All the misfortunes of the nation did not serve to correct them; the spectacles, the games, and the tourneys constantly succeeded each other.
One valiant actor in thesetourneys where were revived the ancient traditions of knighthood, was Jacques de Lalaing, a chevalier with all the characteristics of times past, fighting for fame in the present.
The girl colored brightly; but she had heard so much of tourneys and jousts that she knew what was her duty.
He evidently fails to realize what a large number of authorized tourneys were held by Edward III.
They straddled across the benches and barged at each other in single tourneys and jousts, riding their hobby-horses with violent rearings and plungings and bruising one another without grievous hurt and with yells of laughter.
And when the fight is over how he glories in the tourneys and jousts--the song of troubadour and minstrel--the chase with hawk and hound.
Great preparations had been made for her christening, and for the tourneys which were to be held at the same time in honor of her grandfather the King of Denmark's visit.
Jousts and tourneys and attempts to imitate the warlike feats of the heroes of fiction in such works as Amadís de Gaula (of which later) formed a part of the chivalric customs of the day.
As I was saying, at those tourneys there always was what was called a Queen of Beauty.
Only to combat in tourneys with pointless lances and edgeless swords, or to indulge in bravados in combats, where they are fully armed, against Jacques Bonhomme, armed only with a stick!
How are we to meet the expenses of brillianttourneys and the sumptuous displays of the Court of Love if, on the one side, the King ruins us, and, on the other, Jacques Bonhomme refuses to work?
Accordingly, these tourneys are as much a game of hazard as is a game of dice.
For the lands of this knight brought him of wealth but two hundred pounds of rent, and for this reason he rode to tourneys in hope of gain as well as in quest of honour.
Such as I am, that thou hast made of me; for by thine aid at the tourneys have I gained five hundred pounds of rent.
And Christian knights came also to perfect themselves in chivalric fashions and martial exercises, as well as to master the graceful evolutions of the “tilt of reeds” in the tourneys of the Moors.
The sallad was a relatively dangerous headpiece in tourneys on foot, and a large-visored bassinet is often mentioned as being retained in use for this purpose down to the sixteenth century.
The Lady Sybilla hath told me how strong it is and how splendid are the tourneys there, as grand, she swears, as those of France.
He was resolved, he said, to have his bed brought into their chamber that he might talk to them all night of tourneys and noble deeds of arms.
When Easter had come, and the season that men give to tourneys and wars and the righting of their private wrongs, Milon considered how he could meet with the knight whom men called Peerless.
He prayed the prince to dwell for a year about the Court, that he might the more readily assist at such tourneys and follow such feats of arms as were proclaimed in the kingdom.
All my life I have journeyed from realm to realm, by reason of tourneys and quarrels and princes' wars, yet never once by any knight have I been borne from my horse.
The girl coloured brightly; but she had heard so much oftourneys and jousts that she knew what was her duty.
Long were it to tell of the deeds done by the noble knight Sir Guy; of the tourneys that he won, of the cities that he conquered--even at the game of chess he managed to be victorious!
Games and fashionable amusements were not forbidden by the fond mother, and, as early as 1308, we find Robert losing his money in play at the court, and spending his gold on horses and tourneys like other young gentlemen of the day.
The religious services over, the day was given up to magnificent tourneys and rich banquets, and the nights to balls, masked balls, "to hide blushes.
And when evening came, supper was served and every one sat down in order, and after supper there were dances and tourneys until very late, when they retired to put the bride to bed.
Many imperishable souvenirs are left of the reign at Orthez of the brilliant Gaston de Foix, when tourneys and fetes followed in rapid succession.
There are other pelota tourneys got up at Biarritz, Bayonne and Feuntarrabia for strangers, but the mountain Basque has contempt for both the players and the audience.
These stories had appealed in the first place to what we should still think of as the spirit of chivalry: they were full of tourneys and single combats, desperate adventures and romantic loves.
I think not, Torm; it never is his wont To tilt in tourneys like to-day's.
No more than I have told you, my Sir Torm; It scarce becomes his chivalry to fight In these new tourneys of such savage guise.
Warfare and tourneys require that young girls should become expert nurses and even make shift to set shattered bones.
In early feudal days tourneys differed from battles merely in that the time and the place were fixed in advance, and fair conditions arranged.
All nobles will tell you that without tourneys you can never train good warriors.
Since then tourneys have been getting less brutal.
Tourneys are to be reckoned as "little wars themselves, and the apprenticeship for great ones.
But peace and pageants no more deadly than tourneys are seldom the continuous state of things.
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