And to the beast gan turne his enterprise;

For wondrous anguish in his hart it wrought,

To see his loved Squire into such thraldome brought.

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And high advauncing his blood-thirstie blade,

Stroke one of those deformed heads so sore,

That of his puissance proud ensample made;

His monstrous scalpe downe to his teeth it tore,

And that misformed shape mis-shaped more: