Directed in, and shewed all the sight:

Whose porch, that most magnificke did appeare,

Stood open wyde to all men day and night;

Yet warded well by one of mickle might,

That sate thereby, with gyantlike resemblance,

To keepe out guyle, and malice, and despight,

That vnder shew oftimes[335] of fayned semblance,

Are wont in Princes courts to worke great scath and hindrance.

His name was Awe; by whom they passing in xxiii

Went vp the hall, that was a large wyde roome,