The Works of Edmund Spenser: With a Selection of Notes From Various ...
The Works of Edmund Spenser: With a Selection of Notes From Various ...
Edmund Spenser, Henry John Todd
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With his sharpe sword he fiercely at him flew, And strooke so strongly, that the Carle with paine Saved himselfe but uat he there him slew ; Yet sav'd not so, but that the blood it drew, And gave his Foe good hope of victory : Who, therewith flmht, upon him set anew. And with the second stroke thought certainely To have supplyde the first, and paide the But Fortune aunswerd not unto his call ; For, as his hand was heaved up on bight, The Villaine met him in the nuddla fiul, [bright And with his... club bet backe his brond-yron So forcibly, that with his owne hands might Rebeaten backe upon himselfe againe He driven was to sround in selfe despight ; From whence ere he recovery could gaine. He in his necke had set his foote with fiul disdaine. With that the Foole, which did that end awayte, Came runninff in ; and, whilest on ground he lay, Laide heavy hands on him and held so strayte. That downe he kept him with his soomefuU sway. So as he could not weld him any way : The whiles that other Villanie went about I^im to have bound and tbrald without delay ; The whiles the Foole did him revile and flout, Threatning to yoke them two and tame their corage stout.
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