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CANTO II.] 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 bungle-ing.
 * Next these the brave Magnano came,

Magnano, great in martial fame; Yet, when with Orsin he waged 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' seven-fold shield, "Which o'er his brazen arms he held; But brass was feeble to resist The fury of his armed fist; Nor could the hardest iron hold out Against his blows, but they would through't. In magic he was deeply read. As he that made the brazen head;