But not from cruel snake more swiftly flies.
Stanza xi. line 5.
Imitated from Virgil's
Improvisum aspris veluti qui sentibus anguem
Pressit humi nitens, trepidumque repente refugit,
Attollentem iras, et cærula colla tumentem.
Here stood the fierce Ferrau in grisly plight.
Stanza xiv. line 1.
He was also called Ferraute and Ferracuto. He is said to have been slain by Orlando, who wounded him in the navel, the only vulnerable part about him. The story is continued from the Innamorato.
The brother of Angelica. That knight, &c.
Stanza xxvii. line 2.
This too is the continuation of an old story, for which see the Innamorato. Argalia was brother to Angelica.
From Aspramont, where bold Almontes paid.
Stanza xxx. line 7.
Almonte in the text, called by others Aimonte. For the rest; these stories, though “half told,” develope themselves in the course of the poem.
