"Ah! wherefore, Brandimart, did I let thee Without me wend on such a dire emprize?
She ne'er before did thy departure see, But Flordelice aye followed thee," she cries:
"Well aided mightest thou have been by me;
For I on thee should still have kept my eyes;
And when Gradasso came behind thee, I
Thee might have succoured with a single cry;