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SIR JOHN FROISSART
Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the adjoining countries
from the latter part of the reign of Edward II to the coronation of Henry IV. Vol.6
page 264
fwds on, afked, with a louict voice, */'Where are the chiefs ? where are the chiefs ? *Who among you are captains ? Jbecaufe it is to them our lords . have fent us/ Thefe words made .fome of the Panning, perceiyp they had acted wrong, and, boy^ng, thçir he^ds,. replied ; ,* tlieçe are no chiefs ^ere: we are^but one, and ui^der the com* mapd pf our lord the king. [ Speak, in the name of ,God, what you have to lay,'*,.''»••',, .; } My. LORES/ anfwered! the.heralds ; ( our lords {naming tjiem) have fent us hither; for they can-nçf jcpnceive what are yoijr intentions; and to Require that they m ay j^çaceably and without peril cornç hither and fçeak with y op, and, return to jthe kiqg^, with fuçh an. ^nfweç as you' fliall give the$;, for otherwjife tlpçy are çifraid to come.'
€ By my troth/ replied thofe to whom this Jfyeech .had beçn addreflecl, c there was no need |to%y#ip fQrfis, unlefs }t $%me ft-ojn their noble /Pffifls^ ^ni; . we :,thjnk yoij are laughing at us/ ^ We, have tolji you,nothing but tjie truth/ faid ihe.^ald^ f WeJJ then^ replied the Parifians, l-gf paid tell thprçi they may come hither in per: fççt f^fetyi for.they fhall haye 110 harm from us, .who are ^eady to obey their commands.' ,. '/jFJre hejaids returned to their lords an,d related xyhat ypn have j.ujt read- The four barons then ^vançed? attended by the heralds, totjie Parifi-ans, whom they found drawn up in yçry hand-fome battle-array. They were upwards of twenty thoufand. t J^s thefe lords rode by them, ex-amining and praifing, in their own minds, their
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