Now, which they praise already: be content

Both parties, rather—they with the old verse,

And I with the old praise—far go, fare worse!"

A few adhering rivets loosed, upsprings

The angel, sparkles off his mail, which rings

Whirled from each delicatest limb it warps,

So might Apollo from the sudden corpse

Of Hyacinth have cast his luckless quoits.

He set to celebrating the exploits

Of Montfort o'er the Mountaineers.