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Title: Page, esquire, and knight : a book of chivalry
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Lansing, Marion Florence, 1883-
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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s life with more wisdomand grace. As soon as it was known thatDuke Godfrey would lead an army to theHoly Land, the flower of chivalry flocked tohis standard. When he was ready to set forth,there rode behind him ten thousand knightswho were the best in all Europe. They were a fair sight, those knights, asthey set forth from France on that longjourney. At the head of the army rodeGodfrey, a tall and knightly figure in coat ofmail, with silver helmet. He had laid asidethe insignia of his rank and his richly em-blazoned shield, and carried only a roundbuckler bearing the red cross of the crusader.With him rode his brothers, Baldwin andEustace, and his esquire, Sigier. Ten thou-sand knights on horseback followed, clad incoat of mail, and wearing helmets of silver orsteel, according to their rank. Every shieldwas ornamented with the device of the knight,— a lion, a leopard, a star, a tower, a bird, orsome like symbol, — and from every lancefloated a pennon of red, blue, green, or white.
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135 136 PAGE, ESQUIRE, AND KNIGHT Behind the knights marched an army ofeighty thousand foot soldiers, and on thebreast of every one of that marching throngshone the red cross, and from every lip rangthe battle cry of the crusader, God wills it! The story of the long march to Palestinemay be read in the chronicles of the Crusades.The soldiers went through many lands andendured great hardships and perils. As theycrossed from Europe and came into the landsof the East, the Turks and Arabs met themand opposed them in fierce and bloody battles.It was three years from the time when theystarted, when they came into the land ofPalestine, and in those years many gallantknights had laid down their lives. Pestilenceand fever had attacked the army and wroughteven more havoc than the savage enemy, sothat the number of men who came to the HolyLand was less than forty thousand of thosewho had set out so bravely from France. Duke Godfrey had suffered many perils,but had come safe through them all. At

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