Chapter 162 No.162

Then uproar wild and misarray

Marred the fair form of festal day.

The horsemen pricked among the crowd,

755 Repelled by threats and insult loud;

To earth are borne the old and weak,

The timorous fly, the women shriek;

With flint, with shaft, with staff, with bar,

The hardier urge tumultuous war.

760 At once round Douglas dar