His speare of heben wood behind him bare,
Whose harmefull head, thrice heated in the fire,
Had riven many a brest with pikehead square:
A goodly person, and could menage faire
His stubborne steed with curbed canon bit,
Who under him did trample[°] as the aire,
And chauft, that any on his backe should sit;
The yron rowels into frothy fome he bit.
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