Capitolo 80
But if from a human hand it came,
Or hostile god, has gone away unknown from fame.
DRYDEN.
But of all the descriptive parts of this song, it is not anybody more
beautiful that the four following rooms that have a great strength
and spirit in them, and you/he/she is filled with very natural circumstances.
The thought in the third room was never touched by some other poet,
and one are such as you/he/she would have shone in Homer or in Virgil:
So this way it did both this die of nobles,
Of who courage anybody was able it;
An archer English perceived then
The noble Earl was killed.
He had a tendency of arc in his/her hand,
Fact of a trusted tree,
An arrow of a cloth-enclosure from a lot
To the head it drew him.
Against Mr. Hugh Montgomery
Then you straighten his/her auction that he has put,
The wing of grey-goose that was thereon
In his/her heart-blood it was wet.
This struggle lasted in the daytime from interruption
Up to setting of the sun;
For when them encircled the bell of ev'ning
The battle scarce you/he/she was done.
One can observe, likewise, that in the catalog of the killed ones, the
author has followed the example of the greatest ancient poets, not
only in to give a long list of the corpse, but diversifying him/it with
small characters of particular people.
And with Earl Douglas there you/he/she was killed
Mr. Hugh Montgomery,
Mr. Charles Carrel that from the field
A foot would never fly.
Mr. Charles Murrel of Ratcliff also,
The child of his/her sister was him;
Mr. David Lamb so well the respect,
It still saved you/he/she could not be.
The family sound in these names destroys the majesty of the
description; for this reason I don't mention this part of the poem
but to show the natural throw of thought that appears in him as the
two last verses almost seem a translation of Virgil.
- Et of Cadit unus of justissimus of Ripheus
Fuit of Here in Teucris et servantissimus aequi.
Visum of aliter of Diis.
AEn. ii. 426.
Then Ripheus fell in the uneven struggle,
Only of his/her word, careful of the right:
Heav'n didn't think this way.