The Faerie Queene ( Book 5.9) Edmund Spenser

CANTO IX

Arthur and Artegall catch Guyle
Whom Talus doth dismay,
They to Mercillaes pallace come,
And see her rich array.

W Hat Tygre, or what other saluage wight
Is so exceeding furious and fell,
As Wrong, when it hath arm’d it selfe with might?
Not fit mongst men, that doe with reason mell,
But mongst wyld beasts and saluage woods to dwell;
Where still the stronger doth the weake deuoure,
And they that most in boldnesse doe excell,
Are dreadded most, and feared for their powre:
Fit for Adicia, there to build her wicked bowre.

There let her wonne farre from resort of men,
Where righteous Artegall her late exyled;
There let her euer keepe her damned den,
Where none may be with her lewd parts defyled,
Nor none but beasts may be of her despoyled:
And turne we to the noble Prince, where late
We did him leaue, after that he had foyled
The cruell Souldan, and with dreadfull fate