Oppressors big with pride, when she appear’d,
Blush’d, and believ’d their greatness counterfeit;
The lowly thought they them in vain had fear’d;
Found virtue harmless, and nought else so great.
Her mind (scarce to her feeble sex a-kin)
Did as her birth, her right to empire show;
Seem’d careless outward, when employ’d within;
Her speech, like lovers watch’d, was kind and low.
The court of Aribert could not want men of high rank and accomplishments to pay their devotions at such a shrine. Among these, “Oswald the great, and greater Gondibert” moved in the most exalted sphere of renown. These noble personages are characterized and contrasted with so masterly a hand, that it would be an injury not to transcribe the whole.