 | Clara Beverley - 1914 - 168 lehte
...knight was pricking on the plain, Ycladde in mighty arms and silver shield Wherein the dint of old wounds did remain, The cruel marks of many a bloody field. Yet arms till that time did he never wieid. His angry steed did chide his foaming bit, As much disdaining to the curb to yield:... | |
 | Walter Swain Hinchman - 1915 - 488 lehte
...lines we are at once " in lap of legends old " : A gentle knight was pricking on the plain, Ycladd in mighty arms and silver shield, Wherein old dints...marks of many a bloody field; Yet arms till that time did he never wield : His angry steed did chide his foaming bit, As much disdaining to the curb to yield... | |
 | Ella Flagg Young, Walter Taylor Field - 1915 - 392 lehte
...stanza of the poem, telling how 10 the Knight of the Red Cross rode across the plain, reads like this : A gentle knight was pricking on the plain, Yclad in...shield, Wherein old dints of deep wounds did remain, is The cruel marks of many a bloody field ; Yet arms till that time did he never wield. His angry steed... | |
 | Thomas Ernest Rankin, Wilford Merton Aikin - 1917 - 502 lehte
...Chaucer, in Westminster Abbey. The Faerie Queen. — A GENTLE KNIGHT was pricking on the plain, Clad in mighty arms and silver shield, Wherein old dints...marks of many a bloody field ; Yet arms till that time did he never wield : His angry steed did chide his foaming bit, As much disdaining to the curb to yield... | |
 | Laurie Magnus - 1918 - 442 lehte
...Tasso, by its addition of a ninth line, an Alexandrine. We quote the opening stanza of the poem — ' A gentle knight was pricking on the plain, • Y-clad in mighty arms and silver shield b Wherein old dints of deep wounds did remain, a The cruel marks of many a bloody field ; b Yet arms... | |
 | Gustave Rudler - 1925 - 538 lehte
...who opens the list at the entrance of the famous epic and who to some extent typifies all the rest: A gentle knight was pricking on the plain, Yclad in...marks of many a bloody field ; Yet arms till that time he did never wield. His angry steed did chide his foaming bit, As much disdaining to the curb to yield... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 268 lehte
...magic landscape. The very opening of the first canto of Book I strikes the note of observed adventure: A Gentle Knight was pricking on the plain, Y-clad...did he wield. His angry steed did chide his foaming bit, As much disdaining to the curb to yield. Full jolly knight he seemed, and fair did sit, As one... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1999 - 240 lehte
...Gentle Knight was pricking0 on the plain, Clad in mighty arms0 and silver shield,8 Wherein old dents of deep wounds did remain, The cruel marks of many a bloody field; Yet arms until that time did he never wield. His angry steed did chide his foaming bit, As much disdaining to... | |
 | Lucy Cecil Lillie - 1878 - 380 lehte
...meaning; the Knight of the Red Cross signifies Holiness ; Una meant Purity. UNA AND THE RED-CROSS KNIGHT. A gentle knight was pricking on the plain, Yclad in...of many a bloody field ; Yet arms, till that time, did he never wield : His angry steed did chide his foaming bit, As much disdaining to the curb to yield... | |
 | John Harvey Francis - 1929 - 264 lehte
...of "a perfect gentleman." The extract that follows is modernised in spelling : Extract from Canto I A Gentle Knight was pricking on the plain, Y-clad...did remain, The cruel marks of many a bloody field ; I. Gentle noble. The Red Cross Knight represents not only the righteous man, but also the Reformed... | |
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A GENTLE knight was pricking on the plain, Yclad in mighty arms and silver shield, Wherein old dints of deep wounds did remain, The cruel marks of many a bloody field ; Yet arms till that time did he never wield : His angry steed did chide his foaming... 
