And who this awful chief? aloud exclaims h The first Alonzo strikes thy wondering eyes. From Lufus' realm the pagan Moors he drove; The Moorish ftrength lay proftrate on the ground. With troops fo few, with hosts fo numerous warr'd: Back h The firft Alonzo- -King of Portugal. See p. 105, &c. vol. i. i On his young pupil's flight.- "Some indeed, most writers say, that the queen (of whom fee p. 100. vol. i.) advancing with her army towards Guimaraez, the king, without waiting till his governor joined him, engaged them and was routed: but that afterwards the remains of his army being joined by the troops under the command of Egaz Munitz, engaged the army of the queen a fecond time, and gained a complete victory." Univ. Hift. Back to the field-The veteran and the boy Back to the field exult with furious joy: Their ranks mow'd down, the boastful foe recedes, k Egaz behold, a chief self-doom'd to death. No father's woes affail'd his stedfast mind; The dearest ties the Lufian chief resign'd. There, by the stream, a town befieged behold, The Moorish tents the flatter'd walls infold. vol. i. Fierce Egaz behold, a chief self-doom'd to death. See the same story, p. 102. 1 Ab, Rome! no more thy generous conful boaft-Sc. Posthumus, who, overpowered by the Samnites, fubmitted to the indignity of paffing under the yoke or gallows. Fierce as the lion from the covert fprings, When hunger gives his rage the whirlwind's wings; And whelms in fudden rout th' aftonish'd Moors. The Moorish king in captive chains hem sends; Far o'er the ocean fhine his enfigns rays: In crackling flames the Moorish galleys fly, And the red blaze ascends the blushing sky : And wrap the forests in a sheet of fire: There seem the waves beneath the prows to boil; And distant far around for many a mile The glaffy deep reflects the ruddy blaze; Far on the edge the yellow light decays, And blends with hovering blackness. Great and dread Thus fhone the day when first the combat bled, The glorious prelude of our naval reign, Which now the waves beyond the burning zone, And northern Greenland's froft-bound billows own. Again The Moorish king. -The Alcaydes, or tributary governors under the Miramolin or Emperor of Morocco, are often by the Spanish and Portuguese writers ftiled kings. He who was furprised and taken prisoner by Don Fuaz Roupinho was named Gama. Fuaz, after having gained the first naval victory of the Portuguese, also experienced their first defeat. With one and twenty fail he attacked fifty-four large gallies of the Moors. Brandan, which had lately furnished him with trophies, now supplied him with a tomb. The fea, fays Again behold brave Fuaz dares the fight! O'erpower'd he finks beneath the Moorish might; Aud lo, his foul triumphant mounts the skies. 1 Lo, marching from the decks the squadrons fpread, Lo, Henry falls, a gallant German knight, There waives the bloffom'd palm the boughs of gold: O'er Henry's grave the facred plant arofe, And from the leaves, heaven's gift, gay health redundant flows. Aloft, n Aforeign navy brings the pious aid-A navy of crufaders, moftly English. See p. 109. vol. i. And from the leaves- -This legend is mentioned by fome ancient Por tuguese chronicles. Homer would have availed himself, as Camoëns has done, of a tradition fo enthufiaftical, and characteristic of the age. Henry was a native of Bonneville near Cologn. His tomb, fays Castera, is still to be feen in the monaftery of St. Vincent, but without the palm. Aloft, unfurl; the valiant Paulus cries; And lo, on fair Savilia's batter'd wall, How boldly calm amid the crashing spears, The P In robes of white behold a priest advance." Theotonius, prior of the "regulars of St. Auguftine of Conymbra. Some ancient chronicles relate "this circumftance as mentioned by Camoëns. Modern writers affert, that "he never quitted his breviary." Caftera. The fon of Egas-He was named Mem Moniz, and was fon of Egas Moniz, celebrated for the furrender of himself and family to the king of Caftile, as already mentioned. The dauntless Gerrald-" He was a man of rank, who, in order to avoid the legal punishment to which feveral crimes rendered him obnoxious, put himfelf $ 3 |