steed

And from our steeds alighted down

I did pretty well until I put the pie in, and then an irresistible temptation came to me to imagine I was an enchanted princess shut up in a lonely tower with a handsome knight riding to my rescue on a coal-black steed.

However that might have been, the priest, dismounting, led his steed by the bridle in search of some place to which he could secure him.