The fair Isabel of Cotehele a Cornish romance, in six cantos. By the author of Local attachment, and translator of Theocritus [i.e. Richard Polwhele] |
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 | The fair Isabel of Cotehele |  |
XXXI.
“My son! the valourous knight resume!”(Her voice was as her visage sharp!)
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“From its firm bent—Throw off thy gloom!
“Oft with success its influence crown'd,
“I have a balsam for thy wound.
“To me, where erst Plym's limpid wave
“My ruin'd nunnery lov'd to lave,
(“Now foaming 'midst polluted scenes)
“One of dire Hal's devoted queens
“A plant of wond'rous virtue gave,
“Of power to heal—said Anne of Cleves—
“The frame that faints, the heart that grieves.
“'Twas there, where sovereign sway I bore,
“I bade its potent oils restore
“One, who had felt the broadsword's bite!
“From his right-breast as from a sluice
“Gush'd out our champion's blood!
“But that rare herb's salubrious juice
“Soon stopp'd the crimson flood
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“My kindness how did he requite!
“'Tis true, he sank amidst a fray
“Opposing the Inquisitors fell
“Who search'd our nunnery, cell by cell—
“Who, wish unmanly disrespect
“No female modesty could brook,
“In all our chambers prowl'd about,
“As if assur'd they could detect
“And by their hunting ferret out
“Some secret sin from every nook!
“The wounded man, tho' long and much
“Of saintly things he sung or said,
“Yet ill became the grave Capuch!
“For O! recover'd from his wound,
“He stole from me a damsel fair
“Who had watch'd him with a sister's care—
“His “ministering maid!”
“One night they disappear'd:
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“The girl to all our hearts endear'd!
“Ah, nurtur'd from a babe by me
“Sweeter than all the sister-hood,
“By his base art was she subdued,
“And (ere sixteen 'twas hers to see)
“Plung'd in the meretricious grove—
“But thou art sanction'd in thy love!”
| The fair Isabel of Cotehele | |