Copy 1, Volume 1
Essays on subjects connected with the literature, popular superstitions, and history of England in the Middle Ages / By Thomas Wright.
- Thomas Wright
- Date:
- 1846
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Essays on subjects connected with the literature, popular superstitions, and history of England in the Middle Ages / By Thomas Wright. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![“ «Would Bernard drink ?? duke Garin said, With eye unmoved; ‘a draught, perdy ! Of better wine I’ll give to thee.’ Bernard in angry tone replied, ‘Hold! caitif wretch! May ill betide The fool who gave that cup to thee ! And shame the traitor’s portion be Who touches Fromont’s heritage.’ ”’ “ Garins le voit, si l’a a raison mis : ‘Voulez-vous boivre, sire Bernars ?’~ dist-il, ‘Je vous donrai encore de millor vin !’ Et dist Bernars: ‘ Malerrous, chaitis ! A toi que tient de la nef d’or tenir ? Tu deshérites Fromont et ses amins; I] t’en puet bien mal et honte avenir.’ ” (v. ii, p. 17.) Bernard then made a second attempt to seize the cup, but Garin struck him with it on the forehead, tearing off by the blow the skin and the eyebrows, and covering his face with blood. The knights on both sides rose from table, a general engagement commenced in the royal hall, and the Lorrains were nearly overcome by numbers. Meanwhile Begues, who it appears had the care of the cooking, was in the kitchen. When tidings came to him of the confusion in the hall, he called the cook, and ordered him with his men, to the number of sixty, to hasten thither, armed with pestles, ladles, spits, or any weapon on which they could lay their hands. At the same time the king, at the urgent expostulation of his queen, ordered the French to arm quickly to punish the offending Bordelais. Begues himself came armed with a large spit, full of hot roasting plovers, which he broke over the neck of Isoré, and with the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33097963_0001_0103.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
