He hewed away, like Doctors of Theology

When they dispute with sceptics; and with curses

Struck at his friends, as babies beat their nurses.

CIX.

Nay, he had wounded, though but slightly, both

Juan and Johnson; whereupon they fell,

The first with sighs, the second with an oath,

Upon his angry Sultanship, pell-mell,

And all around were grown exceeding wroth

At such a pertinacious infidel,