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Horseman and horse confess’d the bitter pang1,
And arms and warrior2 fell with heavy clang.
Pleasures of Hope.
When the military evolutions had been gone through tolerably well, allowing for the awkwardness of men and of horses, a loud shout announced that the competitors were about to step forth3 for the game of the popinjay already described. The mast, or pole, having a yard extended across it, from which the mark was displayed, was raised amid the acclamations of the assembly; and even those who had eyed the evolutions of the feudal4 militia5 with a sort of malignant6 and sarcastic7 sneer8, from disinclination to the royal cause in which they were professedly embodied10, could not refrain from taking considerable interest in the strife11 which was now approaching. They crowded towards the goal, and criticized the appearance of each competitor, as they advanced in succession, discharged their pieces at the mark, and had their good or bad address rewarded by the laughter or applause of the spectators. But when a slender young man, dressed with great simplicity12, yet not without a certain air of pretension13 to elegance
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antagonist
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resentment
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mortification
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gentry
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retinue
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covenant
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