Note 108 — BOOK I.
William Julius Mickle translation
Thus, when to gain his beauteous charmer's smile, The youthful lover dares the bloody toil.
This simile is taken from a favourite exercise in Spain, where it is usual to see young gentlemen of the best families entering the lists to fight with a bull, adorned with ribbons, and armed with a javelin or kind of cutlass, which the Spaniards call Machete.