Come bounding fierce, of such enormous size,
That seemeth each of those succeeding shocks
Enough to sink a column ne’er to rise!
Not Valour’s self can with unmovéd eyes
That horrid task of Sisyphus survey.
Appalled and unadvancing the allies
With distant fire along the mountain way
The foe in vain assail, withheld by dire dismay.
XXXVIII.
But saw great Arthur now with Lyncean ken,