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The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay

CHAPTER XI
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'Oyez, my lords!' he cried with a mighty voice, 'Is this a lovely wife I have won, or not ?' They answered him with a shout.
He took her a progress about his country afterwards.

From Poictiers they went to Limoges, thence westward to Angoulesme, and south to Perigueux, to Bazas, to Cahors, Agen, even to Dax, which is close to the country of the King of Navarre.

Wherever he led her she was hailed with joy.

Young girls met her with flowers in their hands, wise men came kneeling, offering the keys of their towns; the youth sang songs below her balcony, the matrons made much of her and asked her searching questions.
They saw in her a very superb and handsome Duchess, Jehane of the Fair Girdle, now acclaimed in the soft syllables of Aquitaine as Bel Vezer.
When they were at Dax the wise King of Navarre sent ambassadors beseeching from them a visit to his city of Pampluna; but Richard would not go.

Then they came back to Poictiers and shocking news.


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