Tourney

By a knight of ghostes & shadowes, I sumon’d am to Tourney. ten leagues beyond the wide worlds end

And let the recreant traitors seek My tourney court.

We hold a tourney here to-morrow morn, And there is scantly time for half the work.

Kipper stood blinking, as I had sometimes seen him do at the boxing tourneys in which he indulged when in receipt of a shrewd buffet on some tender spot like the tip of the nose.

Here indeed, perhaps, by rule of antagonisms, may be the place to mention that, after King Richard’s return, there was a liberty of tourneying given to the fighting men of England […]