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6 4 George Neilson
FAIRFAX'S TASSO.
The Egyptian Argantes.
between Dares and Entellus. The
prototype of Tancred here is Dares,
that of Argantes is Entellus.
Ille pedum melior motu fretusque
juventa
Hie membris et mole valens.
Aeneid, v. 11. 430-1.]
With a tall ship, so doth a galley fight
When the still winds stir not the
unstable main,
Where this in nimbleness, as that in
might,
Excels ; that stands,
this comes and
goes again,
And shifts from prow to poop with
turnings light.
Meanwhile the other doth unmoved
remain,
And on her nimble foe, approaching
nigh,
Her weighty engines tumbleth down
from high. xix. 13.
[Cf. Aeneid, v. 437. Stat gravis
Entellus, nisuque immotus eodem.]
[Argantes and Tancred in grips] :
His sword at last he let hang by the
chain,
And griped
hands.
his hardy foe in both his
In his strong arms Tancred caught him
again,
And thus each other held, and wrapped
in bands
With greater might Alcides did not
strain
The giant Antheus on the Lybian sands.
xix. 17.
Such was their wrestling, such their
shocks and throws,
That down at once they tumbled both
to ground. . .
But the good Prince, his hand more fit
for blows,
With his huge weight the Pagan under
bound. xix. 18.
LADY OF THE LAKE.
Canto V.
And as firm rock or castle-roof
Against the wintry shower is proof,
The foe, invulnerable still,
Foiled his wild rage by steady skill.
Roderick, hardly fairly,
(st. 15.)
when Fitz-
James has offered quarter, springs at
him.
And lock'd his arms his foeman round.
Now gallant Saxon hold thine own !
No maiden's hand is round thee thrown !
That desperate grasp thy frame might
feel
Through bars of brass and triple
steel !
(st. 1 6.)
They tug, they strain, down, down
they go,
The Gael above, Fitz James below.
(st. 1 6.)
Observe that in both combats the
combatants get into hand grips, and
the tall dark man is uppermost when
the wrestlers fall.