“And try our might, this Cope to rout;
“For if the two rejoin, ’tis true,
“We’ll find the work more hard to do;
“First break the foot, if that ye may,
“The horse then will no longer stay.”
At this high speech they took offence,
And charg’d him and his men, go hence;
For such a tim’rous soul as he,
Should not go in their companie:
A cow’rd, they said, so full of care,