A long discourse it were of all recitall make:
But of my chaunce that time, resite will I,
Which seru’d in warres my prince in Normandy.
15.
Before the mount S. Michaell as in seige I lay,
In confines of the Normane’s and the Breton’s land,
From townsemen famisht nigh we vitailes kept away,
And made them oft in daunger of dis-mounteing stand:
But it being strong and also stoutly mand,
Euen by our losses they gate harte of grasse,