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Updated: June 19, 2025
Mother Dolly, busy with her distaff, looked on, not displeased, except when she had to guard her spindle from the kitten's pranks, but she was less happy when the children began to talk. 'You have seen a tilt-yard? 'Yea, indeed, he answered dreamily. 'The poor squire was hurt I did not like it! It is gruesome. 'Oh, no! It is a noble sport! I loved our tilt-yard at Bletso.
There is Leicester, that tall man with a bald forehead in the cap with the red feather, on the white horse behind the carriage he always keeps close to the Queen. He is the enemy of your prelate, Master Anthony, you know.... That is Oxford, just behind him on the chestnut. Yes, look well at him. He is the prince of the tilt-yard; none can stand against him.
As he came, punctual to the moment, into the gallery overlooking the tilt-yard, the afternoon sun was pouring in through the oriel window, and the yard beyond seemed all a haze of golden light and dust.
That boy, whom the philosophers of Utrecht had taught to reason, whom the lessons of Warwick had trained to arms, was Richard, Duke of Gloucester, famous even now for his skill in the tilt-yard and his ingenuity in the rhetoric of the schools. The manners of Lord Hastings had contributed to his fortunes.
The counsel was welcome to all, and a mighty din and clang of arms soon arose in the great tilt-yard, while Etzel and Kriemhild looked on. Sixty of Dietrich's knights spurred forward to meet the strangers. They were eager for the onset, had Dietrich allowed it, for goodly men were his. But it irked him when he heard thereof, and forbade them to cross lances with Gunther's warriors.
Give them complete success, and you will be flung aside, as the splinters of a broken lance are tossed out of the tilt-yard." "There may be truth in what you say," said the Templar, darkly smiling. "But what were our hopes should the allies withdraw their forces, and leave Palestine in the grasp of Saladin?" "Great and assured," replied Conrade.
'My Tib came with us when we came here. Ay, Tib! purr thy best! as he held his fingers over her, and she rubbed her smooth head against him. 'Can she leap? Baudrons leaps like a horse in the tilt-yard. 'Cannot she!
I marked him well when he slew the Hun, and saw that it was not with intent, but that his horse stumbled. Let my guests leave the tilt-yard in peace." He gave them escort, himself, and their horses were led to the stalls, for many varlets stood ready to serve them. The host went with his guests into the palace, and bade the anger cease. They set the table, and brought water.
Agnes found a congenial spirit. 'That is a gentle and gracious slip of the Stewart. What shall you do with him? asked King Henry of James, as they stood together at one end of the tilt-yard at Westminster, watching Malcolm Stewart and Ralf Percy, who were playing at closhey, the early form of nine-pins. 'I know what I should like to do, said James. 'What may that be?
He used, in the earlier days of his castle life, to hate the dull monotony of the tri-weekly hacking at the pels with a heavy broadsword as he hated nothing else; but now, though he still had that exercise to perform, it was almost a relief from the heavy dulness of riding, riding, riding in the tilt-yard with shield and lance couch recover en passant.
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