XLV.
“Nor at this hour a single span of ground
“Would Logistilla (such her name) command,
“But that a mountain here, and there a sound,
“Protects the remnant from the invading band.
“’Tis thus the mountain and the river bound
“England, and part it from the Scottish land.
“Yet will the sisters give their foe no rest,
“Till of her scanty remnant dispossest.
XLVI.
“Because in wickedness and vice were bred
“The pair, as chaste and good they loath the dame.
“But, to return to what I lately said,
“And to relate how I a plant became;
“Me, full of love, the kind Alcina fed
“With full delights; nor I a weaker flame
“For her, within my burning heart did bear,
“Beholding her so courteous and so fair.
XLVII.
“Clasped in her dainty limbs, and lapt in pleasure,
“I weened that I each separate good had won,
“Which to mankind is dealt in different measure,
“Little or more to some, and much to none.
“I evermore contemplated my treasure,
“Nor France nor aught beside I thought upon:
“In her my every fancy, every hope
“Centered and ended as their common scope.
