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"But," continued General Raimbaut, "they are overruled by imperious circumstances, some of which he did not reveal; they remain in his own breast. However, on the eve of a general attack, which he cannot postpone, that bastion must be disarmed, otherwise it would be too fatal to all the storming parties. It is a painful necessity."
He thought of another April evening, so long ago, when this Guillaume de Baux had stabbed him in a hedged field near Calais, and had left him under a hawthorn bush for dead; and Raimbaut wondered that there was no anger in his heart. "We are friends now," he said.
The first day of the siege, a young but distinguished brigadier in the French army rode to the quarters of General Raimbaut, who commanded his division, and was his personal friend, and respectfully but firmly entreated the general to represent to the commander-in-chief the propriety of assaulting that new bastion before it should become dangerous.
He told me of it, told me how it was for that end alone he lured you into Venaissin " Again she brushed the hair back from her forehead. "Raimbaut, I spoke of God and knightly honor, and the man laughed. No, I think it was a fiend who sat so long beside the window yonder, whence one may see the marsh. There were no candles in the room.
The Fair Maid of Ribbesdale has a rime-scheme almost identical with that shown by one of Raimbaut d'Aurenga's poems; the description of the lady's beauty recalls many troubadour formulae: the concluding lines He myhte sayen pat crist hym seze, pat myhte nyhtes neh hyre leze, heuene he hevede here. are a troubadour commonplace. Many other cases might be quoted.
Then, when Messire Raimbaut returned from battling against the Turks and the Bulgarians, in the 1,210th year from man's salvation, the Archbishop of Rheims made peace between the two cousins; and, attended by Makrisi, a converted Saracen who had followed the knight's fortunes for well nigh a quarter of a century, the Sire de Vaquieras rode homeward.
The moonlight was upon his evil face, and I could think of nothing, of nothing that has been since Adam's time, except our youth, Raimbaut. And he smiled fixedly, like a white image, because my misery amused him. Only, when I tried to go to you to warn you, he leaped up stiffly, making a mewing noise. He caught me by the throat so that I could not scream.
"Why, no, I do not know anything about hatred," he said, at last. "I think I never hated any person." Guillaume de Baux gave a half-frantic gesture. "Now, Heaven send you troubadours a clearer understanding of what sort of world we live in !" He broke off short and growled, "And yet sometimes I envy you, Raimbaut!" They rode then into the Square of St. Michel to witness the death of Lovain.
Then while we struggled in the moonlight your Makrisi came and stabbed him " "Nay, I but fetched this knife, messire." Makrisi seemed to love that bloodied knife. Biatritz proudly said: "The man lies, Raimbaut." "What need to tell me that, Belhs Cavaliers?" And the Saracen shrugged. "It is very true I lie," he said. "As among friends, I may confess I killed the Prince.
None the less, such visits must have taken place: Sancho I. had French jongleurs in his pay during the twelfth century and the Portuguese element in the five-language descort of Raimbaut de Vaqueiras shows that communication between Provençal poets and Portuguese or Galician districts must have existed.
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