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,