“The brazen bells ring fear.”
A Scottish knight, in an old ballad, has these warlike bells on his horse’s mane—
“At ilk tail o’ his horse’s mane,
There hung a siller bell:
The wind was loud, the steed was proud,
And they gied a sindry knell.”—Young Waters.
And one of Southey’s Mexican heroes has them on his helmet—
“Bells of gold
Embossed his glittering helmet, and where’er