Their greedy vengeaunces, but goary blood,

That at the last like to a purple lake

Of bloudy gore congeal’d about them stood,

Which from their riuen sides forth gushed like a flood.

At length it chaunst, that both their hands on hie[412] xxxviii

At once did heaue, with all their powre and might,

Thinking the vtmost of their force to trie,

And proue the finall fortune of the fight:

But Calidore, that was more quicke of sight,

And nimbler handed, then his enemie,