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"Polwart: — Or like an cran, in mounting soone orethrowen, That must take aye nine steps before shee flye."
Alexander Montgomerie, The flyting betwixt Montgomery and Polwart, lines 713-714, 1605 [Thou's succeed to weare the silver shoe.]

9S shoots down four YHoRa; though wounded still assassinates 2B, after theft of secret android data is sent to the machine Bunker.

"Already prepared, to give me victuals and drink, which they pushed forward in a sort of vehicles upon wheels, till I could reach them." 
Swift, Gulliver's Travels, I. Lilliput, Chapter 2 [I should never have attempted so absurd a project as that of reforming the Yahoo race.]

Calli Boom & RYVN — Virtue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9-oosZB_XE

"Whom we desired above all things to know, Sister of the mirage and echo. 
It was a virtue not to stay, To go our headstrong and heroic way Seeking her out at the volcano's head."
Robert Graves, The White Goddess, poem.