XXVII.
“With him shall the imperial Otho join
“In wedlock worthily his daughter fair.
“And lo! another Hugh! O noble line[10]!
“O! sire succeeded by an equal heir!
“He, thwarting with just cause their ill design,
“Shall trash the Romans’ pride who overbear;
“Shall from their hands the sovereign pontiff take,
“With the third Otho, and their leaguer break.
XXVIII.
“See Fulke, who to his brother will convey[11]
“All his Italian birth-right, and command
“To take a mighty dukedom far away
“From his fair home, in Almayn’s northern land.
“There he the house of Saxony shall stay,
“And prop the ruin with his saving hand;
“This in his mother’s right he shall possess,
“And with his progeny maintain and bless.
XXIX.
“More famed for courtesy than warlike deed,
“Azo the second, he who next repairs![12]
“Bertoldo and Albertazo are his seed:
“And, lo! the father walks between his heirs.
“By Parma’s walls I see the Germans bleed,
“Their second Henry quelled; such trophy bears
“The one renowned in story’s future page:
“The next shall wed Matilda, chaste and sage.
