Portended mischiefs farther than

Low Protelarian tything-men.

And therefore being inform'd by bruit,

That dog and bear are to dispute;

720

For so of late men fighting name, Because they often prove the same; (For where the first does hap to be,

725

First for the name, the word bear-baiting

805

For now the field is not far off,

Where we must give the world a proof

Of deeds, not words, and such as suit
Another manner of dispute.

A controversy that affords

Actions for arguments, not words:

870

Nor will we fail in th' execution,
For want of equal resolution.
Honour is like a widow, won

911

His Trojan horse, and just as much
He mended pace upon the touch;
But from his empty stomach groan'd
Just as that hollow beast did sound,

920

And angry answer'd from behind,

With brandish'd tail and blast of wind.

So have I seen, with armed heel,

925

A wight bestride a common-weal:

While still the more he kick'd and spurr'd,
The less the sullen jade has stirr❜d.

CANTO II.

THE ARGUMENT.

The catalogue and character
Of th' enemies' best men of war:
Whom, in a bold harangue, the knight
Defies and challenges to fight:
H'encounters Talgol, routs the bear,
And takes the fiddler prisoner;

Conveys him to inchanted castle,

There shuts him fast in wooden bastile.

THERE was an ancient sage philosopher,
That had read Alexander Ross over;
And swore the world as he could prove,
Was made of fighting and of love:
Just so romances are, for what else

Is in them all but love and battles?

O' th' first of these we've no great matter

To treat of, but a world o' th' latter.

And as for our part, we shall tell
The naked truth of what befel;

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And as an equal friend to both

The knight and bear, but more to troth,
With neither faction shall take part,
But give to each his due desert ;

And never coin a formal lye on't,

To make the knight o'ercome the giant.

Fig. 13.

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38. Fig. 13 exhibits the bear and the dog, as seen on

This b'ing profess'd, we hope's enough,
And now go on where we left off.

the left side of the moon; and on the same left side of the moon may be seen Crowdero, as drawn in

Fig. 14.

but in order to compare them with their prototypes, the