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Its young and warlike king, the great baron who was still fresh from the glory of Towton, might well resolve to win back the heritage of Eleanor, that Duchy of Guienne which had been lost but some ten years before. Even if such an effort proved fruitless, Lewis saw that an English war would not only ruin his plans for the overthrow of the nobles, but would leave him more than ever at their mercy.
It seems that these insurgents clamour not against yourself, but against the queen's relations, yes, my Lord Rivers, against you and your House, and I fear me that the hearts of England are with them here." "It is true, sire," put in Raoul de Fulke, boldly; "and if these new men are to head your armies, the warriors of Towton will stand aloof, Raoul de Fulke serves no Woodville's banner.
would make gentle George amorous of a worse-featured face than high-nosed Isabel; 'strange to spell or rede, as I would wager my best destrier to a tailor's hobby, the damozel surely is." John to one of his Towton comrades, as, leaning against the wall, they overheard the sarcasms of Anthony, and the laugh of the courtiers, who glassed their faces and moods to his.
Albans, and right evil was his face as he spoke thereof, he being then for Queen Margaret; but then he went over to King Edward, and glutted himself with slaughter at Towton, and here he calls himself Red Rose again. Ill-luck to the poor young maid if she falls to him!
As you well know, all was over with our cause at Towton Moor; and it was on my way northward after the deadly fight that half a dozen of the men-at-arms brought me tidings, not only that the Gilsland Dacres had, as had been feared, claimed the castle, but that this same so-called lady of mine had been shown to deal in sorcery and magic.
And here, indeed, the umpires advanced, and their chief an old mercer, who had once borne arms, and indeed been a volunteer at the battle of Towton declared that the contest was over, "unless," he added, in the spirit of a lingering fellow-feeling with the Londoner, "this young fellow, whom I hope to see an alderman one of these days, will demand another shot, for as yet there hath been but one prick each at the butts."
But, the stout Earl of Warwick leading for the young King, and the young King himself closely following him, and the English people crowding round the Royal standard, the White and the Red Roses met, on a wild March day when the snow was falling heavily, at Towton; and there such a furious battle raged between them, that the total loss amounted to forty thousand men all Englishmen, fighting, upon English ground, against one another.
"And if this resolve be such as you approve; if you, great earl, be that which even your foes proclaim, a man whose power depends less on lands and vassals broad though the one, and numerous though the other than on well-known love for England, her glory and her peace, it rests with you to bury forever in one grave the feuds of Lancaster and York! What Yorkist who hath fought at Towton or St.
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