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80 MINSTRELSY OF
" Lindsay." — Froissart's Chronicle, translated by Bour-
chier^ Lord Berners^ vol. L chap. 146.
O gran bmitd de^ cavaUcri antlqui !
Eran rivali, cran dif& divcrsi ;
E si sentian, de gli aspri colpi iniqui.
Per tutla la persona anco dolersi ;
E pur per solve oscure, e calk iniqui
Insicme van scnza sospctta aversi.
L'Orlando.
Bvt the Jardines wald not with him ride. — P. 64. v. 2.
The Jardines were a clan of hardy West-Border men. Their
chief was Jardine of Applegirth. Their refusal to ride with
Douglas was, probably, the result of one of those perpetual
feuds, which usually rent to pieces a Scottish array.
And he that had a honny hoy.
Sent out his horse to grass. — P. 69. V. 4.
Froissart describes a Scottish host, of the same period, as
consisting of" IIIL ]\L men of amies, knightis, and squires,
" mounted on good horses ; and other X. M. men of warre
" armed, after their gyse, right hardy and firse, mounted on
" ly tie hackneys, the whiche were never tied, nor kept at hard
" meat, but lette go to pasture in the fieldis and bushes." —
Chronykle of Froissart, translated by Lord Berners, chap. xvii.