She spurred her courser, and with lance in rest, Imperious at the foolish rabble made, And -- through the neck impaled or through the breast,-- Some pierced, some prostrate at the encounter layed.
Next this or that she with the falchion prest;
The head from one she severed with the blade, And from that other cleft: another sank, Short of right arm or left, or pierced in flank.