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402 WAR OF GRANADA. PART and a black hat trimmed with gold embroidery. ' The king rode forward at the head of his nobles to receive her. He was dressed in a crimson doublet, with chaiisses, or breeches, of yellow satin. Over his shoulders was thrown a cassock or mantle of rich brocade, and a sopravest of the same materials concealed his cuirass. By his side, close girt, he wore a Moorish scimitar, and beneath his bonnet his hair was confined by a cap or headdress of the finest stuff. Ferdinand was mounted on a noble war-horse of a bright chestnut color. In the splendid train of chivalry which attended him, Bernaldez dwells with much satisfaction on the English lord Scales. He was followed by a retinue of five pages arrayed in costly liveries. He was sheathed in complete mail, over which was thrown a French surcoat of dark silk brocade. A buckler was attached by golden clasps to his arm, and on his head he wore a white French hat with plumes. The caparisons of his steed were azure silk, lined with violet and sprinkled over with stars of gold, and swept the ground, as he managed his fiery courser ^vith an easy horsemanship that excited general admiration. The king and queen as they drew near, bowed thrice with formal reverence to each other. The queen at the same time raising her hat, remained in her coif or headdress, with her face uncovered ; Ferdinand, riding up, kissed her affectionately on the check, and then, according to the precise chroni- cler, bestowed a similar mark of tenderness on his daughter Isabella, after giving her his paternal