...by night : They lay down to rest With corslet laced, Pillow'd on buckler cold and hard ; They carv'd at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd." The whole scene of the duel, or judicial combat, is conducted according to the strict ordinances...

...warriors of the age, those models of courtesy and bravery, who frequently, upon the battle-field, " Lay down to rest with corslet laced, Pillowed on buckler, cold and hard," would at court be exceptions to the general love of effeminate finery. Quite the reverse. The hero,...

...They quitted not the harness bright. Neither by day, nor yet by night; They lay down to rest, Witli corslet laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard; They carved at the meed With gloves of steel, And they drank thered wine tlirough the helmet barred, Ten squires, ten...

...belted brand, and spur on heel ; They never quit their harness bright Neither by day, nor yet by night. They lay down to rest With corslet laced, Pillowed...of steel; And they drank the red wine through the In-hurt barred." This high state of watchfulness against surprise is yet moi d oeauti. fully set forth...

...harness bright Neither by day nor yet by night : They lay down to rest With corslet laced, PillowM on buckler cold and hard ; They carved at the meal...steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd." Here, too, at intervals, when the laughter and loud merriment of the feast were suspended,...

...heel. They never quit their harness bright, Neither by day, nor yet by night. They lie down to rest In corslet laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard :...they drank the red wine through the helmet barred." In the collection at Goodrich Court, chain armour of the time of Edward HI. may be seen, and also plate-armour...

...quitted cot their armor bright, Neither by day nor yet by night; They l«y down to reft With corselet laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard. They carved...they drank the red wine through the helmet barred.' Till'. I.AT ОГ тнж ЬдаТ MlHSTRBI.. LAST summer the wild and lonely banks of the Upper Arkansas...

...quitted not their armor bright, Neither by day oor yet by night ; They ley down to rest With corselet laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard. They carved...they drank the red wine through the helmet barred.' THH LAT OF THE LAST UtusTnsi.. LAST summer the wild and lonely banks of the Upper Arkansas beheld for...

...harness bright, Neither by day, nor yet by night: They lay down to rest, With corslet laced, Pillow'<! ld and various as the random gales That swell and...subject lute ! And what if all of animated nature Be b barr'd. Ten squires, ten yeomen, mailclad men, Waited the beck of the warders ten; Thirty steeds, both...

...quilted not the harness bright, Neither by day, nor yet by night ; They lay down to rest, With corset laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard ; They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drunk the red wine through the helmet barred. But this is all changed now. Observe also the change...