Now aims that martial maid a trenchant blow, And now gives point; and wholly is intent 'Twixt plate and plate to reach her hated foe;
So that her stifled fury she may vent:
Now on this side, now that, now high, now low She strikes, and circles him, on mischief bent;
And evermore she rages and repines;
As balked of every purpose she designs.
