Edited sentence: A fortress, Harlequin in uniform.A thing to wonder at beyond most wondering;.Also he dress'd up, for the nonce, fascines.And made them charge with bayonet these machines,.And when well practised in these mimic scenes,.At which your wise men sneer'd in phrases witty:.By way of lesson against actual Turks:.For the man was, we safely may assert,.He judged them proper to assail the works;.He made no answer; but he took the city.Hero, buffoon, half-demon and half-dirt,.Like men with turbans, scimitars, and dirks,.Now Mars, now Momus; and when bent to storm.Praying, instructing, desolating, plundering,.Stanza LIII.Stanza LV