...W'alter Scott, in the Lay of the Last Minstrel, we may learn the barbarous constraint of this costume. Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted sword, and spur on heel ; They quitted not the harness bright, Neither by day, nor yet by night ; They lay down to rest, With corset laced, Pillowed...

...bold Bneeleneh. Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted sword, and spnr on heel : They qnitted not their harness bright, Neither by day, nor yet by night : They lay down to rest With eorslet lae'd, Pillow'd on bnekler eold and hard ; They earv'd at the meal With gloves of steel, And...

...Walter Scott, in the Lay of the Last Minstrel, we may learn the barbarous constraint of this costume. Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted sword, and spur on heel ; They quilted not the harness bright, Neither by day, nor yet by night ; They lay down to rest, With corset...

...harness bright, Neither by day, nor yet by night ; They lie down to rest In 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." In the collection at Goodrich Court, ancient chain armour of the time of Edward HI. may be...

...were drank, and champagne-corks flew about over boards where probably once " They carved at the meat with gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred." Dinner over, we explored the house, which is very curious. The furniture is principally of the reign...

...wolves and the vultures to banquet freely upon the carrion of the camp. CHAPTER XXVI. DOWN THE ARKANSAS. "They quitted not their harness bright, Neither by...they drank the red wine through the helmet barred.* THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. IN the summer of 1846, the wild and lonely banks of the Upper Arkansas...

...Nine-and-twenty squires of name They were all knights of mettle tme, Kinsmen to the bold Buccleuch. Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted sword,...With corslet laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard 5 They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred....

...Bucclengh. Ten of them were sheathed in steel, AVith belted sword and spur on heel : They quitted uot their harness bright, Neither by day, nor yet by night...on buckler cold and hard : They carved at the meal lu gloves of steel ; And they drank the red wine thro' the helmet barr'd." Even the horses of the best...

...conception, though the execution is evidently modern : — " Ten of them were sheath'd in steel, Wiih belted sword, and spur on heel : They quitted not...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, [met barr'd." And...

...harness bright. Neither by day, nor yet by night; They lie down to rest In 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. In the collection at Goodrich Court, ancient chain armour of the time of Edward HI. may be...