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Show ALAS, FOR THE ANCIENT! i:cn the Ilrlllsh traditions may bo modified It seems and customs and ccremorjia liHllowid by ancient usage ran lie sil asldi Here 1 the cuao of Mr Djmokt for example Under the traditional custom and Ruclent usage. 11 wa hi proud privilege and duty urmi-d In mull with n wiuntkt of steel on II left hand and holding another gauntlet of steel In his light, to rldo a war thatger Into the hall of tho toronatloii bHtiquit while It Is In pro-Krcat, pro-Krcat, and, throwing down the gauntlet gaunt-let lo proclaim In stentoilan tones that lMnnrd VI! la tho true and lawful king of (lient Ilrltuln and Ireland und that ir any false caitiff alnul 1 deny lho mine that he the said Dimoke, via Kail) theio and then upon the bod) nf tin false caitiff ufousald, to piove the ilghtfulness of the King claim and right litis sprlkhtly form of es talllshlug the king legltlm ito right I) a personal tilt between two champions cham-pions (' and Hod defend the right '), Is to be omitted altogether It seims, nt this inrouiillou and the champion, I)moke Is to bo put to the altogether tume and f-plrltle use of a mere han- ner-benicr in tho parade And the ceremonies villi lose a pkturesquo detail, de-tail, whlcb would have been most fetching lu u merely modern-time icre-mnnlnl icre-mnnlnl which seeks to make up In costliness and d izzllug splendor for tho absence of the really striking fonture of an old-time coronation cercmon). |