Which being shew’d, he gan him selfe streight way
Thereto addresse, and his bright shield display.
So to the Church he came, where it was told,
The Monster vnderneath the Altar lay;
There he that Idoll saw of massy gold
Most richly made, but there no Monster did behold.
Vpon the Image with his naked blade xxii
Three times, as in defiance, there he strooke;
And the third time out of an hidden shade,
There forth issewd, from vnder th’Altars smooke,