"ORLANDO ENRAGED" "FOURTH PART" "Have hoped that my Rogero would appear," "I, not beholding him in all that space," "Of many evil chances live in fear." "But behold, meanwhile here my woeful case" "I am weeping alone, to me draws near" "The dame, who with that healing ring made sound" "The bosom rankling with Alcina's wound." "When her I see, without my love returned," "Sore trembling, faint, and pale, I am thus turned." "Be now glad for I joyful tidings bear." "Thee console will I, who magic robe wear." "Full of hope wert thou whom I left above," "Languid now, lost in all the pains of love." "Fear not for thy Rogero: he is well" "And safe, my dear, and ever worships thee," "As wonted; but thy foe, that wizard fell," "Him yet again deprives of liberty." "But if thou wendest with me, I will lead" "Whither, by thee Rogero shall be freed." "O frauds and magic of Atlantes hoar!" "They are enticed into the enchanted hall," "And then fall senseless all who pass before;" "Thus is how dames and cavaliers he cheats" "Who thither make resort, with like deceits." "In front of the magician's castle," "Bradamant tries to find Rogero and free him from the enchantment." "She doesn't know that Atlantes is taking away Rogero from her only to save him from his destiny." "In fact, the powerful magician has read in the stars that the Saracen knight would marry Bradamante but then would die in the Christian army." "Rogero I now see, whom till this day" "I have seen not, by Atlantes rendered blind." "Of Bradamant dream I?" "Whom till this day" "I have seen not, by Atlantes rendered blind." "And our fair love its first blossoms now clips," "We gentle couple gather from our lips." "A thousand times let our embrace renew." "And closely each be by the other prest;" "While so delighted are we lovers two," "Our joys are ill contained within our breast." "Deluded by enchantments, much I rue" "We should not e'er have one another known" "And have so many happy days foregone." "O my Rogero, I am i' the vein" "To grant whatever prudent virgin might" "To solace her desiring lover's pain" "If the last fruits thou of my love wouldst gain," "Me of Duke Aymon through fair mean demand;" "But be baptized before thou claimest my hand." "My good lady, I not alone to be" "A Christian for the love of thee am fain," "As my good sire had been, and anciently" "My grandsire and my whole illustrious strain," "But for thy beauty I'd immediately" "Resign whatever doth of life remain," "Thus, I not only, if 'tis thy desire," "Will be baptized by water, but by fire." "Then on my way to be baptized I hie," "That I may next espouse my martial may," "And I will show thee where the path doth lie" "To Vallombrosa's fane, an abbey gray," "Rich, fair, nor less religious." "Let's go by" "The road through the forest but in a chase," "I tarry with a passing woful face." "I of Maganza am a count, who bore" "The lady with me (Pinabello hight):" "The same who Bradamant, some months before," "Has plunged into a hollow cave in spite." "I do now for long time with earnest prayer," "For courtesy, my good Rogero, press," "To let her from his sell the warrior bear." "To thy ill deeds may wait, o cavalier," "God's justice thee, ill-doer, thither drew." "Look thou at me whom, before the Cheat, me Bradamant, didst subdue by deceit." "Through wood and field my courser did I goad," "Often inquiring for the royal dame:" "Beside myself with none, I rode my road," "And to the foot of rising mountain came." "There is flicker of a quivering flame." "And I now to the rock approach, to spy" "If there Angelica concealed may lie." "Threading the shrubs;" "nor calling for a guide," "I enter the passage in the mount's side." "O comrades, look thither!" "Lo!" "in the net" "Another bird for whom it was not set!" "In the mid cave, beside a fire is seen" "A gentle maid of pleasing look and guise;" "Who seems to me now little past fifteen," "As far as at first sight I may surmise." "With that so fair she makes the rugged scene" "Seem in my very sight a paradise." "Although this while her eyes with tears o'erflow," "Clear tokens of a heart oppressed with woe." "Voiceless, confused in look I seem to be," "At the same time beholding thus appear" "So fierce a wight, and harnessed cap-a-pee." "What wight, ask I, Anglantes' cavalier," "So barbarous is, and void of courtesy," "That he keeps buried, in this rude repair," "A face so gentle and so passing fair?" "Lo!" "She is Isabel, who once was styled" "The daughter of Gallicia's hapless king:" "Thou saidst aright I was;" "but now the child" "(No longer his) of care and suffering:" "Praise in her eyes alone Zerbino won," "Who was the mighty king of Scotland's son." "Chance into the ruffians' power her conveyed," "She's prisoned in the cell, this royal maid," "They to violate thy person sought not;" "Though nothing good or virtuous on them wrought." "But that they knew, for me preserved a maid," "As yet I am, they higher price might crave." "Eight months are past, the ninth arrived, since, stayed" "By them, alive she wastes in this grave." "All hope is lost of my Zerbino's aid:" "For from their speech I gather, as a slave," "I am bartered to a merchant for his gold;" "By whom she to the sultan will be sold." "Some twenty men the gloomy cavern fill;" "This armed with hunting-spear, and that with bill." "I say, fair cavalier, I never knew" "A man more opportune my wants to stead;" "Of such fair arms I had need very true," "As well as of that goodly sable weed." "You verily arrived in season are" "My needs, which I all pursue, to repair." "Thou, o vile ruffian, these arms shalt buy" "With a brand smouldering in the chimney nigh," "One has his belly crushed, and one his breast;" "Another head or arm, or leg and thigh." "Whence some are slain outright, and maimed the rest," "Fair sir, to thee my demand is applied," "I pray thou wilt not leave me here alone." "I vow to follow whither thou wilt guide." "Maiden, I thee console in courteous tone:" "And hence, since with a wreath of roses tied" "About her brows, and robed in purple gown," "On wonted journey white Aurora starts," "The paladin with Isabel departs." "I, ancient woman and assassin's friend," "Escape when I perceive that all are dead," "Lament, and pluck the hair from off my head." "And, threading this green labyrinth without end," "I shall flee by path obscure and unknown," "Still fearing lest my visage should be known." "That is Gabrina, who had wont to ply" "Serving the robbers in the caverned mount;" "In a strange coincidence," "Zerbino, who is Isabella's lover, comes to rescue Gabrina from the beggars' reprisal." "Who will from these people set me free?" "Take me, fair sir, to safety on thy steed." "Old char, the courteous sorry will not be:" "Come, that on the good path I may thee lead." "Let us stop now here because left and right," "We from the people hear a mournful cry;" "Of this I ask the occasion." "And 'twas said" "Tidings had been to Count Anselmo brought," "That Pinnabel, his son, was lying dead" "In a streight way between two mountains wrought." "He of a beauteous girdle is undrest," "And I secure this underneath my vest." "Let hither, my servants, the funeral bier" "Arrive, 'mid torch and flambeau, let the cries" "Be yet more thick when they come to the ear." "Water all cheeks, with the tears from the eyes;" "But in a cloud more dismal than the rest," "Be my unhappy father's visage drest." "While solemn preparation so is made" "For the grand obsequies, with reverence due," "I promise any one a mighty gain" "That will denounce by whom my son was slain." "I come to thee to gain the promised prize;" "I to seek out the grieving county fly." "To me the girdle which hidden here lies;" "Zerbino gave, through whom thy son did die." "This night in prison, fettered with a pair" "Of heavy letters, be Zerbino chained." "For before yet the skies illuminated are," "His rightful execution be ordained." "And in the place will he be quartered, where" "The deed was done for which he is arraigned." "Of men on the other shore I catch sight," "Carrying to death a sorrowful knight." "A man is put to death on yonder land" "By Count Anselmo d'Altaripa's hand." "Fair maiden, waiting for me here remain." "For I will cross the river to that plane." "Why HE who with the innocent oft sides," "Nor those abandons who make him their stay," "For wretched me no such defence provides," "But rather wills that I shall die to-day?" "O ye vile rabble, hear my voice: untie" "The cavalier, unless you would be slain." "Who against us his voice so strong doth strain?" "Who deals such mighty blows?" "I make reply." "I am Orlando, paladin of France," "Who promptly at thee losel couch my lance." "Since I am without pity on this day," "Will none escape whom I have power to slay." "Well Sir Orlando me, by thy mind's eye," "Deemed innocent, and wrongly doomed to die." "My Zerbino!" "I see my lover's front," "And pale with sudden joy grow but too well." "I am without delay or scruple prest" "To cast my arms about my lover dear;" "And not a word can draw-forth from my breast," "But bathe thy neck and face with briny tear." "When by myself is at my side surveyed" "The lady, who by me was held so dear;" "I feel as if ice at my heart had been laid," "But the chill quickly passes, and instead," "Am flushed with amorous fire, from foot to head." "Among wolves the lamb was saved pure and well." "Kiss thou her cheeks with the descending tear." "And now we together our thanks can tell" "That are due to Anglantes' cavalier." "Its course in pathless woods as without rein," "My unguided horse has pursued astray." "Now I have reached a rill of crystal vein," "Here I put an end to my toils and stay." "Turning me round, I here, on many a tree," "Behold engraved, upon the woody shore," "What as the writing of my deity" "I know, as soon as I have marked the lore." "In a hundred knots, a hundred abodes," "Angelica and Medoro are dight;" "Whose many letters are so many goads," "Which Love has in my bleeding heart-core pight." "Splay-footed ivy, with its mantling spray," "And gadding vine, the cavern's entry case;" "Here often in the hottest noon of day" "The pair had rested, locked in fond embrace." "Within the grotto, and without it, they" "Had oftener than in any other place" "With charcoal or with chalk their names pourtrayed," "Or flourished with the knife's indenting blade." "But this Arabic writ I make pretence" "To translate now;" "and such in ours the sense." "Gay plants, green herbage, rill of limpid vein," "And, grateful with cool shade, thou gloomy cave," "Where oft, by many wooed with fruitless pain," "Beauteous Angelica, the child of grave" "King Galaphron, within my arms has lain;" "For the convenient harbourage you gave," "I, poor Medoro, can but in my lays," "As recompence, for ever sing your praise." "Three times, and four, and six, the lines imprest" "Upon the stone I, wretch, peruse, in vain" "Seeking another sense than is exprest," "And ever see the thing more clear and plain;" "With mind and eyes close fastened on the block," "At length I stand, not differing from the rock." "I, fair cavalier, to allay the heat," "With which I see thee now so troubled, thought:" "Hear a tale I am wonted to repeat," "Of two lovers and to many I taught." "How Angelica in beauty most rare," "Hither to my farm carried young Medore," "Grievously wounded with an arrow; where," "In little space she healed the angry sore." "Love kindled from small spark so fierce a fire," "She burnt all over, restless with desire:" "Nor thinking she of mightiest king was born," "Who ruled in the east, nor of her heritage," "Forced by too puissant love, had thought no scorn" "To be the consort of a poor foot-page." "I see Orlando, in his furious mood," "Who from his folly is hither pursued." "Nigh buried in their sockets are his eyes," "Spare in his visage, and as dry as bone:" "Dishevelled is his hair in woeful wise," "With frightful beard his cheek is overgrown." "We want to turn and flee but know not where," "As happens, we are caught in sudden dread." "The madman in a thought is in our rear," "He comes nearer with mighty arms widespread." "Twice he ten peasants slaughtered in his mood," "Who, charging him in disarray, were slain;" "So had heaven's King preserved the count from scathe," "To make him guardian of his holy faith." "Here now, I see that something shining lies," "And spy Orlando's corslet on the ground;" "For Durindane, I seek the greenwood, round," "Which separate from the scabbard meets my view;" "And next the surcoat in tatters is found;" "That, in a hundred rags, the champaign strew." "Herding my sheep, as on a rock I stood," "I saw the wretch's fury; how he shed" "His arms about the forest, tore his clothes," "Slew hinds, and caused a thousand other woes." "My mind doth marvel, and believes with pain," "Although the proofs are clear:" "Be as it may." "I go about, collecting from the ground" "The various relics which are scattered round." "And, to preserve them safe from errant knight," "Native or foreigner, in one short line" "Upon the sapling's verdant surface write," "ORLANDO'S ARMS, KING CHARLES'S PALADINE." "Zerbino, thou hast done thy pious deed," "While I was coming on my horse; and, lo!" "I, Tartar king, arrive upon the mead," "To take the trophied pine-tree's gorgeous show," "Without strife thou wilt never take away" "This sword unless to me account convey." "For such a fault I shall not forgive thee," "Who am ready to assail and fight thee." "After kidnapping Doralice, betrothed to Rodomont, who covered himself in glory in the siege of Paris," "Mandricardo fights with Zerbino to capture the most desired trophy:" "Orlando's sword." "For my valour, the sword with me will stay." "Follow me hence:" "let us resume our way." "For to leave Durindana such misdeed" "To me appears, it past all other woes;" "Though I can hardly sit upon my steed," "Though mighty loss of life-blood, which yet flows." "How in this need can I resort to leech," "Whose succour I may purchase or beseech?" "Only love for thee was ever implied," "So be thou pleased, my heart, to love me on," "For to abandon thee as I subside," "And not to die, distresses me alone." "For did it me in place secure betide" "To end my days, this earthly journey done," "I cheerful, and content, and fully blest" "Would die, since I should die upon thy breast." "But since to abandon thee, to whom a prize" "I know not, my sad fate compels, I swear," "My Isabella, by that mouth, those eyes," "By what enchained me first, that lovely hair;" "My spirit, troubled and despairing, hies" "Into hell's deep and gloomy bottom; where" "To think, thou wert abandoned so by me," "Of all its woes the heaviest pain will be." "I say, without me think not so, my heart," "On this your last, long, journey to depart." "'Tis here my feeble voice has to be manned," "I cry, my deity, I beg and pray," "And if I may command thee, I command," "That, with God's pleasure, thou live-out thy day;" "Nor ever banish from thy memory," "That, well as man can love, have I loved thee." "On the ensanguined corse, in sorrow drowned," "Crying I throw myself, in my despair." "And wrong my curling lock of black fusain," "Aye calling on loved Zerbino in vain." "Thou with such rage, such fury, wert possest," "That, in thy transport, thou Zerbino's glaive" "Wouldst easily have turned against thy breast," "But, save in God, there is no true content," "And sooner all other hope is transitory," "Fleeting, of little worth, and quickly spent;" "I think to bear thee to Provence, where, near" "The city of Marseilles, stands a fair wood," "Which has a sumptuous monastery; here" "Of ladies is a holy sisterhood;" "Not that I will my mighty love forbear," "For Zerbino, nor yet his relics slight;" "These, if I halt or journey, everywhere" "Will forever have with me, day and night." "This is well and I, seconding thy care," "Who, for my age, am sound and full of might." "We weep, pray, and a coffin find in which" "Zerbino will lie, and well closed with pitch." "On that horse that in black harness I see," "To thy nunnery I shall escort thee." "We are the messengers, that from the Moor," "With many others, news through France conveyed;" "Who word to simple knight and captain bore," "To join the troops, beneath their flags arrayed." "For he, the emperor, who the lilies wore," "Siege to our quarters has already laid;" "Sir, I am dispatched by King Troyano's son" "To thee whom he awaiteth in his need;" "From me, Rogero, hear that so foredone" "By Charles are those who hold the paynim creed," "They will, save quickly succoured in the strife," "As quickly forfeit liberty and life." "The siege of Agramant, to me today" "Told by the messenger, I have at heart." "Will scorn inflict, what shame will me appay," "If I against my sovereign lord take part?" "I fifteen days or twenty ask, that I" "Yet once again may to our army speed;" "So that, by me from leaguering enemy" "The African cantonments may be freed." "I of thy kin, Rinaldo and thy sire," "Thee afterwards in wedlock will require." "If I should lose thee in a cruel strife," "Knowing Rogero lost, I'd detest life." "I for my honour make this sole request;" "Then wholly yours for life, in all things, rest." "I again enter Montalbano's seat," "With tears on my cheeks and brow with care fraught." "While me my mother and a brother greet," "The kiss and clasp of hand, I hold at nought," "Beside the loved Rogero's fond embrace;" "Which time will never from my mind efface." "And through a streight and ill declivity," "I come full of wrath:" "I am Rodomont!" "And straight blaspheme the eternal Hierarchy," "Whither the dwarf conducts me on the trace" "Of Doralice and Mandricardo bold." "I, the small, follow him in ceaseless chase," "Pursuing with taunt and curses manifold." "Alas, this who cometh now with his front" "Uplifted, to Mandricardo my knight," "I show:" "Behold!" "The haughty Rodomont," "Unless the distance has deceived my sight." "To lose me, his betrothed, a mighty cross" "The monarch deems, and comes to venge his loss." "And to repentance I will bring thee, peer," "Who lightly for a pleasure, rash and vain," "Hath scrupled not my anger to excite" "Who dearly will the offered scorn requite." "My Moorish memory not only knows," "By ensigns and by vest, the warlike pair," "But by the circling blades, and furious blows," "With which no other hands could wound the air;" "The envoy runs to me and it is said" "Marsilius, Agramant, and Stordilane," "Within weak works, with scanty troops to aid," "Are close beleaguered by the Christian train." "Do thou accord the pair, and to their post" "Dispatch, for rescue of the Moorish host." "Hear, bold-hearted knights:" "I 'twixt either foe" "Throw myself, and exclaim:" "I you command," "By the large love you hear me, as I know," "That you to better use reserve the brand;" "And that you instantly in succour go" "Of our host, menaced by the Christian band;" "Which now, besieged within its camp, attends" "Ruin or speedy succour from its friends." "The message ended, every grudge foregone," "'Tis finally resolved between us twain," "We shall conclude a truce, and till the day" "The Moorish siege is raised, our strife delay." "Guard thyself, Charles: for, lo!" "against thee blown" "Is such a storm, that I no refuge see:" "Nor Marphisa, nor monarchs come alone," "But those of Sericane and Circassy;" "Let horses, where camped lay Charles's host, be spurred," "Closing our files against the Christian foe." ""Afric and Spain!" is the assailants' word," "Whom at all points the Franks for paynims know." ""To arms, to arms!" throughout their camp is heard:" "But first is felt the Moorish sabre's blow:" "Even on the rear-guard falls the vengeful stroke." "And I, Charles, demand what alarm has bred" "Disorder in my host and disarray;" "And stop with menace this or that who fled," "Advance, sire, and on earth see many more," "Or rather in a lake of crimson laid," "Horribly weltering in their own dark gore," "Beyond the leech's and magician's aid;" "And busts dissevered from the heads they bear," "I legs and arms..." "a cruel show... survey;" "And, from the first cantonments to the last," "Saw slaughtered men on all sides as I past." "Sire, canst thou a small band yonder devise?" "Deserving well horrible fame to gain!" "Of the cruel slaughter, for long time lies" "A signal record of its might and main." "My fair sirs, you made us of danger clear." "Enter the paynim ramparts with proud eyes!" "The paladins no longer are our fear;" "The meanest Moor a hundred Franks defies!" "And 'tis resolved, without repose, again" "To drench with Christian blood the thirsty plain." "Italians, English, French, onward!" "Let through" "These armies furious war blaze forth anew." "At once a formidable larum rises;" "Horns, drums, and shrilling clarions fill the skies;" "Too strong is the redoubted Rodomont," "And thus also Agrican's infuriate son," "Rogero is too deadly copious font," "Gradasso, so renowned for trophies won!" "I, Charles, upon Saint John and Denys call," "And fly for shelter to my Paris wall." "Now smiles thus Fortune upon our king, who" "Besieges royal Charlemagne anew." "I would have brought accord between the pair," "Like faithful brother and like righteous lord:" "But having found that neither would forbear," "Deaf and rebellious to my royal word," "As my best lore, at length let it be said," "And to obey my sentence both be fain;" "That he who was by her preferred, shall wed" "The beauteous daughter of King Stordilane:" "And that what is established on her head" "Shall not be changed, to either's loss or gain." "Here we both swear by oath and thus decide:" "The compromise is liked on either side," "I, mighty king Rodomont, thee long space" "Before the Tartar, have loved, Doralice," "(Who hast preferred my own self to such grace" "As modest lady may, nor do amiss)" "Believe, when sentence is past on the case" "Thou must pronounce what will ensure my bliss." "Nor thus by thee alone it is conceived," "But by all the Moorish host tis' believed." "All know what exploits wrought by thee had been" "For her in joust and war; we all unsound" "And weak King Mandricardo's judgment ween;" "But I, who oft was with her on their round," "And oftener private with the youthful queen," "What time the tell-tale sun was under ground," "I, knowing well how sure I am to speed," "Laugh at the silly rabble's idle creed." "My fierce and illustrious suitors twain," "Pleasant to my ears is the king's award," "Fixing my downcast eyes, in modest vein," "I say few men are like the Tartar lord," "Whose wonderful love I can ascertain." "I, Rodomont, remain so sore astound," "I cannot raise my visage from the ground." "But wonted anger chasing shame which dyed" "The Sarzan's face all over, is arraigned" " The damsel's sentence." " Of the faulchion, tied" "About my manly waist, the handle's strained," "And to the king and others this is cried:" "By this the question shall be lost or gained;" "And not by faithless woman's fickle thought," "Which thither still inclines, where least it ought." "I, Mandricardo, on my feet once more," "Exclaim: and be it as it pleases thee." "I Agramant reprove the Sarzan sore," "Ruling that to appeal upon that plea" "No more with Mandricardo can avail," "And make thee, fierce Rodomont, strike thy sail." "O king, I am by rage no less profound" "Against my sovereign lord than lady swayed," "Would fain behold thy entire kingdom drowned" "With such a tempest, with such scathe o'erlaid," "As should in Africk every house aggrieve," "Nor one stone standing on another leave." "And thus I, Saracen, pour forth my moan," "With rage against my liege and love possest;" "From the camp I shall leave upon the Saone" "To my African domain to cross the brine." "Two serjeants only for my service take" "And with that pair the paynim camp forsake." "END OF THE FOURTH PART" "Subtitles adapted from the translation of William Stewart Rose"