Page 109 - The Golden Eagle

with the utmost valour. Then, when
the lances were shattered, they took
swords in hand, dealing the shrewdest
strokes upon the shining helmets of
their foes, so that sparks flew upward
therefrom, with such good will did
they lay on to one another. It chanced
that Messer Arrighetto's horse was
killed under him and he fell to the
ground,but he rose quickly,and sword
in hand cleared a way for himself.
Divers of the knights of death were
around him, but none of them could
lay hold on him; when Messer
Princivale, galloping over the field,
came upon him by chance, and they
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