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22 To active trot one side of's horse, The other would not hang an arse.
 * A Squire he had, whose name was Ralph,

That in th' adventure went his half. Though writers, for more stately tone, Do call him Ralpho, 'tis all one: And when we can, with metre safe, We'll call him so, if not, plain Raph. For rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses. An equal stock of wit and valour He had lain in, by birth a tailor. The mighty Tyrian queen that gain'd, With subtle shreds, a tract of land, Did leave it, with a castle fair, To his great ancestor, her heir; From him descended cross-legg'd knights; Famed for their faith and warlike fights Against the bloody Cannibal, Whom they destroy'd both great and small.