The grace (thus warn'd) to scape his waggery;

But many times, ev'n since I was a man,

He shot me, oftner then I tell you can:

And, if I had not bene the stronger-hearted,

I, for my over-daring, might have smarted.

You laugh now, as if this were nothing so;

But, if you meet this Blinkard with his Bow,

You may, unlesse you take the better care,

Receive a wound, before you be aware.

I feare him not; for, I have learned how