Flordelice marked the maid, that, in her sight, Appeared a warrior fitted for her needs;
And of the bridge and river 'gan recite, Where Argier's mighty king the road impedes;
And how he had gone nigh to slay her knight;
Not that more doughty were the monarch's deeds;
But that the wily paynim vantage-ground In that streight bridge and foaming river found.
