Lesson 4: Bishop v. knight endings.

King Arthur said, "Sir, what knight art thou?"

Now I prithee to tell me thy name and what knight thou art.

In order to obtain this love-gift, the lady established a toll, by which every lady who passed her castle had to give the hair of her head, and every knight his beard, as "passing pay," or else fight for their lives.

"P.C.S.S.," who is old-fashioned enough to admire and to study Pope, would feel greatly obliged if any of your correspondents could help him to the interpretation of the following lines, in the "Imitation" of Horace's Epistle to Augustus: "The Hero William, and the Martyr Charles, One knighted Blackmore, and one pensioned Quarles, Which made old Ben, and sturdy Dennis swear, No Lord's Annointed, but a Russian bear!

" Then Sir Launcelot was filled with amazement, and he said: "Is not that knight Sir Boindegardus?"

Robber-chieftains and knighted free-booters carried on their guerilla raids backward and forward, under the counterfeited banner of patriotism.

Here the king's standard was taken, the standard-bearer, Sir Edward Verney, being killed; but it was rescued again by Captain Smith, and brought to the king the same night, for which the king knighted the captain.

In return for this submission the king knighted the four chiefs just named, a somewhat incongruous piece of courtesy it must be owned.

Yea; even Sir Launcelot himself could not do more than that knight doeth.

Elsley shrugged his shoulders, and said, smiling, as if it were a fine thing to say"Really, my dear, all men are not knight errants enough to endanger their necks for a bit of weed;

As if that noble Roman knight the father of Trebonius were unknown to us.

Nay, every Fool that can but plead his Title, And the poor Interest that a Parent gives him, Can merit more than I. What else, my lovely Maid, can give a freedom To that same talking, idle, knighted Fop? Cel.

Here Lancelot knighted Sir Gareth, who, to please his mother, had concealed his true name, and had acted as kitchen vassal for a whole year.

SWEDEN, Johnson promised a letter of good-will from it, i. 323; wishes to visit it, iii. 454; v. 215; torture used there, i. 467, n. 1. SWEDEN, King of, knights Dr. Hill, ii. 38, n. 2. SWEDEN, King of (Gustavus III), Boswell wishes to see him, v. 215; his death, iii. 134, n. 1.

The centurions he promoted to higher ranks, and conferred on the Roman knights the honour of tribunes.

"'And all the wealth that is mine own, My lands, I give to thee, For never knight hath lady shown Such noble courtesy.

The young Duke of Rutland, when Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, in a drunken frolic knighted the landlord of an inn in a country town.

[Sidenote: King Arthur creates Sir Launcelot a Knight-Royal] Then, after Sir Ewain had bathed Launcelot, he clothed him in raiment fitted for that ceremony unto which he was ordained, and when the youth was so clothed, Sir Ewain brought him to King Arthur, and King Arthur knighted Launcelot with great ceremony, and buckled the belt around him with his own hands.

To call him an historian is to knight a mandrake; 'tis to view him through a perspective, and by that gross hyperbole to give the reputation of an engineer to a maker of mousetraps.

I affirm he will meet fairly every honourable challenge, and I would pledge name and fame that Ivanhoe gives this proud knight the meeting he desires.

The "merry monarch" knighted the miller, and settled on him 1000 marks a year.

"I will tell the felon knight my mind.

273, n. 1; v. 74, 77-83, 377; Judge a posteriori, v. 45; Knight the negro, case of, iii. 213; 'Monny,' iv.

Whereupon I told, That once in the stillness of a summer's noon, While I was seated in a rocky cave By the sea-side, perusing, so it chanced, The famous history of the errant knight 60 Recorded by Cervantes, these same thoughts Beset me, and to height unusual rose, While listlessly I sate, and, having closed The book, had turned my eyes toward the wide sea.