Exclaiming, “Surely I will learn the name,”
Made sharply to the dwarf, and ask’d it of him,
Who answer’d as before; and when the Prince 205
Had put his horse in motion toward the knight,
Struck at him with his whip, and cut his cheek.
The Prince’s blood spirted upon the scarf,
Dyeing it; and his quick, instinctive hand
Caught at the hilt, as to abolish him: 210
But he from his exceeding manfulness
And pure nobility of temperament,