...lay down to rest With corslet laced, Pillow'd on buckler cold and hard ; They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd. Ten squires, ten yeomen, mail-clad men, Waited the beck of the warders ten ; Thirty steeds,...

...the inhabitants of Branksome Hall were in the habit of messing : — " They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred." But the costume which might be appropriate on the Border is ridiculous in a time of profound peace,...

...lay down to rest With eorslet lueed. Pillowed on buekler eold and hard ; They earved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the hel.met birred." When these metrieal tales lost influenee before the growing fame of Byron, Seott broke with...

...down to rest With the corslet braced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard; They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred. as have rarely gathered together even in the hospitable halls of Cawood. In 1314, Edward II. made a...

...lay down to rest, With corslet laced, PUlow'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. I Ten squires, ten yeomen, mail-clad men, Waited the beck of the warders ten ; | Thirty steeds,...

...have been far more numerous, as their business was far more momentous, than Sir Walter Scott's who . Ten squires, ten yeomen, mail-clad men Waited the beck of the warders ten. But the speed with which the Council's couriers galloped off from the front of Whitehall, in various...

...lay down to rest, With corslet laced, PUlow'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 barrM. Tori squires, ten yeomen, mail-clad men, V' Tited the beck of the warders ten; Hurry steeds,...

...lay down to rest With corslet laced, Pillow'd on buckler cold and hard ; They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd." When these metrical tales lost influence before the growing fame of Byron, Scott broke with...

...down to rest With corslet laced, Pillowed on bnckler cold and ha n I : They carved at the meal With gloves of steel. And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred. Ten squires, ten yeomen, mail-clad nu'ii, Waited the beekof the warders ten ; Thirty steeds, both fleet...

...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 barrU v. Ten squires, ten yeomen, mail-clad men, Waited the beck of the warders ten; Thirty steeds,...