The Dolphin brought a man secretlie,The duke of Suffolke in|countreth a tall and strong Alman. which in all the court of France was the tallest & the strong|est man, and he was an Alman, and put him in the place of an other person to haue had the duke of Suf|folke rebuked. The same great Alman came to the bars fiercelie with face hid, bicause he would not be knowne, and bare his speare to the duke of Suf|folke with all his strength, and the duke him receiued and for all his strength put him by strong strokes from the barriers, and with the but end of the speare strake the Alman that he staggered: but for all that the Alman strake stronglie and hardlie at the duke, and the iudges suffered manie more strokes to be foughten than were appointed; but when they saw the Alman reele and stagger, then they let fall the raile betwéene them. The lord marquesse Dorset at the same time, euen at the same barre fought with a gentleman of France that he lost his speare, and in maner withdrew. When the raile was let fall, these EEBO page image 834 two noble men put vp their visers and tooke aire, and with swords, the points and edges abated, they came to the barriers.

The Alman fought sore with the duke, which imagined that he was a person set on for the nonce,The duke foiles the Alman. but the duke by pure strength tooke him about the necke, and pomeled him so about the head that the bloud issued out of his nose, and then they were par|ted, and the Alman was conueied by the Dolphin least he should be knowne. These two noblemen of England that daie fought valiantlie diuerse feats, and the Frenchmen likewise noblie them defended. But it happened the lord Marquesse on a time to put for his aid his yoongest brother called the lord Ed|ward Greie of the age of nintéene yeare, and to him was put a gentleman of France of great stature and strength,The yoong lord Greies prowesse. to the intent to plucke him ouer the barres, but yet the yoong lord was of such strength, power, & policie, that he so stroke his aduersarie that he disarmd him, all the face bare. Thus were these en|terprises finished to the land of all parties, & the Eng|lishmen receiued much honor and no spot of rebuke, yet they were priuilie set at & in manie ieopardies.

For the declaration of this triumph, he that saw it can tell how goodlie the coursers trotted, bounded, and quicklie turned: how valiantlie the men of armes behaued themselues,A description of the pompe and brauerie in apparell at this solemne tilt. and how the duke of Burbons band was apparrelled and bassed in taw|nie veluet, and cloth of siluer cloudie, the band of the earle of saint Paule apparrelled and barded in pur|ple veluet all to cut on purple sattin, the infant of Arragon, sonne to Frederike last king of Naples, and his band all in cloth of gold and siluer paled. This lord was but yoong, but yet verie toward. The duke of Uandosme and his band in cloth of gold and plun|ket veluet. The Dolphin and his aids were euerie daie new apparrelled at his cost, one daie in siluer and gold, another in crimsin veluet and yellow vel|uet, and another daie in white veluet and greene, some daie mixed with sattin, some daie embrodered, some daie pounced with gold, and so euerie daie in change as the woorkers fantasie could deuise, but the Eng|lishmen had euer on their apparrell red crosses to be knowne for loue of their countrie.