When on thy crest with mighty stroke I strake.

25.

The strokes thou strookste mee hurt mee nought at all,

For why, thy strength was nothing in respect:

But thou hadst bath’d thy sword in poyson all,

Which did my wound, not deadly els, infect:

Yet was I or I parted thence bewreckte,

I gate thy sworde from thee for all thy fame,

And made thee flye for feare to eate the same.

26.