Feudal England: Historical Studies on the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries

by John Horace Round

'Ne ke jamez d'ore en avant,

Ço lor a miz en covenant,

N'ierent de servise requis,

Forz tel ke solt estre al paiz,

E tel come lor ancessor

Soleient fere a lor Seignor,'—

which are the reply to the fears of the barons (Norm. Conq., iii. 298):

'Li servise ki est doblez

Creiment k'il seit en feu tornez,

Et en costume seit tenu