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"Well, we had a little battle in Brabant, and won a little victory, but it cost us dear; several arbalestriers turned their toes up, and I among them." "Killed, Denys? come now!" "Dead as mutton. Stuck full of pike-holes till the blood ran out of me, like the good wine of Macon from the trodden grapes. It is right bounteous in me to pour the tale in minstrel phrase, for augh I am sleepy.
From Britain, his proper realm, that we now call England, Arthur numbered forty thousand horsemen in hauberks of steel. As for the count of the footmen arbalestriers, archers, and spearmen it was beyond all measure, for the number of the host was as the grains of the sand.
And when any disaster befell the besiegers, this tall knight and his long lance were pretty sure to be concerned in it. My young reader will say, "Why did not Denys shoot him?" Denys did shoot him; every day of his life; other arbalestriers shot him; archers shot him. Everybody shot him. He was there to be shot, apparently. But the abomination was, he did not mind being shot.
As for the spearmen, the archers, and the stout arbalestriers Arthur separated them from the press. He divided them into two portions one for either wing of his army. All these were about the king's person, and embattled near his body.
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