Guy And Amarant Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBBB BCBCDD EFEFG HIHIBB HJHJJ JIJIB KBKBKK ILILLL MJMJN BHBHJ BOBOJJ IOIOB BJBJJ JHJHJJ BLBLBB P PBM HLHLII OQOQ K BRBRJJ BOBOB SBSBBB KBKBM QLQLOO OTOTBB LBLBQQ BBBBBB BJBJJJ PBPBBB HJHJBB JJKGuy journeyes towards that sanctifyed ground | A |
Whereas the Jewes fayre citye sometime stood | B |
Wherin our Saviours sacred head was crownd | B |
And where for sinfull man he shed his blood | B |
To see the sepulcher was his intent | B |
The tombe that Joseph unto Jesus lent | B |
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With tedious miles he tyred his wearye feet | B |
And passed desart places full of danger | C |
At last with a most woefull wight did meet | B |
A man that unto sorrow was noe stranger | C |
For he had fifteen sonnes made captives all | D |
To slavish bondage in extremest thrall | D |
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A gyant called Amarant detaind them | E |
Whom noe man durst encounter for his strength | F |
Who in a castle which he held had chaind them | E |
Guy questions where and understands at length | F |
The place not farr 'Lend me thy sword ' quoth hee | G |
'Ile lend my manhood all thy sonnes to free ' | - |
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With that he goes and lays upon the dore | H |
Like one that sayes I must and will come in | I |
The gyant never was soe rowz'd before | H |
For noe such knocking at his gate had bin | I |
Soe takes his keyes and clubb and cometh out | B |
Staring with ireful countenance about | B |
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'Sirra ' quoth hee 'what busines hast thou heere | H |
Art come to feast the crowes about my walls | J |
Didst never heare noe ransome can him cleere | H |
That in the compasse of my furye falls | J |
For making me to take a porters paines | J |
With this same clubb I will dash out thy braines ' | - |
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'Gyant ' quoth Guy 'y'are quarrelsome I see | J |
Choller and you seem very neere of kin | I |
Most dangerous at the clubb belike you bee | J |
I have bin better armd though nowe goe thin | I |
But shew thy utmost hate enlarge thy spight | B |
Keene is my weapon and shall doe me right ' | - |
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Soe draws his sword salutes him with the same | K |
About the head the shoulders and the side | B |
Whilst his erected clubb doth death proclaime | K |
Standinge with huge Colossus' spacious stride | B |
Putting such vigour to his knotty beame | K |
That like a furnace he did smoke extreame | K |
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But on the ground he spent his strokes in vaine | I |
For Guy was nimble to avoyde them still | L |
And ever ere he heav'd his clubb againe | I |
Did brush his plated coat against his will | L |
At such advantage Guy wold never fayle | L |
To bang him soundlye in his coate of mayle | L |
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Att last through thirst the gyant feeble grewe | M |
And sayd to Guy 'As thou'rt of humane race | J |
Show itt in this give natures wants their dewe | M |
Let me but goe and drinke in yonder place | J |
Thou canst not yeeld to 'me' a smaller thing | N |
Than to graunt life thats given by the spring ' | - |
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'I graunt thee leave ' quoth Guye 'goe drink thy last | B |
Go pledge the dragon and the salvage bore | H |
Succeed the tragedyes that they have past | B |
But never thinke to taste cold water more | H |
Drinke deepe to Death and unto him carouse | J |
Bid him receive thee in his earthen house ' | - |
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Soe to the spring he goes and slakes his thirst | B |
Takeing the water in extremely like | O |
Some wracked shipp that one a rocke is burst | B |
Whose forced hulke against the stones does stryke | O |
Scooping it in soe fast with both his hands | J |
That Guy admiring to behold it stands | J |
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'Come on ' quoth Guy 'let us to work againe | I |
Thou stayest about thy liquor overlong | O |
The fish which in the river doe remaine | I |
Will want thereby thy drinking doth them wrong | O |
But I will see their satisfaction made | B |
With gyants blood they must and shall be payd ' | - |
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'Villaine ' quoth Amarant 'Ile crush thee streight | B |
Thy life shall pay thy daring toungs offence | J |
This clubb which is about some hundred weight | B |
Is deathes commission to dispatch thee hence | J |
Dresse thee for ravens dyett I must needes | J |
And breake thy bones as they were made of reedes ' | - |
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Incensed much by these bold pagan bostes | J |
Which worthye Guy cold ill endure to heare | H |
He hewes upon those bigg supporting postes | J |
Which like two pillars did his body beare | H |
Amarant for those wounds in choller growes | J |
And desperatelye att Guy his clubb he throwes | J |
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Which did directly on his body light | B |
Soe violent and weighty therewithall | L |
That downe to ground on sudden came the knight | B |
And ere he cold recover from the fall | L |
The gyant gott his clubb againe in fist | B |
And aimd a stroke that wonderfullye mist | B |
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'Traytor ' quoth Guy 'thy falshood Ile repay | P |
This coward act to intercept my bloode ' | - |
Sayes Amarant 'Ile murther any way | P |
With enemyes all vantages are good | B |
O could I poyson in thy nostrills blowe | M |
Besure of it I wold dispatch thee soe ' | - |
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'Its well ' said Guy 'thy honest thoughts appeare | H |
Within that beastlye bulke where devills dwell | L |
Which are thy tenants while thou livest heare | H |
But will be landlords when thou comest in hell | L |
Vile miscreant prepare thee for their den | I |
Inhumane monster hatefull unto men | I |
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'But breathe thy selfe a time while I goe drinke | O |
For flameing Phoebus with his fyerye eye | Q |
Torments me soe with burning heat I thinke | O |
My thirst wolde serve to drinke an ocean drye | Q |
Forbear a litle as I delt with thee ' | - |
Quoth Amarant 'Thou hast noe foole of mee | K |
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'Noe sillye wretch my father taught more witt | B |
How I shold use such enemyes as thou | R |
By all my gods I doe rejoice at itt | B |
To understand that thirst constraines thee now | R |
For all the treasure that the world containes | J |
One drop of water shall not coole thy vaines | J |
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'Releeve my foe why 'twere a madmans part | B |
Refresh an adversarye to my wrong | O |
If thou imagine this a child thou art | B |
Noe fellow I have known the world too long | O |
To be soe simple now I know thy want | B |
A minutes space of breathing I'll not grant ' | - |
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And with these words heaving aloft his clubb | S |
Into the ayre he swings the same about | B |
Then shakes his lockes and doth his temples rubb | S |
And like the Cyclops in his pride doth strout | B |
'Sirra ' says hee 'I have you at a lift | B |
Now you are come unto your latest shift | B |
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'Perish forever with this stroke I send thee | K |
A medicine that will doe thy thirst much good | B |
Take noe more care for drinke before I end thee | K |
And then wee'll have carouses of thy blood | B |
Here's at thee with a butcher's downright blow | M |
To please my furye with thine overthrow ' | - |
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'Infernall false obdurate feend ' said Guy | Q |
'That seemst a lumpe of crueltye from hell | L |
Ungratefull monster since thou dost deny | Q |
The thing to mee wherein I used thee well | L |
With more revenge than ere my sword did make | O |
On thy accursed head revenge Ile take | O |
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'The gyants longitude shall shorter shrinke | O |
Except thy sun scorcht skin be weapon proof | T |
Farewell my thirst I doe disdaine to drinke | O |
Streames keepe your waters to your owne behoof | T |
Or let wild beasts be welcome thereunto | B |
With those pearle drops I will not have to do | B |
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'Here tyrant take a taste of my good will | L |
For thus I doe begin my bloodye bout | B |
You cannot chuse but like the greeting ill | L |
It is not that same clubb will beare you out | B |
And take this payment on thy shaggye crowne' | Q |
A blowe that brought him with a vengeance downe | Q |
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Then Guy sett foot upon the monsters brest | B |
And from his shoulders did his head divide | B |
Which with a yawninge mouth did gape unblest | B |
Noe dragons jawes were ever seene soe wide | B |
To open and to shut till life was spent | B |
Then Guy tooke keyes and to the castle went | B |
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Where manye woefull captives he did find | B |
Which had beene tyred with extremityes | J |
Whom he in friendly manner did unbind | B |
And reasoned with them of their miseryes | J |
Eche told a tale with teares and sighes and cryes | J |
All weeping to him with complaining eyes | J |
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There tender ladyes in darke dungeons lay | P |
That were surprised in the desart wood | B |
And had noe other dyett everye day | P |
But flesh of humane creatures for their food | B |
Some with their lovers bodyes had beene fed | B |
And in their wombes their husbands buryed | B |
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Now he bethinkes him of his being there | H |
To enlarge the wronged brethren from their woes | J |
And as he searcheth doth great clamours heare | H |
By which sad sound's direction on he goes | J |
Untill he findes a darksome obscure gate | B |
Arm'd strongly ouer all with iron plate | B |
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That he unlockes and enters where appeares | J |
The strangest object that he ever saw | J |
M | K |
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