And oft would dare to tempt the troublous winde.

So on a summers day, when season milde

With gentle calme the world had quieted,

And high in heaven Hyperion’s fierie childe

Ascending did his beames dispred,

Whiles all the heavens on lower creatures smilde;

Young Clarion, with vauntfull lustiehed,

After his guize did cast abroad to fare;

And thereto gan his furnitures prepare.

His breast-plate first, that was of substance pure,