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" ... you have an opportunity, and do not expose yourself so simply: if you have lost this battle, another time you will be the conqueror.' After he had said this, he took the bridle of the king's horse, and led him off by force; for he had before entreated... "
Vestigia Anglicana: Or, Illustrations of the More Interesting and Debatable ... - Page 127
by Stephen Reynolds Clarke - 1826
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The Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the Adjoining ..., Volume 1

Jean Froissart - Burgundy (France) - 1901 - 452 pages
...King's horse and led him off by force, for he had before entreated him to retire. The King rode on until he came to the castle of La Broyes, where he found the gates shut, for it was very dark ; he ordered the governor of it to be summoned, who, after some delay, came upon...
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The Saturday Magazine, Volume 8

1836 - 282 pages
...unheeded, he took the bridle of the king's horse and led him off by force. The king then rode on until he came to the castle of La Broyes, where he found the gates shut, "for it rfas very dark;" upon which he ordered with a second French force coming also to join the great...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]

1839 - 764 pages
...horse, and led him off by force; for he had before entreated of him to retire. The king rode on until he came to the castle of la Broyes, where he found the gates shut, for it was very dark. The king said to the governor, 'Open, open, governor; it is the fortune of France.'...
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Chronicles of England, France, Spain, and the Adjoining Countries: From the ...

Jean Froissart - Burgundy - 1839 - 830 pages
...horse, and led him off ly force ; for he had before entreated of him to retire. The king rode on until he came to the castle of la Broyes, where he found the gates shut, for it was very dark. The king ordered the governor of it to be summoned : he came upon the battlements,...
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The American Review, and Metropolitan Magazine, Volume 1

1843 - 600 pages
...horse and led him oft' by force, for he had before entreated of him to retire. The king rode on until he came to the castle of La Broyes, where he found the gates shut, for it was very dark. The king ordered the governor of it to be summoned : he came upon the battlements,...
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Stories from the chroniclers. Froissart

Henry Peter Dunster - 1847 - 278 pages
...this, he took hold of the bridle of the King's horse and led him off by force. The King rode on until he came to the castle of La Broyes, where he found the gates shut, as it was now very dark. He ordered the governor of the castle to be summoned, who came upon the battlements...
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The chronicles of England, France, Spain, etc, Volume 1

Jean Froissart - Great Britain - 1847 - 378 pages
...king's horse and led him off by force, for he had before entreated him to retire. The king rode on until he came to the castle of La Broyes, where he found the gates shut, for it was very dark : he ordered the governor of it to be summoned, who, after some delay, came upon...
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Philips' series of reading books for public elementary schools, ed ..., Book 4

Philip George and son, ltd - 1874 - 296 pages
...king's horse, and led him off by force, for he had before entreated him to retire. The king rode on till he came to the Castle of La Broyes, where he found the gates shut, for it was very dark. The king ordered the governor of it to be summoned. He came upon the battlements,...
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The History of France from the Earliest Times to the Outbreak of the Revolution

François Guizot - France - 1879 - 726 pages
...of Wales, taking advantage of the irretrievable disorder, led on his line at once to the charge. " No one can describe or imagine," says Froissart, "...John of Hainault, and he rode till he came to the walls of the castle of Broye, where he found the gates shut : ordering the governor to be summoned,...
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The boy's Froissart [selections from] sir J. Froissart's Chronicles [tr. by ...

Jean Froissart - 1879 - 518 pages
...horse, and led him off by force, for he had before entreated of him to retire. The king rode on until he came to the castle of La Broyes, where he found the gates shut, for it was very dark. The king ordered the governor of it to be summoned : he came upon the battlements,...
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