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GONDIBERT,
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So open they the fatal Cabinet,
To shut things slighter with the Consequent;
Then soon their rally'd looks in posture set;
And boldly with them to their triumphs went.

75.
Tybalt, who Laura gravely ever led,
With ceaseless whispers laggs behind the Train;
Tries, since her wary Governour is dead,
How the fair Fort he may by Treaty gain.

76.
For now unhappy Arnold she forsakes;
Yet he is blest that she does various prove,
When his spent heart for no unkindness akes;
Since from the Light as sever'd as from Love.

77.
Yet as in storms and sickness newly gone,
Some Clouds a while, and strokes of faintness last;
So, in her brow, so much of grief is shown,
As shews a Tempest, or a sickness past.

78.
But him no more with such sad Eyes she seeks,
As even at Feasts would make old Tyrants weep;
Nor more attempts to wake him with such shreeks,
As threatned all where Death's deaf Pris'ners sleep.

79.
Hugo and him, as Leaders now she names,
Not much as Lovers does their fame approve;
Nor her own fate, but chance of battel blames;
As if they dy'd for honour, not for love.

80.
This Tybalt saw, and finds that the turn'd Stream
Came fairly flowing to refresh his heart;
Yet could he not forget the kind esteem
She lately had of Arnold's high desert.

Nor