Answer:
Name for zenith
What English word retains the same pronunciation, even after you take away four of its five letters?
Five hundred begins it, five hundred ends it. Five in the middle is seen. First of all figures, the first of all letters. Take up their stations between. Join all together, and then you will bring before you the name of an eminent king.
In buckles or lace, they help set the pace. The farther you go, the thinner they grow.
Ripped from my mother's womb. Beaten and burned, I become a blood thirsty killer.
I fly to any foreign parts assisted by my spreading wings. My body holds an hundred hearts Nay I will tell you stranger things when I am not in haste I ride and then I mend my pace anon.