He gives his sword an idle swing, feeling the weight of it. "When-- when I was born, my father was not young, and seldom would he spar with me-- but o! he had for any fault an eagle's eye. And when he thought me too sure and proud, enter he would to the lists and pay me just so. But one bout, one pass, and no more-- but in that could he ever best me."
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He gives his sword an idle swing, feeling the weight of it. "When-- when I was born, my father was not young, and seldom would he spar with me-- but o! he had for any fault an eagle's eye. And when he thought me too sure and proud, enter he would to the lists and pay me just so. But one bout, one pass, and no more-- but in that could he ever best me."