It was thought that this idea of dragging your enemy about the lists might have been borrowed from the example of a certain Homeric hero—Achilles towit
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There was no question of courtesy in those days. A man had to enter the lists resolved to conquer or die: seeing that by those aforesaid Danish and Lombard laws the conqueror did just what he pleased
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There was a fine combat at the siege of Florence (1530) supervised by that great captain the Prince of Orange
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It was about thistime that,during a fete at Court upon the river—a further example of his versatile activity—Brantome rescued from drowning the Baron de Montesquiou
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What attracted him to the subject of duelling was, he tells us at starting, a mere unprejudiced curiosity as to the proper etiquette, the rights and wrongs of the practices of his day—chivalrous or thereverse
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