Praise of Some Lady~ There by his side in chariot rideth she, As lovely flower of the hibiscus tree, So fair her face; and when about they wheel, Her girdle gems of Ken themselves reveal.

"Lady," quoth he, "mine eyes be old, and yet methinks I should know yon horseman that rideth unhelmed so close beside the lady

See where our youthful, god-like brother rideth, his brow as gloomy as his hair is bright" "Ah," muttered Roger, "he grieveth yet for Beda the Jesterand he but a Fool!" "Yet a man-like fool, methinks!"

Methinks he shall lack nothing for hard smiting that rideth with theehey, boy, I do yearn amain for the shock of a charge!"

So cometh this noble lady to Walkyn (and with her, I) and speaketh him calm and sweetly, thus: 'Yonder rideth Sir Pertolepe that is knight of noble birth, yet the rather would I trust myself and these my good sisters in thy hands, O man!

"Less, Hacon, less!" said Sir Benedict, beginning to stride up and down in his clanking armour, "Sir Rollo ever rideth with busy spur, and he will doubtless push on amain nor spare his men that he may take us unprepared.

I see one that rideth from the northand this I give thee for a signhe is tall, this man, bedight in sable armour and mounted upon a great white horse.

"Look, Beltane," she said, "oh, look and tell me who rideth yonder!"

[Antistrophe 2. Out in the waste of foam, Where rideth dark Menelaus, Come to us there, O white And jagged, with wild sea-light And crashing of oar-blades, come, O thunder of God, and slay us: While our tears are wet for home, While out in the storm go we, Slaves of our enemy! Others.

And then' the Justice to recite began The charter of the Cruelty to An- Imals Society, and then he said: "Pride rideth on a donkey, as I've read, Until it gets a fall, and then it loses Its dignity and blubbers o'er its bruises.

He is dressed in long robes of gray which, methinks, are of poor seeming; but the horse he rideth upon hath the richest coursing that ever I saw.

So they talked among themselves merrily, until after a while quoth Little John, "Who rideth those two nags yonder?" "Two holy men like thee, brother," quoth the Beggar.

'There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky.

Nowe the great Can himselfe is caried in maner following; hee rideth in a chariot with two wheeles, vpon which a maiesticall throne is built of the wood of Aloe, being adorned with gold and great pearles, and precious stones, and foure elephants brauely furnished doe drawe the sayd chariot, before which elephants, foure great horses richly trapped and couered doe lead the way.

Vpon the chariot also two milke-white Ier-falcons doe sit, and seeing any game which hee would take, hee letteth them flie, and so they take it, and after this maner doeth hee solace himselfe as hee rideth.

Thou warrior's god, who rideth on the wind!

* GALAHAD GETS HIS SHIELD Rideth Sir Galahad yet without shield, and so he rode four days without any adventure.

"Walks or walketh, rides or rideth, stands or standeth, are of the third person singular.

"WALKS or WALKETH, RIDES or RIDETH, and STANDS or STANDETH, are of the third person singular.

" That was all, but he hummed it with great content, beating time with one hand; and as for the King's Favorite, for all that Preferment rideth on the pommel of his saddle, I doubt not he never sang such a song to himself, or took such pleasure in the singing.

Who rideth alone.

© 28Jul26, A897583. R115314, 29Jul53, Isabel Wren (W) Who rideth alone.

If any be content, then he rideth vpon an horse about the streets very richly apparelled, with drummes and pipes, to shew that he leaueth the riches of the world to be a Tallipoie.

And when he rideth abroad he is caried vpon a great chaire or serrion gilded very faire, wherein there is made a little house, with a latice to looke out at: so that he may see them, but they may not looke vp at him: and all the time that he passeth by them, they heaue vp their hands to their heads, and lay their heads on the ground, and looke not vp vntil he be passed.

Whoever rideth thither, Death has he close at hand.'" Nibelungenlied (Lettsom's tr.).