The Great Constable's Humming Falcion Lit

"I did not think there was a man within the four seas who could have stood against me so long as that fierce and bulky frenchman did. For a long time, we fought so hard and stubborn that the blood miry soil was stamped into a circle where we went round and round," he writes. "And then jove, how near spent i was. The great constable ona sudden threw away his many quartered shield, and, whirling up his sword with both hands high above his head, aimed a frightful blow at me."