Yet had he prov'd the powre of many a puissant knight.
XVIII
Then with his waving wings displayed wyde,
Himselfe up high he lifted from the ground,
And with strong flight did forcibly divide
The yielding aire, which nigh too feeble found
Her flitting parts,[°] and element unsound,
To beare so great a weight: he cutting way
With his broad sayles, about him soared round: