Part 2 / Book 2 — CANTO I.
Reading edition
“It timor, et major Martis jam apparet imago.” Virgil.
TO THOSE ILLUSTRIOUS HEROES, WHOSE LAURELS ARE THE BRIGHTEST ORNAMENTS OF THE BRIGHTEST VICTORY WHICH HAS EVER GRACED THE ANNALS OF THE BRITISH HISTORY; WHOSE NAMES THE BARD GLORIES TO CELEBRATE, AND FAME DELIGHTS TO IMMORTALIZE; THIS POEM IS DEDICATED, BY THEIR YOUTHFUL, BUT ARDENT ADMIRER,
EDW: GEO: LYTTON BULWER