Classic Poem

The Tenth Couple.

Master R OBERT K NOWLES ,

Master R ALPH B OWES .

The last, not least, of these brave bretheren,
Laden with honour and with golden boughs,
Entering the lists, like Titan arm'd with fire
When in the queachy plot Python he slew,
Bowes takes to task with strong and mighty arm,
Right richly mounted: horse and man it seem'd
Were well agreed to serve as roughly there
As in the enemy's reach for life they would;
And, when they ran, methought a tempest rose,
That in the storm the clattering armours sound,
As horse and man had both been borne to ground.