And their huge strokes full daungerously bestow,
To doe most dammage, where as most they ment.
But with such[392] force and furie violent,
The tyrant thundred his thicke blowes so fast,
That through the yron walles their way they rent,
And euen to the vitall parts they past,
Ne ought could them endure, but all they cleft or brast.
Which cruell outrage when as Artegall xviii
Did well auize, thenceforth with warie heed
He shund his strokes, where euer they did fall,