Note 1393 — Chapter XV · THE NORMAN INVASION AND THE CAMPAIGN OF HASTINGS.[1055] (continued 2)
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Wid. Amb. 471;
“Heraldi frater, non territus ore leonis,
Nomine Gernt, Regis traduce progenitus,
Librando telum celeri volitante lacerto,
Eminus emisso cuspide corpus equi
Vulnerat, atque Ducem peditem bellare coegit;
Sed pedes effectus dimicat et meliùs.”
So Will. Pict. 136. “Equi tres ceciderunt sub eo confossi. Ter ille desiluit intrepidus, nec diu mors vectoris inulta remansit.” So Will. Malms. iii. 244. “Dum ubique sævit, ubique infrendet, tres equos lectissimos sub se confossos eâ die amisit.” I find no account of the third unhorsing.