Home, horse and foot, the Nubian host arraid By squadrons, all, from wasted Africk go;
But to their king, first, thanks Astolpho paid, And said, he an eternal debt should owe;
In that he had in person given him aid With all his might and main against the foe.
The skins Astolpho gave them, which confined The turbid and tempestuous southern wind.