"For the fair Queen of France Sent him a turquois ring and glove, And charged him, as her knight and love, For her to break a lance; And strike three strokes with Scottish brand, And march three miles on Southron land, And bid the banners of his band In English breezes dance. And thus, for France's Queen he drest His manly limbs in mailed vest." Marmion, canto v. [111] He was afterwards Duke of Norfolk, and great grandfather of the Earl of Surrey, who was mentioned by me in p. 114. ante. [112] It has been generally thought that James, forgetting both his own wife and the Queen of France, lost much time at Ford, in making love to a Lady Heron, while his natural son, the Archbishop of St. Andrew's, was the paramour of Miss Heron the daughter. Dr. Lingard (History of England, vol. vi. p. 31. n.) seems inclined to doubt this tale, because James had only six days to take three castles and a fair lady's heart. What time was absolutely necessary for these sieges and assaults, the learned Doctor has not stated. However, to speak seriously, the story has no foundation in truth; and it only arose from the beauty of Lady Heron, and the reputed gallantry of the Scottish King. [113] Henry's History of Great Britain, book vi. ch. 1. part ii. s. 1. [114] Pitscottie, p. 116, &c. [115] Pinkerton, book xii. [116] So reported in the conversation of Ben Jonson and Drummond of Hawthornden. [117] Thomson's Seasons. Summer, l. 1511. [118] The Arcadia was popular so late as the days of Charles I., as may be learned from a passage in the work of a snarling satirist, who wanted to make women mere square-elbowed family drudges. "Let them learn plain works of all kind, so they take heed of too open seaming. Instead of songs and musick, let them learn cookerie and laundrie; and instead of reading Sir Philip Sydney's Arcadia, let them read the Grounds of Good Huswifery. I like not a female poetess at any hand." Powell's Tom of all Trades, p. 47. [119] This was the honourable distinction of the Sidney family in general, as we learn from Ben Jonson's lines on Penshurst. "Whose liberal board doth flow With all that hospitality doth know! Where comes no guest but is allow'd to eat, Without his fear, and of thy Lord's own meat. Where the same beer and bread, and self-same wine, That is His Lordship's, shall be also mine." Gifford's Ben Jonson, vol. viii. p. 254. The practice of making a distinction at the table by means of a salt-cellar was very proper in early times, when the servants as well as the master of a family with his wife and children dined at one long table. It became odious, however, when a baron made this mark of servility separate his gentle from his noble friends. This was feudal pride, whereas chivalric courtesy would rather have placed the guests in generous equality about a round table. [120] Spenser, _Colin Clout's come Home again_.