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The knight gan fairely couch his steadie speare,
2 And fiercely ran at him with rigorous might:
The pointed steele arriuing rudely theare,
4 His harder hide would neither perce, nor bight,
But glauncing by forth passed forward right;
6 Yet sore amoued with so puissant push,
The wrathfull beast about him turned light,
8 And him so rudely passing by, did brush
With his long tayle, that horse and man to ground did rush.
1 The knight gan fairly couch his steady spear,
gan fairly > did expertly couch > {Place it in its rest and hold it ready for attack}
2 And fiercely ran at him with rigorous might: 3 The pointed steel, arriving rudely there,
rudely > violently; roughly
4 His harder hide would neither pierce nor bite,
harder > too-hard; or: harder [than the spear]
5 But, glancing by, forth passed forward right;
glancing > darting, shooting (esp. obliquely)