The favourable heavens did not envy,
Did spread their rule through all the territories,
Which Phison[°] and Euphrates floweth by,
And Gehons golden waves doe wash continually.
XLIV
Till that their cruell cursed enemy,
An huge great Dragon horrible in sight,
Bred in the loathly lakes of Tartary,[°]
With murdrous ravine, and devouring might