He crav’d a wealthy Boon,
A noble Gift, the which the King
Commanded to be done;
To relieve his Father’s Wants,
And Mother being old.
The rest of this Canto relates the Visit to his Father, in which there is something very soft and tender, something that may move the Mind of the most polite Reader, with the inward Meltings of Humanity and Compassion.
The Next Canto of the Tilts and Tournaments, is much like the Fifth Book of Virgil, and tho' we can't suppose our Poet ever saw that Author, yet we may believe he was directed to almost the same Passages, by the same kind of Poetical Genius, and the same Copyings after Nature.
Now he with Tilts and Tournaments,
Was entertained so,
That all the rest of Arthur’s Knights