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Enter a Herald.Herald.
The tournament begins; the hammers sound,
The coursers run about the measured field;
The shimmering armour throws its sheen around;
Quaint fancies are depicted on each shield.
The fiery helmets, with the wreaths amield,
Support the ramping lioncel or bear,
With strange devices, Nature may not yield,
Unseemly to all order doth appear,
Yet that to men, who think and have a sprite,
Make knowen that the phantasies unright.
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