Tis own forefathers’ arms and armor hung.
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nd “ this,” he said, “was Hugh’s at Agincourt; 25And that was old Sir Ralph’s at Ascalon : A good knight he! we keep a chronicle With all about him ”—which he brought, and I Dived in a hoard of tales that dealt with knights,Falf-legend, half-historic, counts and kings 30Who laid about them at their wills and died ; And niixed with these, a lady, one that arm’d aa a a 2. names, even more beautiful than their beautiful names; not acontrast between beauty and harshness.15. Ammonites, fossil shells of cuttle-fishes, once thought to be petri-fied snakes. ifirst bones, fossils of prehistoric animals.17, celts, the stone weapons of the ancient Danes.calumets, Indian tohacco-pipes; ‘the pipe of peace.”’18. claymore, the two-handed sword of the Scottish Highlanders.19. sandal, sandalwood. Re: laborious ivories, caryed ivory balls, one within another ; bric-a-rac. 21. cursed crease,a double-edged sword with i :“cursed” for the terrible wound that it inflicts. or nonpentin’ biel22. isles of palm, the South Sea Islands.She Agincousl a famous battle (1415), in which Henry V. defeated therench.26. Ascalon, in Palestine, where in 1192 Richard I. defeated the Sara.cens under Saladin in oneof the greatest battles of the crusades a —— _
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