"And if it be your usage, that the dame

  Who yields in beauty, from your tower must wend,

  Here to remain I my design to proclaim,

  Should my resolve have good or evil game,

  Hence I infer, unequal were the game,

  If she and I in beauty should contend:

  For if such strife 'twixt her and me ensues,

  Nought can the damsel gain, and much may lose;