Then without oars or helm this boat ravished me from shore; so that I know not where I have come, nor what is the name of this city.

" "Ha, dare ye mock me, knave?" cried Sir Robert, and clenching iron hand he spurred upon Beltane, but checked as suddenly, and pointed where, midst the shrinking populace, strode one in knightly armour, whose embroidered surcoat bore the arms, and whose vizored helm the crest of Sir Gui of Allerdale.

I don't suppose you ever helmed a forty-footer, but you'll never learn younger.