Blows, hard and heavy, such as he
Had lent, repaid with usury.

Yet Talgol was of courage stout,
And vanquish'd oft'ner than he fought:
Inur'd to labour, sweat and toil,

And like a champion shone with oil.

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the middle of the moon, or inclining to its right side, the north being still uppermost; and on his left side and somewhat below him is the likeness of a cow, the prototype of which may be conceived also to resemble a boar or a sheep, as occasionally hinted in the Poem.

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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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,)

F'er sent so vast a colony

To both the under worlds as he.
For he was of thạt 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,
'Tis sung he got but little by't.
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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$31. 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 Fig. 20.

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