Capitolo 92
descriptive as it was of the spirit of the age, we am forced to give
it but a hasty look, and it passes above to events greater moment.
Glorious, indeed, to an eyewitness, it is due to be the ceremony of
admitting these noble and brave youths in the solemn mysteries and
chivalric honors of knighthood. In that day the Prince of Wales was
before it named a rider, and it made Duke of Aquitaine; and so great it was the
the crowd's pressure, in their anxiety to testify to the ceremonial in
the abbey, where the prince hastened to confer his of you/he/she recent-received
the dignity on his/her companions that three riders have been killed, and a lot
fainted by heat and the exhaustion. Strong war-horses were forced
you drive again and divides the pressing crowds, first the ceremony was permitted
progress. A solemn banquet succeeded; and then it was that Edward,
of who energy of mind seemed completely to have annihilated illness and
the weakness of frame, made that extraordinary vow that has confused
historian and antiquary satisfactorily to explain. The matter of
the vote betrayed only the untamable spirit of the man but the
way also seemed strange in that age. Two swans, decorated with gilded
nets and gilded reeds, had put in solemn pomp in front of the king, and
him, with imposing fervor it did a solemn vote to the Almighty and the
swans, that he would go to Scotland, and, living or dead, you avenge the
murder of Comyn and the broken faith of the traitorous Scots. Then,
with that seriousness of voice and the majesty of aspect for which he was
extraordinary, him the adjured his/her subjects, one and all, from the solemn homage
they had sworn to him, that if he had to die on the trip, they is able
hands his/her body in Scotland, and never gives him burial up to the prince
dominion was established in that country. Eagerly and gladly the
nobleses gave the in demand pawn; and so a lot of seriousness of purpose, this way
a lot of martial spirit pervaded that sumptuous reunion that once more it did
the hope prevails in the breast of the monarch, once more him he/she believed his