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128
MILITARY ORDERS
The first
fight
honour of God and S. George he made a
hundred and forty-two knights there in
the field. “There might have been seen
among these new knights great nobleness,
and they maintained themselves so nobly
that it was a pleasure to behold them, for
it was a fair battle.” These, as named over,
appear mostly Frenchmen, often Pyre-
nean, and the Spaniards were sullen, as
they had been two centuries before at
Alarcos, and they agreed softly among
themselves to leave the vaward to the
French.
“The same Saturday was a fair day, the
sun was turned towards evensong.” Then
the French advanced, and the English and
Portuguese defeated them and took many:
“So of these some were put to their finance
incontinent: and some would abide their
adventure: for they imagined that the
King of Spain, with his great army, would
shortly come and deliver them.” And the
news came to him. “‘■Then the Spaniards
began to ride a better pace, close together,
in good order, and by that time the sun
was near down.” And when the Portu-
HISPANIC NOTES
MILITARY ORDERS
The first
fight
honour of God and S. George he made a
hundred and forty-two knights there in
the field. “There might have been seen
among these new knights great nobleness,
and they maintained themselves so nobly
that it was a pleasure to behold them, for
it was a fair battle.” These, as named over,
appear mostly Frenchmen, often Pyre-
nean, and the Spaniards were sullen, as
they had been two centuries before at
Alarcos, and they agreed softly among
themselves to leave the vaward to the
French.
“The same Saturday was a fair day, the
sun was turned towards evensong.” Then
the French advanced, and the English and
Portuguese defeated them and took many:
“So of these some were put to their finance
incontinent: and some would abide their
adventure: for they imagined that the
King of Spain, with his great army, would
shortly come and deliver them.” And the
news came to him. “‘■Then the Spaniards
began to ride a better pace, close together,
in good order, and by that time the sun
was near down.” And when the Portu-
HISPANIC NOTES