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The first muse
And if to be victorious should be tide him,
They should some yeerly pension provide him.
The bargaine holds: and then withall their maine
Their braikens bukled to the fight againe;
Incontinent the trumpets loudlie sounded,
And mightilie the great bag-pipes were winded:
Then fell they to't as fierce as any thunder,
From shoulders armes, and heads from necks they sunder;
All raging there in bloud, they hew'd and hasht,
Their skin coats with the new cut were outstasht;
And scorning death, so bravely did they fight it,
That the beholders greatlie were affrighted:
But chiefly this by all men was observed,
None fought so fiercely; nor so well deserved
As this their hired Souldier, Henrie Winde,
For by his valour victorie inclinde
Vnto that side; and ever since those dayes
This proverb current goes, when any sayes,
How come you heere? This answere doth he finde,
I'm for mine owne hand, as fought Henrie Winde.
So finely fought he, ten with him escapt,
And of th'other but one, in flood who leapt,
And sav'd himself by swimming over Tay:
But to speak more of this we might not stay.
Thence did we take us to the other hand,
From this divided by a crystall strand:
From whence the King beheld with open sight
The long-time doubtfull event of this fight,
From of his pleasant gardins, flowrie wall,
Which we the guilted Arbor yet do call;
They should some yeerly pension provide him.
The bargaine holds: and then withall their maine
Their braikens bukled to the fight againe;
Incontinent the trumpets loudlie sounded,
And mightilie the great bag-pipes were winded:
Then fell they to't as fierce as any thunder,
From shoulders armes, and heads from necks they sunder;
All raging there in bloud, they hew'd and hasht,
Their skin coats with the new cut were outstasht;
And scorning death, so bravely did they fight it,
That the beholders greatlie were affrighted:
But chiefly this by all men was observed,
None fought so fiercely; nor so well deserved
As this their hired Souldier, Henrie Winde,
For by his valour victorie inclinde
Vnto that side; and ever since those dayes
This proverb current goes, when any sayes,
How come you heere? This answere doth he finde,
I'm for mine owne hand, as fought Henrie Winde.
So finely fought he, ten with him escapt,
And of th'other but one, in flood who leapt,
And sav'd himself by swimming over Tay:
But to speak more of this we might not stay.
Thence did we take us to the other hand,
From this divided by a crystall strand:
From whence the King beheld with open sight
The long-time doubtfull event of this fight,
From of his pleasant gardins, flowrie wall,
Which we the guilted Arbor yet do call;
And