And in that loathsome dungeon plunge him deep,
Where he plunged noble Oswald.
Osm. That indeed is fittest for me;
For there I shall be near my kindred friends,
And spare my Grimbald's pains to bear me to them. [Is carried off.
Mer. [To Arth.] For this day's palm, and for thy former acts,
Thy Britain freed, and foreign force expelled,
Thou, Arthur, hast acquired a future fame,
And, of three Christian worthies, art the first:[23]
And now, at once to treat thy sight and soul,