When we are fighting as I speak of, we thrust at the face, at the armpit, the joints of the armour, which in truth seldom fits closely, or below the breastplate.

The Scotch use even less armour than do our borderers, their breast pieces being smaller, and they seldom wear back pieces.

It is a question chiefly of the activity of the horses, as of the skill of their riders, and our little moor horses are as active as young goats; and although neither horse nor rider can stand a charge of a heavily-armed knight or squire, methinks that if one of our troopers brought him to a stand, he would get the better of him, save if the knight took to mace or battle-axe." "Have you your horse with you, Oswald ?" "Yes, it is in the stable.

I have gone out with it, every morning, as soon as the castle gates were opened, and have ridden for a couple of hours before I began my exercises." "Do you take him in hand first, Marsden," Allonby said to one of the younger esquires, a young man of two or three and twenty.
Light steel caps with cheeks, gorgets, shoulder and arm pieces, and padded leathern jerkins were put on; and then, with blunted swords, they took their places facing each other.

The squire took up a position of easy confidence.