Versos English Luís de Camões His foll’owers favour with a piercing cry

English poem

His foll’owers favour with a piercing cry

by (1524–1580)

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“His foll’owers favour with a piercing cry This goodly lunge of lance; nor is he slow To snatch another (for innum’erous lie The weapons lost by battle’s losing throw): He runs with couchèd spear: His bravery Urgeth his Braves who, brent with martial lowe, Into the courser’s flanks keen rowels thrust, And lance the foeman level with the dust.”