[* If the Turkish words are correctly given, "the oath" may be an imprecation on "your mother's" chastity.]
[ES] For fear the Canto should become too long.—[MS.]
CANTO THE FIFTH.[270]
I.
When amatory poets sing their loves
In liquid lines mellifluously bland,
And pair their rhymes as Venus yokes her doves,
They little think what mischief is in hand;