Or dye with honour and desert of fame;
And on the hauberk stroke the Prince so sore,
That quite disparted all the linked frame,
And pierced to the skin, but bit no more[711],
Yet made him twise to reele, that neuer moou’d afore.
Whereat renfierst with wrath and sharpe regret, xlv
He stroke so hugely with his borrowd blade,
That it empierst[712] the Pagans burganet,
And cleauing the hard steele, did deepe inuade
Into his head, and cruell passage made