Belt and spur : stories of the knights of the middle ages from the old chronicles . ^v- i8i CHArTER XI. THE JOUSTS OF SAINT INGIIELBERTH. Of the Enterprise of tJic three Knights. There were tnree valiant kniL^hts of L^rancc, to wit,Sir Boucicault the Younger, Sir RcL;nault dc Roye,and the Lord de Saint-?}-, who undertook to be underarms during the summer, on the frontier of Calais, tomeet all comers, knights or esquires, being foreigners,during the term of thirty days, and to joust withwhomsoever would, with blunted lances or otherwise. Now since the enterprise of the three knightsseemed to th
Belt and spur : stories of the knights of the middle ages from the old chronicles . ^v- i8i CHArTER XI. THE JOUSTS OF SAINT INGIIELBERTH. Of the Enterprise of tJic three Knights. There were tnree valiant kniL^hts of L^rancc, to wit,Sir Boucicault the Younger, Sir RcL;nault dc Roye,and the Lord de Saint-?}-, who undertook to be underarms during the summer, on the frontier of Calais, tomeet all comers, knights or esquires, being foreigners,during the term of thirty days, and to joust withwhomsoever would, with blunted lances or otherwise. Now since the enterprise of the three knightsseemed to the King of France and to everyone some-what presumptuous, he showed them how it would befor the best to write the terms of it on a sheet of paperthat the King and his council might see and considerit ; and if anything out of order should appear in it,they would cancel or amend it, for the King and hiscouncil would allow nothing to be done that wasunreasonable. To this demand the three knights answered andsaid, What you say is right, ^nd we w^ill do it will-ingly. So they took a c
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