Then they Busked them and got ready both their boats; in each they put twenty men, Kveldulf steering one and Skallagrim the other, and they rowed in quest of the ship.
"The Book of Were-Wolves"
Sabine Baring-Gould
Then I Busked mysel' wi' speed, And the neighbors cried "What need?
"Mopsa the Fairy"
Jean Ingelow
The hardy Soldan saw him come in haste, Yet neither stepped aside nor shrunk for fear, But Busked him bold to fight, aloft he cast His blade, prepared to strike, and stepped near, These noble princes twain, so Fortune wrought From the world's end here met, and here they fought: L With virtue, fury; strength with courage strove, For Asia's mighty empire, who can tell With how strange force their cruel blows they drove?
"Jerusalem Delivered"
Torquato Tasso