Identifier: storyofbayardgoo00hare (find matches)
Title: The story of Bayard : the good knight without fear and without reproach
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Hare, Christopher Hare, Christopher
Subjects: Bayard, Pierre Terrail, seigneur de, ca. 1473-1524
Publisher: London : J. M. Dent New York, E. P. Dutton
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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e him he was as much delighted as if he hadwon the city of Lyons ; and he went in haste tothe head groom of the Duke of Savoy andprayed him to get his horse ready for him, offer-ing his short dagger as a present. But this theman refused and made reply : Go and comband clean yourself, my friend, and put on yourbest clothes, and if, by Gods help, the King ofFrance takes you in favour, you may some daybecome a great lord and be able to serve me. Upon my faith! You may trust me never toforget all the kindness you have shown me/:replied the boy; and if God ever gives megood fortune you shall share it. It seemed along time to his impatience before the hourarrived when he rode his horse, attended by hisequerry, to the meadow where he was to awaitthe King and his company, who arrived by boaton the Saone. As soon as Charles VIII. hadlanded he cried : Page, my friend, touch upyour horse with your spurs! which the lad did He gave sue ft a /me exhibition of horsemanship that /jc deflated //// r/u
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Vf V. THE STORY OF BAYARD 29 at once, and to see him, you would have thoughtthat he had been doing it all his life. At the endof his race Bayard made his clever horse take afew jumps, and then he rode straight towards theKing and gracefully drew up before him with alow bow. All the company was delighted withthe performance, and the King bade him do itagain. Picquez! Picquez! (Prick up yourhorse !), he cried, and all the pages shouted : Picquez ! Picquez ! with enthusiasm, so thatfor some time the name stuck to him. Then Charles turned to the Duke of Savoy J and said : I see that my cousin of Ligny toldme the truth at dinner, and now I will not waitfor you to give me this page and his horse, but Idemand it of you as a favour/ ((Most willingly, my lord, answered theDuke, and may God give him grace to do youtrue service. After this young Bayard wasgiven into the special charge of the lord ofLigny, who was greatly pleased and felt sure thathe would make of him a noble knight, and thatthro

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