Here clang with hand and foot the daring knight, Sprang on the embattled wall, and whirled his sword;
And, showing mickle tokens of his might, The paynims charged, o'erthrew, hewed down and gored:
But all at once, o'erburthened with that weight, The ladder breaks beneath the assailing horde;
And, saving Brandimart, the Christians all Into the ditch with headlong ruin fall.