Which dried their flesh, and solid bones did melt.

Languish’d the steed, late fierce, and proffer’d grass

His fodder erst despised and from him kest;

Each step he stumbled, and which lofty was

And high advanced before now fell his crest;

His conquest gotten, all forgotten pass,

Nor with desire of glory swell’d his breast;

The spoils won from his foe, his late rewards,

He now neglects, despises, nought regards.

Languish’d the faithful dog, and wonted care