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We see here our enemies, who would gladly slay us, if they might have the better hand of us. Sir Robert Knolles counselled to go and fight with them and slay them all; yet the king would not consent thereto, but said: 'Nay, I will not so: I will send to them commanding them to send me again my banners and thereby we shall see what they will do.
His lordship's recollections of his first readings will not alter the tendency of my conjecture; it only proves that he had read much more of Eastern history and manners than Rycaut's folio, which probably led to this class of books: "Knolles Cantemir De Tott Lady M.W. Montagu Hawkins's translation from Mignot's History of the Turks the Arabian Nights all travels or histories or books upon the East I could meet with, I had read, as well as Rycaut, before I was ten years old.
"It may be," said Nigel, "that they have scant food or water, and so must come forth to fight us." "I have made inquiry of the peasants," Knolles answered, "and they are of one mind that there is a well within the castle, and good store of food. Nay, gentlemen, there is no way before us save to take it by arms, and no spot where we can attempt it save through the great gate.
"You say truth, Thomas," said Knolles, bracing his girdle. "For my own part I have no joy in such encounters when there is warfare to be carried out, for it standeth not aright that a man should think of his own pleasure and advancement rather than of the King's cause and the weal of the army. But in times of truce I can think of no better way in which a day may be profitably spent.
At which time the said Charles the 5. passing ouer from Genoa and Corsica to Alger in Africa in warlike sort, with a mighty army by sea, that honourable Kneuet the kings ambassadour, Thomas Chaloner, Henry Knolles, and Henry Isham, right worthy persons, of their owne accord accompanied him in that expedition, and serued him in that warre, wherin Thomas Chaloner escaped most wonderfully with his life.
Should it have chanced that we stopped at this island I should have craved your leave that I go ashore and ask for that which I have fairly won." Sir Robert Knolles laughed. "This business tickleth my fancy," said he. "As to stopping at the island, this shipman tells me that we must needs wait a day and a night, for that we have strained our planks.
But this man is the enemy of all, and we of France owe him a debt even as you do, since many a good Frenchman has died in his cellars. For this reason I crave to be heard." "We will hear you," said Knolles. "I have come from Evran yesterday," said he.
But most I desire to see him because he hath lost a wager to me and I would fain be paid." "This is a strange saying," said Knolles. "What is this wager, and why should he pay you?" "It is but a small matter," Simon answered; "but I am a poor man and the payment would be welcome.
He broke into a gap-toothed smile as he looked round at the circle, the wizened seneschal, the blond giant, Nigel's fresh young face, the grim features of Knolles, and the yellow hawk-like Calverly, all burning with the same desire. "I see that I need not doubt the good-will," said he, "and of that I was very certain before I came upon this errand.
Beside him, with crestfallen face, his horse bleeding, his armor dinted and soiled, was the hot-headed knight, Sir James Astley. A fierce discussion raged between them. "I have done my devoir as best I might," said Astley. "Alone I had ten of them at my sword-point. I know not how I have lived to tell it." "What is your devoir to me? Where are my thirty bowmen?" cried Knolles in bitter wrath.
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