Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyts New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922.
Challenge
If not, resolve, before we go, That you and I must pull a crow. Y ad best (quoth Ralpho), as the Ancients Say wisely, have a care o the main chance. ButlerHudibras. Pt. II. Canto II. L. 499.
I never in my life Did hear a challenge urgd more modestly, Unless a brother should a brother dare To gentle exercise and proof of arms. Henry IV. Pt. I. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 52.
An I thought he had been valiant and so cunning in fence, Ild have seen him damned ere Ild have challenged him. Twelfth Night. Act III. Sc. 4. L. 311.