The king's scop or earl's gleeman, was the favourite of the court; the one indispensable guest at every banquet and every courtly gathering; whose skill with the glee-beam or harp spread joy throughout the festive hall, and whose memory was stored with soul-stirring tales of great deeds, the recital of which could not fail to fire the hearts and quicken the pulses of young and old alike.
¹³ Daniel's enemies slyly asked Darius: Is there not an interdict that you have signed that any man that asks a petition from any god or man for thirty days except from you, O king, he should be thrown to the lions' pit? Darius answered: The matter is well established according to the law of the Medes and the Persians, which is not annulled. Now the conspirators quickly got to the point. Daniel, who is of the exiles of Judah, has paid no regard to you, O king, nor to the interdict that you signed, but three times in a day he is making his petition. —Daniel 6:12, 13.
What did Daniel's enemies report to the king?]
The latter added the colors of the Tricolor to those of the flag of Cyprus, thus creating a quadricolor flag of white, red, blue and yellow.
It is to be hoped that we all have some friend […] whose affinities are rather with flowers and birds and all enchanting innocencies than with dark human passions.
