"To overthrow him, at first shock he thought, And to win dame and palm in the career;
But that Greek knight, in warlike strife well-taught, Shivered, like glass, his breastplate with the spear.
The bitter tidings to the sire were brought, Who bade bear home the stripling on a bier:
He, finding he was dead, loud mourning made, And him in earth, beside his fathers, layed.