noon
`` A steed prepared for your Grace awaits you . '' `` Whither ride we first ? '' `` To my castle of Warwick , hard by . At noon to-morrow all will be ready for our northward march . '' Edward , by this time having armed himself , strode from the tent into the open air . The scene was striking : the moon was extremely bright and the sky serene , but around the tent stood a troop of torch-bearers , and the red glare shone luridly upon the steel of the serried horsemen and the banners of the earl , in which the grim white bear was wrought upon an ebon ground , quartered with the dun bull , and crested in gold with the eagle of the Monthermers . Far as the king 's eye could reach , he saw but the spears of Warwick ; while a confused hum in his own encampment told that the troops Anthony Woodville had collected were not yet marshalled into order .