rafte him his skin. He smoot the briddes that highten [Arpyes]
with certein arwes. He ravisshede apples fro the wakinge [dragoun],
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and his hand was the more hevy for the goldene metal.
He drow [Cerberus], the hound of helle, by his treble cheyne. He,
overcomer, as it is seyd, hath put an [unmeke] lord foddre to his
cruel hors; this is to seyn, that Hercules slowh Diomedes, and made
his hors to freten him. And he, Hercules, slowh [Ydra] the serpent,
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and brende the venim. And [Achelous] the flood, defouled in his