Gryphon finds traitorous Origilla nigh Damascus city, with Martano vile.
Slaughtered the Saracens and Christians lie By thousands and by thousands heaped this while;
And if the Moor outside of Paris die, Within the Sarzan so destroys each pile, Such slaughter deals, that greater ill than this Never before has been exprest, I wiss.
Love's penalties are manifold and dread:
Of which I have endured the greater part, And, to my cost, in these so well am read, That I can speak of them as 'twere my art.
Hence if I say, or if I ever said, (Did speech or living page my thoughts impart)
"One ill is grievous and another light."
Yield me belief, and deem my judgment right.
