With tid-bits of split javelin:

Pillow'd on breastplates we recline;

Strew'd at our feet are slings and bows,

And crown'd with catapults our brows.—Wrangham.

The same.

Herken my word: wote thou, leve brother min,

Thou shulde in certaine thys daie wyth us din.

Bright swerdes and eke browne our vittaile been;

Torches we glot for sowle, that fyerie bren.

Eftsone the page doth sette upon our bord,