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 He breathed flaming flakes of fire conceyved in his chest. And looke with what a violent brunt a mightie Bullet goes From engines bent against a wall, or bulwarks full of foes: With even such violence rusht the Swine among the Hunts amayne, And overthrew Eupalamon and Pelagon both twaine That in the right wing placed were. Their fellowes stepping to And drawing them away, did save their lives with much ado. But as for poore Enesimus, Hippocoons sonne had not The lucke to scape the deadly dint. He would away have got, And trembling turnde his backe for feare. The Swine him overtooke, And cut his hamstrings, so that streight his going him forsooke. And Naestor to have lost his life was like by fortune ere The siege of Troie, but that he tooke his rist upon his speare: And leaping quickly up upon a tree that stoode hard by, Did safely from the place behold his foe whome he did flie. The Boare then whetting sharpe his tuskes against the Oken wood To mischiefe did prepare himselfe with fierce and cruell mood. And trusting to his weapons which he sharpened had anew, In great Orithyas thigh a wound with hooked groyne he drew. The valiant brothers, those same twinnes of Tyndarus (not yet Celestiall signes), did both of them on goodly coursers sit As white as snow: and ech of them had shaking in his fist A lightsome Dart with head of steele to throw it where he lyst. And for to wound the bristled Bore they surely had not mist But that he still recovered so the coverts of the wood, That neyther horse could follow him, nor Dart doe any good. Still after followed Telamon, whom taking to his feete No heede at all for egernesse, a Maple roote did meete, Which tripped up his heeles, and flat against the ground him laid. And while his brother Peleus relieved him, the Maid Of Tegea tooke an arrow swift, and shot it from hir bow. The arrow lighting underneath the havers eare bylow, And somewhat rasing of the skin, did make the bloud to show. The Maid hirselfe not gladder was to see that luckie blow, Than was the Prince Meleager. He was the first that saw, And first that shewed to his Mates the blud that she did draw: And said: For this thy valiant act due honor shalt thou have.