The History Of the Most Vile Dimagoras Who by Treachery and Poison blasted the incomparable Beauty of Divine Parthenia: Inter-woven with the History of Amoronzo and Celania. By John Quarles |
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Let none presume to pass this way,
But such as do intend to stay,
And give Encounter to a Knight
Who will forthwith come in sight;
Let him that overcomes remain
Till he be overcome again,
Or else if he in several fights
Can conquer two and fifty Knights
He may, at that self same hour
Release Corinda from this Bower;
And to period all his strife,
He is to take her for his Wife;
She is a Princess, whose Renown
Justly deserves to wear the Crown.
But such as do intend to stay,
And give Encounter to a Knight
Who will forthwith come in sight;
Let him that overcomes remain
Till he be overcome again,
Or else if he in several fights
Can conquer two and fifty Knights
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Release Corinda from this Bower;
And to period all his strife,
He is to take her for his Wife;
She is a Princess, whose Renown
Justly deserves to wear the Crown.
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