Perhaps they played at ball, perhaps at blind-man's-buff, perhaps at leap-frog, perhaps at prison-bars.

Such games have been in use for hundreds of years; and princes as well as poor children have spent some of their happiest hours in playing at them.
Meanwhile King James and his nobles were feasting with Sir Oliver in the great hall.

The king sat in a gilded chair, under a canopy, at the head of a long table.

Whenever any of the company addressed him, it was with the deepest reverence.

If the attendants offered him wine or the various delicacies of the festival, it was upon their bended knees.