CHAP. XXIV. FROISSART PRESENTS HIS BOOK ÔF LOVE POEMf TO KING RICHARD OF ENGLAND. — HE RE-LATES WHAT HE HAEf HEARD OF THE LAST EXPEDITION OF THE ENGLISH TQ IRELAND/ J HAVE taken much pleafurc in detailing every-thing relative to the difpute with Gafcony and, Aquitaine, that the - truth of my hiftory may be apparent * and becaufe 1, the author of it, could not be prefent in thefe councils, that ancient and valiant knight fir Richard Sturry told me every thing, word for word, as I have tranferibed. On the Sunday* the whole council were gone to Lon-don, excepting the duke of York, who remained with the king, and fir Richard Sturry : thefe two* in conjunction with fir Thomas Percy, mentioned me again to the king, who defired to fee the book. I had brought for him. I prefented it to him in: his chamber, for I had it with me, and laid: k on his bed. He opened and looked into it with much. pleafure. • He ought tb have been pleafed, for it was handfomely written and illuminated, and bound in crimfon-velvet, with ten filver gilt ftuds, and rofes of the ' fame In die middle, with two large clafps of filver gik, richly Worked with rofes in the center. • The king afked me what the book treated of: I replied, c Of love !' He was plèafed with the an- fwer, m