[Sidenote: Alexandria.] At Alisandre Hee Was, When It Was Wonne: Full Oft Time Hee Had The Bourd Begon Abouen All Nations In Pruce, In Lettowe Had Hee Riden, And In Ruce, No Christen Man So Oft Of His Degree: In Granade At The Siege Had He Bee At Algezer[1]:

And ridden in Belmarye: At Leyes [2] was hee, and also at Satalye,[3] when they were wonne:

And in the great see at many a Noble armie had hee bee. At mortall battailes had he bin fifteene, And foughten for our faith at Tramissen,[4] in listes thries, and aye slayne his foe:

This ilke worthie Knight had bin also, sometime with the lord of Palathye [5] ayenst another Heathen in Turkie.

Written in the lustie moneth of May in our Palace, where many a million of louers true haue habitation, The yeere of grace ioyfull and iocond, a thousand, foure hundred and second.

[Footnote 1: Algezer in Granado.] [Footnote 2: Layas in Armenia. Froysart. lib. 3. cap. 40.] [Footnote 3: Satalie in the mayne of Asia neere Rhods.] [Footnote 4: Tremisen is in Barbarie.] [Footnote 5: Or, Palice. Froysart lib. 3. cap. 40.]

* * * * *

The original proceedings and successe of the Northren domestical and forren trades and traffique of this Isle of Britain from the time of Nero the Emperour, who deceased in the yeere of our Lord 70. vnder the Romans, Britons, Saxons, and Danes, till the conquest: and from the conquest, vntill this present time, gathered out of the most authenticall histories and records of this nation.

Enter page number Go  Previous Next
Page 139 of 460
Words from 38171 to 38430 of 127955