[237] The Authoure.
Then vanishte Humber, and no sooner gon
Was he but straight in place before me came,
A princely wight had complet harnesse on,
Though not so complet as they now do frame:
He seemde sometime t’aue bene of worthy fame,
In breste a shafte with bleeding wounde he bare,
And thus be told the cause of all his care. ed. 1575.
[238] A line as vigorous and musical as Dryden.
[239] My haplesse deeds of yore, the same may I. N.