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Of all the cities in Romanian lands	A
The chief and most renowned Ravenna stands	A
Adorned in ancient times with arms and arts	B
And rich inhabitants with generous hearts	B
But Theodore the brave above the rest	C
With gifts of fortune and of nature blessed	C
The foremost place for wealth and honour held	D
And all in feats of chivalry excelled	D
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This noble youth to madness loved a dame	E
Of high degree Honoria was her name	E
Fair as the fairest but of haughty mind	F
And fiercer than became so soft a kind	F
Proud of her birth for equal she had none	G
The rest she scorned but hated him alone	H
His gifts his constant courtship nothing gained	I
For she the more he loved the more disdained	I
He lived with all the pomp he could devise	J
At tilts and turnaments obtained the prize	J
But found no favour in his lady's eyes	J
Relentless as a rock the lofty maid	K
Turned all to poison that he did or said	L
Nor prayers nor tears nor offered vows could move	M
The work went backward and the more he strove	N
To advance his suit the farther from her love	O
	-
Wearied at length and wanting remedy	P
He doubted oft and oft resolved to die	Q
But pride stood ready to prevent the blow	R
For who would die to gratify a foe	R
His generous mind disdained so mean a fate	S
That passed his next endeavour was to hate	S
But vainer that relief than all the rest	C
The less he hoped with more desire possessed	C
Love stood the siege and would not yield his breast	C
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Change was the next but change deceived his care	T
He sought a fairer but found none so fair	T
He would have worn her out by slow degrees	U
As men by fasting starve the untamed disease	U
But present love required a present ease	U
Looking he feeds alone his famished eyes	J
Feeds lingering death but looking not he dies	J
Yet still he chose the longest way to fate	S
Wasting at once his life and his estate	S
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His friends beheld and pitied him in vain	V
For what advice can ease a lover's pain	V
Absence the best expedient they could find	F
Might svae the fortune if not cure the mind	F
This means they long proposed but little gained	I
Yet after much pursuit at length obtained	I
	-
Hard you may think it was to give consent	W
But struggling with his own desires he went	W
With large expense and with a pompous train	V
Provided as to visit Fraunce or Spain	V
Or for some distant voyage o'er the main	V
But Love had clipped his wings and cut him short	X
Confined within the purlieus of his court	X
Three miles he went nor farther could retreat	Y
His travels ended at his country seat	Y
To Chassi's pleasing plains he took his way	Z
There pitched his tents and there resolved to stay	Z
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The spring was in the prime the neighbouring grove	N
Supplied with birds the choristers of love	O
Music unbought that ministered delight	A2
To morning walks and lulled his cares by night	A2
There he discharged his friends but not the expense	B2
Of frequent treats and proud magnificence	B2
He lived as kings retire though more at large	C2
From public business yet with equal charge	C2
With house and heart still open to receive	D2
As well content as love would give him leave	D2
He would have lived more free but many a guest	C
Who could forsake the friend pursued the feast	E2
	-
It happed one morning as his fancy led	L
Before his usual hour he left his bed	L
To walk within a lonely lawn that stood	F2
On every side surrounded by the wood	F2
Alone he walked to please his pensive mind	F
And sought the deepest solitude to find	F
'Twas in a grove of spreading pines he strayed	K
The winds within the quivering branches played	K
And dancing trees a mournful music made	K
The place it self was suiting to his care	T
Uncouth and savage as the cruel fair	T
He wandered on unknowing where he went	W
Lost in the wood and all on love intent	W
The day already half his race had run	G
And summoned him to due repast at noon	G2
But Love could feel no hunger but his own	H
	-
While listening to the murmuring leaves he stood	F2
More than a mile immersed within the wood	F2
At once the wind was laid the whispering sound	H2
Was dumb a rising earthquake rocked the ground	H2
With deeper brown the grove was overspread	H2
A sudden horror seized his giddy head	H2
And his ears tinkled and his colour fled	H2
Nature was in alarm some danger nigh	Q
Seemed threatened though unseen to mortal eye	Q
Unused to fear he summoned all his soul	I2
And stood collected in him self and whole	I2
Not long for soon a whirlwind rose around	H2
And from afar he heard a screaming sound	H2
As of a dame distressed who cried for aid	H2
And filled with loud laments the secret shade	H2
	-
A thicket close beside the grove there stood	H2
With breers and brambles choked and dwarfish wood	H2
From thence the noise which now approaching near	J2
With more distinguished notes invades his ear	K2
He raised his head and saw a beauteous maid	H2
With hair dishevelled issuing through the shade	H2
Stripped of her clothes and e'en those parts revealed	H2
Which modest nature keeps from sight concealed	H2
Her face her hands her naked limbs were torn	L2
With passing through the brakes and prickly thorn	L2
Two mastiffs gaunt and grim her flight pursued	H2
And oft their fastened fangs in blood imbrued	H2
Oft they came up and pinched her tender side	H2
'Mercy O mercy Heaven ' she ran and cried	H2
When Heaven was named they loosed their hold again	M2
Then sprung she forth they followed her amain	M2
	-
Not far behind a knight of swarthy face	B2
High on a coal black steed pursued the chace	B2
With flashing flames his ardent eyes were filled	H2
And in his hands a naked sword he held	H2
He cheered the dogs to follow her who fled	H2
And vowed revenge on her devoted head	H2
	-
As Theodore was born of noble kind	H2
The brutal action roused his manly mind	H2
Moved with unworthy usage of the maid	H2
He though unarmed resolved to give her aid	H2
A saplin pine he wrenched from out the ground	H2
The readiest weapon that his fury found	H2
Thus furnished for offence he crossed the way	Z
Betwixt the graceless villain and his prey	Z
	-
The knight came thundering on but from afar	N2
Thus in imperious tone forbad the war	O2
'Cease Theodore to proffer vain relief	P2
'Nor stop the vengeance of so just a grief	P2
'But give me leave to seize my destined prey	Z
'And let eternal justice take the way	Z
'I but revenge my fate disdained betrayed	H2
'And suffering death for this ungrateful maid '	-
	-
He said at once dismounting from the steed	H2
For now the hell hounds with superior speed	H2
Had reached the dame and fastening on her side	H2
The ground with issuing streams of purple dyed	H2
Stood Theodore surprised in deadly fright	H2
With chattering teeth and bristling hair upright	H2
Yet armed with inborn worth 'Whate'er ' said he	P
'Thou art who knowst me better than I thee	P
'Or prove thy rightful cause or be defied '	-
The spectre fiercely staring thus replied	H2
	-
'Know Theodore thy ancestry I claim	E
'And Guido Cavalcanti was my name	E
'One common sire our fathers did beget	H2
'My name and story some remember yet	H2
'Thee then a boy within my arms I laid	H2
'When for my sins I loved this haughty maid	H2
'Not less adored in life nor served by me	P
'Than proud Honoria now is loved by thee	P
'What did I not her stubborn heart to gain	M2
'But all my vows were answered with disdain	M2
'She scorned my sorrows and despised my pain	M2
'Long time I dragged my days in fruitless care	T
'Then loathing life and plunged in deep despair	T
'To finish my unhappy life I fell	Q2
'On this sharp sword and now am damned in hell	Q2
	-
'Short was her joy for soon the insulting maid	H2
'By Heaven's decree in the cold grave was laid	H2
'And as in unrepenting sin she died	H2
'Doomed to the same bad place is punished for her pride	H2
'Because she deemed I well deserved to die	H2
'And made a merit of her cruelty	P
'There then we met both tried and both were cast	H2
'And this irrevocable sentence passed	H2
'That she whom I so long pursued in vain	M2
'Should suffer from my hands a lingering pain	M2
'R	T

John Dryden

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