Of mortall sire, though of immortall wombe,
He might not with immortall food be fed,
Ne with th’eternall Gods to bancket[226] come;
But walkt abrode, and round about did rome,
To view the building of that vncouth place,
That seem’d vnlike vnto his earthly home:
Where, as he to and fro by chaunce did trace,
There vnto him betid a disauentrous[227] case.
Vnder the hanging of an hideous clieffe, v
He heard the lamentable voice of one,