In furious rage descending from bold Ubeda's steep, He crossed the vale and mounted to Baza's castle keep.

We enter this area to-day on the west, the outer gate being thus opposite to us in the eastern wall, the castle keep and bailey on our left in the north-west corner, and the church to the south-east.

And in the castle kept for monument.

This port hath on ech side a castle, whereof that vpon the Peninsula is called Faraone, vpon the toppe whereof euery night there is a light set in a great lanterne for direction of the ships, and for the guard thereof are appointed 200 Ianizaries: the other on the other side is but a litle castle kept by 18. men.

It is dug in the Castle Keep, and goes down fifty fathoms or more into the bowels of the chalk below.

Where the words of hope she whispered, When around my neck she threw That same scarf of broidered tissue, Bade me wear it and be true Bade me send it as a token When my banner waved once more On the castled Keep of London, Where my fathers' waved before?

It is no joke, my friends, to be among all those tons of powder, with the knowledge that if the flame of the explosion should penetrate through one thin door our blackened limbs would be shot higher than the Castle keep.

For Percy and his followers, medievalism was a collection of what actors call "properties" gargoyles, and odds and ends of armour and castle keeps with secret passages, banners and gay colours, and gay shimmering obsolete words.

" [Illustration: OWLS IN A CASTLE KEEP.