See how report did tel a truthlesse tale:

For Hannibal, the Carthage duke so stout,

Renide, it sayd, would once agayn assayle

The Roman state, and cause it nowe to quake:

Which false report did put them in such feare,

Cities would yeelde before my campe came neare.

23.

His former feates the fuming fancies fed,

That doubtful now affrighted sore with feare,

They tel howe at Trisemenus they sped,