For this young Prince, when first to armes he fell;

But when he dyde, the Faerie Queene it brought

To Faerie lond, where yet it may be seene, if sought.

A gentle youth, his dearely loued Squire xxxvii

His speare of heben wood behind him bare,

Whose harmefull head, thrice heated in the fire,

Had riuen many a brest with pikehead square;

A goodly person, and could menage faire[253]

His stubborne steed with curbed canon bit,

Who vnder him did trample[254] as the aire,