And When They Have Eaten, They Put Their
Dishes Unwashen Into The Pot Or Cauldron With Remnant Of The Flesh
And Of The Broth Till They Will Eat Again.
And the rich men drink
milk of mares or of camels or of asses or of other beasts.
And
they will be lightly drunken of milk and of another drink that is
made of honey and of water sodden together; for in that country is
neither wine ne ale. They live full wretchedly, and they eat but
once in the day, and that but little, neither in courts ne in other
places. And in sooth, one man alone in this country will eat more
in a day than one of them will eat in three days. And if any
strange messenger come there to a lord, men make him to eat but
once a day, and that full little.
And when they war, they war full wisely and always do their
business, to destroy their enemies. Every man there beareth two
bows or three, and of arrows great plenty, and a great axe. And
the gentles have short spears and large and full trenchant on that
one side. And they have plates and helms made of quyrboylle, and
their horses covertures of the same. And whoso fleeth from the
battle they slay him. And when they hold any siege about castle or
town that is walled and defensible, they behote to them that be
within to do all the profit and good, that it is marvel to hear;
and they grant also to them that be within all that they will ask
them.
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