Duke Frederick, hearing how that every day

Men of great worth resorted to this forest,

150 Address’d a mighty power; which were on foot,

In his own conduct, purposely to take

His brother here and put him to the sword:

And to the skirts of this wild wood he came;

Where meeting with an old religious man,

155 After some question with him, was converted

Both from his enterprise and from the world;

His crown bequeathing to his banish’d brother,