[Footnote 45: 

“Le lacrime scendean tra gigli e rose,
La dove avvien ch’ alcune se n’ inghiozzi.”

Canto xii. st. 94.

Which has been well translated by Mr. Rose

And between rose and lily, from her eyes
Tears fall so fast, she needs must swallow some.”]

[Footnote 46:  Essay on the Narrative and Romantic Poems of the Italians, in the Quarterly Review, vol. xxi.]

[Footnote 47: 

“Vengono e van, come onda al primo margo
Quando piacevole aura il mar combatte.”

Canto vii. st. 14.]

[Footnote 48: 

“Con semplici parole e puri incanti.”

Canto vi. st. 38.]

[Footnote 49:  Canto xiv. st. 79.]

[Footnote 50:  Canto xxviii. st. 98.]

[Footnote 51:  Canto XV. st. 57.]

[Footnote 52:  Id. st. 23.]

[Footnote 53:  Canto xvi. st. 56.]

[Footnote 54:  Canto xviii. st. 142.]

[Footnote 55:  Canto XVII. st. 12.]

[Footnote 56:  Essay, as above, p.534.]

[Footnote 57:  Boiardo and Ariosto, vol. iv. p. 318.]

[Footnote 58:  Life, in Panizzi p. ix.]

[Footnote 59:  Opere di Galileo, Padova, 1744, vol. i. p. lxxii.]

THE

ADVENTURES OF ANGELICA.

Argument.

PART I.—­Angelica flies from the camp of Charlemagne into a wood, where she meets with a number of her suitors.  Description of a beautiful natural bower.  She claims the protection of Sacripant, who is overthrown, in passing, by an unknown warrior that turns out to be a damsel.  Rinaldo comes up, and Angelica flies from both.  She meets a pretended hermit, who takes her to some rocks in the sea, and casts her asleep by magic.  They are seized and carried off by some mariners from the isle of Ebuda, where she is exposed to be devoured by an orc, but is rescued by a knight on a winged horse.  He descends with her into a beautiful spot on the coast of Brittany, but suddenly misses both horse and lady.  He is lured, with the other knights, into an enchanted palace, whither Angelica comes too.  She quits it, and again eludes her suitors.

PART II.—­Cloridan and Medoro, two Moorish youths, after a battle with the Christians, resolve to find the dead body of their master, King Dardinel, and bury it.  They kill many sleepers as they pass through the enemy’s camp, and then discover the body; but are surprised, and left for dead themselves.  Medoro, however, survives his friend, and is cured of his wounds by Angelica, who happens to come up.  She falls in love with and marries him.  Account of their honeymoon in the woods.  They quit them to set out for Cathay, and see a madman on the road.

PART III.—­When the lovers had quitted their abode in the wood, Orlando, by chance, arrived there, and saw every where, all round him, in-doors and out-of-doors, inscriptions of “Angelica and Medoro.”  He tries in vain to disbelieve his eyes; finally, learns the whole story from the owner of the cottage, and loses his senses.  What he did in that state, both in the neighbourhood and afar off, where he runs naked through the country.  His arrival among his brother Paladins; and the result.