Chivalry -- Fiction; Knights and knighthood -- Fiction; Romances, Spanish -- Translations into English
When the armies had thus withdrawn, the religious men of the two hosts
went out to help the souls of those who were in need; and when they
beheld the great destruction that had been made, and heard the cries of
the wounded, crying for pity and help, they all agreed that it would be
for God's service to make a truce, that the wounded might have help and
the slain be buried; so they spoke to King Lisuarte and to the Emperor,
and also with King Perion, and a truce was made for the following day.
When morning came many went to the field to seek their kinsmen and
friends and masters, and then might you have beheld such lamentations,
on all sides, as were pitiful to hear, and how much more to see! The
wounded were all carried into the Emperor's camp, and the dead were
buried, so that the field remained clear. That whole day the Knights
passed in refitting their arms, and looking to their horses; the wound
in Don Quadragante's arm was dressed; and though it was such that if a
Knight not so good as he had received it, he would not have borne arms
nor encountered danger till it was healed, yet he would not be hindered
from helping his comrades in the following battle. On the following
day they rose at dawn at the trumpet's sound, and heard mass, and put
themselves in array, and it was determined on both sides that they who
had not fought in the former battle should take the lead in this.
_CHAPTER 30._
King Lisuarte placed in the van King Arban of North Wales, and
Norandel, and Don Guilan the Pensive, and those other Knights of whom
you have heard. He and King Cildadan came behind with their division
to support them, and in the rear was the Emperor with all his force.
King Perion gave the front to his nephew Don Brian of Monjaste; he
himself and Gastiles supported him with the banner of the Emperor of
Constantinople; and then came the other divisions, so arranged, that
they who had borne least part of yesterday's battle, should now bear
the brunt of this. When the ten armies drew nigh, the trumpet sounded,
and the hosts of Don Brian and King Arban encountered with such a
shock, that more than five hundred Knights were thrown, and their
horses ran loose over the field. Don Brian and King Arban met; they
brake their lances, and then fell to with their swords, as men who well
knew their business. Norandel and Don Guilan kept together, and made
great havock among their foes, and worse they would have made it, had
it not been for Fileno, a kinsman of Don Brian, who, collecting a body
of Spanish Knights, charged so hotly in that part where they fought,
that, maugre all their efforts, they made them give back, and then the
tumult became so great, that King Arban and Don Brian were separated by
the throng. Each of those Knights then did his best; but the Spaniards
being more in number, and better horsed, had soon so greatly the
advantage, that their enemies would all have been cut off, if King
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