1807.) 
Jength fet free ; and immediately aca 
to Paris, to procure ailittance for his 
ipatier, 
At Paris, in the mean while, a great 
revolution had happened. Charles was 
foleinnly depofed, Gano a fecond time 
expelled the kingdom, and Rinaldo qui- 
etly feated on the imperial throne, But 
no fooner does he hear of the confine- 
ment of his. beloved coulin, than he 
throws afide the dignities and dangers of 
ravyalty once more, reftores the crown 
to his degraded foyereign, and fets. off, 
accompanied by Oliver ane Richardetto, 
on the enterpriie of delivering Orlando. 
Tn his paliere through Spain, he per- 
forms foe fighal fervices for Kung Mar- 
filitis ; antl is’ admitted into the favour 
and confidence of that powerful prince, 
who, though a Pagan, offers him the 
alliteanes of a large army, with his mar- 
tinl daughter, the ‘lovely Luci lana, for its 
eominander, aéaintt the Amoftante. Lu- 
ciana hed fallen in love with \ Rinaldo 
during his refidence at her father’s court 
of Suragolla,: and ‘prefented bim with a 
rich pavilion worked with her own hand, 
which is defcribed with much elegance 
and taney: . 
' It was divided into four parts, accord- 
ing to the different elements. “That 
#hich repreféntéd fire was adorned with 
earbuncles, and rubies and other blazing 
ones, {6 as to dazzle all behelders; 
and tii it were repretented the figures OF 
Cherubiin and Sefaphin, fuch: as play in 
the beams of eternal love. ‘The fecond 
divifion was appropriated to ai, and 
contained all the’ heaventy phenomena, 
and every kind of bird, froin the eagle, © 
Wha, ftedfult gazing on the neighbouring fun, 
Sheds her proud. plumage oer the: fabdjest 
main, 
But tricks herfelf in gayer robes anén, : 
Burits forth atrefh, and flames in youth 
again ; 
Down to the fparrow, 
That frequent haunts the melancholy wood, 
And joys in fadnefs and deep folitude. 
En the faine divilion of this beautiful pat 
vilion, 
Aud inthe midt, refptendent, ftately, fair, 
Sat Juno, with ‘heat hea” nty circlet crown’d; 
Detopeia by her ftarry chair hile, 
Was placed, and nymphs nanumberd 
throng’d around. 
The mighty monarch of the Winds was therey. 
Who with huge chains his boiftcrous bre- 
thren bound : 
Bierce Aquilo,¢ and Notus lout ani ftrongs” 
Ami dark Orion bringing fturms along. 
Monguty Alas. No, 153, 
Remarks on the Morgante Maggiore 
17 
The fea was reprefented in the third 
div ifion, and, among a great varicty of 
appropriate figures and einblems, 
Here were the huge immeafurable whales, | 
Thofe vat and dreadful monfters of the 
dee 
That feize ue furious fway the pafling fails, 
And to thé bottom of the ocean weep 5 
There tuneful fyrens, tothe dying gales 
Soft finging, lull unwary tars ‘Metp, 
Here dolphins, gliding {wilt in wanton {porty 
Guide the glad yeilel tu her deftin’d port. 
The mott picturefqne of the various 
nages wrought. oh the fourth divilion, 
which reprefented earth, is that of Ceres 
feeking her raviih’d daughter. 
There, through the world’s remotett regioné 
ftraying, ‘ 
Unhappy Cehees mournful and alone, 
Seeking her ravith'd Proferpine, and faying - 
‘¢ ve loft my ¢hild—ol whither has fhe 
flown ?” 
And here appear’d the lovely virgin, fi2iRe 
On beds of flowers, hertelf a rofe frethe 
blown 
Behind, the ‘gloomy form of Plute lay, 
Maree the thoughtlefs victim for his prey., 
Rinaldo makes every ‘compliment that 
fo magnificent a prefent, demanded, and; 
the occafion fugeetted ; alfuring the fair 
embroiderer that fhe mutt have learned 
to work in Paradife, and that Philomes 
la’s web was nothing in comparifon ——te 
all which the very prettily antwers, 
Not if the treafures of the earth below, 
Notif the glories of the fky I broughty- 
Could I a prefent worthy thee beitow, 
Or Pay thy g glorious merit as I ought 5 - . 
But, if you with the real-truth to Ag an < 
Whofe. fancy plann’d it, and mele si 
wrought : 
To callit mine a power fuperior WrOngs,—— ” 2 
To Love, and Love alone, the praife belenew 
C. 14, ff. 435 Kee 
After’ this interchange of civilities, 
the whole armament fets forth, and {oon 
arrives in Pertias - 
The war avainit the Amoftante, like 
all Wars in romnances, was very fertile 3 in. 
wonderful incidents, but is not very amt 
ing m the reeital. Orlando was fet at 
liberty through the interceffion of the 
enathoured Clarieclla, under an engages 
ment to afift the monarch againtt ‘his 
new invaders. He is brought, of courte, 
to a fingle combat with Rin: aldo ; » and the 
combatants are feparated by njeht. New, 
adventures occur, difcoverics ave tuade, 
the city is entered by fratacem, tha 
Aunottante furprifed and killed, and the 
C Paladias 
