So used were the good burghers of Bordeaux to martial display and knightly sport, that an ordinary joust or tournament was an everyday matter with them.
I had a turn with them upon the sea when they came over to Winchelsea and the good queen with her ladies sat upon the cliffs looking down at us, as if it had been joust or tourney.
Because they have passed me over in choosing those who should joust for England.
Some day, perchance, in joust or in tourney, knight may wish to wear my colors, and then I shall tell him that if he does indeed crave my favor there is wrong unredressed, and the wronger the Socman of Minstead.
Many sections have to do with military discipline, with the ordering of the knights and their followers on the march and in the battle; they forbid the knights to joust or leave the squadron without orders.
The joust is run again, and Kay crawls back with broken leg and arm.
One day, for his lady's favour, he ran a joust with a heathen knight.
And thus heard Gawain the story from him who the pledge did hold, 215 For his pledge Plippalinòt took there, when the tale of the joust was told.
If tribute forjoust be due here, by him be that tribute paid!
Then he bade Gawain seat him firmly, and the charger he led to shore, And his shield and his spear he gave him--and the Turkowit swiftly came As one who his joust can measure, nor too high nor too low his aim.
Such token by joust is painted, little payment his skill should know 35 Whose hand erst the shield had fashioned an he thought him to paint it so!
And many a joust must they ride now, for he who the Grail would see Sword in hand must he draw anigh it, and swift must his seeking be!
Tis but a pool amid a storm of rain, And we the air-bladders that course up and down, And joust and tilt in merry tournament; And when one bubble runs foul of another, 115 The weaker needs must break.
All those who witnessed the jousting were filled with amazement, and said it cost him dear to joust with such a goodly knight.
And if any one assails me, I shall not fail to joust with him.
But he must be a fool to undertake of his own free will to joust with one of the most valiant knights to be found in all the land.
For, whatever the outcome might be, he always wished to begin the fight and joust the first, or else he would be much incensed.
Erec did not wish to stop to capture either horse or rider, but rather to joust and distinguish himself in order that his prowess might appear.
Yet I think he will overstay the term, for my lord Gawain will not allow him to part from him, as together they go to joust wherever tournaments are held.
That man may be considered brave who holds his ground to joust with him, for it is more credit to dare face him than it is to defeat another knight.
No detail of the joust or hunt was unfamiliar or unwelcome to these readers; no subtle arguments concerning the art of love were too abstruse to delight a generation steeped in amorous casuistry and allegories.
When Perceval had pledged his word then the joust began again, and the engagement became general.
Let none hold back, for the first joust is already won!
Remembering this, we shall best be able to understand why the King found it necessary to forbid any joust or tournament to be held in the vicinity of Oxford or Cambridge (1305).
You are to know," quoth she, "that somewhile ago there was appointed a joustat a place not very distant from this.
And to that joust there went the lady of this castle who is hight the Lady Lesolie.
Nothing pleased him but to be giving dinners and balls, to make verses and sing them to his lute, and to joust and tournay in the eyes of his love, dressed in the most sumptuous apparel.
The joust and the tourney were, in their primary sense, mere modes of attack.
The joust was the charge of a single horseman against a single antagonist.
You will be robbed of your joust with him, for he'll mount the block instead of the steed, just as you predicted.
He eagerly anticipated the joust and the sword combat with Heinz.
This would certainly lead the Swiss and others to investigate his own past, and the Pursuivant at Arms excluded from joust and tourney whoever "injured trade or merchant.
In the following they joustover the distinction between function of wisdom (which is revealed through action) and substance or self-nature (which is revealed through nonaction).
One famous joust between Lin-chi and Huang-po went as follows: One day Master Lin-chi went with Huang-po to do some work in which all the monks participated.
Among these knights of the "Plume volante," whose chivalric exploits astounded the beholders, must be distinguished Peter Bales in his joust with David Johnson.
The joust began; and before the Rusty Knight the rest went down like corn beaten by hail.
She would have scorned to set her beauty to compete with those who were not beautiful, even as a proved knight would scorn to joust with an unskilled boor.
BIDDY THE CLAP: Methinks yon sable knight willjoust it with the best.
I am among them, among their battling bodies in a medley, the joust of life.
A joust between Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, and an opponent, each charging on the left of the barrier.
And when the breath came again into his body, Lancelot was glad, and desired the youth that he would pardon him of that unequal joust and of the stroke too heavy.
And he besought the knight that they might joust together.
The joust was appointed to take place of a Sunday after dinner, in the public square, before the house where Ovando was quartered.
Among these was a tilting match or joust with reeds; a chivalrous game which the Spaniards had learnt from the Moors of Granada.
The result of a joust depended upon the points scored, the highest number being gained for the absolute unhorsing of an opponent.
The joust was fought with tilting-spears, the "tourney" with swords.
