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That appears to be a natural set of sequences, but I cannot pretend to guess how the corslet fastened or what the mitre and zoster really were, beyond being guards of the stomach and lower part of the trunk. No helmets of metal, such as Homer mentions, have been found in Mycenaean graves.
He plants on a mound a mighty oak with boughs lopped away on every hand, and arrays it in the gleaming arms stripped from Mezentius the captain, a trophy to thee, mighty Lord of War; he fixes on it the plumes dripping with blood, the broken spears, and the corslet struck and pierced in twelve places; he ties the shield of brass on his left hand, and hangs from his neck the ivory sword.
Anything may be demonstrated if we may excise whatever passage does not suit our hypothesis. Another plan is to maintain that if the poet does not in any case mention a corslet, there was no corslet. Thus in V. 99, an arrow strikes Diomede "hard by the right shoulder, the plate of the corslet."
I beckoned Carlotta, who glided down, and there, with our heads together and holding our breath, we watched the queerest little love drama imaginable. Our cicada stood alert and spruce, waving his antenna with a sort of cavalier swagger, and every now and then making his corslet vibrate passionately.
The Maid planted her banner on the edge of the fosse, and then springing down into the ditch, she placed the first ladder against the wall, and began to mount. An English archer sent an arrow at her, which pierced her corslet and wounded her severely between the neck and shoulder.
Upon another, Cybele gave him the keys, Reason handed him a bridle, Hebe a basket of flowers, Wisdom a looking-glass and two law books, Diligence a pair of spurs; while Constancy, Magnanimity, Prudence, and other virtues, furnished him with a helmet; corslet, spear, and shield.
He was unusually kind and good-natured; he had a load of comfits for Rusha and Ben, and a stout piece of woollen stuff for Patience which he said was such as he was told godly maidens wore, and which possibly the terror of his steel cap and corslet had cheapened at the mercer's; also he had a large packet of tractates for Stead's own reading, and he enquired whether they possessed a Bible.
"Ay," answered the old woman, in the same style of bitter irony, "I know the wages of that service; a curse when the corslet is not sufficiently brightened, a blow when the girth is not tightly drawn, to be beaten because the hounds are at fault, to be reviled because the foray is unsuccessful, to stain his hands for the master's bidding in the blood alike of beast and of man, to be a butcher of harmless deer, a murderer and defacer of God's own image, not at his own pleasure, but at that of his lord, to live a brawling ruffian, and a common stabber exposed to heat, to cold, to want of food, to all the privations of an anchoret, not for the love of God, but for the service of Satan, to die by the gibbet, or in some obscure skirmish, to sleep out his brief life in carnal security, and to awake in the eternal fire, which is never quenched."
"I say, cumber not yourself about it, father," answered Howleglas, "but move off with your train, male and female, or I will not undertake to save yonder she-saint from the ducking-stool And as for bearing of malice, my stomach has no room for it; it is," he added, clapping his hand on his portly belly, "too well bumbasted out with straw and buckram gramercy to them both they kept out that madcap's dagger as well as a Milan corslet could have done."
He divined at once that the Welch were storming the Saxon hold. Short time indeed sufficed for that active knight to case himself in his mail; and, sword in hand, he burst through the door, cleared the stairs, and gained the hall below, which was filled with men arming in haste. "Where is Harold?" he exclaimed. "On the trenches already," answered Sexwolf, buckling his corslet of hide.
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