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LEGEND OF SIR CALIDORE, OR OF COURTESY.
Sir Calidore, who, in the poem, impersonates Courtesy (or Sir Philip Sidney), now meets Artegall, declaring the queen has despatched him to track and slay the Blatant Beast,--an offspring of Cerberus and Chimera,--whose bite inflicts a deadly wound.

When Artegall reports having recently met that thousand-tongued monster, Calidore spurs off, and soon sees a squire bound to a tree.

Pausing to free this captive, he learns that this unfortunate has been illtreated by a neighboring villain, who exacts the hair of every woman and beard of every man passing his castle, because his lady-love wishes a cloak woven of female hair and adorned with a fringe of beards.

It was because the captive had vainly tried to rescue a poor lady from this tribute that he had been bound to this tree.