And ouerflowed all the fertill plaine,

As it had deawed bene with timely raine:

Life and long health that gratious ointment gaue,

And deadly woundes could heale,[394] and reare againe

The senselesse corse appointed for the graue.

Into that same he fell: which did from death him saue.

For nigh thereto the euer damned beast xlix

Durst not approch, for he was deadly made,

And all that life preserued, did detest:

Yet he it oft aduentur’d to inuade.