" No doubt a lorn adventure, for a solitary- 

 swordsman to throw himself, in light armour, 

 across the path of the prancing cohorts ! 

 Likely enough he will be trodden underfoot, 

 and none ride up to avenge him ; yet it may 

 well happen that the need for some other and 

 better champion of a drooping cause will here- 

 after be found even more urgent than now." 

 Sir WILLIAM WATSON'S " Pencraft." 



