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Excerpt from The Life and Times of Bertrand Du Guesclin, Vol. 2 of 2: A History of the Fourteenth Century
Bel-marin has often begged me to send them to him but I will not part with them on any account.
The king then ordered the minstrels to be summoned into his presence. They soon appeared, with much cere mony and ostentation each attended by a servant bearing a dulcimer* at his neck. The minstrels, at the king's order, began to play; when Sir Matthew, who had heard their skill so much vaunted, could scarcely suppress his mirth at their performance.
What do you think of them? Asked the king, evidently much pleased.
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