"Now by sweet Cupid his tender bow!" panted Sir Jocelyn"by the cestus of lovely Venusaye, by the ox-eyed Juno, I swear 'twas featly done, Sir Smith!" Quoth Beltane, taking up the fallen sword: "'Tis a trick I learned of that great and glorious knight, Sir Benedict of Bourne.

Wrestle with me, or try the cestus against me.

By all means let the "profession" take the cestus from the hands of the highwayman and adopt it themselves.

St. 5 This is the cestus in Homer, which Venus lends to Juno for the purpose of enchanting Jupiter Greek: N kai apo staethesphin elusato keston himanta Poikilon' entha de ohi thelktaeria panta tetukto' Enth' heni men philotaes, en d' himeras, en d' oaristus, Parphasis, hae t' eklepse noon puka per phroneonton.