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Book 12. The shatter'd Tree receives his Fall; and strikes, Within his full-blown Paunch the sharpen'd Spikes. Strong Aphareus had heav'd a mighty Stone, The Fragment of a Rock; and wou'd have thrown But Theseus with a Club of harden'd Oak, The Cubit-bone of the bold Centaur broke; And left him maim'd nor seconded the Stroke. Then lept on tall Bianor's Back: (Who bore No mortal Burthen but his own, before) Press'd with his Knees his Sides; the double Man, His speed with Spurs increas'd, unwilling ran. One Hand the Hero fasten'd on his Locks; His other ply'd him with repeated Strokes. The Club rung round his Ears, and batter'd Brows; He falls; and lashing up his Heels, his Rider throws. The same Herculean Arms, Nedymnus wound; And lay by him Lycotas on the Ground. And Hippasus, whose Beard his Breast invades; And Ripheus, Haunter of the Woodland Shades: And Tereus, us'd with Mountain-Bears to strive; And from their Dens to draw th' indignant Beasts alive. Demolcon cou'd not bear this hateful Sight, Or the long Fortune of th' Athenian Knight: But pull'd with all his Force, to disengage From Earth a Pine, the Product of an Age: The Root stuck fast: The broken Trunk he sent At Theseus: Theseus frustrates his Intent, And leaps aside; by Pallas warn'd, the Blow To shun: (for so he said; and we believ'd it so.) Yet not in vain th' enormous Weight was cast; Which Crantor's Body sunder'd at the Waist: Thy Father's 'Squire, Achilles, and his Care; Whom conquer'd in the Polopeian War, Their King, his present Ruin to prevent, A Pledge of Peace implor'd, to Peleus sent. Thy