Considered ugly and vile, boars, as it turns out, painstakingly build nests on the ground to give birth in comfort. Found that very noble. The title is a slang term used for boar-hunting in which “noblemen” pursue boars on horseback and kill them with spears.

Shuttled branches and bracken,
Spotted shards of bark —
A temporary mattress
In a wood hardscrabble,
Weaved by the poor-sighted boar.
Now she rests her bristled cheek;
Now she hefts her gravid teats;
And resets her mid-obese, —
Until there’s seven piglets more,
Tearing up the Old World floor.