XLIV
"And ere five years were fully come and gone
Since his dear spouse to hasty death did yield,
My father also died, with moan,
And sought his love amid the Elysian fields,
His crown and me, poor orphan, left alone,
Mine uncle governed in my tender eild;
For well he thought, if mortal men have faith,
In brother's breast true love his mansion hath.
"And ere five years were fully come and gone
Since his dear spouse to hasty death did yield,
My father also died, with moan,
And sought his love amid the Elysian fields,
His crown and me, poor orphan, left alone,
Mine uncle governed in my tender eild;
For well he thought, if mortal men have faith,
In brother's breast true love his mansion hath.
Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered
