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At any rate, it is an advance upon the old fashion of getting up a joust at arms, and inviting the guest to come out and have his head cracked in a friendly way. The review, which had been a good deal talked about, came off in the afternoon; and all the world went to it. The avenues of the Bois were crowded with carriages, and the walks with footpads.
Then came King Anguish unto Tramtrist, and asked him why he would not joust. Sir, he said, I was but late hurt, and as yet I dare not adventure me. Then came there the same squire that was sent from the king's daughter of France unto Sir Tristram. And when he had espied Sir Tristram he fell flat to his feet. All that espied La Beale Isoud, what courtesy the squire made unto Sir Tristram.
She had looked up 'joust' in the dictionary, and it seemed to her that in these few words was contained the kernel of her trouble. Now, in similar circumstances, he would probably step aside politely, as who should say, 'After you, my dear Alphonse. There was no time to lose. An hour after her first perusal of Dr Cupid's advice, Maud had begun to act upon it.
Yet when they gave consent they feared that great Zulema's might Would surely quite excel in joust the best Castilian knight. But a thousand times they asked that heaven would give to him success, And a thousand times they wondered at his glorious Moorish dress. Full many a lady's beck and smile were on the warrior bent, And they looked on his manly beauty and they sighed with deep content.
So Azalea came, laughingly, and the two walked grandiloquently into the focus of the camera. "And there is a man making phonograph records," young Gale went on. "Come over there, Zaly, and we'll have a joust of words, and record it on the sands of time!" "What do you mean?" asked Azalea, interestedly, for she had no knowledge of some of the performances going on.
The "joust a plaisir" was a mere knightly display of skill, and was fought with weapons, the edges of which were dulled; but the other, the "joust a l'outrance," was of a far more dangerous kind.
In the midst of those fetes which a waning chivalry was trying to revive came the fatal joust of Tournelles: Henry II, struck by a splinter of a lance for want of a visor, slept before his time with his ancestors, and Mary Stuart ascended the throne of France, where, from mourning for Henry, she passed to that for her mother, and from mourning for her mother to that for her husband.
Then Sir Tristram lightly smote him down, and rode away. But Sir Sagramour pursued him, crying loudly to joust with him also. So Sir Tristram turned and quickly overthrew him likewise, and departed. Anon a damsel met him as he rode, and told him of a knight adventurous who did great harm thereby, and prayed him for his help.
At this Tristram sprang up in furious anger and sore shame, and leaped into his saddle. Then he sent Gouvernail to Palamides, accusing him of treachery, and demanding a joust on equal terms. "Not so," answered Palamides. "I know that knight better than he fancies, and will not meet him now.
It was too good to give up that secret joust and he made another lance and essayed another tournament, but this time Beelzebub butted the door open and sprang with a loud ba-a-a into the yard and charged for the gate in full view of old Joel, the three brothers, and the school-master, who were standing in the road.
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