A Soldier's View

There were long legged pages in garb of rainbow hue hurrying about with orders to the armourers, or carrying home their masters finished helms or warlike gear. There were squires and men at arms idly watching at the forged doors, the pulsing hammers, weld rivets and chains. A little way off were the booths where stores of milan armour was for sale to them. I went and was shown piles and stacks of harness such as never man saw before. All of steel and golden inlay, covering every point of a warrior, and so rich and cumbersome that it was only with great hesitation i submitted my free phrygian limbs to a steel cas