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SIR JOHN FROISSART
Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the adjoining countries
from the latter part of the reign of Edward II to the coronation of Henry IV. Vol.11
page 98
wfll of e#irfe retaliate m you. It is, therefore much better we run not fuch rifks. I will guard myfelf well againft him and let him, if he plcafe, do the fame/
€ Fair coufin,* replied fir Charles de Dinant, * you may fay what you pleafe ; we have not feen him fhew any wifti to have you killed, if he could cônverfe with you in the manner we have pro-* pofed but, on the contrary, the ftrongeft defircj to accommodate all matters of difpute. Wç therefore, for him and for ourfelves, beg you will aonfent to it.*
Sir Oliver anfwered,—* I believe firmly, that you wifli me every good j but, on the fecurity he ©ffers through you, I, will not advance one ftep. However, fince you are all fo egroeft in the bu-finefs, for which it behoves me to thank you, J well mention on what term$ I will come to him § led you ftiaUt if they be agreeable to you, carry them buck as my final anfwer. On your return, you will tell the duke, that I will not accept other pledge for my fafcty than his only fon, who is be-trothed to a princefs of France. Let him fond bin) hither m remain under the guard of my menf in chateau Joffeln, until I he returned, aid I wiJJ then ftt out to mât on him. This mode is more agréer able to me than any other, and alfo more rea-» fonable; for were you to ttmrn here m hpftages, at yo« offer, who Would daere be to «iegoria*ç the treaty ? or who wmàd he the mediators between us ? and how, without your interference, foall we ever come to an ngrecmeM l* . When
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