And I have seen a ship direct and swift Run o’er the sea throughout its course entire, To perish at the harbour’s mouth at last. Let not Dame Bertha nor Ser Martin think, 1552 Seeing one steal, another offering make, To see them in the arbitrament divine; 1553 For one may rise, and fall the other may.”
The Fifth Heaven, or that of Mars, where are seen the spirits of martyrs, and of crusaders who died fighting for the true faith—The Celestial Cross.