XXI.
“This Polinesso many times had heard
“From me (for such the Scottish baron’s name)
“Well warranted by sight as well as word,
“How ill his love was cherished by the dame.
“To see another to himself preferred
“Not only quenched the haughty warrior’s flame,
“But the fond love which in his bosom burned
“Into despiteful rage and hatred turned.
XXII.
“Between Geneura and her faithful knight
“Such discord and ill will he schemed to shed,
“And put betwixt the pair such foul despite,
“No time should heal the quarrel he had bred;
“Bringing such scandal on that damsel bright,
“The stain should cleave to her, alive or dead:
“Nor, bent to wreck her on this fatal shelf,
“Counselled with me, or other but himself.
XXIII.
‘Dalinda mine,’ he said, his project brewed,
(Dalinda is my name) ‘you needs must know,
‘That from the root although the trunk be hewed,
‘Successive suckers many times will grow[7].
‘Thus my unhappy passion is renewed,
‘Tenacious still of life, and buds; although
‘Cut off by ill success, with new increase:
‘Nor, till I compass my desire, will cease.
