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SIR JOHN FROISSART Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the adjoining countries from the latter part of the reign of Edward II to the coronation of Henry IV. Vol.6

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SIR JOHN FROISSART
Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the adjoining countries from the latter part of the reign of Edward II to the coronation of Henry IV. Vol.6
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«rvreli as the impoffibility of following him* and he faid to the conftable, c I shall lofe my falcon, which I shall very much regret ; for I have neither lure, nor any thing elfe to call him hack/ Whilft the king was in this anxiety, he thought a beautiful hart, with two wings, ap-peared to iffue out of the wood, and come to this .heath and bend himfelf down before the king, who faid to the conftable, as he regarded this wonder with delight, * Conftable, do you remain here, and I will mount this hart that offers himfelf to me, and follow my bird.' The conftable agreed to it, and the young king joy-* folly mounted the hart, and went feeking the falcon. The. hart, like one well tutored to obey the king's pleafure, carried him over the tops of the higheft trees, when he faw his falcon Unk-ing down fuch numbers of birds, that he mar-velled how he could do it. It feemed to the king that when the falcon had fufficiently flown, and ftruck down enough of the herons, he call;, ed him back, and inftantly, as if well taught, he perched on the king's wrift, when it feemed to him, that after he had taken the falcon by its lure, and given him his reward, the hart flew back again over the wood, and replaced the king on the fame heath whence he had carried him, and where the conftable was waiting, who was: much rejoiced at - his return. On his arrival he. difmounted : the hart returned to the wood, and was no more feen. The king then, as he ima-gined, related to the conftable how well the hart. Mad carried him: that he had never rode foeafjr ISO


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