520 PARADISE REGAIN'D. BooitIIt In rhombs and wedges, and half-moons, and wings. He look'd, and faw what numbers numberlefs 310 The city gates out-pour'd, light armed troops In coats of mail and military pride ; In mail their horfes clad, yet fleet and ftrong, Prauncing their riders bore, the flow'r and choice Of many provinces from hound to bound ; 3X5 From Arachofia, from Candaor eaft, And Margiana to the Hyrcanian cliffs Of Caucafus, and dark Iberian dales, From Atropatia and the neighh'ring plains Of Adiabene, Media, and the fouth 320 Of ,Sutiana, to Ballara's haven. He law them in their for ms of battel rang'd, Flow quick they wheel'd, and flying behind them (hot Sharp fleet of arrowy fhow'rs a, aloft the face Of their purfuers, and overcame by flibIlt ; 320 The field all iron cafl a gleaming brown Nor wanted clouds of toot, nor on each horn Cuiraffi:rs all in fleet for {landing fight, Chariots or elephants indas'd with towers Of archers, nor of lab'ring piineers 33. A multitude with fpades and axes arm'd To lay hills plain, fell woods, or valleys fill, Or where plain was raife hill, or overlay With bridges rivers proud, as with a yoke; Mules after thefe, camels and dromedaries, 335 And waggons fraught with utenfis of war. Such forces met not, nor fo wide a camp, When Agrican with all his northern powers Befieg'd Albracca, as romances tell, The city of G,1Iaphrone, from thence to win 340 The faireft of her fex Angelica His daughter, fought by many proweft knights, Both Paynim, and the peers of Chationain, Such
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