For whom they wayted as his mortall fone,
How they might make him into mischiefe fall,
For freeing from their snares Irena thrall,
Besides vnto themselues they gotten had
A monster, which the Blatant beast men call,
A dreadfull feend of gods and men ydrad,
Whom they by slights allur’d, and to their purpose lad.
Such were these Hags, and so vnhandsome drest: xxxviii
Who when they nigh approching, had espyde
Sir Artegall return’d from his late quest,