And round about were portrayde, here and there,
The hugy hostes, Darius and his power,
His kings, princes, his peeres,[1548] and all his flower.
59.[1549]
Whom great Macedo vanquisht there in sight,
With deepe slaughter, despoyling all his pryde,
Pearst through his realmes, and daunted all his might:
Duke Hanniball beheld I there besyde,
In Canna’s field, victor how hee did ryde,
And woefull Romaynes that in vayne withstoode,