That he which was the last, the first did farre exceede.

He like a monstrous Gyant seem’d in sight, xxxvii

Farre passing Bronteus, or Pyracmon[98] great,

The which in Lipari doe day and night

Frame thunderbolts for Ioues auengefull threate.

So dreadfully he did the anduile beat,

That seem’d to dust he shortly would it driue:

So huge his hammer and so fierce his heat,

That seem’d a rocke of Diamond it could riue,

And rend a sunder quite, if he thereto list striue.