The History of Chivalry; Or, Knighthood and Its Times, Volume 1 (of 2)Mills, Charles
Philosophy
The History of Chivalry; Or, Knighthood and Its Times, Volume 1 (of 2)
Mills, Charles
Chivalry
[265] La Comtesse de Montfort avoit courage d'homme et coeur de lion. Elle
estoit en la cité de Rénes, quand elle entendit que son seigneur fut
prins; et, combien qu'elle eust grand dueil au coeur, elle reconfortoit
tous ses amis vaillamment, et tous ses soudoyers: et leur monstroit un
petit fils (qu'elle avoit appelé Jehan, comme son pere) et leur disoit,
Haa, seigneurs, ne vous ébahissez mie de monseigneur, que nous avons
perdu. Ce n'estoit qu'un homme. Veez cy mon petit enfant, qui sera (si
Dieu plaist) son restorier, et vous sera des biens assez et j'ai de savoir
à planté; si vous en donneraz assez, et vous pourchaceray tel capitaine,
parquoy vous serez tous reconfortes. Froissart, liv. i. c. 73.
[266] Mrs. Charles Stothard, in her interesting Tour through Normandy and
Brittany, observes (p. 231.) that the massive walls which once surrounded
the town of Hennebon, remain in many places entire, and must have been
impregnable in their strength and construction.
[267] Froissart, c. 82. Lors descendit la Comtesse du Chastel, à joyeuse
chere, et vint baiser messiu Gautier de Manny et ses compaignons, les uns
apres les autre, deux fois ou trois, comme vaillante Dame.
[268] Spenser, Vision of the World's Vanity, st. 9.
[269] Like Gonzalo in the Tempest. "Now would I give a thousand furlongs
of sea for an acre of barren ground, long heath, brown furze, any thing.
The wills above be done; but I would fain die a dry death." Act i. sc. 1.
[270] The principal facts in the heroic life of the Countess of Mountfort
are recorded by Froissart, c. 68, 72, 80, 91, &c. Lobineau, Histoire de
Bretagne, vol. i. p. 320, &c. Argentré, Histoire de Bretagne, liv. vii. c.
9, 10.
[271] Hist. Gen. de la France, l. 452.
[272] See the chronicle of M. Villani in the 14th vol. of Muratori, Rerum
Scrip. Ital.; and Sismondi, Histoire des Rep. Ital. tom. vi. c. 45. Italy
has not many romantic associations, and there are now no remains of Cesena
to awaken the admiration of the traveller to the heroism of Marzia.
Forsyth, Remarks on Italy, vol. ii. p. 266.
[273] Fairy Queen, book iii. canto 4, st. 1.
[274] Ibid, book iii. canto ii. st. 27.
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