 They quitted not their harness bright Neither by day nor yet by night • They lay down to rest, With corslet laced, 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.  The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem - Page 19by Walter Scott - 1806 - 332 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Arnold - English literature - 1873 - 622 pages
...down to rest, With corslet laced, 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. Ten squires, ten yeomen, mail-clad men, Waited the beck of the warders ten ; Thirty steeds, both fleet... | |
 | Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1873 - 614 pages
...They carv'd 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 t"n ; Thirty steeds, both fleet and wight, Stocxl saddled in stable day and night, Barbed with frontlet... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1873 - 228 pages
...once true only of the rough Border riders of your Cheviot hills — ' They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd ;' — do you think that this national shame and dastardliness of heart are not written as legibly... | |
 | John Ruskin - English literature - 1873 - 232 pages
...once true only of the rough Border riders of your Cheviot hills — ' They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd ;' — do you think that this national shame and dastardliness of heart are not written as legibly... | |
 | John Ruskin - England - 1873 - 228 pages
...once true only of the rough Border riders of your Cheviot hills — ' They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd ;' — do you think that this national shame and dastardliness of heart are not written as legibly... | |
 | New Jersey Historical Society - New Jersey - 1874 - 626 pages
...rest, With corselet laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard ; They carved at the meal With glovert of steel, , And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred." It is very possible that this second Bayard' of the good city of Ghent who disappears from history... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1874 - 216 pages
...down to rest, With corslet laced, Pillow'd on buckler cold and hard ; 30 They carv'd at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd. v. Ten squires, ten yoemen, mail-clad men, Waited the beck of the warders ten ; Thirty steeds,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1875 - 542 pages
...could hardly live in greater distrust. Let now the Poet of Chivalry describe another scene : — " Ten squires, ten yeomen, mail-clad men, Waited the...beck of the warders ten; Thirty steeds, both fleet arid wight, Stood saddled in stable day and night, Barbed with frontlet of steel, I trow, And with... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1875 - 232 pages
...lay down to rest With corslet laced, 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. Ten squires, ten yeomen, mail-clad men, Waited the beck of the warders ten ; Thirty steeds, both fleet... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - English poetry - 1876 - 270 pages
...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 men, Waited the...both fleet and wight, Stood saddled in stable day and niglit, Barbed with frontlet of steel, I trow, And with Jedwood-axe at, saddle-bow : A hundred more... | |
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