When Artegall arriving happily,

Did stay awhile their grecdy bickerment,
Till he had queftioned the caufe of their diffent.

VII.

To whom the elder did this answer frame; "Then weet ye, Sir, that we two brethren be, "To whom our fire, Milefio by name, "Did equally bequeath his lands in fee, "Two iilands, which ye there before you fee "Not farre in fea, of which the one appeares "But like a little mount of small degree, "Yet was as great and wide ere many yeares, · As that fame other ifle, that greater bredth now beares.

VIII.

"But tract of time, that all things doth decay, "And this devouring fea, that nought doth "spare,

"The most part of my land hath washt away, "And throwne it up unto my brother's fhare, "So his increafed but mine did empaire. "Before which time I lov'd, as was my lot, "That further mayd, hight Philtera the faire, With whom a goodly doure 1 fhould have got, "And fhould have ioyned bene to her in wed"lock's knot.

"But whether it indeede be fo or no, "This doe I fay, that whatso good or ill, "Or God or Fortune unto me did throw, "(Not wronging any other by my will) "I hold mine owne, and fo will hold it fill: "And though my land he firft did winne away, "And then my love (though now it little skill) "Yet my good lucke he fhall not likewife pray; "But I will it defend whilft ever that I may."

Then Artegall thus to the younger fayd; "Now tell me, Amidas, if that ye may, "Your brother's land which the fea hath layd "Unto your part, and pluckt from his away, "By what good right doe you withold this « day?” "What other right," quoth he, "fhould you "esteeme,

"But that the fea it to my fhare did lay?"

"The cause, they fay, of this her cruell hate, "Is for the fake of Bellodant the Bold, "To whom the bore most fervent love of late, "And wooed him by all the waies fhe could; "But when fhe faw at laft that he ne would "For ought or nought be wonne unto her will, "She turn'd her love to hatred manifold, "And for his fake vow'd to doe all the ill Which he could doe to knights, which now fhe "doth fulfill.

XXXIII.

"How hight that Amazon," fayd Artegall, "And where and how far hence does the abide?" " Her name,” quoth he, “ they Radigund doe call, "A princeffe of great powre and greater pride, "And Queen of Amazons, in armes well tiide "And fundry battels which she had atchieved "With great fucceffe, that her hath glorifide, "And made her famous more than is believed, "Ne would I it have ween'd, had I not late it prieved."

Unto the wall his way did fearelesse take,
To weeten what that trumpet's founding ment;
Where that fame damzell lowdly him befpake,
And fhewd that with his lord fhe would emper-
launce make.

LI.

So he them ftreight conducted to his lord,
Who as he could, them goodly well did greete,
Till they had told their meillage word by word;

Which he accepting well, as he could wecte, Them fairely entertayned with curt'fies meete, And gave them gifts and things of deare delight; So backe againe they homeward turn'd their feete;

But Artegall himselse to rest did dight, That he mote fresher be against the nixt daies fight.

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