XLVIII. "For that same Brute, whom much he did advaunce In all his speach, was Sylvius his sonne, Whom having slain through luckles arrowes glaunce, He fled for feare of that he had misdonne, Or els for shame, so fowle reproch to shonne, And with him ledd to sea an youthly trayne; Where wearie wandring they long time did wonne, And many fortunes prov'd in th' ocean mayne, And great adventures found, that now were long to sayne. XLIX. "At last by fatall course they driven were Into an Island spatious and brode, The furthest North that did to them appeare: But wholy waste and void of peoples trode, Save an huge nation of the geaunts broode That fed on living flesh, and dronck mens vitall blood. L. "Whom he, through wearie wars and labours long, In which the great Goëmagot of strong Were overthrowne and laide on th' earth full cold, In everlasting moniments of brasse, That all the antique Worthies merits far did passe. LI. "His worke great Troynovant, his worke is eke Cannot two fairer cities find this day, Except Cleopolis; so heard I say Old Mnemon: Therefore, Sir, I greet you well LII. But all the while, that he these speeches spent, In her fraile witt, that now her. quite forlore: In speaking, many false belgardes at her let fly. LIII. So long these Knightes discoursed diversly And hevenly lampes were halfendeale ybrent: Every discourse, and every argument, Which by the houres he measured, besought Them go to rest. So all unto their bowres were brought. CANTO X. Paridell rapeth Hellenore; Malbecco her poursewes; Fynds emongst Satyres, whence with him I. THE morrow next, so soone as Phoebus lamp That ryde he could not till his hurts he did amend. II. So foorth they far'd; but he behind them stayd, Maulgre his host, who grudged grivously To house a guest that would be needes obayd, And of his owne him lefte not liberty: Might wanting measure moveth surquedry. Two things he feared, but the third was death; That fiers Youngmans unruly maystery; His Money, which he lov'd as living breath; And his faire Wife, whom honest long he kept uneath. III. But patience perforce; he must abie What fortune and his fate on him will lay: IV. But Paridell kept better watch then hee, A fit occasion for his turne to finde. False Love! why do men say thou canst not see, And in their foolish fancy feigne thee blinde, That with thy charmes the sharpest sight doest binde, And to thy will abuse? Thou walkest free, And seest every secret of the minde; Thou seest all, yet none at all sees thee: All that is by the working of thy deitee. V. So perfect in that art was Paridell, That he Malbeccoes halfen eye did wyle; His halfen eye he wiled wondrous well, And bad that none their ioyous treason should reveale. VI. The learned Lover lost no time nor tyde VII. But when apart (if ever her apart He found) then his false engins fast he plyde, And all the sleights unbosomd in his hart: He sigh'd, he sobd, he swownd, he perdy dyde, And cast himselfe on ground her fast besyde: Tho, when againe he him bethought to live, He wept. and wayld, and false laments belyde, Saying, but if she mercie would him give, That he mote algates dye, yet did his death forgive. VIII. And otherwhyles with amorous delights And pleasing toyes he would her entertaine; And thousands like which flowed in his braine, To take to his new love, and leave her old despysd. |