Crossword-Solution: LXVII 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

LXVII The dozen peers are left behind in Spain, Franks in their band a thousand score remain, No fear have these, death hold they in disdain.

LXVII “Thy sign is in his Apogaeon placed, And when it moveth next, must needs descend, Chance in uncertain, fortune double faced, Smiling at first, she frowneth in the end: Beware thine honor be not then disgraced, Take heed thou mar not when thou think’st to mend, For this the folly is of Fortune’s play, ’Gainst doubtful, certain; much, ’gainst small to lay.

LXVII The time prefixed at length was come and past, Which Godfrey had set down to lend her aid, When at his feet herself to earth she cast, “The hour is come, my Lord,” she humbly said, “And if the tyrant haply hear at last, His banished niece hath your assistance prayed, He will in arms to save his kingdom rise, So shall we harder make this enterprise.

LXVII And for her mother had her taught before The secret virtue of each herb that springs, Besides fit charms for every wound or sore Corruption breedeth or misfortune brings,— An art esteemed in those times of yore, Beseeming daughters of great lords and kings— She would herself be surgeon to her knight, And heal him with her skill, or with her sight.

LXVII But not for this in fierce Argantes’ breast Lessened the rancor and decreased the ire, Although Alecto left him to infest With the hot brands of her infernal fire, Round his armed head his trenchant blade he blest, And those thick ranks that seemed moist entire He breaks; the strong, the high, the weak, the low, Were equalized by his murdering blow.