And tooke it vp, casting in deepe disdaine

His rich grau’d gauntlet on the ground againe,

Which I accepted and propos’d the day,

When we in fight each other should assay.

64.

For battell was design’d a plot of ground

Within a little ile, which Olney hight,

Whom Seuerne with his armes incircleth round,

Where we as combatants in single fight

Should d’araine bettell in both armie’s sight,