" "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.

"Men of Pentavalon," spake he loud and quick, "howso poor and humble ye be, henceforth ye shall go, each and every, equipped in knightly mail from foot to head, your man's flesh as secure as flesh of any potent lord or noble of them all.

Now came pursuivants and the chief herald, which last made inquisition thus: "Sir Knight, crest hast thou none, nor on thy shield device, so do I demand name and rank of thee, who thus in knightly guise doth give this bold defiance, and wherefore ye ride armed at points.

I do know that she, because her heart was as great as her love, did follow thee in knightly guise, and thou did most ungently drive her from thee.

The King by proclamation had announced the knightly play, For the cheerful trumpets sang a truce upon that very day; And Zaide, high Belchite's King, had sworn that war should cease, And with Tarfe of Valentia had ratified the peace.

"And he who shall the victor be Among the jousters of the game, I pledge my knightly word to him, In token of his valorous fame, "On his right arm myself to bind The favor of my lady bright; 'Twas given me by her own white hand, The hand as fair as it is white.

And with her arching hand of snow her anxious eyes she shades, Searching the long and dusty road that to Ocaña leads, For the flash of knightly armor and the tramp of hurrying steeds.

Thy knightly service I distrust, I hear thy voice with deep disgust.

Thieves of my knightly honor!

Three cursed years, to win her smile, In knightly deeds I wrought, And nothing but her treachery

"The press was active and scurrilous;.. my namewhich had been a knightly or a noble one since my fathers helped to conquer the kingdom for William the Normanwas tainted.

Some ray of imagination there is, which, falling on the knightly shields and heraldic devices that symbolize their conceded superiority, at least dazzles the eyes and delights the fancy of the crowd, so as to blind them to the inhering vices and essential fallacies of the Order to whose will they bow.

And how darest thou offer thy knightly Castle of the Lea for a refuge to them?

The maiden of to-day still dreams of the knightly armour-clad heroes of the twelfth century; it is not her fault that she is presently glad to fall in love with a gentleman on the Stock Exchange, in a top hat and a frock coat.

He held a splendid court, where Henry's son and a train of young nobles were brought up to knightly accomplishments.

That is a knightly virtue in all truth.

"Good Lord, deliver me from sin," he cries, And bows his knightly head in silent prayer.

It is the omen of a curse to me; My crest is gone, my knightly symbol lost, My helm dishonoured through an act of mine.

Long had he loved her with a knightly love, And fought for her, and chosen her the queen Of many a tournament.

In silent quietude, a knightly lad, Clad in a doublet of unspotted white, Embroidered at the breast with these two words, Wrought by his mother's hand, Valiant and True.

And now his father's sword is shown to him; His daring spirit, of a knightly race, Leaps out to grasp it, though his hand may not Until he grows to manhood.

She wishes she too had been born a lad, To take the knightly vow, and leave the home, And go forth to the world and its delight.

For thy sake I ask it I would but be a mate and help more meet For all thy knightly virtues.

The truce between the two kingdoms was still in force when the Prince of Wales died, and Charles, ever careful to practise knightly courtesy, had a solemn funeral service performed for him in the Sainte-Chapelle; but the following year, at the death of Edward III., the truce had expired.

Dunois, La Hire, Xaintrailles, and Marshals De Boussac and De La Fayette were, under Charles VII., brilliant warriors and useful servants of the king and of Fiance; but, in spite of their knightly renown, it is questionable if they can be reckoned, like the constable De Richemont, amongst the liberators of national independence.