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With strength of foot, horse and shrill battlechariots;
Then marched, against Isurium, king Venutios;
Whereof foreknowledge having the witch-queen,
By aery intelligences, which obey
To her enchantments, Fagl, she compelled,
Prince of air-running nation of false spirits;
And sends, by welken paths, back, to Ostorius.
Then marched, against Isurium, king Venutios;
Whereof foreknowledge having the witch-queen,
By aery intelligences, which obey
To her enchantments, Fagl, she compelled,
Prince of air-running nation of false spirits;
And sends, by welken paths, back, to Ostorius.
Fagl, gone forth; enters now Roman Verulam,
In form of Calduc. Squadron, with him, rides,
Of scythe-carts, whose hot teams vent hellish breath;
Nor might, save by 'scance-looking of their eyes,
From women's sons, be known those hollow fiends.
In form of Calduc. Squadron, with him, rides,
Of scythe-carts, whose hot teams vent hellish breath;
Nor might, save by 'scance-looking of their eyes,
From women's sons, be known those hollow fiends.
To Rome's prætorium, they presumptuous hold;
Where Fagl proffers tokens from the queen;
Then terms of late-sealed covenant, he recites,
Requiring instant succour of Rome's legions;
For marches all the North, against her raised!
Fagl, in porch, without the council-house,
Vaingloriously, with his, (his reasons said,)
Attends, then answer of the imperial legate.
Where Fagl proffers tokens from the queen;
Then terms of late-sealed covenant, he recites,
Requiring instant succour of Rome's legions;
For marches all the North, against her raised!
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Vaingloriously, with his, (his reasons said,)
Attends, then answer of the imperial legate.
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