And that this Lady, both whose sides are pearst
With wounds, is ready to forgo the ghost:
Ne would I gladly combate with mine host,
That should to me such curtesie afford,
Vnlesse that I were thereunto enforst.
But yet aread to me, how hight thy Lord,
That doth thus strongly ward the Castle of the ford.
His name (quoth he) if that thou list to learne, xl
Is hight Sir Turpine, one of mickle might,
And manhood rare, but terrible and stearne