That souls pass not to silent Erebus

Or Pluto's bloodless kingdom, but elsewhere

Resume a body; so (if truth you sing)

Death brings long life. Doubtless these northern men,

Whom death, the greatest of all fears, affright not,

Are blest by such sweet error; this makes them

Run on the sword's point, and desire to die,

And shame to spare life which being lost is won.

You likewise that repuls'd the Caÿc foe,

March towards Rome; and you, fierce men of Rhene,460