Excerpt from Uncanonized a Romance of English Monachism
It was a golden afternoon in the June of the year 1203. The long terraces on the eastern side of the hill topped by Windsor Castle lay luminously green in the long light of the declining sun; while the last of these, bordering on the forest, was mottled with the deep, velvet shadows of the ancient oaks near by. This space was alive with the moving figures of a company of young men and youths of various ages; all of them, judging from the richness of their dress, members of the royal household. They wore tunics reaching scarcely to the knee, far shorter than those in vogue for older men; belts of wrought silver or leather studded with gold; hose, party-colored or plain; and long, pointed shoes of cloth, which were by no means easy to run in. Bareheaded were they all; and their locks, not long since carefully combed and curled, though dishevelled now, hung upon their shoulders. Two or three only bore traces of wished-for beards; and, judging by the mellow echoes of their shouts and laughter, the majority of voices among them was still unchanged.
The younger members of this group were engaged in a variety of games: wrestling, racing, balls, archery, and spaume.
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