 | Francis Fulford - Christianity and culture - 1859 - 126 pages
...Waited, duteous, on them all : They were all knights of mettle true, Kinsmen to the bold Buccleuch. Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted sword,...night : They 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... | |
 | Francis Fulford (bp. of Montreal.) - 1859 - 484 pages
...Waited, duteous, on them all : They were all knights of mettle true, Kinsmen to the bold Buccleuch. Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted sword,...night : They 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1860 - 656 pages
...Waited, duteous, on them all: They were all knights of mettle true, Kinsmen to the bold Buccleuch. IV. I They quitted not their harness bright, Neither by...hard; They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, [barred. And they drank the red wine through the helmrf Ten squires, ten yeomen, mail-clad men, Waited... | |
 | Great Britain - 1861 - 270 pages
...sworJ, nn.l spur on lied; They quitted not iheir hariuss bright, Neither by day, nor yet by night j They lay down to rest With corslet laced. Pillowed...With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine, thro' the lielrcct barred." These helmets were not unlike small coal scuttles, sometimes with bars... | |
 | Henry Twells - 1862 - 262 pages
...Waited, duteous, on them all : They were all knights of mettle true, Kinsmen to the bold Buccleuch. Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted sword,...night : They 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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1862 - 706 pages
...Waited, duteous, on them all : They were all knights of mettle true, Kinsmen to the bold 15uccleuch. IV. Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted sword,...quitted not their harness bright, Neither by day, uor yet by night: They lay down to rest, With corslet laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard ; They... | |
 | Edward Wilberforce - Munich (Germany) - 1863 - 376 pages
...you have the dress in which 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,... | |
 | Literature - 1863 - 652 pages
...and eould have ridden to the field with Goetz of the Iron Hand himself: — " They quitted not tjieir harness bright, Neither by day, nor yet by night : They lay down to rest With eorslet lueed. Pillowed on buekler eold and hard ; They earved at the meal With gloves of steel, And... | |
 | Andrew Bell (of Southampton) - Feudalism - 1863 - 392 pages
...of the Last Minstrel" : — " They were all knights of mettle true, Kinsmen to the bold Buccleugh. Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted sword and spur on heel: ' • Something similar were the lorica squammatn, or metallic scale armour of the Romans. i The author... | |
 | Andrew Bell - Feudalism - 1863 - 386 pages
...of the Last Minstrel" : — " They were all knights of mettle true, Kinsmen to the bold Buccleugh. Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted sword and spur on heel: * Something similar were the lorica aquammata, or metallic scale armour of the Romans. + The author... | |
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Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted sword, and spur on heel : They quitted not their harness bright, Neither by day, nor yet by night... 
