William Cowper

“ Airy Del Casteo was as bold a knight
As ever earned a lady's love in fight.
Many he sought, but one above the rest
His tender heart victoriously impressed:
In fairy land was born the matchless dame,
The land of dreams, Hypothesis her name. ”

“ Find out her treacherous heart, and plant a dagger there!
A knight— (can he that serves the fair do less?)
Starts at the call of beauty in distress;
And he that does not, whatsoe'er occurs,
Is recreant, and unworthy of his spurs. [1]
Full many a champion, bent on hardy deed,
Called for his arms and for his princely steed.
So swarmed the Sabine youth, and grasped the. shield,
"When Eoman rapine, by no laws withheld,
Lest Home should end with her first founders' lives,
Made half their maids, sans ceremony, wives. ”

“ So polished and compact from head to heel,
" Come ten, come twenty, should an army call
Thee to the field, thou shouldst withstand them all."
" By Dian's beams," Sir Marmadan exclaimed,
" The guiltless still are ever least ashamed! ”