And 'mong the Cossacks had been bred,
Of whom we in diurnals read,

That serve to fill up pages here,

As with their bodies ditches there.
Scrimansky was his cousin-german,

With whom he serv'd, and fed on vermin:
And when these fail'd, he'd suck his claws,
And quarter himself upon his

paws.

And though his countrymen, the Huns,
Did stew their meat between their bums

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And th' horses backs o'er which they straddle, And ev'ry man eat up his saddle,

To aid his dog; both made more stout
By sev'ral spurs of neighbourhood,
Church-fellow membership, and blood;

But Talgol, mortal foe to cows,

Never got ought of him but blows;

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295. Fig. 17 gives a view of Talgol, as situate about

Blows, hard and heavy, such as he
Had lent, repaid with usury.

Yet Talgol was of courage stout,
And vanquish'd oft'ner than he fought:
Inur'd to labour, sweat and toil,

And like a champion shone with oil.

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the middle of the moon, or inclining to its right side, the north being still uppermost ; and on his left side and somewhat below him is the likeness of a cow, the prototype of which may be conceived also to resemble a boar or a sheep, as occasionally hinted in the Poem.

Fig. 17.

Right many a widow his keen blade,
And many fatherless, had made.
He many a boar and huge dun cow
Did, like another Guy, o'erthrow.
But Guy with him in fight compar'd,
Had like the boar and dun cow far'd.

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With greater troops of sheep h' had fought
Than Ajax, or bold Don Quixote;

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And many a serpent of fell kind,
With wings before and stings behind,
Subdu'd; as poets say, long agone

Bold Sir George, St. George, did the dragon.

311. The serpent or dragon mentioned in this line and in 314 is drawn in

Fig. 18.

and is situate in the map of the moon just before Talgol's left leg; the wings being in shadow, and the body in light. The sweat and oil on Talgol's face allude to the strokes of the Greek letter o, pointed out above in speaking of the derivation of Ralph, the Squire's name.

Nor engine nor device polemic,
Disease nor doctor epidemic,

Though stor'd with deletery med'cines,

(Which whosoever took is dead since,)

E'er sent so vast a colony

To both the under worlds as he.
For he was of that noble trade,

That demi-gods and heroes made,
Slaughter and knocking on the head;
The trade to which they all were bred;
And is, like others, glorious when
'Tis great and large, but base if mean.
The former rides in triumph for it;
The latter in a two-wheel'd chariot,
For daring to profane a thing

So sacred with vile bungling.

Next these the brave Magnano came,
Magnano great in martial fame.
Yet when with Orsin he wag'd fight,
'Tis sung he got but little by't.
Yet he was fierce as forest-boar,
Whose spoils upon his back he wore,
As thick as Ajax' sevenfold shield,
Which o'er his brazen arms he held:

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331. The prototype of Magnano, who from his black face is likened to a collier-(vide fig. 19)

But brass was feeble to resist
The fury of his armed fist.

Fig. 19.

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is situate on the right side of the moon (north uppermost). His fist and the shears contiguous to it are sufficiently visible in the moon's disk; and if his person there be surveyed horizontally, the head being placed first on the right hand and then on the left, the resemblances it