And with their foolish clamours rent the air;

I'm saddled, hooted one; I'm girth'd, said this;

The latter some perhaps will doubt, and hiss;

Such things however should not be disbelieved

For instance, recollect (what's well received),

When Roland learned the pleasures and the charms;

His rival, in the grot, had in his arms,

With fist he gave his horse so hard a blow,

It sunk at once to realms of poignant woe.

Might he not, training, round the hapless beast,