Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...XLIII Therewith they gan, both furious and fell, To thunder blowes, and fiersly to assaile Each other, bent his enimy to quell, That with their force they perst both plate and maiie, 1 amain, violently tnree-square, triangular. perdie, truly. And made wide furrowes in their fleshes fraile, That it would pitty any living eie. Large floods of blood adowne their sides did raile;1 But floods of blood could not them satisfie: Both hongred after death; both chose to win, or die. j XLIV So long they fight, and full revenge pursue, That, fainting, each themselves to breathen lett, And, ofte refreshed, battell oft renue. As when two Bores, with rancling malice mett, Their gory sides fresh bleeding fiercely frett; Til breathlesse both themselves aside retire, Where foming wrath their cruell tuskes they whett, And trample th' earth, the whiles they may respire, Then backe to fight againe, new breathed and entire. XX.V So fiersly, when these knights had breathed once, They gan to fight retourne, increasing more Their puissant force, and cruell rage attonce, With heaped strokes more hugely then before; That with their drery wounds, and bloody gore, They both, deformed, scarsely could bee known. By this, sad Una fraught with anguish sore, Led with their noise which through the aire was thrown, Arriv'd wher they in erth their f ruitles blood had sown. XL VI Whom all so soone as that proud Sarazin Espide, he gan rp, vive_the memory 1 raile, flow. Of his leud lasts, and late attempteoLsin, And lpftfi the doubtfull battell hastily, To catch her, newly offred to his eie; But Satyrane, with strokes him turning, staid, And sternely bad him other businesse plie Then hunt the steps of pure unspotted Maid: Wherewith he al enrag'd these bitter speaches...
