Medoro, by Angelica's quaint hand, Is healed, and weds, and bears her to Catay.
At length Marphisa, with the chosen band, After long suffering, makes Laiazzi's bay.
Guido the savage, bondsman in the land, Which impious women rule with civil sway, With Marphisa strives in single fight, And lodges her and hers at full of night.
By whom he is beloved can no one know, Who on the top of Fortune's wheel is seated;
Since he, by true and faithless friends, with show Of equal faith, in glad estate is greeted.
But, should felicity be changed to woe, The flattering multitude is turned and fleeted!
While he who loves his master from his heart, Even after death performs his faithful part.