ABSTRACT
VERY similar to the sight of one-eyed men jousting is the way an opponent is often set against loud-mouthed knights. With their churlish verbosity these individuals borrow pointed darts and strength from their tongues and must be reproved and put publicly to shame, as befits the impudent, brawling, quarrelsome types they are. One special mark of depreciation is employed, that is, for some resolute woman, equipped with armour, helmet, and spear, to ride against one of these tongue-waggers and shatter a lance with him.
