with a sharp point, and a double edge. The shirts were made a little longer than usual, but with sleeves which reached only to the elbow. But the most extraordinary single combat in which this hero engages is with a great dog. The dog attacks him, and runs away when Tirante alights and draws his sword to defend himself. "Seeing that thou art afraid of my arms, (said
incubuit in hostem, et punctim intenso ferro ilia ejus petiit. Scanderbegus toto maxime carpore inflexus, ac velut in arcum deductus, et læva simul apprehendens barbari dexteram, ictum inhibuit, et adacto cæsim gladio, guttur illi cum singulis arteriis impigre abscidit. Balbutienti adhuc lingua, ille collapsus humi locum ferme totum corporis mole complevit. Sublatus repente ab his qui spectaculo aderant, et accurrentes regii juvenem illæsum invio atumque læti ad Amurathem perducunt. Caput cæsi hostis cruentis ipse manibus Tyranno alacer obtulit, Præmia invitus accepit, quum non argenti aurive causa, sed domestici decoris tuendi, et reprimendæ barburicæ arrogantiæ, susceptum sibi id oneris diceret.
