And pitty ’tis I cannot call them Knights,

Since they had brawne and braine, and were right able

To be installed of Prince Arthures table;

Yet all of them were Squires of low degree,

The Magi tould of a prodigeous birth

That shortly should be found upon the earth,

By Archimedes art, which they misconster

Vnto their Land would proove a hiddeous monster;

Seaven heades it had, and twice so many feete,

Arguing the body to be wondrous greate,