By good Rogero and those paynims three Defeated, Charlemagne to Paris flies.
Already all, throughout their chivalry, Are mad with spite and hatred; jars arise, And strife; and means to still their enmity Their sovereign is unable to devise.
From him departs the monarch of Argier, Who is rejected of his lady dear.
A woman for the most part reasons best Upon a sudden motion, and untaught;
For with that special grace the sex is blest, 'Mid those so many gifts, wherewith 'tis fraught;
But man, of a less nimble wit possest, Is ill at counsel, save, with sober thought, He ruminates thereon, content to spend Care, time and trouble to mature his end.
