Which did not combat like the Devil, as yet,—

He found a number of Chasseurs, all scattered

By the resistance of the chase they battered.

XXXVIII.

And these he called on; and, what 's strange, they came

Unto his call, unlike "the spirits from

The vasty deep," to whom you may exclaim,

Says Hotspur, long ere they will leave their home:—[430]

Their reasons were uncertainty, or shame

At shrinking from a bullet or a bomb,