Yet nathemore the steele a sunder riued,

All were the beame in bignesse like a mast,

Ne her out of the stedfast sadle driued,

But glauncing on the tempred mettall, brast

In thousand shiuers, and so forth beside her past.

Her Steed did stagger with that puissaunt strooke; xli

But she no more was moued with that might,

Then it had lighted on an aged Oke;

Or on the marble Pillour, that is pight

Vpon the top of Mount Olympus hight,