 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
 | Edmund John Armstrong - 1877 - 596 pages
...down to rest, With corselet laced, Fillow'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." " We can almost fancy we hear the ' slogan,' or war-cry of the clan, reverberated through... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1878 - 140 pages
...down to rest With corslet laced, Pillow'd on buckler cold and hard ; 30 They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through...mail-clad men, Waited the beck of the warders ten ; 35 Thirty steeds, both fleet and wight, Stood saddled in stable day and night, Barbed with frontlet... | |
 | 1879 - 870 pages
...down to rest With corset laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard; They carved at the meal With glovee of steel, And they drank the red wine Through the helmet barred." There was nothing poetical about our starting. The rain poured in torrents, and as the roads would... | |
 | Charles Duke Yonge - 1879 - 182 pages
...down to rest, With corslet lac'd, 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. Ibid, i. 4. And Byron adopted the same metre in some of the most admirable of his shorter poems... | |
 | James Frothingham Hunnewell - Europe - 1880 - 538 pages
...not their harness bright. Neither by day, nor yet by night : M " Ten squires, ten yeomen, maJl-clad men, Waited the beck of the warders ten ; Thirty steeds,...and wight, Stood saddled in stable day and night," — *' Such was the custom of Branksome-Hall," — To " watch against Southern force and guile. Lest... | |
 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 pages
...down to rest With corselet 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. . . . Thirty steeds, both fleet and wight, Stood saddled in stable day and night. . . Why do these... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1882 - 780 pages
...They lay down to rest, With corslet laced, Pillow'd on buckler cold and hard ; They carved at the meal V. Ten squires, ten yeomen, mail-clad men, Waited the beck of the warders ten ; Thirty steeds, both Heel and wight, '•'.cad saddled in stable day and night. Barbed with frontlet of steel, I trow, Aid... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - 660 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. 5. Ten squire?, ten yeomen, mail-clad men, Waited the beck of the warders ten : Thirty steeds, both... | |
 | William Wheater - Cawood (Yorkshire, England) - 1882 - 384 pages
...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... | |
 | William Wheater - 1882 - 372 pages
...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... | |
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