gauntlet quotes

Every man is not a proper champion for truth, nor fit to take up the gauntlet in the cause of verity.

- SirThomas Browne
^5  Religio Medici (published1643), pt.1, section 6.

  God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in't.

- Elizabeth ne  e Barrett Browning
  Aurora Leigh, bk.2.