And more thereby increased Furors might,
That he his foe has hurt, and wounded sore,
And him in bloud and durt deformed quight.
His mother eke, more to augment his spight[598],
Now brought to him a flaming fire[599] brond,
Which she in Stygian lake, ay burning bright,[600]
Had kindled: that she gaue into his hond,
That armd with fire, more hardly he mote him withstond.
Tho gan that[601] villein wex so fiers and strong, xxiii
That nothing might sustaine his furious forse;