epresent
scenes from the life of our Lord. The background of one is a
representation of the Tower of London.

In 1520 was held the famous tournament of the Field of the Cloth of
Gold.[600] Here came all England's chivalry surrounding their splendid
young king; followed by squires and men-at-arms, and carrying with
them tents, banners, and hangings covered with devices and mottoes.
Their own dresses, of rich materials and adorned with embroidery (as
well as the housings of their horses), vied in ingenuity and splendour
with those of the still more luxurious court and following of Francis
I., the French king. The tradesmen and workmen and workwomen in
England were driven crazy in their efforts to carry out the ideas and
commands of their employers. It is recorded that several committed
suicide in their despair. It was worse than the miseries caused by a
Court Drawing-Room now. Ingenuity in devices was the order of the day.
Francis and his "Partners of Challenge" illustrated one sentimental
motto throughout the three days' tourney. The first day they were
apparelled in purple satin, "broched" with gold, and covered with
black-ravens' feathers, buckled into a circle. The first syllable of
"corbyn" (a raven) is _cor_, a "hart" (heart). A feather in French is
_pennac_. "And so it stode." The feather in a circle was endless, and
"betokened sothe fastnesse." Then was the device "Hart fastened in
pain endlesse."

The next day the "Hardy Kings" met armed at all points. The French
king and his followers were arrayed in purple satin, broched with gold
and purple velvet, embroidered with little rolls of white satin, on
which was written "Quando;" all the rest was powdered with the letter
L--"Quando Elle" (when she). The third day the motto was laboriously
brought to a conclusion. Francis appeared dressed in purple velvet
embroidered with little white open books; "Liber" being a book, the
motto on it was, "A me." These books were connected with worked blue
chains; thus we have the whole motto: "Hart, fastened in pain
endlesse, when she delivereth me not of bondes." Could painful
ingenuity go further? On the English side we have similar devices.
Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, the bridegroom of the Dowager Queen of
France, Henry's sister, was clothed on one side in cloth of frise
(grey woollen), on which appeared embroidered in gold the motto,--

"Cloth of frise, be not too bold
That thou be match'd with cloth of gold."

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