknightly parts,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which Turpine had unto her shewed late,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Without compassion of her cruell smarts:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Although Blandina did with all her arts", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him otherwise perswade all that she might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet he of malice, without her desarts,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Not onely her excluded late at night,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But also trayterously did wound her weary Knight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Wherewith the Prince sore moved there avoud", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That soone as he returned backe againe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He would avenge th’abuses of that proud", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And shamefull Knight of whom she did complaine.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "This wize did they each other entertaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To passe the tedious travell of the way,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till towards night they came unto a plaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By which a little Hermitage there lay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Far from all neighbourhood the which annoy it may.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And nigh thereto a little Chappell stoode,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which being all with Yvy overspred", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Deckt all the roofe, and, shadowing the roode,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Seem’d like a grove faire braunched over-hed:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therein the Hermite, which his life here led", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In streight observaunce of religious vow,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was wont his howres and holy things to bed;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And therein he likewise was praying now,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whenas these Knights arriv’d, they wist not where nor how.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "They stayd not there, but streightway in did pas:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whom when the Hermite present saw in place,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From his devotion streight he troubled was;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which breaking off he toward them did pace", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With stayed steps and grave beseeming grace:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For well it seem’d that whilome he had beene", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some goodly person, and of gentle race,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That could his good to all; and well did weene", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "How each to entertaine with curt’sie well beseene.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And soothly it was sayd by common fame,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "So long as age enabled him thereto,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That he had bene a man of mickle name,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Renowmed much in armes and derring doe;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But being aged now, and weary to", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of warres delight and worlds contentious toyle,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The name of knighthood he did disavow;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, hanging up his armes and warlike spoyle,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From all this worlds incombraunce did himselfe assoyle.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He thence them led into his Hermitage,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Letting their steedes to graze upon the greene.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Small was his house, and like a little cage,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For his owne turne, yet inly neate and clene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Deckt with greene boughes and flowers gay beseene:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therein he them full faire did entertaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Not with such forged showes, as fitter beene", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For courting fooles that curtesies would faine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But with entire affection and appearaunce plaine.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Yet was their fare but homely, such as hee", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Did use his feeble body to sustaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which full gladly they did take in gree,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Such as it was, ne did of want complaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But being well suffiz’d them rested faine.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But fair Serene all night could take no rest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne yet that gentle Squire, for grievous paine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of their late woundes, the which the Blatant Beast", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had given them, whose griefe through suffraunce sore increast.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So all that night they past in great disease,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Till that the morning, bringing earely light", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To guide mens labours, brought them also ease,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And some asswagement of their painefull plight.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then up they rose, and gan them selves to dight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto their journey; but that Squire and Dame", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So faint and feeble were, that they ne might", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Endure to travell, nor one foote to frame:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their hearts were sicke; their sides were sore; their feete were lame.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Therefore the Prince, whom great affaires in mynd", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Would not permit to make there lenger stay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was forced there to leave them both behynd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In that good Hermits charge; whom he did pray", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To tend them well. So forth he went his way,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with him eke the salvage, (that whyleare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Seeing his royall usage and array", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was greatly growne in love of that brave pere,)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Would needes depart; as shall declared be elsewhere.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "No wound, which warlike hand of enemy", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Inflicts with dint of sword, so sore doth light", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As doth the poysnous sting, which infamy", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Infixeth in the name of noble wight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For by no art, nor any leaches might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It ever can recured be againe;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne all the skill, which that immortall spright", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of Podalyrius did in it retaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Can remedy such hurts: such hurts are hellish paine.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Such were the wounds the which that Blatant Beast", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Made in the bodies of that Squire and Dame;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, being such, were now much more increast", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For want of taking heede unto the same,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That now corrupt and curelesse they became:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Howbe that carefull Hermite did his best,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With many kindes of medicines meete, to tame", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The poysnous humour which did most infest", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their ranckling wounds, and every day them duely drest.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "For he right well in Leaches craft was seene;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And through the long experience of his dayes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which had in many fortunes tossed beene", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And past through many perillous assayes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He knew the diverse went of mortall wayes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in the mindes of men had great insight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which with sage counsell, when they went astray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He could enforme, and them reduce aright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all the passions heale which wound the weaker spright.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "For whylome he had bene a doughty Knight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As any one that lived in his daies,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And proved oft in many perillous fight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of which he grace and glory wonne alwaies,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in all battels bore away the baies:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But being now attacht with timely age,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And weary of this worlds unquiet waies,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He tooke him selfe unto this Hermitage,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In which he liv’d alone, like carelesse bird in cage.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "One day, as he was searching of their wounds,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He found that they had festred privily;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And ranckling inward with unruly stounds,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The inner parts now gan to putrify,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That quite they seem’d past helpe of surgery;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And rather needed to be disciplinde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With holesome reede of sad sobriety,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To rule the stubborne rage of passion blinde:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Give salves to every sore, but counsell to the minde.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So, taking them apart into his cell,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He to that point fit speaches gan to frame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As he the art of words knew wondrous well,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke could doe as well as say the same;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And thus he to them sayd: “Faire daughter Dame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And you, faire Sonne, which here thus long now lie", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In piteous languor since ye hither came,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In vaine of me ye hope for remedie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And I likewise in vaine doe salves to you applie:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“For in your selfe your onely helpe doth lie", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To heale your selves, and must proceed alone", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From your owne will to cure your maladie.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who can him cure that will be cur’d of none?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "If therefore health ye seeke, observe this one:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "First learne your outward senses to refraine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From things that stirre up fraile affection;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Your eies, your eares, your tongue, your talk restraine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From that they most affect, and in due termes containe.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“For from those outward sences, ill affected,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The seede of all this evill first doth spring,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which at the first, before it had infected,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Mote easie be supprest with little thing;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But being growen strong it forth doth bring", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sorrow, and anguish, and impatient paine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In th’inner parts; and lastly, scattering", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Contagious poyson close through every vaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It never rests till it have wrought his finall bane.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“For that beastes teeth, which wounded you tofore,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Are so exceeding venemous and keene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Made all of rusty yron ranckling sore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That where they bite it booteth not to weene", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With salve, or antidote, or other mene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It ever to amend: ne marvaile ought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For that same beast was bred of hellish strene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And long in darksome Stygian den upbrought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Begot of foule Echidna, as in bookes is taught.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Echidna is a Monster direfull dred,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whom Gods doe hate, and heavens abhor to see;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So hideous is her shape, so huge her hed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That even the hellish fiends affrighted bee", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At sight thereof, and from her presence flee:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet did her face and former parts professe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A faire young Mayden, full of comely glee;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But all her hinder parts did plaine expresse", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A monstrous Dragon, full of fearefull uglinesse.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“To her the Gods, for her so dreadfull face,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In fearefull darkenesse, furthest from the skie", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And from the earth, appointed have her place", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Mongst rocks and caves, where she enrold doth lie", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In hideous horrour and obscurity,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Wasting the strength of her immortall age:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There did Typhaon with her company;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Cruell Typhaon, whose tempestuous rage", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Makes th’heavens tremble oft, and him with vowes asswage.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Of that commixtion they did then beget", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "This hellish Dog, that hight the Blatant Beast;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A wicked Monster, that his tongue doth whet", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gainst all, both good and bad, both most and least,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And pours his poysnous gall forth to infest", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The noblest wights with notable defame:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ever Knight that bore so lofty creast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ever Lady of so honest name,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But he them spotted with reproch, or secrete shame.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“In vaine therefore it were with medicine", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To goe about to salve such kynd of sore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That rather needes wise read and discipline,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then outward salves that may augment it more.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Aye me!” (sayd then Serena, sighing sore)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“What hope of helpe doth then for us remaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "If that no salves may us to health restore?”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“But sith we need good counsell,” (sayd the swaine)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Aread, good Sire, some counsell that may us sustaine.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“The best” (sayd he) “that I can you advize,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Is to avoide the occasion of the ill:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For when the cause, whence evill doth arize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Removed is, th’effecl surceaseth still.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Abstaine from pleasure, and restraine your will;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Subdue desire, and bridle loose delight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Use scanted diet, and forbeare your fill;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shun secresie, and talke in open sight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So shall you soone repaire your present evill plight.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thus having sayd, his sickely patients", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Did gladly hearken to his grave beheast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And kept so well his wise commaundements,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That in short space their malady was ceast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke the biting of that harmefull Beast", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was throughly heal’d. Tho when they did perceave", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their wounds recur’d, and forces reincreast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of that good Hermite both they tooke their leave,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And went both on their way, ne ech would other leave:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But each the other vow’d t’accompany:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The Lady, for that she was much in dred,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now left alone in great extremity;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The Squire, for that he courteous was indeed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Would not her leave alone in her great need.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So both together traveld, till they met", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With a faire Mayden clad in mourning weed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon a mangy jade unmeetely set,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And a lewd foole her leading thorough dry and wet.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But by what meanes that shame to her befell,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And how thereof her selfe she did acquite,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I must awhile forbeare to you to tell;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till that, as comes by course, I doe recite", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What fortune to the Briton Prince did lite,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Pursuing that proud Knight, the which whileare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Wrought to Sir Calepine so foule despight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke his Lady, though she sickely were,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So lewdly had abusde, as ye did lately heare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The Prince, according to the former token", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which faire Serene to him delivered had,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Pursu’d him streight; in mynd to bene ywroken", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of all the vile demeane and usage bad,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With which he had those two so ill bestad:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne wight with him on that adventure went,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But that wylde man; whom though he oft forbad,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet for no bidding, nor for being shent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Would he restrayned be from his attendement.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Arriving there, as did by chaunce befall,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He found the gate wyde ope, and in he rode,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne stayd, till that he came into the hall;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where soft dismounting, like a weary lode,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon the ground with feeble feete he trode,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As he unable were for very neede", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To move one foote, but there must make abode:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The whiles the salvage man did take his steede,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in some stable neare did set him up to feede.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Ere long to him a homely groome there came,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That in rude wise him asked, what he was", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That durst so boldly, without let or shame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into his Lords forbidden hall to passe?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To whom the Prince, him fayning to embase,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Mylde answer made, he was an errant Knight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which was fall’n into this feeble case", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through many wounds, which lately he in fight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Received had, and prayd to pitty his ill plight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But he, the more outrageous and bold,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Sternely did bid him quickely thence avaunt,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or deare aby; for-why his Lord of old", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did hate all errant Knights which there did haunt,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne lodging would to any of them graunt;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And therefore lightly bad him packe away,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Not sparing him with bitter words to taunt,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And therewithall rude hand on him did lay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To thrust him out of dore doing his worst assay.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which when the Salvage, comming now in place,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Beheld, eftsoones he all enraged grew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, running streight upon that villaine base,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like a fell Lion at him fiercely flew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with his teeth and nailes, in present vew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him rudely rent and all to peeces tore;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So miserably him all helpelesse slew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That with the noise, whilest he did loudly rore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The people of the house rose forth in great uprore.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Who when on ground they saw their fellow slaine,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And that same Knight and Salvage standing by,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon them two they fell with might and maine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And on them layd so huge and horribly,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As if they would have slaine them presently:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But the bold Prince defended him so well,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And their assault withstood so mightily,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That, maugre all their might, he did repell", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And beat them back, whilest many underneath him fell.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Yet he them still so sharpely did pursew,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That few of them he left alive, which fled", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Those evill tidings to their Lord to shew:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who, hearing how his people badly sped,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Came forth in hast; where, when as with the dead", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He saw the ground all strow’d, and that same Knight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And salvage with their bloud fresh steeming red,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He woxe nigh mad with wrath and fell despight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with reprochfull words him thus bespake on hight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Art thou he, traytor, that with treason vile", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Hast slaine my men in this unmanly maner,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And now triumphest in the piteous spoile", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of these poore folk, whose soules with black dishonor", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And foule defame doe decke thy bloudy baner?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The meede whereof shall shortly be thy shame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And wretched end which still attendeth on her.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With that him selfe to battell he did frame;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So did his forty yeomen, which there with him came.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "With dreadfull force they all did him assaile,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And round about with boystrous strokes oppresse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That on his shield did rattle like to haile", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In a great tempest; that in such distresse", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He wist not to which side him to addresse:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And evermore that craven cowherd Knight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was at his backe with heartlesse heedinesse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Wayting if he un wares him murther might;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For cowardize doth still in villany delight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whereof whenas the Prince was well aware,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He to him turnd with furious intent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And him against his powre gan to prepare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like a fierce Bull, that being busie bent", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To fight with many foes about him ment,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Feeling some curre behinde his heeles to bite,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Turnes him about with fell avengement:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So likewise turnde the Prince upon the Knight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And layd at him amaine with all his will and might.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Who, when he once his dreadfull strokes had tasted,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Durst not the furie of his force abyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But turn’d abacke, and to retyre him hasted", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through the thick prease, there thinking him to hyde:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, when the Prince had once him plainely eyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He foot by foot him followed alway,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne would him suffer once to shrinke asyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But joyning close huge lode at him did lay;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who flying still did ward, and warding fly away.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But, when his foe he still so eager saw,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Unto his heeles himselfe he did betake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Hoping unto some refuge to withdraw:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne would the Prince him ever foot forsake", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where so he went, but after him did make.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He fled from roome to roome, from place to place,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whylest every joynt for dread of death did quake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Still looking after him that did him chace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That made him evermore increase his speedie pace.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "At last he up into the chamber came", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whereas his love was sitting all alone,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Wayting what tydings of her folke became.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There did the Prince him overtake anone,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Crying in vaine to her him to bemone;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with his sword him on the head did smyte,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That to the ground he fell in senselesse swone:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet, whether thwart or flatly it did lyte,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The tempred steele did not into his braynepan byte.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which when the Ladie saw, with great affright", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "She starting up began to shrieke aloud;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with her garment covering him from sight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Seem’d under her protection him to shroud;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And falling lowly at his feet her bowd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon her knee, intreating him for grace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And often him besought, and prayd, and vowd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That with the ruth of her so wretched case,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He stayd his second strooke, and did his hand abase.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Her weed she then withdrawing did him discover;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Who now come to himselfe yet would not rize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But still did lie as dead, and quake, and quiver,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That even the Prince his basenesse did despize;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke his Dame, him seeing in such guize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gan him recomfort and from ground to reare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who rising up at last in ghastly wize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like troubled ghost, did dreadfully appeare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As one that had no life him left through former feare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whom when the Prince so deadly saw dismayd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He for such basenesse shamefully him shent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with sharpe words did bitterly upbrayd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Vile cowheard dogge! now doe I much repent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That ever I this life unto thee lent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereof thou, caytive, so unworthie art,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That both thy love, for lacke of hardiment,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke thy selfe, for want of manly hart,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke all knights hast shamed with this knightlesse part.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Yet further hast thou heaped shame to shame,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And crime to crime, by this thy cowheard feare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For first, it was to thee reprochfull blame", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To erect this wicked custome, which I heare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gainst errant Knights and Ladies thou dost reare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom when thou mayst thou dost of arms despoile,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or of their upper garment which they weare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet doest thou not with manhood, but with guile,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Maintaine this evil use, thy foes thereby to foile.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“And lastly, in approvance of thy wrong,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To shew such faintnesse and foule cowardize", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Is greatest shame; for oft it falles, that strong", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And valiant Knights doe rashly enterprize", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Either for fame, or else for exercize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A wrongfull quarrell to maintaine by fight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet have through prowesse and their brave emprize", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gotten great worship in this worldes sight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For greater force there needs to maintaine wrong then right.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Yet, since thy life unto this Ladie fayre", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "I given have, live in reproch and scorne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ever armes ne ever knighthood dare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Hence to professe; for shame is to adorne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With so brave badges one so basely borne:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But onely breath, sith that I did forgive.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So having from his craven bodie torne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Those goodly armes, he them away did give,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And onely suffred him this wretched life to live.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "There whilest he thus was setling things above,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Atwene that Ladie myld and recreant knight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To whom his life he graunted for her love,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He gan bethinke him in what perilous plight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He had behynd him left that salvage wight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Amongst so many foes, whom sure he thought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By this quite slaine in so unequall fight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therefore descending backe in haste he sought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "If yet he were alive, or to destruction brought.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "There he him found environed about", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With slaughtred bodies which his hand had slaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And laying yet afresh, with courage stout,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon the rest that did alive remaine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom he likewise right sorely did constraine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like scattred sheepe, to seeke for safetie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "After he gotten had with busie paine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some of their weapons which thereby did lie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With which he layd about, and made them fast to flie.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whom when the Prince so felly saw to rage,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Approching to him neare, his hand he stayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And sought by making signes him to asswage;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who them perceiving streight to him obayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As to his Lord, and downe his weapons layd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As if he long had to his heasts bene trayned.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thence he him brought away, and up convayd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into the chamber, where that Dame remayned", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With her unworthy knight, who ill him entertayned.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whom when the Salvage saw from daunger free,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Sitting beside his Ladie there at ease,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He well remembred that the same was hee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which lately sought his Lord for to displease:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tho all in rage he on him streight did seaze,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As if he would in peeces him have rent:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, were not that the Prince did him appeaze,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He had not left one limbe of him unrent:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But streight he held his hand at his commaundement.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thus having all things well in peace ordayned,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The Prince himselfe there all that night did rest;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where him Blandina fayrely entertayned", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With all the courteous glee and goodly feast", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which for him she could imagine best:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For well she knew the wayes to win good will", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of every wight, that were not too infest;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And how to please the minds of good and ill,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through tempering of her words and lookes by wondrous skill.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Yet were her words and lookes but false and fayned,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To some hid end to make more easie way,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or to allure such fondlings whom she trayned", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into her trap unto their owne decay:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thereto, when needed, she could weepe and pray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And when her listed she could fawne and flatter;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now smyling smoothly, like to sommers day,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now glooming sadly, so to cloke her matter;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet were her words but wynd, and all her teares but water.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whether such grace were given her by kynd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As women wont their guilefull wits to guyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or learn’d the art to please, I doe not fynd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "This well I wote, that she so well applyde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her pleasing tongue, that soone she pacifyde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The wrathfull Prince, and wrought her husbands peace:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who nathelesse, not therewith satisfyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His rancorous despight did not releasse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne secretly from thought of fell revenge surceasse:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "For all that night, the whyles the Prince did rest", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In carelesse couch, not weeting what was ment,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He watcht in close awayt with weapons prest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Willing to worke his villenous intent", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On him that had so shamefully him shent:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet durst he not for very cowardize", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Effect the same, whylest all the night was spent.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The morrow next the Prince did early rize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And passed forth to follow his first enterprize.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Like as the gentle hart it selfe bewrayes", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In doing gentle deedes with franke delight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Even so the baser mind it selfe displayes", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In cancred malice and revengefull spight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For to maligne, t’envie, t’use shifting slight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Be arguments of a vile donghill mind,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which, what it dare not doe by open might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To worke by wicked treason wayes doth find,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By such discourteous deeds discovering his base kind.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "That well appears in this discourteous knight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The coward Turpine, whereof now I treat;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who notwithstanding that in former’ fight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He of the Prince his life received late,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet in his mind, malitious and ingrate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He gan devize to be aveng’d anew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For all that shame, which kindled inward hate:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therefore, so soone as he was out of vew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Himselfe in hast he arm’d, and did him fast pursew.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Well did he tract his steps as he did ryde,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Yet would not neare approch in daungers eye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But kept aloofe for dread to be descryde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Untill fit time and place he mote espy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where he mote worke him scath and villeny.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At last he met two knights to him unknowne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which were armed both agreeably,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And both combynd, whatever chaunce were blowne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Betwixt them to divide, and each to make his owne.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "To whom false Turpine comming courteously,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To cloke the mischiefe which he inly ment,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gan to complaine of great discourtesie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which a straunge knight, that neare afore him went,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had doen to him, and his deare Ladie shent:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which if they would afford him ayde at need", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For to avenge in time convenient,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They should accomplish both a knightly deed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And for their paines obtaine of him a goodly meed.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The knights beleev’d that all he sayd was trew;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And being fresh and full of youthly spright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Were glad to heare of that adventure new,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In which they mote make triall of their might", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which never yet they had approv’d in fight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eke desirous of the offred meed:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Said then the one of them; “Where is that wight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which hath doen to thee this wrongfull deed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That we may it avenge, and punish him with speed?”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“He rides” (said Turpine) “there not farre afore,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With a wyld man soft footing by his syde;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That, if ye list to haste a litle more,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ye may him overtake in timely tyde.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Eftsoones they pricked forth with forward pryde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, ere that litle while they ridden had,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The gentle Prince not farre away they spyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ryding a softly pace with portance sad,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Devizing of his love more then of daunger drad.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then one of them aloud unto him cryde,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Bidding him turne againe, false traytour knight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Foule woman-wronger, for he him defyde.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With that they both at once with equall spight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did bend their speares, and both with equall might", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Against him ran; but th’one did misse his marke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And being carried with his force forthright", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Glaunst swiftly by; like to that heavenly sparke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which glyding through the ayre lights all the heavens darke.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But th’other, ayming better, did him smite", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Full in the shield with so impetuous powre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all his launce in peeces shivered quite,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And scattered all about fell on the flowre:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But the stout Prince, with much more steddy stowre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Full on his bever did him strike so sore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That the cold steele, through piercing, did devowre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His vitall breath, and to the ground him bore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where still he bathed lay in his owne bloody gore.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "As when a cast of Faulcons make their flight", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "At an Herneshaw, that lyes aloft on wing,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The whyles they strike at him with heedlesse might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The wane foule his bill doth backward wring;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On which the first, whose force her first doth bring,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her selfe quite through the bodie doth engore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And falleth downe to ground like senselesse thing;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But th’other, not so swift as she before,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fayles of her souse, and passing by doth hurt no more.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "By this the other, which was passed by,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Himselfe recovering was return’d to fight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where when he saw his fellow lifelesse ly,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He much was daunted with so dismall sight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet, nought abating of his former spight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Let drive at him with so malitious mynd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As if he would have passed through him quight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But the steele head no stedfast hold could fynd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But glauncing by deceiv’d him of that he desynd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Not so the Prince; for his well-learned speare", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Tooke surer hould, and from his horses backe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Above a launces length him forth did beare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And gainst the cold hard earth so sore him strake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all his bones in peeces nigh he brake.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where seeing him so lie, he left his steed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to him leaping vengeance thought to take", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of him for all his former follies meed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With flaming sword in hand his terror more to breed.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The fearfull swayne beholding: death so nie,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Cryde out aloud for mercie, him to save;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In lieu whereof he would to him descrie", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Great treason to him meant, his life to reave.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The Prince soone hearkned, and his life forgave.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then thus said he: “There is a straunger knight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which, for promise of great meed, us drave", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To this attempt to wreake his hid despight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For that himselfe thereto did want sufficient might.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The Prince much mused at such villenie,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And sayd: “Now sure ye well have earn’d your meed;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For th’one is dead, and th’other soone shall die,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unlesse to me thou hether bring with speed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The wretch that hyr’d you to this wicked deed.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He glad of life, and willing eke to wreake", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The guilt on him which did this mischiefe breed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Swore by his sword, that neither day nor weeke", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He would surceasse, but him where so he were would seeke.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So up he rose, and forth streightway he went", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Backe to the place where Turpine late he lore;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There he him found in great astonishment,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To see him so bedight with bloodie gore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And griesly wounds that him appalled sore;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet thus at length he said: “How now, Sir knight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What meaneth this which here I see before?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "How fortuneth this foule uncomely plight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So different from that which earst ye seem’d in sight?”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Perdie,” (said he) “in evill houre it fell,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That ever I for meed did undertake", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So hard a taske as life for hyre to sell;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which I earst adventur’d for your sake:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Witnesse the wounds, and this wyde bloudie lake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which ye may see yet all about me steeme.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therefore now yeeld, as ye did promise make,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "My due reward, the which right well I deeme", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I yearned have, that life so dearely did redeeme.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“But where then is” (quoth he halfe wrothfully)", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“Where is the bootie, which therefore I bought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That cursed caytive, my strong enemy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That recreant knight, whose hated life I sought?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And where is eke your friend which halfe it ought?”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“He lyes” (said he) “upon the cold bare ground,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Slayne of that errant knight with whom he fought;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom afterwards my selfe with many a wound", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did slay againe, as ye may see there in the stound.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thereof false Turpin was full glad and faine,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And needs with him streight to the place would ryde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where he himselfe might see his foeman slaine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For else his feare could not be satisfyde.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So as they rode he saw the way all dyde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With streames of bloud; which tracting by the traile,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ere long they came, whereas in evill tyde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That other swayne, like ashes deadly pale,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Lay in the lap of death, rewing his wretched bale.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Much did the Craven seeme to mone his case,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That for his sake his deare life had forgone;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, him bewayling with affection base,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did counterfeit kind pittie where was none:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For wheres no courage, theres no ruth nor mone.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thence passing forth, not farre away he found", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereas the Prince himselfe lay all alone,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Loosely displayd upon the grassie ground,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Possessed of sweete sleepe that luld him soft in swound.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Wearie of travell in his former fight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He there in shade himselfe had layd to rest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Having his armes and warlike things undight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fearelesse of foes that mote his peace molest;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The whyles his salvage page, that wont be prest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was wandred in the wood another way,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To doe some thing that seemed to him best;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The whyles his Lord in silver slomber lay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like to the Evening starre adorn’d with deawy ray.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whom when as Turpin saw so loosely layd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He weened well that he in deed was dead,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like as that other knight to him had sayd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, when he nigh approcht, he mote aread", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Plaine signes in him of life and livelihead:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereat, much griev’d against that straunger knight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That him too light of credence did mislead,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He would have backe retyred from that sight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That was to him on earth the deadliest despight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But that same knight would not once let him start,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But plainely gan to him declare the case", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of all his mischiefe and late lucklesse smart;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "How both he and his fellow there in place", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Were vanquished, and put to foule disgrace;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And how that he, in lieu of life him lent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had vow’d unto the victor him to trace", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And follow through the world where so he went,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till that he him delivered to his punishment.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He, therewith much abashed and affrayd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Began to tremble every limbe and vaine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, softly whispering him, entyrely prayd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "T’advize him better then by such a traine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him to betray unto a straunger swaine:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet rather counseld him contrarywize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sith he likewise did wrong by him sustaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To joyne with him and vengeance to devize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whylest time did offer meanes him sleeping to surprize.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Nathelesse, for all his speach the gentle knight", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Would not be tempted to such villenie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Regarding more his faith which he did plight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All were it to his mortall enemie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then to entrap him by false treacherie:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Great shame in lieges blood to be embrew’d!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thus whylest they were debating diverslie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The Salvage forth out of the wood issew’d", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Backe to the place, whereas his Lord he sleeping vew’d.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "There when he saw those two so neare him stand,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He doubted much what mote their meaning bee;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And throwing downe his load out of his hand,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "(To weet, great store of forrest frute which hee", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had for his food late gathered from the tree,)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Himselfe unto his weapon he betooke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That was an oaken plant, which lately hee", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Rent by the root; which he so sternely shooke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That like an hazell wand it quivered and quooke.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whereat the Prince awaking, when he spyde", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The traytour Turpin with that other knight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He started up; and snatching neare his syde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His trustie sword, the servant of his might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like a fell Lyon leaped to him light,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And his left hand upon his collar layd.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therewith the cowheard, deaded with affright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fell flat to ground, ne word unto him sayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, holding up his hands, with silence mercie prayd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But he so full of indignation was,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That to his prayer nought he would incline,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, as he lay upon the humbled gras,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His foot he set on his vile necke, in signe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of servile yoke, that nobler harts repine:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then, letting him arise like abject thrall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He gan to him objecl his haynous crime,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to revile, and rate, and recreant call,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And lastly to despoyle of knightly bannerall.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And after all, for greater infamie,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He by the heeles him hung upon a tree,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And baffuld so, that all which passed by", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The picture of his punishment might see,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And by the like ensample warned bee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "How ever they through treason doe trespasse.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But turne we now backe to that Ladie free,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom late we left ryding upon an Asse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Led by a Carle and foole which by her side did passe.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "She was a Ladie of great dignitie,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And lifted up to honorable place,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Famous through all the land of Faerie:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Though of meane parentage and kindred base,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet deckt with wondrous giftes of natures grace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all men did her person much admire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And praise the feature of her goodly face;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The beames whereof did kindle lovely fire", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In th’ harts of many a knight, and many a gentle squire.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But she thereof grew proud and insolent,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That none she worthie thought to be her fere,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But scornd them all that love unto her ment:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet was she lov’d of many a worthy pere:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unworthy she to be belov’d so dere,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That could not weigh of worthinesse aright;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For beautie is more glorious bright and clere,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The more it is admir’d of many a wight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And noblest she that served is of noblest knight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But this coy Damzell thought contrariwize,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That such proud looks would make her praysed more;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And that, the more she did all love despize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The more would wretched lovers her adore.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What cared she who sighed for her sore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or who did wayle or watch the wearie night?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Let them that list their lucklesse lot deplore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She was borne free, not bound to any wight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And so would ever live, and love her owne delight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Through such her stubborne stifnesse and hard hart,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Many a wretch for want of remedie", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did languish long in life-consuming smart,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And at the last through dreary dolour die:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whylest she, the Ladie of her libertie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did boast her beautie had such soveraine might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That with the onely twinckle of her eye", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She could or save or spill whom she would hight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What could the Gods doe more, but doe it more aright?", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But loe! the Gods, that mortall follies vew,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Did worthily revenge this maydens pride;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, nought regarding her so goodly hew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did laugh at her that many did deride,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whilest she did weepe, of no man mercifide:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For on a day, when Cupid kept his court,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As he is wont at each Saint Valentide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto the which all lovers doe resort,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That of their loves successe they there may make report;", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "It fortun’d then, that when the roules were red", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In which the names of all loves folke were fyled,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That many there were missing; which were ded,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or kept in bands, or from their loves exyled,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or by some other violence despoyled:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which when as Cupid heard, he wexed wroth;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And doubting to be wronged or beguyled,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He bad his eyes to be unblindfold both,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That he might see his men, and muster them by oth.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then found he many missing of his crew,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which wont doe suit and service to his might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of whom what was becomen no man knew.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therefore a Jurie was impaneld streight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "T’enquire of them, whether by force, or sleight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or their owne guilt, they were away convayd?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To whom foule Infamie and fell Despight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gave evidence, that they were all betrayd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And murdrcd cruelly by a rebellious Mayd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Fayre Mirabella was her name, whereby", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of all those crymes she there indited was:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All which when Cupid heard, he by and by", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In great displeasure wild a Capias", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Should issue forth t’attach that scornefull lasse.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The warrant straight was made, and therewithall", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A Baylieffe-errant forth in post did passe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom they by name there Portamore did call;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He which doth summon lovers to loves judgement hall.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The damzell was attacht, and shortly brought", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Unto the barre whereas she was arrayned;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But she thereto nould plead, nor answere ought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Even for stubborne pride which her restrayned.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So judgement past, as is by law ordayned", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In cases like; which when at last she saw,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her stubborne hart, which love before disdayned,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gan stoupe; and, falling downe with humble awe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Cryde mercie, to abate the extremitie of law.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The sonne of Venus, who is myld by kynd", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But where he is provokt with peevishnesse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto her prayers piteously enclynd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And did the rigour of his doome represse;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet not so freely, but that nathelesse", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He unto her a penance did impose,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which was, that through this worlds wyde wildernes", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She wander should in companie of those,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till she had sav’d so many loves as she did lose.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So now she had bene wandring two whole yeares", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Throughout the world in this uncomely case,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Wasting her goodly hew in heavie teares,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And her good dayes in dolorous disgrace:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet had she not in all these two yeares space", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Saved but two; yet in two yeares before,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through her dispiteous pride, whilest love lackt place,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She had destroyed two and twenty more.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Aie me! how could her love make half amends therefore?", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And now she was uppon the weary way,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "When as the gentle Squire, with faire Serene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Met her in such misseeming foule array;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The whiles that mighty man did her demeane", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With all the evill termes and cruell meane", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That he could make: And eeke that angry foole", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which follow’d her, with cursed hands uncleane", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whipping her horse, did with his smarting toole", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Oft whip her dainty selfe, and much augment her doole.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Ne ought it mote availe her to entreat", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The one or th’other better her to use;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For both so wilfull were and obstinate", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all her piteous plaint they did refuse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And rather did the more her beate and bruse:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But most the former villaine, which did lead", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her tyreling jade, was bent her to abuse;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who, though she were with wearinesse nigh dead,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet would not let her lite, nor rest a little stead:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "For he was sterne and terrible by nature,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And eeke of person huge and hideous,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Exceeding much the measure of mans stature,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And rather like a Gyant monstruous:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For sooth he was descended of the hous", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of those old Gyants, which did warres darraine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Against the heaven in order battailous;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And sib to great Orgolio, which was slaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By Arthure, when as Unas Knight he did maintaine.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "His lookes were dreadfull, and his fiery eies,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Like two great Beacons, glared bright and wyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Glauncing askew, as if his enemies", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He scorned in his overweening pryde;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And stalking stately, like a Crane, did stryde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At every step uppon the tiptoes hie:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, all the way he went, on every syde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He gaz’d about and stared horriblie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As if he with his lookes would all men terrifie.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He wore no armour, ne for none did care,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As no whit dreading any living wight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But in a Jacket, quilted richly rare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon checklaton, he was straungely dight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And on his head a roll of linnen plight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like to the Mores of Malaber, he wore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With which his locks, as blacke as pitchy night,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Were bound about and voyded from before;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in his hand a mighty yron club he bore.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "This was Disdaine, who led that Ladies horse", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Through thick and thin, through mountains and through plains,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Compelling her, where she would not, by force,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Haling her palfrey by the hempen raines:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But that same foole, which most increast her paines,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was Scorne; who having in his hand a whip,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her therewith yirks; and still, when she complaines,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The more he laughes, and does her closely quip,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To see her sore lament and bite her tender lip.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whose cruell handling when that Squire beheld,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And saw those villaines her so vildely use,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His gentle heart with indignation sweld,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And could no lenger beare so great abuse", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As such a Lady so to beate and bruse;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, to him stepping, such a stroke him lent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That forst him th’halter from his hand to loose,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And maugre all his might backe to relent:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Else had he surely there bene slaine, or fowly shent.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The villaine, wroth for greeting him so sore,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Gathered him selfe together soone againe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with his yron batton which he bore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Let drive at him so dreadfully amaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That for his safety he did him constraine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To give him ground, and shift to every side,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Rather then once his burden to sustaine:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For bootelesse thing him seemed to abide", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So mighty blowes, or prove the puissaunce of his pride.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Like as a Mastiffe having at a bay", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A salvage Bull, whose cruell hornes doe threat", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Desperate daunger, if he them assay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Traceth his ground, and round about doth beat,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To spy where he may some advauntage get,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The whiles the beast doth rage and loudly rore;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So did the Squire, the whiles the Carle did fret", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And fume in his disdainefull mynd the more,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And oftentimes by Turmagant and Mahound swore.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Nathelesse so sharpely still he him pursewd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That at advantage him at last he tooke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When his foote slipt, (that slip he dearely rewd)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with his yron club to ground him strooke;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where still he lay, ne out of swoune awooke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till heavy hand the Carle upon him layd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And bound him fast: Tho, when he up did looke", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And saw him selfe captiv’d, he was dismayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne powre had to withstand, ne hope of any ayd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then up he made him rise, and forward fare,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Led in a rope which both his hands did bynd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ought that foole for pitty did him spare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But with his whip, him following behynd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him often scourg’d, and forst his feete to fynd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And otherwhiles with bitter mockes and mowes", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He would him scorne, that to his gentle mynd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was much more grievous then the others blowes:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Words sharpely wound, but greatest griefe of scorning growes.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The faire Serena, when she saw him fall", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Under that villaines club, then surely thought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That slaine he was, or made a wretched thrall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And fled away with all the speede she mought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To seeke for safety; which long time she sought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And past through many perils by the way,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ere she againe to Calepine was brought:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which discourse as now I must delay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till Mirabellaes fortunes I doe further say.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Ye gentle Ladies, in whose soveraine powre", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Love hath the glory of his kingdome left,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And th’hearts of men, as your eternall dowre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In yron chaines of liberty bereft,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Delivered hath into your hands by gift,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Be well aware how ye the same doe use,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "not to tyranny you lift;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Least, if men you of cruelty accuse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He from you take that chiefedome which ye doe abuse.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And as ye soft and tender are by kynde,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Adornd with goodly gifts of beauties grace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So be ye soft and tender eeke in mynde;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But cruelty and hardnesse from you chace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all your other praises will deface,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And from you turne the love of men to hate:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ensample take of Mirabellaes case,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who from the high degree of happy state", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fell into wretched woes, which she repented late.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Who after thraldome of the gentle Squire,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which she beheld with lamentable eye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was touched with compassion entire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And much lamented his calamity,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That for her sake fell into misery;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which booted nought for prayers nor for threat", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To hope for to release or mollify,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For aye the more that she did them entreat,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The more they him misust, and cruelly did beat.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So as they forward on their way did pas,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Him still reviling and afflicting sore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They met Prince Arthure with Sir Enias,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "(That was that courteous Knight, whom he before", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Having subdew’d yet did to life restore;)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To whom as they approcht, they gan augment", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their cruelty, and him to punish more,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Scourging and haling him more vehement;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As if it them should grieve to see his punishment.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The Squire him selfe, when as he saw his Lord", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The witnesse of his wretchednesse in place,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was much asham’d that with an hempen cord", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He like a dog was led in captive case,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And did his head for bashfulnesse abase,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As loth to see or to be seene at all:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shame would be hid. But whenas Enias", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Beheld two such, of two such villaines thrall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His manly mynde was much emmoved therewithall;", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And to the Prince thus sayd: “See you, Sir Knight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The greatest shame that ever eye yet saw,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yond Lady and her Squire with foule despight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Abusde, against all reason and all law,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Without regard of pitty or of awe?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "See, how they doe that Squire beat and revile!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "See, how they doe the Lady hale and draw!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, if ye please to lend me leave awhile,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I will them soone acquite, and both of blame assoile.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The Prince assented; and then he, streightway", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Dismounting light, his shield about him threw,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With which approching thus he gan to say:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Abide, ye caytive treachetours untrew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That have with treason thralled unto you", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "These two, unworthy of your wretched bands,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And now your crime with cruelty pursew!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Abide, and from them lay your loathly hands,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or else abide the death that hard before you stands.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The villaine stayd not aunswer to invent,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But with his yron club preparing way,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His mindes sad message backe unto him sent;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which descended with such dreadfull sway,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That seemed nought the course thereof could stay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "No more then lightening from the lofty sky:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne list the Knight the powre thereof assay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose doome was death; but, lightly slipping by,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unwares defrauded his intended destiny:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And, to requite him with the like againe,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With his sharpe sword he fiercely at him flew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And strooke so strongly, that the Carle with paine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Saved him selfc but that he there him slew;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet sav’d not so, but that the bloud it drew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And gave his foe good hope of victory:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who therewith flesht upon him set anew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with the second stroke thought certainely", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To have supplyde the first, and paide the usury.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But Fortune aunswerd not unto his call;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For, as his hand was heaved up on hight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The villaine met him in the middle fall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with his club bet backe his brondyron bright", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So forcibly, that with his owne hands might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Rebeaten backe upon himselfe againe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He driven was to ground in selfe despight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From whence ere he recovery could gaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He in his necke had set his foote with fell disdaine.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "With that the foole, which did that end awayte,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Came running in; and, whilest on ground he lay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Laide heavy hands on him and held so strayte,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That downe he kept him with his scornefull sway,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So as he could not weld him any way:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The whiles that other villaine went about", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him to have bound and thrald without delay;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The whiles the foole did him revile and flout,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Threatning to yoke them two and tame their corage stout.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "As when a sturdy ploughman with his hynde", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "By strength have overthrowne a stubborne steare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They downe him hold, and fast with cords do bynde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till they him force the buxome yoke to beare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So did these two this Knight oft tug and teare.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which when the Prince beheld, there standing by,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He left his lofty steede to aide him neare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, buckling soone him selfe, gan fiercely fly", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon that Carle to save his friend from jeopardy.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The villaine, leaving him unto his mate", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To be captiv’d and handled as he list,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Himselfe addrest unto this new debate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with his club him all about so blist,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That he which way to turne him scarcely wist:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sometimes aloft he layd, sometimes alow,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now here, now there, and oft him neare he mist;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So doubtfully, that hardly one could know", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whether more wary were to give or ward the blow.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But yet the Prince so well enured was", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With such huge strokes, approved oft in fight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That way to them he gave forth right to pas;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne would endure the daunger of their might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But wayt advantage when they downe did light.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At last the caytive, after long discourse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When all his strokes he saw avoyded quite,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Resolved in one t’assemble all his force,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And make one end of him without ruth or remorse.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "His dreadfull hand he heaved up aloft,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And with his dreadfull instrument of yre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thought sure have pownded him to powder soft,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or deepe emboweld in the earth entyre:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Fortune did not with his will conspire;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For, ere his stroke attayned his intent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The noble childe, preventing his desire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Under his club with wary boldnesse went,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And smote him on the knee that never yet was bent.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "It never yet was bent, ne bent it now,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Albe the stroke so strong and puissant were,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That seem’d a marble pillour it could bow;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But all that leg, which did his body beare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It crackt throughout, (yet did no bloud appeare,)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So as it was unable to support", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So huge a burden on such broken geare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But fell to ground, like to a lumpe of durt;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whence he assayd to rise, but could not for his hurt.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Eftsoones the Prince to him full nimbly stept,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And least he should recover foote againe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His head meant from his shoulders to have swept.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which when the Lady saw, she cryde amaine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Stay, stay, Sir Knight! for love of God abstaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From that unwares ye weetlesse doe intend;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Slay not that Carle, though worthy to be slaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For more on him doth then him selfe depend:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "My life will by his death have lamentable end.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He staide his hand according her desire,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Yet nathemore him suffred to arize;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, still suppressing, gan of her inquire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What meaning mote those uncouth words comprize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That in that villaines health her safety lies;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That, were no might in man, nor heart in Knights,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which durst her dreaded reskue enterprize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet heavens them selves, that favour feeble rights,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Would for it selfe redresse, and punish such despights.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then bursting forth in teares, which gushed fast", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Like many water streames, awhile she stayd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till the sharpe passion being overpast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her tongue to her restord, then thus she sayd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Nor heavens, nor men, can me, most wretched mayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Deliver from the doome of my desart,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which the God of love hath on me layd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And damned to endure this direfull smart,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For penaunce of my proud and hard rebellious hart.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“In prime of youthly yeares, when first the flowre", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of beauty gan to bud, and bloosme delight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Nature me endu’d with plenteous dowre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of all her gifts, that pleasde each living sight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I was belov’d of many a gentle Knight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And sude and sought with all the service dew:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Full many a one for me deepe groand and sight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to the dore of death for sorrow drew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Complayning out on me that would not on them rew.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“But let them love that list, or live or die,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Me list not die for any lovers doole;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne list me leave my loved libertie", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To pitty him that list to play the foole;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To love my selfe I learned had in schoole.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thus I triumphed long in lovers paine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, sitting carelesse on the scorners stoole,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did laugh at those that did lament and plaine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But all is now repayd with interest againe.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“For loe! the winged God that woundeth harts", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Causde me be called to accompt therefore;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And for revengement of those wrongfull smarts,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which I to others did inflict afore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Addeem’d me to endure this penaunce sore;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That in this wize, and this unmeete array,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With these two lewd companions, and no more,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Disdaine and Scorne, I through the world should stray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till I have sav’d so many as I earst did slay.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Certes,” (sayd then the Prince) “the God is just,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That taketh vengeaunce of his peoples spoile;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For were no law in love, but all that lust", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Might them oppresse, and painefully turmoile,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His kingdome would continue but a while.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But tell me, Lady, wherefore doe you beare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "This bottle thus before you with such toile,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eeke this wallet at your backe arreare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That for these Carles to carry much more comely were?”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Here in this bottle” (sayd the sory Mayd)", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“I put the tears of my contrition,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till to the brim I have it full defrayd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in this bag, which I behinde me don,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I put repentaunce for things past and gon.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet is the bottle leake, and bag so torne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all which I put in fals out anon,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And is behinde me trodden downe of Scorne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who mocketh all my paine, and laughs the more I mourn.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The Infant hearkned wisely to her tale,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And wondred much at Cupids judg’ment wise,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That could so meekly make proud hearts avale,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And wreake him selfe on them that him despise.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then suffred he Disdaine up to arise,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who was not able up him selfe to reare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By meanes his leg, through his late luckelesse prise,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was crackt in twaine, but by his foolish feare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was holpen up, who him supported standing neare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But being up he lookt againe aloft,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As if he never had received fall;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with sterne eye-browes stared at him oft,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As if he would have daunted him withall:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And standing on his tiptoes, to seeme tall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Downe on his golden feete he often gazed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As if such pride the other could apall;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who was so far from being ought amazed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That he his lookes despised, and his boast dispraized.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then turning backe unto that captive thrall,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Who all this while stood there beside them bound,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unwilling to be knowne or seene at all,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He from those bands weend him to have unwound;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But when approaching neare he plainely found", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It was his owne true groome, the gentle Squire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He thereat wext exceedingly astound,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And him did oft embrace, and oft admire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne could with seeing satisfie his great desire.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Meane-while the Salvage man, when he beheld", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That huge great foole oppressing th’other Knight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom with his weight unweldy downe he held,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He flew upon him like a greedy kight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto some carrion offered to his sight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, downc him plucking, with his nayles and teeth", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gan him to hale, and teare, and scratch, and bite;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, from him taking his owne whip, therewith", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So sore him scourgeth that the bloud downe followeth.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And sure I weene, had not the Ladies cry", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Procured the Prince his cruell hand to stay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He would with whipping him have done to dye;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But being checkt he did abstaine streightway,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And let him rise. Then thus the Prince gan say:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Now, Lady, sith your fortunes thus dispose,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That if ye list have liberty ye may;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto your selfe I freely leave to chose,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whether I shall you leave, or from these villaines lose.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Ah! nay, Sir Knight,” (said she) “it may not be,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But that I needes must by all meanes fulfill", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "This penaunce, which enjoyned is to me,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Least unto me betide a greater ill;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet no lesse thankes to you for your good will.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So humbly taking leave she turnd aside;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Arthure with the rest went onward still", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On his first quest, in which did him betide", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A great adventure, which did him from them devide.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But first it falleth me by course to tell", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of faire Serena; who, as earst you heard,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When first the gentle Squire at variaunce fell", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With those two Carles, fled fast away, afeard", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of villany to be to her inferd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So fresh the image of her former dread,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet dwelling in her eye, to her appeard,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That every foote did tremble which did tread,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And every body two, and two she foure did read.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Through hils and dales, through bushes and through breres,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Long thus she fled, till that at last she thought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her selfe now past the perill of her feares:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then looking round about, and seeing nought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which doubt of daunger to her offer mought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She from her palfrey lighted on the plaine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, sitting downe, her selfe awhile bethought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of her long travell and turmoyling paine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And often did of love, and oft of lucke complaine.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And evermore she blamed Calepine,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The good Sir Calepine, her owne true Knight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As th’onely author of her wofull tine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For being of his love to her so light,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As her to leave in such a piteous plight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet never Turtle truer to his make,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then he was tride unto his Lady bright;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who all this while endured for her sake", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Great perill of his life, and restlesse paines did take.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Tho when as all her plaints she had displayd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And well disburdened her engrieved brest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon the grasse her selfe adowne she layd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where, being tyrde with travell, and opprest", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With sorrow, she betooke her selfe to rest:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There whilest in Morpheus bosome safe she lay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fearelesse of ought that mote her peace molest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "False Fortune did her safety betray", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto a strange mischaunce that menac’d her decay.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "In these wylde deserts where she now abode,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "There dwelt a salvage nation, which did live", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of stealth and spoile, and making nightly rode", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into their neighbours borders; ne did give", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Them selves to any trade, (as for to drive", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The painefull plough, or cattell for to breed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or by adventrous marchandize to thrive,)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But on the labours of poore men to feed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And serve their owne necessities with others need.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thereto they usde one most accursed order,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To eate the flesh of men whom they mote fynde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And straungers to devoure, which on their border", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Were brought by errour or by wreckfull wynde;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A monstrous cruelty gainst course of kynde!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They, towards evening wandering every way", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To seeke for booty, came by fortune blynde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereas this Lady, like a sheepe astray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now drowned in the depth of sleepe all fearelesse lay.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Soone as they spide her, Lord! what gladfull glee", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "They made amongst them selves; but when her face", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like the faire yvory shining they did see,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Each gan his fellow solace and embrace", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For joy of such good hap by heavenly grace.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then gan they to devize what course to take;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whether to slay her there upon the place,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or suffer her out of her sleepe to wake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And then her eate attonce, or many meales to make.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The best advizement was, of bad, to let her", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Sleepe out her fill without encomberment;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For sleepe, they sayd, would make her battill better:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then when she wakt they all gave one consent", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That, since by grace of God she there was sent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto their God they would her sacrifize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose share, her guiltlesse bloud, they would present;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But of her dainty flesh they did devize", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To make a common feast, and feed with gurmandize.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So round about her they them selves did place", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Upon the grasse, and diversely dispose", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As each thought best to spend the lingring space:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some with their eyes the daintest morsels chose;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some praise her paps; some praise her lips and nose;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some whet their knives, and strip their elboes bare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The Priest him selfe a garland doth compose", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of finest flowers, and with full busie care", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His bloudy vessels wash, and holy fire prepare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The Damzell wakes; then all attonce upstart,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And round about her flocke, like many flies,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whooping and hallowing on every part,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As if they would have rent the brasen skies.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which when she sees with ghastly griefful eies,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her heart does quake, and deadly pallied hew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Benumbes her cheekes: Then out aloud she cries,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where none is nigh to heare that will her rew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And rends her golden locks, and snowy brests embrew.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But all bootes not; they hands upon her lay:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And first they spoile her of her jewels deare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And afterwards of all her rich array;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which amongst them they in peeces teare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And of the pray each one a part doth beare.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now being naked, to their sordid eyes", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The goodly threasures of nature appeare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which as they view with lustfull fantasyes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Each wisheth to him selfe, and to the rest envyes:⁠—", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Her yvorie neck; her alablaster Brest;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Her paps, which like white silken pillowes were", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For love in soft delight thereon to rest;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her tender sides; her bellie white and clere,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which like an Altar did itselfe uprere", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To offer sacrifice divine thereon;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her goodly thighes, whose glorie did appeare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like a triumphal Arch, and thereupon", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The spoiles of Princes hang’d which were in battel won.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Those daintie parts, the dearlings of delight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which mote not be prophan’d of common eyes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Those villeins view’d with loose lascivious sight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And closely tempted with their craftie spyes;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And some of them gan mongst themselves devize", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thereof by force to take their beastly pleasure:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But them the Priest rebuking did advize", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To dare not to pollute so sacred threasure", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Vow’d to the gods: religion held even theeves in measure.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So, being stayd, they her from thence directed", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Unto a litle grove not farre asyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In which an altar shortly they erected", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To slay her on. And now the Eventyde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His brode black wings had through the heavens wyde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By this dispred, that was the tyme ordayned", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For such a dismall deed, their guilt to hyde:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of few greene turfes an altar soone they fayned,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And deckt it all with flowres which they nigh hand obtayned.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Tho, when as all things readie were aright,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Te Damzell was before the altar set,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Being alreadie dead with fearefull fright:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To whom the Priest with naked armes full net", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Approching nigh, and murdrous knife well whet,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gan mutter close a certaine secret charme,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With other divelish ceremonies met:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which doen, he gan aloft t’advance his arme,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereat they shouted all, and made a loud alarme.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then gan the bagpypes and the hornes to shrill", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And shrieke aloud, that, with the peoples voyce", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Confused, did the ayre with terror fill,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And made the wood to tremble at the noyce:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The whyles she wayld, the more they did rejoyce.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now mote ye understand that to this grove", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sir Calepine, by chaunce more then by choyce,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The selfe same evening fortune hether drove,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As he to seeke Serena through the woods did rove.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Long had he sought her, and through many a soyle", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Had traveld still on foot in heavie armes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ought was tyred with his endlesse toyle,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ought was feared of his certaine harmes:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And now, all weetlesse of the wretched stormes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In which his love was lost, he slept full fast;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till, being waked with these loud alarmes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He lightly started up like one aghast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, catching up his arms, streight to the noise forth past.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "There by th’uncertaine glims of starry night,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And by the twinkling of their sacred fire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He mote perceive a litle dawning sight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of all which there was doing in that quire:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Mongst whom a woman spoyld of all attire", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He spyde lamenting her unluckie strife,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And groning sore from grieved hart entire:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Eftsoones he saw one with a naked knife", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Readie to launch her brest, and let out loved life.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "With that he thrusts into the thickest throng", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And, even as his right hand adowne descends,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He him preventing layes on earth along,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And sacrifizeth to th’infernall feends:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then to the rest his wrathfull hand he bends;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of whom he makes such havocke and such hew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That swarmes of damned soules to hell he sends:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The rest, that scape his sword and death eschew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fly like a flocke of doves before a Faulcons vew.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "From them returning to that Ladie backe,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whom by the Altar he doth sitting find", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet fearing death, and next to death the lacke", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of clothes to cover what they ought by kind,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He first her hands beginneth to unbind,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And then to question of her present woe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And afterwards to cheare with speaches kind;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But she, for nought that he could say or doe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "One word durst speake, or answere him awhit thereto.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So inward shame of her uncomely case", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "She did conceive, through care of womanhood,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That though the night did cover her disgrace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet she in so unwomanly a mood", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Would not bewray the state in which she stood.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So all that night to him unknowen she past;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But day, that doth discover bad and good,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ensewing, made her knowen to him at last:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The end whereof Ile keepe untill another cast.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Now turne againe my teme, thou jolly swayne,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Backe to the furrow which I lately left.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I lately left a furrow, one or twayne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unplough’d, the which my coulter hath not cleft;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet seem’d the soyle both fayre and frutefull eft,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As I it past: that were too great a shame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That so rich frute should be from us bereft;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Besides the great dishonour and defame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which should befall to Calidores immortall name.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Great travell hath the gentle Calidore", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And toyle endured, sith I left him last", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sewing the Blatant Beast; which I forebore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To finish then, for other present hast.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Full many pathes and perils he hath past,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through hils, through dales, through forests, and through plaines,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In that same quest which fortune on him cast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which he atchieved to his owne great gaines,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Reaping eternall glorie of his restlesse paines.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So sharply he the Monster did pursew,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That day nor night he suffred him to rest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne rested he himselfe, but natures dew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For dread of daunger not to be redrest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "If he for slouth forslackt so famous quest.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him first from court he to the citties coursed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And from the citties to the townes him prest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And from the townes into the countrie forsed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And from the country back to private farmes he scorsed.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "From thence into the open fields he fled,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whereas the Heardes were keeping of their neat,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And shepherds singing to their flockes (that fed)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Layes of sweete love and youthes delightfull heat:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him thether eke, for all his fearefull threat,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He followed fast, and chaced him so nie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That to the folds, where sheepe at night doe seat,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to the litle cots, where shepherds lie", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In winters wrathfull time, he forced him to flie.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "There on a day, as he pursew’d the chace,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He chaunst to spy a sort of shepheard groomes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Playing on pipes and caroling apace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The whyles their beasts there in the budded broomes", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Beside them fed, and nipt the tender bloomes;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For other worldly wealth they cared nought.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To whom Sir Calidore yet sweating comes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And them to tell him courteously besought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "If such a beast they saw, which he had thether brought.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "They answer’d him that no such beast they saw,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Nor any wicked feend that mote offend", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their happie flockes, nor daunger to them draw;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But if that such there were (as none they kend)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They prayd high God them farre from them to send.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then one of them, him seeing so to sweat,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "After his rusticke wise, that well he weend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Offred him drinke to quench his thirstie heat,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, if he hungry were, him offred eke to eat.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The knight was nothing nice, where was no need,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And tooke their gentle offer: so adowne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They prayd him sit, and gave him for to feed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Such homely what as serves the simple clowne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That doth despise the dainties of the towne.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tho, having fed his fill, he there besyde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Saw a faire damzell, which did wearc a crowne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of sundry flowres with silken ribbands tyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yclad in home-made greene that her owne hands had dyde.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Upon a litle hillocke she was placed", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Higher then all the rest, and round about", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Environed with a girland, goodly graced,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of lovely lasses; and them all without", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The lustie shepheard swaynes sate in a rout,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which did pype and sing her prayses dew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And oft rejoyce, and oft for wonder shout,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As if some miracle of heavenly hew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Were downe to them descended in that earthly vew.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And soothly sure she was full fayre of face,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And perfectly well shapt in every lim,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which she did more augment with modest grace", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And comely carriage of her count’nance trim,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all the rest like lesser lamps did dim:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who, her admiring as some heavenly wight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did for their soveraine goddesse her esteeme,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, caroling her name both day and night,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The fayrest Pastorella her by name did hight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Ne was there heard, ne was there shepheards swayne,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But her did honour; and eke many a one", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Burnt in her love, and with sweet pleasing payne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Full many a night for her did sigh and grone:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But most of all the shepheard Coridon", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For her did languish, and his deare life spend;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet neither she for him nor other none", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did care a whit, ne any liking lend:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Though meane her lot, yet higher did her mind ascend.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Her whyles Sir Calidore there vewed well,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And markt her rare demeanure, which him seemed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So farre the meane of shepheards to excell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As that he in his mind her worthy deemed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To be a Princes Paragone esteemed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He was unwares surprisd in subtile bands", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of the blynd boy; ne thence could be redeemed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By any skill out of his cruell hands;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Caught like the bird which gazing still on others stands.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So stood he still long gazing thereupon,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ne any will had thence to move away,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Although his quest were farre afore him gon:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But after he had fed, yet did he stay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And sate there still, untill the flying day", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was farre forth spent, discoursing diversly", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of sundry things as fell, to worke delay;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And evermore his speach he did apply", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To th’heards, but meant them to the damzels fantazy.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "By this the moystie night approching fast", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Her deawy humour gan on th’earth to shed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That warn’d the shepheards to their hornes to hast", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their tender flocks, now being fully fed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For feare of wetting them before their bed.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then came to them a good old aged syre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose silver lockes bedeckt his beard and hed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With shepheards hooke in hand, and fit attyre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That wild the damzell rise; the day did now expyre.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He was, to weet, by common voice esteemed", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The father of the fayrest Pastorell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And of her selfe in very deede so deemed;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet was not so; but, as old stories tell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Found her by fortune, which to him befell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In th’open fields an Infant left alone;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, taking up, brought home and noursed well", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As his owne chyld; for other he had none;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That she in tract of time accompted was his owne.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "She at his bidding meekely did arise,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And streight unto her litle flocke did fare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then all the rest about her rose likewise,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And each his sundrie sheepe with severall care", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gathered together, and them homeward bare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whylest everie one with helping hands did strive,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Amongst themselves, and did their labours share,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To helpc faire Pastorella home to drive", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her fleecie flocke; but Coridon most helpe did give.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But Melibœe (so hight that good old man)", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Now seeing Calidore left all alone,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And night arrived hard at hand, began", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him to invite unto his simple home;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which though it were a cottage clad with lome,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all things therein meane, yet better so", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To lodge then in the salvage fields to rome.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The knight full gladly soone agreed thereto,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "(Being his harts owne wish,) and home with him did go.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "There he was welcom’d of that honest syre", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And of his aged Beldame homely well;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who him besought himselfe to disattyre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And rest himselfe till supper time befell;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By which home came the fayrest Pastorell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "After her flocke she in their fold had tyde:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And supper readie dight they to it fell", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With small adoe, and nature satisfyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which doth litle crave contented to abyde.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Tho when they had their hunger slaked well,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And the fayre mayd the table ta’ne away,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The gentle knight, as he that did excell", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In courtesie and well could doe and say,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For so great kindnesse as he found that day", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gan greatly thanke his host and his good wife;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And drawing thence his speach another way,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gan highly to commend the happie life", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which Shepheards lead, without debate or bitter strife.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“How much” (sayd he) “more happie is the state", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In which ye, father, here doe dwell at ease,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Leading a life so free and fortunate", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From all the tempests of these worldly seas,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which tosse the rest in daungerous disease;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where warres, and wreckes, and wicked enmitie", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Doe them afflict, which no man can appease;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That certes I your happinesse envie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And wish my lot were plast in such felicitie.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Surely, my sonne,” (then answer’d he againe)", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“If happie, then it is in this intent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That having small yet doe I not complaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of want, ne wish for more it to augment,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But doe my selfe with that I have content;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So taught of nature, which doth litle need", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of forreine helpes to lifes due nourishment:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The fields my food, my flocke my rayment breed;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "No better doe I weare, no better doe I feed.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Therefore I doe not any one envy,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Nor am envyde of any one therefore:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They, that have much, feare much to loose thereby,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And store of cares doth follow riches store.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The litle that I have growes dayly more", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Without my care, but onely to attend it;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "My lambes doe every yeare increase their score,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And my flockes father daily doth amend it.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What have I, but to praise th’Almighty that doth send it!", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“To them that list the worlds gay showes I leave,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And to great ones such follies doe forgive;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which oft through pride do their owne perill weave,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And through ambition downe themselves doe drive", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To sad decay, that might contented live.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Me no such cares nor combrous thoughts offend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne once my minds unmoved quiet grieve;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But all the night in silver sleepe I spend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all the day to what I list I doe attend.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Sometimes I hunt the Fox, the vowed foe", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Unto my Lambes, and him dislodge away;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sometime the fawne I practise from the Doe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or from the Goat her kidde, how to convay:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Another while I baytes and nets display", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The birds to catch, or fishes to beguyle;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And when I wearie am, I downe doe lay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "My limbes in every shade to rest from toyle,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And drinke of every brooke when thirst my throte doth boyle.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“The time was once, in my first prime of yeares,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "When pride of youth forth pricked my desire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That I disdain’d amongst mine equall peares", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To follow sheepe and shepheards base attire:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For further fortune then I would inquire;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, leaving home, to roiall court I sought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where I did sell my selfe for yearely hire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in the Princes gardin daily wrought:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There I beheld such vainenesse as I never thought.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“With sight whereof soone cloyd, and long deluded", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With idle hopes which them doe entertaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "After I had ten yeares my selfe excluded", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From native home, and spent my youth in vaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I gan my follies to my selfe to plaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And this sweet peace, whose lacke did then appeare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tho, backe returning to my sheepe againe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I from thenceforth have learn’d to love more deare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "This lowly quiet life which I inherite here.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whylest thus he talkt, the knight with greedy eare", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Hong still upon his melting mouth attent;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose sensefull words empierst his hart so neare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That he was rapt with double ravishment,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both of his speach, that wrought him great content,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And also of the object of his vew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On which his hungry eye was alwayes bent;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That twixt his pleasing tongue, and her faire hew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He lost himselfe, and like one halfe entraunced grew.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Yet to occasion meanes to worke his mind,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And to insinuate his harts desire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He thus replyde: “Now surely, syre, I find,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all this worlds gay showes, which we admire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Be but vaine shadowes to this safe retyre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of life, which here in lowlinesse ye lead,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fearelesse of foes, or fortunes wrackfull yre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which tosseth states, and under foot doth tread", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The mightie ones, affrayd of every chaunges dread.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“That even I, which daily doe behold", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The glorie of the great mongst whom I won,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And now have prov’d what happinesse ye hold", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In this small plot of your dominion,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now loath great Lordship and ambition;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And wish th’heavens so much had graced mee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As graunt me live in like condition;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or that my fortunes might transposed bee", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From pitch of higher place unto this low degree.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“In vaine” (said then old Melibœ) “doe men", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The heavens of their fortunes fault accuse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sith they know best what is the best for them;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For they to each such fortune doe diffuse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As they doe know each can most aptly use:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For not that which men covet most is best,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nor that thing worst which men do most refuse;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But fittest is, that all contented rest", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With that they hold: each hath his fortune in his brest.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“It is the mynd that maketh good or ill,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That maketh wretch or happie, rich or poore;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For some, that hath abundance at his will,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Hath not enough, but wants in greatest store,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And other, that hath litle, askes no more,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But in that litle is both rich and wise;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For wisedome is most riches: fooles therefore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They are which fortunes doe by vowes devize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sith each unto himselfe his life may fortunize.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Since then in each mans self” (said Calidore)", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“It is to fashion his owne lyfes estate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Give leave awhyle, good father, in this shore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To rest my barcke, which hath bene beaten late", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With stormes of fortune and tempestuous fate", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In seas of troubles and of toylesome paine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That, whether quite from them for to retrate", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I shall resolve, or backe to turne againe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I may here with your selfe some small repose obtaine.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Not that the burden of so bold a guest", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Shall chargefull be, or chaunge to you at all;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For your meane food shall be my daily feast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And this your cabin both my bowre and hall:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Besides, for recompence hereof I shall", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "You well reward, and golden guerdon give,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That may perhaps you better much withall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in this quiet make you safer live.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So forth he drew much gold, and toward him it drive.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But the good man, nought tempted with the offer", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of his rich mould, did thrust it farre away,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And thus bespake: “Sir knight, your bounteous proffer", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Be farre fro me, to whom ye ill display", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That mucky masse, the cause of mens decay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That mote empaire my peace with daungers dread;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, if ye algates covet to assay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "This simple sort of life that shepheards lead,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Be it your owne: our rudenesse to your selfe aread.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So there that night Sir Calidore did dwell,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And long while after, whilest him list remaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Dayly beholding the faire Pastorell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And feeding on the bayt of his owne bane:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "During which time he did her entertaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With all kind courtesies he could invent;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And every day, her companie to gaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When to the field she went he with her went:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So for to quench his fire he did it more augment.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But she that never had acquainted beene", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With such queint usage, fit for Queenes and Kings,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ever had such knightly service seene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, being bred under base shepheards wings,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had ever learn’d to love the lowly things,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did litle whit regard his courteous guize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But cared more for Colins carolings", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then all that he could doe, or ever devize:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His layes, his loves, his lookes, she did them all despize.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which Calidore perceiving, thought it best", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To chaunge the manner of his loftie looke;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And doffing his bright armes himselfe addrest", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In shepheards weed; and in his hand he tooke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Instead of steelehead speare, a shepheards hooke;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That who had seene him then, would have bethought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On Phrygian Paris by Plexippus brooke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When he the love of fayre Oenone sought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What time the golden apple was unto him brought.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So being clad unto the fields he went", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With the faire Pastorella every day,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And kept her sheepe with diligent attent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Watching to drive the ravenous Wolfe away,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The whylest at pleasure she mote sport and play;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And every evening helping them to fold:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And otherwhiles, for need, he did assay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In his strong hand their rugged teats to hold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And out of them to presse the milke: love so much could.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which seeing Coridon, who her likewise", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Long time had lov’d, and hop’d her love to gaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He much was troubled at that straungers guize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And many gealous thoughts conceiv’d in vaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That this of all his labour and long paine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Should reap the harvest ere it ripened were:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That made him scoule, and pout, and oft complaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of Pastorell to all the shepheards there,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That she did love a stranger swayne then him more dere.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And ever, when he came in companie", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Where Calidore was present, he would loure", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And byte his lip, and even for gealousie", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was readie oft his owne heart to devoure,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Impatient of any paramoure:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who, on the other side, did seeme so farre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From malicing, or grudging his good houre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all he could he graced him with her,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ever shewed signe of rancour or of jarre.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And oft, when Coridon unto her brought", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Or litle sparrowes stolen from their nest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or wanton squirrels in the woods farre sought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or other daintie thing for her addrest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He would commend his guift, and make the best;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet she no whit his presents did regard,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne him could find to fancie in her brest:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "This newcome shepheard had his market mard.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Old love is litle worth when new is more prefard.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "One day, when as the shepheard swaynes together", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Were met to make their sports and merrie glee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As they are wont in faire sunshynie weather,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The whiles their flockes in shadowes shrouded bee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They fell to daunce: then did they all agree", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That Colin Clout should pipe, as one most fit;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Calidore should lead the ring, as hee", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That most in Pastorellaes grace did sit:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thereat frown’d Coridon, and his lip closely bit.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But Calidore, of courteous inclination,", "indent": 0 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he, through long and perfect industry,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therein well practisd was, and in the same", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thought sure t’avenge his grudge, and worke his foe great shame.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But Calidore he greatly did mistake,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For he was strong and mightily stiffe pight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That with one fall his necke he almost brake;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And had he not upon him fallen light,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His dearest joynt he sure had broken quight.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then was the oaken crowne by Pastorell", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Given to Calidore as his due right;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But he, that did in courtesie excell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gave it to Coridon, and said he wonne it well.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thus did the gentle knight himselfe abeare", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Amongst that rusticke rout in all his deeds,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That even they, the which his rivals were,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Could not maligne him, but commend him needs;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For courtesie amongst the rudest breeds", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Good will and favour. So it surely wrought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With this faire Mayd, and in her mynde the seeds", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of perfect love did sow, that last forth brought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The fruite of joy and blisse, though long time dearely bought.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thus Calidore continu’d there long time", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To winne the love of the faire Pastorell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which having got, he used without crime", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or blamefull blot; but menaged so well,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That he, of all the rest which there did dwell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was favoured and to her grace commended.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But what straunge fortunes unto him befell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ere he attain’d the point by him intended,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Shall more conveniently in other place be ended.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Who now does follow the foule Blatant Beast,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whilest Calidore does follow that faire Mayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unmyndfull of his vow, and high beheast", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which by the Faery Queene was on him layd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That he should never leave, nor be delayd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From chacing him, till he had it attchieved?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And now, entrapt of love, which him betrayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He mindeth more how he may be relieved", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With grace from her, whose love his heart hath sore engrieved.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "That from henceforth he meanes no more to sew", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His former quest, so full of toile and paine:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Another quest, another game in vew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He hath, the guerdon of his love to gaine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With whom he myndes for ever to remaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And set his rest amongst the rusticke sort,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Rather then hunt still after shadowes vaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of courtly favour, fed with light report", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of every blaste, and sayling alwaies in the port.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Ne certes mote he greatly blamed be", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "From so high step to stoupe unto so low;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For who had tasted once (as oft did he)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The happy peace which there doth overflow,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And prov’d the perfect pleasures which doe grow", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Amongst poore hyndes, in hils, in woods, in dales,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Would never more delight in painted show", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of such false blisse, as there is set for stales", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "T’entrap unwary fooles in their eternall bales.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "For what hath all that goodly glorious gaze", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Like to one sight which Calidore did vew?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The glaunce whereof their dimmed eies would daze,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That never more they should endure the shew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of that sunne-shine that makes them looke askew:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ought, in all that world of beauties rare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "(Save onely Glorianaes heavenly hew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To which what can compare?) can it compare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which, as commeth now by course, I will declare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "One day, as he did raunge the fields abroad,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whilest his faire Pastorella was elsewhere,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He chaunst to come, far from all peoples troad,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto a place whose pleasaunce did appere", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To passe all others on the earth which were:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For all that ever was by natures skill", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Devized to worke delight was gathered there,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And there by her were poured forth at fill,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As if, this to adorne, she all the rest did pill.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "It was an hill plaste in an open plaine,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That round about was bordered with a wood", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of matchlesse night, that seem’d th’earth to disdaine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In which all trees of honour stately stood,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And did all winter as in sommer bud,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Spredding pavilions for the birds to bowre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which in their lower braunches sung aloud;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in their tops the soring hauke did towre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sitting like King of fowles in majesty and powre:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And at the foote thereof a gentle flud", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His silver waves did softly tumble downe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unmard with ragged mosse or filthy mud;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne mote wylde beastes, ne mote the ruder clowne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thereto approch; ne filth mote therein drowne:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Nymphes and Faeries by the bancks did sit", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In the woods shade which did the waters crowne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Keeping all noysome things away from it,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to the waters fall tuning their accents fit.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And on the top thereof a spacious plaine", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Did spred it selfe, to serve to all delight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Either to daunce, when they to daunce would faine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or else to course about their bases light;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ought there wanted which for pleasure might", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Desired be, or thence to banish bale,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So pleasauntly the hill with equall hight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did seeme to overlooke the lowly vale;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therefore it rightly cleeped was mount Acidale.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "They say that Venus, when she did dispose", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Her selfe to pleasaunce, used to resort", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto this place, and therein to repose", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And rest her selfe as in a gladsome port,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or with the Graces there to play and sport;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That even her owne Cytheron, though in it", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She used most to keepe her royall court,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in her soveraine Majesty to sit,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She in regard hereof refusde and thought unfit.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Unto this place when as the Elfin Knight", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Approcht, him seemed that the merry sound", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of a shrill pipe he playing heard on hight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And many feete fast thumping th’hollow ground,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That through the woods their Eccho did rebound.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He nigher drew to weete what mote it be:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There he a troupe of Ladies dauncing found", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Full merrily, and making gladfull glee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in the midst a Shepheard piping he did see.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He durst not enter into th’open greene,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For dread of them unwares to be descryde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For breaking of their daunce, if he were seene;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But in the covert of the wood did byde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Beholding all, yet of them unespyde.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There he did see that pleased much his sight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That even he him selfe his eyes envyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "An hundred naked maidens lilly white", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All raunged in a ring and dauncing in delight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "All they without were raunged in a ring,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And daunced round; but in the midst of them", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Three other Ladies did both daunce and sing,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The whilest the rest them round about did hemme,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And like a girlond did in compasse stemme:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in the middest of those same three was placed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Another Damzell, as a precious gemme", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Amidst a ring most richly well enchaced,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That with her goodly presence all the rest much graced.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Looke! how the crowne, which Ariadne wore", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Upon her yvory forehead, that same day", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That Theseus her unto his bridale bore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When the bold Centaures made that bloudy fray", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With the fierce Lapithes which did them dismay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Being now placed in the firmament,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through the bright heaven doth her beams display,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And is unto the starres an ornament,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which round about her move in order excellent.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Such was the beauty of this goodly band,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whose sundry parts were here too long to tell;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But she that in the midst of them did stand", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Seem’d all the rest in beauty to excell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Crownd with a rosie girlond that right well", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did her beseeme: And ever, as the crew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "About her daunst, sweet flowres that far did smell", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And fragrant odours they uppon her threw;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But most of all those three did her with gifts endew.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Those were the Graces, daughters of delight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Handmaides of Venus, which are wont to haunt", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Uppon this hill, and daunce there day and night:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Those three to men all gifts of grace do graunt;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all that Venus in her selfe doth vaunt", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Is borrowed of them. But that faire one,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That in the midst was placed paravaunt,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was she to whom that shepheard pypt alone;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That made him pipe so merrily, as never none.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "She was, to weete, that jolly Shepheards lasse,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which piped there unto that merry rout;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That jolly shepheard, which there piped, was", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Poore Colin Clout, (who knowes not Colin Clout?)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He pypt apace, whilest they him daunst about.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Pype, jolly shepheard, pype thou now apace", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto thy love that made thee low to lout:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thy love is present there with thee in place;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thy love is there advaunst to be another Grace.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Much wondred Calidore at this straunge sight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whose like before his eye had never seene;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And standing long astonished in spright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And rapt with pleasaunce, wist not what to weene;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whether it were the traine of beauties Queene,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or Nymphes, or Faeries, or enchaunted show,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With which his eyes mote have deluded beene.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therefore, resolving what it was to know,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Out of the wood he rose, and toward them did go.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But, soone as he appeared to their vew,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "They vanisht all away out of his sight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And cleane were gone, which way he never knew;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All save the shepheard, who, for fell despight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of that displeasure, broke his bag-pipe quight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And made great mone for that unhappy turne:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Calidore, though no lesse sory wight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For that mishap, yet seeing him to mourne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Drew neare, that he the truth of all by him mote learne.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And, first him greeting, thus unto him spake:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“Haile, jolly shepheard, which thy joyous dayes", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Here leadest in this goodly merry-make,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Frequented of these gentle Nymphes alwayes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which to thee flocke to heare thy lovely layes!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tell me, what mote these dainty Damzells be,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which here with thee doe make their pleasant playes?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Right happy thou that mayst them freely see!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But why, when I them saw, fled they away from me?”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Not I so happy,” answerd then that swaine,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“As thou unhappy, which them thence didst chace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom by no meanes thou canst recall againe;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For, being gone, none can them bring in place,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But whom they of them selves list so to grace.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Right sory I,” (saide then Sir Calidore)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“That my ill fortune did them hence displace;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But since things passed none may now restore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tell me what were they all, whose lacke thee grieves so sore?”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Tho gan that shepheard thus for to dilate:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“Then wote, thou shepheard, whatsoever thou bee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all those Ladies, which thou sawest late,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Are Venus Damzels, all within her fee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But differing in honour and degree:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They all are Graces which on her depend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Besides a thousand more which ready bee", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her to adorne, when so she forth doth wend;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But those three in the midst doe chiefe on her attend.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“They are the daughters of sky-ruling Jove,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "By him begot of faire Eurynome,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The Oceans daughter, in this pleasant grove,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As he, this way comming from feastfull glee", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of Thetis wedding with Æacidee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In sommers shade him selfe here rested weary:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The first of them hight mylde Euphrosyne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Next faire Aglaia, last Thalia merry;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sweete Goddesses all three, which me in mirth do cherry!", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“These three on men all gracious gifts bestow,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which decke the body or adorne the mynde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To make them lovely or well-favoured show;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As comely carriage, entertainement kynde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sweete semblaunt, friendly offices that bynde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all the complements of curtesie:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They teach us how to each degree and kynde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "We should our selves demeane, to low, to hie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To friends, to foes; which skill men call Civility.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Therefore they alwaies smoothly seeme to smile,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That we likewise should mylde and gentle be;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And also naked are, that without guile", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or false dissemblaunce all them plaine may see,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Simple and true, from covert malice free;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And eeke them selves so in their daunce they bore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That two of them still froward seem’d to bee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But one still towards shew’d her selfe afore;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That good should from us goe, then come, in greater store.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Such were those Goddesses which ye did see;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But that fourth Mayd, which there amidst them traced,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who can aread what creature mote she bee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whether a creature, or a goddesse graced", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With heavenly gifts from heven first enraced?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But what so sure she was, she worthy was", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To be the fourth with those three other placed:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet was she certes but a countrey lasse;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet she all other countrey lasses farre did passe:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“So farre, as doth the daughter of the day", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "All other lesser lights in light excell;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So farre doth she in beautyfull array", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Above all other lasses beare the bell;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne lesse in vertue that beseemes her well", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Doth she exceede the rest of all her race,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For which the Graces, that here wont to dwell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Have for more honor brought her to this place,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And graced her so much to be another Grace.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Another Grace she well deserves to be,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In whom so many Graces gathered are,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Excelling much the meane of her degree;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Divine resemblaunce, beauty soveraine rare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Firme Chastity, that spight ne blemish dare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All which she with such courtesie doth grace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all her peres cannot with her compare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But quite are dimmed when she is in place:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She made me often pipe, and now to pipe apace.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Sunne of the world, great glory of the sky,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That all the earth doest lighten with thy rayes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Great Gloriana, greatest Majesty!", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Pardon thy shepheard, mongst so many layes", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As he hath sung of thee in all his dayes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To make one minime of thy poore handmayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And underneath thy feete to place her prayse;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That when thy glory shall be farre displayd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To future age, of her this mention may be made!”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "When thus that shepheard ended had his speach,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Sayd Calidore: “Now sure it yrketh mee,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That to thy blisse I made this luckelesse breach,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As now the author of thy bale to be,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thus to bereave thy loves deare sight from thee:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, gentle Shepheard, pardon thou my shame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who rashly sought that which I mote not see.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thus did the courteous Knight excuse his blame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to recomfort him all comely meanes did frame.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "In such discourses they together spent", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Long time, as fit occasion forth them led;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With which the Knight him selfe did much content,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with delight his greedy fancy fed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both of his words, which he with reason red,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And also of the place, whose pleasures rare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With such regard his sences ravished,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That thence he had no will away to fare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But wisht that with that shepheard he mote dwelling share.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But that envenimd sting, the which of yore", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His poysnous point deepe fixed in his hart", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had left, now gan afresh to rancle sore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to renue the rigour of his smart;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which to recure no skill of Leaches art", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Mote him availe, but to returne againe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To his wounds worker, that with lovely dart", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Dinting his brest had bred his restlesse paine;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like as the wounded Whale to shore flies from the maine.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So, taking leave of that same gentle Swaine,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He backe returned to his rusticke wonne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where his faire Pastorella did remaine:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To whome, in sort as he at first begonne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He daily did apply him selfe to donne", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All dewfull service, voide of thoughts impure;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne any paines ne perill did he shonne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By which he might her to his love allure,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And liking in her yet untamed heart procure.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And evermore the shepheard Coridon,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "What ever thing he did her to aggrate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did strive to match with strong contention,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all his paines did closely emulate;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whether it were to caroll, as they sate", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Keeping their sheepe, or games to exercize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or to present her with their labours late;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through which if any grace chaunst to arize", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To him, the Shepheard streight with jealousie did frize.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "One day, as they all three together went", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To the greene wood to gather strawberies,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There chaunst to them a dangerous accident:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A Tigre forth out of the wood did rise,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That with fell clawes full of fierce gourmandize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And greedy mouth wide gaping like hell-gate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did runne at Pastorell her to surprize;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom she beholding, now all desolate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gan cry to them aloud to helpe her all too late.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which Coridon first hearing ran in hast", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To reskue her; but, when he saw the feend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through cowherd feare he fled away as fast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne durst abide the daunger of the end;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His life he steemed dearer then his frend:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Calidore soone comming to her ayde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When he the beast saw ready now to rend", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His loves deare spoile, in which his heart was prayde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He ran at him enraged, instead of being frayde.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He had no weapon but his shepheards hooke", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To serve the vengeaunce of his wrathfull will;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With which so sternely he the monster strooke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That to the ground astonished he fell;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whence, ere he could recou’r, he did him quell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, hewing off his head, he it presented", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Before the feete of the faire Pastorell;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who, scarcely yet from former feare exempted,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A thousand times him thankt that had her death prevented.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "From that day forth she gan him to affect,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And daily more her favour to augment;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Coridon for cowherdize reject,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fit to keepe sheepe, unfit for loves content:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The gentle heart scornes base disparagement.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet Calidore did not despise him quight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But usde him friendly for further intent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That by his fellowship he colour might", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Both his estate and love from skill of any wight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So well he wood her, and so well he wrought her,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With humble service, and with daily sute,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That at the last unto his will he brought her;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which he so wisely well did prosecute,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That of his love he reapt the timely frute,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And joyed long in close felicity,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till fortune, fraught with malice, blinde and brute,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That envies lovers long prosperity,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Blew up a bitter storme of foule adversity.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "It fortuned one day, when Calidore", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Was hunting in the woods, (as was his trade)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A lawlesse people, Brigants hight of yore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That never usde to live by plough nor spade,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But fed on spoile and booty, which they made", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon their neighbours which did nigh them border,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The dwelling of these shepheards did invade,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And spoyld their houses, and them selves did murder,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And drove away their flocks; with other much disorder.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Amongst the rest, the which they then did pray,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "They spoyld old Melibee of all he had,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all his people captive led away;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Mongst which this lucklesse mayd away was lad,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Faire Pastorella, sorrowfull and sad,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Most sorrowfull, most sad, that ever sight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now made the spoile of theeves and Brigants bad,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which was the conquest of the gentlest Knight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That ever liv’d, and th’onely glory of his might.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "With them also was taken Coridon,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And carried captive by those theeves away;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who in the covert of the night, that none", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Mote them descry, nor reskue from their pray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto their dwelling did them close convay.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their dwelling in a little Island was,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Covered with shrubby woods, in which no way", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Appeard for people in nor out to pas,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nor any footing fynde for overgrowen gras:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "For underneath the ground their way was made", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Through hollow caves, that no man mote discover", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For the thicke shrubs, which did them alwaies shade", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From view of living wight and covered over;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But darkenesse dred and daily night did hover", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through all the inner parts, wherein they dwelt;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne lightned was with window, nor with lover,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But with continuall candle-light, which delt", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A doubtfull sense of things, not so well seene as felt.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Hither those Brigants brought their present pray,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And kept them with continuall watch and ward;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Meaning, so soone as they convenient may,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For slaves to sell them for no small reward", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To Merchants, which them kept in bondage hard,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or sold againe. Now when faire Pastorell", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into this place was brought, and kept with gard", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of griesly theeves, she thought her self in hell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where with such damned fiends she should in darknesse dwell.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But for to tell the dolefull dreriment", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And pittifull complaints which there she made,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where day and night she nought did but lament", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her wretched life shut up in deadly shade,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And waste her goodly beauty, which did fade", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like to a flowre that feeles no heate of sunne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which may her feeble leaves with comfort glade⁠—", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And what befell her in that theevish wonne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Will in another Canto better be begonne.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The joyes of love, if they should ever last", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Without affliction or disquietnesse", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That worldly chaunces doe amongst them cast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Would be on earth too great a blessednesse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Liker to heaven then mortall wretchednesse:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therefore the winged God, to let men weet", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That here on earth is no sure happinesse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A thousand sowres hath tempred with one sweet,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To make it seeme more deare and dainty, as is meet.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Like as is now befalne to this faire Mayd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Faire Pastorell, of whom is now my song:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who being now in dreadfull darknesse layd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Amongst those theeves, which her in bondage strong", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Detaynd, yet Fortune, not with all this wrong", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Contented, greater mischiefe on her threw,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And sorrowes heapt on her in greater throng;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That who so heares her heavinesse, would rew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And pitty her sad plight, so chang’d from pleasaunt hew.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whylest thus she in these hellish dens remayned,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Wrapped in wretched cares and hearts unrest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It so befell, (as Fortune had ordayned)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That he which was their Capitaine profest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And had the chiefe commaund of all the rest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "One day, as he did all his prisoners vew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With lustfull eyes beheld that lovely guest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Faire Pastorella, whose sad mournefull hew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like the faire Morning clad in misty fog did shew.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "At sight whereof his barbarous heart was fired,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And inly burnt with flames most raging whot,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That her alone he for his part desired", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of all the other pray which they had got,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And her in mynde did to him selfe allot.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From that day forth he kyndnesse to her showed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And sought her love by all the meanes he mote;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With looks, with words, with gifts he oft her wowed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And mixed threats among, and much unto her vowed.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But all that ever he could doe or say", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Her constant mynd could not a whit remove,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nor draw unto the lure of his lewd lay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To graunt him favour or afford him love:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet ceast he not to sew, and all waies prove,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By which he mote accomplish his request,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Saying and doing all that mote behove;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne day nor night he suffred her to rest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But her all night did watch, and all the day molest.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "At last, when him she so importune saw,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Fearing least he at length the raines would lend", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto his lust, and make his will his law,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sith in his powre she was to foe or frend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She thought it best, for shadow to pretend", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some shew of favour, by him gracing small,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That she thereby mote either freely wend,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or at more ease continue there his thrall:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A little well is lent that gaineth more withall.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So from thenceforth, when love he to her made,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With better tearmes she did him entertaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which gave him hope, and did him halfe perswade,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That he in time her joyance should obtaine:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But when she saw through that small favours gaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That further then she willing was he prest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She found no meanes to barre him, but to faine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A sodaine sickenesse which her sore opprest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And made unfit to serve his lawlesse mindes behest.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "By meanes whereof she would not him permit", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Once to approch to her in privity,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But onely mongst the rest by her to sit,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Mourning the rigour of her malady,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And seeking all things meete for remedy;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But she resolv’d no remedy to fynde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nor better cheare to shew in misery,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till Fortune would her captive bonds unbynde:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her sickenesse was not of the body, but the mynde.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "During which space that she thus sicke did lie,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "It chaunst a sort of merchants, which were wount", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To skim those coastes for bondmen there to buy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And by such trafficke after gaines to hunt,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Arrived in this Isle, though bare and blunt,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "T’inquire for slaves; where being readie met", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By some of these same theeves at the instant brunt,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Were brought unto their Captaine, who was set", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By his faire patients side with sorrowfull regret.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "To whom they shewed, how those marchants were", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Arriv’d in place their bondslaves for to buy;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And therefore prayd that those same captives there", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Mote to them for their most commodity", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Be sold, and mongst them shared equally.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "This their request the Captaine much appalled,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet could he not their just demaund deny,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And willed streight the slaves should forth be called,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And sold for most advantage, not to be forstalled.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then forth the good old Melibœ was brought,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And Coridon with many other moe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom they before in diverse spoyles had caught;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All which he to the marchants sale did showe:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till some, which did the sundry prisoners knowe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gan to inquire for that faire shepherdesse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which with the rest they tooke not long agoe;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And gan her forme and feature to expresse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The more t’augment her price through praise of comlinesse.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "To whom the Captaine in full angry wize", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Made answere, that the mayd of whom they spake", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was his owne purchase and his onely prize;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With which none had to doe, ne ought partake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But he himselfe which did that conquest make:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Litle for him to have one silly lasse;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Besides, through sicknesse now so wan and weake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That nothing meet in merchandise to passe:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So shew’d them her, to prove how pale and weake she was.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The sight of whom, though now decayd and mard,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And eke but hardly seene by candle-light,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet, like a Diamond of rich regard,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In doubtfull shadow of the darkesome night", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With starrie beames about her shining bright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "These marchants fixed eyes did so amaze,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That what through wonder, and what through delight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A while on her they greedily did gaze,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And did her greatly like, and did her greatly praize.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "At last when all the rest them offred were,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And prises to them placed at their pleasure,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They all refused in regard of her,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ought would buy, how ever prisd with measure,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Withouten her, whose worth above all threasure", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They did esteeme, and offred store of gold:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But then the Captaine, fraught with more displeasure,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Bad them be still; his love should not be sold;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The rest take if they would; he her to him would hold.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Therewith some other of the chiefest theeves", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Boldly him bad such injurie forbeare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For that same mayd, how ever it him greeves,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Should with the rest be sold before him theare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To make the prises of the rest more deare.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That with great rage he stoutly doth denay;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, fiercely drawing forth his blade, doth sweare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That who so hardie hand on her doth lay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "It dearely shall aby, and death for handsell pay.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thus, as they words amongst them multiply,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "They fall to strokes, the frute of too much talke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And the mad steele about doth fiercely fly,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Not sparing wight, ne leaving any balke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But making way for death at large to walke;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who, in the horror of the griesly night,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In thousand dreadful shapes doth mongst them stalke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And makes huge havocke; whiles the candle-light", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Out quenched leaves no skill nor difference of wight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Like a sort of hungry dogs, ymet", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "About some carcase by the common way,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Doe fall together, stryving each to get", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The greatest portion of the greedie pray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All on confused heapes themselves assay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And snatch, and byte, and rend, and tug, and teare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That who them sees would wonder at their fray,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And who sees not would be affrayd to heare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Such was the conflict of those cruell Brigants there.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But first of all their captives they doe kill,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Least they should joyne against the weaker side,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or rise against the remnant at their will:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Old Meliboe is slaine; and him beside", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His aged wife, with many others wide;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Coridon, escaping craftily,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Creepes forth of dores, whilst darknes him doth hide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And flyes away as fast as he can hye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne stayeth leave to take before his friends doe dye.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But Pastorella, wofull wretched Elfe,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Was by the Captaine all this while defended,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who, minding more her safety then himselfe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His target alwayes over her pretended;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By means whereof, that mote not be amended,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He at the length was slaine and layd on ground,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet holding fast twixt both his armes extended", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fayre Pastorell, who, with the selfe same wound", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Launcht through the arme, fell down with him in drerie swound.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "There lay she covered with confused preasse", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of carcases, which dying on her fell.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tho, when as he was dead, the fray gan ceasse;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And each to other calling did compell", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To stay their cruell hands from slaughter fell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sith they that were the cause of all were gone:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thereto they all attonce agreed well;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, lighting candles new, gan search anone,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "How many of their friends were slaine, how many fone.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Their Captaine there they cruelly found kild,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And in his armes the dreary dying mayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like a sweet Angell twixt two clouds uphild;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her lovely light was dimmed and decayd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With cloud of death upon her eyes displayd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet did the cloud make even that dimmed light", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Seeme much more lovely in that darknesse layd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And twixt the twinckling of her eyelids bright", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To sparke out litle beames, like starres in foggie night.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But when they mov’d the carcases aside,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "They found that life did yet in her remaine:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then all their helpes they busily applyde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To call the soule backe to her home againe;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And wrought so well, with labour and long paine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That they to life recovered her at last:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who, sighing sore, as if her hart in twaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had riven bene and all her hartstrings brast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With drearie drouping eyne lookt up like one aghast.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "There she beheld, that sore her griev’d to see,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Her father and her friends about her lying,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Her selfe sole left a second spoyle to bee", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of those, that, having saved her from dying,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Renew’d her death by timely death denying.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What now is left her but to wayle and weepe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Wringing her hands, and ruefully loud crying?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne cared she her wound in teares to steepe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Albe with all their might those Brigants her did keepe.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But when they saw her now reliv’d againe,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "They left her so, in charge of one, the best", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of many worst, who with unkind disdaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And cruell rigour her did much molest;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Scarse yeelding her due food or timely rest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And scarsely suffring her infestred wound,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That sore her payn’d, by any to be drest.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So leave we her in wretched thraldome bound,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And turne we backe to Calidore where we him found.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Who when he backe returned from the wood,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And saw his shepheards cottage spoyled quight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And his love reft away, he wexed wood", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And halfe enraged at that ruefull sight;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That even his hart, for very fell despight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And his owne flesh he readie was to teare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He chauft, he griev’d, he fretted, and he sight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And fared like a furious wyld Beare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose whelpes are stolne away, she being otherwhere.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Ne wight he found to whom he might complaine,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ne wight he found of whom he might inquire,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That more increast the anguish of his paine:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He sought the woods, but no man could see there;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He sought the plaines, but could no tydings heare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The woods did nought but ecchoes vaine rebound;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The playnes all waste and emptie did appeare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where wont the shepheards oft their pypes resound,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And feed an hundred flocks, there now not one he found.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "At last, as there he romed up and downe,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He chaunst one comming towards him to spy,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That seem’d to be some sorie simple clowne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With ragged weedes, and lockes upstaring hye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As if he did from some late daunger fly,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And yet his feare did follow him behynd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who as he unto him approched nye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He mote perceive by signes which he did fynd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That Coridon it was, the silly shepherds hynd.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Tho, to him running fast, he did not stay", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To greet him first, but askt where were the rest?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where Pastorell?⁠—Who full of fresh dismay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And gushing forth in teares, was so opprest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That he no word could speake, but smit his brest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And up to heaven his eyes fast-streming threw:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereat the knight amaz’d yet did not rest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But askt againe, what ment that rufull hew:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where was his Pastorell? where all the other crew?", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Ah, wellaway!” (sayd he, then sighing sore)", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“That ever I did live this day to see,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "This dismall day, and was not dead before,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Before I saw faire Pastorella dye.”", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Die? out alas!” then Calidore did cry,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“How could the death dare ever her to quell?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But read thou, shepheard, read what destiny", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or other dyrefull hap from heaven or hell", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Hath wrought this wicked deed: doe feare away, and tell.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Tho, when the Shepheard breathed had awhile,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He thus began: “Where shall I then commence", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "This wofull tale? or how those Brigants vyle,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With cruell rage and dreadfull violence,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Spoyld all our cots, and caried us from hence;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or how faire Pastorell should have bene sold", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To marchants, but was sav’d with strong defence;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or how those theeves, whilest one sought her to hold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fell all at ods, and fought through fury fierce and bold.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“In that same conflict (woe is me!) befell", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "This fatall chaunce, this dolefull accident,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose heavy tydings now I have to tell.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "First all the captives, which they here had hent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Were by them slaine by generall consent:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Old Melibœ and his good wife withall", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "These eyes saw die, and dearely did lament;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, when the lot to Pastorell did fall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their Captaine long withstood, and did her death forstall.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“But what could he gainst all them doe alone?", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "It could not boot: needs mote she die at last.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "I onely scapt through great confusione", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of cryes and clamors which amongst them past,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In dreadfull darknesse dreadfully aghast;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That better were with them to have bene dead,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then here to see all desolate and wast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Despoyled of those joyes and jolly-head,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which with those gentle shepherds here I wont to lead.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "When Calidore these ruefull newes had raught,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His hart quite deaded was with anguish great,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all his wits with doole were nigh distraught,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That he his face, his head, his brest did beat,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And death it selfe unto himselfe did threat;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Oft cursing th’heavens, that so cruell were", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To her, whose name he often did repeat;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And wishing oft that he were present there", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When she was slaine, or had bene to her succour nere.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But after griefe awhile had had his course,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And spent it selfe in mourning, he at last", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Began to mitigate his swelling sourse,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in his mind with better reason cast", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "How he might save her life, if life did last;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or, if that dead, how he her death might wreake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sith otherwise he could not mend thing past;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or if it to revenge he were too weake,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then for to die with her, and his lives threed to breake.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Tho Coridon he prayd, sith he well knew", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The readie way unto that theevish wonne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To wend with him, and be his conduct trew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto the place, to see what should be donne;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But he, whose hart through feare was late fordonne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Would not for ought be drawne to former drede,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But by all meanes the daunger knowne did shonne:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet Calidore so well him wrought with meed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And faire bespoke with words, that he at last agreed.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So forth they goe together (God before)", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Both clad in shepheards weeds agreeably,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And both with shepheards hookes: But Calidore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had, underneath, him armed privily.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tho, to the place when they approched nye,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They chaunst, upon an hill not farre away,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some flockes of sheepe and shepheards to espy;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To whom they both agreed to take their way,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In hope there newes to learne, how they mote best assay.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "There did they find, that which they did not feare,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The selfe same flocks the which those theeves had reft", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From Melibce and from themselves whyleare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And certaine of the theeves there by them left,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which, for want of beards, themselves then kept.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Right well knew Coridon his owne late sheepe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And seeing them for tender pittie wept;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But when he saw the theeves which did them keepe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His hart gan fayle, albe he saw them all asleepe.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But Calidore recomforting his griefe,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Though not his feare, for nought may feare disswade,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him hardly forward drew, whereas the thiefe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Lay sleeping soundly in the bushes shade,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom Coridon him counseld to invade", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Now all unwares, and take the spoyle away;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But he, that in his mind had closely made", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A further purpose, would not so them slay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But gently waking them gave them the time of day.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Tho, sitting downe by them upon the greene,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of sundrie things he purpose gan to faine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That he by them might certaine tydings weene", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of Pastorell, were she alive or slaine:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Mongst which the theeves them questioned againe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What mister men, and eke from whence they were:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To whom they aunswer’d, as did appertaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That they were poore heardgroomes, the which whylere", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had from their maisters fled, and now sought hyre elswhere.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whereof right glad they seem’d, and offer made", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To hyre them well if they their flockes would keepe;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For they themselves were evill groomes, they sayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unwont with heards to watch, or pasture sheepe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But to forray the land, or secure the deepe.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thereto they soone agreed, and earnest tooke", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To keepe their flockes for litle hyre and chepe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For they for better hyre did shortly looke:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So there all day they bode, till light the sky forsooke.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Tho, when as towards darksome night it drew,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Unto their hellish dens those theeves them brought;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where shortly they in great acquaintance grew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all the secrets of their entrayles sought.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There did they find, contrarie to their thought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That Pastorell yet liv’d; but all the rest", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Were dead, right so as Coridon had taught:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereof they both full glad and blyth did rest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But chiefly Calidore, whom griefe had most possest.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "At length, when they occasion fittest found,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In dead of night, when all the theeves did rest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "After a late forray, and slept full sound,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sir Calidore him arm’d as he thought best,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Having of late by diligent inquest", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Provided him a sword of meanest sort;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With which he streight went to the Captaines nest:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Coridon durst not with him consort,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne durst abide behind, for dread of worse effort.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "When to the Cave they came, they found it fast;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But Calidore with huge resistlesse might", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The dores assayled, and the locks upbrast:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With noyse whereof the theefe awaking light", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto the entrance ran; where the bold knight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Encountring him with small resistence slew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The whiles faire Pastorell through great affright", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was almost dead, misdoubting least of-new", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some uprore were like that which lately she did vew.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But when as Calidore was comen in,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And gan aloud for Pastorell to call,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Knowing his voice, although not heard long sin,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She sudden was revived therewithall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And wondrous joy felt in her spirits thrall:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like him that being long in tempest tost,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Looking each houre into deathes mouth to fall,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At length espyes at hand the happie cost,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "On which he safety hopes that earst feard to be lost.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Her gentle hart, that now long season past", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Had never joyance felt nor chearefull thought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Began some smacke of comfort new to tast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like lyfull heat to nummed senses brought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And life to feele that long for death had sought.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne lesse in hart rejoyced Calidore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When he her found; but, like to one distraught", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And robd of reason, towards her him bore;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A thousand times embrast, and kist a thousand more.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But now by this, with noyse of late uprore,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The hue and cry was raysed all about;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all the Brigants flocking in great store", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto the cave gan preasse, nought having dout", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of that was doen, and entred in a rout:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But Calidore in th’entry close did stand,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And entertayning them with courage stout,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Still slew the formost that came first to hand;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So long till all the entry was with bodies mand.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Tho, when no more could nigh to him approch,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He breath’d his sword, and rested him till day;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which when he spyde upon the earth t’encroch,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through the dead carcases he made his way,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Mongst which he found a sword of better say,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With which he forth went into th’open light,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where all the rest for him did readie stay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, fierce assayling him, with all their might", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Gan all upon him lay: there gan a dreadfull fight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "How many flyes, in whottest sommers day,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Do seize upon some beast whose flesh is bare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all the place with swarmes do overlay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And with their litle stings right felly fare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So many theeves about him swarming are,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All which do him assayle on every side,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And sore oppresse, ne any him doth spare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But he doth with his raging brond divide", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Their thickest troups, and round about him scattreth wide.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Like as a Lion mongst an heard of dere,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Disperseth them to catch his choysest pray;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So did he fly amongst them here and there,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all that nere him came did hew and slay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till he had strowd with bodies all the way;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That none his daunger daring to abide", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Fled from his wrath, and did themselves convay", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into their caves, their heads from death to hide,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne any left that victorie to him envide.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Then, backe returning to his dearest deare,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He her gah to recomfort all he might", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With gladfull speaches and with lovely cheare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And forth her bringing to the joyous light,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereof she long had lackt the wishfull sight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Deviz’d all goodly meanes from her to drive", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The sad remembrance of her wretched plight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So her uneath at last he did revive", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That long had lyen dead, and made again alive.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "This doen, into those theevish dens he went,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And thence did all the spoyles and threasures take,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which they from many long had robd and rent,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But fortune now the victors meed did make:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of which the best he did his love betake;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And also all those flockes, which they before", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Had reft from Melibce and from his make,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He did them all to Coridon restore:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So drove them all away, and his love with him bore.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Like as a ship, that through the Ocean wyde", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Directs her course unto one certaine cost,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Is met of many a counter winde and tyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With which her winged speed is let and crost,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And she her selfe in stormie surges tost;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet, making many a horde and many a bay,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Still winneth way, ne hath her compasse lost:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Right so it fares with me in this long way,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose course is often stayd, yet never is astray.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "For all that hetherto hath long delayd", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "This gentle knight from sewing his first quest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Though out of course, yet hath not bene missayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To shew the courtesie by him profest", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Even unto the lowest and the least.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But now I come into my course againe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To his atchievement of the Blatant Beast:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who all this while at will did range and raine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whilst none was him to stop, nor none him to restraine.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Sir Calidore, when thus he now had raught", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Faire Pastorella from those Brigants powre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto the Castle of Belgard her brought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereof was Lord the good Sir Bellamoure;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who whylome was, in his youthes freshest flowre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A lustie knight as ever wielded speare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And had endured many a dreadfull stoure", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In bloudy battell for a Ladie deare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The fayrest Ladie then of all that living were:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Her name was Claribell; whose father hight", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The Lord of Many Ilands, farre renound", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For his great riches and his greater might:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He, through the wealth wherein he did abound,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "This daughter thought in wedlocke to have bound", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto the Prince of Picteland, bordering nere;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But she, whose sides before with secret wound", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of love to Bellamoure empierced were,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "By all meanes shund to match with any forrein fere.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And Bellamour againe so well her pleased", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With dayly service and attendance dew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That of her love he was entyrely seized,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And closely did her wed, but knowne to few:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which when her father understood, he grew", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In so great rage that them in dongeon deepe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Without compassion cruelly he threw;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet did so streightly them asunder keepe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That neither could to company of th’other creepe.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Nathlesse Sir Bellamour, whether through grace", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Or secret guifts, so with his keepers wrought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That to his love sometimes he came in place;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereof her wombe, unwist to wight, was fraught,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And in dew time a mayden child forth brought:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which she streightway, (for dread least if her syre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Should know thereof to slay he would have sought,)", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Delivered to her handmayd, that for hyre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She should it cause be fostred under straunge attyre.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The trustie damzell bearing it abrode", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Into the emptie fields, where living wight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Mote not bewray the secret of her lode,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She forth gan lay unto the open light", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The litle babe, to take thereof a sight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom whylest she did with watrie eyne behold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Upon the litle brest, like christall bright,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She mote perceive a litle purple mold,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That like a rose her silken leaves did faire unfold.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Well she it markt, and pittied the more,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Yet could not remedie her wretched case;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, closing it againe like as before,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Bedeaw’d with teares there left it in the place:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet left not quite, but drew a litle space", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Behind the bushes, where she did her hyde,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To weet what mortall hand, or heavens grace,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Would for the wretched infants helpe provyde;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For which it loudly cald, and pittifully cryde.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "At length a Shepheard, which there by did keepe", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His fleecie flock upon the playnes around,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Led with the infants cry that loud did weepe,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Came to the place; where, when he wrapped found", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Th’abandond spoyle, he softly it unbound;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, seeing there that did him pittie sore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He tooke it up and in his mantle wound;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So home unto his honest wife it bore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who as her owne it nurst (and named) evermore.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thus long continu’d Claribell a thrall,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And Bellamour in bands; till that her syre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Departed life, and left unto them all:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then all the stormes of fortunes former yre", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Were turnd, and they to freedome did retyre.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Thenceforth they joy’d in happinesse together,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And lived long in peace and love entyre,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Without disquiet or dislike of ether,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Till time that Calidore brought Pastorella thether.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Both whom they goodly well did entertaine;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For Bellamour knew Calidore right well,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And loved for his prowesse, sith they twaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Long since had fought in field: Als Claribell", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne lesse did tender the faire Pastorell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Seeing her weake and wan through durance long.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There they a while together thus did dwell", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In much delight, and many joyes among,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Untill the Damzell gan to wex more sound and strong.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Tho gan Sir Calidore him to advize", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of his first quest, which he had long forlore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Asham’d to thinke how he that enterprize,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which the Faery Queene had long afore", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Bequeath’d to him, forslacked had so sore;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That much he feared least reprochfull blame", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With foule dishonour him mote blot therefore;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Besides the losse of so much loos and fame,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As through the world thereby should glorifie his name.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Therefore, resolving to returne in hast", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Unto so great atchievement, he bethought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To leave his love, now perill being past,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With Claribell; whylest he that monster sought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Throughout the world, and to destruction brought.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So taking leave of his faire Pastorell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom to recomfort all the meanes he wrought,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With thanks to Bellamour and Claribell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He went forth on his quest, and did that him befell.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But first, ere I doe his adventures tell", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In this exploite, me needeth to declare", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "What did betide to the faire Pastorell", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "During his absence, left in heavy care", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through daily mourning and nightly misfare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet did that auncient matrone all she might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To cherish her with all things choice and rare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And her owne handmayd, that Melissa hight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Appointed to attend her dewly day and night.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Who in a morning, when this Maiden faire", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Was dighting her, having her snowy Brest", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As yet not laced, nor her golden haire", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into their comely tresses dewly drest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Chaunst to espy upon her yvory chest", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The rosie marke, which she remembred well", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That litle Infant had, which forth she kest,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The daughter of her Lady Claribell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The which she bore the whiles in prison she did dwell.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Which well avizing, streight she gan to cast", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In her conceiptfull mynd that this faire Mayd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Was that same infant, which so long sith past", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She in the open fields had loosely layd", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To fortunes spoile, unable it to ayd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So, full of joy, streight forth she ran in hast", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Unto her mistresse, being halfe dismayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To tell her how the heavens had her graste", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To save her chylde, which in misfortunes mouth was plaste.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The sober mother seeing such her mood,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Yet knowing not what meant that sodaine thro,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Askt her, how mote her words be understood,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And what the matter was that mov’d her so?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“My liefe,” (sayd she) “ye know that long ygo,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whilest ye in durance dwelt, ye to me gave", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A little mayde, the which ye chylded tho;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The same againe if now ye list to have,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The same is yonder Lady, whom high God did save.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Much was the Lady troubled at that speach,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And gan to question streight, how she it knew?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“Most certaine markes” (sayd she) “do me it teach;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For on her brest I with these eyes did view", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The litle purple rose which thereon grew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whereof her name ye then to her did give.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Besides, her countenaunce and her likely hew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Matched with equall years, do surely prieve", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That yond same is your daughter sure, which yet doth live.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "The matrone stayd no lenger to enquire,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But forth in hast ran to the straunger Mayd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whom catching greedily, for great desire", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Rent up her brest, and bosome open layd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In which that rose she plainely saw displayd:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Then, her embracing twixt her armes twaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She long so held, and softly weeping sayd;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "“And livest thou, my daughter, now againe?", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And art thou yet alive, whom dead I long did faine?”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Tho further asking her of sundry things,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And times comparing with their accidents,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "She found at last, by very certaine signes", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And speaking markes of passed monuments,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That this young Mayd, whom chance to her presents,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Is her owne daughter, her owne infant deare.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tho, wondring long at those so straunge events,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A thousand times she her embraced nere,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With many a joyfull kisse and many a melting teare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Who ever is the mother of one chylde,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which having thought long dead she fyndes alive,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Let her by proofe of that which she hath fylde", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In her owne breast, this mothers joy descrive;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For other none such passion can contrive", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In perfect forme, as this good Lady felt,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "When she so faire a daughter saw survive,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As Pastorella was, that nigh she swelt", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For passing joy, which did all into pitty melt.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thence running forth unto her loved Lord,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "She unto him recounted all that fell;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who, joyning joy with her in one accord,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Acknowledg’d for his owne faire Pastorell.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "There leave we them in joy, and let us tell", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of Calidore; who, seeking all this while", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That monstrous Beast by finall force to quell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Through every place with restlesse paine and toile", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him follow’d by the tract of his outragious spoile.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Through all estates he found that he had past,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In which he many massacres had left,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to the Clergy now was come at last;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In which such spoile, such havocke, and such theft", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He wrought, that thence all goodnesse he bereft,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That endlesse were to tell. The Elfin Knight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who now no place besides unsought had left,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At length into a Monastere did light,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Where he him found despoyling all with maine and might.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Into their cloysters now he broken had,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Through which the Monckes he chaced here and there,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And them pursu’d into their dortours sad,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And searched all their cels and secrets neare:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "In which what filth and ordure did appeare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Were yrkesome to report; yet that foule Beast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nought sparing them, the more did tosse and teare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And ransacke all their dennes from most to least,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Regarding nought religion, nor their holy heast.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "From thence into the sacred Church he broke,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And robd the Chancell, and the deskes downe threw,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And Altars fouled, and blasphemy spoke,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And th’Images, for all their goodly hew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did cast to ground, whilest none was them to rew;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So all confounded and disordered there:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But, seeing Calidore, away he flew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Knowing his fatall hand by former feare;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But he him fast pursuing soone approched neare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Him in a narrow place he overtooke,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And fierce assailing forst him turne againe:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sternely he turnd againe, when he him strooke", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With his sharpe steele, and ran at him amaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With open mouth, that seemed to containe", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "A full good pecke within the utmost brim,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "All set with yron teeth in raunges twaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That terrifide his foes, and armed him,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Appearing like the mouth of Orcus griesly grim:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And therein were a thousand tongs empight", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of sundry kindes and sundry quality;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Some were of dogs, that barked day and night;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And some of cats, that wrawling still did cry;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And some of Beares, that groynd continually;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And some of Tygres, that did seeme to gren", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And snar at all that ever passed by:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But most of them were tongues of mortall men,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Which spake reprochfully, not caring where nor when.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "And them amongst were mingled here and there", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The tongues of Serpents, with three forked stings,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That spat out poyson, and gore-bloudy gere,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "At all that came within his ravenings;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And spake licentious words and hatefull things", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of good and bad alike, of low and hie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne Kesars spared he a whit, nor Kings;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But either blotted them with infamie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or bit them with his banefull teeth of injury.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But Calidore, thereof no whit afrayd,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Rencountred him with so impetuous might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That th’outrage of his violence he stayd,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And bet abacke, threatning in vaine to bite,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And spitting forth the poyson of his spight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That fomed all about his bloody jawes:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Tho, rearing up his former feete on hight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He rampt upon him with his ravenous pawes,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "As if he would have rent him with his cruell clawes:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "But he, right well aware, his rage to ward", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Did cast his shield atweene; and, therewithall", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Putting his puissaunce forth, pursu’d so hard,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That backeward he enforced him to fall;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, being downe, ere he new helpe could call,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His shield he on him threw, and fast downe held:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Like as a bullocke, that in bloudy stall", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of butchers balefull hand to ground is feld,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Is forcibly kept downe, till he be throughly queld.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Full cruelly the Beast did rage and rore", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To be downe held, and maystred so with might,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That he gan fret and fome out bloudy gore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Striving in vaine to rere him selfe upright:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For still, the more he strove, the more the Knight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Did him suppresse, and forcibly subdew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That made him almost mad for fell despight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He grind, he bit, he scratcht, he venim threw,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And fared like a feend right horrible in hew:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Or like the hell-borne Hydra, which they faine", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That great Alcides whilome overthrew,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "After that he had labourd long in vaine", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To crop his thousand heads, the which still new", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Forth budded, and in greater number grew.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Such was the fury of this hellish Beast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whilest Calidore him under him downe threw;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Who nathemore his heavy load releast,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But aye, the more he rag’d, the more his powre increast.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Tho, when the Beast saw he mote nought availe", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "By force, he gan his hundred tongues apply,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And sharpely at him to revile and raile", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With bitter termes of shamefull infamy;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Oft interlacing many a forged lie,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Whose like he never once did speake, nor heare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Nor ever thought thing so unworthily:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet did he nought, for all that, him forbeare,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But strained him so streightly that he chokt him neare.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "At last, when as he found his force to shrincke", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And rage to quaile, he tooke a muzzel strong", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Of surest yron, made with many a lincke:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therewith he mured up his mouth along,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And therein shut up his blasphemous tong,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For never more defaming gentle Knight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or unto lovely Lady doing wrong;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And thereunto a great long chaine he tight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With which he drew him forth, even in his own despight.", "indent": 1 } ], [ { "text": "Like as whylome that strong Tirynthian swaine", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Brought forth with him the dreadfull dog of hell,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Against his will fast bound in yron chaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And, roring horribly, did him compell", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To see the hatefull sunne, that he might tell", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To griesly Pluto what on earth was donne,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And to the other damned ghosts which dwell", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "For aye in darkenesse, which day-light doth shonne:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So led this Knight his captyve with like conquest wonne.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Yet greatly did the Beast repine at those", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Straunge bands, whose like till then he never bore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ever any durst till then impose;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And chauffed inly, seeing now no more", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Him liberty was left aloud to rore:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet durst he not draw backe, nor once withstand", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The proved powre of noble Calidore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But trembled underneath his mighty hand,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And like a fearefull dog him followed through the land.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Him through all Faery land he follow’d so,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As if he learned had obedience long,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That all the people, where so he did go,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Out of their townes did round about him throng,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "To see him leade that Beast in bondage strong;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And seeing it much wondred at the sight:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all such persons as he earst did wrong", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Rejoyced much to see his captive plight,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And much admyr’d the Beast, but more admyr’d the Knight.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thus was this Monster, by the maystring might", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of doughty Calidore, supprest and tamed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That never more he mote endammadge wight", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With his vile tongue, which many had defamed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And many causelesse caused to be blamed.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "So did he eeke long after this remaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Untill that, (whether wicked fate so framed", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Or fault of men,) he broke his yron chaine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And got into the world at liberty againe.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thenceforth more mischiefe and more scath he wrought", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To mortall men then he had done before;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne ever could, by any, more be brought", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Into like bands, ne maystred any more:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Albe that, long time after Calidore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "The good Sir Pelleas him tooke in hand,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And after him Sir Lamoracke of yore,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And all his brethren borne in Britaine land;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Yet none of them could ever bring him into band.", "indent": 1 } ], [ { "text": "So now he raungeth through the world againe,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And rageth sore in each degree and state;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne any is that may him now restraine,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "He growen is so great and strong of late,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Barking and biting all that him doe bate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Albe they worthy blame, or cleare of crime:", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne spareth he most learned wits to rate,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Ne spareth he the gentle Poets rime;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But rends without regard of person or of time.", "indent": 1 } ], [ { "text": "Ne may this homely verse, of many meanest,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Hope to escape his venemous despite,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "More then my former writs, all were they cleanest", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "From blamefull blot, and free from all that wite", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "With which some wicked tongues did it backebite,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And bring into a mighty Peres displeasure,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That never so deserved to endite.", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Therefore do you, my rimes, keep better measure,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And seeke to please; that now is counted wise mens threasure.", 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