THE TOURNAMENT OF ZAIDE By Zaide has a feast been pledged to all Granada's dames, For in his absence there had been dire lack of festive games, And, to fulfil the promise the noble man had made, He called his friends to join him in dance and serenade.

But when the subjects themselves are frivolous, the logical tournaments in their defence degrade the intellect and narrow it.

Henry was freed from this danger by his son's death, who was killed in a tournament at Paris

His conception of love unites all the voluptuousness of the Oriental harem, and all the gallantry of the chivalric tournament with all the pure and quiet affection of an English fireside.

Now there had been very great preparation made for this tournament for on three sides of the meadow of battle scaffolds had been built and rows of seats had been placed.

Sixth How Sir Launcelot Took Part in the Tournament Between King Bagdemagus and the King of North Wales, and How He Won that Battle for King Bagdemagus.

"Goes Sanpeur To the great tournament to-day?"

A tournament on skeleton horses.

The whole tribe met every summer to have a tournament after their fashion, and at one of these reunions the Devil arose and made a pacific speech.

Amen." No tilt Nor tournament before his vision now, Swift in his boyish heart, so full of dreams Of fame, there springs a new, intense resolve Of consecration, an unconscious prayer For God's peace, though he knows not what it means.

Their contests were more like the stately ceremonials of tilts and tournaments than the rude conflicts of the field.

And more especially she was to keep it secret that he was to take part in such a tournament as that which they had devised.

Opposed to her, on the other side advance 490 The costly feast, the carol, and the dance, Minstrels and Music, Poetry and Play, And balls by night, and tournaments by day.

The tournament from the ancient verb turnen, to wrestle or fight, a public contest in every species of warfare, carried on by the knights in the presence of noble dames and maidens, whose favor they sought to gain by their prowess, and which chiefly consisted of tilting and jousting either singly or in troops, the day concluding with a banquet and a dancewas then instituted.