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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=531507" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Jerusalem Delivered - Book 06 - part 01</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE ARGUMENT.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Argantes calls the Christians out to just:<br>Otho not chosen doth his strength assay,<br>But from his saddle tumbleth in the dust,<br>And captive to the town is sent away:<br>Tancred begins new fight, and when both trust<br>To win the praise and palm, night ends the fray:<br>Erminia hopes to cure her wounded knight,<br>And from the city armed rides by night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>I</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But better hopes had them recomforted<br>That lay besieged in the sacred town;<br>With new supply late were they victualled,<br>When night obscured the earth with shadows brown;<br>Their armies and engines on the walls they spread,<br>Their slings to cast, and stones to tumble down;<br>And all that side which to the northward lies,<br>High rampiers and strong bulwarks fortifies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their wary king commands now here now there,<br>To build this tower, to make that bulwark strong,<br>Whether the sun, the moon, or stars appear,<br>To give them time to work, no time comes wrong:<br>In every street new weapons forged were,<br>By cunning smiths, sweating with labor long;<br>While thus the careful prince provision made,<br>To him Argantes came, and boasting said:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">III</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'How long shall we, like prisoners in chains,<br>Captived lie inclosed within this wall?<br>I see your workmen taking endless pains<br>To make new weapons for no use at all;<br>Meanwhile these eastern thieves destroy the plains,<br>Your towns are burnt, your forts and castles fall,<br>Yet none of us dares at these gates out-peep,<br>Or sound one trumpet shrill to break their sleep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">IV</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Their time in feasting and good cheer they spend,<br>Nor dare we once their banquets sweet molest,<br>The days and night likewise they bring to end,<br>In peace, assurance, quiet, ease and rest;<br>But we must yield whom hunger soon will shend,<br>And make for peace, to save our lives, request,<br>Else, if th' Egyptian army stay too long,<br>Like cowards die within this fortress strong.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">V</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Yet never shall my courage great consent<br>So vile a death should end my noble days,<br>Nor on mine arms within these walls ypent<br>To-morrow's sun shall spread his timely rays:<br>Let sacred Heavens dispose as they are bent<br>Of this frail like, yet not withouten praise<br>Of valor, prowess, might, Argantes shall<br>Inglorious die, or unrevenged fall.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">VI</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'But if the roots of wonted chivalry<br>Be not quite dead your princely breast within,<br>Devise not how with frame and praise to die,<br>But how to live, to conquer and to win;<br>Let us together at these gates outfly,<br>And skirmish bold and bloody fight begin;<br>For when last need to desperation driveth,<br>Who dareth most he wisest counsel giveth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">VII</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'But if in field your wisdom dare not venture<br>To hazard all your troops to doubtful fight,<br>Then bind yourself to Godfrey by indenture,<br>To end your quarrels by one single knight:<br>And for the Christian this accord shall enter<br>With better will, say such you know your right<br>That he the weapons, place and time shall choose,<br>And let him for his best, that vantage use.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">VIII</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'For though your foe had hands, like Hector strong,<br>With heart unfeared, and courage stern and stout,<br>Yet no misfortune can your justice wrong,<br>And what that wanteth, shall this arm help out,<br>In spite of fate shall this right hand ere long,<br>Return victorious: if hereof you doubt,<br>Take it for pledge, wherein if trust you have,<br>It shall yourself defend and kingdom save.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">IX</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Bold youth,' the tyrant thus began to speak,<br>'Although I withered seem with age and years,<br>Yet are not these old arms so faint and weak,<br>Nor this hoar head so full of doubts and fears<br>But whenas death this vital thread shall break,<br>He shall my courage hear, my death who hears:<br>And Aladine that lived a king and knight,<br>To his fair morn will have an evening bright.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">X</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'But that which yet I would have further blazed,<br>To thee in secret shall be told and spoken,<br>Great Soliman of Nice, so far ypraised,<br>To be revenged for his sceptre broken,<br>The men of arms of Araby hath raised,<br>From Inde to Africk, and, when we give token,<br>Attends the favor of the friendly night<br>To victual us, and with our foes to fight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">XI</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Now though Godfredo hold by warlike feat<br>Some castles poor and forts in vile oppression,<br>Care not for that; for still our princely seat,<br>This stately town, we keep in our possession,<br>But thou appease and calm that courage great,<br>Which in thy bosom make so hot impression;<br>And stay fit time, which will betide are long,<br>To increase thy glory, and revenge our wrong.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">XII</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Saracen at this was inly spited,<br>Who Soliman's great worth had long envied,<br>To hear him praised thus he naught delighted,<br>Nor that the king upon his aid relied:<br>'Within your power, sir king,' he says, 'united<br>Are peace and war, nor shall that be denied;<br>But for the Turk and his Arabian band,<br>He lost his own, shall he defend your land?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">XIII</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Perchance he comes some heavenly messenger,<br>Sent down to set the Pagan people free,<br>Then let Argantes for himself take care,<br>This sword, I trust, shall well safe-conduct me:<br>But while you rest and all your forces spare,<br>That I go forth to war at least agree;<br>Though not your champion, yet a private knight,<br>I will some Christian prove in single fight.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">XIV</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The king replied, 'Though thy force and might<br>Should be reserved to better time and use;<br>Yet that thou challenge some renowned knight,<br>Among the Christians bold I not refuse.'<br>The warrior breathing out desire of fight,<br>An herald called, and said, 'Go tell those news<br>To Godfrey's self, and to the western lords,<br>And in their hearings boldly say these words:</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a 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Argantes calls the Christians out to just:
Otho not chosen doth his strength assay,
But from his saddle tumbleth in the dust,
And captive to the town is sent away:
Tancred begins new fight, and when both trust
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