She whirls this while her faulchion, and would fain Wound horse or rider in the paunch or breast;
But Aymon's watchful daughter turns the rein;
And on one side her courser leaps; possest With furious anger and with fierce disdain, She at her opposite her lance addrest;
And hardly touched the damsel, ere, astound, Marphisa fell, reversed upon the ground.