On bark or rock, if yielding were the stone,

The knife was straight at work, or ready pin.

And there, without, in thousand places lone,

And in as many places graved, within,

Medoro and Angelica were traced,

In divers ciphers quaintly interlaced.

When she believed they had prolonged their stay

More than enow, the damsel made design

In India to revisit her Catay,

And with its crown Medoro's head entwine.