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That noble duke, the great / Of Burgundy's proud land, / Felt all his foemen's hate, / And, vanquish'd, bit the sand.
He spoke: "I'm struck! I bleed! / Where is my valour fled? / Friends fail me at my need, / My knights are flown or dead;