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A Monk of Fife

CHAPTER XXVII--HOW NORMAN LESLIE FARED IN COMPIEGNE, WITH THE END OFTHAT
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And, faith, as he says, he 'has had rare sport, and will have for long.'" "Was there an onfall of the enemy ?" "Nay, they are over wary.

He shot them as they dug behind pavises.

{36} For the Duke has moved his quarters to Venette, where the English lay, hard by the town.

And, right in the middle of the causeway to Margny, two arrow-shots from our bridge end, he is letting build a great bastille, and digging a trench wherein men may go to and fro.

The cordelier was as glad of that as a man who has stalked a covey of partridges.


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