While fair Altisidora, who the sport

Of cold Don Quixote’s cruelty hath been,

Returns to life, and in this magic court

The dames in sables come to grace the scene,

And while her matrons all in seemly sort

My lady robes in baize and bombazine,

Her beauty and her sorrows will I sing

With defter quill than touched the Thracian string.

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