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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: he began to do in a loud, clear voice, so that all might hear. It
was a quaint document, wrapped up in the tangled heraldic
verbiage of the time.
The pith of the matter was that the Sieur Brian Philip Francis de
la Montaigne proclaimed before all men the greater chivalry and
skill at arms of the knights of France and of Dauphiny, and
likewise the greater fairness of the ladies of France and
Dauphiny, and would there defend those sayings with his body
without fear or attaint as to the truth of the same. As soon as
the speaker had ended, the Marshal bade him call the defendant of
the other side.
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