she went to bed, and in the morning she was found stone dead."[92] But a more national, a more inspiriting, and a more agreeable theme for the alert finger or the busy loom is found in the life and adventures of that prince of combatants, that hero of all heroes, Guy Earl of Warwick. Help me, shades of renowned slaughterers, whilst I record his achievements! Bear witness to his deed, ye grisly phantoms, ye bloody ghosts of infidel Paynims, whom his Christian sword mowed down, even as corn falls beneath the the reaper's sickle, till the redoubtable champion strode breast deep in bodies over fifteen acres covered with slaughtered foes![93] And all this from Christian zeal! "In faith of Christ a Christian true The wicked laws of infidels, He sought by power to subdue. "So passed he the seas of Greece, To help the Emperour to his right, Against the mighty Soldan's host Of puissant Persians for to fight: Where he did slay of Sarazens And heathen Pagans many a man, And slew the Soldan's cousin dear, Who had to name, Doughty Colbron. "Ezkeldered that famous knight, To death likewise he did pursue, And Almain, king of Tyre also, Most terrible too in fight to view: He went into the Soldan's host, Being thither on ambassage sent, And brought away his head with him, He having slain him in his tent." Or passing by his "Feats of arms In strange and sundry heathen lands," note his beneficent progress at home-- "In Windsor forest he did slay A boar of passing might and strength; The like in England never was, For hugeness both in breadth and length. Some of his bones in Warwick yet, Within the castle there do lye; One of his shield bones to this day Hangs in the city of Coventry. "On Dunsmore heath he also slew A monstrous wild and cruel beast, Call'd the dun cow of Dunsmore heath, Which many people had opprest; Some of her bones in Warwick yet Still for a monument doth lie, Which unto every looker's view, As wondrous strange they may espy. "And the dragon in the land, He also did in flight destroy, Which did both men and beasts oppress, And all the country sore annoy:" Or look we at him all doughty as he was, as the pilgrim of love, as subdued by the influence of the tender passion, a suppliant to the gentle Phillis, and ready to compass the earth to fulfil her wishes, and to prove his devotion: "Was ever knight for lady's sake So tost in love, as I, Sir Guy; For Phillis fair, that Lady bright, As ever man beheld with eye; She gave me leave myself to try The valiant knight with shield and spear, Ere that her love she would grant me, Who made me venture far and near." Or, afterwards view him as--