paynim

Twines not of them one golden thread, But for its sake a Paynim bled.'

Such forces met not, nor so wide a camp, When Agrican, with all his northern powers, Besieged Albracea, as romances tell, The city of Gallaphrone, from thence to win The fairest of her sex, Angelica, His daughter, sought by many prowest knights, Both Paynim and the peers of Charlemane.

"He is in hiding somewhere, for he knew well, black paynim as he is, that our horses' four legs could outstrip his two."

The Assistant Commissioner laughed a little; but the great man's thoughts seemed to have wandered far away, perhaps to the questions of his country's domestic policy, the battle-ground of his crusading valour against the paynim Cheeseman.

His dark eyes and swarthy skin and Paynim features suited the costume exactly: he looked the very model of an Eastern emir, an agent or a victim of the bowstring.

And backward roll'd the paynim flood--for this, with listless eye, The west beheld her bleeding bound, yet passed her coldly by.

Spenser similarly envisages a war with infidels where Gloriana will help the British confront the Saracens" (297): "And Bryton fields with Sarazin blood bedyde, / Twixt that great faery Queene and Paynim king" (I.xi.7.3-4).

The scenes that prompt strong responses--one that scares the speaker and one she longs to have found--are defined by that absence of people: first, the grave that bears no trace of the "poor prophet paynim" it once held; then, the Nativity's "family with pets," the single image of realized human connection in the poem, noted because not seen.

The Paynim sailors clustering, tawny skinned, Cried 'Who is he that comes to Christian slaves?

In Book V canto viii, Artegall and Arthur are reunited when they rescue the damsel Samient from a pair of paynim knights.