She accordingly mounted her palfrey at once, and fled with all her might till she found herself in a wood.

And as she sighed, she sang aloud a melancholy strain; "And who would wish to die," she said, "though death be free from pain?" She rode a nimble palfrey and scarce could great Gazul Excel the ardent spirit with which her heart was full.

" Then all doffed their hats humbly, without smiling or seeming to be in jest, while Little John took the bridle rein and led the palfrey still deeper into the forest, all marching in order, with Robin Hood walking beside the Sheriff, hat in hand.

In return the King gave him a palfrey among other presents, and the interdict being lifted, contributed nine hundred marks towards the building of Beaulieu, to be followed by other even more generous offerings.

Angelica turned her palfrey aside instantly, and galloped whithersoever it chose to carry her, till she came to a river-side, where she found another of her suitors, Ferragus.

Now it was decreed of God that after the knight had slain three of this company of robbers, that the five who were left, encompassed him round about, and killed his palfrey.

The lady set her palfrey to the river, but when she saw that Graelent also would enter therein she cried to him, "Stay, Graelent, the stream is deep, and it is death for you to follow.

"The page he bade with speed Prepare his own strong steed, Dame Enid's palfrey there beside; He said that he would ride For pastime far away: So forward hastened they.

Horses and all were taken, the spoil of the country round, and Master Sigbert had sent this palfrey for Lady Mabel to ride down.

See, as I live 'tis the nuns they make for!" Nothing saying, Sir Benedict spurred forward beside his hard-pressed company; in the midst of the column was dire tumult and shouting, where, from the dense woods upon their left a body of knights sheathed in steel from head to foot were cutting their way toward the lady Abbess, who, conspicuous in her white habit, was soothing her frightened palfrey.

They spoiled the lady also and stole her palfrey from her.

Then Helen the Beautiful, the wilful, laughed and swerved her palfrey, minded to leave him so; but Beltane sprang and caught the bridle.

From her they took her palfrey and her vesture, even to the shift.

Gawain, undeterred by this warning, brought out the lady's palfrey, helped her to mount, and followed her submissively through many lands.

And so she sighed, and looked on him once, then wheeled her palfrey, and was gone up the glade; but Beltane, as he watched her go, was seized of a sudden impulse and over-took her, running.

When these two had come near to Croisette, the esquire leaped from off his horse and caught her palfrey by the bridle, and the knight came close to her and catched her as though to drag her off from her horse.

On the way to Montsalvatch Gawain met a beautiful woman, to whom he made a declaration of love; but she merely answered that those who loved her must serve her, and bade him fetch her palfrey from a neighboring garden.

I found her palfrey with ears pricked and distended nostril, gazing at a head in a red nightcap which was set out of a hole in the red clay.

The courtesy of the Scottish Prioress was most joyfully received, and the delighted maidens gladly left their palfreys; but when Lady Clara attempted to dismount, Fitz-Eustace gently refused, saying: "I grieve, fair lady, to separate you from your friends.

"He ain't much t' look at, but" He paused a moment as he neared the horsea white and ancient palfrey.

Madame de Steinfeldt instantly ordered her palfrey to be prepared, and her attendants to mount.