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dressed out in a costly cuirass: being thus in armour, he appeared still more handsome than before; and his sword reflected a dazzling lustre. The whole army, impatient for the fight, began the onset by flinging stones. Harec’s Soldiers, on their part, returned the attack, and ran eagerly to the combat. The wounds are impatient to be made with the points of the swords. Pikes and arrows fly with violence. Grunder cuts short the thread of life of all who come in his way. Grymer inflames the ardour of his people. Charles, an eyewitness of the encounter of these Heroes, deals destruction around him, and pays an abundant tribute to death. Every thing gives way to the resistless crash of his death-dealing blows his glittering sword pierces to the heart. Thus the warriors fall in crowds in the conflict. The vultures assemble to devour their prey: the young eagles scream around, and the carnivorous beasts lie waiting for the dead. The high soaring hawks rejoice with shrill cries over their smoaking repasts. Many wolves were likewise spectators of the action. Grunder was ever active in discomposing his adversaries, and his eager sword ran down with blood. Charles beholds his people discomfited and hewn in pieces by this warrior. At length they meet, and with hearts
