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" There were of the Genoese crossbows about a fifteen thousand, but they were so weary of going afoot that day a six leagues armed with their crossbows, that they said to their constables, 'We be not well ordered to fight this day, for we be not in the... "
The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart - Page 132
by Walter Scott - 1835
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Miscellanea historica et critica, Volume 5

1823 - 380 pages
...day, a six leagues, armed with their cross-bows, that they said to their constables, " We be not well ordered to fight this day, for we be not in the case...more need of rest." These words came to the Earl of Alenqon, who said, * A man is well at ease to be charged with such a sort of rascals, to be faint and...
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The Portfolio of Entertaining & Instructive Varieties in History, Literature ...

1829 - 392 pages
...day, a six leagues, armed with their cross-bows, that they said to their constables, ' We be not well ordered to fight this day, for we be not in the case to do any great deeds of arms ; we have more need of rest.' The words came to the Count d'Alen^on, who said, ' A man...
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A Description and History of Vegetable Substances, Used in the Arts, and in ...

1829 - 446 pages
...day, a six leagues, armed with their cross-bows, that they said to their constables, ' We be not well ordered to fight this day, for we be not in the case to do any great deeds of arms ; * Lord Berners' Froissart : Ed. 1812. Vol. i. chap. 127. we have more need of rest.'...
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A Description and History of Vegetable Substances: Used in the ..., Volume 1

1830 - 438 pages
...day, a six leagues, armed with their cross-bows, that they said to their constables, ' We be not well ordered to fight this day, for we be not in the case to do any great deeds of arms ; we have more need of rest.' The words came to the Count d'Alen9on, who said, ' A man...
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The Southern literary messenger, Volume 14

1848 - 780 pages
...to their constables, ' we are not well ordered to fight this day, for we are not in a lit condition to do any great deed of arms, we have more need of rest.' " These Genoese became very soon so disorderly and mutinous that the French men-at-arms assailed them as enemies,...
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The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Periodical criticism

Sir Walter Scott - 1835 - 386 pages
...We proceed to compare the translations in the following interesting passage, reducingtheorthography of Lord Berners, which is extremely vague, to nearly...more need of rest* These words came to the Earl of Alenpon, who said, * A man is well at ease to be charged with such a sort of rascals, to be faint and...
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The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott: Biographical memoirs of ...

Walter Scott - 1838 - 1198 pages
...crossbows, that they suid to their constables* * We be not well ordered to fight this day, for we be not i» the case to do any great deed of arms ; we have more...of Alencon. who said. 'A man is well at ease to be chaiged with such a sort of rascals, to be faint and fail now at most need.' Also, the same season,...
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A history of the vegetable kingdom

William Rhind - 1841 - 756 pages
...day, a six leagues, armed with their cross-bows, that they said to their constables, ' We be not well ordered to fight this day, for we be not in the case to do any great deeds of arms; we have more need of rest." The words came to the Count d'Alencon, who said, 'A man...
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The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of ..., Volume 2; Volume 11

1842 - 528 pages
...day a six league, armed with their crossbows, that they said to their constables, ' We be not well ordered to fight this day, for we be not in the case to do any great deed of arms, as we have more need of rest.' These words came to the Earl of Alen.;on, who said, ' A man is well...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pages
...six leagues, uiiued with their cross-bows, that they said to their <-<Ч|ЧаЫеч, ' We be not well And by men heart-easing Mirth, Whom lorely Venus at a birth, With two sister Grac ; ivp have more need of rest.' These words came to the Karl of Alencon, who said, ' A man is well at...
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