By all his heart's strings, smiting. He would go,

Equipped for quest, through all the savagery

Of mountain and of forest. And this girl?—

Forget her! and her game of shuttlecock,

Of battledore and shuttlecock with his heart,

This Angharad! this child the Court had spoiled!

Now he remembered how he once had ridd'n,

Spurring his piebald stallion down the square,

Upon the King's quest, and a girl had laughed

From some be-dragoned balcony of walls