Gentlemen, you are all my people, my friends and brethren at arms this day ; therefore, as I am blind, I request of you to lead me so far into the engagement that I may strike one stroke with my sword. History of France - Page 267by Jules Michelet - 1847Full view - About this book
| Jean Froissart - Burgundy (France) - 1805 - 508 pages
...attendants anfwered, that they did notknow, but believed he was fighting. The king faid to them ; ' Gentlemen, you are all my people, my friends and brethren at arms this day: therefore, as I am blind*, I requeft of you to lead me fo far into the engagement that I may ftrike one ftroke with my fword.' The... | |
| Jean Froissart - Burgundy (France) - 1901 - 452 pages
...attendants answered that they did not know, but believed he was fighting. Upon this, he said to them, " Gentlemen, you are all my people, my friends, and...engagement that I may strike one stroke with my sword." The knights consented, and in order that they might not lose him in the crowd, fastened all the reins... | |
| Stephen Reynolds Clarke - Great Britain - 1826 - 494 pages
...persons * Froissart. * Villani, lib. 12. ' Froissart. about him, " Gentlemen, you are all my people, friends and brethren at arms this day ; therefore,...engagement that I may strike one stroke with my sword." The knights replied, " They would lead him forward directly;" and in order that they might not lose... | |
| 1836 - 282 pages
...they did not know, but believed he was fighting. The king then said to them : "Gentlemen, you lire all my people, my friends, and brethren at arms this...engagement that I may strike one stroke with my sword." The knights replied they would directly lead him forward ; and in order that they might not lose him... | |
| Jean Froissart - Burgundy - 1839 - 836 pages
...attendants answered, that they did not know, but believed he was fighting. The king said to them ; " Gentlemen, you are all my people, my friends and brethren...engagement that I may strike one stroke with my sword." The knights replied, they would directly lead him forward ; and in order that they might not lose him... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1839 - 850 pages
...attendants answered, that they did not know, but believed he was fighting. The king said to them, ' Gentlemen, you are all my people, my friends and brethren...engagement that I may strike one stroke with my sword.' The knights replied, they would directly lead him forward ; and, in order that they might not lose... | |
| 1839 - 764 pages
...attendants answered, that they did not know, but believed he was fighting. The king said to them,' Gentlemen, you are all my people, my friends and brethren...engagement that I may strike one stroke with my sword.' The knights replied, they would directly lead him forward ; and, in order that they might not lose... | |
| Jean Froissart - Burgundy (France) - 1839 - 830 pages
...that they did not know, but believed he was fighting. The king said to them ; " Gentlemen, you arc all my people, my friends and brethren at arms this...engagement that I may strike one stroke with my sword." The knights replied, they would directly lead him forward ; and in order that they might not lose him... | |
| Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 pages
...attendants answered they did not know, but believed he was fighting. The king then said to them, " Gentlemen, you are all my people, my friends, and...me so far into the engagement that I may strike one blow with my sword." The knights replied they would directly lead him forward ; and in order that they... | |
| 1843 - 600 pages
...fighting. The king said to them, ' Gentlemen, you are all my people, my friends and brethren-at-arms this day, therefore, as I am blind, I request of you...engagement that I may strike one stroke with my sword.' The knights replied they would directly lead him forward ; and in order that they might not lose him... | |
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