Thereto as cold and drery as a Snake,

That seem’d to tremble euermore, and quake:

All in a canuas thin he was bedight,

And girded with a belt of twisted brake,

Vpon his head he wore an Helmet light,

Made of a dead mans skull, that seem’d a ghastly sight.

Maleger was his name, and after him, xxiii

There follow’d fast at hand two wicked Hags,

With hoarie lockes all loose, and visage grim;

Their feet vnshod, their bodies wrapt in rags,