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,