Torquato Tasso,
Amyntas, A Tale of the Woods — Act V
(1820)
“ When suddenly there was a cry in the air; And we beheld a man shoot headlong down From the top of the hill, and fall upon some bushes There grew on the hill side, just over head, A little queach of bushes and of thorns, Which being closely intertwisted, made A sort of flowering hurdle. 'Twas on that He pitched, before the rougher juts had hurt him ”
