It was most likely, for whom else could the cage, so exactly like a crown, be intended?
and there were many who vaunted the wise policy of Edward, at having hit on such an expedient for lowering his rival's pride.

Others, indeed, declared the idea was all nonsense; it was not likely he would incur such expense, king as he was, merely to mortify a traitor he had sworn to put to death.

The argument waxed loud and warm.

Meanwhile the cavalcade had crossed the bridge, been received through the south gate, and in the same slow and solemn pomp proceeded through the town.
"By all the saints, it is only a woman!" was the information shouted by an eager spectator, who had clambered above the heads of his fellows to obtain the first and most coveted view.

His words were echoed in blank amazement.
"Aye, clothed in white like a penitent, with her black hair streaming all over her shoulders, without any covering on her head at all, and nothing but a thin, torn sandal on her bare feet; and the knights look black as thunder, as if they like not the business they are engaged in." It was even so.