Chapter 10: VIII

VIII At this the challenger with fierce defy, His trumpet sounds; the challenged makes reply: With clangour rings the field, resounds the vaulted sky. Their visors closed, their lances in the rest, Or at the helmet pointed or the crest, They vanish from the barrier, speed the race, And spurring see decrease the middle space. “Palamon and Arcite” In the midst of Prince John’s cavalcade, he suddenly stopped, and appealing to the Prior of Jorvaulx, …