All invitations had been duly sent;

Lord Arnold look’d quite happy and content:

Naught now remain’d but to pluck fresh the flowers,

And plant the banners on the two high towers.

[246] Lord Mountjoy.

CHAPTER THE SIXTH.

I.

Hail, happy morn! Aurora ope’d the gate;

And made a passage for heav’n’s potentate—

The harbinger of joy, in grand estate;