ON
THE
ABUSE
of
TRAVELLING
.
A
CANTO
,
In
Imitation
of
SPENSER
.
By
GILBERT
WEST
,
Esq
;
The
ARGUMENT
.
Archimage
tempts
the
Red-Cross
Knight
From
love
of
Fairy-land
,
With
show
of
foreign
pleasures
all
,
The
which
he
doth
withstand
.
I.
WISE
was
that
Spartan
Law-giver
of
old
,
Who
rais'd
on
Virtue's
base
his
well-built
state
,
Exiling
from
her
walls
barbaric
gold
,
With
all
the
mischiefs
that
upon
it
wait
,
Corruption
,
luxury
,
and
envious
hate
;
And
the
distinctions
proud
of
rich
and
poor
,
Which
among
brethren
kindle
foul
debate
,
And
teach
Ambition
,
that
to
Fame
would
soar
,
To
the
false
lure
of
wealth
her
stooping
wing
to
low'r
.
II
.
Yet
would
Corruption
soon
have
entrance
found
,
And
all
his
boasted
schemes
eftsoon
decay'd
,
Had
not
he
cast
a
pow'rful
circle
round
,
Which
to
a
distance
the
arch
felon
fray'd
,
And
ineffectual
his
foul
engines
made
:
This
was
,
to
weet
,
that
politic
command
,
Which
from
vain
travel
the
young
Spartan
stay'd
,
Ne
suffer'd
him
forsake
his
native
land
,
To
learn
deceitful
arts
,
and
science
contraband
.
III
.
Yet
had
the
ancient
world
her
courts
and
schools
;
Great
Kings
and
Courtiers
civil
and
refin'd
;
Great
Rabbins
,
deeply
read
in
Wisdom's
rules
,
And
all
the
arts
that
cultivate
the
mind
,
Embellish
life
,
and
polish
human
kind
.
Such
,
Asia
,
birth-place
of
proud
monarchy
,
Such
,
elder
Aegypt
,
in
thy
kingdoms
shin'd
,
Mysterious
Aegypt
,
the
rank
nursery
Of
superstitions
fond
,
and
learned
vanity
.
IV
.
But
what
accomplishments
,
what
arts
polite
,
Did
the
young
Spartan
want
his
deeds
to
grace
,
Whose
manly
virtues
,
and
heroic
spright
,
Check'd
by
no
thought
impure
,
no
falsehood
base
,
With
nat'ral
dignity
might
well
out-face
The
glare
of
manners
false
,
and
mimic
pride
And
wherefore
should
they
range
from
place
to
place
,
Who
to
their
country's
love
so
firm
were
ty'd
,
All
homely
as
she
was
,
that
for
her
oft
they
dy'd
?
V.
And
Truth
.
sooth
it
is
(
with
rev'rence
may
ye
hear
,
And
honour
due
to
passion
so
refin'd
)
The
strong
affection
which
true
patriots
bear
To
their
dear
country
,
zealous
is
and
blind
,
And
fond
as
is
the
love
of
womankind
,
So
that
they
may
not
her
defects
espy
,
No
other
rival
,
or
one
to
compare
with
her
.
paragone
may
ever
find
,
But
gazing
on
her
with
an
aweful
eye
And
superstitious
zeal
,
her
learn
to
deify
.
VI
.
And
,
like
as
is
the
faith
unsound
,
untrue
,
Of
him
,
who
wand'ring
aye
from
fair
to
fair
,
Conceiveth
from
each
object
passion
new
,
Or
from
his
heart
quite
drives
the
troublous
care
;
So
with
the
patriot-lover
doth
it
fare
,
Who
through
the
world
delighting
aye
to
rove
,
His
country
changeth
with
each
change
of
air
,
Or
weening
the
delights
of
all
to
prove
,
On
none
,
or
all
alike
bestows
his
vagrant
love
.
VII
.
moreover
,
besides
.
Als
doth
corruption
in
a
distant
soil
,
With
double
force
assault
.
assay
the
youthful
heart
,
Expos'd
suspectless
to
the
traytor's
wile
,
Expos'd
unwarn'd
to
Pleasure's
poison'd
dart
,
Expos'd
unpractis'd
in
the
world's
wide
mart
,
Where
each
one
lies
,
imposes
,
and
betrays
,
Without
a
friend
due
counsel
to
impart
,
Without
a
parent's
awe
to
rule
his
ways
,
Without
the
check
of
shame
,
or
spur
of
public
praise
VIII
.
therefore
.
Forthy
,
false
Archimago
,
traytor
vile
,
Who
burnt
'gainst
Fairy-land
with
ceaseless
ire
,
'Gan
cast
with
foreign
pleasures
to
beguile
Her
faithful
knight
,
and
quench
the
heav'nly
fire
That
did
his
virtuous
bosom
aye
inspire
With
zeal
unfeigned
for
her
service
true
,
And
send
him
forth
in
chivalrous
attire
,
Arm'd
at
all
points
adventures
to
pursue
,
And
wreak
upon
her
foes
his
vowed
vengeance
due
.
IX
.
So
as
he
journeyed
upon
the
way
,
Him
soon
the
sly
enchaunter
overtook
.
over-hent
,
Clad
like
a
Fairy
knight
in
armour
gay
,
With
painted
shield
,
and
spear
right
forward
bent
,
In
knightly
fashion
.
guise
and
shew
of
courage
.
hardiment
,
That
aye
prepared
was
for
bloody
fight
.
Whereat
the
fairy
.
Elfin
knight
with
speeches
gent
Him
first
saluted
,
who
,
well
as
he
might
,
Him
fair
salutes
again
,
as
beseemeth
.
seemeth
courteous
knight
.
X.
Then
'gan
he
discourse
,
or
argument
.
purpose
frame
of
valiant
deeds
Atchiev'd
by
foreign
knights
of
might
,
valour
.
prowess
great
,
And
mighty
fame
which
emulation
breeds
In
virtuous
breast
,
and
kindleth
martial
heat
;
Of
arts
and
sciences
for
warriour
proper
,
fit
.
meet
,
And
knights
that
would
in
feats
of
arms
excel
,
Or
him
,
who
rather
.
liefer
choosing
calm
retreat
,
With
Peace
and
gentle
Virtue
aye
would
dwell
,
Who
have
their
triumphs
,
like
as
hath
Bellona
fell
.
XI
.
These
,
as
he
said
,
beseemed
knight
to
know
,
And
all
be
they
in
Fairy-lond
y-taught
,
Where
ev'ry
art
and
all
fair
virtues
grow
;
Yet
various
climes
with
various
fruits
are
fraught
,
And
such
in
one
hath
full
perfection
reach'd
.
raught
The
which
no
skill
may
in
another
rear
,
So
gloz'd
th'
enchaunter
till
he
hath
him
brought
To
a
huge
rock
,
that
clomb
so
high
in
air
,
That
from
it
he
hardly
.
uneath
the
murmuring
surge
mote
hear
.
XII
.
Thence
the
salt
wave
beyond
in
prospect
wide
A
spacious
plain
the
false
enchaunter
show'd
,
With
goodly
castles
deck'd
on
ev'ry
side
,
And
silver
streams
,
that
down
the
champain
flow'd
,
And
wash'd
the
vineyards
that
beside
them
stood
,
And
groves
of
myrtle
;
als
the
lamp
of
day
His
orient
beams
display'd
withouten
cloud
,
Which
lightly
on
the
glist'ning
waters
play
,
And
tinge
the
castles
,
woods
,
and
hills
with
purple
ray
.
XIII
.
So
fair
a
landscape
charm'd
the
wond'ring
knight
;
And
eke
the
breath
of
morning
fresh
and
sweet
Inspir'd
his
jocund
spirit
with
delight
,
And
ease
of
heart
for
soft
pursuasion
meet
.
Then
him
the
traytor
base
'gan
fair
entreat
,
And
from
the
rock
as
downward
they
descend
,
Of
that
blest
lond
his
praises
'gan
repeat
,
Till
he
him
moved
hath
with
him
to
to
go
.
wend
;
So
to
the
billowy
shore
their
hasty
march
they
bend
.
XIV
.
There
in
a
painted
bark
all
trim
and
gay
,
Whose
sails
full
glad
embrac'd
the
wanton
wind
,
There
sat
a
stranger
man
or
woman
.
wight
in
quaint
array
,
That
seem'd
of
various
garbs
together
.
attone
combin'd
,
Of
Europe
,
Afric
,
east
and
western
Inde
.
Als
round
about
him
many
creatures
stood
,
Of
several
nations
and
of
divers
kind
,
Apes
,
serpents
,
birds
with
human
speech
endow'd
,
And
monsters
of
the
land
,
and
wonders
of
the
flood
.
XV.
He
was
to
weet
a
mighty
traveller
,
Who
Curiosity
thereafter
was
called
.
hight
,
And
well
he
knew
each
coast
and
harbour
fair
,
And
ev'ry
nation's
latitude
and
site
,
And
how
to
steer
the
wand'ring
bark
aright
.
So
to
him
strait
the
false
enchaunter
bore
,
And
with
him
likewise
brought
the
red-cross
knight
.
Then
fairly
him
besought
to
waft
them
o'er
;
Swift
flew
the
dauncing
bark
,
and
reach'd
the
adverse
shore
.
XVI
.
There
when
they
landed
were
,
them
ran
to
greet
A
bevy
of
bright
damsels
gent
and
gay
,
Who
with
soft
smiles
,
and
salutation
sweet
,
And
courteous
violence
would
force
them
stay
,
And
rest
them
in
their
bow'r
not
far
away
;
Their
bow'r
that
most
luxuriously
was
adorned
,
set
forth
.
dight
With
all
the
dainties
of
air
,
earth
and
sea
,
All
that
mote
please
the
taste
,
and
charm
the
sight
,
The
pleasure
of
the
board
,
and
charm
of
beauty
bright
.
XVII
.
Als
might
he
therein
hear
a
mingled
sound
Of
feast
and
song
and
laughing
jollity
,
That
in
the
noise
was
all
distinction
drown'd
Of
graver
sense
,
or
musick's
harmony
.
Yet
were
there
some
in
that
blithe
company
That
aptly
could
discourse
of
virtuous
lore
,
Of
manners
,
wisdom
and
sound
policy
;
Yet
would
not
.
nould
they
often
ope
their
sacred
store
,
Ne
might
their
voice
be
heard
mid
riot
and
uproar
.
XVIII
.
Thereto
the
joys
of
idleness
and
love
,
And
luxury
,
that
besots
the
noblest
mind
,
And
custom
prevalent
at
distance
drove
All
sense
and
relish
of
a
higher
kind
,
Whereby
the
soul
to
virtue
is
refin'd
.
Instead
whereof
the
arts
of
slavery
Were
taught
,
of
slavery
perverse
and
blind
,
That
vainly
boasts
her
native
liberty
,
Yet
wears
the
chains
of
pride
,
of
lust
,
and
gluttony
.
XIX
.
Of
which
the
red-cross
knight
right
well
aware
,
Would
in
no
wise
agree
with
them
to
go
,
Albeit
with
courtly
glee
their
leader
fair
,
called
.
Hight
Politessa
,
him
did
kindly
woo
.
But
all
was
false
pretence
,
and
hollow
show
,
False
as
the
flow'rs
which
to
their
breasts
they
ty'd
,
Or
those
which
seemed
in
their
cheeks
to
glow
,
For
both
were
false
,
and
not
by
Nature
dy'd
,
False
rivals
of
the
spring
,
and
beauty's
rosy
pride
.
XX
.
Then
from
behind
then
straightway
'gan
advance
An
uncouth
stripling
quaintly
habited
,
As
for
some
revel
mask
,
or
antick
daunce
,
All
chequer'd
o'er
with
yellow
,
blue
,
and
red
;
Als
in
a
vizor
black
he
shrouds
his
head
,
The
which
he
tossed
to
and
fro
amain
,
And
often
.
eft
his
lathy
falchion
brandished
,
As
if
he
meant
fierce
battle
to
attempt
.
darrain
,
And
like
a
wanton
ape
eft
skip'd
he
on
the
plain
.
XXI
.
And
eft
about
him
skip'd
a
gaudy
throng
Of
youthful
gallants
,
frolick
,
trim
,
and
gay
,
Chanting
in
careless
notes
their
amourous
song
,
Match'd
with
like
careless
gests
,
like
amourous
play
.
Als
were
they
gorgeous
,
dress'd
in
rich
array
,
And
well
accepted
of
that
female
train
,
Whose
hearts
to
joy
and
mirth
devoted
aye
,
Each
proffer'd
love
receive
without
disdain
,
And
part
without
regret
from
each
late-favour'd
swain
.
XXII
.
And
now
they
do
accord
in
wanton
daunce
To
join
their
hands
upon
the
flow'ry
plain
;
The
whiles
with
amourous
leer
and
eyes
askaunce
Each
damsel
fires
with
love
her
glowing
swain
;
Till
all-impatient
of
the
tickling
pain
,
In
sudden
laughter
forth
at
once
they
break
,
And
ending
so
their
daunce
,
each
tender
twain
To
shady
bow'rs
forthwith
themselves
betake
,
Deep
hid
in
myrtle
groves
,
beside
a
silver
lake
.
XXIII
.
Thereat
the
red-cross
knight
was
much
enmov'd
,
And
'gan
his
heart
with
indignation
swell
,
To
view
in
forms
so
made
to
be
belov'd
,
Ne
faith
,
ne
truth
,
ne
heav'nly
virtue
dwell
;
But
lust
instead
,
and
falshood
,
child
of
hell
;
And
glutton
sloth
,
and
love
of
gay
attire
:
And
sooth
to
say
,
them
well
could
parallel
Their
lusty
lovers
.
paramours
in
vain
desire
;
Well
fitted
to
each
dame
was
ev'ry
gallant
squire
.
XXIV
.
Yet
when
their
sov'reign
calls
them
forth
to
arms
,
Their
sov'reign
,
whose
commands
.
behests
they
most
revere
,
Right
wisely
can
they
menage
war's
alarms
,
And
wield
with
valour
great
the
martial
spear
,
So
that
their
name
is
dreaded
far
and
near
.
Oh
!
that
for
Liberty
they
so
did
fight
!
Then
need
no
Fairy-land
their
prowess
fear
,
Ne
give
in
charge
to
her
advent'rous
knight
Their
friendship
to
beware
,
and
sense-deluding
sleight
.
XXV
.
But
not
for
liberty
they
wagen
war
,
But
solely
to
please
.
aggrate
their
mighty
lord
,
For
whom
their
dearest
blood
they
will
not
.
nillen
spare
,
Whenso
him
listeth
draw
the
conqu'ring
sword
;
So
is
that
idol
vain
of
them
ador'd
,
Who
ne
with
might
beyond
his
meanest
thrall
Endued
,
ne
superior
wisdom
stor'd
,
Sees
at
his
feet
prostrated
millions
fall
,
And
with
religious
drad
obey
his
princely
call
.
XXVI
.
Thereto
so
high
and
stately
was
his
port
,
That
all
the
petty
kings
him
sore
envy'd
,
And
would
him
imitate
in
any
sort
,
With
all
the
mimick
pageantry
of
pride
,
And
worship'd
be
like
him
,
and
deify'd
Of
courtly
sycophants
and
scoundrels
.
caitifs
vile
,
Who
to
those
services
themselves
apply'd
,
And
in
that
school
of
servitude
ere
while
Had
learn'd
to
bow
and
grin
,
and
flatter
,
and
beguile
.
XXVII
.
For
to
that
seminary
of
fashions
vain
The
rich
and
noble
from
all
parts
repair
,
Where
grown
enamour'd
of
the
gaudy
train
,
And
courteous
haviour
gent
and
debonair
,
They
cast
to
imitate
such
semblaunce
fair
;
And
deeming
meanly
of
their
native
lond
,
Their
own
rough
virtues
they
disdain
to
wear
,
And
back
returning
drest
by
foreign
hond
,
Ne
other
matter
care
,
ne
other
understond
.
XXVIII
.
Wherefore
th'
enchaunter
vile
,
who
sore
was
griev'd
To
see
the
knight
reject
those
damsels
gay
,
Wherewith
he
thought
him
sure
to
have
deceiv'd
,
Was
minded
to
that
court
him
to
convey
,
And
daze
his
eyen
with
Majesty's
bright
ray
:
So
to
a
stately
castle
he
him
brought
,
Which
in
the
midst
of
a
great
garden
lay
,
And
wisely
was
by
cunning
craftsmen
wrought
,
And
with
all
riches
deck'd
surpassing
human
thought
.
XXIX
.
There
underneath
a
sumptuous
canopy
,
That
with
bright
ore
and
diamonds
glitter'd
far
,
Sate
the
swoln
form
of
royal
pride
.
surquedry
,
And
deem'd
itself
by
all
means
;
omnino
.
allgates
some
creature
rare
,
While
its
own
haughty
state
it
mote
compare
With
the
base
count'nance
of
the
vassal
fry
,
That
seem'd
to
have
nor
eye
,
nor
tongue
,
nor
ear
;
Ne
any
sense
,
ne
any
faculty
,
That
did
not
to
his
throne
owe
servile
ministry
.
XXX
.
Yet
wist
he
not
that
half
that
homage
low
Was
at
a
wizard's
shrine
in
private
pay'd
,
The
which
conducted
all
that
goodly
show
,
And
as
he
list
th'
imperial
puppet
play'd
,
By
secret
springs
and
wheels
right
wisely
made
,
That
he
the
subtle
wires
mote
not
discover
,
perceive
.
avize
,
But
deem
in
sooth
that
all
he
did
or
said
,
From
his
own
motion
and
free
grace
did
rise
,
And
that
he
justly
hight
immortal
,
great
,
and
wise
.
XXXI
.
And
eke
to
each
of
that
same
gilded
train
,
That
meekly
round
that
lordly
throne
did
stand
,
Was
by
that
wizard
ty'd
a
magick
chain
,
Whereby
their
actions
all
he
mote
command
,
And
rule
with
hidden
influence
the
land
.
Yet
to
his
lord
he
outwardly
did
bend
,
And
those
same
magick
chains
within
his
hand
Did
seem
to
place
,
albeit
by
the
end
He
held
them
fast
,
that
none
them
from
his
gripe
mote
rend
.
XXXII
.
He
was
to
weet
an
old
and
wrinkled
mage
,
Deep
read
in
all
the
arts
of
policy
,
And
from
experience
grown
so
crafty
sage
,
That
none
his
secret
counsels
mote
descry
,
Ne
search
the
mines
of
his
deep
subtlety
.
Thereto
fair
peace
he
lov'd
and
cherished
;
And
traffick
did
promote
and
industry
,
Whereby
the
vulgar
were
in
quiet
fed
,
And
the
proud
lords
in
ease
and
plenty
wallowed
.
XXXIII
.
Thence
all
the
gorgeous
splendor
of
the
court
,
since
.
Sith
the
sole
bus'ness
of
the
rich
and
great
,
Was
to
that
hope-built
temple
to
resort
,
And
round
their
earthly
god
in
glory
wait
,
Who
with
their
pride
to
swell
his
royal
state
,
Did
pour
large
sums
of
gold
on
ev'ry
one
,
Brought
him
by
harpies
fell
,
him
to
aggrate
,
And
torn
from
peasants
vile
,
beneath
the
throne
Who
lay
deep
sunk
in
earth
,
and
inwardly
did
groan
.
XXXIV
.
Behold
,
says
ARCHIMAGE
,
the
envy'd
height
Of
human
grandeur
to
the
gods
ally'd
!
Behold
yon
sun
of
pow'r
,
whose
glorious
light
,
O'er
this
rejoicing
land
out-beaming
wide
,
Calls
up
those
princely
flow'rs
on
ev'ry
side
;
Which
like
the
painted
daughters
of
the
plain
,
Ne
toil
,
ne
spin
,
ne
stain
their
silken
pride
With
care
,
or
sorrow
,
sith
withouten
pain
,
Them
in
eternal
joy
those
heav'nly
beams
maintain
.
XXXV.
Them
morn
and
evening
joy
eternal
greets
,
And
for
them
thousands
and
ten
thousands
work
hard
.
moil
,
Gathering
from
land
and
ocean
honied
sweets
For
them
,
who
in
soft
indolence
the
while
And
slumb'ring
peace
enjoy
the
luscious
spoil
;
And
as
they
view
around
the
careful
bees
quite
spent
.
Forespent
with
labour
and
incessant
toil
,
With
the
sweet
contrast
learn
themselves
to
please
,
And
heighten
by
compare
the
luxury
of
ease
.
XXXVI.
Ungenerous
man
,
quoth
then
the
Fairy
knight
,
That
can
rejoice
to
see
another's
woe
!
And
thou
,
unworthy
of
that
glory
bright
,
Wherewith
the
gods
have
deck'd
thy
princely
brow
,
That
doth
on
Sloth
and
Gluttony
bestow
The
hard-earn'd
fruits
of
Industry
and
Pain
,
And
to
the
dogs
the
labourer's
morsel
throw
,
Unmindful
of
the
hand
that
sow'd
the
grain
,
The
poor
earth-trodden
root
of
all
thy
greatness
vain
.
XXXVII
.
Oh
foul
abuse
of
sacred
Majesty
,
That
boasteth
her
fair
self
from
heav'n
ysprong
!
Where
are
the
marks
of
thy
divinity
?
Truth
,
Mercy
,
Justice
steady
,
bold
and
strong
,
To
aid
the
meek
,
and
curb
oppressive
wrong
?
Where
is
the
care
and
love
of
publick
good
,
That
to
the
people's
father
doth
belong
?
Where
the
vice-gerent
of
that
bounteous
God
,
Who
bids
dispense
to
all
,
what
he
for
all
bestow'd
?
XXXVIII
.
Dwell'st
thou
not
rather
,
like
the
prince
of
hell
,
In
Pandemonium
full
of
ugly
fiends
?
Dissimulation
,
Discord
,
Malice
fell
,
Reckless
Ambition
,
that
right
onward
goes
.
wends
,
Tho'
his
wild
march
o'erthrow
both
fame
and
friends
,
And
virtue
and
his
country
;
crooked
Guile
,
Obliquely
creeping
to
his
treach'rous
ends
,
And
Flatt'ry
,
curs'd
assassin
,
who
the
while
He
holds
the
murd'rous
knife
,
can
fawn
,
and
kiss
,
and
smile
.
XXXIX
.
Then
'gan
he
strait
unvail
the
mirrour
bright
,
The
which
fair
Una
in
Spenser
represents
Truth
,
see
B.
1.
Fairy
Queen
.
Una
gave
him
heretofore
,
Ere
he
as
yet
,
with
Heathen
,
the
usual
enemy
of
knight-
errants
in
Spenser
.
Paynim
foe
to
fight
,
For
foreign
land
had
left
his
native
shore
.
This
in
his
careful
breast
he
always
bore
,
And
on
it
oft
would
cast
his
wary
eye
;
For
it
by
magick
framed
was
of
yore
,
So
that
no
falshood
mote
it
well
abye
,
But
it
was
plainly
seen
,
or
fearfully
did
fly
.
XL.
This
on
that
gay
assembly
did
he
turn
,
And
saw
confounded
quite
the
gawdy
scene
;
Saw
the
close
fire
that
inwardly
did
burn
,
And
waste
the
throbbing
heart
with
secret
pain
,
anguish
.
teen
;
Saw
base
dependence
in
the
haughty
mien
Of
lords
and
princes
;
saw
the
magick
chain
That
each
did
wear
,
but
deem'd
he
wore
unseen
,
The
whiles
with
count'naunce
glad
he
hid
his
pain
,
And
homage
did
require
from
each
poor
lowly
swain
.
XLI.
And
tho'
to
that
old
mage
they
louted
down
,
Yet
did
they
dearly
wish
for
his
decay
:
Als
trembled
he
,
and
aye
upon
the
throne
Of
his
great
lord
his
tott'ring
steps
did
stay
,
And
oft
behind
him
skulk'd
for
great
dismay
;
Als
shook
the
throne
,
when
so
the
villain
crew
,
That
underneath
oppress'd
and
groveling
lay
,
Impatient
of
the
grievous
burthen
grew
,
And
loudly
for
redress
and
liberty
did
sue
.
XLII.
There
mote
he
likewise
see
a
ribbald
train
Of
dancers
,
broid'rers
,
slaves
of
luxury
,
Who
cast
o'er
all
those
lords
and
ladies
vain
A
veil
of
semblaunce
fair
,
and
richest
dye
,
That
none
their
inward
baseness
mote
descry
.
But
nought
was
hidden
from
that
mirrour
bright
.
Which
when
false
ARCHIMAGO
'gan
espy
,
He
feared
for
himself
,
and
warn'd
the
knight
From
so
detested
place
to
maken
speedy
flight
.
XLIII
.
So
on
he
passed
,
till
he
comen
hath
To
a
small
river
,
that
full
slow
did
glide
,
As
it
uneath
mote
find
its
watry
path
For
stones
and
rubbish
,
that
did
choak
its
tide
;
So
lay
the
mould'ring
piles
on
ev'ry
side
,
Seem'd
there
a
goodly
city
once
had
been
,
Albeit
now
fallen
were
her
royal
pride
,
Yet
mote
her
auncient
greatness
still
be
seen
,
Still
from
her
ruins
prov'd
the
world's
imperial
queen
.
XLIV.
For
the
rich
spoil
of
all
the
continents
,
The
boast
of
art
and
nature
there
was
brought
,
Corinthian
brass
,
Aegyptian
monuments
,
With
hieroglyphick
sculptures
all
inwrought
,
And
Parian
marbles
,
by
Greek
artists
taught
To
counterfeit
the
forms
of
heroes
old
,
And
set
before
the
eye
of
sober
thought
Lycurgus
,
Homer
,
and
Alcides
bold
.
All
these
and
many
more
that
may
not
here
be
told
.
XLV.
There
in
the
middest
of
a
ruin'd
pile
,
That
seem'd
a
theatre
of
circuit
vast
,
Where
thousands
might
be
seated
,
he
erewhile
Discover'd
hath
an
uncouth
trophy
plac'd
;
Seem'd
a
huge
heap
of
stone
together
cast
In
nice
disorder
and
wild
symmetry
,
Urns
,
broken
freezes
,
statues
half
defac'd
,
And
pedestals
with
antique
imagery
Emboss'd
,
and
pillars
huge
of
costly
porphyry
.
XLVI.
Aloft
on
this
strange
basis
was
placed
.
ypight
With
girlonds
gay
adorn'd
a
golden
chair
,
In
which
aye
smiling
with
self-bred
delight
,
In
careless
pride
reclin'd
a
lady
fair
,
And
to
soft
musick
lent
her
idle
ear
;
The
which
with
pleasure
so
did
her
enthrall
,
That
for
aught
else
she
had
but
little
care
,
For
wealth
,
or
fame
,
or
honour
feminal
,
Or
gentle
love
,
sole
king
of
pleasures
natural
.
XLVII.
Als
by
her
side
,
in
richest
robes
array'd
,
An
eunuch
sate
,
of
visage
pale
and
dead
,
Unseemly
paramour
for
royal
maid
!
Yet
him
she
courted
oft
and
honoured
,
And
oft
would
by
her
place
in
princely
seat
or
place
.
sted
,
Though
from
the
dregs
of
earth
he
springen
were
,
And
oft
with
regal
crowns
she
deck'd
his
head
,
And
oft
,
to
sooth
her
vain
and
foolish
ear
,
She
bade
him
the
great
names
of
mighty
emperors
.
Kesars
bear
.
XLVIII
.
Thereto
herself
a
pompous
title
bore
,
For
she
was
vain
of
her
great
auncestry
,
But
vainer
still
of
that
prodigious
store
Of
arts
and
learning
,
which
she
vaunts
to
lie
In
the
rich
archives
of
her
treasury
.
These
she
to
strangers
oftentimes
would
shew
,
With
grave
demean
and
solemn
vanity
,
Then
proudly
claim
as
to
her
merit
due
,
The
venerable
praise
and
title
of
Vertù
.
XLIX.
Vertù
she
was
called
or
named
.
yclep'd
,
and
held
her
court
With
outward
shews
of
pomp
and
majesty
,
To
which
natheless
few
others
did
resort
,
But
men
of
base
and
vulgar
industry
.
Or
such
perdy
as
of
them
cozen'd
be
,
Mimes
,
fidlers
,
pipers
,
eunuchs
squeaking
fine
,
Painters
and
builders
,
sons
of
masonry
,
Who
could
well
measure
with
the
rule
and
line
,
And
all
the
orders
five
right
craftily
define
.
L.
But
other
skill
of
cunning
architect
,
How
to
contrive
the
house
for
dwelling
best
,
With
self-sufficient
scorn
they
wont
neglect
,
As
corresponding
with
their
purpose
least
;
And
herein
be
they
copied
of
the
rest
,
Who
aye
pretending
love
of
science
fair
,
And
gen'rous
purpose
to
adorn
the
breast
With
lib'ral
arts
,
to
Vertù's
court
repair
,
Yet
nought
but
tunes
and
names
,
and
coins
away
do
bear
.
LI
.
For
long
,
to
visit
her
once-honour'd
seat
The
studious
sons
of
learning
have
forbore
:
Who
whilom
thither
ran
with
pilgrim
feet
Her
venerable
reliques
to
adore
,
And
load
her
bosom
with
the
sacred
store
,
Whereof
the
world
large
treasure
yet
enjoys
.
But
since
.
sithence
she
declin'd
from
wisdom's
lore
,
They
left
her
to
display
her
pompous
toys
To
virtuosi
vain
,
and
wonder-gaping
boys
.
LII.
Forthy
to
her
a
num'rous
train
doth
belong
.
long
Of
ushers
in
her
court
well
practised
,
Who
aye
about
the
monied
stranger
throng
,
Off'ring
with
shews
of
courteous
good-nature
or
civility
.
bountihed
Him
through
the
rich
apartments
all
to
lead
,
And
shew
him
all
the
wonders
of
her
state
,
Whose
names
and
price
they
wisely
can
relate
or
declare
.
These
under
sort
of
antiquarians
,
who
go
about
with
strangers
to
shew
them
the
antiquities
,
&c.
of
Rome
,
are
called
Ciceroni
.
areed
,
And
tell
of
coins
of
old
and
modern
date
,
And
pictures
false
and
true
right
well
discriminate
.
LIII.
Als
are
they
named
after
him
,
whose
tongue
Shook
the
dictator
in
his
curule
chair
,
And
thund'ring
through
the
Roman
senate
,
rung
His
bold
Philippics
in
Antonius'
ear
;
Which
when
the
Fairy
heard
,
he
sigh'd
full
dear
,
And
casting
round
his
quick
discerning
eye
,
At
ev'ry
At
every
turn
,
every
now
and
then
.
deal
he
dropt
a
manly
tear
,
As
he
the
stately
buildings
mote
descry
,
Baths
,
theatres
,
and
fanes
in
mould'ring
fragments
lie
.
LIV.
And
,
oh
!
imperial
city
!
then
he
said
,
How
art
thou
tumbled
from
thine
Alpine
throne
!
Whereon
,
like
Jove
on
high
Olympus'
head
,
Thou
sittedst
erst
unequall'd
and
alone
,
And
madedst
through
the
world
thy
greatness
known
;
While
from
the
western
isles
,
to
Indus'
shore
,
From
seven-mouth'd
Nilus
,
to
the
frozen
Don
,
Thy
dradded
bolts
the
strong-pounc'd
Eagle
bore
,
And
taught
the
nations
round
thy
Fasces
to
adore
.
LV.
And
doth
among
thy
reliques
nought
remain
,
No
little
portion
of
that
haughty
spright
?
Which
made
thee
whilom
scorn
soft
Pleasure's
chain
,
And
in
free
Virtue
place
thy
chief
delight
,
Whereby
through
ages
shone
thy
glory
bright
?
And
is
there
nought
remaining
to
confound
Those
,
who
regardless
of
thy
woeful
plight
,
With
idle
wonder
view
thy
ruins
round
,
And
without
thought
survey
thy
memorable
wound
?
LVI.
Arise
,
thou
genuine
Cicero
,
and
declare
That
all
these
mighty
ruins
scatter'd
wide
,
The
sepulchres
of
Roman
virtue
were
,
And
trophies
vast
of
Luxury
and
Pride
,
Those
fell
diseases
whereof
Rome
erst
dy'd
.
And
do
you
then
with
vile
mechanic
thought
Your
course
,
ye
sons
of
Fairy
,
hither
guide
,
That
ye
those
gay
refinements
may
be
taught
,
Which
Liberty's
fair
lond
to
shame
and
thraldom
brought
?
LVII.
Let
Rome
those
vassal
arts
now
meanly
boast
,
Which
to
her
vanquish'd
thralls
she
erst
resign'd
;
Ye
who
enjoy
that
freedom
she
has
lost
,
That
great
prerogative
of
human-kind
,
Close
to
your
hearts
the
precious
jewel
bind
,
And
learn
the
rich
possession
to
maintain
,
Learn
Virtue
,
Justice
,
Constancy
of
Mind
,
Not
to
be
mov'd
by
Fear
or
Pleasure's
train
;
Be
these
your
arts
,
ye
brave
,
these
only
are
humane
.
LVIII.
As
he
thus
spake
,
th'
enchaunter
half
asham'd
Wist
not
what
fitting
answer
to
devise
,
Als
was
his
caitive
heart
well-nigh
inflam'd
,
By
that
same
knight
so
virtuous
,
brave
and
wise
,
That
long
he
doubts
him
farther
to
entice
.
But
he
was
harden'd
and
remorseless
grown
,
Through
practice
old
of
villainy
and
vice
;
So
to
his
former
wiles
he
turns
him
soon
,
As
in
another
place
hereafter
shall
be
shown
.