The Chivalrous Army

"I served in but an indifferent light and ill it would beseem me, who remember this time with pride and the gloomy pleasure of my latter life," he writes. "The sovereign was above everything a soldier, he observed all that passed in his camp with extraordinary acumen." The king asked him to do duty for a famous dead english captain of mercenaries. He said: 'If those good fellows will take so young a one as i for leader in place of a better i would gladly let it be a compact' But still, strangely,  he appeared, strangely, to haunt the sovereign's memory. And not long afterwards, he would have me sup with him. It happened