How redoubted Hercules by puyssaunce
Fought with an ydre, ryght grete certayne,
Having seven heades of full grete myschaunce;
For whan that he wyth all hys valiaunce
Had stryken of an head, ryght shortly,
Another anon arose ryght sodaynly.
Seven sophyms full hard and fallacyous
Thys ydre used in preposicion
Unto the people, and was full rigorious
To devoure them, where lacked responsion;