"When, after long entreaties made in vain,

  The castellain refused to house the knight,

  He said, `What supplication cannot gain,

  I hope to make thee do in they despite';

  And loudly challenged him, with all his train,

  Those ten which he maintained, to bloody fight;

  Offering, with levelled lance and lifted glaive,

  To prove Sir Clodion a discourteous knave;