Right many a widow his keen blade,
And many fatherless, had made.
He many a boar and huge dun cow
Did, like another Guy, o'erthrow.
But Guy with him in fight compar'd,
Had like the boar and dun cow far'd.
With greater troops of sheep h' had fought
Than Ajax, or bold Don Quixote;

And many a serpent of fell kind,

With wings before and stings behind,
Subdu'd; as poets say, long agone

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310

Bold Sir George, St. George, did the dragon.

311. The serpent or dragon mentioned in this line and in 314 is drawn in

Fig. 18.

and is situate in the map of the moon just before Talgol's left leg; the wings being in shadow, and the body in light. The sweat and oil on Talgol's face allude to the strokes of the Greek letter, pointed out above in speaking of the derivation of Ralph, the Squire's name.

Nor engine nor device polemic,
Disease nor doctor epidemic,

Though stor'd with deletery med'cines,

(Which whosoever took is dead since,)

E'er sent so vast a colony

To both the under worlds as he.
For he was of that noble trade,

That demi-gods and heroes made,
Slaughter and knocking on the head;
The trade to which they all were bred;
And is, like others, glorious when
'Tis great and large, but base if mean.
The former rides in triumph for it;
The latter in a two-wheel'd chariot,
For daring to profane a thing

So sacred with vile bungling.

Next these the brave Magnano came,

Magnano great in martial fame.

Yet when with Orsin he wag'd fight,
he got but little by't.

'Tis sung
Yet he was fierce as forest-boar,
Whose spoils upon his back he wore,
As thick as Ajax' sevenfold shield,
Which o'er his brazen arms he held:

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320

325

330

335

331. The prototype of Magnano, who from his black face is likened to a collier-(vide fig. 19),

is situate on the right side of the moon (north uppermost). His fist and the shears contiguous to it are sufficiently visible in the moon's disk; and if his person there be surveyed horizontally, the head being placed first on the right hand and then on the left, the resemblances it

Nor could the hardest ir'n hold out
Against his blows, but they would through't.

exhibits to a sieve, a crow, a cannon, a blunderbuss, a mortar, a trumpet, and a kettle-drum, will be easily discernible. The last line concerning him (viz. 364) relates to a circumstance regarding his prototype, which it is not necessary to point out, and, on the score of decency, not fit to dwell upon and the same may be said of the lines that follow 390, relative to Trulla, who is represented in

as situate close to Magnano but below him, her face being formed of the shadows which compose the left leg of Talgol.

In magic he was deeply read,
As he that made the brazen head.
Profoundly skilled in the black art,
As English Merlin for his heart;
But far more skilful in the spheres,
Than he was at the sieve and shears.

345

He could transform himself in colour,
As like the devil as a collier;

350

As like as hypocrites in show

As to true saints, or crow to crow.

Of warlike engines he was author,

Devis'd for quick dispatch of slaughter:

The canon, blunderbuss, and saker,
He was th' inventor of, and maker:
The trumpet and the kettle-drum
Did both from his invention come.
He was the first that e'er did teach

To make, and how to stop a breach.

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360

A lance he bore with iron pike,

Th' one half would thrust, the other strike:
And when their forces he had join'd,
He scorn'd to turn his parts behind,
He Trulla lov'd, Trulla more bright
Than burnished armour of her knight:
A bold virago, stout and tall,
As Joan of France, or English Mall.
Through perils both of wind and limb,

365

Through thick and thin she follow'd him, 370