The messenger approching to him spake, xlii

But his wast[54] wordes returnd[55] to him in vaine:

So sound he slept, that nought mought him awake.

Then rudely he him thrust[56], and pusht with paine,

Whereat he gan to stretch: but he againe

Shooke him so hard, that forced him to speake.

As one then in a dreame, whose dryer braine

Is tost with troubled sights[57] and fancies weake,

He mumbled soft, but would not all his silence breake.

The Sprite then gan more boldly him to wake, xliii