With bitter sense of his deepe rooted ill,

That flames of fire he threw forth from his large nosethrill.

His hideous tayle then hurled he about, xxiii

And therewith all enwrapt the nimble thyes

Of his froth-fomy steed, whose courage stout

Striuing to loose the knot, that fast him tyes,

Himselfe in streighter bandes too rash implyes,

That to the ground he is perforce constraynd

To throw his rider: who can quickly ryse

From off[379] the earth, with durty bloud distaynd,