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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.11
page 247
will infallibly be the cafe, for I fhall march to meet them) to draw op my men with prudence, and to take every advantage in the combat » for they were all men of fuch ability and refolurion, that the meancft: would not fly, to avoid death. They have undertaken this expedition, as the duke writes me, folely through valour, to do fome deeds of arms that may gain them renown. . For this I feel myfelf thankful to them j and their de-fire for arms fhall be gratified within three months from this time, when, perhaps, they may have more than fnfficient/
CHAP. XXX¥
A DIGRESSION FROM THI PRINCIPAL HISTORY TO EXPLAIN WHV JOHN OALEAS OF MILAN WAS MOVED TO GIVE THE TURK INFORMA-TION OF THE EXPEDITION IJNTl|ÎDED AGAINST HIM*.
reipeâiàg the information he had received from the lord of Milan, muft furprife every one. It wasfupp?fcd he had been ba pdfed and was re-generated in our faith, and yet he had fought the friendfbip and alliance of an infidel king, an enemy to our religion, and had every year fent him pre-fents of bounds and hawks, or the fincft linen cloth
'HAT Bajazet had told the fultan of Babylon
that
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