Before that shield did fade, and suddeine fall;
And, when him list[°] the raskall routes appall,
Men into stones therewith he could transmew,
And stones to dust, and dust to nought at all;
And when him list the prouder lookes subdew,
He would them gazing blind, or turne to other hew.
XXXVI
Ne let it seeme, that credence this exceedes,
For he that made the same, was knowne right well