And both as swift on foot, as chased Stags;

And yet the one her other legge had lame,

Which with a staffe, all full of litle snags

She did support[816], and Impotence her name:

But th’other was Impatience, arm’d with raging flame.

Soone as the Carle from farre the Prince espyde, xxiv

Glistring in armes and warlike ornament,

His Beast he felly prickt on either syde,

And his mischieuous bow full readie bent,

With which at him a cruell shaft he sent: