You wear those bells about your toes?

Is it, your feet with bells you deck

For want of bows about your neck?

(Variation III—Sir Walter Scott
From "The Lady of the Cake")

"Who is this maid in wild array,

And riding in that curious way?

What mean the bells that jingle free

About her as in revelry?"

"'Tis Madge of Banbury," Roderick said.

"And she's a trifle off her head,