And naturally thought they could have plundered
The city, without being farther hampered;
But as it happens to brave men, they blundered—
The Turks at first pretended to have scampered,
Only to draw them 'twixt two bastion corners,[453]
From whence they sallied on those Christian scorners.
LXXVI.
Then being taken by the tail—a taking
Fatal to bishops as to soldiers—these[IH]
Cossacques were all cut off as day was breaking,