The peers of Pluto's realm assembled beenAmid the palace of their angry King,In hideous forms and shapes, tofore unseen,That fear, death, terror and amazement bring,With ugly paws some trample on the green,Some gnaw the snakes that on their shoulders hing.
1600, Torquato Tasso, translated by Edward Fairfax, edited by Henry Morley, Jerusalem Delivered, London: George Routledge and Sons, published 1890, page 89