And were not heauenly grace, that him did blesse,

He had beene pouldred all, as thin as flowre:

But he was wary of that deadly stowre,

And lightly lept from vnderneath the blow:

Yet so exceeding was the villeins powre,

That with the wind it did him ouerthrow,

And all his sences stound[238], that still he lay full low.

As when that diuelish yron Engin wrought xiii

In deepest Hell, and framd by Furies skill,

With windy Nitre and quick Sulphur fraught,