Chapter 11: IX

IX —In the midst was seen A lady of a more majestic mien, By stature and by beauty mark’d their sovereign Queen. And as in beauty she surpass’d the choir, So nobler than the rest was her attire; A crown of ruddy gold enclosed her brow, Plain without pomp, and rich without a show; A branch of Agnus Castus in her hand, She bore aloft her symbol of command. “The Flower and the Leaf” William de Wyvil and Stephen de Martival, the marshals …