What boots recounting feats and gestes notorious 1

“What boots recounting feats and gestes notorious Of cel’ebrate Capitaynes and grand campaigns, Where vaunting Death boasts asp’erous might victorious O’er alien will he bendeth as he fain ’is? Let others sing and say the deeds memorious Achieved by Conq’uerors on their battle-plains: Let it be mine (if worlds will hear) to tell How by a pair of eyes’ mere force I fell.”