Upon Ruggiero’s wild, enchanted view
The magic garden, mightiest wings the while
Furled the aërial steed on which he flew.
Not fairer that to which Armida drew
The Christian Knight whom fatal toils ensnared,
Where side by side the fruit and blossoms grew,
The bough green apples with the golden shared,
And the full ripened with the nascent fig compared.
VII.
Salustian to the sheltering house returned