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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 101
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* Or, let usrefolve to mar eb out, men, women and children, with halters about our necks, bare-headed, and with naked feet, and implore the mercy of my lord the earl : hç is not fo • hard-hearted, nor fo obftinate, but when he shall fee us in fuch an humiliating condition, he will be foftened, and take pity on his fabjects ; and I will be th£ firft to offer him my head, in order, to afluage his hatred, and façrifice myfeif for the city of Ghent. . . • .." .
• Or, let us choofe from five to fix thoufaijd of the mou determined mçn in the town, and iar ftantly m§rch to attack the earl in Bruges ;. we will give him combat i afd if we&ould he flain in the attempt, at leaft we fhall die.wfth honour, and God will have mercy upon us ; ttfid the world will fay, tfcat wp haye gallantly and valoroufly maintained our quarrel If, however, in tbi.^ bat-tle we be victorious, and our Lord God,, who in ancient times delegated his power into the hwute of Judas Maccabeus, the chief of , his J#wi& people, fo that the Syrians were. defeated and flail), would be indulgent enough to grants this Jtindnefe,.we Ihouldbe every whert the moft ho-noured people finoe the time pf the. Romans; Now, confider which of thqfe three propofitiopi you will make choice of, for. one of them muft be adopted;' - :
• Thofe who were near to him, and had moft distinctly heard what he had faid, replied,—~c-Ah* dear lord, we put our whole confidence in you ; what would you advife #s? fo.Twe will do what? *ver you think will be moft fe lour advantage/
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