I have overmuch need for your swords that you should turn them upon each other.

Sir John Charnell, Lord Audley, you do not doubt the courage of our friends of Gascony ?" "Not I, sire," Lord Audley answered.

"I have seen them fight too often not to know that they are very hardy and valiant gentlemen." "And so say I," quoth the other Englishman; "but, certes, there is no fear of our forgetting it while they have a tongue in their heads." "Nay, Sir John," said the prince reprovingly, "all peoples have their own use and customs.

There are some who might call us cold and dull and silent.

But you hear, my lords of Gascony, that these gentlemen had no thought to throw a slur upon your honor or your valor, so let all anger fade from your mind.