him stand aboue and hold it fast And by the same intending to descend Vpon her armes her whole waight she doth cast But he that to destroy her did â—ntend Doth aske if she would learne to leape a cast And laughing loosd his hands that were together And wisht that all the race of them were with her 76 Yet great good hap the gentle damsell found As well deseru'd a miâ—d so innocent For why the polâ— strake first vpon the ground And though by force it shiuerd all and rent Yet were her limbes and life kept safe and sound For all his vile and traiterous intent Sore was the damsell mazed with the fall As in another booke declare I shall In thiâ— second booke in the combat betweene Renaldo and Sacrapant we may obserue how the passion of loue together with the termes that men stand vpon for their reputation credit are oftentimes occasions of bitter quarels and in their sodaâ—â—e parting and great perplexitie that both of them were stricken into by the false tale that the spirit told them of Orlando we may gather how very apt ielousie is to conceiue and beleeue euery false report By Renaldos obedience to Charles in going on embassage notwithstanding all his priuat affaires and affections we may take example of dutiful obedience to our lawfull Prince And in that Pinnabel seekes to betray Bradamant and to kill her by letting her fall into the caue into the which she trusted he would haue let her downe safely and friendly we may note two speciall things one that it is good to be warie into whose hands we commit the sauegard of our liues and state the other that base minded men being wickedly set on reuenge care not by what treason or villanie they worke the ouerthrow of their enemies For the Historie of this Canto I will not affirme too precisely for I find not in any credible author of Renaldos embassage into England neither is it very likely if the King of England were then in Paris as in another place of this worke is affirmed that a Peere of France should be sent hither and not rather some English noble man sent from the King to his other subiects in England with directions and instructions from him That Paris and Charles himselfe were in some distresse about that time is not vnprobable and that the Turkes at their first arriuall preuailed very farre against the Christians though it lasted but a while As for Rogero whom he toucheth in this booke and that is so much spoken of in this wâ—â—le worke as Aeneas is in Virgil though in both rather in fabulous and in Allegoricall sence then plainly and historicaly yet I find it in very good Authors that a man of that name was indeed the chiefe raiser of the house of Este the now Dukes of Perrara For the Allegorie as I noted in the first booke of Bayardo so the same is still continued or rather repeated namely that the horse by which is meant mans feruent and furious appetite which is more plainly signified where it is said of the horse His going onely was to this intent To shew his master where the damsell went So that still this vnbridled desire figured by Bayardo leades Renaldo on foote whereby is vnderstood sensualitie to pursue Angelica with a base desire of the most base pleasure In the shield whose light amazed the lookers on and made them fall downe astonied may be Allegorically meant the great pompes of the world that make shining shewes in the bleared eyes of vaine people and blind them and make them to admire and fall downe before them hauing indeed nothing but shining titles without vertue like painted sheaths with leaden weapons or like straw without the graine either else may be meant the flaring beauties of some gorgeous women that astonish the eyes of weake minded men apt to receiue such louing impressions as Atlantas shield did amaze their senses that beheld it For the Allegorie of the horse what is meant thereby I reserue to another place where I will follow it more at large then this little space will giue me leaue and in that booke where he is more treated of The Allusion to which this flying horse is referred and from whence it is taken is from Pegasus the flying horse that Pindar writes of bred of the bloud of Medusa on which beast Bellerophon was wont to ride flying the false accusation of Pretus wife Also the shield it selfe seemes to allude to the fable of Medusas head that turned men into stones THE THIRD BOOKE THE ARGVMENT Faire Bradamant was falne in Marlins caue Melissa meetes her there her ancient friend And there to her she perfite notice gaue Of such braue men as should from her descend She told her where she should Rogero haue Whom old Atlanta had in prison pend And from Brunello how to take the ring That vnto libertie her deere might bring 1 OH that my head were so well storde with skill Of such a noble subiect fit to treat Oh that my wits were equall to my will To frame a phrase fit for so high conceat Ye muses that do hold the sacred hill Inspire my heart with flame of learned heat While I presume in base and lowly verse The names of glorious Princes to reherse 2 Such Princes as excell all Princes far In all the gifts of bodie and of mind Temprat in peace victorious eake in war Themselues most noble come of noble kind And such except my guesse do greatly arre As are by heau'ns eternall doome assignd In wealth in fame in rule and in prosperitie To liue themselues their children and posteritie 3 Nor can I now their seuerall actes most rare Atcheeud by eu'rie one of them recite No though my verse with Virgils might compare Or I as well as Homer could endite With their great praise great volumes filled are With large discourse by them that stories write I onely meane to show what was foreshowne Long er their persons or their deeds were knowne 4 But first of Pinnabel a word to speake Who as you heard with traiterous intent The bonds of all humanitie did break For which er long himselfe was after shent Thus while base minds their wroÌ„gs do basely wreak They do that once that often they repent And curse that time a thousand times too late When they pursude their vnreuenged hate 5 With fainting heart for sin is full of feare By stealing steps from hence he doth depart And as he goes he prieth here and there His fearefull looke bewrayes his guiltie hart Not yet his dread doth moue him to forbeare To heape more sin vpon this ill desart Appald with feare but toucht with no remorse Supposing she was slaine he takes her horse 6 But let him go vntill another time For I do meane hereafter you shall heare How he was dealt with when his double crime In secret wrought most open did appeare Now vnto
as three nights But this I submit to the iudgement of learned Diuines The colour and embrodery of Bradamants bases in the 47. staffe betokening desperation is there shewed I need not long to stand vpon for as for those hidden misteries of colours with their applications of blue to constancie twanie forsaken white to virginitie and the rest they are very well knowne to all our gallant Gentlemen who often haue more cost in their clothes and wit in their colours then coyne in their coffers or learning in their heads Of the Island Queene that sent the shield of gold to France which Bradamant thought would but breed quarrels Fornarius noteth that mine Author did therein couertly allude to a matter betweene England and France for Ariosto liued in Henry the eight his time and maketh very honorable mention of him But thus it was After the death of Lewes of France Marie the younger sister of K. Henrie the eight remaining his Dowager our King sent for his sister to come into England but Francis the first loth she should go out of France in respect of the great dower she should carry with her which by the custome of that country was a third part of the reuenue of the Crowne and yet fearing to have warres with king Henrie made this offer that if he would send some braue man at armes that could win her in the field he should haue her our King made no dainties to accept the offer and making it knowne to his Court Sir Charles Brandon tooke the matter on him and in fine ouercomming foure French men with the franke consent of both Kings married the Queene Dowager and was here in England as we all know made Duke of Suffolk of whose offspring there remaine yet some most worthy branches but the like to him for armes and cauallary as we terme it is my noble good Lord the Lord Strange whose value and vertue need not this my barren and briefe testimonie The end of the annotations vpon the xxxij booke THE XXXIII BOOKE THE ARGVMENT Faire Bradamant sees grau'n by passing art The future wars of France vpon a screene Bayardos flight the combat fierce doth part Renaldo and the Serican beweene Astolso hauing past the greater part Of all the world and many countries seene Vnto Senapos kingdome last arriues And from his boord the foule Harpias driues 1 TYmagoras Parrhasius Polignote Timant Protogenes Apollodore With Zewces one for skill of special note Apelles eke plast all the rest before Whose skill in drawing all the world doth note And talke of still to writers thanks therefore Whose works and bodies time and death did wast Yet spite of time and death their fames doth last 2 With others that in these our later dayes Haue liu'd as Leonard and Iohn Belline And he that carues and drawes with equall praise Michell more then a man Angell diuine And Flores whom the Flemmings greatly praise And Raphael and Titian passing fine With diuers others that by due desart Do ment in this praise to haue a part 3 Yet all these cunning drawers with their skill Could not attaine by picture to expresse What strange euents should happen well or ill In future times no not so much as guesse This art is proper vnto Magike still Or to a Prophet or a Prophetesse By this rare art the Brittish Merlin painted Strange things with which our age hath bin acquainted 4 He made by Magike art that stately hall And by the selfe same art he could to be Strange histories ingraued on the wall Which as I said the guests desir'd to see Now when they were from supper risen all The pages lighted torches two or three Making the roome to shine as bright as day When to his guests the owner thus did say 5 I would quoth he my guests that you should know That these same stories that here painted are Of future warres the sequels sad do show That shall to Italie bring wo and care Whereas the French full many a bloodie blow Shall take while others they to harme prepare As Merlin here hath layd downe being sent From English Arthur chiefe for this intent 6 King Feramont that was the first that past The streame of Rhine with armie great of France And being in possession quiet plast Of all those parts sturd with so luckie chance Straight in ambitious thought began to cast His rule and scepter higher to aduance Which that he might to passe the better bring He made a league with Arthur English king 7 Informing him how that his meaning was Of Italie the rule and crowne to get And askt his ayd to bring the same to passe Which neuer had atchieued bin as yet Now Merlin that did all men far surpasse In Magike art his purpose sought to let For Merlin had with Arthur so great credit He thought all Gospell was if once he sed it 8 This Merlin then did first to Arthur show And then by Arthur was of purpose sent To Fieramont of France to let him know The cause why he misliked his intent As namely many mischiefs that would grow To all that now or that hereafter ment The like attempt aduising him abstaine From certaine trouble for vncertaine gaine 9 And that he might his courage more appall And quite remoue him from this enterprise He made by Magicke this so stately hall Adorned as you see in sumptuous wise And drew these histories vpon the wall That what he saw in mind they might with eyes And thereby know that in Italian ground The Flour de luce can near take root profound 10 And how as often as the French shall come As frends to aid and free them from distresse So oft they shall their foes all ouercome And fight with honor great and good successe But be they sure to haue that place their toome If so they come their freedome to oppresse Thus much the owner of the house them told And so went on the storie to vntold 11 Lo first how Sigisbert in hope of gaine And promises of Emperour Mauricius Doth passe the mountaines with a mightie traine With mind to Lombardie to be pernicious But Ewtar driues him backe by force againe When he of such attempt is least suspicious So that his enterprise is quite reuersed Himselfe doth flie and leaue his men dispersed 12 Next after him the proud Clodoueus went And had with him one hundred thousand men But him doth meet the Duke of Beneuent With searse for eu'rie hundred souldiers ten Who doth intrap him in an ambushment So as the French might well be lik'ned then While Lombard wines too greedily they tooke To fish beguiled with a baited hooke 13 Straight Childibertus with a mightie host Doth come with mind to wipe away this blot But of his gainings he may make small bost For of his purpose he preuailed not His enterprise by heau'nly sword is croft The plague doth grow among his men so hot What with the
ORLANDO FVRIOSO IN ENGLISH HEROICAL VERSE BY IOHN HARINGTOÌ„ OF BATHE KNIGHT Now secondly imprinted the yeere 1607. Principibus placuisse viris non vltima laus est Horace A NOTE OF THE MATTERS CONTAINED IN THIS WHOLE VOLVME The Epistle dedicatorie to the Queenes Maiestie The Apologie An aduertisement to the Reader The first xxiij Cantos or bookes of Orlando Furioso ending with Orlandos falling mad The other xxiij Cantos of Orlando Furioso in which he recouered his wits ending with Bradamants marriage A generall Allegorie of the whole The life of Ariosto The Table of the booke The Tales TO THE MOST EXCELLENT VERTVOVS AND NOBLE PRINCESSE ELIZABETH BY THE GRACE OF GOD QVEENE OF ENGLAND FRANCE AND IRELAND DEFENDER OF THE FAITH c. MOST Renowned most worthy to be most renowned soueraigne Ladie I presume to offer to your Highnes this first part of the fruit of the litle garden of my slender skill It hath bene the longer in growing and is the lesse worthie the gathering because my ground is barren too cold for such daintie Italian fruites being also perhaps ouershaded with trees of some older growth but the beams of your blessed countenance vouchsafing to shine on so poore a soile shal soone disperse all hurtful mists that wold obscure it and easily dissolue all whether they be Mel-dews or Fel-dews that would starue this shallow set plant I desire to be briefe because I loue to be plaine VVhatsoeuer I am or can is your Maiesties Your gracious fauours haue bene extended in my poore familie euen to the third generation your bountie to vs and our heirs VVherefore this though vnperfect and vnworthie worke I humbly recommend to that gracious protection vnder which I enioy all in which I can take ioy If your Highnesse wil reade it who dare reiect it if allow it who can reproue it if protect it what MOMVS barking or ZOILVS biting can any way hurt or annoy it And thus most humbly crauing pardon for this boldnesse I cease to write though I will not cease to wish that your high felicities may neuer cease Your most humble seruant IOHN HARINGTON A PREFACE OR RATHER A BRIEFE APOLOGIE OF POETRIE AND OF THE Author and Translator of this Poeme THe learned Plutarch in his Laconicall Apothegmes tels of a Sophister that made a long and tedious Oration in praise of Hercules and expecting at the end thereof for some great thankes and applause of the hearers a certaine Lacedemonian demanded him who had dispraised Hercules Me thinkes the like may be now said to me taking vpon me the defence of Poesie for surely if learning in generall were of that account among vs as it ought to be aâ—ong all men and is among wise men then should this my Apologie of Poesie the very first nurse and auncient grandmother of all learning be as vaine and supersluous as was that Sophisters because it might then be answered and truly answered that no man disgraced it But sith we liue in such a time in which nothing can escape the enuious tooth and backiting tongue of an impure mouth and wherein euery blind corner hath a squint-eyed Zoilus that can looke aright vpon no mans doings yea sure there be some that will not sticke to call Hercules himselfe a dastard because forsooth he fought with a club and not at the rapier and dagger therefore I thinke no man of iudgement will iudge this my labour needlesse in seeking to remoue away those slaunders that either the malice of those that loue it not or the folly of those that vnderstand it not hath deuised against it for indeed as the old saying is Scientia non habet inimicum praeter ignorantem Knowledge hath no soe but the ignorant But now because I make account I haue to deale with three sundrie kinds of reprouers one of those that condemne all Poetrie which how strong head soeuer they haue I count but a very weake faction another of those that allow Poetrie but not this particular Poeme of which kind sure there cannot be many a third of those that can beare with the art and like of the worke but will find fault with my not well handling of it which they may not onely probably but I doubt too truly do being a thing as commonly done as said that where the hedge is lowest there doth euery man go ouer Therefore against these three I must arme me with the best defensiue weapons I can and if I happen to giue a blow now and then in mine owne defence and as good fencers vse to ward and strike at once I must craue pardon of course seeing our law allowes that is done se defendendo and the law of nature teacheth vim vi repellere First therefore of Poetrie it selfe for those few that generally disallow it might be sufficient to alledge those many that generally approue it of which I could bring in such an armie not of souldiers but of famous Kings and captaines as not onely the sight but the very sound of them were able to vanquish and dismay the small forces of our aduersaries For who would once dare to oppose himselfe against so many Alexanders Caesars Scipios to omit infinite other Princes both of former and later ages and of forraine and nearer countries that with fauour with studie with practise with example with honors with gifts with preferments with great and magnificent cost haue encouraged and aduanced Poets and Poetrie As witnesse the huge Theaters and Amphitheaters monuments of stupendious charge made onely for Tragedies and Comedies the workes of Poets to be represented on but all these aides and defences I leaue as supersluous my cause I count so good and the euidence so open that I neither need to vse the countenance of any great state to bolster it nor the cunning of any suttle lawyer to enforce it my meaning is plainely and bonafide confessing all the abuses that can truly be obiected against some kind of Poets to shew you what good vse there is of Poetrie Neither do I suppose it to be greatly behouefull for this purpose to trouble you with the curious definitions of a Poet and Poesie and with the subtill distinctions of their sundrie kinds nor to dispute how high and supernaturall the name of a Maker is so christned in English by that vnknowne Godfather that this last yeare saue one viz. 1589. set forth a booke called the Art of English Poetrie and least of all do I purpose to bestow any long time to argue whether Plato Zenophon and Erasmus writing fictions and dialogues in prose may iustly be called Poes or whether Lucan writing a storie in verse be an Historiographer or whether Master Faire translating Virgil Master Golding translating Ouids Metamorphosis and my selfe in this worke that you see be any more then versifiers as the same Ignoto termeth all translators for as for all or the most part of such questions I will referre you to Sir Philip Sidneys Apologie
forrain nations but yet we may note withall an inconuenience that comes many times with it to see some Angelicas naked that will tempt men of very stanch gouernment and staid yeares to that which they shall after repent as Rogero did this his wantonnesse as appears more plainly in the next booke where you shall find he lost both his horse and the ring by the vngratefulnesse of Angelica For the matter historicall of this tenth booke there is litle to be said and nothing to be affirmed for the succors sent to France from England Scotland Ireland and many places thereabouts though I cannot affirme precisely of the time yet sure it is that many have bin sent hence against the Turk to France and elsewhere And whereas he speakes of S. Patrick the Irish Saint I would haue them that would know the story of him to look in Surius de vitis Sanctorum and there they may see it at large for mine owne part at my being in Ireland where I taried a few moneths I was inquisitiue of their opinion of this Saint and I could learne nothing other then a reuerent conceit that they had of him as becomes all Christians to haue of deuout men and chiefly of those by whom they are first instructed in the Christian faith but for his purgatory I found neither any that affirmed it or beleeued it Logestillas castle the ornaments thereof the herbs of the garden all these figure the true magnificence glory comfort and vtilitie of vertue The foure Ladies sent to rescue Rogero are the foure Cardinall vertues which being well vnited together are able to ouerthrow whole nauies of vicious pleasures And so whatsoeuer else is spoken of Logestilla in Allegory is taken for vertue In Angelica tied to the rock and deliuered by Rogero he alludes manifestly to the tale in Ouid of Andromade and Perseus who with his shield turned the beholders into stones THE ELEVENTH BOOKE THE ARGVMENT Angelica doth hide her selfe away By vertue of the ring Rogero lent her Rogero sees a gyant beare away His spouse halfe dead and greatly doth lament her Orlando at the I le of woe doth stay Where many women meete but hard aduenter Here be the monster kild Olympia freed To marrie whom Oberto soone agreed 1 THe galiant courser in his full carrire Is made by man to stop with slâ—nder raigne But man himselfe his lust and fond desire Is seldome drawn by reason to refraine T is hard to stop but harder to retire When youthfull course ensueth pleasure vaine As Bears do breake the hiues and weake defences When smell of honie commeth to their sences 2 No maruell if Rogero could not hold But that he would now take a little sport That naked did Angelica behold Within a groue alone from all resort His loue to Bradamant now waxeth cold Or at the least is temperd in such sort He meanes therewith at this time to dispence And not to let this go a maiden hence 3 Whose beautie was so rare as well it might Haue made Zenocrates an Epicure No maruell then if this same gentle knight Could not so great temptation well endure But while he hastend to his hopt delight Of which he thought him in possession sure There fell a strange and vnexpected thing By meanes Angelica did know the ring 4 This was the ring that she with her had brought To France the verie first time she was there What time by ayd thereof so well she wrought She holp her brother to th'inchanted speare By vertue of this ring she set at nought Those magicke arts that men so greatly feare With this Orlando Countie Palladine She did release from wicked Dragontine 5 By helpe of this inuisible she went Out of the towre where Atlant had her set For this same ring Brunello false was sent By Agramant who longd the same to get To tell that storie is not my intent For feare it might my other matter let But certaine t is that when this ring was lost In fortunes waues she had bene euer tost 6 Now when she saw this ring was on her hand She was so strooke with maruell and with ioy That scarce she could discerne and vnderstand If she were wake or if she dreamd sometoy But to make triall how the case doth stand And know if she this treasure doth inioy Into her mouth the ring she doth conuay And straight inuisible she goeth away 7 Rogero that each minute thought an howre His armour of and readie for the play Expecting now the damsell in a bowre Where he had pointed her for him to stay Found all to late that by the rings strange powre She had vnseene conuayd her selfe away He lent it her to saue her eyes from blindnesse And for reward she quits him with vnkindnesse 8 With which her act dipleasd and ill apaid He curst himselfe and chased in his mind O cruell and vnthankfull wench he said Is this the loue that I deseru'd to find Dost thou reward him thus that brought thee aid To thy preseruer art thou so vnkind Take ring and shield and flying horse and me This onely barre me not thy face to see 9 This said he goâ—th about where she had beene Still groping as the weather had bin darke Embracing oft the aire his armes betweene In steed of her then heedfull he doth harke To find her by the sound that was not seene And whence the same doth come he wel doth mark But on went she vntill it was her lote To come into a silly shepheards cote 10 And though this same were far from any towne Yet there she quickly did her selfe prouide Of meate and drinke and of a simple gowne Sufficient for the time her bare to hide Not suting for a Ladie of renowne That had bin euer clad in pompe and pride Had gownes of crimson purple and carnasion Of eu'ry colour and of eu'ry fashion 11 But yet no kind of weed so base or ill is Her of her princely beautie to bereaue They that so much extoll faire Amarillis Or Galate do but them themselues deceaue Cease Tyterus to praise thy golden Phillis Peace Melebe this passes by your leaue Ye souldiers all that serue in Cupids garrison May not presume with this to make comparison 12 Now here the damsell faire a palfrey hired With other things most needfull for her way And means to her owne home to haue retired From whence she had bin absent many a day The while Rogero now with trauell tired Lamenting he had lost so faire a pray Doth seeke his horse who had not long bin idle But in his masters absence brake his bridle 13 Which when he found the raines in peeces torne The horse soard far away with mightie wing How could such haps with patientnesse be borne Of one great losse to find a greater spring He sitteth in a dumpe like one forlorne For losse of her his horse and of his ring Whose vertue great did make
him much repent it But yet much more her vertue that had sent it 14 And in this rage he puts his armor on And on his shoulder carieth his shield Pursuing that first path he lights vpon He found it brought him to a goodly field On side whereof when he a while had gone It seemd the wood adioynd some sound did yeeld And still the neare and nearer that he goes The plainer sound he heard of sturdy bloes 15 A combat twixt a Giant and a Knight He sees hard by most furiously begunne The Giant with a club doth think by might The battell of the tother to haue wonne The tother with his sword and nimble fight His furious blowes with watchfull eye doth shunne Rogero seeing this great inequalitie Yet standeth still and shewes no partialitie 16 But in his mind he wisht the Knight to win When lo the Giant with new fury fed To lay on lode with both hands doth begin And with one blow he layes him downe for dead And straight in cruell sort he steppeth in For to disarme him and cut off his head But when the Giant had the face disarmed Rogero knew the partie he had harmed 17 He saw it was his Bradamant most deare Whom this same Giant would haue made to die Wherefore with courage stout he steppeth neare The Giant to new combat to defie Who either heares him not or would not heare Or meaneth not a conflict new to trie But tooke her vp and on his shoulders layd her And so in hast away from thence conuayd her 18 So haue I seene a wolfe to beare away A lambe from shepheards fold so haue I seene An Eagle on a silly Doue to pray And soare aloft the skie and earth betweene Rogero hies him after as he may Vntill he came vnto a goodly greene But th' other eu'ry step so much out stept him That in his view Rogero scantly kept him 19 But now a while of him I speake no more And to Orlando I returne againe Who hauing lost the sight of Holland shore Did hasten to Ebuda with much paine I did declare not many books before How he Cymoscos engin strange did gaine And to the bottome of the sea did throw it That none might find it out againe or know it 20 And though his meaning and intent was so Yet vaine it was as after was perceiued For why that serpent vile our auncient so That Eua first in Paradise deceiued Not much aboue two hundred yeares ago As we from our forefathers haue receiued From out the sea by necromancie brought it And then in Almanie afresh they wrought it 21 They wrought it both in iron and in brasse The cunning and the art increasing still As oft by proofe we find it comes to passe The worse the worke the greater growes the skill And to each kind a name assignd there was According to the first inuenters will To tell the names of all were but a trouble Some demicanons some are called double 22 The Culâ—erings to shoot a bullet farre The Falcon â—aker â—iniâ—n and the Sling Not armed men but walled townes to marre Such 〈◊〉 force is in this hellish thing Ye souldiers braue and valiant men of warre Now cease to field your manly darts to bring And get a hargubush vpon your shoulder Or elâ—e in vaine you sue to be a souldier 23 How didst thou find oh filthy foule inuention A harbor â—afe in any humane hart Thou mak'st a coward get the souldiers pension And souldiers braue thou robst of due desart Whole millions haue bin slaine as stories mention Since first 〈◊〉 was this wicked art France Italy and England chiefe may rew it Since first they vsd this art and first they knew it 24 The English bowmen may go burne their boes And breake their 〈◊〉 and cut in two the string That weapon now may keepe the corne from croes That did the French at Agincourt so sting But to that wight I wish a world of woes That did to light deuice so diu'llish bring Let him be giu'n into the hands of Sathan To be tormented ay with Câ—re and Dathan 25 Now good 〈◊〉 though he greatly striued With speed to get him to the I le of wo Yet first the Irish King was there arriued By chance or else that God would haue it so Because it might the better be contriued On wrongfull wights his iudgements iust to show But when â— bâ—â—â— once in sight appeared Orlando all the companie straight cheared 26 And putting off his armes of colour sable He bids the master out to launch his boate And in the same anker strong and cable With which he meanâ—s vnto this I le to floate Not doubting if lucke serue he will be able To put the anker in the monsters throate And thus alone the noble Knight doth venter Into the Iâ—e â— buda then to enter 27 Now was the time when as Aurora faire Began to shew the world her golden head And looke abroade to take the coole fresh aire 〈◊〉 lying still in iealous bed When as Orlando hither did repaire By two blind guides Cupid and Fortune led When lo vnto the shore his shipboate turning He seemd to heare a noise as one were mourning 28 At which strange sound casting his eye aside He might discerne a goodly damsell naked With armes abrode vnto the rocke fast tide That what with cold and what with terror shaked Eftsoones the hideous monster he espide Whose light might well haue made stout harts haue quaked Orlandâ—â—â—nd â—â—nd therewith is not 〈◊〉 Nor his high courage any wâ—â—â— abated 29 He gets betweene the monster and his pray That pray that he so hotly doth pursue And for before he was resolu'd what way He would attempt the monster to subdue Vpon his shoulder doth the anker lay And when he came within his vgly vew Euen mauger all his malice might and rancor Into his open iawes he beares the ancor 30 As they that dig in mine of cole or stone The same in sundry places vnderprop Lest it should fall when least they thinke thereon And so their breath or else their passage stop So is this anker fastend in the bone Both in the bottome of his mouth and top That though he would againe he could not close it Nor wider open it for to vnlose it 31 Now hauing gagd his hideous chaps so sure That out and in he can with safetie go He enters with his sword the place obscure And there bestoweth many a thrust and blow And as that citie cannot be secure That hath within her wals receiu'd her fo No safer could this Orke be now from danger That in his entrals hath receiu'd a stranger 32 But griped now with pangs of inward paine Sometime he plungeth vp vnto the skie Sometime he diueth to the deepe againe And makes the troubled sands to mount on hie Orlando feels the sea come in amaine That forced him at last his swimming trie He swims to shore with body
hunter and a cuckold and for that cause seyned to haue had hornes for the latter of the two properties and to haue bene deuoured with his own dogs for the former because he was beggered and consumed by them Aglaure 307. daughter of Erictheus king of Athens she is said to haue bene turned to a stone and her fault was this because she presumed to looked vpon Ericthonius that was committed to her custodie by Pallas with charge not to presume to open the basket he was kept in Agramant Emperour of the Turkes sonne of Trai mo alias king of Affricke alias the Southern king He came into Fraunce to auenge his fathers death pag. 1. He besiegeth Parish very straightly 61 musters his men 103. assaulteth Paris 110. continueth his assault 113.122 is repulsed and besieged in his tents 142. is rescued 217. is troubled with the contention of his Princes and labours to compound them ibid. is discomfited by Renaldo 254. slieth to Arly 255. heares of the siege of Biserta 320. his Oration to Marsilio Sobrino and the other Princes ibidem his challenge on Rogeros head 322. takes an oth of truce 323. breakes the truce 326. discomfited by land 331. flies to sea ibidem his men mutinous ibidem discomfited at sea by Dudon 332. flyes and would kill himselfe 336. meets Gradasso 337. sends a chalenge to Orlando three to three 337. his stout answers to Brandimart 345. sights and is disarmed by Brandimart 348. is slaine by Orlando 352. Agricane king of Tartane and father to Mandricard pag. 7. Albracca a towne in the East Indies pag. 7. Alcyna a famous witch or Faerie She tooke Astolso and transformed him to a mirtle pag. 44. entertaines Rogero 50. the discription of her beauty ib. the description of her deformitie 53. she pursues Roger by land 58. by sea 59 she is discomfited by Logestilla ibid. Aldiger bastard sonne of Bono entertaineth Rogero the 35. booke staffe 63. hurt by Mandricard pag. 210. Almonio a Scot seruant to Zerbium saued in the tempest with Isabella 96. goes to Rochell 97. findes Zerbino 194. brings Odericke prisoner ibidem executes him and Gabrina booke 24. staffe 36. Alzird a gallant young man king of Tremisen kild by Orlando 93. Amalthea was Iupiters nurse By Amaltheas horne is signified plentie Amazons looke tales 153. Amazons a nation of warlike women so named of â— and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is to say without papps or of â— and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without bread because they feed on flesh onely Angelica called also the Indian Queene daughter of Galafron came from India with Orlando and is taken from him by the Emperour Charles pag. 2. giuen to the Duke of Bauier to keep and scapeth out of his tent ib. meets with Renaldo and runnes from him ibidem she meets Sacrapant and goes with him pag. 5. helpes him to take Bayardo pag. 6. meets Renaldo againe pag. 7. leaues Renaldo and Sacrapant and meets with an Hermit pag. 10. flyes from him and is pursued by him pag. 59. her horse possest with a spirit caries her into the sea and after to land ibidem her lamentation ibidem she is cast into a sleepe by the Hermit but yet he is not able to winne her maidenhead pag. 60. She is caried to the I le of Ebuda 61. tyed naked at the shore ibid. is found by Rogero and deliuered 79. vanisheth from him by helpe of the ring 82. her beautie 83. she comes to Atlants enchaunted Pallace and by the ring would disclose her selfe onely to Sacrapant 90. she is seene followed by Orlando and Ferraw 91. vanisheth from them ibid. takes away Orlandos helmet 92. she is sory because Ferraw gat it ibidem she findes Medore wounded 147. heales him woes him weds him 148. giues her host the bracelet Orlando had giuen her ibidem meets with Orlando in his madnesse 238. scapes from him and goes to the Indies and giues her whole state to Medore 242. Anglant the place of Orlandos Earldome Anselmus Earle of Maganza father of Pinabelle buries his son 179. condemnes Zerbino wrongfully 180. Anselmus a Doct. of law looke tales p. 364. staffe 67. Antheus a giant of great strength and statute sonne of Neptune and the earth looke in the historie of the 23. booke Aquilant brother to Griffino sonnes of Marques Oliuero the elder fights with Orillo 117. goes to Ierusalem 11â—â— meets with Martano 139. beats him brings him and Origille to Damalco 140. goes towards France 142. is in a tempest ibidem came to the country of the Amazons 149. Icapeth thence 157. taken prisoner by Pinabell 172. goes with Renaldo to rescue Charles 252. is at Bradamants mariage 402. Arachme an excellent women in needle worke and weauing and is sayned to haue compared with Pallas in that kinde and therefore to be turned to a spyder Ardenna a huge forrest or thicket in France where he fayneth the two fountaines of loue and disdaine pag. 7. Arethusa daughter of Nereus and Doris one of Dianes companions till Alphcus rauished her and gather with child whereupon Diana turned her into a riuer bearing her name Argalia sonne of Galafron brother to Angelica slaine by Ferraw his ghost appeares to him pag. 3. Argia wife of Polinyse her husband being killed the tyrant Creon forbidding one payne of death to bury him yet she buried him and liued euer after a widdow 307. Argia looke tales 164. Ariodant a Gentleman of Italie a louer of Genewra 33 fight with Lurcanio and is parted 38. is knowne to the king of Scots 41. is married to Genewra 42. rescues Zerâ—ino in France 125. and is no more spoken of by the author Arria wife of Peto of Padon her husband and being condemned kild her selfe in his fight protecting that death was pleasâ—nt to her so long as she left him aliue 307. Artimesia wife of Mansoleus she built that famous sepulcher for her husband that was counted one of the wonders of the world in honor of which all sumptuous tombes since are called Mausolea Astolfo king of Lombardie looke tales 225. Astolfo called the English Duke sonne of Oton king of England turned into a mittle 43. warnes Rogero of Alcina ibid. comes to Logestilla 58. goes from Logestilla 114. receiues a booke of her and a borne ibidem takes Calligorant 116. ouercomes Orillo 118. goes to Damasco 140 meets Martisa 141. takes her part ibid. goes toward France 142. is in a tempest ibidem comes to the Amazons countrey 149. with his horne seareth the Amazons 157 turnes to England 169. dislolues the inchanted Pallace 170. gets the Griffith horse 171. meets Bradamant 177. leaues his horse Rabican his armour and the inchanted speare with her 178. goes about the world 274. comes to Senapo 275. driues away the Harpias 281. heares the wosull tale of Lidia ibid. stops vp the mouth of the caue 284. washes himselfe at a well ibidem goes vp to Paradise 285. conferres with S. Iohn ibid. receiues by his meanes Orlandos wit 287. sees