...or subject matter, but rather to its narrative mode: "Great bards besides / In sage and solemn times have sung / Of tourneys and of trophies hung; / Of...enchantments drear, / Where more is meant than meets the ear." Adopting the tone of a professorial MacDonald lecturing to his Bedford College students, Mr....

...Penseroso: Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuskan bold, OfCamball, and ofAlgarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That own'd the virtuous...enchantments drear, Where more is meant than meets the ear.2 Goodman's stress on motifs the tale shares with other late medieval English romances contrasts...

...Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife. That owned the virtuous ring and glass,0 And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar...enchantments drear, Where more is meant than meets the ear. no Thus Night oft see me in thy pale career,0 Till civil-suited Morn appear,0 Not tricked and...

...heroes and poets" in Elysium (Aen. VI, The story of Cambuscan bold, no Of Camball, and of Algarsije, And who had Canace to wife, That own'd the virtuous...Horse of Brass, On which the Tartar King did ride; 115 And if aught else great Bards beside In sage and solemn tunes have sung, Of Tourneys and of Trophies...

...half-told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That owned the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse...bards beside In sage and solemn tunes have sung, Of turneys, and of trophies hung, Of forests, and enchantments drear, Where more is meant than meets the...

...king did ride; And if aught else great bards beside In sage and solemn tunes have sung, Of turneys, and of trophies hung, Of forests, and enchantments...meets the ear. Thus, Night, oft see me in thy pale career, Till civil-suited Morn appear, Not tricked and frounced, as she was wont With the Attic boy...