StoryTitle("caps", "Pigwiggen Arms Himself ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(99, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He quickly arms him for the field,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A little cockle-shell his shield, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which he could very bravely wield, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Yet could it not be pierced", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His spear a bent both stiff and strong, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And well-near of two inches long", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The pile was of a horsefly's tongue, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Whose sharpness naught reversed. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And puts him on a coat of mail, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which was of a fish's scale,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That when his foe should him assail, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "No point should be prevailing:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His rapier was a hornet's sting;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It was a very dangerous thing; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For if he chanced to hurt the king, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "It would be long in healing.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His helmet was a beetle's head, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Most horrible and full of dread, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That able was to strike one dead,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Yet did it well become him. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And for a plume a horse's hair, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which, being tossed by the air, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Had force to strike his foe with fear, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And turn his weapon from him. ", "") ?>
PagePoem(100, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Himself he on an earwig set,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet scarce he on his back could get, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So oft and high he did curvet,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "E'er he himself could settle", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He made him turn, and stop, and bound, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To gallop, and to trot the round,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He scarce could stand on any ground, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "He was so full of mettle.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Michael Drayton.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>