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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 206
at YWti -de Ttfgf*, tarried ihi bèf j éfeê -{High be âfeéift fcysèti yéàft êM, tè chMm Jofietift, Whejfè lié y were haridfomely and hoaoumbly iCctiveet by fir Oliver de Gliffcm When ht» faw the boy^ and this ptmi of confidence from lite dùkè, êe wàs much affrétai,' The thteo Knights alfb faid, You fee, fir, how well ill* dined the duke is to you : he noW béift you no-.thing bbt the fincercft afftâriort. • * I am at pits ftiit convinced of it/ replied fir Oliver i f and, fince he makes fuch advances, I will not be be-Jwid hartd, but pet hiyfelf uhder his ebediettât. J knew not tf tè you, who are fô aearly related ta hkft, and in whom he has fuch truft as to con-fide his fen and heir, m bring and leave - her* a6 in hoftage until my return* he has told the con-tents ôf lac letter he fent ine unde* his privât* jigrtet/- . •
Sfr/ fcnftyered the kriights, che has aflfoted j&éf the éarheft and fincere defire he has to make péacé tyith' yoitj and you may believe - us, for are your relations/ ^ I firmly do believe you/ fcid fir Oliver, as he went out to fetch «hed&ke's letter. Having «ad it m them, they replied, f *Hfc dWtaihly has %okéh ti& ui in the very fame fe'fms iff which he has writteri to yen, -aid in çd$« Sequence has ftrit us hkher/ " • • *• : * So much the better/- fenftrered ir ©liver*
It was not long, after the arrival of the *hmfc knights, with the heir of Brittany, iiefcfe "Ac tad de Cfiflbii ind mdt hfe They.
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