Up rose the flames high and higher until they began to lick, pale-tongued, about the gibbet's two great supporting timbers, and ever as they rose, Walkyn and Roger, Giles and the friar, laboured amain, stacking logs near by wherewith to feed the fires.

Thereafter he sighed amain and smote his bosom, and smiling upon Beltane sad-eyed, spake: "Most excellent, tall, and sweet young sir, I, who Love's lorn pilgrim am, do give thee woeful greeting and entreat now the courtesy of thy pity.

Thus, they in turn began to cross the drawbridge, archers and pikemen, and last of all, the men-at-arms, until only Eric o' the Noose and a handful of his horsemen, with Beltane, Roger and Ulf remained beyond the drawbridge, whereon the enemy came on amain and 'neath their furious onset brave Eric was unhorsed; then Beltane drew sword and with Roger and Ulf running at either stirrup, spurred in to the rescue.

("And may the blessed saints have an eye upon her tender slumbers!") Here Giles paused to sigh amain, to fold his arms, to cross his legs, to frown and shake gloomy head; having done the which, he took breath and sang again as followeth: "Alack-a-day, alas and woe!

And these towers, being come against the wall, do let fall drawbridges over which the besiegers may rush amain

shout and rend the skies, Bold archers shout amain Belsaye, Belsayearise, arise! PentavalonBeltane!"

" Meanwhile, Beltane, hurt and angry, betook him to the walls where bow and perrier had already begun their deadly morning's work; and coming to a quiet corner of the battlement, he leaned him there to watch where the besiegers, under cover of the cat that hourly crept more nigh, worked amain to dam the moat.

And presently, as Beltane leaned thus, grieving and alone, cometh Giles that way, who, pausing beside him, peered down where the besiegers, but ill-sheltered by battered mantlet and palisades, strove amain to bring up one of their rams, since the causeway across the moat was well-nigh complete.

So saying, he strung his powerful bow, and laying arrows to his hand fell to drawing and loosing amain.

And so, all day long, wheresoever he came, on tower or keep, in corners most remote, there sure was Giles to come also, sighing amain and with brow of heavy portent, who, so oft as he met Beltane's gloomy eye, would shake his head in sad yet knowing fashion.

Then came he and knelt before her, and kissed those slender fingers amain.

"Ha, my lord," he cried, "mine eyes do joy to see thee and these goodly fellows'tis hard and fierce business where Benedict and his pikes do hold the gate" "Aye, forsooth," quoth Sir Brian, "they press their attack amain, for one that falleth, two do fill his place.

And ever as he fought Beltane bethought him of her whose pure lips voiced prayers for him, and his mighty arm grew mightier yet, and he smote and thrust untiring, while Walkyn raged upon his left, roaring amain for Red Pertolepe, and Ulf the strong saved his breath to ply his axe the faster.

Wherefore Beltane presently crept down from the breach and thus beheld many men who laboured amain beneath Sir Benedict's watchful eye to build a defence work very high and strong where they might command the breach.

" Now did she sigh amain, and cling to him and droop her lovely head, yet when she spake her words were brave: "My Beltane, this love of mine is such that I would not have thee fail in duty e'en though this my heart should breakbut ah!

" At this all shouted amain; but in truth they thought more of the wine than of the Knight's words.

What, miller, are you up again? Nay, then, my flail shall never lin, Until I force one of us twain Betake him to his heels amain.

What when we fled amain, pursued and strook With Heavns afflicting Thunder, and besought The Deep to shelter us; this Hell then seem'd A Refuge from those Wounds In short, the Poet never mentions anything of this Battel but in such Images of Greatness and Terror as are suitable to the Subject.

But amain in their path, in a whirlwind of wrath Came young Harold, Sir Burislav's son; With a great voice he cried, while the echoes replied: "Lo, my vengeance, it cometh anon!"

But when I touch'd the lifeless clay, The blood gush'd out amain!

To augment their woes, the winds began to move, Debate in air, for empty fields above, Till Boreas got the skies, and pour'd amain

Finding at Ravello, near Amain, a pulpit sculptured in 1272 by Niccola di Bartolommeo da

Now, now they grapple, and now board amain; Blow up the hatches, they're off all again: Give them a broadside, the dice run at all, Down comes the mast and yard, and tacklings fall; She grows giddy now, like blind Fortune's wheel, She sinks there, she sinks, she turns up her keel.

Now they charge on amain, Now they rally again: The gods from above the mad labour behold, And pity mankind, that will perish for gold.

" Then the nobles and great lords, fearing the Prince, and perhaps also envying a little the man who was the Prince's general of his armies, shouted amain: "We swear to obey the Princess Helena!" Whereat uprose the Little Playmate, very princess-like and full of sweet regal dignity.