Tiê\; for we can, as you have feen, enter England at our pleafure, without any danger, from the fea: if we were in greater numbers, we ïkonld do them more mifchief than we are - now able to do. Be fo good therefore, when you are in France, to tell this to yohr knights and fquires, who {hall be eager for renown, to ex- " cite them to come hither in fearch of deeds of arms. We can sffnre you, that if we had a v thoufand lances from France, with the good peo-ple here, we would give fuch a cpnfideraWe blow to England that it fhould be vifible for forty years to come. Have the goodnefs to remem-ber this when you fhall be on the other fide of the water,' . , The French knights replied they would not fail to do fo, for it was not a thing to be forgot-ten. Upon this,'they- embarked on board a • veflel they had engaged to carry them to Sluys; but they had contrary winds when at fea, which obliged them to run for a port in Zealand called ia Virilfe* - When they landed • there, they thought they were in a place of »fafety, but were difappoint-ed ; for the Normans had lately vifited that coaft, And had done, as it was faid, much mifchief to the Zealanders. Thefe knights and fquires were * in great danger ; for, While a different language was held in the" town, their vefiel was feized^ their trunks broken open, and their arms taken away, and they themfelves in rifk of lofing their lives. * La Virille. a if not là Brille. . - A 551