The Armourers’ Company were ready to supply corslets at 15s.
Henry White and Don Sany Southwell were prepared to do corslets 6d.
The most glorious and magnificent spectacle of all was the tent of Timoleon, round which booty of every kind was piled up in heaps, among which were a thousand corslets of exquisite workmanship, and ten thousand shields.
Red mantles had the Langbard's men, corslets ornamented, towering helms; girded they were with falchions, brown were their locks.
Its roof with spears is laid, its hall with shields is decked, with corslets are its benches strewed.
But Homeric corslets did not, as a rule, avail to keep out a spear driven by the hand at close quarters, or powerfully thrown from a short distance.
To take another instance, Pausanias describes the corslets of the neolithic Sarmatae, which he saw dedicated in the temple of Asclepius at Athens.
They also knew, and the original poet, we are told, did not know bronze corslets and greaves.
Idomeneus is never named as wearing a corslet, but he remarks that he has plenty of corslets (XIII.
How the new poets could conceive of warriors as always in chariots, whereas in practice they knew no war chariots, and yet could not conceive of them without corslets which the original poet never saw, is Reichel's secret.
But why did men who were interpolating bronze corslets freely introduce bronze so seldom, if at all, as the material of greaves?
But at this point the learning and conservatism of the late poets deserted them, and into their new lays, also into the old lays, they eagerly introduced many unwarrantable corslets and greaves-- things of the ninth to seventh centuries.
Even the later Greek corslets do not look as if they could resist a heavy spear wielded by a strong hand.
They did follow it as to chariots and shields; as to corslets and greaves they reversed it.
Few have corslets and only one here and there a helmet" (Germania, 6).
Now I would have you arm all my freedmen, and some half dozen of the trustiest slaves, so as to have in all a dozen or fifteen, with corslets under their tunics, and boarspears, and swords.
Four or five yeomen ran down the steps, calling out to Tibble that their corslets had tarried a long time, and that Sir Thomas Drury had been storming for him to get his tilting armour into order.
Tibble had to go to this functionary at any rate, to obtain an order for payment for the corslets he had brought home.
The Persian officers themselves, wearing corslets and carrying lances, were for the future to appear on horseback, he himself setting the example, and each one was to appoint another of the Peers to lead the infantry for him.
They were all wearing corslets and carrying light shields, but half were equipped with stout staves of fennel, and half were ordered to snatch up clods of earth and do what they could with these.
And with him followed the fleet Abantes with hair flowing behind, spearmen eager with ashen shafts outstretched to tear the corslets on the breasts of the foes.
Yea, it is not my mood to stand and fight with foemen from afar, wherefore I have spears, and bossy shields, and helms, and corslets of splendid sheen.
The sound of martial music filled the air ; pennons and banners fluttered in the breeze ; and pikes, steel caps, and corslets glittered in the sunbeams.
An hour after this, the door of her chamber was unbarred, and two officers of the guard in corslets and steel caps appeared and commanded her to follow them.
They were equipped in corslets of polished steel and morions ; and two of them were armed with bucklers and enormous maces, while the third wielded a partizan of equal size.
The opposing theory is that Ionian minstrels introduced the corslet of their own age, seventh century, (corslets not uniformly to be found in Homer), to satisfy the practical warriors who wore it.
The jaseran went out again, and the plate corslets of our Museums came in again, in the fifth to fourth centuries.
We really cannot expect to understand every detail with certainty, while we have no actual examples of the corslets and shields of many early centuries before our eyes.
In Homer this is the usual equipment, though corslets of plate appear also to be known.
Nothing of this kind could occur with the plain plate corslets of the seventh to sixth centuries, which laced at the sides, and had no mailed kirtle or flaps, and no belt or zoster.
To myself it may seem that these are epic formulae which arose in a period of corslets but are used where no corslets were being worn, in the fight with the Wooers.
I cannot say that Homer always has hauberks, not corslets of back-plate and breast-plate in his mind.
How many Ionic plate corslets are in actual existence, to our knowledge?
But the evidence for the non-existence of prae-Ionic corslets based on their absence from tombs, even if it were absolute, which it is not, would have been of little avail.
Though hauberks occur constantly in the art, they are not found in the graves of the sixth to fifth centuries, in Greece; and even plate corslets are extremely rare.
Doors opened silently as we passed, and grim fellows, in corslets and padded coats, peered out.
They were handsomely dressed, although some wore corslets over their satin coats or lace above buff jerkins.
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