KING LYON OF ARMENIA ad. 



1386. 

 a puissant army, wherefore sir, we say to you, that if it 

 please you, ye may returne to the French king, and cause 

 him and all his puissance to returne backe into their owne [II. i. 69.] 

 countreys. And when every man be at home, then if it 

 please you ye may returne againe hither, and then we 

 shall gladly intende to your treatie. 



This was all the answere the king of Armenia could 

 get there, and so he dined with the king of England, and 

 had as great honour as could bee devised, and the king 

 offered him many great gifts of golde and silver, but he 

 would take none though he had neede thereof, but alonely 

 a ring to the value of a hundreth Frankes. After dinner 

 he tooke his leave and returned unto his lodging, and the 

 next day departed, and was two dayes at Dover, and there 

 he tooke his leave of such lords as were there, and so 

 tooke the sea in a passager, and arrived at Calais and from 

 thence went to Sluce, and there he spake with the French 

 king and with his Uncles, and shewed them how he had 

 bene in England, and what answere he had : the French 

 king and his Uncles tooke no regard of his saying, but 

 sent him backe againe into France, for their full intention 

 was to enter into England as soone as they might have 

 winde and weather, and the Duke of Berrie and the 

 Constable came to them : The winde was sore contrary to 

 them, for therewith they could never enter into England 

 but the winde was good to goe into Scotland. 



[The voyage 



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