This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...and his arms were round and long. 1304. Juppon. A short, close jacket. 1307. Shields of Pruce. Prussian shields. 1309. Mace. A club; Lat. massa, a block. 1311. Jambeux. Greaves, leg-armor; Fr. jambe, leg. Four milk-white bulls (the Thracian use of old) Were yoked to draw his car of burnished gold. 1325 Upright he stood, and bore aloft his shield, Conspicuous from afar, and overlooked the field. His surcoat was a bear-skin on his back; His hair hung long behind, and glossy raven black. His ample forehead bore a coronet 1330 With sparkling diamonds and with rubies set: Ten brace, and more, of greyhounds, snowy fair, And tall as stags, ran loose, and coursed around his chair, A match for pards in flight, in grappling for the bear; With golden muzzles all their mouths were bound, 1335 And collars of the same their necks surround. Thus through the fields Lycurgus took his way; His hundred knights attend in pomp and proud array. To match this monarch, with strong Arcite came Emetrius, king of Inde, a mighty name, 1340 On a bay courser, goodly to behold, The trappings of his horse embossed with barbarous gold. Not Mars bestrode a steed with greater grace; His surcoat o'er his arms was cloth of Thrace, Adorned with pearls, all orient, round, and great; 1345 His saddle was of gold, with emeralds set, His shoulders large a mantle did attire, With rubies thick, and sparkling as the fire: 1323. Use. Custom. 1327. Surcoat. Coat over his armor. 1332. Chair. Conveyance in which Lycurgus sat. 1333. Pards. Leopards or panthers. 1344. Orient. Oriental, like the eastern sun. EMETRIUS OF INDIA. 47 His amber-coloured locks in ringlets run, With graceful negligence, and shone against the sun. 1350 His nose was aquiline, his eyes were blue, Ruddy his lips, and...