Just as you'd break a sucking salamander
To swallow flame, and never take it ill:[HR]
He showed them how to mount a ladder (which
Was not like Jacob's) or to cross a ditch.[406]
LIII.
Also he dressed up, for the nonce, fascines
Like men with turbans, scimitars, and dirks,
And made them charge with bayonet these machines,
By way of lesson against actual Turks;[407]