To weeten what that dreadful clamor meant:
Lo! where they spied with speedy whirling pace
One in a charet of strange furniment,
Towards them driving like a storm outsent.
The charet deckèd was in wondrous wise
With gold and many a gorgeous ornament,
After the Persian monarch’s antique guise,
Such as the maker’s self could best by art devise.
Spenser’s Faerie Queene.
But in reprinting ancient hymns, etc., follow the ancient style,—as in the following from the Bible printed in London by Robert Barker, in 1615: