With helmeted speeches he bravely will spout;

With chippings and shavings of rhetoric the other

All whirling and dancing about

Will stand at bay; but the deep-thoughted bard,

With equestrian harmonies, galloping hard,

Will floor in the fight

The glib-tongued wight.

The stiff hair of his mane all alive for the fray,

Bristling and big from the roots he will ruffle;

His black brows he will knit, and terribly bray,