Many very grave histories have I read, concerning knights-errant; but, never did I read, see, or hear, that enchanted knights were transported in this manner, at such a pace as these lazy, slow-footed animals seem to promise; for, they used always to be carried through the air, with surprising swiftness, wrapped up in some dark and dusky cloud, or in a fiery chariot, or mounted on a hippogriff, or some such creature[.]