How Tristram enterprized the battle to fight for the truage of Cornwall, and how he was made knight.
How twelve knights came from Rome and asked truage for this land of Arthur, and how Arthur fought with a knight.
How twelve aged ambassadors of Rome came to king Arthur to demand truage for Britain.
Then the king said thus: Fair brother Sir Marhaus, I pray you go into Cornwall for my sake, and do battle for our truage that of right we ought to have, and whatsoever ye spend ye shall have sufficiently more than ye shall need.
And thus Sir Marhaus abode in the sea, and every day he sent unto king Mark for to pay the truage that was behind of seven year, or else to find a knight to fight with him for the truage.
How Sir Marhaus came out of Ireland for to ask truage of Cornwall, or else he would fight therefore.
And all that time king Mark was behind of the truage for seven years.
I ween ye shall have your truageto the last groat, for I fear not the best knight of the Round Table, unless it be Sir Lancelot, and I doubt not King Mark hath no knight of such worth and prowess as I.
The king craved of him to go and do battle for the truage due from Mark of Cornwall.
Then King Mark let make a proclamation through all the lands, that if a knight would fight to save the truage of Cornwall he should fare the better as long as he lived.
For the truageof Cornwall I fought for the sake of my uncle King Mark, and the battle with Sir Marhaus was the first I had, for I was made knight for that alone.
That part of Cornwall which was called the lands of Tintagel formed the kingdom of a prince named Mark, and he owed certain yearly tribute or truage to King Anguish of South Ireland.
And for the goodschipe of this dede Thei granten him a lusti mede, That every yeer as for truage To him and to his heritage Of Maidens faire he schal have thre.
And in this hous to loke and warde Was Minotaurus put in warde, That what lif that therinne cam, Or man or beste, he overcam 5300 And slow, and fedde him therupon; And in this wise many on Out of Athenys for truage Devoured weren in that rage.
Wherof the parfit of here lawe Fro thanne forth hem was withdrawe, So that thei stonde of no merit, Bot in truage as folk soubgit Withoute proprete of place Thei liven out of goddes grace, Dispers in alle londes oute.
And therewith he told him all, how he had word of Elias to find a knight to fight for the truage of Cornwall, and none can I find.
And if that he might slay King Mark's knight, he to have the truage of Cornwall yearly.
Those three island kingdoms do to this day owe truage to no overlord saving only the King of Scots, and to Alexander alone will I pay homage.
I said not that I paid truage to any king but our own King of Scots, God bless him!
For though that island was held by Cornwall, yet the King of Ireland laid claim to it and demanded that the King of Cornwall should pay him truage for the same.
And yet I have ever been your true knight, and have saved your kingdom from truage to Ireland and have served you very faithfully in all ways.
I am come to do battle upon behalf of the King of Cornwall, to release him from the demands of truage made by the King of Ireland.
To-morrow he purposes in his thought to receivetruage of France.
If truagethey yet required, then truage they should receive coined in the very mint.
The Romans' logic is that they are entitled to receive tribute at our hands, by reason that their fathers, in their day, took truage of our ancestors.
The Romans have had truage of us, and my ancestors have taken seisin of them.
At the same time he wrote letters to the senate that no other truagewould he pay them for Britain, which he guarded as his realm.
But this is mine answer: I owe the emperor no truage, nor none will I hold him, but on a fair field I shall give him my truage that shall be with a sharp spear, or else with a sharp sword, and that shall not be long.
Right so came into the court twelve knights, who were aged men, and they came from the Emperor of Rome, and they asked of Arthur truage for this realm, other-else the emperor would destroy him and his land.
Then they of Cornwall let make cries in every place, that what knight would fight for to save the truage of Cornwall, he should be rewarded so that he should fare the better, term of his life.
How twelve aged ambassadors of Rome came to King Arthur to demand truage for Britain.
Right so came into the court twelve knights, and were aged men, and they came from the Emperor of Rome, and they asked of Arthur truage for this realm, other else the emperor would destroy him and his land.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "truage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
