Canto ii., Sir Calidore encounters in the forest a young hunter, whom he

thus describes:

“Him steadfastly he marked, and saw to be A goodly youth of amiable grace, Yet but a slender slip, that scarce did see Yet seventeen yeares; but tall and faire of face, That sure he deemed him borne of noble race. All in a woodman’s jacket he was clad Of Lincoln greene, belayed with silver lace; And on his head an hood with aglets[52] sprad, And by his side his hunter’s horne he hanging had.

“Buskins he wore of costliest cordawayne, Pinckt upon gold, and paled part per part,[53] As then the guize was for each gentle swayne. In his right hand he held a trembling dart, Whose fellow he before had sent apart; And in his left he held a sharp bore-speare, With which he wont to launch the salvage heart Of many a lyon, and of many a beare, That first unto his hand in chase did happen neare.”

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