Onely procedid for that he did outray
Eschines, whiche was not shamefully confutid
But of that famous oratour, I say,
Whiche passid all other; wherfore I may
Among my recordes suffer hym namyd,
For though he were venquesshid, yet was he not shamyd.”
Skelton’s Garlande of Laurell, v. 155. vol. i. 368.
(Richardson, in his valuable Dictionary, v. Out-rage, &c., says that, in the stanza just cited, outray “is evidently—to exceed, to excel;” but the last line of the stanza, together with the present passage of Phyllyp Sparowe, and the annexed quotations from Lydgate, shew that he is mistaken.)
“Whom Hercules most strong and coragious,
Sumtime outraid, and slewe hym with his hand.”