To iustifie thy fault gainst me in equall fight.
The dastard, that did heare him selfe defyde, xxxvi
Seem’d not to weigh his threatfull words at all,
But laught them out, as if his greater pryde[452]
Did scorne the challenge of so base a thrall:
Or had no courage, or else had no gall.
So much the more was Calepine offended,
That him to no reuenge he forth could call,
But both his challenge and him selfe contemned,
Ne cared as a coward so to be condemned.