And from his couch prepared to rise,
Resolving to dispatch the deed
He vow’d to do with trusty speed.’
Compare this with the following stanzas in Spenser, treating of the same subject:—
‘By this the Northern Waggoner had set
His seven-fold team behind the stedfast star,
That was in Ocean waves yet never wet,
But firm is fix’d and sendeth light from far
To all that in the wide deep wand’ring are:
And cheerful chanticleer with his note shrill,