And as the Clerk Ovide telleth,
The grete tres to grounde he felleth
With strengthe al of his oghne myght,[733]
And made an huge fyr upriht, 2300
And lepte himself therinne at ones
And brende him bothe fleissh and bones.
Which thing cam al thurgh Falssemblant,
That false Nessus the Geant
P. i. 237
Made unto him and to his wif;