[32] Froissart, c. 82.
[33] See Vol. I. p. 151.
[34] Froissart, c. 87.
[35] Vol. i. p. 246. ante.
[36] Froissart, c. 103. Le Comte D’Erby dit, Qui merci prie merci doit avoir. This sentence, I suppose has escaped the notice of writers who have represented the sole amusement of knights to have consisted in cutting the throats of common people.
[37] Froissart, c. 107.
[38] This is Lord Berners’ rendering of the passage. The phrase “par un sien clerc” had crept into some editions of Froissart; and Mr. Johnes’s translation is, “Sir Walter caused the inscription to be read to him by a clerk.” This, perhaps, was necessary, as the inscription was in Latin, for heroes have not been famous for their clerkship. But the inference which some writers have drawn, that he could not read at all, is perfectly unwarrantable.
[39] Froissart, c. 110.
[40] Froissart, c. 135
[41] Froissart, c. 146.