Of his brave people, ready where he led
To fight their country’s battles, and the thought
Of instant action, and deliverance, ...
If Heaven, which thus far had protected him,
Should favour still, ... revived his heart, and gave
Fresh impulse to its spring. In vain he sought
Amid that turbulent greeting to enquire
Where Gaudiosa was, his children where,
Who call’d them to the field, who captain’d them;
And how these women, thus with arms and death