And the knights play with shield and lance.
Some of the comparisons, also, drawn from Nature, are as fresh as dew. For example, when a lady sees her lover:
She is as glad at that sight
As the birds are of the light.
Or,
As glad as grass is of the rain.
A knight is said to be
As weary as water in a weir,
a simile full of imagination.
The most airy glimpses of the picturesque occur sometimes; as describing a troop of knights: