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***In this conclusion of the First Part, and at the beginning of the Second, the reader

will observe a resemblance to the story ofSigismunda and Guiscard,as told by
Boccace and Dryden: See the latter's description of the lovers meeting in the cave;
and those beautiful lines which contain a reflection so like this of our poet, "Everye
white," &c., viz.--

But as extremes are short of ill and good,

And tides at highest mark regorge their flood;

So Fate, that could no mooe improve their joy,

Took a malicious pleasure to destroy

Tancred, who fondly loved, &c.

PART THE SECOND

EVERYE white will have its blacke,
And everye sweete its sowre:
This founde the Ladye Christabelle
In an untimely howre.

For so it befelle, as Syr Cauline
Was with that ladye faire,
The kinge her father walked forthe
To take the evenyng aire:

And into the arboure as he went
To rest his wearye feet,
He found his daughter and Syr Cauline
There sette in daliaunce sweet.

The kinge hee sterted forthe, i-wys,
And an angrye man was hee:
"Nowe, traytoure, thou shalt hange or draw;
And rewe shall thy ladiè."

Then forthe Syr Cauline he was ledde,
And throwne in dungeon deepe:
And the ladye into a towre so hye,
There left to wayle and weepe.

The queene she was Syr Caulines friend,
And to the kinge sayd shee:
"I praye you save Syr Caulines life,
And let him banisht bee."

"Now, dame, that traitor shall be sent
Across the salt sea fome:
But here I will make thee a hand,
If ever he come within this land,
A foule deathe is his doome."

All woe-begone was that gentil knight
To parte from his ladyè;
And many a time he sighed sore,
And cast a wistfulle eye:
"Faire Christabelle, from thee to parte,
Farre lever had I dye."