Merveiles tuelve in his degre,

As it was couth in sondri londes,

He dede with hise oghne hondes 1090

P. ii. 164

Ayein geantz and Monstres bothe,

The whiche horrible were and lothe,

Bot he with strengthe hem overcam:

Wherof so gret a pris he nam,

That thei him clepe amonges alle

The god of strengthe, and to him calle.