Gyant, quoth Guy, y'are quarrelsome I see,
Choller and you seem very neere of kin :
Most dangerous at the clubb belike you bee;

I have bin better armd, though nowe goe thin;
But shew thy utmost hate, enlarge thy spight,
Keene is my weapon, and shall doe me right.

Soe draws his sword, salutes him with the same
About the head, the shoulders, and the side:
Whilst his erected clubb doth death proclaime,
Standinge with huge Colossus' spacious stride,
Putting such vigour to his knotty beame,
That like a furnace he did smoke extreame.

But on the ground he spent his strokes in vaine,
For Guy was nimble to avoyde them still,
And ever ere he heav'd his clubb againe,

Did brush his plated coat against his will:
Att such advantage Guy wold never fayle,
To bang him soundlye in his coate of mayle.

Att last through thirst the gyant feeble grewe,

And sayd to Guy, As thou'rt of humane race, Shew itt in this, give natures wants their dewe,

Let me but goe, and drinke in yonder place: Thou canst not yeeld to 'me' a smaller thing, Than to graunt life, thats given by the spring.

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I graunt thee leave, quoth Guye, goe drink thy last, 55 Go pledge the dragon, and the salvage bore*: Succeed the tragedyes that they have past,

But never thinke to taste cold water more: Drinke deepe to Death and unto him carouse : Bid him receive thee in his earthen house.

Soe to the spring he goes, and slakes his thirst;
Takeing the water in extremely like
Some wracked shipp that on a rocke is burst,

Whose forced hulke against the stones does stryke;

Scooping it in soe fast with both his hands,

That Guy admiring to behold it stands,

Come on, quoth Guy, let us to worke againe,
Thou stayest about thy liquor overlong;

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The fish, which in the river doe remaine,

Will want thereby; thy drinking doth them wrong:

But I will see their satisfaction made,

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With gyants blood they must, and shall be payd.

Villaine, quoth Amarant, Ile crush thee streight;
Thy life shall pay thy daring toungs offence:
This clubb, which is about some hundred weight,
Is deathes commission to dispatch thee hence:
Dresse thee for ravens dyett I must needes;
And breake thy bones, as they were made of reedes.

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* Which Guy had slain before. Ver. 64. bulke, MS. and PCC.

Incensed

Incensed much by these bold pagan bostes,
Which worthye Guy cold ill endure to heare,
He hewes upon those bigg supporting postes,
Which like two pillars did his body beare:
Amarant for those wounds in choller growes
And desperatelye att Guy his clubb he throwes:

Which did directly on his body light,

Soe violent, and weighty there-withall,

That downe to ground on sudden came the knight;
And, ere he cold recover from the fall,
The gyant gott his clubb againe in fist,
And aimd a stroke that wonderfullye mist.

Traytor, quoth Guy, thy falshood Ile repay,
This coward act to intercept my bloode.
Sayes Amarant, Ile murther any way,

With enemyes all vantages are good :
O could I poyson in thy nostrills blowe,
Besure of it I wold dispatch thee soe.

Its well, said Guy, thy honest thoughts appeare,
Within that beastlye bulke where devills dwell;

Which are thy tenants while thou livest heare,

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Vile miscreant, prepare thee for their den,

Inhumane monster, hatefull unto men.

But breathe thy selfe a time, while I goe drinke,
For flameing Phoebus with his fyerye eye

Torments

Torments me soe with burning heat, I thinke
My thirst wold serve to drinke an ocean drye:
Forbear a litle, as I delt with thee.

Quoth Amarant, "Thou hast noe foole of mee.

Noe, sillye wretch, my father taught more witt,
How I shold use such enemyes as thou;
By all my gods I doe rejoice at itt,

To understand that thirst constraines thee now;
For all the treasure, that the world containes,
One drop of water shall not coole thy vaines.

Releeve my
foe! why, 'twere a madmans part:
Refresh an adversarye to my wrong!

If thou imagine this, a child thou art :

Noe, fellow, I have known the world too long

To be soe simple: now I know thy want,
A minutes space of breathing I'll not grant.

And with these words heaving aloft his clubb
Into the ayre, he swings the same about :
Then shakes his lockes, and doth his temples rubb,
And, like the Cyclops, in his pride doth strout:

Sirra, sayes hee, I have you at a lift,

Now you are come unto your latest shift.

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Perish forever: with this stroke I send thee

A medicine, that will doe thy thirst much good; Take noe more care for drinke before I end thee, And then wee'll have carouses of thy blood:

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Here's at thee with a butcher's downright blow,
To please my furye with thine overthrow.

Infernall, false, obdurate feend, said Guy,
That seemst a lumpe of crueltye from hell;
Ungratefull monster, since thou dost deny

The thing to mee wherin I used thee well:
With more revenge, than ere my sword did make,
On thy accursed head revenge lle take.

Thy gyants longitude shall shorter shrinke,

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Except thy sun-scorcht skin be weapon proof: 140 Farewell my thirst; I doe disdaine to drinke;

Streames keepe your waters to your owne behoof; Or let wild beasts be welcome thereunto

With those pearle drops I will not have to do.

Here, tyrant, take a taste of my good-will,

For thus I doe begin my bloodye bout: You cannot chuse but like the greeting ill;

It is not that same clubb will beare you out;

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Then Guy sett foot upon the monsters brest,

And from his shoulders did his head divide;
Which with a yawninge mouth did gape, unblest;
Noe dragons jawes were ever seene soe wide

To open and to shut, till life was spent.
Then Guy tooke keyes, and to the castle went.

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