With glory-thirsting zeale in death’s despight
Vpon his foes himselfe did noblie quight:
For in one skirmish with high valiancie,
Thrice did he charge vpon the enemie.
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But cursed fortune, foe to famous men,
Beholding Sidnie’s deeds with enuious eie,
Turning her malice into raging teene,
With deadly shot did wound him on the thigh,
Which from a foe-man’s fatall peece did flie: