What is "warriour"

Usage examples of "warriour".

Which when that warriour heard, dismounting straictFrom his tall steed, he rusht into the thicke,And soone arriued, where that sad pourtraictOf death and labour lay, halfe dead, halfe quicke,In whose white alabaster brest did stickeA cruell knife, that made a griesly wound,From which forth gusht a streme of gorebloud thick,That all her goodly garments staind around,And into a deepe sanguine dide the grassie ground.