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 3H Hijlory of Domeftic Mannc. For he nolde no groom To go by hysjyde, Ne grucchyng of no gcdelyng To chaule ne to chyde. Lifteii to me, hoiTemcn,' continues this fatirift, " and I will tell you news — that ye Ihall hang, and be lodged in hell :"— y^n Abbot trai'eUing. Uerkneth hidcward, horfmen^ A t'ldyng ich ou telle. That ye Jhulen hongen^ Ant herharnvcn in belli ! I'he clergy were great riders, and abbots and monks are not unfrequently figured on horleback. Our cut No. 211 (from MS. Cotton, Nero, D. vii.) repre- fents an abbot riding, with a hat over his hood 3 he is giving his benediction in return to the lalute of fome palling traveller. The knight ftill carried his fpear with him in travelling, as the foot- man carried his ftafi". In our cut No. 212, from a manufcript of the fourteenth century in the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris (No. 6963), the rider, though not armed, carries his fpear with him. The faddle in this inftance is Angularly and rather rudely formed. It was a great point of vanity in the middle ages in England to hang the T"-^ caparifons of the horfe with fmall bells, which made a jingling noife. In the romance of " Richard Coeur de Lion" (Weber ii. 60), a meflenger coming to king Richard has no lefs than five hundred fuch bells fufpended to his horfe — Ao. 212. A Knight and his Steed. His trappy s iver off tiiely fylke, Withji've hundred belles rygande. And