 | Argalvs and Parthenia |  |
So said, as if that passion had forgot
Her mother tongue, her tongue replyed not:
But, like to one, new stricken with the thunder,
She stood betwixt amazement, feare, and wonder:
His lips tooke leaue, and as his armes surrounded
Her feeble wast, she straight fell down, and swounded;
But Argalus, transported with the tide
And tyranny of honour, could abide
No longer stay; He trusts her to the guard
Of her owne women; left her, and repair'd
Vnto the Campe; wherein, he spent some dayes,
In parley, with Amphialus; and assayes,
By all perswasiue meanes, to make him yeeld
To iust demands, and not to staine the field
With needlesse blood; But finding him vnapt
For peacefull counsell (being strongly rapt
With his owne fame) and scorning to afford
His eare to any language, but the sword,
He ceas'd t'aduise him; and (enforc'd to try
A rougher Dialect) wrote him this defie.
Her mother tongue, her tongue replyed not:
But, like to one, new stricken with the thunder,
She stood betwixt amazement, feare, and wonder:
His lips tooke leaue, and as his armes surrounded
Her feeble wast, she straight fell down, and swounded;
But Argalus, transported with the tide
And tyranny of honour, could abide
No longer stay; He trusts her to the guard
Of her owne women; left her, and repair'd
Vnto the Campe; wherein, he spent some dayes,
In parley, with Amphialus; and assayes,
By all perswasiue meanes, to make him yeeld
To iust demands, and not to staine the field
With needlesse blood; But finding him vnapt
For peacefull counsell (being strongly rapt
With his owne fame) and scorning to afford
His eare to any language, but the sword,
He ceas'd t'aduise him; and (enforc'd to try
A rougher Dialect) wrote him this defie.
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