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FROM ENGLISH CHRONICLERS 195
base lust. We have chosen therefore either to conquer or to
die gloriously, although we have no doubt of the victory.
" Hence my grief, hence my tears, that I shall view either
the cruel death or the dishonourable flight of my gentlest
lord, my dearest friend, my old comrade, in whose friendship
I have grown aged ; whose generosity I have experienced
in the bestowal of manifold gifts, in the granting of lands
also and many possessions ; after the youthful sports which
we practised together, after the affairs of wars where in many
dangers we were ever together after the ;
splendid feasts which
the kingdom of one supplied to both, after the delights which
the hunting of birds and beasts conferred."
When he had spoken thus his speech was broken by tears
and sobs. And the king was moved and melted to tears by
his compassionate nature, and all but entered into a compact.
But William, the king's nephew, a man of high spirit and
the chief provoker of war,, intervened and with the greatest
fury accused Robert himself of treason, and bent the king
from his purpose.
And [Robert] delayed not, but after the ancestral custom
broke the chain of fealty by which he had hitherto been bound
to the king, and returned, not without great grief, to his
countrymen.
1138, Aug.
VITA THURSTINI ARCHIEPISCOPI, IN RAINE'S YORK, VOL. II,
p. 266. i
In the year from the Lord's incarnation 1138, on the
eleventh 2 before the Kalends of September, and also in the
twenty-third year since [Thurstan] had received the arch-
bishopric, there was a battle between David, king of Scotland,
and archbishop Thurstan : and king David was conquered,
and conquered were all the Scots.
For the same archbishop met secretly with the king's knights
and commanded to
upon Cowton moor, near Northallerton ;
be made in subterraneous passages certain instruments, called
in English petronces, which gave forth horrible sounds.
And when they resounded the wild beasts and other animals 3
which went before the army of the aforesaid king David, to
1
Cf. a passage inserted in A. of R., De S., MS. C ; Chr. of Ste., etc., iii,
182, n. Cf. Raine's Hexh., i, 92, n.
2 22nd August.
3
ferce et ccetera armenta. A. of R., MS. C, has armamenta. Possibly
the use of war-dogs is referred to.