O master, those horsses beene wild and wicked, And litle they can skill of the old traine; Giffe I be out of my saddle cast, They beene soe wild they'le neuer be tane againe.
And thou shalt haue forty of thy ffellowes ffaire, And forty horsses to goe with thee, And forty speres of the best I haue, And I my-selfe in thy companye.
Then they turned their horsses round about, To run the race more egarlye; Lord Phenix he was stiffe and stout, He has runn Thomas quite thorrow the thye.
Our horsses moreouer are high, and although not commonlie of such huge greatnesse as in other places of the maine: yet if you respect the easinesse of their pase, it is hard to saie where their like are to be had.
Normandie, arriued at Harfléet with an hundred great ships fraught with men, horsses and armour.
To which towne after his comming thither, the king of Scots was brought with his féet bound vnder the horsses bellie.
Strange wonders happened (as men reported) at the natiuitie of this man, for the same night he was borne, all his fathers horsses in the stable were found to stand in bloud vp to the bellies.
The most part of their horsses were lost by the waie for lacke of fresh water.
The lord Daubeneie commanded all men to send their horsses and wagons backe, but the lord Morleie said he would ride till he came to hand strokes.
All the horsses likewise (said this author) were apparelled with blacke, and bare sundrie sutes of armes.
The hachments were caried onelie by capteins to the number of twelue; and round about the chariot rode fiue hundred men of armes all in blacke armour, their horsses barbed blacke, and they with the but ends of their speares vpwards.
They had at the least six thousand carts with them, and for euerie cart foure horsses which they had out of England.
The Englishmen and the Gascoignes hearing horsses to come galloping after them, turned, and perceiuing them to be their enimies, stood still to abide them.
The valiant king of Bohem being almost blind, caused his men to fasten all the reines of the bridels of their horsses ech to other, and so he being himselfe amongst them in the formost ranke, they ran on their enimies.
Beside this, he caused a parke to be made and closed by the wood side behind his host, in the which he ordeined that all the carts and carriages should be set, with all the horsses (for euerie man was on foot.
The knights and esquiers had their armor and horsses againe to them restored, and were reteined with the lords to serue them: but the commons without either armor or weapon were sent home, and had no other harme done vnto them.
There were eight hundred horsses also taken, which those rebels had there with them, to draw and carrie their baggage.
Great death of horsses and men in the English host, by reason of extreme cold.
They lost manie horsses in this iournie for want of prouision and forrage.
The horssemen that got foorth left their horsses behind them readie brideled and sadled, which the Frenchmen vpon entring the towne in the morning tooke, after they had slaine the most part of the footmen.
But the earles of Lancaster and Hereford, with other in their companie that fled from the discomfiture at Burton, lost manie men and horsses in their flieng away, by reason of such pursuit as was made after them.
The archbishop, the lord chancellor, and the abbat of Selbie, with helpe of their swift horsses escaped, and diuerse other.
Their horsses backes brake under them, The knights were both astound: To avoyd their horsses they made haste And light upon the ground.
Wherevpon the king had caused them diuerse waies to be molested, but cheefelie in restreining them of libertie to haue any horsses or other cattell going to pasture within his forrests.
Michaell they should remooue out of his forrests all their horsses of Haraz, and other cattell, vnder the penaltie to forfeit so manie of them, as after that day chanced to be found within the same forrests.
Hereby also the ancient vse of somers and sumpter horsses is in maner vtterlie relinquished, which causeth the traines of our princes in their progresses to shew far lesse than those of the kings of other nations.
But to speke of them peculiarlie, I suppose that our kine are so abundant in yeeld of milke, wherof we make our butter & cheese, as the like anie where else, and so apt for the plough in diuerse places as either our horssesor oxen.
To this accusation old Sir Jacob responded with his wonted quaint directness: "As conserninge one yt calls himselfe Capne Balle, yt hath complayned unto yr Highnes yt I hav tacken awaie his horsses from him; this is the trewth.
The Englishmen returned to the towne of Rise, and found there great number of horsses & other baggages, which they ioiouslie brought with them to Rone.
The Frenchmen, perceiuing that the earle and his horsses were wearie, and that his archers were not yet come, determined to set vpon him before the comming of his footmen, the which they knew to be little more than a mile behind.
And behind were all their horssestied togither, either by the reins or by the tailes, with the carts and cariages, to the defense whereof were two thousand archers appointed.
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