Allow me, brethren, on this occasion to constitute myself a knight-errant to sally forth in defense of the unprotected, of the holy corporations that have reared us, thus again confirming the saving idea of the adagea full stomach praises God, which is to say, a hungry stomach will praise the friars.

I'm to fetch coal and run errants and wait on table.

Miraculously, it seems to appear many times in the sons of women who have failed to find their own knight-errants.

Elsley shrugged his shoulders, and said, smiling, as if it were a fine thing to say"Really, my dear, all men are not knight errants enough to endanger their necks for a bit of weed;

He means knight-errants!" exclaimed Old

Patres, quamquam sæpe errant, tamen venerandi propter testimonium fidei.' Although I learn from all this chapter, that Luther was no great Patrician, (indeed he was better employed), yet I am nearly, if not wholly of his mind respecting the works of the Fathers.

I sat him on a footstool, so that I might with facility put my hand on his sandy hair, and turning to uncle, commenced: "Shure, sir, seeing it was a good bhoy yez were afther to run errants, it's meself that has brought this youngsther for yer inspection.

All this have I heard and much beside, idle tales mayhap, yet would I seek out this errant Mars and prove him, for mine own behoof, with stroke of sword.

Now Sir Launcelot wandered errant for many days, meeting no adventure of any moment, but taking great joy in all that he beheld of the wide world about him, and in that time he found lodging wheresoever he chanced to be (if not in house, then beneath the skies), and he endured all sorts of weather, both wet and dry.

The wind breathed of a hundred years ago, and the sublime patience of the women who hurried down Lily Lane (faded but mystic eyes that lost themselves oversea through thousand-day voyages), to welcome their knight-errants, bearing home the marrow of leviathans....

In the middle ages, books tell us, they worshipped the knights errant.