Is all as good, meseems, as any knight

Ay, knave, because thou strikest as a knight,

Being but knave, I hate thee all the more.'

'Fair damsel, you should worship me the more,

That, being but knave, I throw thine enemies.'

'Ay, ay,' she said, 'but thou shalt meet thy match.'

So when they touched the second river-loop,

Huge on a huge red horse, and all in mail