Chapter VII

I graced Don Pedro’s revelry
All drest in fur and feather,
When Loveliness and Chivalry
Were met to feast together;
He flung the slave who moved the lid
A purse of maravedis,--
And this that gallant Spaniard did
For me, and for the Ladies.

He vowed a vow, that noble knight,
Before he went to table,
To make his only sport the fight,
His only couch the stable,
Till he had dragged, as he was bid,
Five score of Turks to Cadiz,--
And this that gallant Spaniard did,
For me, and for the Ladies.

To ride through mountains, where my First
A banquet would be reckoned,--
Through deserts where to quench their thirst,
Men vainly turn my Second;--
To leave the gates of fair Madrid,
To dare the gate of Hades,--
And this that gallant Spaniard did,
For me and for the Ladies.

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] This and the following poems first appeared in the _Etonian_.

[2] This and the following poems were published in the _Etonian_.

[3]

I must confess that Dr. Swift
Has lent me here a little lift;
For when I steal some trifling hits
From older and from brighter wits,
I have some touch of conscience left,
And seldom like to hide the theft.
This is _my_ plan!--I name no name,
But wish all others did the same.

[4] Two constant supporters of that instructive miscellany.

[5] First published in Knight’s _Quarterly Magazine_.

[6] Referring to a note by Bishop Monk on the Greek Play, “Facile _persentibunt_ juvenes.”

[7] This poem was published in the _Morning Chronicle_ of 19th July 1825, in reference to a meeting in promotion of the scheme for the London University that had been held at the London Tavern on the first of that month.

[8] Si mea cum vestris valuissent vota!--OVID, _Met_.

[9] First published in Knight’s _Quarterly Magazine_.