Astolpho in his flight will I pursue,

  That made his hippogryph like palfrey flee,

  With reins and sell, so quick the welkin through;

  That hawk and eagle soar a course less free.

  O'er the wide land of Gaul the warrior flew

  From Pyrenees to Rhine, from sea to sea.

  He westward to the mountains turned aside,

  Which France's fertile land from Spain divide.