Ivanhoe- Sir Walter Scott -Chapter 12 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott Chapter 12 The heralds left their pricking up and down Now ringen trumpets loud and clarion. There is no more to say but east and west In go the speares sadly in the rest In goth the sharp spur into the side There see men who can just and who can ride There shiver shaftes upon shieldes thick He feeleth through the heart-spone the prick Up springen speares twenty feet in height Out go the swordes to the silver bright The helms they to-hewn and to-shred Out burst the blood with stern streames red. Chaucer. Morning arose in unclouded splendour and ere the sun was much above the horizon the idlest or the most eager of the spectators appeared on the common moving to the lists as to a general centre in order to secure a favourable situation for viewing the continuation of the expected games. The marshals and their attendants appeared next on the field together with the heralds for the purpose of receiving the names of the knights who intended to joust with the side which each chose to espouse. This was a necessary precaution in order to secure equality betwixt the two bodies who should be opposed to each other. According to due formality the Disinherited Knight was to be considered as leader of the one body while Brian de Bois-Guilbert who had been rated as having done second-best in the preceding day was named first champion of the other band. Those who had concurred in the challenge adhered to his party of course excepting only Ralph de Vipont whom his fall had rendered unfit so soon to put on his armour. There was no want of distinguished and noble candidates to fill up the ranks on either side. In fact although the general tournament in which all knights fought at once was more dangerous than single encounters they were nevertheless more frequented and practised by the chivalry of the age. Many knights who had not sufficient confidence in their own skill to defy a single adversary of high reputation were nevertheless desirous of displaying .
