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Updated: June 15, 2025
"Six troops of Saracens are here; Six Christian troops, with targe and steed Be ready, when the day is fixed, To join the jousting of the reed. "For 'tis not right that furious war, Which sets the city's roofs in flames, Should kindle with a fruitless fire The tender bosom of our dames.
All wear coarse sandals, and appear in the bravery of targe, spear, and dagger. Some of the women would be pretty did they not resemble the men in their scowling, Satanic expression of countenance: they are decidedly en deshabille, but a black skin always appears a garb.
"Then on both sides the leaders Gave signal for the charge; And on both sides the footmen Strode forth with lance and targe; And on both sides the horsemen Struck their spurs deep in gore, And front to front the armies Met with a mighty roar." Human movement is not always advance; and there are traces of a somewhat similar ideal in the naval periodical literature of our own day.
Whether the epithets denoting roundness refer to circular shields or to the double targe, g-shaped, of Mycenaean times is uncertain. We thus come to a puzzle of unusual magnitude. Either we have a harmonious picture of war from a very ancient date of large shields, or late poets did not introduce the light round buckler of their own period.
A gilt embossed gauntlet encircled his right arm, from the wrist to the elbow; his targe and horse trappings glittered with a profusion of silver crosses and devices, and he looked a stately and martial figure, curveting at the head of his well-appointed lancers.
Moving back to Rome, along the old way where had marched all the legions, by the ruins, under the blue sky, he had a sense of going with Cæsar's legions, step by step, targe by targe, and then of his footstep halting, turning out, breaking rhythm.... From this it was suddenly a winter night and at Glenfernie, and he sat by the fire in his father's death-room.
The Angli alone contained mailed knights in their ranks, and David's first intention was to send these mail-clad warriors against the English, while the Picts and Scots were to follow with sword and targe.
In quarrels, it is considered a harmless weapon, and is often thrown at the opponent and wielded viciously enough where the spear point would carefully be directed at the buckler. The Gashan or shield is a round targe about eighteen inches in diameter; some of the Bedouins make it much larger.
Of the holy dress, the cross alone she was permitted to wear, a golden cross set with rubies; but in her hand she always bore the loved breviary. Pacing back and forth at evening, sick with sorrow, she came suddenly upon a full suit of armor. It lay directly in her path the targe, the corselet, the helm, the pierced breastplate.
The elder lady found the range of her eyeglass and conned in silence and without well grasping its purport the following effusion: Other maids make Love a foeman, Lie in ambush to defeat him; I alone will step to meet him Valiant, his accepted woman. Equal, consort in his car, Ride I to his royal war. Victims of his bow and targe, Yet who toyed with lovers' quarrels, Envy me my braver laurels!
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