...down to rest, With corslet laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard ; They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred. Ten squires, ten yeomen, mail-clad men, Waited the beck of the warders ten ; Thirty steeds, both fleet...

...Waited, duteous, on them all : They were all knights of mettle true, Kinsmen to the bold Buccleuch. Ten squires, ten yeomen, mail-clad men, Waited the...and wight, Stood saddled in stable day and night, Barb'd with frontlet of steel, I trow, And with Jedwood-axe 4 at saddle bow ; A hundred more fed free...

...lay down to rest With corslet laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard ; They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred." But all this is changed now. Observe the change in architecture and in domestic life. Places once chosen...

...down to rest, With corslet laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard ; They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred." His lines, however, lack the idea of reality that strikes one in the verses before quoted and even...

...lay down to rest With corslet laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard ; They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred." But all this is changed now. Observe the cJuinge in architecture and in domesf-ic life. Places once...

...sword, and spur on heel ; They quitted not their harness bright. Neither by day, nor yet by night : " " Ten squires, ten yeomen, mail-clad men, Waited the...and wight. Stood saddled in stable day and night," — " Such was the custom of Branksome- Hall,'' — To " watch against Southern force and guile, Lest...

...lay down to rest With corslet laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard ; They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred. Ten squires, ten yeomen, mail-clad men, Waited the beck of the warders ten ; Thirty steeds, both fleet...

...lay down to rest With corslet laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard; They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred." But all this is changed now. Observe the change in architecture and in domestic life. Places once chosen...

...down to rest, With corslet laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard ; They carved at the meal 30 With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred. Ten squires, ten yeomen, mail-clad men, Waited the beck of the warders ten ; Thirty steeds, both fleet...

...down to rest, With corslet laced, Pillow'd on buckler cold and hard ; They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd. v. Ten squires, ten yeomen, mail-clad men, Waited the beck of the warders ten ; Thirty steeds,...