But first thou must a season fast and pray,

Till from her bands the spright assoiled is,

And have her strength recur'd from fraile infirmitis.

LIII

That donne, he leads him to the highest Mount;

Such one as that same mighty man[°] of God,

That blood-red billowes[°] like a walled front

On either side disparted with his rod,

Till that his army dry-foot through them yod,