His gorgeous ryder from her loftie sted
Would have cast downe, and trod in durtie myre,
Had not the Gyant soone her succoured;
Who all enrag'd with smart and franticke yre,
Came hurtling in full fierce, and forst the knight retyre.
XVIII
The force which wont in two to be disperst,
In one alone left hand[°] he now unites,
Which is through rage more strong than both were erst;