Thought he, the ancient errant knights
Won all their ladies’ hearts in fights;
And cut whole giants into fritters
To put them into amorous twitters;
So Spanish heroes, with their lances,
At once wound bulls and ladies’ fancies;
And he acquires the noblest spouse
Who widows greatest herds of cows.
Won all their ladies’ hearts in fights;
And cut whole giants into fritters
To put them into amorous twitters;
So Spanish heroes, with their lances,
At once wound bulls and ladies’ fancies;
And he acquires the noblest spouse
Who widows greatest herds of cows.
— Samuel Barber, Esq., in Hudibras (c. 1678)
