 | Argalvs and Parthenia |  |
It fortun'd; on a day, that dinner ending,
Kalander and his noble guests, intending
T'exchange their pleasures in the open ayre,
A messenger came in; and did repaire
Vnto Kalander; told him, That the end
Of his imployment, was to recommend
A noble Lady to him (neare allyde
To faire Queene Hellen) whose vnskilfull guide
Had so misled, that she does make request,
This night, to be his bold, and vnknowne guest;
And by his helpe, to be inform'd the way
To finde to morrow, what she lost to day.
Kalander (the extent of whose ambition
Was to expresse the bountious disposition
Of a free heart, as glad of such occasion
To entertaine) return'd the salutation
Of an vnknowne seruant; and withall profest,
A promis'd welcome to so faire a guest.
Forthwith Kalander, and his noble friends
(All but poore Argalus, who recommends
His thoughts to priuate vses, and confines
His secret fancy to his owne designes)
Mounted their praunsing Steeds, to giue a meeting
To his faire guest, they met, but at first meeting
Kalander stood amaz'd; (for he suppos'd
It was Parthenia) and thus his thoughts disclos'd;
Kalander and his noble guests, intending
T'exchange their pleasures in the open ayre,
A messenger came in; and did repaire
Vnto Kalander; told him, That the end
Of his imployment, was to recommend
A noble Lady to him (neare allyde
To faire Queene Hellen) whose vnskilfull guide
Had so misled, that she does make request,
This night, to be his bold, and vnknowne guest;
And by his helpe, to be inform'd the way
To finde to morrow, what she lost to day.
Kalander (the extent of whose ambition
Was to expresse the bountious disposition
Of a free heart, as glad of such occasion
To entertaine) return'd the salutation
Of an vnknowne seruant; and withall profest,
A promis'd welcome to so faire a guest.
Forthwith Kalander, and his noble friends
(All but poore Argalus, who recommends
His thoughts to priuate vses, and confines
His secret fancy to his owne designes)
Mounted their praunsing Steeds, to giue a meeting
To his faire guest, they met, but at first meeting
Kalander stood amaz'd; (for he suppos'd
It was Parthenia) and thus his thoughts disclos'd;
| Argalvs and Parthenia | |