But as adversity man’s courage tries,
And fearless valor doth to honor rise
Through danger, stout Fibrenus doth disclaim
A death ignoble, or that wanted fame;
And cries, ‘My fate shall be observed, nor shall
Fortune beneath these waters hide my fall.
I’ll try if earth doth any living bear
Which the Ansonian sword and Tyrrhen spear
Cannot subdue and kill.’ With that, he pressed
His lance into the right eye of the beast,