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

...sword, and spur on heel : They quitted not their harness bright, Neither by day, nor yet by night ; They lay down to rest, With corslet laced, Pillowed...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, in the " Lay of the Last Minstrel," we learn the barbarous constraint of this custom. They lay down to rest With corslet laced, Pillowed...they drank the red wine through the helmet barred." But all this is changed now. Observe the cJuinge in architecture and in domesf-ic life. Places once...

...sword, find spur on heel ; They quitted not their harness bright, Neither by day nor yet by night: They lay down to rest With corslet laced, Pillowed...they drank the red wine through the helmet barred." But all this is changed now. Observe the change in architecture and in domestic life. Places once chosen...

...belted sword and spur on heel : They quitted not their harness bright Neither by day nor yet by night : They lay down to rest, With corslet laced, Pillowed...they drank the red wine through the helmet barred." His lines, however, lack the idea of reality that strikes one in the verses before quoted and even...

...bright, Neither by day, nor yet by night : They lay down to rest, With corslet laced, Pillowed on bnckler cold and hard ; They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, . , , And they drank the red wine throngh the helmet b 5 Ten squires, ten yeomen, mail-clad men, Waited the beck of the warders ten ;...

...sword, and spur on heel : They quitted not their harness bright, Neither by day, nor yet by night : They lay down to rest With corslet laced, Pillowed...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, in the " Lay of the Last Minstrel," we learn the barbarous constraint of this custom. They lay down to rest With corslet laced, Pillowed...they drank the red wine through the helmet barred." But all this is changed now. Observe the change in architecture and in domestic life. Places once chosen...

...sword, and spur on heel : 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 30 With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred. Ten squires, ten yeomen,...

...harness bright, Neither by day, nor yet by night : They lay down to rest, With corslet laced, Pillow'd on buckler cold and hard ; They carved at the meal...steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd. v. Ten squires, ten yeomen, mail-clad men, Waited the beck of the warders ten ; Thirty steeds,...