Do you know?" "No more than I have told you, my Sir Torm; It scarce becomes his chivalry to fight In these new tourneys of such savage guise.

"Now it befell, upon a day, that they set out with a goodly company to attend a tourney in a certain town whither, likewise, were come many knights of renown, nobles and princes beyond count eager to prove their prowess, thither drawn by the fame of that fair lady who was to be Queen of Beauty.

He shows an obvious, honest, aristocratic bias, but he does not forget another side of the matter, as a fragment of an imaginary conversation between a young lord and a squire present at the great tourney at St. Inglebert's between the Gentlemen of England and of France pleasantly shows.

He excelled In all the contests 'twixt the wandering camps; I tourneyed with him careless of my fate.

"I think not, Torm; it never is his wont To tilt in tourneys like to-day's.