IV

Soone after comes the cruell Sarazin,

In woven maile[°] all armed warily,

And sternly lookes at him, who not a pin

Does care for looke of living creatures eye.

They bring them wines of Greece and Araby,[°]

And daintie spices fetcht from furthest Ynd,[°]

To kindle heat of corage privily:

And in the wine a solemne oth they bynd