And from that day on the cart was no more [[92]]despised, and ladies and knights of fine birth go in it now for their disport.
Alas! errant world and ignorant and discourteous people, how much greater was Our Lord who made the heaven and earth, than Lancelot who was made a knight[2] and changed and upset so great a usance in the kingdom of France, which was not his kingdom.
And Jesus Christ, Our Lord, pardoning His own enemies could not make men pardon theirs.
And this He did and willed in His kingdom to those who crucified Him.
He pardoned them, and prayed to His Father for them.
[2] cavaliere di scudo in the original. Sacchetti says cavalieri di scudo were those made knights by lords or by the people. [↑]