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soon as the Patriarch of Aquileia
perceived this he quickly set his
company in order to meet the
onslaught of the King of Majorca;
and, so good a horseman was he,
and so valiant his followers, that he
soon made a path for himself and
charged hotly the position where
stood the valiant Messer Princivale,
who set himself against his foe with
much caution, and smote him in the
breast in such wise that a splinter
from the shaft of his lance remained
in the wound; but so stout-hearted
was the patriarch that he rode off,
and wounded as he was wrought
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