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ter all the mites of sepulture were be- 
stowed with all the honours of martyrs. 
Astolpho was sent to England, and Oli- 
ver to Burgundy, to be interred in their 
native countries; and the corpse of Or- 
Jando was conveyed to Aix-la-Chapelle, 
and there deposited with great pomp and 
reverence in the royal sepulchre. he 
remainder of the poem consists of the 
signal vengeance which was taken by 
Charles and Rinaldo for the massacre of 
Roncesvalles: Gano paid the forfeit of 
his many crimes by an ignominious and 
dreadful death; and Marsilius, after see- 
ing his territories wasted, and his crown 
ravished from his brows, was hanged (by 
a just and extraordinary retribution) on 
the very carob-tree under which he had 
first plotted the destruction of Orlande. 
Rinaldo felt his ancient love for Luciana 
rekindled, and, by his espousals with her 
shortly after, became heir of the crown 
of Spain; but, unused to an inactive life, 
he quitted, in an advanced age, the peace- 
ful residence of a court, and set out in 
quest of new adventures. It is believed 
that he sailed westward in search of the 
new hemisphere which had formerly been 
described to him by Astaroth; but no- 
Critical Observations on the Morgante Maggiore. 
thing certain was ever heard of him afterz 
ward. 
One more passage shall conclude our 
extracts from, and remarks upon, the 
present work. All France lamented her 
champions, and wore an universal mourn- 
ing, when his body was entombed. 
But more than all the beauteous Alda mourn’d 
Her much-lov’d lord and brother on the 
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‘¢ Ye bappy souls, to kindred heav’n return’d. 
Have left me, all alone and widow’d here, 
Me, once the happiest wife on earth, adorn’d 
With all that heav’n approves, and earth 
holds dear; 
Blest with the love of the most noble knight 
That ever mounted steed, or dar’d the fight. 
‘*Oh my low’d father, brother, lord, farewell ! 
J never shall behold thy like again— 
So form’d in camps and cities to excell, 
_So mild in peace, so dreadful on the plain ! 
Constant in jife and death, thy Aldabelle 
Swears, by those bones interr’d at Aquis- 
grane,* 
Those tender arms that once encircled thee, 
Shall never to another wedded be!” eo 
| 6. 97. Se. 218. 
* Aquisgrana, the antique, or roigantic, 
appellation for Aix-la-Chapelle. aa 
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