The Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet: Containing an Account of the Cruel Civil Wars Between the Houses of Orleans and Burgundy; of the Possession of Paris and Normandy by the English; Their Expulsion Thence; and of Other Memorable Events that Happened in the Kingdom of France, as Well as in Other Countries ... Beginning at the Year MCCCC. where that of Sir John Froissart Finishes, and Ending at the Year MCCCCLXVII. and Continued by Others to the Year MDXVI.Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1810 |
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Seite 342 - year also, the ladies and damsels laid aside their long trains to their gowns, and in lieu of them had deep borders of furs of minever, martin, and others, or of velvet, and various articles of a great breadth. They also wore hoods on their heads of- a circular form, half an ell, or
Seite 343 - Knights and esquires, indifferently, wore the most sumptuous golden chains. Even the varlets had jackets of silk, satin, or velvet; and almost all, especially at the courts of princes, wore peaks at their shoes of a quarter of an ell in length. They had
Seite 343 - which was a very indecent and impudent thing. The sleeves of their outward dress and jackets were slashed, to show their wide white shirts. Their hair was so long that it covered their eyes and
Seite 342 - the two noblemen came into the field on foot, with two pole-axes, and fought valiantly ; but, at the last, the point of the pole-axe of the lord Scales
Seite 340 - as it was done to please the king of England, he would not suffer the combat to continue any time, so that it was rather for amusement.*
Seite 124 - Bai, which appertained to her brother the duke of Calabria. The queen repented much, and thought herself unfortunate, that she had not sooner thrown herself on the protection of the noble duke of Burgundy, as her
Seite 342 - marshal, that if he would go forward with his attempted challenge, he must, by the law of arms, be delivered to his adversary in the same
Seite 343 - three quarters, high, gradually tapering to the top. Some had them not so high, with handkerchiefs wreathed round them, the
Seite 343 - hanging down to the ground. They wore silken girdles of a greater breadth than formerly, with the richest shoes, with golden necklaces much more trimly decked in divers fashions than they were accustomed to wear them. At the same time, the men wore shorter dresses than usual, so that the form of their buttocks, and of their other parts, was visible, after the fashion in which people were
Seite 438 - Together with the queen and the prince of Wales, the dukes of Exeter and Somerset, the earls of Devon